Patents by Inventor Alain Buisson

Alain Buisson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230372350
    Abstract: A TRPA1 calcium channel inhibitor for use as a neuroprotectant in the treatment and/or prevention of the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and as an anti-inflammatory in the treatment and/or prevention of neuroinflammatory processes in Alzheimer's disease. In particular, the inhibitor HC030331 of the TRPA1 calcium channel for its use as a neuroprotectant in the treatment and/or prevention of the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and as an anti-inflammatory in the treatment and/or the prevention of the neuroinflammatory processes of Alzheimer's disease. A pharmaceutical composition comprising at least the inhibitor of the invention and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE
    Inventors: Mireille ALBRIEUX, Adrien PAUMIER, Anthony BOSSON, Alain BUISSON, Sylvie BOISSEAU
  • Patent number: 11415292
    Abstract: A safety-related signalling device for a motor vehicle including a light guide, a first light source capable of emitting a light beam that illuminates a lateral face of the light guide to allow the light beam to propagate in the light guide, and a reflective screen having a front face located at a distance and across from a rear face of the light guide. The light guide is translucent and light-coloured, and the reflective screen promotes diffuse reflection of the light from the light guide so as to homogenize and intensify, on a front face, the light emitted by the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MARELLI AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING FRANCE
    Inventors: Alain Buisson, Sean Patterson
  • Patent number: 11383412
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a shell, comprising a decorative film, implementing a first step of molding a plastic material so as to form a first element. The invention is characterized in that the manufacturing process implements a second step that consists in applying a decorative film against a front face of the first element, then a third step of overmolding a plastic material over at least one portion of the decorative film and of the first element so as to hold the detective film between the first element and a second element of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MARELLI AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING FRANCE
    Inventors: Alain Buisson, Franck Arrivet
  • Patent number: 10976480
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device for a signal light of a motor vehicle, generating increased light propagation in a light guide. To this end, the lighting device comprises a light guide defined by a front face, a light source illuminating a first end of the light guide, and a first mask which is positioned in front of the light source and a part of the front face of the light guide, such that the first mask hides the light source from an observer looking at the front face of the light guide. Advantageously, the front face of the light guide, facing the first mask, is at least partially covered by a separating layer reflecting the light emitted by the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MARELLI AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING FRANCE
    Inventors: Alain Buisson, Erwan Provot, Sean Patterson
  • Publication number: 20210062993
    Abstract: A safety-related signalling device for a motor vehicle including a light guide, a first light source capable of emitting a light beam that illuminates a lateral face of the light guide to allow the light beam to propagate in the light guide, and a reflective screen having a front face located at a distance and across from a rear face of the light guide. The light guide is translucent and light-coloured, and the reflective screen promotes diffuse reflection of the light from the light guide so as to homogenize and intensify, on a front face, the light emitted by the light guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: MARELLI AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING FRANCE
    Inventors: Alain Buisson, Sean Patterson
  • Publication number: 20200164557
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a shell, comprising a decorative film, implementing a first step of molding a plastic material so as to form a first element. The invention is characterized in that the manufacturing process implements a second step that consists in applying a decorative film against a front face of the first element, then a third step of overmolding a plastic material over at least one portion of the decorative film and of the first element so as to hold the detective film between the first element and a second element of the shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING REAR LAMPS FRANCE
    Inventors: Alain Buisson, Franck Arrivet
  • Publication number: 20200096693
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device for a signal light of a motor vehicle, generating increased light propagation in a light guide. To this end, the lighting device comprises a light guide defined by a front face, a light source illuminating a first end of the light guide, and a first mask which is positioned in front of the light source and a part of the front face of the light guide, such that the first mask hides the light source from an observer looking at the front face of the light guide. Advantageously, the front face of the light guide, facing the first mask, is at least partially covered by a separating layer reflecting the light emitted by the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING REAR LAMPS FRANCE
    Inventors: Alain Buisson, Erwan Provot, Sean Patterson
  • Patent number: 9506619
    Abstract: An optical device is incorporated into an external part of a motor vehicle and comprises at least one sub-assembly including a light curtain or light curtain plus light guide and, on either side thereof, transparent plates each of which has at least one part being transparent and at least one other part being semi-transparent. At least one light source is connected to an electric source and emits rays of light that spread in a thickness of the light curtain or light curtain plus light guide. The sub-assembly and light source are incorporated into a housing, and the optical device collaborates with at least one lamp incorporated into a body-shell of the vehicle or LED on a suitable plate included in a sub-housing incorporated into the housing and emits rays of light through at least a portion of the light curtain or light curtain plus light guide that is transparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING REAR LAMPS FRANCE S.A.S.
