Patents by Inventor Benoit Laurent
Benoit Laurent has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11311618Abstract: The invention provides an adjuvant for use in the prevention and/or treatment of an autoimmune disease.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignees: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE, GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA, SORBONNE UNIVERSITEInventors: Sandra Morel, Charlotte Véronique Pouchy, Benoit Laurent Salomon, Nathalie Raoul Liliane Vanerheyde
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Patent number: 11136710Abstract: A wrappable textile sleeve with closure system and method of construction is provided. The sleeve has a wall of interlaced yarn with opposite edges extending in a lengthwise direction along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The opposite edges are wrappable into overlapping relation with one another to form a tubular cavity. The wall has a first set of closed loops positioned adjacent one of the opposite edges and a second set of closed loops positioned adjacent the other of the opposite edges. At least one flexible lace is disposed through the closed loops in a zig-zag pattern, thereby extending back-and-forth between the first set of loops and the second set of loops. The flexible lace is slidable through the plurality of loops to facilitate drawing and maintaining the opposite edges in overlapping relation with one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLCInventor: Benoit Laurent
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Patent number: 11083120Abstract: A braided EMI protective sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve has a braided, tubular wall extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis between open opposite ends. The wall includes a plurality of filament bundles, with each filament bundle including a plurality of filaments twisted with one another to form a plurality of loops, wherein a plurality of the loops of each filament bundle are interlinked with a plurality of the loops of an adjacent filament bundle. At least some of the filament bundles include a conductive wire filament to provide the sleeve with an EMI protective shielding capacity.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLCInventors: Amelie Simoens, Benoit Laurent
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Patent number: 11017921Abstract: A coaxial cable and method of construction thereof are provided. The coaxial cable includes an elongate central conductive member; a dielectric insulative layer encasing the central conductive member; an outer protective sheath, and a braided EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn sandwiched between the dielectric insulative layer and the outer protective sheath. The hybrid yarn includes an elongate nonconductive filament and an elongate continuous conductive wire filament. The wire filament is interlaced in electrical communication with itself or other wire filaments along a length of the EMI shield layer to provide protection to the central conductive member against at least one of EMI, RFI or ESD. The method includes providing a central conductive member; forming a dielectric insulative layer surrounding the central conductive member; braiding an EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn about the insulative layer, and forming an outer protective sheath about the braided EMI shield layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignees: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC, Acome Societe Cooperative Et Participative Societe Anoyme Cooperative De Production A Capital VariableInventors: Jean-Michel Marchisio, Benoit Laurent
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Publication number: 20200261569Abstract: The invention provides an adjuvant for use in the prevention and/or treatment of an autoimmune disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicants: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS, SA, SORBONNE UNIVERSITE, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALEInventors: Sandra MOREL, Charlotte Véronique POUCHY, Benoit Laurent SALOMON, Nathalie Raoul Liliane VANERHEYDE
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Publication number: 20200075197Abstract: A coaxial cable and method of construction thereof are provided. The coaxial cable includes an elongate central conductive member; a dielectric insulative layer encasing the central conductive member; an outer protective sheath, and a braided EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn sandwiched between the dielectric insulative layer and the outer protective sheath. The hybrid yarn includes an elongate nonconductive filament and an elongate continuous conductive wire filament. The wire filament is interlaced in electrical communication with itself or other wire filaments along a length of the EMI shield layer to provide protection to the central conductive member against at least one of EMI, RFI or ESD. The method includes providing a central conductive member; forming a dielectric insulative layer surrounding the central conductive member; braiding an EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn about the insulative layer, and forming an outer protective sheath about the braided EMI shield layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: JEAN-MICHEL MARCHISIO, BENOIT LAURENT
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Publication number: 20190345667Abstract: A wrappable textile sleeve with closure system and method of construction is provided. The sleeve has a wall of interlaced yarn with opposite edges extending in a lengthwise direction along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The opposite edges are wrappable into overlapping relation with one another to form a tubular cavity. The wall has a first set of closed loops positioned adjacent one of the opposite edges and a second set of closed loops positioned adjacent the other of the opposite edges. At least one flexible lace is disposed through the closed loops in a zig-zag pattern, thereby extending back-and-forth between the first set of loops and the second set of loops. The flexible lace is slidable through the plurality of loops to facilitate drawing and maintaining the opposite edges in overlapping relation with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventor: BENOIT LAURENT
