Abstract: A microelectronic wireless transmission device including: a substrate able to be traversed by radio waves intended to be emitted by the device, an antenna, an electrical power supply, an integrated circuit, electrically connected to the antenna and to the electrical power supply, and able to transmit to the antenna electrical signals intended to be emitted by the antenna in the form of the said radio waves, a cap rigidly connected to the substrate and forming, with the substrate, at least one cavity in which the antenna and the integrated circuit are positioned, where the cap comprises an electrically conductive material connected electrically to an electrical potential of the electrical power supply and/or of the integrated circuit, and able to form a reflector with regard to the radio waves intended to be emitted by the antenna.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 23, 2013
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Abstract: A pressure measurement device in a tube (30) of a hydraulic circuit is disclosed, comprising a metal collar (2) provided with n (?3) contact stops (22, 24, 26) made of an electrically insulating material, designed to come into contact with the wall of said tube, preventing the metal of the collar coming into contact with this wall, one of the contact stops (22) comprising a passage (22?) that will connect the atmosphere inside said tube with pressure measurement means.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 18, 2013
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Abstract: A method for adjusting the properties of a photonic circuit such that they fit with expected properties, the photonic circuit including a waveguide which includes a light propagation region, is provided. The method includes a step of modifying the refractive index of at least one zone of the region, the step being implemented by an ion implantation in the at least one zone. It extends to a waveguide the light propagation region of which has at least one zone with a refractive index modified by ion implantation in which the light remains confined, as well as a photonic circuit incorporating such a guide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 5, 2016
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Inventors:
Karim Hassan, Corrado Sciancalepore, Badhise Ben Bakir, Sylvie Menezo
Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for emitting energy by electromagnetic coupling which comprises: a single generator (5) outputting an AC electric signal between two terminals; a series of resonant modules (2i) each including a capacitor and a first inductance, and first to fourth terminals (Ai, Bi, Ci, Di), the first (Ai) and second (Bi) terminals of a first module being connected to terminals of the generator, and the first (Ai) and second (Bi) terminals of the other module or modules being connected to the third (Ci) and fourth (Di) terminals of the module of the previous row.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 3, 2012
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Inventors:
Yann Tetu, Sylvain Bacquet, Thierry Thomas
Abstract: A UWB impulse receiver including an RF stage followed by a baseband processing stage. The baseband processing stage includes a Rake filter including a plurality of time fingers, each finger including an integrator of the baseband signal during an acquisition window, a control module, and a detection module estimating the received symbols from the integration results. During a synchronization phase, the control module drives respective positions of the acquisition windows associated with the different fingers, to scan at a reception interval, the RF stage only operating, in a course of the synchronization phase, during the plurality of acquisition windows.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 10, 2014
Date of Patent:
September 19, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a solid nanocomposite material comprising nanoparticles of a metal coordination polymer with ligands CN, said nanoparticles satisfying the formula [Alk+x]Mn+[M?(CN)m]z? where Alk is an alkali metal, x is 1 or 2, M is a transition metal, n is 2 or 3, M? is a transition metal, m is 6 or 8, and z is 3 or 4; said Mn+ cations of the coordination polymer being bound by an organometallic bond or a coordination bond to an organic group R2 of an organic graft, and said organic graft furthermore being chemically attached, preferably by a covalent bond, to at least one surface of a solid support, by reaction of a group R1 of said graft with said surface.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 11, 2015
Publication date:
September 14, 2017
Applicant:
COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
Abstract: An electronic device which includes at least one optoelectronic component including a first active layer, a first electrode, and a second interface layer between the first layer and the first electrode; and at least one first field effect transistor including a first semiconductor portion, a first gate, and at least one third layer, between the first gate and the first semiconductor portion. The third layer is made of the same material as the second layer. The electronic device includes a second electrode and a fourth interface layer between the first layer and the second electrode and includes a second field effect transistor that includes a second semiconductor portion, a second gate, and at least one fifth layer between the second gate and the second semiconductor portion. The fifth layer is made of the same material as the fourth layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 25, 2015
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2017
Assignees:
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, ISORG
Abstract: A method and device for chemical destruction of at least one feed comprising at least one organic compound are provided. The device comprises at least one inductive plasma torch, means for introducing at least one plasma-forming gas into the torch, optionally when the plasma gas(es) comprise(s) no or little oxygen, means for bringing oxygen gas into the plasma or into the vicinity of the plasma, means for introducing the feed into the torch, a reaction enclosure capable of allowing thermal destruction of the gases flowing from the torch, a device allowing mixing of the gases flowing out of the reaction enclosure to be carried out, means for introducing air and/or oxygen gas into the mixing device, a device allowing recombination by cooling of at least one portion of the gases from the mixing device, the torch, the reaction enclosure, the mixing device and the recombination device being in fluidic communication.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 25, 2010
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Abstract: A method for positioning a collection of nodes within a wireless sensor network in which each node measures Respective Strength of Signals (RSSs), from its neighboring nodes, and channels linking regular nodes and its neighboring nodes are classified into different categories and are allocated path loss parameters accordingly. Distances separating each regular node from each of its neighboring nodes, and respective variances thereof, are estimated on the basis of the measured RSSs and the allocated path loss parameters. The positions of the regular nodes are then estimated by Weighted Least Square, optimization where the distances to be matched and the variances used for the weighting are those previously estimated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 16, 2012
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Abstract: A method of determining the state of health of a first elementary cell of a battery, including the steps of: measuring the voltage across the cell under a reference current at a plurality of times in a phase of cell charge or discharge between first and second state-of-charge levels; and detecting a crossing by the voltage of a predetermined specific value, corresponding to a predetermined specific charge value of the cell.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2015
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2017
Assignees:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Decathalon
