Patents by Inventor Cécile Flammier

Cécile Flammier 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).

  • Publication number: 20230288273
    Abstract: A system for determining a torque includes a test body having two bushings, an encoder having two multipolar tracks with a polar width Lpi and Lpe respectively, a sensor having a first (20) - respectively a second (21) - pattern of sensitive elements disposed at a reading distance ei - respectively ee - from the internal track (7) - respectively from the external track (8), and a device for comparing the signals delivered by the sensor to determine an angle between the bushings which depends on the applied torque, the trackshaving an identical number of pairs of poles which are radially aligned, the reading distances ee and ei between the patterns of sensitive elements and the tracks being such that: : e e L p e = e i L p i .
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Cécile Flammier, Christophe Duret
  • Publication number: 20230273079
    Abstract: A test body for a system for determining a torque applied between two rotating members, the test body having an internal bushing and an external bushing connected by a deformable structure which is arranged so as to transmit the torque between the members while enabling an angular displacement between the bushings according to the applied torque, the test body being equipped with two rings each carrying a magnetic track which is able to emit a signal representative of the rotational movement of the ring, the rings being fastened respectively on one bushing and the magnetic tracks being magnetized concentrically so that they have a common axis of revolution so as to respectively form an internal magnetic track and an external magnetic track of an encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Cécile Flammier, Christophe Duret
  • Patent number: 11598825
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising a coder that has an alternation of North and South magnetic poles separated by transitions extending along a helix of pitch p and of angle ?, the magnetic track having Npp pairs of North and South poles and a polar width Lp measured along a normal to the transitions which are: Npp=?a/l and Lp=p·cos ?. The invention also includes at least one sensor able to detect the rotating magnetic field in a plane perpendicular to the magnetic track and to the transitions by means of a mounting of at least two sensitive magnetic elements. The mounting being disposed at a radial reading distance from the magnetic track and being arranged to deliver signals in quadrature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NTN-SNR Roulements
    Inventors: Christophe Duret, Cécile Flammier, Etienne Vandamme
  • Publication number: 20230016570
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising a coder that has an alternation of North and South magnetic poles separated by transitions extending along a helix of pitch p and of angle ?, the magnetic track having Npp pairs of North and South poles and a polar width Lp measured along a normal to the transitions which are: Npp=?a/l, and Lp=p·cos ?. The invention also includes at least one sensor able to detect the rotating magnetic field in a plane perpendicular to the magnetic track and to the transitions by means of a mounting of at least two sensitive magnetic elements. The mounting being disposed at a radial reading distance from the magnetic track and being arranged to deliver signals in quadrature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Christophe Duret, Cécile Flammier, Etienne Vandamme
  • Patent number: 11204260
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising a coder that has an alternation of North and South magnetic poles separated by transitions extending along an helix of pitch p and of angle ?. The invention having Npp pairs of North and South poles and a polar width Lp measured along a normal (N) to the transitions which are: Npp=?a/I and Lp=p.cos ?. The invention also includes a sensor able to detect the period magnetic field emitted by the coder by means of at least two sensitive magnetic elements which are disposed at a radial reading distance from the magnetic track. The sensitive elements are disposed in relation to one another to deliver signals in quadrature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTN-SNR Roulements
    Inventors: Christophe Duret, Cécile Flammier, Etienne Vandamme
  • Patent number: 10969252
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system having a coder with a magnetic track that exhibits an alternation of North and South magnetic poles separated by i Archimedean spiral transitions. The invention also includes a rotation sensor able to detect the periodic magnetic field emitted by the coder using several sensitive elements, the sensitive elements being distributed angularly along the magnetic track while forming between at least two sensitive elements an angle ? which is designed so that the signals delivered by the elements are in quadrature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: NTN-SNR Roulements
    Inventors: Christophe Duret, Cécile Flammier
  • Publication number: 20200292634
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising a coder that has an alternation of North and South magnetic poles separated by transitions extending along a helix of pitch p and of angle ?, the magnetic track having Npp pairs of North and South poles and a polar width Lp measured along a normal to the transitions which are: Npp=?a/l and Lp=p·cos ?. The invention also includes at least one sensor able to detect the rotating magnetic field in a plane perpendicular to the magnetic track and to the transitions by means of a mounting of at least two sensitive magnetic elements. The mounting being disposed at a radial reading distance from the magnetic track and being arranged to deliver signals in quadrature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Christophe Duret, Cécile Flammier, Etienne Vandamme
  • Publication number: 20200292352
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising a coder that has an alternation of North and South magnetic poles separated by transitions extending along an helix of pitch p and of angle ?. The invention having Npp pairs of North and South poles and a polar width Lp measured along a normal (N) to the transitions which are: Npp=?a/I and Lp=p.cos ?. The invention also includes a sensor able to detect the period magnetic field emitted by the coder by means of at least two sensitive magnetic elements which are disposed at a radial reading distance from the magnetic track. The sensitive elements are disposed in relation to one another to deliver signals in quadrature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Christophe Duret, Cécile Flammier, Etienne Vandamme
  • Publication number: 20190265073
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system having a coder with a magnetic track that exhibits an alternation of North and South magnetic poles separated by i Archimedean spiral transitions. The invention also includes a rotation sensor able to detect the periodic magnetic field emitted by the coder using several sensitive elements, the sensitive elements being distributed angularly along the magnetic track while forming between at least two sensitive elements an angle ? which is designed so that the signals delivered by the elements are in quadrature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Christophe Duret, Cécile Flammier