Patents by Inventor Driss Stitou

Driss Stitou 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: 7100398
    Abstract: A method and installation is described for producing cold and/or heat, in a place where the latter are to be used, from one or more heat energy sources. The method is carried out in an installation comprising two or three assemblies of two reactors in which reversible phenomena involving a gas take place, said phenomena being exothermic in the sense of synthesis and endothermic in the sense of decomposition. The energy for the operation of the installation is supplied by a low temperature reactor of one or two assemblies. The installation is suitable for the remote production of cold or heat by means of the transport of gas at ambient temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiqe
    Inventors: Bernard Spinner, Jalel Labidi, Driss Stitou
  • Publication number: 20060153753
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of regenerating an exhaust line particle filter wherein particles lining the walls of the filter are heated to a temperature higher than their combustion temperature, which method is characterized in that: the heat necessary to heat said particles is produced by adding to a solid first compound present in a reactor a gaseous second compound adapted to combine with said first compound to form a solid third compound by way of an exothermic reaction, and the heat resulting from the combustion of said particles is used to regenerate said solid first compound and said second compound by way of an endothermic reaction that is the opposite of said exothermic reaction. The invention also relates to an exhaust line and a particle filter for implementing the above method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Sylvain Mauran, Driss Stitou, Sandrine Guiguet, Emmanuel Boudard
  • Publication number: 20060090476
    Abstract: The method is implemented in an installation comprising an endothermic component (EC) and an exothermic component consisting of the reactors (1) and (2). The reactors (1) and (2) are in thermal contact, each of them constituting an active thermal mass for the other, and they are provided with heating means (6) and heat extraction means (5). (1), (2) and (EC) are provided with means for bringing them into selective communication, and reversible phenomena involving a gas G take place therein, the equilibrium curve for the phenomenon in (1) lying within a higher temperature range than that of the equilibrium curve for the phenomenon in (2), which is itself higher than that of the curve for the phenomenon in (EC) in the Clausius-Clapeyron plot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Driss Stitou, Pierre Neveu, Bernard Spinner
  • Publication number: 20040211205
    Abstract: A method and installation is described for producing cold and/or heat, in a place where the latter are to be used, from one or more heat energy sources. The method is carried out in an installation comprising two or three assemblies of two reactors in which reversible phenomena involving a gas take place, said phenomena being exothermic in the sense of synthesis and endothermic in the sense of decomposition. The energy for the operation of the installation is supplied by a low temperature reactor of one or two assemblies. The installation is suitable for the remote production of cold or heat by means of the transport of gas at ambient temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Bernard Spinner, Jalel Labidi, Driss Stitou