Patents by Inventor Frans Vandenabeele

Frans Vandenabeele 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).

  • Method and apparatus for optically monitoring filing yarns
    Patent number: 6170536
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for optically monitoring filling yarns inserted into a guide duct (10). Substantially collimated light rays are generated and directed transversely to the guide duct (10) onto photo-detectors (23), with the detection of interruption of the light rays by the fillings determining those positions which are assumed by the fillings when being inserted into the guide duct (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Picanol N.V.
    Inventors: Joseph Verhulst, Jozef Peeters, Frans Vandenabeele
  • Reed with optical weft detector
    Patent number: 5329961
    Abstract: A loom having an optical weft detector which includes a light emitter and a light detector for picking up light reflected by a weft thread in a guide duct formed by blades of the reed, is mounted on the side of the reed which faces away from the guide duct and outside the blades, the detection zone of the light detector being spatially limited to the light reflected by the weft thread in the guide duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignees: Barco N.V., Picanol N.V.
    Inventors: Patrick Bouvyn, Frans Vandenabeele
  • Weft cancellation mechanism for gripper looms
    Patent number: 4653544
    Abstract: A weft cancellation mechanism for gripper looms, characterized by consisting primarily of a bar (7) located in a position situated between the feed of the weft (4) and the shed (2) which forms an angle with the weft or wefts (4), this bar (7) being attached to an electromagnet (9) which, once a weft breaks, is activated so as to remove the weft (4) offered up to the gripper from the path of the gripper (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: N. V. Weefautomaten Picanol
    Inventors: Michel Vandeweghe, Frans Vandenabeele