Patents by Inventor Dominique Braun

Dominique Braun 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: 6534892
    Abstract: Stators for an electrical actuator of a type which may be used in weaving looms and weaving systems wherein a stack of armature plates having two-spaced sections are wrapped with an electrically conductive wire to create two coils afterwhich the stack is folded to sever severable bridge elements of the stack and to form an armataure to define a tubular housing for a rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Inventors: Dominique Braun, Pierre Bourgeaux, Patrick Iltis
  • Patent number: 6357486
    Abstract: In a weaving loom of the Jacquard type comprising electrical actuators for displacing heddles controlling the position of the warp yarns, the following steps are carried out: a so-called “normal effort” is determined, exerted by at least one actuator on at least one harness cord in order to displace, between two positions of its normal stroke, at least one heddle connected to a normally taut warp yam; from this normal effort, at least one threshold value representative of a limit of a range of values of normal weaving effort is determined; while the loom is in operation, a so-called “operational effort” exerted by this actuator on the harness cord is determined; at least one value representative of this operational effort is compared with the threshold value, and a first, so-called “anomaly signal” is generated when the value representative of the operational effort is outside the afore-mentioned range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventor: Dominique Braun
  • Publication number: 20010039975
    Abstract: In a weaving loom of the Jacquard type comprising electrical actuators for displacing heddles controlling the position of the warp yarns, the following steps are carried out:
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventor: Dominique Braun
  • Patent number: 6293315
    Abstract: A device for positioning warp yarns of a weaving loom which are controlled by electrical actuators for forming a shed which includes a first detector common to the warp yarns driven by a plurality of different actuators for detecting the passage of at least one warp yarn into a predetermined position, and a second device for determining a value of a control parameter of an actuator for controlling movement of the at least one warp yarn upon passage into the predetermined position. The process consists in displacing a warp yarn and detecting its passage into a predetermined position and selecting a value of a control parameter of an actuator for the warp yarn upon passage of the warp yarn into the predetermined position and in using the selected value as a control point for controlling an actuator for the warp yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Froment, Dominique Braun
  • Publication number: 20010004178
    Abstract: This invention relates to an electrical rotating actuator for forming the shed in a weaving loom, particularly for controlling the harness cords of a weaving system of the Jacquard type or the frames of a dobby, comprising a rotor and at least one stator whose armature is formed by a stack of metal plates, characterized in that the stator is formed by at least two stator elements disposed side by side along the axis of rotation of the rotor, each stator element comprising two zones for reception of a winding of electrically conductive wire, the metal plates of each zone disposed opposite one another being mated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventors: Dominique Braun, Pierre Bourgeaux, Patrick Iltis
  • Patent number: 6237213
    Abstract: A method of forming a stator for an electrical actuator of a type which may be used in weaving looms and weaving systems wherein a stack of armature plates having two-spaced sections are initially wrapped with an electrically conductive wire to create two coils afterwhich the stack is folded to sever severable bridge elements of the stack and to form an armature to include a tubular housing for a rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventors: Dominique Braun, Pierre Bourgeaux, Patrick Iltis
  • Patent number: 6216750
    Abstract: A loom and a weaving mechanism of the Jacquard type for forming the shed in the loom wherein the weaving mechanism is associated with a harness including harness cords secured to heddles. The harness cords are controlled by electric actuators mounted to two panels extending above the heddles and between which a compartment is formed in which a control unit for supplying and monitoring the operation of the actuators is housed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventors: Dominique Braun, Pierre Bourgeaux
  • Patent number: 6105630
    Abstract: An electrical rotating apparatus for controlling a harness cord associated with the shed of a weaving loom which includes an actuator including a rotor and a stator. The rotor is formed of at least two permanent magnets which are mounted within a tube so as to be spaced axially with respect to one another and wherein a plurality of stator elements are also provided offset axially relative to an axis of rotation of the rotor such that each of the plurality of rotors corresponds with a separate one of the plurality of stators. The polarities of one or the other of the permanent magnets or the stator elements are offset angularly relative to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventors: Dominique Braun, Pierre Bourgeaux, Patrick Iltis
  • Patent number: 6050305
    Abstract: A locking mechanism for a rotary electric actuator for the formation of a shed on a loom wherein the actuator includes a driving rotor for rotating a device for winding and unwinding a harness thread and wherein the actuator includes a locking plate driven by the rotor which interacts with a locking member such that, when a stop of the locking member engages the locking plate, rotation of the rotor is stopped. A control mechanism is provided to selectively maneuver the locking member relative to the locking plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventors: Dominique Braun, Pierre Bourgeaux, Jean-Paul Froment