Patents by Inventor Pierre Vidal

Pierre Vidal 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: 11253172
    Abstract: A device for analyzing the regularity and symmetry of a sequence of N gait or running cycles of a person, comprising sensors for measuring raw time signals of a physical movement variable of a body segment, a processing unit connected to the sensors for measuring and configured to separate the raw time signals into distinct time signals Ci, the Ci series being associated with a given gait or running cycle i of the person, to calculate at least one similarity coefficient between the signal Ci associated with gait or running cycle i and another signal Cj associated with a gait or running cycle j of the person. A display is configured to display the matrix M(i,j) with each value of the similarity coefficient shown in the matrix M(i,j) in color to form a graduated color scale indicating the similarity between the gait or running cycles i and j.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE PARIS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE PARIS NORD, ETAT FRANCAIS—MINISTERE DE LA DEFENSE—DIRECTION CENTRALE DU SERVICE DE SANTE DES ARMEES
    Inventors: Pierre Vidal, Rémi Barrois-Muller, Damien Ricard, Laurent Oudre
  • Patent number: 10533299
    Abstract: Earth movement machine components including a pivot system with adjustable height to actuate a door latch for an excavator bucket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Minetec S.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Zamorano Jones, Bernardo Vera Torres, Jean Pierre Vidal Piesset
  • Publication number: 20190380623
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a device 1 for analysing the regularity and symmetry of a sequence of N gait or running cycles of a person, comprising measurement sensors 2 for measuring raw time signals of a physical movement variable of a body segment, a processing unit connected to the measurement sensors 2 and having calculation and processing means set up to separate the raw time signals into distinct time signals Ci, the Ci series being associated with a given gait or running cycle i of the person, to calculate at least one similarity coefficient between the signal Ci associated with gait or running cycle i and another signal Cj associated with a gait or running cycle j of the same person, display means 4 connected to the processing unit and displaying the matrix M(i,j) with each value of the similarity coefficient shown in the matrix M(i,j) by a colour in a graduated colour scale to make it possible for the similarity between the gait or running cycles i and j to be seen with the naked eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Pierre VIDAL, Rémi BARROIS-MULLER, Damien RICARD, Laurent OUDRE
  • Publication number: 20190142016
    Abstract: The injection and spreading system for cooking dough, in particular for preparing pancakes includes a dough container having an outlet, an injection pump connected to the outlet of the container, a spreader connected to the injection pump and configured to spread a dough on a cooking surface, an injection circuit connecting the container to the spreader, and a preventer of congestion for the injection circuit. There is also an injection pump, a spreader, a pancake dough premix and a machine associated therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Bernard BLACHERE, Pierre VIDAL
  • Publication number: 20190142017
    Abstract: The cooking system for a cooking machine, in particular, a machine for preparing pancakes includes a plurality of cooking devices configured to be successively and cyclically moved to the end of a device for dispensing product to be cooked, in particular of a dough-injection system. There is a driving system for the cooking devices, and a control unit connected to the driving system and to the dispensing device. The control unit is configured to select part of the cooking devices, on which the product to be cooked is dispensed. The invention also relates to an associated automaton, a machine and a cooking method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Bernard BLACHERE, Pierre VIDAL
  • Publication number: 20170306585
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to earth movement machine components and, more particularly, to a pivot system with adjustable height to actuate a door latch for an excavator bucket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Claudio Zamorano Jones, Bernardo Vera Torres, Jean Pierre Vidal Piesset
  • Patent number: 9499959
    Abstract: A rolled lip for rope shovel machine buckets and for excavator buckets of high hardness and improved weldability is provided. The rolled lip is folded and used in buckets with capacities above 25 m3. The lip is made of rolled steel plates of up to 3,000 mm wide and 12,000 mm long and up to 250 mm thick, wherein the steel has flow characteristics between 600 and 900 MPa. The noses and holes used to build the lip are drilled and the shape of the noses is provided by templates or gauges. A method for manufacturing such a rolled lip is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Minetec S.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Zamorano Jones, Bernardo Vera Torres, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
  • Publication number: 20160153177
    Abstract: A rolled lip for rope shovel machine buckets and for excavator buckets of high hardness and improved weldability is provided. The rolled lip is folded and used in buckets with capacities above 25 m3. The lip is made of rolled steel plates of up to 3,000 mm wide and 12,000 mm long and up to 250 mm thick, wherein the steel has flow characteristics between 600 and 900 MPa. The noses and holes used to build the lip are drilled and the shape of the noses is provided by templates or gauges. A method for manufacturing such a rolled lip is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Claudio ZAMORANO JONES, Bernardo VERA TORRES, Jean-Pierre VIDAL PIESSET