Abstract: A method for producing a microelectronic device is provided, including forming on an insulating layer of a semi-conductor on insulator type substrate, a first semi-conductor block covered with a first strain zone configured to induce a compressive strain in the first block and a second semi-conductor block covered with a second strain zone configured to induce a tensile strain in the second block, the first block and the second block each being formed of a lower region based on amorphous semi-conductor material, covered with an upper region of crystalline semi-conductor material in contact with one of the strain zones; and recrystallizing the lower region of the first and second blocks while using the upper region of crystalline material as starting zone for a recrystallization front.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 22, 2014
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Abstract: The thermoelectric device includes a first set of identical unitary thereto-electric systems, each system including at least one thermocouple and the first set has at least one faulty unitary thermoelectric system. It further has devices for detecting functional unitary thermoelectric systems of the first set of unitary thermoelectric systems, and devices designed to electrically connect a second set of functional unitary thermoelectric systems chosen from the first set of unitary thermoelectric systems, in the form of an electric circuit, so that all the unitary thermoelectric systems of the electric circuit have the same current flowing through them.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 2011
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2017
Assignees:
COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, ST-ERICSSON SA
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a high temperature electrolyzer (HTE) or a high temperature fuel cell is disclosed. According to one aspect, the HTE includes a vertical stack of n elementary planar cells alternating with n+1 interconnection plates. Each of the elementary cells include a planar porous anode and a planar porous cathode each having cutouts formed therein. The anode and cathode are respectively positioned on each of the faces of a planar dense electrolyte. Brazed joints are formed by infiltration of a defined amount of a brazing composition in the electrodes at contact points between the elementary cells and the interconnection plates.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 6, 2010
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Abstract: A method for the production of a battery includes at least production, against a substrate made of a material able to form an electrode, of at least one solid electrolyte layer, production of a first electrode in contact with the electrolyte, and thinning the substrate such that at least a remaining proportion of the substrate, in contact with the solid electrolyte layer, forms a second electrode.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 23, 2012
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Inventors:
Steve Martin, Messaoud Bedjaoui, Sylvain Poulet, Jouhaiz Rouchou
Abstract: A facility for depositing a film of ordered particles onto a moving substrate, the facility configured to allow deposition, onto the substrate, of a film of ordered particles escaping from a particle outlet of a transfer zone having a first width. The facility further includes an accessory device in a form of a deposit head, provided to seal the particle outlet and configured to allow the deposition, onto the substrate, of a film of ordered particles escaping from an end of a particle transfer channel of the deposit head, the end having a second width strictly lower than the first width.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 10, 2012
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Inventors:
Olivier Dellea, Philippe Coronel, Pascal Fugier
Abstract: A resistive random access memory device includes a first electrode; a solid metal oxide electrolyte; and a second electrode, the first and second electrodes being respectively arranged on either side of the solid metal oxide electrolyte, the second electrode being capable of supplying mobile ions circulating in the solid metal oxide electrolyte to the first electrode to form a conductive filament between the first and second electrodes when a potential difference is applied between the first and second electrodes. The device further includes an interface layer including a metal oxide, the interface layer extending at least partially onto the first electrode, the solid metal oxide electrolyte extending at least partially onto the interface layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 15, 2015
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignee:
COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
Abstract: A method for detecting a series arc in a photovoltaic device, operating in direct current mode, including N (N=1 or N>1) photovoltaic modules, connected to a charging device having a capacitive behavior for the modules, the method including: a) detecting, across n of the N modules (1?n?N), time evolution of voltage; b) identifying a voltage variation between a first zone of stable voltage and a second zone of stable voltage for a duration of at least 5 ?s, which immediately follows the voltage variation; and c) determining whether the voltage variation is between a value Vmin higher than or equal to 0.2 V and a value Vmax lower than or equal to 20 V, with rise time of the variation between a duration Tmin higher than or equal to 0.5 ?s and a duration Tmax lower than or equal to 5 ?s.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 4, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Abstract: A solar module in a concentrating solar system including: a box including a top wall, formed from an optical system, and walls; at least one photovoltaic cell placed in the box; and at least one humidity management device. At least one first wall among the walls includes a principal part contained in a plane. The humidity management device includes a housing defined between the first wall and a cover fixed to the first wall including an occultation part and an inner part forming an air film at the occultation part. A moisture-absorbing material is placed in the housing, at least part of the moisture-absorbing material is located on one side of the plane containing the occultation part.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 26, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignees:
Commissariat à l'ènergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, HELIOTROP
Inventors:
Mathieu Mariotto, Mathieu Baudrit, Paul Bellavoine, Jean Edouard De Salins, Florian Degabriel, Philippe Laferriere
Abstract: A method for forming a film of particles on a carrier liquid present in a receptacle, for depositing this film onto a substrate, the method including: making a film blank between a barrier and a head including a tilted ramp, the blank being obtained by dispensing particles via the tilted ramp and carried out until the particles floating on the carrier liquid occupy a space between the barrier and an upstream front of particles located on the tilted ramp; and elongating the film by continuing dispensing the particles, and moving the head to move away from the barrier, the film elongation being performed to hold a front of particles on the ramp.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 9, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternative
Inventors:
Olivier Dellea, Philippe Coronel, Pascal Fugier
Abstract: A sintered annular magnet with a radial orientation of a remanent magnetic field, including: a principal annular part made from a ferromagnetic material, that has a first degree of magnetic anisotropy in the radial direction; and an annular reinforcing part fixed to the principal part of the magnet, the reinforcing part being made from same ferromagnetic material as the ferromagnetic material forming the principal part, and that has a second degree of magnetic anisotropy in the radial direction, the first degree being higher than the second degree.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 7, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignee:
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives