Patents Assigned to Ecole Centrale de Lille
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Patent number: 11894830Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes at least one transducer; two acoustic reflectors disposed on either side of the at least one transducer so as to form a cavity, each acoustic reflector comprising an array of electrodes in the form of lines parallel with each other, each array comprising a subset of electrodes connected to a reference potential denoted mass defining a first connection type, and a subset of electrodes that are not connected to any potential, i.e. that have a floating connection defining a second connection type; at least one switching circuit configured to modify the distribution of the connections of at least one part of the electrodes of each array between the different connection types.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignees: THALES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, SOITEC SA, YNCREA HAUTS DE FRANCE ISEN LILLE, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, UNIVERSITE POLYTECHNIQUE HAUTS-DE-FRANCEInventors: Thi Mai Pham Colomban, Claude Prévot, Paolo Martins, Anne-Christine Hladky-Hennion, Bertrand Dubus, Marianne Sagnard, Thierry Laroche, Sylvain Ballandras, Charles Croenne
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Patent number: 11731127Abstract: Electroacoustic device having a transducer including a piezoelectric substrate, first and second electrodes of inverse polarity having respective first and second tracks provided on said substrate, the first and second tracks spiraling around a same center (C), the transducer being configured for generating a swirling ultrasonic surface wave in the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITEInventors: Michaël Aymeric Baudoin, Olivier Khalil Bou Matar-Lacaze, Antoine Jean-Pierre Riaud, Jean-Louis Pierre Thomas
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Patent number: 11634519Abstract: Disclosed is a functionalizing method for the end functionalisation of trans-1,4 stereo-regular polydiene chains obtained by the coordination catalytic polymerisation of at least one conjugated diene monomer. It also relates to a polydiene having a trans-1,4 chain formation rate of at least 85%, preferably at least 90%, and an end functionalisation rate higher than 70%, preferably higher than 80%, and more preferably higher than 90%.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE D'ARTOIS, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE CHIMIE DE LILLEInventors: Marc Visseaux, Philippe Zinck, Sébastien Georges, Yohan Champouret
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Patent number: 11534761Abstract: Electroacoustic device that includes a body, an electrode to be electrically powered, named hot electrode, and an electrode to be electrically grounded, named ground electrode. The body includes a piezoelectric part or the electroacoustic device further including a piezoelectric part different from the body. The hot electrode includes a hot track spiraling around a spiral axis. The radial step between two consecutive coils of the hot track decreasing radially from the spiral axis. The hot electrode and the ground electrode are arranged on the piezoelectric part such as to define a wave transducer configured to generate a focalised ultrasonic vortex propagating in the body and/or, when a fluid medium is acoustically coupled with the electroacoustic device, in the fluid medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITEInventors: Michaël Aymeric Cyril Baudoin, Olivier Khalil Nizar Bou Matar-Lacaze, Antoine Jean-Pierre René Riaud, Jean-Louis Pierre Thomas
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Patent number: 11478634Abstract: An optical sensor, especially an artificial retina, that includes at least one photosensitive cell. Each cell includes a integration capacitor, a read circuit the operation of which depends on the charge of the integration capacitor, at least one MOS transistor operating subthreshold, and the drain-source current of which influences the charge on the integration capacitor, and at least one photodiode operating in photovoltaic mode and connected to the gate of this transistor, such that the drain-source current of the MOS transistor depends on the optical power received by the photodiode.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignees: ÉCOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, UNIVERSITÉ POLYTECHNIQUE HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, YNCREA HAUTS DE FRANCE, UNIVERSITE DE LILLEInventors: Alain Cappy, Francois Danneville, Virginie Hoel, Christophe Loyez, Ilias Sourikopoulos
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Publication number: 20220042926Abstract: A microstrip-type microwave sensor for the measurement of the dielectric properties of a solid or liquid material, constituted by a main line and two connected transmission lines integral at one of their extremities to the main line, the main line and two connected transmission lines being spaced from one another by a slot and being made integral with a substrate. The main line is connected to an electrical circuit by each of its two extremities to inject a sinusoidal signal, and wherein said main line has a width giving it an impedance in the range 50 Ohm, the two connected transmission lines being of the same width and of a length equal to one quarter of the wavelength guided in the substrate, the substrate having a height or thickness giving it flexibility or rigidity, the substrate being applied to a metallic support formed of a layer of metallic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicants: UNIVERSITÉ PARIS-SACLAY, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, ASSOCIATION YNCRÉA HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, UNIVERSITÉ POLYTECHNIQUE HAUTS-DE-FRANCEInventors: Etienne HERTH, Christophe LOYEZ, Laurie CALVET
