Patents by Inventor Loic M. J. Danguy des Deserts

Loic M. J. Danguy des Deserts 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: 4968180
    Abstract: A marine platform comprising a deck supported by a tower composed of a rigid fixed structure of the jacket type anchored to the sea floor, an oscillating structure supported by and connected to the fixed structure by flexible piles anchored in the lower part of the fixed structure and arranged on the periphery of the oscillating structure, and by a shear device, the oscillating structure being equipped with a floater. In one embodiment the connection between the fixed and oscillating structures is located in a zone between 30 and 60% of the water depth from the water level. The shear device consisting of at least one set of pairs of structural elements placed obliquely or perpendicularly with respect to the axis of the tower between a lower part of the upper structure and an upper part of the lower structure or of the base and allowing transmission of shear forces and torsional moments between the two parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Doris Engineering
    Inventors: Loic M. J. Danguy des Deserts, Francois G. Sedillot, Dominique Michel
  • Patent number: 4797034
    Abstract: A platform comprising a deck supported by a tower composed of a rigid fixed structure of the jacket type anchored to the sea floor and of an oscillating structure supported by, and connected to, the fixed structure by flexible piles anchored in the lower part of the fixed structure and arranged on the periphery of the oscillating structure, and by a shear device, the oscillating structure being equipped with a floater. The connection between the fixed and oscillating structures is located in a zone between 30 and 60% of the water depth from the water level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Doris Engineering
    Inventors: Loic M. J. Danguy des Deserts, Francois G. Sedillot, Dominique Michel
  • Patent number: 4684292
    Abstract: Flexible piles (5) are arranged close to the center of the tower (1) and evenly spaced apart on a circumference the area of which is about 10% of the area of the tower. The product of the total buoyancy of the tower by the arm level between the buoyancy center and the center of the articulation is at least equal to 1.25 times the product of the weight of the platform by the arm level between the center of gravity and the center of the articulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Assignee: Doris Engineering
    Inventors: Loic M. J. Danguy des Deserts, Dominique Michel, Francois G. Sedillot