Patents Assigned to Etat Francais
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Publication number: 20160223294Abstract: In the field of aiming devices for firearms, an interface includes a longitudinal median plane XX?, and: a first portion able to be fixed on a weapon, a second portion movable with respect to the first portion, elements for damping the movement of the second portion with respect to the first portion, an upper portion including elements able to allow the fixing of a telescope or a camera, wherein: the damping elements include at least a first and a second damper, one of which is placed on one side of the longitudinal median plane and between the first portion and the second portion or the upper portion, and the other one is placed on the other side of the longitudinal median plane XX? and between the first portion and the second portion or the upper portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENTE PAR LE DELEGUE GENERAL POUR L'AEMEMENTInventor: Didier BOUQUET
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Patent number: 9366490Abstract: In the field of feeding ammunition to a firearm there is disclosed a flexible chute including successive sections (2) linked by portions of walls (111, 112, 131) at the transverse faces thereof and including at least one tubular section (2) of axis G with a first portion of wall (111, 112) integral with one of the two transverse faces thereof and a second portion (131) of wall integral with the other transverse face, characterized in that the projections of these portions of wall, perpendicular to a transverse plane of the section, are at least partially separate.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENTE PAR LE DELEGUE GENERAL POUR L'ARMEMENTInventor: Jean-Francois Lescure
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Patent number: 9140584Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of microsensors, and particularly to a passive and reversible deformation sensor, specifically cycles of deformations in a direction OX of a structure, specifically during cycles of temperatures or mechanical stresses to which the structure is subjected, this sensor including elements (4, 5, 6) for detecting and, preferably, counting cycles of variations in the distance between two points or areas of a structure, these elements including a support having first and second portions (41, 44) attachable to, respectively, either of the two points or areas of the structure, wherein the detecting elements are associated with each of the first and second portions of the support, sensor characterized by in that the detecting elements include elements (541, 542, 543, 551, 552, 553, 561, 562, 563) for distinguishing between at least two different thresholds of cycles of variations in distance.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignees: ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENTE PAR LE DELEGUE GENERAL POUR L'ARMEMENT, SILMACHInventors: Pierre-Francois Louvigne, Patrice Minotti, Paul Vescovo, Vincent Walter
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Publication number: 20150233658Abstract: In the field of feeding ammunition to a firearm there is disclosed a flexible chute including successive sections (2) linked by portions of walls (111, 112, 131) at the transverse faces thereof and including at least one tubular section (2) of axis G with a first portion of wall (111, 112) integral with one of the two transverse faces thereof and a second portion (131) of wall integral with the other transverse face, characterized in that the projections of these portions of wall, perpendicular to a transverse plane of the section, are at least partially separate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2013Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENTE PAR LE DELEGUE GENERAL POUR L'ARMEMENTInventor: Jean-Francois Lescure
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Patent number: 9056678Abstract: In the field of devices for airdropping a load from a flying vehicle, there is provided a device for securing/releasing a first member (65) able to support a load of more than 20 kg, and a second member able to support this first member and the load, this second member including, on the one hand, a support (1) onto which are secured first elements including a sensor (26), for example of an altimeter or chronobarometric type, able to trigger, during the flight, the release of the first and second members upon exceeding a threshold or receiving an exterior signal, where the second member includes a hook (3) in two parts, one of which is movable (14) between an operative position and an inoperative position, and elements (7, 8, 25, 71, 76) for locking and unlocking the movable part of the hook in its operative position.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENTE PAR LE DELEGUE GENERAL POUR L'ARMEMENT DGA/DS/SDPAInventor: Jean-Louis Forsans
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Patent number: 9032857Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of electromagnetic rail launchers, and particularly to a rail launcher and an associated projectile-launching process including at least two longitudinal rails connected to a power supply circuit of these two rails, these rails being at least partially surrounded by superconductor elements able to generate a magnetic induction of a direction perpendicular to the plane formed by the rails and located therebetween during the flow of a current therein, launcher wherein the supply circuit includes the superconductor elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENTE PAR LE DELEGUE GENERAL POUR L'ARMEMENTInventors: Michel Amiet, Pascal Tixador, Arnaud Badel
