Patents by Inventor Stéphane Coudurier

Stéphane Coudurier 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: 11745770
    Abstract: Device for supporting and guiding a hauling cable of a vehicle transportation installation by cable, including a sheave configured for supporting and guiding the hauling cable, a first girder provided with a main axis, a second girder supporting the sheave and mounted pivotally movable around the main axis, at least one recovery element mounted on the first girder, and at least one cooperating element mounted on the second girder at a distance from said at least one recovery element in a normal operating state where the second girder swivels around the main axis, and configured to be in contact with said at least one recovery element in an abnormal operating state corresponding to failure of the main axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: POMA
    Inventors: Salah Messaoud, Sylvain Valayer, Stéphane Coudurier
  • Publication number: 20220105964
    Abstract: An overhead structure, for a cableway installation of the type having at least one hauling cable, includes an entrance and an exit which are coupled respectively to an upstream portion and to a downstream portion, each generally rectilinear, of a pathway of the cableway installation. The structure also includes an intermediate portion that is curved, at least in projection in a horizontal plane of the pathway, between the entrance and the exit. The structure further includes active vehicle guidance, at least laterally, over a first portion of the curved intermediate portion, the first portion extending generally along a portion that is radioidal or pseudo-radioidal at least in projection in the horizontal plane, or a mean plane which contains the entrance and the exit, and active guidance of the hauling cable between the entrance and the exit, capable of deflecting the cable at least laterally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicants: EIFFAGE METAL, POMA
    Inventors: Simon GAVOTY, Stephane COUDURIER
  • Publication number: 20220063681
    Abstract: A cable guiding device for an aerial cableway system comprising at least one elongate cable support (23). The device further comprises a single pair of similar connections (39), by means of which the cable support is securely mounted on an aerial support structure. The connections (39) are arranged at a distance from one another in a longitudinal direction of the cable support (23). Each connection (39) comprises at least one corresponding damping block (59) which is inserted between the cable support (23) and the support structure (7). Each connection (39) of the pair is designed as a pseudo-embedded type connection capable of transmitting forces in the manner of a ball joint, with the effect of the damping block or blocks (59).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicants: EIFFAGE METAL, POMA
    Inventors: Simon GAVOTY, Stephane COUDURIER
  • Publication number: 20220055667
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control device of a cable transport facility, comprising a controller capable of organizing an embarking period of a nominal duration (Tn_max) for vehicles at a station. This embarking period (Tn_max) ends with a prohibition of access to the vehicle. The controller comprises an input for receiving at least one variable representative of a vehicle occupancy. The controller is arranged to react upon receipt of such a variable during the embarking period (Tn_max) by comparing it to a threshold value and by triggering the prohibition of access to the vehicle in an anticipated manner and before the end of the embarking period (Tn_max) as a function of the result of the comparison between said variable and the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicants: EIFFAGE METAL, POMA
    Inventors: Simon GAVOTY, Stephane COUDURIER, Adrien MENEGUZ
  • Publication number: 20210086799
    Abstract: Device for supporting and guiding a hauling cable of a vehicle transportation installation by cable, including a sheave configured for supporting and guiding the hauling cable, a first girder provided with a main axis, a second girder supporting the sheave and mounted pivotally movable around the main axis, at least one recovery element mounted on the first girder, and at least one cooperating element mounted on the second girder at a distance from said at least one recovery element in a normal operating state where the second girder swivels around the main axis, and configured to be in contact with said at least one recovery element in an abnormal operating state corresponding to failure of the main axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: POMA
    Inventors: Salah MESSAOUD, Sylvain VALAYER, Stéphane COUDURIER
  • Publication number: 20090050012
    Abstract: A maintenance vehicle for performing operations along an aerial ropeway of a mechanical lift installation consists of a car suspended on the rope by connecting means which comprise a top part fixed to the rope, a bottom part fixed to the car, articulation means of the top part with respect to the bottom part, adjustment means of the angle between the bottom part and top part up to an inclined position of the car with respect to the vertical, and means for securing car in the inclined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Pomagalski SA.
    Inventors: Stephane Coudurier, Philippe Martin, Laurent Bonifat, Franckie Tamisier
  • Patent number: 7377220
    Abstract: A chair for an aerial transport installation comprises a pivoting protective cover actuated by an operating mechanism with automatic latching of the cover in the closed position. An operating lever is pivotally mounted on a first pivoting spindle of the cover and operates in conjunction with a latch actuated by a cable transmission device between a latched position and an unlatched position. The latch comprises a first arm equipped with a latching nose and a second arm designed to come up against a first stop corresponding to the latched position or a second stop corresponding to the unlatched position. The latching zone is situated at the base of the shell, preferably in a gap situated between the first spindle and the second spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Pomagalski SA
    Inventors: Stéphane Coudurier, Daniel Michel
  • Publication number: 20060131940
    Abstract: A chair for an aerial transport installation comprises a pivoting protective cover actuated by an operating mechanism with automatic latching of the cover in the closed position. An operating lever is pivotally mounted on a first pivoting spindle of the cover and operates in conjunction with a latch actuated by a cable transmission device between a latched position and an unlatched position. The latch comprises a first arm equipped with a latching nose and a second arm designed to come up against a first stop corresponding to the latched position or a second stop corresponding to the unlatched position. The latching zone is situated at the base of the shell, preferably in a gap situated between the first spindle and the second spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: POMAGALSKI SA.
    Inventors: Stephane Coudurier, Daniel Michel