Patents Assigned to Trixell
  • Patent number: 11947058
    Abstract: A method for producing a solid-state digital detector of incident radiation includes a photosensitive sensor and a radiation converter, comprising a. a step of growing on a first substrate a scintillating substance from the first substrate, capable of converting the incident radiation into a second radiation to which the sensor is sensitive, the scintillating substance comprising an upstream front face in the direction of propagation of the incident radiation, through which the incident radiation passes, and a downstream front face in the direction of propagation of the incident radiation, opposite the upstream front face; b. a step of holding the scintillator at the downstream front face of the scintillating substance; c. a step of separating the first substrate from the scintillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Murielle Beranger, Mohamed Zekhnini
  • Patent number: 11825219
    Abstract: A matrix-array detector includes a set of pixels that are sensitive to a physical effect and arranged in a matrix array in at least one row and columns, each pixel generating a signal dependent on the physical effect, Q column conductors, each connecting the one or more pixels of one and the same column and intended to transport the signals generated by the pixels. The detector further comprises N multiplexers configured to operate simultaneously, each multiplexer receiving the signals from K column conductors, K being greater than or equal to 2, Q being at least equal to K2. The columns and associated conductors are ordered according to their physical distribution, q representing a current column. The N multiplexers are ordered from 1 to Q/K, n representing the rank of the current multiplexer. The column of rank q, where q is between 1 and K2, is connected to the multiplexer of rank n=q modulo K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Bruno Bosset, Xavier Favre
  • Patent number: 11747491
    Abstract: A portable radiological cassette includes a scintillator, a photosensitive slab, the scintillator and the photosensitive slab forming a panel, the panel having a front face intended to receive the incident x-ray and a rear face opposite the front face, an electronic circuit board, a mechanical protection housing, wherein the panel and the electronic circuit board are disposed, comprising a top face and a bottom face; wherein the top face of the mechanical protection housing comprises: a first layer of rigid material, a second layer of rigid material, the second layer of rigid material being in contact with the front face of the panel, a layer of cellular material disposed between the first and the second layers of rigid material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventor: Pierre Rieuvernet
  • Patent number: 11666300
    Abstract: A method for the real-time control of exposure to an X-ray dose emitted by a generator tube for generating an X-ray beam and received by a detector includes a flat panel detector, comprising a set of pixels organized into a matrix along rows and columns and configured so as to generate signals on the basis of the X-ray dose impinging on the detector, the generator tube comprising a control unit for controlling the generator tube that is configured so as to control an emitted X-ray dose, the control method comprising the following steps: exposing the flat panel detector to an X-ray dose emitted by the generator tube for generating an X-ray beam; repeatedly reading out at least one of the rows of pixels while the flat panel detector is exposed to the X-ray dose; determining a payload signal and a stray signal based on the signals from the readout of the at least one of the rows; transmitting the payload signal to the control unit for controlling the generator tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Thibaut Wirth, Benoit Charles
  • Patent number: 11635533
    Abstract: A three-dimensional part intended to cooperate with: a single-piece base comprising a first main face, a second main face, the base being delimited by four lateral faces, the base being able to support a digital detector on the first main face and an electronic circuit board, a mechanical protection housing, the base, the digital detector and the electronic circuit board being intended to be arranged in the mechanical protection housing, the housing comprising four lateral faces, a top face and a bottom face; the three-dimensional part being comprising a bottom part linked to the base and at least partially enclosing a lateral face of the base; a top part extending from the first main face of the base to the top face of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Sylvain Pons, Pierre Rieuvernet
  • Patent number: 11522003
    Abstract: A matrix-array detector and to a method for implementing the detector are provided. The detector includes an array of pixels that are sensitive to a physical effect and arranged in a matrix along rows and down columns, each pixel generating a signal according to the physical effect; row conductors, each allowing the pixels of one row to be driven; a first group of driver modules each delivering selection signals to one row conductor of a first group of row conductors; a second group of driver modules each delivering selection signals to one row conductor of a first group of row conductors; the first and second groups of row conductors being interlaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Martin Siaud, Simon Marecaux, Chantal Hordequin
  • Patent number: 11489000
    Abstract: A method for producing an imager includes the following steps: a. attaching an imaging sensor to a first substrate; b. cutting out the first substrate a predefined distance around the attached imaging sensor; c. attaching a driver circuit board for driving the imaging sensor to the cut-out first substrate, close to the attached imaging sensor; d. connecting the driver circuit board for driving the imaging sensor to the attached imaging sensor in order to obtain a first tile; e. repeating the attaching, cutting-out, attaching, and connecting steps in order to obtain a second tile; f. butting together the obtained first tile and second tile by placing the cut-out first substrates in edge-to-edge contact; g. attaching the butted-together tiles to a main substrate; h. connecting the driver circuit boards of the imaging sensors of the butted-together first tile and second tile to a motherboard of the imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventor: Yannick Janvier
