Patents by Inventor Frederic Nicolas
Frederic Nicolas 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).
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Publication number: 20130011252Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a nozzle mounted on a base. The base comprises an outer casing, an impeller housing located within the outer casing, the impeller housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, an impeller located within the impeller housing and a motor for driving the impeller to create an air flow through the impeller housing. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the air outlet of the impeller housing and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted from the fan assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Tom Vallance Hamilton CRAWFORD, Christopher Simon Osborn, Kevin John Simmonds, Frederic Nicolas, Jonathan Richard Codling
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Patent number: 8348629Abstract: A bladeless fan assembly for creating an air current includes a nozzle mounted on a base housing a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the base and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted. The nozzle extends about an axis to define an opening through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air flow emitted from the mouth. The nozzle includes a surface over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow. The surface has a diffuser portion tapering away from the axis, and a guide portion downstream from the diffuser portion and angled thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyston Technology LimitedInventors: Nicholas Gerald Fitton, Frederic Nicolas, Peter David Gammack
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Patent number: 8347521Abstract: A drying apparatus has a casing, a cavity formed in the casing for receiving an object, a fan located in the casing and creating an airflow, and at least one slot-like opening communicating with the fan and arranged in the casing so as to direct an airflow transversely across the cavity. The slot-like opening has a maximum width which is no greater than 0.8 mm. This produces a very narrow, high velocity, high pressure airflow which is capable of drying an object efficiently and quickly and is suitable for use in a hand dryer.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: John Churchill, James Dyson, Peter David Gammack, Paul Cedric Campbell Hackwell, Frederic Nicolas, Roy Macnaughton
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Patent number: 8341853Abstract: A drying apparatus has a casing, a cavity formed in the casing for receiving an object, a fan located in the casing and creating an airflow, a motor provided in the casing for driving the fan and ducting for carrying the airflow from the fan to at least one opening arranged to emit the airflow into the cavity, wherein the ducting includes at least one air duct in which at least one vane is located, the vane extending in the direction of airflow and dividing the air duct into a plurality of airflow portions.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Timothy Alexander French, Peter Nigel Hutchinson, Frederic Nicolas
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Patent number: 8308445Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a bladeless fan assembly including a nozzle and a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage and a mouth receiving the air flow from the interior passage. A Coanda surface located adjacent the mouth and over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow. The fan provides an arrangement producing an air current and a flow of cooling air created without requiring a bladed fan, that is, the air flow is created by a bladeless fan.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Peter David Gammack, Frederic Nicolas, Kevin John Simmonds
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Patent number: 8308432Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a nozzle mounted on a base. The base comprises an outer casing, an impeller housing located within the outer casing, the impeller housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, an impeller located within the impeller housing and a motor for driving the impeller to create an air flow through the impeller housing. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the air outlet of the impeller housing and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted from the fan assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Tom Vallance Hamilton Crawford, Christopher Simon Osborn, Kevin John Simmonds, Frederic Nicolas, Jonathan Richard Codling
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Publication number: 20120211222Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for laying an expansible lining in a conduit. The device may include a patch having an initial diameter less than that of the conduit, and the patch may be configured to deform by radial expansion beyond an elastic limit to an expanded diameter such that it may contact a wall of the conduit. The device may also include an expander tool axially displaceable inside the patch, and the expander tool may be configured to cause the radial expansion of the patch to an expanded diameter. The device may also include a checking member mounted in proximity to the expander tool. A section of the checking member may be calibrated so that the checking member and the expander tool are capable of passing freely inside the patch when the patch is properly expanded, and the checking member and the expander tool are unable to pass inside the patch when the patch is improperly expanded.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: SALTEL INDUSTRIESInventors: James Leighton, Frédéric Nicolas, Yoann Riou, Benjamin Saltel, Jean-Louis Saltel, Gwenaël Tanguy
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Patent number: 8237869Abstract: A multi-standard single-chip receiver for digital demodulation of TV signals broadcasted over any of multiple digital television means, e.g., satellite, cable and terrestrial, is provided. The receiver can receive and demodulate a variety of different signal types received from one or more up-front tuners. A demodulator architecture in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can be optimized to re-use common demodulation processing blocks for the different incoming signal types.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Pascal Blouin, Frederic Nicolas, David Rault, Olivier Souloumiac, Emmanuel Gautier, Stephane Faudeil, Eric Vapillon, Gaetan Guillaume, Laurent Appercel
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Publication number: 20120163977Abstract: An annular nozzle for a ceiling fan includes an inner wall defining a bore having a bore axis, an outer wall extending about the inner wall, an air inlet for receiving an air flow, and an air outlet section extending between the inner wall and the outer wall. The air outlet section defines an air outlet for emitting the air flow. An interior passage extends about the bore axis for conveying the air flow to the air outlet. The air outlet section is configured to emit the air flow away from the bore axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Frederic NICOLAS, Alan Howard DAVIS, James Robert Allan MACDONALD
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Patent number: 8197315Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for the virtual and interactive practicing of soccer, complementing the joysticks comprising a pair of control units, comprising an attachment system joining one of the control units to a balloon in which the player can stamp his foot and a connection system interlinking the two control units over a distance that can be greater than the length of their connecting lead.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Bigben InteractiveInventors: Frédéric Nicolas, Frédéric Claudel
