Patents by Inventor Edouard R. Barneoud

Edouard R. Barneoud 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).

  • Connecting device for an equipment unit suspended from a system which subjects said unit to differential movements of displacement
    Patent number: 4258937
    Abstract: An equipment unit such as the primary pump of a liquid metal cooled reactor is suspended from the reactor vault roof by means of complementary bearing zones formed respectively in top flanges of the pump and in stationary supporting flanges secured to the vault roof. The flexible connection between the two sets of flanges is provided by a flexible ring, the cross-section of which along a diametral plane comprises a substantially circular convex portion engaged in a concave recess of one bearing zone and a portion having a gear-tooth profile adapted to engage in a corresponding recess of the other bearing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Edouard R. Barneoud, Michel Guer, Paul Lecouvreur, Jean Roumailhac