Patents by Inventor Dominique Yves
Dominique Yves 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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Publication number: 20240080035Abstract: A sigma-delta ADC comprising: a first-input-resistor connected in series between a first-input-terminal and a first-feedback-node; a second-input-resistor connected in series between a second-input-terminal and a second-feedback-node; a third-input-resistor connected in series between a third-input-terminal and a third-feedback-node; a first-multiplexer-switch connected in series between the first-feedback-node and a first-amplifier-second-input-terminal; a second-multiplexer-switch connected in series between the second-feedback-node and a first-amplifier-first-input-terminal; a third-multiplexer-switch connected in series between the third-feedback-node and the first-amplifier-second-input-terminal; a first-feedback-current-source having a first terminal and second terminal, wherein the second terminal is connected to a reference-terminal; a second-feedback-current-source having a first terminal and second terminal, wherein the second terminal is connected to the reference-terminal; a first-feedback-selectiType: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Francesco d'Esposito, Pascal Sandrez, Olivier Tico, Simon Brule
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Publication number: 20230307724Abstract: A battery management system, BMS, integrated circuit, IC, (102) for a battery pack. The battery pack (101) comprises a sequence of battery cells connected in series; and a sequence of battery-cell-connection-nodes between adjacent battery cells. The BMS IC (102) comprises: a sequence of cell-measuring-pins (104) for connecting to corresponding battery-cell-connection-nodes; a plurality of bi-directional ESD protection elements (105), each one connected between a pair of adjacent cell-measuring-pins (104) in the sequence; a sequence of cell-balancing-pins (106) for connecting to corresponding battery-cell-connection-nodes; and a plurality of dual polarity switches (107), each one connected between a pair of adjacent cell-balancing-pins in the sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Alain Salles, Patrice Besse, Olivier Tico, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes
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Publication number: 20230152826Abstract: Programmable temperature regulation circuits, and methods of operating programmable temperature regulation circuits, are disclosed for providing heat to a target area on a chip. The programmable temperature regulation circuits include a heating element on the chip, and a regulation loop operatively connected to the heating element. The regulation loop includes a first diode that measures the temperature in the target area, and an operational transconductance amplifier. The operational transconductance amplifier receives a reference temperature voltage from a reference voltage, and a temperature feedback voltage from the diode, and generates an output voltage to control the provision of electrical power to the heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Yuan Gao, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Gauthier Thouvenin, Estelle Huynh
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Patent number: 11509326Abstract: A sigma-delta ADC comprising: a first-input-terminal configured to receive a first-high-voltage-analogue-input-signal; a second-input-terminal configured to receive a second-high-voltage-analogue-input-signal; an output-terminal configured to provide an output-digital-signal, wherein the output-digital-signal is representative of the difference between the first-high-voltage-analogue-input-signal and the second-high-voltage-analogue-input-signal. The sigma-delta ADC also includes a feedback-current-block, which comprises: a first-feedback-transistor having a conduction channel; a second-feedback-transistor having a conduction channel; a first-feedback-switch; a second-feedback-switch; a first-feedback-current-source; and a second-feedback-current-source.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Simon Brule, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Pascal Sandrez, Soufiane Serser
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Publication number: 20210399738Abstract: A sigma-delta ADC comprising: a first-input-terminal configured to receive a first-high-voltage-analogue-input-signal; a second-input-terminal configured to receive a second-high-voltage-analogue-input-signal; an output-terminal configured to provide an output-digital-signal, wherein the output-digital-signal is representative of the difference between the first-high-voltage-analogue-input-signal and the second-high-voltage-analogue-input-signal. The sigma-delta ADC also includes a feedback-current-block, which comprises: a first-feedback-transistor having a conduction channel; a second-feedback-transistor having a conduction channel; a first-feedback-switch; a second-feedback-switch; a first-feedback-current-source; and a second-feedback-current-source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Simon Brule, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Pascal Sandrez, Soufiane Serser
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Publication number: 20210126295Abstract: A multi-cell battery apparatus is provided, according to certain aspects, including a battery with a plurality of voltage-stacked battery cell circuits, a switchable resistive-divider circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit selectively activates the switchable resistive-divider circuits and, in response to the respective switchable resistive-divider circuits being selectively activated, the control circuit measures the controlled-load voltage drops. These aspects are used to allow open load detection without interfering with the cell balancing mechanism and the accuracy of the redundant measurements performed on these pins in a battery management system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Jérôme DIETSCH, Thomas MALLARD
