Patents by Inventor Xavier Claeys

Xavier Claeys 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: 10865075
    Abstract: A method for controlling command of lifting a load suspended from a boom, carried by a mast of a crane, includes determining: depending on the mass of the suspended load, a specified load factor quantifying an acceptable exceedance with respect to a predetermined maximum allowable load for said crane; a maximum permitted lifting acceleration, depending on the mass of the suspended load, on the specified load factor and on the distribution position of the load suspended on the boom with respect to the mast; from lifting speed setpoints, optimized lifting speed setpoints intended to be executed by a motor device for displacing the suspended load according to a lifting movement so that the acceleration related to the lifting movement remains, in absolute value, less than or equal to the maximum permitted acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Manitowoc Crane Group France
    Inventor: Xavier Claeys
  • Publication number: 20190084809
    Abstract: A method for controlling command of lifting a load suspended from a boom, carried by a mast of a crane, includes determining: depending on the mass of the suspended load, a specified load factor quantifying an acceptable exceedance with respect to a predetermined maximum allowable load for said crane; a maximum permitted lifting acceleration, depending on the mass of the suspended load, on the specified load factor and on the distribution position of the load suspended on the boom with respect to the mast; from lifting speed setpoints, optimized lifting speed setpoints intended to be executed by a motor device for displacing the suspended load according to a lifting movement so that the acceleration related to the lifting movement remains, in absolute value, less than or equal to the maximum permitted acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Xavier Claeys
  • Publication number: 20180093868
    Abstract: A method for controlling displacement of a load suspended to a point of attachment of a lifting machine includes an acquisition step during which a piloting setpoint is acquired and which is representative of the displacement speed that the operator wishes to confer on the suspended load, a processing step during which a setpoint called execution setpoint, which is applied to a drive motor in order to displace the suspended load, is elaborated from the piloting setpoint, the processing step including a C3 smoothing substep by third-order filtering during which a third-order filter is applied to the piloting setpoint in order to generate a filtered piloting setpoint of smoothness class C3, and the execution setpoint is defined from the filtered piloting setpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Xavier Claeys, Silvère Bonnabel
  • Patent number: 8600596
    Abstract: The invention relates to a four wheel drive hybrid vehicle provided with at least one power train on each wheel set, a first power train (1) including at least one heat engine, a second power train (2) including at least one electric machine, the vehicle also being provided with a friction braking system on each drive wheel and sensor (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Renault S.A.S.
    Inventors: Xavier Claeys, Marco Marsilia, Francois Foussard
  • Patent number: 8018190
    Abstract: A method for controlling and monitoring a hybrid vehicle including a driving internal combustion engine, and an electric machine that is operational, upon an instruction, in a form of a driving engine and is powered by a battery. The method detects a vehicle operating state, in transmitting, in response, an operating instruction to the electric machine only, without requesting any particular instruction from the internal combustion engine and respecting the vehicle stability constraint and a protecting constraint of the electric components thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Renault S.A.S.
    Inventors: Xavier Claeys, Philippe Pognant-Gros, Richard Pothin
  • Publication number: 20110130909
    Abstract: The invention relates to a four wheel drive hybrid vehicle provided with at least one power train on each wheel set, a first power train (1) including at least one heat engine, a second power train (2) including at least one electric machine, the vehicle also being provided with a friction braking system on each drive wheel and sensor (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Xavier Claeys, Marco Marsilia, Francois Foussard
  • Publication number: 20090138152
    Abstract: A method for estimating the derivative of a motor vehicle wheel slippage including: a) inputting data concerning speed of the wheels, engine torques applied on the wheels, braking pressures, engaged gearbox ratio; b) estimating acceleration of each wheel while performing a discrete derivation and a filtering of the speed of each wheel; c) estimating the torque applied to each wheel taking into account the braking pressure, engaged gearbox ratio, and clutch status; d) estimating inertia of the wheels for each of the vehicle front and rear axles; e) performing a geometric transformation of the estimate of the acceleration of each wheel estimated in b); f) estimating the derivation of the slippage of each wheel, based on the values estimated in c), d) and e).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: RENAULT S.A.A.
    Inventors: Xavier Claeys, Marco Marsilia
  • Publication number: 20090021203
    Abstract: A method for controlling and monitoring a hybrid vehicle including a driving internal combustion engine, and an electric machine that is operational, upon an instruction, in a form of a driving engine and is powered by a battery. The method detects a vehicle operating state, in transmitting, in response, an operating instruction to the electric machine only, without requesting any particular instruction from the internal combustion engine and respecting the vehicle stability constraint and a protecting constraint of the electric components thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Xavier Claeys, Philippe Pognant-Gros, Richard Pothin