Patents Assigned to COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVE
  • Patent number: 11784304
    Abstract: Positive electrode material for a lithium battery comprises a lithiated metal layered oxide comprising metal elements arranged in layers of metal cations and lithium arranged in interlayers of lithium cations and, in part, in the layers of metal cations, the oxide has a stack arrangement 02 and corresponds to the formula (I): Li(a+b)NicMndCoeMfOg (I) wherein: *a represents the proportion of lithium in the interlayers, 0<a<1; *b represents the proportion of lithium in the layers of metal cations, 0<b<?; *c, d, e and f are between 0 and 1 and b+c+d+e+f=I; *1.9<g<2.1; *when f?0, M is one or more of Al, Fe, Ti, Cr, V, Cu, Mg, Zn, Na, K, Ca, Sc; wherein the oxide is coated with an oxide of the formula (II): MnhM?iO2 (M) wherein: *0<h?1.5, preferably h=1; *M? is one or more of Ni, Al, Fe, Ti, Cr, V, Cu, Mg, Zn, Na, K, Ca, Sc; *0?i?1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: David Peralta, Carole Bourbon, Jean-François Colin
  • Patent number: 11782045
    Abstract: A method for assessing the mass concentration of uranium in a sample of uranium-bearing material by gamma spectrometry, includes a) acquiring (200) an energy spectrum of gamma radiation from the sample using a scintillator detector, the energy spectrum (100) comprising at least a first energy band (110) between 87 keV and 110 keV, and a second energy band (120) between 560 keV and 660 keV, the second energy band comprising at least one energy line (130) at 609 keV from 214Bi, b) calculating (210) an initial mass concentration of uranium (CmU0) using the energy spectrum, c) measuring (220) a parameter representative of the height of the sample and a parameter representative of the density of the sample, d) calculating (230) a corrective coefficient (K), and e) calculating (240) a corrected mass concentration of uranium (CmU) using the initial mass concentration of uranium (CmU0) and the corrective coefficient (K).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: ORANO MINING, COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Thomas Marchais, Bertrand Perot, Cédric Carasco, Jean-Luc Ma, Hervé Toubon, Romain Goupillou
  • Patent number: 11780008
    Abstract: A backup cooling device intended for a hot isostatic press, the press comprising a compression chamber, a tank containing a gas and a first gas flow circuit for the gas to flow between the gas tank and the compression chamber. The backup cooling device comprises a tank containing a coolant equipped with a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the gas and the coolant, a coolant flow circuit forming a closed loop including the tank and a cooling circuit arranged around the compression chamber, a second gas flow circuit for the gas, extending from a connecting valve connecting it to the first gas flow circuit, and including the first heat exchanger, a control module (CMD) suitable for controlling the connecting valve so as to open it in the event of a malfunction of the hot isostatic press, and otherwise to close it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT Á L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Alain Jaouen, Denis Autissier
  • Publication number: 20230317329
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnet from recycled magnets comprising the following steps of: providing: a 1st powder comprising grains of a magnetic phase TR2Fe14B, metal-based compounds and a grain boundary phase rich in rare earth, said 1st powder being free of heavy rare earth, a 2nd powder obtained from recycled magnets comprising heavy rare earths, the 2nd powder is subjected to a hydrogenation-disproportionation treatment, the 1st powder is mixed with the 2nd powder obtained at the end of step b), the mixture obtained at the end of step c) is subjected to a compacting step so as to obtain a compacted part, the compacted part obtained at the end of step d) is subjected to a sintering step so as to obtain a magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Cyril RADO, Sorana LUCA
  • Patent number: 11771918
    Abstract: An optical stimulation system includes a light source configured to produce light for optical stimulation; a light monitor; an optical lead coupled, or coupleable, to the light source and the light monitor; and a control module coupled, or coupleable, to the light source and the light monitor. The control module includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured for receiving a request for verification or measurement of a light output value; in response to the request, receiving, from the light monitor, a measurement of light generated by the light source; and, based on the measurement, reporting a response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION CORPORATION, COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES (“CEA”)
    Inventors: Dennis Allen Vansickle, Adam Thomas Featherstone, John Rivera, Claude Chabrol, Sarah Renault, Adrien Poizat, Michael A. Moffitt
  • Patent number: 11774359
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a smoke detector (1) including: a detection chamber, a baffle system surrounding the chamber enabling to isolate the chamber from outer light and enabling air to flow from the outside to the inside of the chamber, and a mechanical actuator capable of cleaning, in case of an obstruction, intervals between the elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Roland Pelisson
  • Patent number: 11777622
