Patents Examined by Gail Kaplan Verbitysky
  • Patent number: 9097562
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flexible strip (1) for a civil engineering structure, that can extend longitudinally along a longitudinal axis and comprises at least one optical fiber (20) enabling a structure to be localized and measured in terms of deformation and/or temperature, where said optical fiber (20) is essentially arranged along the longitudinal axis and is surrounded by an at least partially reinforced thermoplastic polymeric matrix of continuous reinforcement fibers (30), essentially along the longitudinal axis, and where the mass quantity of continuous reinforcement fibers extending essentially along the longitudinal axis, WCF, is higher than, or equal to, ten times the mass quantity of optical fiber(s), WOF. The invention also relates to metrology devices and associated methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: TERRE ARMEE INTERNATIONALE
    Inventors: Nicolas Freitag, Marc Turpin, Philippe Charbonnier