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Patent number: 9012608Abstract: An immunoglobulin of the G class (IgG) directed against the protective antigen (PA) of the anthrax toxin, includes: a light-chain variable region including an amino-acid sequence having at least 90% amino-acid identity with the sequence SEQ ID No1 such as defined in the description, and a heavy-chain variable region including an amino-acid sequence having at least 90% amino-acid identity with the sequence SEQ ID No2 such as defined in the description, characterized in that it consists of an IgG1 or an IgG2.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2008Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignees: Laboratoire Francais du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies, Etat Francais Represente Par le Delegue General de l'ArmementInventors: Philippe Thullier, Christian Behrens
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Publication number: 20140349312Abstract: The present invention relates to a culture support for cultivating hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and/or hematopoietic progenitors (HPs), comprising a calcium biomaterial, osteoclasts, endothelial cells and mesenchymatous stem cells (MSCs) and/or osteoblasts and/or adipocytes. The present invention also relates to a method for preparing such a culture support, and an in vitro HSC and/or HP cultivation method. The use of such a culture support for studying cellular mechanisms involved in hematopoiesis and/or differentiation of HSC/HPs and/or for studying the efficacy and/or the toxicity of a medicament candidate is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicants: Institut Nationalde la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), ETAT FRANCAIS (MINISTERE DE LA DEFENSE), SERVICE DE SANTE DES ARMEESInventors: Jean-Jacques Lataillade, Marie-Caroline Le Bousse-Kerdiles
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Patent number: 8715475Abstract: A microfluidic device for separating, fractionating, or preconcentrating analytes contained in an electrolyte having at least two reservoirs separated by at least one microchannel and/or nanochannel. At least part of the wall of the microchannel is made of and/or coated interiorly with a conducting and polarizable material or group of materials constituting a polarizable interface or a network of polarizable interfaces. In that at least one electrode or at least one electrode network is connected at at least one point of the polarizable material or group of materials, the surface electrical conductance of said material being equal to at least 100 nS.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Etat Francais Represente Par le Delegue General pour l'ArmementInventor: Adrien Plecis
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Publication number: 20140103746Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of electromagnetic rail launchers, and particularly to a rail launcher and an associated projectile-launching process including at least two longitudinal rails connected to a power supply circuit of these two rails, these rails being at least partially surrounded by superconductor elements able to generate a magnetic induction of a direction perpendicular to the plane formed by the rails and located therebetween during the flow of a current therein, launcher wherein the supply circuit includes the superconductor elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENT par le delegue general pour l'ArmementInventors: Michel Amiet, Pascal Tixador, Arnaud Badel
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Publication number: 20140060208Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of microsensors, and particularly to a passive and reversible deformation sensor, specifically cycles of deformations in a direction OX of a structure, specifically during cycles of temperatures or mechanical stresses to which the structure is subjected, this sensor including elements (4, 5, 6) for detecting and, preferably, counting cycles of variations in the distance between two points or areas of a structure, these elements including a support having first and second portions (41, 44) attachable to, respectively, either of the two points or areas of the structure, wherein the detecting elements are associated with each of the first and second portions of the support, sensor characterized by in that the detecting elements include elements (541, 542, 543, 551, 552, 553, 561, 562, 563) for distinguishing between at least two different thresholds of cycles of variations in distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: SILMACH, ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENTE PAR LE DELEGUE GENERAL POUR L'ARMEMENTInventors: Pierre-Francois Louvigne, Patrice Minotti, Paul Vescovo, Vincent Walter
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Publication number: 20140050722Abstract: A chimeric monoclonal antibody targeted to ricin is presented. The light chain and heavy chain constant regions are respectively made up of the light chain and heavy chain constant regions of human immunoglobulin, and the light chain and heavy chain variable regions respectively include the light chain and heavy chain variable regions of macaque immunoglobulin. The antibody does not substantially induce any immune response against chimeric antibodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicants: LFB BIOTECHNOLOGIES, ETAT FRANCAIS REPRESENTE PAR LE DELEGUE GENERAL POUR L'ARMEMENTInventors: Philippe THULLIER, Alexandre FONTAYNE
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Publication number: 20130240674Abstract: In the field of devices for airdropping a load from a flying vehicle, there is provided a device for securing/releasing a first member (65) able to support a load of more than 20 kg, and a second member able to support this first member and the load, this second member including, on the one hand, a support (1) onto which are secured first elements including a sensor (26), for example of an altimeter or chronobarometric type, able to trigger, during the flight, the release of the first and second members upon exceeding a threshold or receiving an exterior signal, where the second member includes a hook (3) in two parts, one of which is movable (14) between an operative position and an inoperative position, and elements (7, 8, 25, 71, 76) for locking and unlocking the movable part of the hook in its operative position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: ETAT Francais represente par LE Delegue General Pour L'ArmementInventor: Jean-Louis Forsans