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Patent number: 10475554Abstract: A coaxial cable and method of construction thereof are provided. The coaxial cable includes an elongate central conductive member; a dielectric insulative layer encasing the central conductive member; an outer protective sheath, and a braided EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn sandwiched between the dielectric insulative layer and the outer protective sheath. The hybrid yarn includes an elongate nonconductive filament and an elongate continuous conductive wire filament. The wire filament is interlaced in electrical communication with itself or other wire filaments along a length of the EMI shield layer to provide protection to the central conductive member against at least one of EMI, RFI or ESD. The method includes providing a central conductive member; forming a dielectric insulative layer surrounding the central conductive member; braiding an EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn about the insulative layer, and forming an outer protective sheath about the braided EMI shield layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLCInventors: Jean-Michel Marchisio, Benoit Laurent
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Publication number: 20190309835Abstract: An actuating cylinder has a housing, an actuation rod mounted to be longitudinally movable in the housing and a push tube connected to the actuation rod. An electric motor is provided with a stator and with a rotating rotor shaft. A screw mechanism includes a screw connected to the actuation rod. The rotor shaft is disposed around the screw. A plurality of rolling elements are disposed between the screw and the rotor shaft. A rotational movement of the rotor shaft is converted into a linear movement in translation of the screw and of the actuation rod. A lubrication channel extends through the push tube, the actuation rod and the screw. The lubrication channel has an inlet portion that is open to an external surface of the push tube and provided with a temporary plug or nipple, and an outlet portion that is open to the external thread of screw.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventor: BENOIT LAURENT
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Publication number: 20190309836Abstract: An actuating cylinder has a housing with a main body and a front cover. An actuation rod is mounted for longitudinal movement relative to the housing. An electric motor has a stator and a rotating rotor shaft that is disposed around a screw of a screw mechanism that is connected to the actuation rod. A plurality of rolling elements convert a rotational movement of the rotor shaft into a linear, translation movement of the screw and of the actuation rod. A bearing supports the rotation of the rotor shaft with respect to the housing. A load path ring has an outer ring portion in axial abutment against a fixed part of the bearing, and an inner ring portion connected internally to the outer ring portion. A load sensor is axially clamped between the front cover and the inner ring portion of the load path ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventor: Benoit Laurent
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Patent number: 10393307Abstract: A textile sleeve for routing and protecting a plurality of elongate members in spaced relation from one another is provided. The sleeve includes a single piece, monolithic wall of interlaced yarn extending lengthwise between opposite ends of the sleeve. The wall includes a plurality of circumferentially continuous, tubular wall sections extending lengthwise between the opposite ends, with adjacent tubular wall sections being fixed in laterally spaced relation from another by an intervening single layer section. At least some of the yarn within each tubular wall section is provided as heat-shrinkable yarn, thereby providing each tubular wall section as being heat-shrinkable from a first, diametrically enlarged assembly state to a second, diametrically constricted state about a corresponding elongate member contained therein.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLCInventors: Benoit Laurent, Patrick Thomas, Jean-Michel Munaro
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Patent number: 10358765Abstract: A wrappable textile sleeve with closure system and method of construction is provided. The sleeve has a wall of interlaced yarn with opposite edges extending in a lengthwise direction along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The opposite edges are wrappable into overlapping relation with one another to form a tubular cavity. The wall has a first set of closed loops positioned adjacent one of the opposite edges and a second set of closed loops positioned adjacent the other of the opposite edges. At least one flexible lace is disposed through the closed loops in a zig-zag pattern, thereby extending back-and-forth between the first set of loops and the second set of loops. The flexible lace is slidable through the plurality of loops to facilitate drawing and maintaining the opposite edges in overlapping relation with one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLCInventor: Benoit Laurent
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Patent number: 10196194Abstract: A self-wrapping nonwoven sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a non-woven wall having a thickness extending between inner and outer sides. The wall has opposite edges extending along a length of the sleeve between opposite ends. The opposite edges are biased into a self-wrapped configuration by heat-set material of the nonwoven wall to define a tubular cavity. The non-woven wall includes first and second portions extending between the opposite edges. The first portion and second portion have respective first and second thicknesses extending between the inner and outer sides, wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness and wherein the first portion provides flexibility to the wall and the second portion is heat set to bias the wall into its self-wrapped configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLCInventors: Hiroki Yamaguchi, Kouichi Satoh, Benoit Laurent