  • Patent number: 11488301
    Abstract: A method for estimating parameters of an object which is to be estimated in a digital image which represents real imaged content, comprising at least: a) an initial step comprising the production of a dictionary of content components and the production of a dictionary of object components, the content components and the object components having the same dimensions as the digital image; b) a step of establishing, at the same time, the magnitude of each of the content components of the dictionary of content components and of the object components of the dictionary of object components present in the digital image; c) a step of establishing, from the magnitude of each of the object components, the value of at least one parameter which characterizes the object to be estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Florian Cotte, Jean-Michel Vignolle
  • Patent number: 11089250
    Abstract: A photosensitive sensor includes multiple elementary sensors butted together, each elementary sensor comprising a pixel matrix organized in rows, the pixels of each row being connected to conductors of multiple types, column conductors of which are connected to read circuits of the sensor. The sensor moreover comprises, connected to each of the column conductors, a group of components that is separate from the conductor under consideration, the group of components forming a matching impedance of the conductor under consideration. The impedances in each elementary sensor have the same value and the impedances for different elementary sensors have different impedance values so as to balance the link impedances between the various read circuits and the corresponding column conductors for the various elementary sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Martin Siaud, Bruno Bosset
  • Patent number: 10999547
    Abstract: A matrix-array detector includes an array of pixels that are sensitive to a physical effect and arranged in a matrix along rows and down columns, each pixel generating a signal according to the physical effect; row conductors, each allowing the pixels of one row to be driven; driver modules delivering selection signals to the row conductors, the driver modules being configured to deliver signals according to either of two levels, one being a high level allowing one of the rows of pixels to be selected and the other being a low level not allowing it to be selected. The detector further comprises impedance modules that are connected to each of the row conductors and configured to decrease the impedance of each row conductor and to keep the impedance of each row conductor low in a phase of reading the array of pixels as long as the corresponding selection signal is at the low level, the impedance modules being separate from the driver modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Simon Marecaux, David Blanchon, Martin Siaud
  • Patent number: 10957743
    Abstract: A matrix-array optoelectronic device includes a substrate on which a matrix array of what are called bottom electrodes is deposited; an active structure, which is preferably continuous and organic, arranged above the matrix-array of bottom electrodes, the structure being suitable for detecting light; and at least one what is called top electrode lying above the active structure, the top electrode being transparent to the light emitted or detected by the active structure; and at least one conductive element that is borne by the substrate without interposition of the active structure and that is connected to the top electrode by at least one vertical interconnection, the conductive element having an electrical conductivity greater than that of the top electrode. The device may also comprise a layer made of scintillator material, the layer being fastened to the top electrode, so as to form an x-ray imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, ISORG, TRIXELL
    Inventors: Mohammed Benwadih, Jean-Marie Verilhac, Simon Charlot, Jérôme Joimel, Pierre Rohr
  • Patent number: 10741799
    Abstract: A method for producing a stack, includes the following steps: forming a first layer able to conduct electricity, forming a layer of interest on the first layer, the layer of interest comprising at least one free volume, forming at least one repairing element, each repairing element at least partially filling a free volume, called the free volume of interest, the repairing element comprising at least one insulating layer and leaving free an upper surface of the layer of interest opposite the first layer located outside of the at least one free volume, forming a second layer, able to conduct electricity, on the layer of interest, the second layer covering the repairing element and the free surface, the step of forming the repairing element comprising the following steps: forming, on the layer of interest, a layer that extends at least partially into the free volume of interest, covering at least one portion of the buffer layer located in the volume of interest with a filling layer, the buffer layer and the fill
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, TRIXELL
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Verilhac, Mohammed Benwadih, Simon Charlot
  • Patent number: 10722198
    Abstract: A portable radiological cassette comprises a housing, and a digital detector of incident ionizing radiation, taking the form of a flat panel, the detector being positioned in the housing and comprising a memory space, and being intended to generate a digital image of a patient exposed to the ionizing radiation and with whom an identification code is associated, the digital image being stored in the memory space. The cassette comprises a device for selecting the identification code of the patient, which is intended to write the identification code of the patient in the memory space. The invention also relates to a method for identifying a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Thibaut Wirth, Beatriz Matesanz Garcia, Jacky Dutin
