Patents by Inventor Simon Henein
Simon Henein 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).
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Patent number: 9207641Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating oscillator for a timepiece comprising a support element designed to allow the oscillator to be assembled on a timepiece, a balance, a plurality of flexible blades connecting the support element to the balance and able to exert a return torque on the balance, and a felloe mounted secured to the balance. The plurality of flexible blades comprises at least two flexible blades, including a first blade positioned in a first plane perpendicular to the plane of the oscillator, and a second blade positioned in a second plane perpendicular to the plane of the oscillator and intersecting the first plane. The geometric oscillation axis of the oscillator is defined by the intersection of the first plane and the second plane, said geometric oscillation axis crossing the first and second blades at ?th of their respective lengths.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA—RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENTInventors: Simon Henein, Ivar Kjelberg
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Publication number: 20150234354Abstract: The invention relates to a rotating oscillator for a timepiece comprising a support element designed to allow the oscillator to be assembled on a timepiece, a balance, a plurality of flexible blades connecting the support element to the balance and able to exert a return torque on the balance, and a felloe mounted secured to the balance. The plurality of flexible blades comprises at least two flexible blades, including a first blade positioned in a first plane perpendicular to the plane of the oscillator, and a second blade positioned in a second plane perpendicular to the plane of the oscillator and intersecting the first plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA -Recherche et DéveloppementInventors: Simon HENEIN, Ivar KJELBERG
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Publication number: 20140363217Abstract: A method for fabricating a micromechanical part from a substrate in which the part is fabricated by providing a plurality of fasteners between the part and the substrate, the fasteners being sacrificial, characterized in that the fasteners include at least one hinge at the end of each fastener located beside the part, and in that the method includes a step of breaking the sacrificial fasteners. The micromechanical parts employing this type of sacrificial fastener are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECH- NIQUE SA-RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENTInventors: Francois Barrot, Remy Fournier, Laurent Giriens, Simon Henein, Sylvain Jeanneret, Johan Kruis
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Patent number: 8882339Abstract: The invention relates to an immobilizing device for a toothed wheel suitable for the field of horology where it can be part of a direct- or indirect-impulse escapement, in particular in a wristwatch. This immobilizing device (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) comprises: —a base (7); —an immobilizer (9) comprising two arms (10, 11) each provided with a pallet (14, 15) intended to come into contact with a tooth of the toothed wheel (40); —a first and a second elastic element (12, 13) each having an end connected to the immobilizer (9) and another end connected to the base (7); —a third elastic element (16) connected to the immobilizer (9), and it has the particular feature that it is in one piece or in one piece apart from at least one of the pallets (14, 15). The invention also relates to a timepiece and to a method for assembling such a timepiece.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Rolex S.A.Inventors: Fabiano Colpo, Simon Henein
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Patent number: 8672536Abstract: A mechanical oscillator isochronism corrector comprising a frame (12), a flexible blade (14) integral with the frame to act on a mechanical oscillator at a contact portion (14a) presented by the blade, and a first element for adjusting the pre-stress of the flexible blade including a pre-stress finger (22) acting on the flexible blade, the first adjustment element being integral with the frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: CSEM Central Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA—Recherche et DevelopmentInventors: Simon Henein, Philippe Schwab
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Patent number: 8659762Abstract: An optical measuring element measures forces in at least one direction. The measuring element has a single-piece structure. There is an outside wall with notches introduced therein. Each notch defines parallel edges, and the notches define more or less elastically flexible zones in the structure and constitute the only connection between a first region and a second region of the structure. For optical distance measurements between the two regions of the structure, one or more optical fibers are each attached with one end thereof to a region of the structure such that reflective surfaces are located close to the ends. The reflective surfaces are firmly connected to another region. The optical fibers are disposed on the outside wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2009Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Sensoptic SAInventors: Axel Bertholds, Pere Llosas, Simon Henein
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Publication number: 20130204142Abstract: An optical force sensing element for microsurgical instruments and methods measures force F in three orthogonal directions and includes a monolithic cylinder structure, a cylindrical surface and a top surface that absorbs and transmits the force F. Three punch-like notches, all being parallel to the y-direction, are spaced apart along the z-axis and form two blades between the first and second notch and between the second and the third notch. Three channels parallel to the z-axis extend from the bottom surface to the top surface and cross the first notch while bypassing the other two notches. Three optical fibres, each fixed in one of the three channels, all entering the structure from the bottom surface, cross the first notch and end at or near the top surface while being interrupted in the first notch and forming two surfaces of each fibre that define a Fabry-Perot interferometric cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: SENSOPTIC SAInventors: AXEL BERTHOLDS, PERE LLOSAS, SIMON HENEIN
