Patents by Inventor Jean-Marc Darrieux

Jean-Marc Darrieux 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: 6819496
    Abstract: A head-up sight for an aircraft having a curved windshield. The windshield is external to the sight, which can project at infinity a symbology intended to be superimposed onto an external scene. The head-up sight includes a combination of optical elements bent at an angle to a folding mirror, the folding mirror having a curved shape adapted to correct the parallax associated with the optical power of the windshield. The head-up sight is especially applicable to aircraft having a cylindrical or conical windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Yannick Chevreau, Laurent Bignolles, Jean-Marc Darrieux
  • Patent number: 6813086
    Abstract: A head-up display including a combiner and a relay optics formed from a combination of optical elements and forming an intermediate image projected to infinity by the combiner of a symbology emitted in a given spectral band by an image source. The combiner forms an off-axis convergent mirror in the spectral band, and an angle of inclination of the off-axis convergent mirror is adjustable for a given type of equipment as a function of a position of the image source and in a given angular range that depends on the type of equipment. The relay optics is modular and includes a first module with at least one optical element fixed regardless of the type of equipment and a second module with at least one optical element for which a position is predefined as a function of an angular position of the combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Laurent Bignolles, Jean-Marc Darrieux, Yannick Chevreau
  • Patent number: 6811348
    Abstract: A device for locking a position of a moving part with respect to a fixed part. The moving part is positioned with respect to the fixed part isostatically. The device generates a force opposing the loss of contact of all the points of isostatic contact between the moving part and the fixed part so as to lock the position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Thales Avionics S.A.
    Inventors: Guy Meyer, Jean-Marc Darrieux
  • Patent number: 6751025
    Abstract: A double-plate combiner for a head-up visor, including two substantially flat plates substantially parallel to each other, and held fixedly together by a holding structure that includes a central baseplate, two side flanks connected to the central baseplate, and two spacers respectively connected to the side flanks and tightly holding the two plates between them. An outer plate is tightly held between free ends of the spacers and an inner plate is tightly held between the free ends, connected to the side flanks, of the spacers. An assembly of the plates, the side flanks, and the spacers has a plane of symmetry substantially orthogonal to the mid-plane of the plates. A first dimension from one spacer to the other of the outer plate is greater than a second dimension from one spacer to the other of the inner plate. The mid-plane of each spacer is not orthogonal to the mid-plane of the plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Darrieux, Yannick Chevreau, Jean-François Gomme
  • Publication number: 20030011536
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of head-up sights for an aircraft having a curved windshield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Yannick Chevreau, Laurent Bignolles, Jean-Marc Darrieux
  • Publication number: 20020190184
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of double-plate combiners for a head-up visor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Darrieux, Yannick Chevreau, Jean-Francois Gomme
  • Publication number: 20020089757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a head-up display adaptable to different equipments of a given type, for example aircraft type, land vehicle type or helmets type. The display is used to project a symbology emitted within a given spectral range by an image source to infinity, and which is intended to be superposed on the outside surroundings observed by a pilot, by means of a convergent combiner and a relay optics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Laurent Bignolles, Jean-Marc Darrieux, Yannick Chevreau
  • Patent number: 6078428
    Abstract: Disclosed is a removable device for the supporting of equipment in an aircraft, especially to fasten the support of a head-up collimator with its projection system, above the seat of the pilot of the aircraft. To enable the support to be dismounted (for maintenance for example), and to be put back in place at its exact position, the fastening device is made as follows: it is hinged on the aircraft by a hinge and it is fastened by bolts enabling the fastening of the support according to an angle that is variable about a rotation axis. The device furthermore comprises a centering block that cooperates with a centering pawl, one of the two elements being part of the aircraft while the other is part of the support, the pawl being housed in a removable way in a positioning aperture formed in the centering block, the block comprising a cup filled with resin, the resin being used to define and maintain the position of the aperture with respect to the cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Thierry Rambert, Jean-Marc Darrieux
  • Patent number: 5581806
    Abstract: A device for the mechanical hooking of a display system to a helmet which includes a sheath that surrounds the body of the display system except for elbowed optical elements leading to the combiner forming the eye-piece of the display system and that has a projecting longitudinal ridge acting as a guiding shaft for the hooking and as a fastening lug, and also includes a hooking stud. The device also has a stage that is interposed between the side wall of the helmet and the sheath. This stage is provided with a channel designed to receive the longitudinal ridge of the sheath and a hook jaw designed to grasp the hooking stud. The device is fixed to the side wall of the helmet by mechanism enabling the adjustment of its position both vertically and laterally, to enable the adjusting of the position of the eye-piece of the display system in the alignment of the helmet wearer's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Pascal Capdepuy, Jean-Marc Darrieux
  • Patent number: 5479294
    Abstract: A device for supporting and guiding a collimator, particularly for a collimator designed to be installed on the ceiling of an aircraft. A collimator follows a complex predefined trajectory in a three-dimensional space (X, Y, Z ) with up to six degrees of freedom, between a given operational position and a stored position. The device includes a first structure (3) attached to the aircraft having three guiding grooves, a first central groove (30) following a plane trajectory in a first plane (X, Y), and two lateral grooves (31, 32) on opposite sides of the central groove which follow second and third trajectories located in two planes perpendicular to the first plane. A second structure (4) rigidly attached to the collimator (1) moves along grooves by means of rollers (8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10), the number and shape of which enable the second structure to have six degrees of freedom along the complex trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Darrieux, Patrick Nicolo