Patents Assigned to Thales
  • Patent number: 10665952
    Abstract: The invention concerns a microwave antenna module for use in an antenna system installed on board a space platform. The disclosed microwave antenna module includes a transmit/receive module, which comprises: a first package and a second package, that are hermetically sealed to one another and that are multilayer ceramic substrate packages; and an interposer connector, that is interposed between the first and second packages and comprises a body and connection means provided in the body. First and second electronic circuitries are connected to the connection means of the interposer connector for routing microwave, control and power signals through the connection means. The first electronic circuitry includes a directional coupler in stripline-coplanar configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Antonio Fina, Alessandro Di Carlofelice, Francesco De Paulis, Ulisse Di Marcantonio, Andrea Suriani, Piero Tognolatti, Antonio Orlandi
  • Publication number: 20200150214
    Abstract: A system for determining the position of an aircraft comprises an emitter arranged at the aircraft for emitting a signal, at least two receivers arranged at different locations for receiving the signal emitted by the emitter, and an evaluation device which is designed to determine an aircraft position based on the known positions of the receivers at the time of the reception of the signal and on a characteristic of the signal emitted by the emitter and received by the receivers. The invention proposes that at least one of the receivers is located above the aircraft, and that the evaluation means is designed to determine a vertical position of the aircraft from the signal received by the receivers and the known positions of the receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Thales Management & Services Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Neufeldt, André Schuettpelz
  • Patent number: 10640216
    Abstract: A projection system for use with an aircraft seat includes a cassette frame defining an open ended cavity, a front panel configured to couple to a front of the cassette frame to enclose the cavity, and a projector system held in the cavity. The cassette frame includes a rear panel, an upper panel extending outwardly away from the rear panel, a lower panel extending outwardly away from the rear panel, and first and second side panels extending outwardly from the rear panel. The rear panel, the upper panel, the lower panel and the first and second side panels define an open ended cavity. The projector system and the front panel are configured such that an image and/or video projected by the projector system is projected from the cavity through the front panel. The cassette frame is sized and configured to be received and releasably held in an aircraft seatback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lori Elizabeth Salazar, Jeffrey S. Everhart
  • Publication number: 20200136220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microwave circular polarizer including: a first outer conductor; a second outer conductor connected to the first outer conductor forming a first step discontinuity therewith; and a third outer conductor connected to the second outer conductor forming a second step discontinuity therewith. An inner conductor is provided which extends inside and is spaced apart from the first, second and third outer conductors. The first and second outer conductors are axially asymmetric with respect to the inner conductor, and the third outer conductor is axially symmetric with respect to the inner conductor. The microwave circular polarizer includes first and second rectangular waveguide ports in signal communication with an internal cavity through, respectively, a first rectangular aperture and a second rectangular aperture formed through the first outer conductor. The microwave circular polarizer further includes a first septum and a second septum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Rodolfo Ravanelli, Paolo Campana
  • Patent number: 10616741
    Abstract: An entertainment system includes video display units that can establish Bluetooth connections with user terminals. A central Bluetooth controller is connected to control establishment of Bluetooth connections between the user terminals and the video display units. The central Bluetooth controller receives connection authorization requests from the video display units, and generates connection authorization decisions based on application of a Bluetooth connection rule to characteristics of the user terminals which are identified from the connection authorization requests. The connection authorization decisions are then used to control whether Bluetooth connections are established between the user terminals and the video display units, and to control what security mode levels are used when establishing and using the Bluetooth connections for signaling therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Khosro Rabii, Jean-Yves Couleaud, Jay Eggenberger, Maneesha Bhate Sumien
  • Patent number: 10591583
    Abstract: A method (100; 200) for digital signal processing (S(t)) of a pulse and scanning radar during an observation of a coastal zone in land/sea detection mode, the signal being sampled according to a two-dimensional temporal map, a distance dimension (d) and a recurrence dimension (rec), comprising: selecting a digital terrain model file (MNT) of the observed coastal zone; transforming (110; 210) the temporal map and/or the digital terrain model file to obtain a transformed temporal map and/or a transformed digital terrain model file the data of which are expressed in a common reference frame; constructing (120) a mask (MT; MF) from the transformed digital terrain model file; and applying (130) the mask to the samples (E(d, rec); E(d, ?f)) of the map associated with the transformed temporal map, in such a way as to obtain filtered samples (Ef(d, rec); Ef(d, ?f)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Vincent Corretja, Gilles Guerrini, Richard Montigny, David Thierry Sfez
  • Patent number: 10594668
