Patents by Inventor Eric Guillemot

Eric Guillemot 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: 8008883
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a motorized solar protection installation (1) comprising a screen (3) that can be displaced by activation of an actuator (6) provided with an electronic position counting device (7) and means (9) of detecting an obstacle to the movement, comprising the following steps: storage of a first end-of-travel position, displacement of the screen by activation of the actuator towards the first stored end-of-travel position, continued beyond the first stored end-of-travel position as far as a position that can be assimilated to an end-stop, detected by the means of detecting an obstacle to the movement, measurement of the position difference between the first stored end-of-travel position and the position that can be assimilated to an end-stop, storage of this measurement in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Somfy SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Hoff, Eric Guillemot
  • Publication number: 20090165779
    Abstract: A method of adjusting a motorized solar protection installation (1) comprising a screen (3) that can be displaced by activation of an actuator (6) provided with an electronic position counting device (7) and means (9) of detecting an obstacle to the movement, comprising the following steps: storage of a first end-of-travel position, displacement of the screen by activation of the actuator towards the first stored end-of-travel position, continued beyond the first stored end-of-travel position as far as a position that can be assimilated to an end-stop, detected by the means of detecting an obstacle to the movement, measurement of the position difference between the first stored end-of-travel position and the position that can be assimilated to an end-stop, storage of this measurement in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Laurent Hoff, Eric Guillemot
  • Patent number: 7515338
    Abstract: The method applies to a motorized screen device comprising a screen windable on a winding tube, and at least one means for latching the free end of the screen defining a position termed latched in the direction of winding, the latching being activated in this direction if the free end of the screen previously reaches at least one position of reversal, to which corresponds for the unwinding a value of angular position of the winding tube termed the position of reversal of rotation, situated beyond the latched position in the direction of unwinding of the screen. According to the method, in a mode of configuration of the latching of the screen, the installer proceeds merely to record the value of a chosen angular position, termed the recorded rotation reversal position, this position being situated at the level of or beyond the position of reversal of rotation, in the direction of unwinding of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Somfy SAS
    Inventors: Sylvain Canon, Celine Noir, Jean-Pierre Cathala, Eric Guillemot