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Patent number: 10983141Abstract: A system includes a capacitive transducer, an excitation circuit, and a measuring circuit. The excitation circuit is configured to excite the capacitive transducer and the measuring circuit measures an output signal from the capacitive transducer responsive to the excitation voltage. The excitation circuit includes a voltage source for providing a first voltage in response to receipt of a supply voltage, a voltage generator coupled to the voltage source for receiving the first voltage and generating a second voltage that is greater than the supply voltage, and a control circuit coupled to the voltage source and the voltage generator. The control circuit is configured to provide any of a system ground, the first voltage, and the second voltage to first and second terminals of the capacitive transducer, and particularly, being configured to apply the system ground and the second voltage in the form of two consecutive stimuli with opposite polarities.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Joel Cameron Beckwith, Jerome Romain Enjalbert, Jalal Ouaddah
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Patent number: 10401171Abstract: A system is provided that includes a mechanical resonator, and an analog circuit coupled to the mechanical resonator. The analog circuit is arranged to receive a mechanical resonator measurement signal having a quadrature error from the mechanical resonator, and to extract a quadrature error signal from the mechanical resonator measurement signal using a quadrature clock. A digital quadrature controller is coupled to the analog circuit and is arranged to generate a quadrature error compensation signal from the extracted quadrature error signal and apply the quadrature error compensation signal to the mechanical resonator or the mechanical resonator measurement signal to reduce quadrature error in the mechanical resonator measurement signal error.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Hugues Beaulaton, Philippe Patrick Calmettes, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes
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Patent number: 10393769Abstract: A microelectromechanical device comprising a mass, an electromechanical transducer configured to convert, after damping the mass during a first damping period, displacement of the mass in the first and second directions into corresponding first and second electrical signals during corresponding first and second conversion time periods, a derivative unit configured to generate first and second control signals indicative of the velocity of the mass in the first and second direction, and a controller for providing the first and second control signals to respective first and second one or more electrodes of the electromechanical transducer for simultaneously damping the mass in the first and second directions with a first and second damping forces corresponding to the first and second velocity during the damping time period.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Olivier Bernal, Lavinia Elena Ciotirca, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Jerome Romain Enjalbert, Helene Catherine Louise Tap
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Patent number: 10330474Abstract: MEMS gyroscopes are often integrated in modern electronic products for measuring orientation or rotation in those products. However, these MEMS gyroscopes are often inaccurate. The invention provides a compensation circuit to compensate for errors causing a distortion of a measured Coriolis force. The compensation circuit demodulates an input signal provided by the MEMS gyroscope to produce a quadrature signal indicative of the quadrature error and provides a compensation signal to the MEMS gyroscope for actively compensating the quadrature error.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Hugues Beaulaton, Philippe Patrick Calmettes, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes
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Patent number: 10263608Abstract: A circuit comprises an amplifier, a first switch arranged between an amplifier input and an amplifier output, a first capacitor, a first resistor, a second switch, a third switch, a first converter coupled to the first amplifier output, a register storing a last digital value, a second converter converting the stored last digital value into a corresponding voltage value, and a control circuit. The control circuit charges the first capacitor to the corresponding voltage value by coupling a second converter output to a second capacitor terminal and switching on the first switch, or by coupling the second converter output to the first capacitor terminal and switching on the third switch; switches on the first switch and the second switch for providing the input voltage signal to the first capacitor; and switches on the third switch for determining a subsequent digital value of the converted output amplifier signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.Inventors: Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Joel Cameron Beckwith, Jerome Romain Enjalbert, Dejan Mijuskovic
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Publication number: 20180335444Abstract: A system includes a capacitive transducer, an excitation circuit, and a measuring circuit. The excitation circuit is configured to excite the capacitive transducer and the measuring circuit measures an output signal from the capacitive transducer responsive to the excitation voltage. The excitation circuit includes a voltage source for providing a first voltage in response to receipt of a supply voltage, a voltage generator coupled to the voltage source for receiving the first voltage and generating a second voltage that is greater than the supply voltage, and a control circuit coupled to the voltage source and the voltage generator. The control circuit is configured to provide any of a system ground, the first voltage, and the second voltage to first and second terminals of the capacitive transducer, and particularly, being configured to apply the system ground and the second voltage in the form of two consecutive stimuli with opposite polarities.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Joel Cameron Beckwith, Jerome Romain Enjalbert, Jalal Ouaddah
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Publication number: 20170356928Abstract: A microelectromechanical device comprising a mass, an electromechanical transducer configured to convert, after damping the mass during a first damping period, displacement of the mass in the first and second directions into corresponding first and second electrical signals during corresponding first and second conversion time periods, a derivative unit configured to generate first and second control signals indicative of the velocity of the mass in the first and second direction, and a controller for providing the first and second control signals to respective first and second one or more electrodes of the electromechanical transducer for simultaneously damping the mass in the first and second directions with a first and second damping forces corresponding to the first and second velocity during the damping time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Olivier Bernal, Lavinia Elena Ciotirca, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes, Jerome Romain Enjalbert, Helene Catherine Louise Tap
