Patents by Inventor Sylvain Bacquet

Sylvain Bacquet 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).

  • Publication number: 20120238899
    Abstract: A method for managing a data transfer system includes recovering energy at peripheral devices, and wireless transfer recovered energy to a base by synchronizing RF signals transmitted by double-loop antennas. Synchronizing includes implementing a listening phase to detect a radio-frequency signal transmitted by said central base, and either sending an RF signal that is synchronous with the detected signal or transmitting a signal at a predetermined frequency depending on whether an RF signal is detected at the base. The method includes, in response to receiving a signal from the peripheral device at that frequency, causing the base to recover the received signal and to re-transmit at the predetermined frequency to the peripheral devices. This signal synchronization enables simultaneous energy transfer from peripheral devices to the central base while avoiding mutually destructive effects between said signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Sylvain Bacquet, Elisabeth Crochon, Thierry Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110148588
    Abstract: The invention relates to a contactless data exchange system provided with a transponder comprising: a unit for receiving and transmitting data provided with at least one first antenna loop (110a, 210a) and at least one second antenna loop (110b, 210b) in order to carry out a coupling with a reader (2), means (216, 224a, 224b, 115, 116) pour authorising or preventing the data transmission according to the phase shift (??) between a first signal received by the first loop and a second signal received by the second loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: COMM. A L'ENER. ATOM. ET AUX ENERGIES ALT.
    Inventors: Sylvain BACQUET, Ricardo Malherbi Martins, Jacques Reverdy, Elisabeth Crochon
  • Patent number: 7579994
    Abstract: An antenna includes a central loop and four adjacent coplanar eccentric loops. The central loop creates a magnetic field that is essentially perpendicular to the antenna. The centres of gravity of the four eccentric loops are essentially located on the periphery of the central loop and the eccentric loops are supplied in such a way as to predominantly create a rotating field in a plane parallel to the plane of the antenna. The eccentric loops can be associated in pairs of non-adjacent loops in such a way as to generate electromagnetic fields of opposite phases in the respective pair. In this way, the two loops of a pair can be connected such that the same current flows through them in opposite trigonometric directions. A radiofrequency generator can supply first and second excitation signals alternately on two outputs, respectively to the central loop and to the eccentric loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Sylvain Bacquet, Thierry Thomas, Elisabeth Crochon, François Vacherand
  • Publication number: 20070109210
    Abstract: An antenna includes a central loop and four adjacent coplanar eccentric loops. The central loop creates a magnetic field that is essentially perpendicular to the antenna. The centres of gravity of the four eccentric loops are essentially located on the periphery of the central loop and the eccentric loops are supplied in such a way as to predominantly create a rotating field in a plane parallel to the plane of the antenna. The eccentric loops can be associated in pairs of non-adjacent loops in such a way as to generate electromagnetic fields of opposite phases in the respective pair. In this way, the two loops of a pair can be connected such that the same current flows through them in opposite trigonometric directions. A radiofrequency generator can supply first and second excitation signals alternately on two outputs, respectively to the central loop and to the eccentric loops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A' ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Sylvain Bacquet, Thierry Thomas, Elisabeth Crochon, Francois Vacherand