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a crypto cloudlet is provided that includes a security wrapper to a virtual machine to guarantee secure Input/Output exchange between a client and one or more cryptographic adaptive services powered by a set of virtual CPUs through a single well defined channel, an adaptive service running in the virtual machine that identifies hardware resources necessary to satisfy a cryptographic demand or request, and an Ethernet interface communicatively coupled to the security wrapper providing network channel services for exchange of cryptographic data and commands. The security wrapper presents to the adaptive services the hardware accelerators exposed by the virtual machine. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Thales eSecurity, Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Sanchez, Bernardo Arainty, John Perret, Tomas Arredondo, Pedro Valladares, Guillermo Cordon, Sergio Barcala, Marc Boillot
  • Patent number: 10589880
    Abstract: Space system comprising a structure formed by structure components, an on-board equipment carried by the structure, and a passive device designed to facilitate demise of the space system during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. The passive device comprises connecting members designed to stably connect the structure components. The connecting members comprise at least a portion made of a primer material with characteristics such as to decay at re-entry altitudes higher than those at which the current connecting members melt so as to make unstable the connection created by the connecting members to such an extent as to early triggering demise of the structure of the space system during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Guido Parissenti, Primo Attina′, Roberto Destefanis, Corrado Gennaro, Lilith Grassi, Marco Nebiolo
  • Patent number: 10591611
    Abstract: A method for determining a wrong synchronization of a receiver with a satellite, associated receiver and computer program product, is implemented after the acquisition phase and includes the following steps: generating first and second test signals; for each correlation interval, determining a first prompt correlator corresponding to the correlation value between the received signal and the first test signal, and a second prompt correlator corresponding to the correlation value between the received signal and the second test signal; determining first and second energy values corresponding to the energy of the first and second correlators, respectively; determining a wrong synchronization indicator based on the difference between the first and second energy values; and detecting a wrong synchronization based on this indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Nicolas Martin, Denis Bouvet
  • Publication number: 20200081766
    Abstract: The invention relates to an interconnection network for forward error correction encoders and decoders, including N input terminals, N output terminals, and M stages. Each stage includes switching elements having input pins and output pins. The input pins of the switching elements of the first stage are connected to the input terminals, and the output pins of the switching elements of the last stage are connected to the output terminals. The input and output pins of the switching elements of immediately successive stages are connected in a hardwired fashion so as to form a plurality of interconnection sub-networks for routing respective input values from respective output pins of the switching elements of the first stage to respective input pins of the switching elements of the last stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Domenico Giancristofaro, Massimo Fonte
  • Patent number: 10587599
    Abstract: The invention is a method for managing a response from an application embedded in a secure token acting as an UICC, in response to a command requesting opening a proactive session. The command is sent by an applicative server to the secure token via an OTA server providing a security layer. The method comprises the steps of sending another command from the applicative server to the secure token using the security layer provided by the OTA server, and in response to this second command, the secure token send the response of the first command to the applicative server using the security layer provided by the OTA server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Thales DIS France SA
    Inventors: Xavier Berard, Antoine Galland
  • Patent number: 10581152
    Abstract: This antenna includes a first part, a second part rotatably mounted about a first axis, and a rotary joint arranged between the first and second parts, the second part including a radiating source and a reflection assembly having a reflector defining a reflector top, a focus, and a second axis passing through the reflector top and the focus, the rotary joint being able to transmit electromagnetic signals between the first and second parts via at least one transmission channel, and the first and second parts being so arranged that in any position of the second part and the reflection unit, the first axis is perpendicular to the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Nicolas Ferrando, Jérôme Brossier, Yann Cailloce, Jérôme Lorenzo
  • Patent number: 10581130
    Abstract: A rotary joint including a stator intended to be fastened on a first part of the antenna and defining a transmission surface, and a rotor intended to be fastened on a second part of the antenna and defining a transmission surface, wherein one of the transmission surfaces includes primary means for delimiting electromagnetic signals and the other includes complementary means for delimiting electromagnetic signals; the rotor being mounted rotating relative to the stator such that at least part of the transmission surface of the rotor is positioned across from at least part of the transmission surface of the stator, the facing parts forming at least one transmission path between them for the electromagnetic signals delimited by the primary and complementary delimiting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Nicolas Ferrando, Jérôme Brossier, Pierre Bosshard, Yann Cailloce, Jérôme Lorenzo
  • Patent number: 10579987