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Patent number: 8535668Abstract: A chimeric monoclonal antibody targeted at ricin, in which the light chain and heavy chain are such that: the constant region of the light chain and the constant region of the heavy chain are essentially made up respectively of the constant region of the light chain and the constant region of the heavy chain of human immunoglobulin, the variable region of the light chain and the variable region of the heavy chain include respectively the variable region of the light chain and the variable region of the heavy chain of macaque immunoglobulin, the monoclonal antibody not substantially inducing an immune response against chimeric antibodies.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignees: Etat Francais Represente par le Delegue General pour l'Armement, LFB BiotechnologiesInventors: Philippe Thullier, Alexandre Fontayne
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Patent number: 8507655Abstract: The invention relates to an anti PA antibody, in which the variable region of the heavy chain has an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID N°1 and in which the variable sequence of the light chain has an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID N°2, that is modified in order to improve its affinity and its tolerance in human beings.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: ETAT FRANCAIS représénté par le Délégué Général pour l'ArmementInventor: Phillippe Thullier
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Publication number: 20130184440Abstract: A method of preparing a germinalized hypervariable antibody region directed against a target, as well as the antibodies, antibody fragments, vectors and compositions including the germinalized hypervariable region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2010Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: ETAT FRANÇAIS (MINISTÈRE DE LA DÉFENSE), SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉESInventor: Philippe Thullier
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Publication number: 20130143198Abstract: The present invention relates to a lyophilized plasma, resulting from a mixture of plasmas originating from selected donors, which is virally attenuated and compatible with all blood groups and to the process for obtaining same.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: ETAT FRANCAIS (MINISTERE DE LA DEFENSE), SERVICE DE SANTE DES ARMEESInventor: Anne Sailliol
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Patent number: 8424437Abstract: A device for triggering mines by pressure, including a chassis and at least one wheel having a central hub and including: at least one assembly that is movable in translation along a radius of the wheel and comprises a weight block at its peripheral radial end, a device suitable for driving the at least one movable assembly, as the wheel rotates in a determined direction with respect to the chassis, in the direction of the hub over a limited sector of the wheel that is less than 2? radians; wherein the device suitable for driving the at least one movable assembly in the direction of the hub are fixed with respect to the chassis, or in that the assembly that is movable in translation comprises a support that is fixed with respect to the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Etat Francais Represente par le Delegue General pour l'ArmementInventor: Michel Grima
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Patent number: 8421559Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of acoustic wave devices, and particularly to that of transducers capable of operating at very high frequencies, from a few hundred MHz to several gigahertz, and its subject is more particularly an interface acoustic wave device including at least two substrates and a layer of ferroelectric material, the latter being contained between a first electrode and a second electrode and having first positive-polarization domains and second negative-polarization domains, the first and second domains being alternated, wherein the assembly constituted by the first electrode, the layer of ferroelectric material, and the second electrode is contained between a first substrate and a second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignees: Etat Francais Represente par le Delegue General pour l'Armement, Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, Université de Franche ComteInventors: Roger Petit, Sylvain Ballandras, Emilie Courjon, Dorian Gachon
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Patent number: 8349159Abstract: A device for selective preconcentration/detection of charged analytes contained in an electrolyte having at least two reservoirs separated by at least one rectilinear microchannel with no lengthwise axis X intersection and having at least one controllable voltage source configured to generate a potential difference between the ends of the rectilinear microchannel. The device has means for generating a controllable pressure that is associated with at least one of the reservoirs and is able to generate a pressure gradient between the two ends of the microchannel. The microchannel has, in its median part, means that are configured to generate at least one change in the surface area to volume ratio charge, the device configured to selectively concentrate the charged analytes in the median part of the microchannel upstream and/or downstream of the means configured to generate at least one change in the surface area to volume ration charge.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Etat Francais Represente par le Delegue General pour l'ArmementInventor: Adrien Plecis