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Publication number: 20180230627Abstract: A high temperature resistant textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The textile sleeve has a flexible, tubular knit wall of thermoplastic yarns. The yarns are tightly knit with weft knit stitches extending along a circumferential direction about the tubular knit wall to provide a substantially smooth inner surface and a substantially smooth outer surface. The yarns are knit in a tricot stitch pattern, wherein the tricot knit stitches extend along a circumferentially direction of the sleeve wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: LIONEL DROMAIN, JEAN-RENE CHESNAIS, BENOIT LAURENT
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Publication number: 20180220558Abstract: A braided EMI protective sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve has a braided, tubular wall extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis between open opposite ends. The wall includes a plurality of filament bundles, with each filament bundle including a plurality of filaments twisted with one another to form a plurality of loops, wherein a plurality of the loops of each filament bundle are interlinked with a plurality of the loops of an adjacent filament bundle. At least some of the filament bundles include a conductive wire filament to provide the sleeve with an EMI protective shielding capacity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Amelie Simoens, Benoit Laurent
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Patent number: 9976451Abstract: There is provided an internal combustion engine, provided with a crankshaft and one or several cylinders provided on the wall thereof with exhaust ports and closed at the top by a cylinder head provided with intake ports; each cylinder accommodating an engine piston connected to the crankshaft and a coaxial auxiliary piston opposite the engine piston, defining an intake chamber and a combustion chamber; said auxiliary piston axially determining on the side of the combustion chamber a housing that communicates with the intake chamber via transfer ports, the housing of which includes a secondary piston which opens and closes the transfer ports in a back-and-forth movement between a rear position and a forward position.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Inventor: Benoit Laurent Philippe
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Publication number: 20180119869Abstract: A textile sleeve for routing and protecting a plurality of elongate members in spaced relation from one another is provided. The sleeve includes a single piece, monolithic wall of interlaced yarn extending lengthwise between opposite ends of the sleeve. The wall includes a plurality of circumferentially continuous, tubular wall sections extending lengthwise between the opposite ends, with adjacent tubular wall sections being fixed in laterally spaced relation from another by an intervening single layer section. At least some of the yarn within each tubular wall section is provided as heat-shrinkable yarn, thereby providing each tubular wall section as being heat-shrinkable from a first, diametrically enlarged assembly state to a second, diametrically constricted state about a corresponding elongate member contained therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Benoit Laurent, Patrick Thomas, Jean-Michel Munaro
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Patent number: 9945054Abstract: A high temperature resistant textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The textile sleeve has a flexible, tubular knit wall of thermoplastic yarns. The yarns are tightly knit with weft knit stitches extending along a circumferential direction about the tubular knit wall to provide a substantially smooth inner surface and a substantially smooth outer surface. The yarns are knit in a tricot stitch pattern, wherein the tricot knit stitches extend along a circumferentially direction of the sleeve wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain, LLCInventors: Lionel Dromain, Jean-René Chesnais, Benoit Laurent
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Publication number: 20180082768Abstract: A coaxial cable and method of construction thereof are provided. The coaxial cable includes an elongate central conductive member; a dielectric insulative layer encasing the central conductive member; an outer protective sheath, and a braided EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn sandwiched between the dielectric insulative layer and the outer protective sheath. The hybrid yarn includes an elongate nonconductive filament and an elongate continuous conductive wire filament. The wire filament is interlaced in electrical communication with itself or other wire filaments along a length of the EMI shield layer to provide protection to the central conductive member against at least one of EMI, RFI or ESD. The method includes providing a central conductive member; forming a dielectric insulative layer surrounding the central conductive member; braiding an EMI shield layer including hybrid yarn about the insulative layer, and forming an outer protective sheath about the braided EMI shield layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Jean-Michel Marchisio, Benoit Laurent
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Publication number: 20170101245Abstract: A self-wrapping nonwoven sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a non-woven wall having a thickness extending between inner and outer sides. The wall has opposite edges extending along a length of the sleeve between opposite ends. The opposite edges are biased into a self-wrapped configuration by heat-set material of the nonwoven wall to define a tubular cavity. The non-woven wall includes first and second portions extending between the opposite edges. The first portion and second portion have respective first and second thicknesses extending between the inner and outer sides, wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness and wherein the first portion provides flexibility to the wall and the second portion is heat set to bias the wall into its self-wrapped configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: HIROKI YAMAGUCHI, KOUICHI SATOH, BENOIT LAURENT