Patents Assigned to Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
  • Patent number: 11135988
    Abstract: A passenger restraint system for roller coasters, designed to maintain a passenger in an essentially upright posture, the passenger restraint system including a fixed column and a seat column designed to support and hold the passenger, which seat column is coupled to the fixed column so as to be movable relative to the fixed column and to be adjustable to the size of the passenger during an embarkation phase. The seat column is coupled to the fixed column by an articulated linkage, and the passenger restraint system further includes a device for balancing the seat column, which balancing device includes a cylinder fixed, at a first articulated end, to the fixed column and, at a second articulated end, to the seat column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Alain Zürcher, Éric Berra
  • Patent number: 7430966
    Abstract: A roller coaster installation comprising a stretch of water, along which runs a train of vehicles (104) provided laterally with hydrodynamic brakes comprising a fin (102) or a nozzle, becoming immersed in the mass of water (A) and discharging this in the form of rising sprays (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Claude Mabillard, Walter Bolliger
  • Patent number: 7204559
    Abstract: The device, intended in particular for a seat on an installation for amusement parks, has two flaps (10, 10?) mounted for articulation at the end of the support (6) of the base (7) of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventor: Eric Berra
  • Patent number: 6352034
    Abstract: The installation for amusement park, referred to as roller coaster, comprises a circuit made up of rails (6), mounted on supports (10), themselves fixed on a carrier beam (11), on which one or more vehicles run, designed to run on the rails, as opposed to a suspended roller coaster, and at least one station for the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers. Each vehicle comprises a main beam (1), at least one transverse chassis element (2) on which are mounted, on the one hand, wheels (3, 4, 5) interacting with the rails (6), and, on the other hand, seats (7) provided with retention means (8). The station, which comprises at least one platform (12) likewise comprises a fold-away floor (14), which replaces the floor, absent of the vehicle, when the vehicle is stopped in a predetermined position for embarkation and disembarkation. Due to this, the vehicle may be designed without any floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Walter Bolliger, Claude Mabillard
  • Patent number: 6287211
    Abstract: The installation for amusement park, comprises at least one vehicle designed in such a way as to be able to accommodate at least one passenger in at least one seat, associated with at least one retention device. The retention device comprises a pivoting bar mounted on a retention element intended to retain the passenger in the seat. The retention element features a complex spatial shape, of which the lower part, intended to come in contact with the passenger's thighs, comprises for this purpose two recesses forming a hollow corresponding approximately to the size of the passenger's thighs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Walter Bolliger, Claude Mabillard
  • Patent number: 5272984
    Abstract: The amusement ride comprises at least one seat suspended on a bogie moving along at least one rail. The seat is provided with a harness for the restraint of at least one passenger in the seat. The seat-harness unit is shaped so as to form a restraint imprisoning the passenger's body when the harness is in the closed position, each of the passenger's four limbs emerging from said restraint through a separate opening, so that the passenger is suspended with his legs in mid-air without a wall or a floor around him.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Bolliger & Mabillard Ingenieurs Conseils S.A.
    Inventors: Walter Bolliger, Claude Mabillard