Patents by Inventor Francis Chauvet

Francis Chauvet 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: 11451264
    Abstract: A system for short-distance radio-frequency communications between a master module and a plurality of detachable slave modules, the communications system including a main electrical line connected to the master module and having a plurality of coupling points, wherein the communications system further includes a plurality of secondary electrical lines each having a first coupling area for a directional coupling between the secondary line and the main line at a coupling point, and a second coupling area for a directional coupling between the secondary line and a slave module, the second coupling area being distinct from the first coupling area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Denis Dessales, Francis Chauvet
  • Publication number: 20210314027
    Abstract: A system for short-distance radio-frequency communications between a master module and a plurality of detachable slave modules, the communications system including a main electrical line connected to the master module and having a plurality of coupling points, wherein the communications system further includes a plurality of secondary electrical lines each having a first coupling area for a directional coupling between the secondary line and the main line at a coupling point, and a second coupling area for a directional coupling between the secondary line and a slave module, the second coupling area being distinct from the first coupling area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Denis Dessales, Francis Chauvet
  • Patent number: 10658133
    Abstract: A push-button with a receptacle and a cover plate, an actuating button actuatable in translation between two positions, a rest position and a pushed-in position, the cover plate being arranged at the periphery of the actuating button, a device for guiding the actuating button in translation between the two positions, and a return device for returning the actuating button from the pushed-in position toward the rest position. The guiding device include at least a pin including a bent rod shaped to have a first part pivotally mounted on a fastening unit of the actuating button and a second part pivotally mounted on a fastening unit of the cover plate, and the return device are designed to act on the pin by mechanical or magnetic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Bertrand Fruchard, Francis Chauvet
  • Patent number: 10579133
    Abstract: A control module for a human-machine dialogue system, the system including a plurality of human-machine dialogue members, each human-machine dialogue member including a functional element that includes at least one electrical contact and/or a signalling indicator. The control module is configured to operate in a write mode to attribute a state to each signalling indicator of each human-machine dialogue member and in a read mode to read a state of the electrical contact of each human-machine dialogue member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Herve Dallet, Francis Chauvet
  • Publication number: 20190164701
    Abstract: A push-button with a receptacle and a cover plate, an actuating button actuatable in translation between two positions, a rest position and a pushed-in position, the cover plate being arranged at the periphery of the actuating button, a device for guiding the actuating button in translation between the two positions, and a return device for returning the actuating button from the pushed-in position toward the rest position. The guiding device include at least a pin including a bent rod shaped to have a first part pivotally mounted on a fastening unit of the actuating button and a second part pivotally mounted on a fastening unit of the cover plate, and the return device are designed to act on the pin by mechanical or magnetic effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Bertrand FRUCHARD, Francis CHAUVET
  • Patent number: 10256064
    Abstract: An emergency stop device including a control assembly which can be actuated in translation along a control axis between a released position and an actuated position, a locking element cooperating with the control assembly and able to assume a locking position to hold the control assembly in its actuated position, a read device configured to generate a command for authorising unlocking of the control assembly, an unlocking actuator configured to act on the locking device to release the control assembly from its actuated position, an actuating element which can be actuated in movement to generate a mechanical energy, and an energy generator configured to convert the mechanical energy supplied by a movement of the actuating element into an electrical energy intended to power the read device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Francis Chauvet, Tewfik Meftah, Dominique Benni
  • Publication number: 20190094953
    Abstract: A control module for a human-machine dialogue system, the system including a plurality of human-machine dialogue members, each human-machine dialogue member including a functional element that includes at least one electrical contact and/or a signalling indicator. The control module is configured to operate in a write mode to attribute a state to each signalling indicator of each human-machine dialogue member and in a read mode to read a state of the electrical contact of each human-machine dialogue member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Herve DALLET, Francis CHAUVET
  • Patent number: 10089839
    Abstract: A control module and a human-machine dialog system including the control module. The human-machine dialog system includes one or more human-machine dialog devices connected in series, a human-machine dialog device including a functional element including at least one electrical contact, an indicator or a combination of at least one electrical contact and of an indicator. The control module includes a microcontroller, a common terminal designed to be connected to each functional element and several terminals each dedicated to the individual control of the functional element of each human-machine dialog device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Bertrand Fruchard, Francis Chauvet
  • Patent number: 10067573
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for control/command of a plurality of man-machine dialog facilities which are linked in series in such a way as to form a network. This device comprises a wire interconnection block linked by a point-to-point link to each dialog facility via a network of twisted cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Dominique Benni, Francis Chauvet
  • Patent number: 10055025
    Abstract: A human-machine dialog system including a first part including a data processing unit and an electrical power supply unit, a second part including a number of human-machine dialog members each provided with a human-machine dialog interface, and a fastening support arranged to accommodate each human-machine dialog member in a removable and interchangeable manner, and a communication and power supply bus linking the power supply unit and the processing unit of the first part to each human-machine dialog member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Dominique Benni, Francis Chauvet, Alain Tardivon, Eric Lemasson