    Abstract: The present description concerns a method of processing by a radio transmitter/receiver (12) of a radio signal (SR) comprising a telecommunications signal disturbed by pulses of a radar signal, the method comprising the steps of: estimating the instantaneous power of the pulses, estimating the ratio of the average power of the telecommunications signal to the instantaneous power of the radar pulses, and modifying the radio signal at the locations of the radar pulses when said ratio is smaller than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Patrick Rosson, Jean-Baptiste Dore, Benoît Miscopein, David Demmer
  • Patent number: 11778579
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a method of estimation and correction, at the level of a base station, of a frequency drift (?F1, ?Fi, ?FN) between signals transmitted by a plurality of antenna systems (306_1, 306_i, 306_N) spatially distributed around a computing unit of the base station (304) and signals received by a radio device (310).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: David Demmer
  • Patent number: 11774347
    Abstract: A photoacoustic detecting device to be applied, via a contact face, against a medium to be analyzed, is disclosed. The device includes: a hollow cavity that opens onto a contact aperture, the contact aperture being produced in the contact face; a pulsed or amplitude-modulated light source configured to emit, when activated, an incident light beam, in an emission spectral band, through the cavity, to the contact aperture; and an acoustic transducer connected to the cavity and configured to detect a photoacoustic wave extending through the cavity. Under the effect of illuminating the medium by the incident light beam, the acoustic transducer detects an acoustic wave produced by heating the medium. The cavity includes a membrane extending through the cavity, facing the contact face. The membrane is bounded by a lower face and an upper face. The membrane includes through-apertures produced between the lower face and the upper face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jean-Guillaume Coutard, Alain Gliere, Maryse Fournier
  • Patent number: 11768165
    Abstract: A non-destructive method for characterizing and monitoring the homogeneity of metal parts which are being manufactured by sintering and comprise several distinct zones. Laser radiation is applied successively to each zone and each sintered zone is analyzed simultaneously in real time by lock-in laser-active radiometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT Á L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Hicham Maskrot, Alexandre Semerok
  • Patent number: 11769687
    Abstract: A method for transferring a thin layer from a donor substrate to a receiver substrate including the steps of implantation of species carried out in a uniform manner on the whole of the donor substrate to form therein an embrittlement plane which delimits the thin layer and a bulk part of the donor substrate, of placing in contact the donor substrate and the receiver substrate and of initiating and propagating a fracture wave along the embrittlement plane. The method comprises, before the placing in contact, a step of localised reduction of a capacity of the embrittlement plane to initiate the fracture wave. This step of localised reduction may be carried out by means of a localised laser annealing of the donor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Shay Reboh, Frédéric Mazen, Pablo Acosta Alba
  • Patent number: 11768256
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor includes at least one coil responsive to an AC coil drive signal; at least one magnetic field sensing element responsive to a sensing element drive signal and configured to detect a directly coupled magnetic field generated by the at least one coil and to generate a magnetic field signal in response to the directly coupled magnetic field; a processor responsive to the magnetic field signal to compute a sensitivity value associated with detection of the directly coupled magnetic field and substantially independent of a reflected magnetic field reflected by a conductive target disposed proximate to the at least one magnetic field sensing element; and an output signal generator configured to generate an output signal of the magnetic field sensor indicative of the reflected magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Alexander Latham, Claude Fermon, Jason Boudreau, Myriam Pannetier-Lecoeur, Bryan Cadugan, Hernán D. Romero
  • Patent number: 11764691
    Abstract: The present description concerns a method of controlling a converter including two H bridges (110, 12) coupled by a transformer (130), wherein: two switching sequences between states are respectively applied to the two bridges; one of the states of a first one of the sequences corresponds to a given direction of application of a voltage to the transformer by the bridge having the first one of the sequences applied thereto; the first one of the sequences varies during a same halfwave of an AC voltage (V1) across one of the bridges (110), so that: during at least a first period, switchings into and out of said one of the states occur in a same state of a second one of the sequences; and during at least a second period, switchings into and out of said one of the states occur in different states of the second one of the sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, RENAULT SAS
    Inventors: Sylvain Leirens, Xavier Maynard, Serge Loudot
  • Patent number: 11761920
    Abstract: A method of estimating a nitrogen site carbon concentration, in a first epitaxial layer made of carbon-doped gallium nitride of an electronic component, including steps of: estimating an electric capacitance of a stack interposed between the first layer and a first electrode of the component; heating the component; measuring an offset of a threshold voltage of the component; and deducing therefrom a nitrogen site carbon surface concentration in the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Abygael Viey, Marie-Anne Jaud, William Vandendaele