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Publication number: 20130070570Abstract: The invention relates to an immobilizing device for a toothed wheel suitable for the field of horology where it can be part of a direct- or indirect-impulse escapement, in particular in a wristwatch. This immobilizing device (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) comprises: —a base (7); —an immobilizer (9) comprising two arms (10, 11) each provided with a pallet (14, 15) intended to come into contact with a tooth of the toothed wheel (40); —a first and a second elastic element (12, 13) each having an end connected to the immobilizer (9) and another end connected to the base (7); —a third elastic element (16) connected to the immobilizer (9), and it has the particular feature that it is in one piece or in one piece apart from at least one of the pallets (14, 15). The invention also relates to a timepiece and to a method for assembling such a timepiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: ROLEX S.A.Inventors: Fabiano Colpo, Simon Henein
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Publication number: 20110044139Abstract: A mechanical oscillator isochronism corrector includes: a frame (12), a flexible blade (14) integral with the frame to act on the mechanical oscillator at a contact portion (14a) presented by the blade, first element for adjusting the pre-stress of the flexible blade including a pre-stress finger (22) acting on the flexible blade, the first adjustment element being integral with the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA Recherche et DeveloppementInventors: Simon HENEIN, Philippe SCHWAB
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Publication number: 20100328675Abstract: An optical measuring element measures forces in at least one direction. The measuring element has a single-piece structure. There is an outside wall with notches introduced therein. Each notch defines parallel edges, and the notches define more or less elastically flexible zones in the structure and constitute the only connection between a first region and a second region of the structure. For optical distance measurements between the two regions of the structure, one or more optical fibers are each attached with one end thereof to a region of the structure such that reflective surfaces are located close to the ends. The reflective surfaces are firmly connected to another region. The optical fibers are disposed on the outside wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Axel Bertholds, Pere Llosas, Simon Henein
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Publication number: 20100313691Abstract: A device for converting a first movement into a second movement responsive to the first movement under a demagnification scale includes: a) an input portion being drivable in a rectilinear translation in a first direction by an actuator causing the first movement; b) an output portion being movable by a converting blade causing the second movement responsive to the first movement in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and c) a converting section connecting the input portion to the output portion. The converting section includes an intermediate spring portion and the converting blade. The intermediate spring portion has at least two parallel flexure blades; and the converting blade is substantially identical in shape to the a least two parallel flexure blades and is offset from its neutral position by a predetermined amount in the first direction as compared to the neutral position of the at least two parallel flexure blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2007Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTInventor: Simon Henein
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Patent number: 6453566Abstract: The invention concerns a movement transmission unit and a movement transmission apparatus employing the same. The movement transmission transmits at least two movement components, each possessing one degree of freedom of movement, from an input-side (6) to an output-side (82, 84), which movement then has at least two coupled degrees of freedom of movement, or vice versa. The invention also concerns one transmission unit (2) per input-side (6) degree of freedom of movement, i.e multiple transmission units (2), which are functionally bound together in parallel by means of their respective output sections (8). Each transmission unit (2) possesses an immobile, solidly fixed first section (4). Its input facility is a second section (6), which is bend linked to the fixed first section (4) by means of a unified linkage structure encompassing parts (22, 26, 34; 28, 36) and forming what becomes known as a first “parallelogram linkage”.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Agie SAInventors: Stefano Bottinelli, Simon Henein, Cedric Aymon, Reymond Clavel
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Publication number: 20020020069Abstract: The invention concerns a movement transmission unit and a movement transmission apparatus employing the same. The movement transmission transmits at least two movement components, each possessing one degree of freedom of movement, from an input-side (6) to an output-side (82, 84), which movement then has at least two coupled degrees of freedom of movement, or vice versa. The invention also concerns one transmission unit (2) per input-side (6) degree of freedom of movement, i.e multiple transmission units (2), which are functionally bound together in parallel by means of their respective output sections (8). Each transmission unit (2) possesses an immobile, solidly fixed first section (4). Its input facility is a second section (6), which is bend linked to the fixed first section (4) by means of a unified linkage structure encompassing parts (22, 26, 34; 28, 36) and forming what becomes known as a first “parallelogram linkage”.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2000Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: Stefano Bottinelli, Simon Henein, Cedric Aymon, Reymond Clavel