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Patent number: 11186761Abstract: Treatment method for a rock formation against sand infiltration during production of fluid from this rock formation via a well drilled through said rock formation, comprising at least one step of injecting a geopolymer cement grout into said rock formation, in particular around the edges of said well and/or through said well.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignees: STORENGY, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLEInventors: Patrick Egermann, Baptiste Marchand, Catherine Davy, Frédéric Skoczylas, Franck Agostini, Laurent Jeannin, Arnaud Lange
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Patent number: 11090698Abstract: Method for increasing the ability of at least one droplet to slide over a medium. An ultrasonic surface wave is generated in the medium with a sufficient amplitude to cause the droplet to deform in an inertio-capillary eigen-vibration mode, thus decreasing the attachment of the droplet to the medium, so as to make it easier for the droplet to move under the effect of an external force, the amplitude of the ultrasonic surface wave being insufficient to cause the droplet to deform asymmetrically to the point that it moves in the absence of the external force in the direction of propagation of the ultrasonic surface wave.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLEInventors: Adrien Bussonniere, Olivier Bou Matar-Lacaze, Michaël Baudoin, Philippe Brunet
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Patent number: 10961212Abstract: A method is for the preparation of furoic acid or of one of its derivatives of formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent, independently of each other, a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl group, a —C(?O)—H group or a —COOH group, by heterogeneous catalytic oxidation of furfural or a derivative thereof of formula (II). The oxidation is carried out in the presence of a supported catalyst based on gold nanoparticles, and in a non-alkaline aqueous medium. A composition useful in the method includes at least furfural and supported gold nanoparticles.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM—UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNAInventors: Sébastien Paul, Francesco Santarelli, Robert Wojcieszak, Franck Dumeignil, Fabrizio Cavani
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Patent number: 10519945Abstract: A method for generating a flow of fluid, implemented in a device including a membrane (2) provided with at least one hole (20) and elements (4) generating back-and-forth movements, wherein a flow is generated through the membrane by actuating the membrane, at least in the region of the at least one hole (20), according to a mode of deformation of the at least one hole, causing the at least one hole to open and close and disturbing the fluid in order to generate the flow. The device suitable for implementing the method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLEInventors: Alain Merlen, Farzam Zoueshtiagh, Abdelkrim Talbi, Philippe Pernod, Christophe Frankiewicz
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Publication number: 20190382361Abstract: A method is for the preparation of furoic acid or of one of its derivatives of formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent, independently of each other, a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl group, a —C(?O)—H group or a —COOH group, by heterogeneous catalytic oxidation of furfural or a derivative thereof of formula (II). The oxidation is carried out in the presence of a supported catalyst based on gold nanoparticles, and in a non-alkaline aqueous medium. A composition useful in the method includes at least furfural and supported gold nanoparticles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: December 19, 2019Applicants: Université de Lille, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita' di BolognaInventors: Sébastien PAUL, Francesco SANTARELLI, Robert WOJCIESZAK, Franck DUMEIGNIL, Fabrizio CAVANI
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Publication number: 20190374119Abstract: The present invention provides a method (30) of determining mechanical properties of the pelvic cavity of a person or an animal, the pelvic cavity including a plurality of organs and the method comprising a step (34) during which pressure is measured at one or more points of the surface of one of the organs of said pelvic cavity, and during which, simultaneously, movements of a plurality of organs of said pelvic cavity are also measured. The present invention also provides a measuring device for measuring pressure in an organ of the pelvic cavity in order to perform the above method (30). The measuring device comprises an optical fiber pressure sensor mounted in a non-metallic housing, and a closed flexible reservoir mounted in said non-metallic housing and having a surface, in particular a flexible surface, that constitutes a pressure measuring surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicants: UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, CENTRE HOSPITALIER REGIONAL UNIVERSITAIRE DE LILLE, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D?ARTS ET METIERSInventors: Mathias BRIEU, Michel COSSON, Chrystèle RUBOD DIT GUILLET, Pauline LECOMTE, Jean-François WITZ, Laurent PATROUIX