  • Patent number: 11763884
    Abstract: A memory comprising: a resistive-switching element having first and second electrodes separated by a layer of insulator; an energy storage component or load coupled to the resistive-switching element via a first switch; and a control circuit configured: to program the resistive-switching element to have a set state, wherein, in the set state, a filament forms a conducting path between the first and second electrodes; and, following a dissolution of the filament, to recover electrical energy, generated by the dissolution of the filament, from one of the first and second electrodes by activating the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Paola Trotti, Gabriel Molas, Sami Oukassi, Gaël Pillonnet
  • Patent number: 11754448
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal detector (1) for detecting electromagnetic radiation, comprising: a readout substrate (10); a membrane (20) suspended above the readout substrate, comprising: a thermometric transducer (23), and a resistive load (25) that is formed from a track that extends longitudinally to form a closed continuous loop; a collecting antenna (16), which is located away from the suspended membrane (20) and coupled to the resistive load (25), and which comprises a coupling track (16.1), which track is located plumb with the resistive load (25) and extends longitudinally to form an open continuous loop, thus permitting inductive coupling between the coupling track (16.1) and the resistive load (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Laurent Dussopt
  • Patent number: 11749779
    Abstract: A process comprising the following steps of: a) providing a device comprising: a GaN/InGaN structure comprising an electrically conductive doped GaN layer locally covered with InGaN mesas comprising a doped InGaN layer and an undoped or weakly doped InGaN layer, an electrically insulating layer covering the electrically conductive doped GaN layer between the mesas, b) connecting the electrically conductive doped GaN layer and a counter-electrode (500) to a voltage or current generator, c) dipping the device and the counter-electrode into an electrolyte solution, d) applying a voltage or current between the electrically conductive doped GaN layer and the second electrode to porosify the doped InGaN layer, e) forming an InGaN layer by epitaxy on the InGaN mesas, whereby a relaxed epitaxially grown InGaN layer is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Carole Pernel, Amélie Dussaigne
  • Patent number: 11737695
    Abstract: A method for determining a membership function, the membership functions allowing a stress level of a user to be determined on the basis of a physiological parameter measured on the user, the membership function varying, depending on the physiological parameter, between: a first value, representative of a rest state; and a second value, representative of a stressed state; the membership function taking into account a distribution function, which is defined beforehand, the distribution function being a continuous and monotonic function, the distribution function being applied to a normalized parameter established on the basis of a measured physiological parameter, the method comprising determining a normalization function, and optionally a standardization function, the normalization function and the optional standardization function being determined on the basis of physiological parameters measured on a plurality of test individuals, in various calibration periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
    Inventors: Gaël Vila, Christelle Godin, Aurélie Campagne, Sylvie Charbonnier
  • Patent number: 11740420
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic device comprising a photonic interposer comprising: a photonic circuit containing at least one active optical component, an upper interconnect layer comprising at least one upper control portion, a lower interconnect layer comprising at least one lower control portion and lower intermediate portions, at least one TSV directly connecting the upper control portion to the lower control portion, conductive vias connecting the lower intermediate portions to the active optical component; at least one first microelectronic chip joined to the upper face of the photonic interposer; a second microelectronic chip joined to the lower face of the photonic interposer, and connected to the lower control portion and to the lower intermediate portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventors: Stéphane Bernabe, Yvain Thonnart, Jean Charbonnier
  • Patent number: 11735693
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate comprising the following steps of: providing a stack comprising an initial substrate, a GaN layer, a doped InGaN layer and an unintentionally doped InGaN layer, transferring the doped InGaN layer and the unintentionally doped InGaN layer to an anodising support, so as to form a second stack, dipping the second stack and the counter-electrode into an electrolyte solution, and applying a voltage or current between the doped InGaN layer and a counter electrode, to porosify the doped InGaN layer, and relaxing the unintentionally doped InGaN layer, transferring the doped InGaN layer and the unintentionally doped InGaN layer to a support of interest, forming an InGaN layer by epitaxy on the unintentionally doped InGaN layer, whereby a relaxed epitaxially grown InGaN layer is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Carole Pernel, Amélie Dussaigne