Patents Assigned to Nexter Systems
  • Patent number: 9003945
    Abstract: The invention relates to protection grid against a projectile, for example of the rocket type that incorporates a body extended by a fuse, said grid incorporating bars linked together by uprights, and is characterized in that said grid is formed in a single piece and is of a thickness that is less than three times the thickness of a bar, the section of a bar and uprights being polygonal with square edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Daniel J. C. Vallee, Didier Mallat
  • Patent number: 8960068
    Abstract: A protection device for a vehicle cab having a floor and two vertical side walls, the device including an armor plate below and substantially parallel to the floor of the cab, and deformable compartmented caissons connected between the floor and the armor plate and under the side walls of the cab, each compartmented caisson having buckleable walls dimensioned to buckle upon shock impact to the exterior of the armor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Jacky Jacquemont, Christian Noel, Xavier Poirmeur, Benoit Bettencourt
  • Patent number: 8925892
    Abstract: The invention relates to a support device for the gun sight of a military vehicle, incorporating a head to which the gun sight is fastened and a foot which is integral with the vehicle, the head being integral with a column with a vertical axis which is introduced into the foot, the column being made integral with the foot by spring means wherein the spring means are constituted in the form of tongues arranged along at least two parallel planes perpendicular to the vertical axis of the support, each plane incorporating at least three tongues evenly spaced angularly around the column and integral with it by a first end and integral with the foot by their second end, these spring means imparting stiffness to the link between the column and the foot that is less along the vertical axis than along the other directions (X, Y) orthogonal to this vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventor: Olivier Germenot
  • Patent number: 8870269
    Abstract: A system to access a passenger compartment, said system having a door hinged to a chassis frame by a first horizontal articulated joint and forming an inclined ramp, wherein said system comprises an actuator to move said door, linked to said door and said chassis frame, a step plate at least partially covering the outside of said door and hinged to said chassis frame by a second articulated joint parallel to said first articulated joint and with a hinge pin offset to the first articulated joint, said step plate linked to said door by a drive element connected to said door by a third articulated joint and to said step plate by a fourth articulated joint, the pins of said first through fourth articulated joints being parallel to one another and form the four summits of a parallelogram deformable between open and closed positions of said door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventor: Jerome Serpeault
  • Patent number: 8844970
    Abstract: The subject-matter of the invention is an armored vehicle comprising a vehicle body forming a passenger compartment which is connected to mobility means comprising at least two axles. The axles of the vehicle are connected to the vehicle body by at least one axle support which has the shape of a U-shaped profile arranged above an axle and comprising a middle plate attached to the axle and extended by side edges which extend substantially vertically between the axle and the vehicle body, wherein each side edge bears at least one connecting tab which is attached by its end to the vehicle body at an attachment point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Philippe Gras, Vincent Desormiere
  • Patent number: 8746121
    Abstract: The subject-matter of the invention is a ballistic protection grid for a vehicle comprising an access hatch received in an opening of the grid, wherein the grid and the hatch comprise bars separated from each other by an inter-bar distance, the protection grid being characterized in that the access hatch partially conceals the opening of the grid, each edge of the opening of the grid being separated from the sides of the hatch by a distance substantially equal to the inter-bar distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventor: Alain Hubsch
  • Patent number: 8733809
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling a wheel of large mass from a storage position to enable its mounting onto the hub of a vehicle, wherein the method includes placing a tire in a handling device having two ends which are of substantially equal length, the length being longer than the perimeter of the wheel, between two ends of the handling device, bringing together the ends of the handling device so as to imprison the wheel within the handling device, and hooking the ends of the handling device into a handling and lifting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Henri Laurent, Guillaume Valette
  • Publication number: 20140116239
    Abstract: The invention relates to a movable artillery gun comprising: a frame supporting a turning plate, turning plate comprising a first pivot link of a vertical axis, turning plate comprising at least one turning motor means for rotating a turning interface around the first pivot link, the turning interface supporting a firing carriage and comprising a fine traverse laying means allowing the carriage to rotate with respect to the turning interface around a second pivot link of a vertical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Philippe GRELAT, Bertrand REMANGEON, Jeremy DE SOUZA
  • Patent number: 8613243
    Abstract: A standoff protection device intended to fully cover a door and incorporating an opening panel giving access to the door, the opening panel and door each comprising a hinge whose axes of rotation are parallel to one another, wherein the opening panel is wider than the door and is positioned facing the door such that said opening panel completely covers the door, the axis of rotation of the door namely facing the opening panel, the opening panel further incorporating at least one slide perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the opening panel, the slide being connected to the door by an arm integral with the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Ulric Gonard, Sébastien Carrie, François-Xavier Querry
  • Patent number: 8579268
    Abstract: A damping device for a hatch in a military vehicle used during its closing and opening, said hatch being integral with hinges hinged with respect to an interface, wherein said device comprises a tubular body integral with the hinges and hinged between two bearings integral with the interface, said body enclosing two fixed damping means between which a rod is positioned, said rod being mobile in translation to activate one of the damping means during the opening of the hatch and the other damping means during the closing of the hatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Christian Duc, André Monchalin
  • Patent number: 8555769