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Publication number: 20120135825Abstract: The invention concerns a device for interactive football practice combined with an imaging and sound system constituting the football programme to be followed by a player, comprising an object relatively fixed to the ground (I), of spherical shape which the player can kick, and various means for determining the types of kicks practised by the player and the intensity thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: WILL INTERNATIONAL LTDInventors: Frédéric CLAUDEL, Frédéric NICOLAS
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Publication number: 20120114513Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current is described, the fan assembly having a nozzle, a system for creating an air flow through the nozzle and a filter for removing particulates from the air flow, the nozzle having an interior passage, a mouth for receiving the air flow from the interior passage, and a Coanda surface located adjacent the mouth and over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow, wherein the fan provides an arrangement producing an air current and a flow of cooling air created without requiring a bladed fan, i.e. air flow is created by a bladeless fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2009Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Kevin John Simmonds, Nicholas Gerald Fitton, Frederic Nicolas, Peter David Gammack
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Patent number: 8157007Abstract: The method of the invention comprises inserting into the well or the piping to be cased, a tube (1) including tube sections previously connected end to end, proceeding with the radial expansion of the tube using an inflatable bladder (3) so that the wall thereof bears against that (C) of the well or the piping; wherein the method is characterized in that the expansion is achieved not on the entire length of the tube but only at certain areas (4) thereof which are spaced from each other by non-expanded portions (5), so that the total length of the expanded areas (4) is substantially smaller than the total length of the non-expanded areas (5), the number of expanded areas (4) being at least equal to three. The invention can be used in the field of water or crude oil production.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Saltel IndustriesInventors: Frédéric Nicolas, Yoann Riou, Benjamin Saltel, Jean-Louis Saltel
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Patent number: 8092166Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current is described. The fan assembly includes a nozzle mounted on a base housing a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the base, a mouth through which the air flow is emitted, the mouth being defined by facing surfaces of the nozzle, and spacers for spacing apart the facing surfaces of the nozzle. The nozzle extends substantially orthogonally about an axis to define an opening through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air flow emitted from the mouth. The fan provides an arrangement producing an air current and a flow of cooling air created without requiring a bladed fan. The spacers can provide for a reliable, reproducible nozzle of the fan assembly and performance of the fan assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Frederic Nicolas, Kevin John Simmonds
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Publication number: 20110242428Abstract: A multi-standard single-chip receiver for digital demodulation of TV signals broadcasted over any of multiple digital television means, e.g., satellite, cable and terrestrial, is provided. The receiver can receive and demodulate a variety of different signal types received from one or more up-front tuners. A demodulator architecture in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can be optimized to re-use common demodulation processing blocks for the different incoming signal types.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Pascal Blouin, Frederic Nicolas, David Rault, Olivier Souloumiac, Emmanuel Gautier, Stephane Faudeil, Eric Vapillon, Gaetan Guillaume, Laurent Appercel
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Publication number: 20110223015Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a bladeless fan assembly including a nozzle and a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage and a mouth receiving the air flow from the interior passage. A Coanda surface located adjacent the mouth and over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow. The fan provides an arrangement producing an air current and a flow of cooling air created without requiring a bladed fan, that is, the air flow is created by a bladeless fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Peter David Gammack, Frederic Nicolas, Kevin John Simmonds
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Publication number: 20110223014Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a nozzle mounted on a base. The base comprises an outer casing, an impeller housing located within the outer casing, the impeller housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, an impeller located within the impeller housing and a motor for driving the impeller to create an air flow through the impeller housing. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the air outlet of the impeller housing and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted from the fan assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Tom Vallance Hamilton CRAWFORD, Chirstopher Simon Osborn, Kevin John Simmonds, Frederic Nicolas, Jonathan Richard Codling
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Publication number: 20110164959Abstract: A bladeless fan assembly for creating an air current includes a nozzle mounted on a base housing a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the base and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted. The nozzle extends about an axis to define an opening through which air from outside the fan assembly is drawn by the air flow emitted from the mouth. The nozzle includes a surface over which the mouth is arranged to direct the air flow. The surface has a diffuser portion tapering away from the axis, and a guide portion downstream from the diffuser portion and angled thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Nicholas Gerald FITTON, Frederic Nicolas, Peter David Gammack
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Patent number: 7972111Abstract: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a nozzle mounted on a base. The base comprises an outer casing, an impeller housing located within the outer casing, the impeller housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, an impeller located within the impeller housing and a motor for driving the impeller to create an air flow through the impeller housing. The nozzle includes an interior passage for receiving the air flow from the air outlet of the impeller housing and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted from the fan assembly. A flexible sealing member is located between the outer casing and the impeller housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Tom Vallance Hamilton Crawford, Christopher Simon Osborn, Kevin John Simmonds, Frederic Nicolas, Jonathan Richard Codling
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Patent number: 7938751Abstract: The invention relates to an interactive gymnastics practice device which is used together with an image and sound system forming the gymnastics program to be followed by a user, comprising a first level of generally-pressure-sensitive surfaces, the surfaces extending essentially in a continuous manner and in substantially the same plane. The invention is characterized in that the device comprises at least one second level of surfaces which are pressure sensitive or which can control an action in response to a pressure, the second level surfaces extending essentially in a continuous manner and in substantially the same plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Bigben Interactive, SAInventors: Frederic Nicolas, Frederic Claudel