Patents by Inventor Hervé Tricoire

Hervé Tricoire 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).

  • Device for non-invasive analysis by radio-imaging, in particular for the in vivo examination of small animals, and method of use
    Patent number: 6407391
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for use on a collimator of a radio-imaging device. The system includes a stack of plates provided with perforations, the thickness (d) of the plates being less than the diameter of the perforations in the internal entry face of the collimator. The thickness of the span between the perforations is made greater than the thickness of the plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Lydie Ploux, Yves Pierre Charon, Laurent Pinot, Luc Valentin, Alejandro Anibal Valda Ochoa, Rainer Siebert, Philippe Laniece, Hervé Tricoire
  • Device for non-invasive analysis by radio-imaging, in particular for the in vivo examination of small animals, and method of use
    Publication number: 20020024024
    Abstract: A non-invasive analysis device including a plurality of sensors (110) combined with collimating structures (120) having a common source focus (O) and processing means (300) providing an AND-type combinational logic function of the output of the sensors (110) for sensing two coincidently transmitted beams that are at least slightly angularly correlated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Lydie Ploux, Pierre Yves Charon, Laurent Pinot, Luc Valentin, Alejandro Anibal Valda Ochoa, Rainer Siebert, Philippe Laniece, Herve Tricoire
  • Non-invasive radio-imaging analysis, in particular for examining small animals in vivo, and method for using same
    Patent number: 6225631
    Abstract: A non-invasive analysis device including a plurality of sensors (110) combined with collimating structures (120) having a common source focus (O) and processing means (300) providing an AND-type combinational logic function of the output of the sensors (110) for sensing two coincidently transmitted beams that are at least slightly angularly correlated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Lydie Ploux, Yves Pierre Charon, Laurent Pinot, Luc Valentin, Alejandro Anibal Valda Ochoa, Rainer Siebert, Philippe Laniece, Hervé Tricoire
  • Low light level, high resolution imager using phosphor screen provided with a metal layer for controlling integration cycle of photosensitive matrix array
    Patent number: 5294788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a low level, high resolution imager of the type comprising a light-amplifier tube (300) including a photocathode (310), at least one microchannel slab (330) serving as an electron amplifier, and a light-emitting phosphor screen (340) provided with a metal layer (342), an electron camera (400) comprising a photosensitive matrix array (410) suitable for transforming a received photon into an electron, and control means (700) for the electron camera, characterized by the fact that the control means (700) comprise an amplifier (710) responsive to the electrons collected on the metal layer (342) of the light-emitting phosphor screen (340) to control integration cycles of the photosensitive matrix array (410) in repetitive one-shot mode synchronized on the appearance of photons at the input of the light-amplifying tube (300).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Yves Charon, Jean-Marc Gaillard, Michel Leblanc, Roland Mastrippolito, Herve Tricoire, Luc Valentin, Philippe Laniece
  • Very high resolution autofluoroscope for ionizing radiation
    Patent number: 4973845
    Abstract: A very high resolution radiochromatogram for ionizing radiation comprises at least one array made up of a set of filament-like members adapted to enable spatial marking of a surface to be analyzed according to a specific frame of reference and adapted to detect said radiation by scintillation and to transmit light produced by such detection. The array is formed by two groups of optical fibers. Each fiber is disposed along a respective straight line segment defining two orthogonal directions delimiting an analysis plane or surface. At least one of the groups is subdivided into two elementary groups spaced in a direction perpendicular to the analysis plane or surface. The fibers of the elementary groups are parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Herve Tricoire, Luc Valentin, Christophe Raymond, Michel LeBlanc