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for authenticating transactions through a simplex communication. To allow trusting the transaction with a payment by an image code such QR code, the invention proposes means to authenticate said transaction. For that, when the mobile payment application is loaded into preferably a secure element of the user mobile device a registration process is enabled. During this registration process on a server, an account of the user is created and a set of unpredictable numbers in quantity N is generated. This set of unpredictable numbers is transmitted to the mobile payment application for storage. The payment application uses the stored set of transaction unpredictable numbers for next N times transactions performed by the mobile payment application for transaction cryptogram calculation. The same transaction unpredictable number is recovered in the server side during the transaction authorization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Thales Dis France SA
    Inventor: Yuexi Chen
  • Patent number: 10580313
    Abstract: An electronic monitoring device for monitoring at least one radionavigation signal during an approach phase to a landing runway, related monitoring method and computer program are disclosed. In one aspect, the each radionavigation signal is obtained from a reception chain on board an aircraft. The device includes a calculation module configured to calculate an angular displacement value in a reference plane, a comparison module configured to compare the angular displacement value with the corresponding radionavigation signal, and a warning module to generate a warning signal based on the comparison between the angular displacement value and the corresponding radionavigation signal. The calculation module is configured to calculate the angular displacement value as a function of a magnitude relating to the aircraft course and glide path according to the monitored radionavigation signal, from avionics equipment independent from the reception chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Arethens
  • Patent number: 10571295
    Abstract: A method and device for monitoring an avionics software application via its execution duration, related computer program and avionics system are disclosed. In one aspect, the method, executed on a platform hosting an operating system, is implemented by an electronic monitoring device. The avionics software application includes one or several software processing operations to be executed, the platform is configured to be on board an aircraft. The method includes: monitoring the execution duration of the avionics software application, through the verification, upon expiration of at least one predefined execution times, of the completion of the execution of at least one software processing operation of the avionics software application; and updating a status of the avionics software application based on the monitoring of the execution duration of the avionics software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Marc Fumey, Joël Henri René Bosson, Tarik Aegerter, Yves Meyer, Hubert Lacquit
  • Patent number: 10569443
    Abstract: To place an insert cut out of film with no gaps in a cavity formed in a foil, after placing the foil on a supporting substrate, the cavity is punched into the foil by means of a tubular cutting punch comprising an inner pusher with a cutting edge in the required shaped of the cavity and the insert, so that the edge goes through the thickness of the foil and cuts a slug out of it; the punch is lifted with the slug held inside the punch, without moving the foil, the film is brought between the foil and the edge of the punch, the punch is lowered once again so as to cut the insert out of the film and then push the insert cut in that way in the cavity with a pusher, and the punch and the pusher are removed, with the insert held in place in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Thales Dis France SA
    Inventors: Francois Roussel, Joseph Leibenguth, Frederic Blanchon, Jean-Luc Lesur
  • Patent number: 10564873
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for updating a firmware on a device, from a current version to a new version, said firmware being split into: —a core part, —an extended part comprising a plurality of entry points callable by the core part, said method comprising: —inhibiting the entry points between the core part of the current version, called current core part, and the extended part of the current version, called current extended part; —erasing the current extended part; —downloading the core part of the new version, called new core part; —erasing the current core part; —downloading—the extended part of the new version, called new extended part; —activating the entry points between the new core part and the new extended part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Thales Dis France SA
    Inventor: Stephane Durand
  • Publication number: 20200044356
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wire antenna adapted to operate in at least one predetermined frequency band, comprising a plurality of superimposed layers, comprising at least one radiating element placed on a support layer, wherein the support layer is placed on a spacer substrate, and wherein the spacer substrate is placed on a reflector plane comprising at least one resistive layer between the support layer of the radiating element(s) and the substrate spacer, while the resistive layer comprises at least two sets of nested resistive patterns. This antenna is such that the sets of resistive patterns have resistance values gradually varying between a central antenna point and an outer edge of the antenna, in order to achieve a resistance gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Stéphane MALLEGOL, Michel JOUSSET, Pierre BELEC
  • Patent number: 10552602
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable storage medium with instructions for operating a processor of an electronic device to protect against unauthorized manipulation of the code pointer by maintaining and updating a code pointer complement against which the code pointer may be verified. Other systems and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Thales Dis France SA
    Inventor: Lance Hannen-Williams