  • Patent number: 10019876
    Abstract: The invention relates to a signalling device comprising a cover, a light source (22) mounted on a support circuit board (20) and a vibrating generator (25, 26) intended to emit sound waves, the cover forming an outer wall (11) that is at least partly translucent, characterized in that: the light source (22) is positioned between the vibrating generator (25, 26) and the outer wall (11); the cover comprises a connecting column (12) that passes through the support circuit board (20) and to which the vibrating generator (25, 26) is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Bertrand Fruchard, Francis Chauvet
  • Patent number: 9906970
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a communication between a transmitting equipment item and a receiving equipment item, said transmitting equipment item transmitting control frames (TC_i) to the receiving equipment item. The method makes it possible to take account of the fact that the control frames (TC_i) are not necessarily transmitted at fixed frequency and to adapt the transmission of the diagnostic frames (TDx_i) to the frequency of transmission of the control frames. Upon a significant variation of this transmission frequency, if no diagnostic frame has been transmitted between the two control frames, the instant of transmission of the next diagnostic frame will take account of this aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Alain Tardivon, Mireille Roger, Herve Dallet, Francis Chauvet
  • Publication number: 20170309141
    Abstract: The invention relates to a signalling device comprising a cover, a light source (22) mounted on a support circuit board (20) and a vibrating generator (25, 26) intended to emit sound waves, the cover forming an outer wall (11) that is at least partly translucent, characterized in that: the light source (22) is positioned between the vibrating generator (25, 26) and the outer wall (11); the cover comprises a connecting column (12) that passes through the support circuit board (20) and to which the vibrating generator (25, 26) is fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Bertrand FRUCHARD, Francis CHAUVET
  • Patent number: 9750143
    Abstract: A control system including: a stationary control console and a first emergency stop button positioned on the control console, a mobile control unit including a mobile holder and a second emergency stop button arranged on the mobile holder, the control console including at least one cavity, the mobile holder configured to assume a first position in which the second emergency stop button is located inside the cavity to be hidden from a view of a user, and a second position in which the second emergency stop button is outside the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Tewfik Meftah, Francis Chauvet, Dominique Benni
  • Publication number: 20170228039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for control/command of a plurality of man-machine dialogue facilities which are linked in series in such a way as to form a network. This device comprises a wire interconnection block linked by a point-to-point link to each dialogue facility via a network of twisted cables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Dominique BENNI, Francis CHAUVET
  • Publication number: 20160277950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring a communication between a transmitting equipment item and a receiving equipment item, said transmitting equipment item transmitting control frames (TC_i) to the receiving equipment item. Said method makes it possible to take account of the fact that the control frames (TC_i) are not necessarily transmitted at fixed frequency and to adapt the transmission of the diagnostic frames (TDx_i) to the frequency of transmission of the control frames. Upon a significant variation of this transmission frequency, if no diagnostic frame has been transmitted between the two control frames, the instant of transmission of the next diagnostic frame will take account of this aspect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Alain TARDIVON, Mireille Roger, Herve Dallet, Francis Chauvet
  • Patent number: 9411370
    Abstract: The invention concerns a human-machine dialog system (1) comprising: a support (3) having a plurality of identical docking stations (30), each docking station (30) being associated with a universal human-machine dialog device (4), each universal human-machine dialog device (4) comprising at least a display member (41) and a sensor member (40), a plurality of modular members (2), each modular member (2) being arranged to be positioned in a docking station (30) in a removable and interchangeable manner and comprising a human-machine dialog interface (20) arranged to cooperate with said display member (41) and/or said sensor member (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Dominique Benni, Francis Chauvet, Alain Guillot
  • Patent number: 9349550
    Abstract: An emergency stop device including a body, a control button that is translatably movable along a control axis, at least one set of electric contacts that are normally closed and which include a mobile electric contact and a stationary electric contact, a flexible blade having a first free end and a second free end, and an actuation push member that can be translatably actuated, by the control button, between a rest position and an actuated position, and which is configured to engage with the flexible blade. The flexible blade includes a bearing area for the actuation push member, and the flexible blade is shaped to rigidify the bearing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Dominique Benni, Alain Tardivon, Francis Chauvet, Eric Lemasson
  • Publication number: 20160125708
    Abstract: A control module and a human-machine dialogue system including the control module. The human-machine dialogue system includes one or more human-machine dialogue devices connected in series, a human-machine dialogue device including a functional element including at least one electrical contact, an indicator or a combination of at least one electrical contact and of an indicator. The control module includes a microcontroller, a common terminal designed to be connected to each functional element and several terminals each dedicated to the individual control of the functional element of each human-machine dialogue device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Bertrand FRUCHARD, Francis CHAUVET
  • Publication number: 20160012992
    Abstract: An emergency stop device including a control assembly which can be actuated in translation along a control axis between a released position and an actuated position, a locking element cooperating with the control assembly and able to assume a locking position to hold the control assembly in its actuated position, a read device configured to generate a command for authorising unlocking of the control assembly, an unlocking actuator configured to act on the locking device to release the control assembly from its actuated position, an actuating element which can be actuated in movement to generate a mechanical energy, and an energy generator configured to convert the mechanical energy supplied by a movement of the actuating element into an electrical energy intended to power the read device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Francis CHAUVET, Tewfik MEFTAH, Dominique BENNI