Patents Assigned to Nexter Systems
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Patent number: 8870269Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventor: Jerome Serpeault
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Patent number: 8844970Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Philippe Gras, Vincent Desormiere
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Patent number: 8746121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventor: Alain Hubsch
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Patent number: 8733809Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Henri Laurent, Guillaume Valette
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Publication number: 20140116239Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Nexter SystemsInventors: Philippe GRELAT, Bertrand REMANGEON, Jeremy DE SOUZA
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Patent number: 8613243Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Ulric Gonard, Sébastien Carrie, François-Xavier Querry
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Publication number: 20130312596Abstract: 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 three times less than the thickness of a bar, the section of a bar and uprights being polygonal with square edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMSInventors: Daniel J.C. Vallee, Didier Mallat
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Patent number: 8579268Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Christian Duc, André Monchalin
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Patent number: 8555769Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Alain Hubsch, Daniel Baptista, Christian Prybilski, Bernard Denis
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Publication number: 20130264808Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMSInventor: Nexter Systems
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Patent number: 8539873Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Ulric Gonard, François-Xavier Querry
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Patent number: 8413566Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Benoit Bettencourt, Jacky Jacquemont, Christian Noel, Xavier Poirmeur
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Publication number: 20130074686Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMSInventor: NEXTER SYSTEMS
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Patent number: 8393258Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Jean-François Cazalieres, Jérôme Guillard, Laurent Reynard
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Publication number: 20130025443Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMSInventors: Alain HUBSCH, Daniel BAPTISTA, Christian PRYBILSKI, Bernard DENIS
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Patent number: 8348327Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Olivier Germenot, Bernard Timmer
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Patent number: 8316659Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventors: Jean-Louis Bouysset, Martial Cozic, Dominique Hoslin
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Patent number: 8297163Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventor: Jean-Francois Cazalieres
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Patent number: 8292375Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Nexter SystemsInventor: Michel Brun
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Publication number: 20120255431Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMSInventor: Alain HUBSCH