Patents Assigned to Nexter Systems
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20120144986
    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: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Ulric GONARD, Francois-Xavier QUERRY
  • Publication number: 20120137866
    Abstract: A standoff protection device intended to fully cover a door and incorporating an opening panel giving access to the door, said opening panel and door each comprising hinge means whose axes of rotation are parallel to one another, wherein said opening panel is wider than said door and is positioned facing said door such that said opening panel completely covers said door, said axis of rotation of said door namely facing said opening panel, said opening panel further incorporating at least one slide perpendicular to said axis of rotation of said opening panel, said slide being connected to said door by rigid hooking means integral with said door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Ulric GONARD, Sebastien CARRIE, François-Xavier QUERRY
  • Publication number: 20120132782
    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: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Olivier GERMENOT
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8177472
    Abstract: A process to invert a structure, for example a vehicle body after an equipment mounting phase, namely of mobility means, on the underside of said structure, process wherein the structure is made to swivel around an instantaneous axis of rotation which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the structure, such axis of rotation being located in the vicinity of a first end of the structure, maneuvering means being positioned at the other end of the structure to control this swiveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Dominique Charlier, Henri Laurent, Stephane Viganne
  • Patent number: 8162372
    Abstract: The invention relates to a seat (1) for an armored vehicle, incorporating a back rest (2) integral with a wall or the roof (4) of the vehicle and a sitting part (3) mounted able to pivot with respect to the back rest (2) between a folded position in which it is substantially parallel to the back rest (2) and an unfolded position where it is held by a limit stop and is substantially perpendicular to the back rest (2). This seat is characterized in that the sitting part (3) is connected to the back rest (2) by linking means (6, 8) ensuring, in the event of a predetermined load, the release of the limit stop (8) of the sitting part (3) and its pivoting beyond the unfolded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Benoit Bettencourt, Michel Godard, Bernard Sagory, Xavier Poirmeur
  • Patent number: 8146479
    Abstract: A retractable light turret mounted in a platform, a firing device that can be deployed through an opening in a protective cowling for ensuring the closing of the opening, and elevation and azimuth aiming devices for the firing device, wherein the protective cowling has, on its external face, a close-in defense device, and at least one observation device coupled with a display device arranged inside the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Jean-François Cazalieres, Jérôme Guillard
  • Patent number: 8143886
    Abstract: A device to test the good working order of a magnetic field generator, and namely a demining coil, such device comprising at least one evaluation means for the magnetic field coupled with at least one display means, device wherein said evaluation means comprise at least one wound coil able to be positioned so that the lines of the magnetic field pass through it, said wound coil linked to evaluation electronics powered by said wound coil itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Guillaume Huet, Michel Pezard
  • Publication number: 20120068495
    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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Olivier GERMENOT, Bernard TIMMER
  • Patent number: 8065948
    Abstract: A protection device to close the gun slit (or opening) of a mount, such gun slit delimited by two lateral flanges and two end flanges and in which pivots or moves a mobile organ carrying a mobile wall positioned between the exterior and interior of the mount, device which comprises at least one flexible bellows integral on one side with an end flange of the gun slit and on the other with the mobile organ (3), such device wherein the bellows and wall delimit an intermediate chamber that is linked to the internal space (10) of the mount, such space being pressurized by pressurization means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Daniel Baptista, Stephane Leveque, Michel Masson, Xavier Poirmeur
  • Patent number: 8056464
    Abstract: The invention relates to firing brake assembly for weapons of the type incorporating an actual firing brake and means to modulate the function of said firing brake wherein the modulating means are in the form of a chamber equipped with a piston delimiting an upstream chamber and a downstream chamber, the upstream chamber communicating with the gun barrel by means of an upstream circuit ensuring that part of the combustion gases are taken up and a downstream chamber filled with a fluid and communicating with the firing brake by means of a downstream circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Cazalieres, Francois-Xavier Renard
  • Patent number: 8037801