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Publication number: 20170328713Abstract: A system is provided that includes a mechanical resonator, and an analog circuit coupled to the mechanical resonator. The analog circuit is arranged to receive a mechanical resonator measurement signal having a quadrature error from the mechanical resonator, and to extract a quadrature error signal from the mechanical resonator measurement signal using a quadrature clock. A digital quadrature controller is coupled to the analog circuit and is arranged to generate a quadrature error compensation signal from the extracted quadrature error signal and apply the quadrature error compensation signal to the mechanical resonator or the mechanical resonator measurement signal to reduce quadrature error in the mechanical resonator measurement signal error.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Hugues Beaulaton, Philippe Patrick Calmettes, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes
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Publication number: 20170328735Abstract: MEMS gyroscopes are often integrated in modern electronic products for measuring orientation or rotation in those products. However, these MEMS gyroscopes are often inaccurate. The invention provides a compensation circuit to compensate for errors causing a distortion of a measured Coriolis force. The compensation circuit demodulates an input signal provided by the MEMS gyroscope to produce a quadrature signal indicative of the quadrature error and provides a compensation signal to the MEMS gyroscope for actively compensating the quadrature error.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Hugues Beaulaton, Philippe Patrick Calmettes, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes
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Publication number: 20160301403Abstract: A circuit comprises an amplifier, a first switch arranged between an amplifier input and an amplifier output, a first capacitor, a first resistor, a second switch, a third switch, a first converter coupled to the first amplifier output, a register storing a last digital value, a second converter converting the stored last digital value into a corresponding voltage value, and a control circuit. The control circuit charges the first capacitor to the corresponding voltage value by coupling a second converter output to a second capacitor terminal and switching on the first switch, or by coupling the second converter output to the first capacitor terminal and switching on the third switch; switches on the first switch and the second switch for providing the input voltage signal to the first capacitor; and switches on the third switch for determining a subsequent digital value of the converted output amplifier signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: THIERRY DOMINIQUE YVES CASSAGNES, JOEL CAMERON BECKWITH, JEROME ROMAIN ENJALBERT, DEJAN MIJUSKOVIC
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Publication number: 20160231119Abstract: A system is provided that includes a mechanical resonator, and an analog circuit coupled to the mechanical resonator. The analog circuit is arranged to receive a mechanical resonator measurement signal having a quadrature error from the mechanical resonator, and to extract a quadrature error signal from the mechanical resonator measurement signal using a quadrature clock. A digital quadrature controller is coupled to the analog circuit and is arranged to generate a quadrature error compensation signal from the extracted quadrature error signal and apply the quadrature error compensation signal to the mechanical resonator or the mechanical resonator measurement signal to reduce quadrature error in the mechanical resonator measurement signal error.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2015Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Hugues Beaulaton, Philippe Patrick Calmettes, Thierry Dominique Yves Cassagnes
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Patent number: 8011417Abstract: A process for continuous casting of slabs or other metal products of elongate cross section, for example made of steel, in which a molten metal is poured into a cooled mold, and the externally solidified product is continuously extracted from the mold and guided in a secondary cooling zone downstream of the mold. To obtain a cast product exhibiting predominantly equiaxed solidification, the product extracted from the mold is subjected to electromagnetic stirring in segment zero of the secondary cooling zone by at least two stirrer-rolls incorporated into the segment zero.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2006Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: RotelecInventors: Siebo Kunstreich, Dominique Yves
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Patent number: 7635583Abstract: A protein crystal having the processivity clamp factor of DNA polymerase that is the ? subunit of DNA polymerase III of Escherichia coli and a peptide of about 3 to about 30 amino acids, in particular of about 16 amino acids. The peptide includes all or part of the processivity clamp factor binding sequence of a processivity clamp factor interacting protein, such as prokaryotic Pol I, Pol II, Pol III, Pol IV, Pol V, MutS, ligase I, ? subunit of DNA polymerase, UmuD or UmuD?, or eukaryotic pol ?, pol ?, pol ?, pol ?, pol ?.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInventors: Dominique Yves Joel Burnouf, Jerome Edouard Wagner, Philippe Dumas, Shingo Fujii, Robert Pierre Paul Fuchs, Vincent Olieric
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Publication number: 20090183851Abstract: A process for continuous casting of slabs or other metal products of elongate cross section, for example made of steel, in which a molten metal is poured into a cooled mold, and the externally solidified product is continuously extracted from the mold and guided in a secondary cooling zone downstream of the mold. To obtain a cast product exhibiting predominantly equiaxed solidification, the product extracted from the mold is subjected to electromagnetic stirring in segment zero of the secondary cooling zone by at least two stirrer-rolls incorporated into the segment zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2006Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: ROTELECInventors: Siebo Kunstreich, Dominique Yves