Patents by Inventor Frédéric Cattaneo

Frédéric Cattaneo 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).

  • Publication number: 20150070006
    Abstract: Electric current transducer module comprising a magnetic circuit with a magnetic core and an air gap, the magnetic core having a central passage configured to receive a primary conductor carrying a primary current to be measured. The electric current transducer module further comprises a signal processing circuit including a circuit board and contact terminals for connection to external circuitry, and a magnetic field detector arranged at least partially in the air gap of the magnetic circuit. The electric current transducer module further comprises a magnetic core mounting support comprising a molded support and a grounding and fixing mechanism configured to hold and rigidly fix the magnetic core to the molded base to form a magnetic circuit unit. The magnetic circuit unit is configured to be fixedly assembled to the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Pierre Turpin, Philippe Sage, Frédéric Cattaneo
  • Patent number: 6987439
    Abstract: A magnetic circuit (1) with coil having an electric coil (2) and a magnetic core (3), the coil (2) comprising a conducting wire (6) and an end plate (4) and connector (5) being arranged at respective ends of the coil (2). The coil is mounted on the magnetic core (3) which is formed of a tore-shaped magnetic wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Liaisons Electroniques-Mecaniques LEM SA
    Inventor: Frédéric Cattaneo
  • Publication number: 20040021540
    Abstract: A magnetic circuit (1) with coil having an electric coil (2) and a magnetic core (3), the coil (2) comprising a conducting wire (6) and an end plate (4) and connector (5) being arranged at respective ends of the coil (2). The coil is mounted on the magnetic core (3) which is formed of a tore-shaped magnetic wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: Frederic Cattaneo
  • Patent number: 6640419
    Abstract: A method of making magnetic circuit (1) with coil having an electric coil (2) and a magnetic core (3), the coil (2) comprising a conducting wire (6) and an end plate (4) and connector (5) being arranged at respective ends of the coil (2). The coil is mounted on the magnetic core (3) which is formed of a tore-shaped magnetic wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Liaisons Electroniques-Mecaniques LEM S.A.
    Inventor: Frédéric Cattaneo
  • Publication number: 20030115742
    Abstract: A magnetic circuit (1) with coil having an electric coil (2) and a magnetic core (3), the coil (2) comprising a conducting wire (6) and an end plate (4) and connector (5) being arranged at respective ends of the coil (2). The coil is mounted on the magnetic core (3) which is formed of a tore-shaped magnetic wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventor: Frederic Cattaneo
  • Patent number: 6323636
    Abstract: The invention concerns an electric current pick-up shoe compensating fluxes generated in a magnetic circuit (1) by respectively a primary current and a compensating current circulating in a secondary coil. Said secondary coil (5) comprises at its surface a layer of spires (12) forming a protective winding connected to a fixed electric potential (13), such that the effect of leakage capacities between the primary current conductor (4) and the secondary coil (5) winding (6) are practically eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Liaisons Electroniques-Mecaniques Lem S.A.
    Inventors: Frédéric Cattaneo, Pierre Cattaneo, Guy Vuillermoz
  • Patent number: 5709353
    Abstract: For forming a cylindrical coil (3) on a rectilinear arm of a magnetic circuit (1) having a very small air-gap (2), a wire guide member (6) has a wire inlet portion (8), a wire outlet portion (9) and an elongated intermediary portion (11) arranged for effecting a rotary movement about the axis (4) of the coil (3) and a reciprocating movement in the axial direction of the coil (3). The intermediary portion of the wire guide member has, over a length at least equal to that of the coil to be formed, a height smaller than the length of the air-gap so that it can move through the air-gap in the longitudinal and in the transverse directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Liaisons Electroniques-Mecaniques LEM S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Cattaneo, Regis Mentzer, Pierre Strubin