  • Patent number: 9101154
    Abstract: The apparatus for treating plant tissues using a pulsed electric field is intended for the extraction of plant substances from tissues, in particular a juice. It comprises a step of compacting (3) the plant tissues and at least one treatment chamber (4) comprising means for the generating a pulsed electric field in said chamber for treating the compacted tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: Maguin SAS, Universite De Technologie De Compiegne
    Inventors: Olivier Pierre Vidal, Eugene Vorobiev
  • Publication number: 20130202751
    Abstract: The apparatus for treating plant tissues using a pulsed electric field is intended for the extraction of plant substances from tissues, in particular a juice. It comprises a step of compacting (3) the plant tissues and at least one treatment chamber (4) comprising means for the generating a pulsed electric field in said chamber for treating the compacted tissues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Maguin SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Pierre Vidal, Eugene Vorobiev
  • Patent number: 6397581
    Abstract: The heat exchanger comprises an intermediate portion (14) of refractory composite material, e.g. of C/C composite material, in which fluid circulation channels (16) are formed, and which is interposed between a portion of refractory composite material, e.g. having a ceramic matrix, such as C/SiC composite material, forming a heat shield (12) and a portion of thermostructural composite material, e.g. C/C composite material, forming a heat exchanger support structure (18), the component portions of the heat exchanger being assembled together by brazing. The heat exchanger can be used as a wall element exposed to an intense heat flux, in particular in a nuclear fusion reactor or in a ram jet combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation—S.N.E.C.M.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Vidal, Jean-Michel Larrieu, Jean-Pierre Ciais
  • Patent number: 5620706
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of insoluble hydrogels from the complexation of polycations and xanthan is reported. Stable hydrogels capable of retaining between 65 and 95 % weight water were prepared particularly with chitosan and xanthan. The water retention and properties of the hydrogels were studied as a function of the degree of acetylation of chitosan and the ratio chitosan/xanthan used in the preparation of the gel. The chitosan-xanthan complex was used to immobilize biological material. Hydrogels containing enzymes (for example endo-1,4-.beta.-xylanase and protease) either as single enzymes or as a binary system have been prepared. Immobilization varied between 85 and 98 % . The immobilized xylanase activity was significantly greater with respect to the free enzyme while the binary enzyme system promoted protease activity. Other hydrogels prepared with polybasic drugs complexed to xanthan with or without chitosan have been prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Universite de Sherbrooke
    Inventors: Severian Dumitriu, Esteban Chornet, Pierre Vidal
  • Patent number: 4960650
    Abstract: To repair a corroded region of the end of a heat exchanger tube, a sleeve is inserted, then expanded into the tube both in the area of the tube sheet and beyond the corroded area, then local welds are made in each of the expanded regions. Thereafter, the end of the sleeve is expanded against the tube in a region inside the tube sheet and above the local weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignees: Societe Anonyme, Electricite De France
    Inventors: Gilbert Vigneron, Jean Bezier, Thong Nguyen-Thanh, Pierre Vidal, Guy Zacharie, Lucien Guillemin
  • Patent number: 4821545
    Abstract: Detensioning of expanded tubes is brought by way of an installation using a rotopeening method. The tool is constituted by a cage moved along a helical path centered on the axis of the tube to be treated. The cage supports in rotary manner a shaft, whose axis is parallel and offcentered with respect to that of the cage. The shaft carries flexible plates, called brushes, whose ends are equipped with shot able to peen the inner wall of the tube during the rotation of the shaft. The helical path ensures a regular distribution of the impacts and consequently a uniform treatment of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignees: Intercontrole S. A., Electricite De France Service
    Inventors: Philippe Druelle, Pierre Vidal, Robert Saglio, Jean-Louis Tocci
  • Patent number: 4371346
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved system for propulsion of boats by winds and streams and for recovery of disposable energy from floating stations neither moored nor anchored, the improved system comprising:at least one aerial feathered propeller with its shaft, the propeller being mounted orientable in any azimuth direction contained in a substantially horizontal plane and adapted to function as an aerogenerator as well as a propulsive screw;a superstructure supporting device on the floating unit adapted to permit orientation as desired of the aerial propeller in the direction of the wind;at least one nautic propeller screw with its shaft, mounted under the bottom of the floating unit and adapted to be capable of functioning as energy collecting turbine as well as propeller;a transmission system connecting the aerial propeller shaft to the nautic propeller shaft, the transmission being reversible and capable of including a torque conversion device to select during operations the direction of transmission
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Vidal
  • Patent number: D859051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: HOLDING BERNARD BLACHERE
    Inventors: Bernard Blachere, Pierre Vidal