Patents by Inventor Thierry Goiran

Thierry Goiran 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: 6761524
    Abstract: Loadhandling equipment enables a vehicle to put down on the ground or pick up a load such as a dumpster and to tip the load, which is provided on a front face with a lifting bar. The equipment includes a deformable and tilting handling arm which can assume, in addition to a transport position and a putting down on the ground or picking up position, a tipping position in which a hook interengages with the lifting bar on the load on being pivoted by a tilting actuator about a transverse pivot axis at the rear of the equipment and spaced downwardly from the longitudinal section of the handling arm. The transverse rear pivot axis is behind and under the side members of the chassis frame of the vehicle and the frame of the equipment has an L-shaped profile with a first branch on top of the side members of the chassis frame. An upper portion of the second branch is against the rear of the side members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Noël Chabanas, Thierry Goiran
  • Patent number: 6712578
    Abstract: Loadhandling equipment enables a vehicle to put down on the ground or pick up a load such as a dumpster and to tip the load, which has a lifting bar on a front face. The equipment includes a deformable and tilting handling arm which can assume, in addition to a transport position and a putting down on the ground or picking up position, a tipping position to which a hook adapted to interengage with the lifting bar is pivoted by a tilting actuator about a transverse pivot axis at the rear end of the equipment. The articulation about the transverse pivot axis is releasable and an actuator is provided to raise a link which is part of the handling arm by pivoting it upward and forward. The equipment can stand on its end a load which is at a greater height when standing on end than when it is positioned on the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Noël Chabanas, Thierry Goiran
  • Publication number: 20020150454
    Abstract: Loadhandling equipment enables a vehicle to put down on the ground or pick up a load such as a dumpster and to tip the load, which is provided on a front face with a lifting bar. The equipment includes a deformable and tilting handling arm which can assume, in addition to a transport position and a putting down on the ground or picking up position, a tipping position in which a hook interengages with the lifting bar on the load on being pivoted by a tilting actuator about a transverse pivot axis at the rear of the equipment and spaced downwardly from the longitudinal section of the handling arm. The transverse rear pivot axis is behind and under the side members of the chassis frame of the vehicle and the frame of the equipment has an L-shaped profile with a first branch on top of the side members of the chassis frame. An upper portion of the second branch is against the rear of the side members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: MARREL
    Inventors: Noel Chabanas, Thierry Goiran
  • Publication number: 20020146310
    Abstract: Loadhandling equipment enables a vehicle to put down on the ground or pick up a load such as a dumpster and to tip the load, which has a lifting bar on a front face. The equipment includes a deformable and tilting handling arm which can assume, in addition to a transport position and a putting down on the ground or picking up position, a tipping position to which a hook adapted to interengage with the lifting bar is pivoted by a tilting actuator it about a transverse pivot axis at the rear end of the equipment. The articulation about the transverse pivot axis is releasable and an actuator is provided to raise a link which is part of the handling arm by pivoting it upward and forward. The equipment can stand on its end a load which is at a greater height when standing on end than when it is positioned on the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: MARREL
    Inventors: Noel Chabanas, Thierry Goiran
  • Patent number: 6158947
    Abstract: A device includes a handling structure which has an end portion and a remaining part. The device also includes a driving arrangement which drives the handling structure between (i) a position of transportation in which the remaining part is disposed along a chassis of the vehicle and in which the end portion is at the front, and (ii) a position of picking up a load or placing it on the ground where the end portion is at the rear of the remaining part and behind the vehicle with its free end at a certain height with respect to the ground, in order to cooperate with a load whose gripping means is lower. In addition, the device includes a connecting arrangement which connects the free end of the end portion to the gripping arrangement and a controlling arrangement which controls the distance between the gripping arrangement and the end of the end portion using which the later is attached to the remainder of the handling structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Marrel
    Inventors: Thierry Goiran, Jean-Louis Claudinon