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Patent number: 10500567Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of rhenium-containing supported heterogeneous catalysts for the deoxydehydration of glycerol to allyl alcohol, as well as to a process for the production of allyl alcohol from glycerol, in the presence of such heterogeneous catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, NATIONAL INSTITUTEInventors: Yoshihiro Kon, Benjamin Katryniok, Franck Dumeignil, Marcia Araque Marin, Sébastien Paul
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Patent number: 10369551Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of haloapatites as catalysts of the dehydration reaction of ?-hydroxylated carboxylic acids or acid esters, in particular of lactic acid or of methyl lactate, and also to a process for producing unsaturated carboxylic acids or acid esters, in particular acrylic acid or methyl acrylate, in the gas phase in a stainless steel reactor, in the presence of such a catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignees: ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Sébastien Paul, Benjamin Katryniok, Franck Dumeignil, Thomas Bonnotte
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Patent number: 10301245Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of molybdenum and vanadium mixed oxides, optionally iron doped, as catalysts for the oxidation of unsaturated alcohols, in particular allyl alcohol, and also to a process for the production of unsaturated carboxylic acids, in particular acrylic acid, in the gas phase, in the presence of such a catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1, Hokkaido University, Ecole Centrale de LilleInventors: Sébastien Paul, Benjamin Katryniok, Franck Dumeignil, Marcia Araque Marin, Toru Murayama, Wataru Ueda
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Patent number: 10266474Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of molybdenum and vanadium mixed oxides, optionally iron doped, as catalysts for the oxidation of unsaturated alcohols, in particular allyl alcohol, and also to a process for the production of unsaturated carboxylic acids, in particular acrylic acid, in the gas phase, in the presence of such a catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignees: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Universite Des Sciences et Technologies De Lille 1, Hokkaido University, Ecole Centrale De LilleInventors: Sébastien Paul, Benjamin Katryniok, Franck Dumeignil, Marcia Araque Marin, Toru Murayama, Wataru Ueda
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Publication number: 20190091683Abstract: Electroacoustic device having a transducer including a piezoelectric substrate, first and second electrodes of inverse polarity having respective first and second tracks provided on said substrate, the first and second tracks spiraling around a same center (C), the transducer being configured for generating a swirling ultrasonic surface wave in the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITEInventors: Michaël Aymeric BAUDOIN, Olivier Khalil BOU MATAR-LACAZE, Antoine Jean-Pierre RIAUD, Jean-Louis Pierre THOMAS
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Patent number: 9701615Abstract: A method for synthesising a second ester from a first ester, the method including the following steps: a) placing a first ester and a catalyst in the presence of dihydrogen such as to obtain a first alcohol and a second alcohol; b) extracting the second alcohol from the reaction medium; c) reacting the first alcohol with the catalyst of step a) in order to obtain a second ester and dihydrogen; and d) recirculating the dihydrogen obtained in step c) by injecting same into step a).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignees: PIVERT, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE 1, ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLEInventors: Franck Dumeignil, Simon Desset, Sébastien Paul, Guillaume Raffa, Lei Zhang
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Patent number: 9676705Abstract: A compound of the formula SbxFe1Oy (I) in which x varies from 0.4 to 1 inclusive and y varies from 1.6 to 4 inclusive, may be used as a catalyst for catalyzing the ammoxidation reaction of an alcohol of following formula (II) CH2?C(R1)—CH2—OH (II) in which R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical, to give nitrile of following formula (III) CH2?C(R1)—C?N (III) in which R1 has the same meaning as in above formula (II), the said reaction being carried out in the gas phase, the said gas phase comprising at least oxygen and ammonia. The present invention also relates to the process for the ammoxidation of an alcohol of formula (II) employing a compound of formula (I) as catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignees: ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE, UNIVERSITE DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DInventors: Sebastien Paul, Benjamin Katryniok, Franck Dumeignil, Carsten Liebig, Wolfgang Holderich, Cyrille Guillon
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Patent number: 9476746Abstract: The invention relates to a miniaturized sensor having a heating element, and to an associated production method. The sensor includes a substrate, a cavity and a heat-insulating structure suspended above the cavity by areas connecting to the substrate. The heat-insulating structure includes at least two bridges extending above the cavity, the heating element being supported by said bridges, extending transversely thereto.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Centrale de LilleInventors: Romain Viard, Abdelkrim Talbi, Philippe Jacques Pernod, Alain Merlen, Vladimir Preobrazhensky