Patents by Inventor Christian Albouy

Christian Albouy 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).

  • Patent number: 9718563
    Abstract: A requirement capture device for a centralized maintenance system for aircraft is composed of a means for capturing and parametrizing the various characteristics of the centralized maintenance system. It allows the various parties to the fine tuning of the CMS system to define the data set specific to their domain in a common framework. User profiles are defined for each of the users affording them configuration possibilities specific to their domain. After validation of the parameters input, a configuration file is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Pascal Marestin, Laurent Laval, Christian Albouy
  • Patent number: 9650158
    Abstract: A centralized maintenance device installed on-board an aircraft notably carries out the following functions: correlation of data relating to failures, warnings, configurations, operational contexts, flags and the logbook, received by the on-board maintenance system; storage of the data received by the on-board maintenance system in a first database; management of a historical record of the data received and of their correlation; transmission to a man-machine interface of the data received, of their correlation and of a date associated with each item of data; display of the received data, their correlation and the date associated with each item of data, by a man-machine interface of the on-board maintenance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Christian Albouy, Xavier Chazottes
  • Publication number: 20150066285
    Abstract: A maintenance supervision system (1) for supervising maintenance of a series of vehicles, including various devices and equipment units, the system being capable of: collecting data identifying equipment failures; determining maintenance operations to be carried out on each vehicle, based on the data collected; calculating a respective target date for executing each maintenance operation based on a deadline date for putting the vehicle back into operational service; storing in the data base a correlation between each vehicle, the deadline date for putting the vehicle back into operational service, each equipment failure of the vehicle, each maintenance operation determined based on the said equipment failure associated with the target date calculated; issuing a command for the displaying of representations of the said maintenance operations determined for at least one vehicle, that are staggered according to the respective target dates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Christian ALBOUY, Julien Theodore, Stephane Bertheau
  • Publication number: 20130304303
    Abstract: A requirement capture device for a centralized maintenance system for aircraft is composed of a means for capturing and parametrizing the various characteristics of the centralized maintenance system. It allows the various parties to the fine tuning of the CMS system to define the data set specific to their domain in a common framework. User profiles are defined for each of the users affording them configuration possibilities specific to their domain. After validation of the parameters input, a configuration file is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Pascal MARESTIN, Laurent LAVAL, Christian ALBOUY
  • Publication number: 20130274994
    Abstract: A centralized maintenance device installed on-board an aircraft notably carries out the following functions: correlation of data relating to failures, warnings, configurations, operational contexts, flags and the logbook, received by the on-board maintenance system; storage of the data received by the on-board maintenance system in a first database; management of a historical record of the data received and of their correlation; transmission to a man-machine interface of the data received, of their correlation and of a date associated with each item of data; display of the received data, their correlation and the date associated with each item of data, by a man-machine interface of the on-board maintenance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Christian Albouy, Xavier Chazottes
  • Patent number: 8149092
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a device for managing equipment maintenance. It relates to a device for managing maintenance of a number N of items of equipment EQi built into a system, i designating an index identifying the item of equipment EQi and lying between 1 and N, the system furthermore comprising a main computer RC, the equipment EQi exchanging data with the main computer RC through a communication network, the equipment EQi being capable of being built into the system or of being removed from the system, each item of equipment EQi being protected by a protective housing BPi, the communication node Nj occupying a position internal to the housing BPi and being devised to exchange data with the radio tag ETi, the radio tag ETi being fixed securely to the housing BPi and being devised to deliver data through a contactless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Carine Bailly, Christian Albouy, Francois Fournier
  • Patent number: 7809527
    Abstract: A centralized maintenance system for aircraft which includes line replacement units (LRUs). The system includes at least one digital database whose data are information relating to the LRUs; and a device for updating the data of the database. The lifetime information for the LRUs is known and contained in the digital database. The database includes a mean time between failure (MTBF) data of each LRU. The MTBF data is able to be modified and updated, according to at least one event modifying the failure probabilities for at least one LRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Carine Bailly, Christian Albouy, François Fournier
  • Publication number: 20080269982
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fault validation method and system for aerodynes. The method includes at least a configuration step associating with each detectable fault equipment units for which a copy of memory segments is to be made. Verification tests to be performed include a step for copying memory segments and a step for verifying equipment units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Carine Bailly, Christian Albouy, Francois Fournier
  • Publication number: 20080249678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft failure diagnostic method and system. The method includes one configuration phase defining the possible correlations between the detectable faults. Each of these correlations are associated with data pertinently describing the circumstances of the malfunction and appropriate failure-repair operations. A phase of correlating the detected fault is performed phase of recovering the data describing the circumstances of the malfunction and a phase of determining failure-repair operations is then performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Carine Bailly, Christian Albouy
  • Publication number: 20080147740
    Abstract: A centralized maintenance system is disclosed for aircraft. The aircraft includes line replacement units having components termed LRUs. The LRUs comprise items of equipment and/or electronic modules of the aircraft and/or physical links. The system comprises at least one first digital database whose data are information relating to the LRUs. Means are provided for updating the data of the database. The lifetime information for the LRUs is known and contained in the digital database. The latter comprises the mean time between failure (MTBF) data of each LRU. The MTBF data being able to be modified and updated, according to at least one event modifying the failure probabilities for at least one LRU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Carine BAILLY, Christian Albouy, Francois Fournier
  • Publication number: 20080129459
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a device for managing equipment maintenance. It relates to a device for managing maintenance of a number N of items of equipment EQi built into a system, i designating an index identifying the item of equipment EQi and lying between 1 and N, the system furthermore comprising a main computer RC, the equipment EQi exchanging data with the main computer RC through a communication network, the equipment EQi being capable of being built into the system or of being removed from the system, each item of equipment EQi being protected by a protective housing BPi, the communication node Nj occupying a position internal to the housing BPi and being devised to exchange data with the radio tag ETi, the radio tag ETi being fixed securely to the housing BPi and being devised to deliver data through a contactless link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Carine BAILLY, Christian Albouy, Francois Fournier