Patents by Inventor Patrice Jean Marie Alain Brochier

Patrice Jean Marie Alain Brochier 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: 8444033
    Abstract: A device for attaching accessories to a vehicle roof bar, the device comprising, a threaded control rod, two threaded nuts threaded onto the control rod, two guide bodies, wherein each of the guide bodies has one of the threaded nuts positioned within the guide body, a C-shaped rail, wherein each of the guide bodies and each of the threaded nuts are positioned within the C-shaped rail; two jaws, each of the jaws being attached to one of the guide bodies and a first portion of each jaw being located outside the C-shaped rail, whereby rotation of the control rod in a first direction causes the guide bodies to move towards each other thereby allowing a second portion of the jaws to contact the vehicle roof bar, and where further rotation of the control rod in the first direction locks the guide body within the C-shaped rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Inventors: Patrice Jean Marie Alain Brochier, Christian Aime Charles Soteau
  • Publication number: 20110309119
    Abstract: A device for attaching accessories to a vehicle roof bar, the device comprising, a threaded control rod, two threaded nuts threaded onto the control rod, two guide bodies, wherein each of the guide bodies has one of the threaded nuts positioned within the guide body, a C-shaped rail, wherein each of the guide bodies and each of the threaded nuts are positioned within the C-shaped rail; two jaws, each of the jaws being attached to one of the guide bodies and a first portion of each jaw being located outside the C-shaped rail, whereby rotation of the control rod in a first direction causes the guide bodies to move towards each other thereby allowing a second portion of the jaws to contact the vehicle roof bar, and where further rotation of the control rod in the first direction locks the guide body within the C-shaped rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Patrice Jean Marie Alain Brochier, Christian Aime Charles Soteau
  • Publication number: 20080308138
    Abstract: The invention relates to a car roof tent that attaches to the roof bars and offers storage space for the user's luggage in a compartment that is an integral part of the roof tent but which offers two means of access: external access and internal access. When the tent is closed, the user gains access from the outside to his luggage situated inside the compartment through a separate cover (3). Since the compartment part is integrated, the user also has access to it from the inside when the tent is open (tent cover (2) open) and he himself is inside the tent. He is therefore not obliged to keep going in and out between the inside of the tent and the vehicle, where his luggage would otherwise be stored. Moreover, given such a compartment, the luggage is available without clambering over the inhabitable space or through the tent sleeping area. The compartment may be on the opposite side or on one of the sides of the entrance of the roof tent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Patrice Jean Marie Alain Brochier, Christian Soteau