    Abstract: A link separation device for an ammunition belt, said belt exiting a weapon after firing via an opening and in which an assembly of links (M1, M2) are mounted able to pivot angularly with respect to one another, each of said links incorporating two lateral stirrups and one median stirrup, said median stirrup of a first link (M1) of said links being able to pivot in grooves in said lateral stirrups of a second link (M2) of said links, a relative pivoting position of said first link (M1) with respect to said second link (M2) following said first link (M1) enabling said first link (M1) to be unhooked, said links additionally being positioned with respect to said device in a position such that the pivoting ensuring the unlocking and the unhooking of said first link (M1) can be made naturally by the action of gravity exerted on said first link (M1), wherein said device incorporates means to ensure said first link (M1) rocks over as well as means to guide and means to support said second link (M2) following as said
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Pierre Coiffet, Jean-Louis Sennegon
  • Publication number: 20110221266
    Abstract: A track for an all-terrain vehicle, and namely for an armored vehicle, comprising links hinged together so as to form a closed chain, each link carrying at least one body equipped with a track shoe intended to come into contact with the ground, track wherein it incorporates a row of median bodies that is arranged so as to be longitudinally offset with respect to the row of lateral bodies, each median body being thus positioned staggered between four lateral bodies, each median body being further hinged, by means of at least two parallel pins, to four lateral bodies, that is to say two lateral bodies from each lateral row, the pins being positioned at an equal distance from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Frédéric BONNETAIN, Yann Gendry
  • Publication number: 20110206495
    Abstract: A handling process for a wheel of large mass from a storage position, in particular to enable its mounting onto the hub of a vehicle, wherein said process comprises the following steps: a handling device that comprises at least two flexible non-elastic attachments parallel to one another and linked by at least two flexible and non-elastic fastening means is positioned on said wheel, said attachments and said fastening means enable the tire tread mounted on said wheel to be encircled over substantially 360°, said attachment thus being position at each side flank of said wheel, the ends of said different flexible attachments are brought together so as to imprison said wheel within said handling device, said ends of said different flexible attachments of said handling device are hooked onto a handling and lifting device, such as a winch integral with a bridge crane, said bridge crane ensuring the lifting and displacement of said wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Henri LAURENT, Guillaume VALETTE
  • Publication number: 20110088544
    Abstract: The invention relates to an armoured cab (2) for a vehicle, such cab incorporating at least one floor (8) onto which at least one side wall (2a, 2b, 14a, 14b) is attached. This cab (2) is characterised in that floor (8) and/or at least one side wall is constituted by an armoured plate having at least one curved zone (13a, 13b) that at least partially covers the mechanical organ (12) or the mobility means (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Benoit Bettencourt, Jacky Jacquemont, Christian Noel
  • Publication number: 20110079134
    Abstract: The invention relates to a protection device (9) for the floor (8) of a vehicle cab (2), device comprising at least one armour plate (10) that is arranged at a distance from the cab floor (8) and which is connected to the latter by deformable linking means. In this device at least one of the deformable linking means is constituted by a compartmented caisson (11), that is fastened to the cab (2) on a substantially vertical lateral partition (2a, 2b) of the latter, the compartmented caisson (11) comprising at least two walls (12a, 12b) that are substantially perpendicular to the armour plate (10) and which are integral firstly with a lower wall (14) on which the armour plate (10) presses and secondly with an upper wall (13) which presses on the cab (2), the walls (12a, 12b) having dimensions such that they buckle on impact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jacky JacQuemont, Christian Noel, Xavier Poirmeur, Benoit Bettencourt
  • Publication number: 20110079136
    Abstract: The invention relates to an armoured 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 armour plate (12) is fastened. The armour 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 armour 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 armour plate (12) and a wall (8) of the compartment surrounding the opening (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Benoit Bettencourt, Jacky Jacquemont, Christian Noel, Xavier Poirmeur
  • Publication number: 20110072728
    Abstract: The invention relates to a protection device for the opening hatch (1) of a vehicle, the opening hatch being articulated with respect to a vehicle wall (2) by at least one hinge (3). The device incorporates at least one shoe (7) integral with the opening hatch (1) at one of its rims near to which the hinge or hinges (3) are positioned, such shoe (7) engaging below a bearing surface (10) integral with the wall (2) when the opening hatch (1) is in the closed position, the cooperation of the shoe (7) with its bearing surface (10) being such that the opening hatch (2) can not be distanced from the wall even if the hinge or hinges (3) have been destroyed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Duinat, Xavier Poirmeur
  • Patent number: 7914069
    Abstract: A device to protect the floor pan of a land vehicle against mines, which device incorporates at least one layer of deformable reinforcements positioned between a plane front plate and a plane rear plate, the surface density of the front plate being greater than that of the reinforcements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Nexter Systems
    Inventors: Yves Barbe, Sebastien Carrie, Laurent Wagnez