  • Patent number: 10586938
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a stack of layers that are arranged on an electrically insulating substrate, including at least one cathode made of a material of work function ?1; one electron-collecting layer that is arranged above the cathode and that is made of a material of work function ?2 and of sheet resistance R; and one active layer comprising at least one p-type organic semiconductor the energy level of which is HO1, wherein the work function ?2 of the electron-collecting layer and the energy level HO1 of the active layer form a potential barrier able to block the injection of holes from the cathode into the active layer; and the sheet resistance R of the electron-collecting layer is higher than or equal to 108?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, ISORG, TRIXELL
    Inventors: Mohammed Benwadih, Simon Charlot, Jean-Yves Laurent, Jean-Marie Verilhac, Emeline Berthod, Pierre Rohr
  • Patent number: 10574920
    Abstract: An image detector comprises a sensor produced on a first monolithic substrate comprising a set of pixels organized in a matrix on rows and columns and configured to generate signals as a function of a radiation striking the detector, column conductors, each linking the pixels of a same column and intended to convey the signals generated by the pixels, at least one bump contact situated at the periphery of the first substrate and outside of the matrix of pixels and linked to the column conductors. At least two column conductors are connected together on the first substrate outside of the matrix of pixels and the column conductors connected together converge toward the at least one bump contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventors: Thibaut Wirth, Bruno Bosset, Simon Marecaux, Claude Venin, Pierre Rohr
  • Patent number: 10559771
    Abstract: A process for producing a stack of a first electrode/active layer/second electrode, which stack is intended for an electronic device, in particular an organic photodetector or an organic solar cell, the process comprises the following steps: (a) depositing a first conductor layer on the front side of a substrate, in order to form the first electrode; and (b) depositing an active layer taking the form of a thin organic semiconductor layer, this layer including discontinuous zones; wherein this process further comprises the following steps: (d) depositing a resist layer on that side of the stack which is opposite the substrate, which is at least partially transparent; (e) exposing the resist layer via the back side of the substrate; (f) developing the resist layer; and (g) depositing a second conductor layer in order to form the conductive second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, ISORG, TRIXELL
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Verilhac, Simon Charlot
  • Publication number: 20190021690
    Abstract: A radiology assembly and a method for aligning such an assembly, comprising comprises: an x-ray tube for generating a beam of x-rays that is centered on a main emission direction; and substantially perpendicular to the main emission direction, a planar sensor to receive the x-rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: Trixell
    Inventors: Bernard MUNIER, Guillaume JOLY, Fabien VERMONT, Patrick MENEROUD, Olivier SOSNICKI
  • Patent number: 10116324
    Abstract: A sigma-delta converter comprises a sigma-delta modulator suitable for supplying a series of binary samples (BS(k)) representative of an analogue input signal (Vin) to be digitized, in which at least one analogue signal internal to the modulator is weighted by a coefficient that is variable according to a first predetermined law (f).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, TRIXELL
    Inventors: Arnaud Verdant, Marc Arques, William Guicquero
  • Patent number: 9980687
    Abstract: A portable radiological cassette is designed to equip a digital radiological system. The cassette comprises a digital ionizing radiation detector in the form of a flat panel which makes it possible to provide an image which depends on the radiation received, with an electronic board ensuring the control of the digital detector, and a casing ensuring the mechanical protection of the detector and the electronic board. The cassette additionally comprises a flat seating which supports the detector on a first one of its main faces, and supports the electronic board on a second one of its main faces, the two main faces being opposite. The seating is formed by a heterogeneous stack produced such that the surface thermal conductivity of the seating is greater than the transverse thermal conductivity of the seating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TRIXELL
    Inventor: Pierre Rieuvernet
  • Patent number: 9848138
    Abstract: An electronic read circuit for a radiation detector comprises: an element sensitive to the radiation, an injection circuit, able to inject a charge at one terminal of the sensitive element, the injection circuit extending between at least one input terminal and one output terminal, the output terminal being able to be connected to the sensitive element, the injection circuit being able to produce a charge under the effect of a trigger pulse. The injection circuit is able to inject a first charge when an input terminal is connected to a first input potential and a second charge when an input terminal is connected to a second input potential. The circuit comprises means for storing a difference between an output potential of the injection circuit, called equilibrium potential, and a reference potential, such that the second charge depends on the second input potential and on the equilibrium potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, TRIXELL
    Inventors: Amr Habib, Marc Arques