    Abstract: An offset ballistic protection device protecting a wall provided with a hatch (200), wherein said device comprises at least a first grid (1) offset with respect to the wall and comprising a first series of bars (1a) parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the pivot axis (400) of a hinge (300) of the hatch (200). This ballistic protection device (101) comprises a second grid (2) offset with respect to the hatch (200) and comprising a second series of bars (2a) substantially parallel to the first series of bars (1a), wherein the second grid (2) is positioned with respect to the first grid (1) so that the bars (2a) thereof are spatially offset in the plane of the second grid (2) with respect to the bars (1a) of the first grid (1), wherein the bars (2a) of the second grid (2) are therefore able to pass between the bars (1a) of the first grid (1) during pivoting of the leaf (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Alain Hubsch, Daniel Baptista, Christian Prybilski, Bernard Denis
  • Patent number: 8539873
    Abstract: A standoff protection device intended to fully cover a door and incorporating at least one mobile panel hinged on hinges having an axis of rotation parallel to an axis of rotation of the door. The device incorporates at least one connecting rod linked to the door by a first pivot and to the mobile panel by a second pivot. The orthogonal projection of the axis of the second pivot in the plane of the door is located between the first pivot and the orthogonal projection in the plane of the door of the axis of the hinges of the mobile panel. The device incorporating a fixed standoff protective panel integral with the door. The fixed panel includes a first lateral edge extending beyond an external edge of the door parallel to its axis of rotation, and a second lateral edge contiguous with the mobile panel when the door is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Ulric Gonard, François-Xavier Querry
  • Patent number: 8413566
    Abstract: The invention relates to an armored door (5) for the crew compartment of a vehicle or fixed shelter, such door intended to block an opening (10) into the compartment and incorporating a structure (7) to the exterior of which at least one armor plate (12) is fastened. The armor plate (12) is fixed at a distance from the structure (7) and is separate from said structure by first deformable intermediate means (14) able to absorb part of the energy of a shock, the armor plate (12) having, furthermore, dimensions that are greater than those of the structure (7), and second deformable intermediate means (15) positioned between the rim (R) of the armor plate (12) and a wall (8) of the compartment surrounding the opening (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Benoit Bettencourt, Jacky Jacquemont, Christian Noel, Xavier Poirmeur
  • Patent number: 8393258
    Abstract: A retractable turret rotatable on a platform, including an active system orientable in vertically extendable elevation, and in azimuth, a protective cowling for the active system and for closing a caisson, wherein the turret includes, for vertically extendable deployment and rotation of the active system, first and second arms forming a deformable quadrilateral on either side of the active system, a first manual means for controlling deployment of the active system by activating the first arm, and a second manual means for controlling the orientation in vertically extended elevation and in horizontal azimuth of the active system by moving the second arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Jean-François Cazalieres, Jérôme Guillard, Laurent Reynard
  • Patent number: 8348327
    Abstract: A fold down device for the windscreen of a vehicle and in particular for an armored windscreen, wherein said device incorporates two uprights hinged by a first end to the structure of the cab of said vehicle, each of said uprights being placed in the vicinity of the lateral edge of said windscreen, said windscreen being linked to each of said uprights by a connecting rod that is hinged on one side to the second end of each of said uprights and on the other to said windscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Olivier Germenot, Bernard Timmer
  • Patent number: 8316659
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal energy management device for a vehicle, namely a vehicle equipped with an electric generator associating and fuel cell and hydrogen reformer, comprising at least one primary circuit circulating a first heat-conducting fluid, such circuit enabling calories to be collected from a thermal source and transported to at least one thermal exchanger wherein said device comprises at least one thermal exchanger constituted by a sorption exchanger, enabling the thermal energy management of vehicles, and namely, armored vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bouysset, Martial Cozic, Dominique Hoslin
  • Patent number: 8297163
    Abstract: A firing device for close-in defense ammunition, ammunition incorporating a rigid casing enclosing at least one projectile, casing integral with a base that can be joined by linking means to a firing device base incorporating means to prime the ammunition, device wherein it incorporates a tube capping the ammunition after this ammunition has been fixed onto the firing base, such tube that is itself made integral with the firing base by attachment means, such tube further carrying an articulated bipod enabling the orientation in elevation of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Cazalieres
  • Patent number: 8292375
    Abstract: The invention relates to a linking pin between the chain links of a vehicle track and the connectors of these links, such pin incorporating at least one ring of a synthetic material coating, positioned between the pin and at least one link, the pin incorporating at least two supports on either side of the ring, characterized in that it comprises at least one axial bore enclosing a material incorporating a liquid phase and enabling the calories that may build up in the ring to be evacuated towards the connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventor: Michel Brun
  • Patent number: 8205773
    Abstract: A logistic container intended to be made integral with a structure, such as a vehicle, and incorporating a clasping device intended to cooperate with a matching device carried by the structure, the container being of a geometry with several faces wherein the container incorporates at least two opening flaps each arranged on a separate face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Bernard Timmer, Jean-Noël Patry
  • Patent number: 8177020
    Abstract: A control device for the active steering of a vehicle comprising a driving differential that is positioned between a steering wheel and steering control means, said differential which furthermore receives at a first input a counter-steering command supplied by a turn correction motor, wherein said steering wheel is linked to a second input of said differential by non-return means preventing any force feedback from said differential to said steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Bourdet, Guy Le Trouher, Olivier Pape