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Publication number: 20160161079
    Abstract: Illuminating device, especially for an automotive vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Patent number: 9140422
    Abstract: An automotive light is provided having a substantially tub-shaped rear casing designed to fit to the vehicle body and a front lenticular half-shell which closes the opening of the rear casing and has at least one portion of transparent or semi-transparent material. The front lenticular half-shell includes a rear portion substantially aligned with the rear of the vehicle body, and a lateral portion substantially aligned with the side of the vehicle body. The automotive light also includes a strip light source designed to emit light when powered electrically and a light guide plate of photoconductive material shaped to substantially match the profile of the strip light source and housed inside the rear casing in a position substantially perpendicular to the rear portion of the front lenticular half-shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Frank Arrivet, Alain Buisson, Franco Marcori, Benoit Samson
  • Patent number: 9121564
    Abstract: A device and corresponding module are for a signaling light and/or lighting an exterior or interior ambient of a motor-vehicle passenger compartment including a type of light source. The device comprises an optical assembly of a first reflector including a mirror and a second reflector including a semi-transparent mirror. Light emitted by an LED is diffused in a curtain diffuser of a transparent material. Planes or mid-planes of the mirror, the semi-transparent mirror, and the diffuser are mutually parallel. Light transmitted or reflected by the assembly is transmitted and visible to an observer from a surface of the second reflector that is opposite to that facing other elements of the assembly. The diffuser includes a lighting sub-assembly arranged in space between the mirror and semi-transparent mirror and having a transparent optical material and a light source arranged for emission of light rays propagated within a thickness of the optical material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING REAR LAMPS FRANCE S.A.S.
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Patent number: 8943900
    Abstract: A system and method for determining pressure differences of a fluid flowing through a differential pressure conduit positioned in a wellbore. The system comprises a first pressure measurement circuit positioned at a first pressure measuring station and including a first pressure sensor to generate a first pressure measurement signal indicative of the pressure measured by the first pressure sensor at a first signal point, and a second pressure measurement circuit positioned at a second pressure measuring station and including a second pressure sensor to generate a second pressure measurement signal indicative of the pressure measured by the second pressure sensor at a second signal point. The calculation of the pressure differential between the first and second pressure measuring stations is based on the first and second pressure measurement signals taken or read from the first and second signal points, wherein the first and third second points are symmetrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Fadhel Rezgui, Alain Buisson, Eric Paul Donzier
  • Patent number: 8939622
    Abstract: A device is for a lighting/signaling assembly of an automotive vehicle. The assembly includes a substantially transparent optical material and at least one light source of an “LED” type arranged for emitting light rays propagating within a thickness of the optical material. The device comprises a plate of substantially transparent optical material forming a screen and including at least one substantially bilateral elongated bulge defining a substantially circular overall substantially perpendicular cross-section and substantially mean longitudinal axis in a substantially mid-plane of the bulge and being adapted to form a light guide. At least one LED is disposed at at least one end of the light guide and defines a main axis of the LED that is substantially orthogonal to a substantially longitudinal axis of the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Rear Lamps France S.A.S.
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Publication number: 20150009692
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising LEDs secured to a printed circuit board (PCB). The device is characterised in that a system is positioned substantially perpendicularly to the LEDs (5) in front of the illuminating face of the LED, said system comprising parallel opaque plates (1, 2), of which at least one of the faces is a light colour, preferably white. According to the invention, at least two of the aforementioned parallel plates rest on the PCB (4) and/or on the periphery thereof, on each side of at least one LED borne by said PCB, such as to define a channel having a base in which the LEDs are distributed; the wall-forming plates are deployed substantially perpendicularly to the mid-plane of the PCB such as to channel the light emitted by the LEDs, which leaves the device on the side of the plates opposite the above-mentioned side resting on or around the PCB; and the at least one light-coloured or white face of the plates faces into the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Publication number: 20140376247
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for a motor vehicle signal light (1), of the type having built-in light guides (3) and comprising at least one LED (2) as a light source. The device (1) comprises a part (5) made from translucent material, positioned in front of the guide (3) in the direction of travel of the diffused light and provided with graining to provide a light function of uniform colour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Rear Lamps France S.A.S.
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Publication number: 20140247616
    Abstract: An automotive light is provided having a substantially tub-shaped rear casing designed to fit to the vehicle body and a front lenticular half-shell which closes the opening of the rear casing and has at least one portion of transparent or semi-transparent material. The front lenticular half-shell includes a rear portion substantially aligned with the rear of the vehicle body, and a lateral portion substantially aligned with the side of the vehicle body. The automotive light also includes a strip light source designed to emit light when powered electrically and a light guide plate of photoconductive material shaped to substantially match the profile of the strip light source and housed inside the rear casing in a position substantially perpendicular to the rear portion of the front lenticular half-shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING ITALIA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Frank Arrivet, Alain Buisson, Franco Marcori, Benoit Samson
  • Publication number: 20130182450
    Abstract: An optical device is incorporated into an external part of a motor vehicle and comprises at least one sub-assembly including a light curtain or light curtain plus light guide and, on either side thereof, transparent plates each of which has at least one part being transparent and at least one other part being semi-transparent. At least one light source is connected to an electric source and emits rays of light that spread in a thickness of the light curtain or light curtain plus light guide. The sub-assembly and light source are incorporated into a housing, and the optical device collaborates with at least one lamp incorporated into a body-shell of the vehicle or LED on a suitable plate included in a sub-housing incorporated into the housing and emits rays of light through at least a portion of the light curtain or light curtain plus light guide that is transparent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING REAR LAMPS FRANCE S.A.S.
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Publication number: 20130010487
    Abstract: A device and corresponding module are for a signaling light and/or lighting an exterior or interior ambient of a motor-vehicle passenger compartment including a type of light source. The device comprises an optical assembly of a first reflector including a mirror and a second reflector including a semi-transparent mirror. Light emitted by an LED is diffused in a curtain diffuser of a transparent material. Planes or mid-planes of the mirror, the semi-transparent mirror, and the diffuser are mutually parallel. Light transmitted or reflected by the assembly is transmitted and visible to an observer from a surface of the second reflector that is opposite to that facing other elements of the assembly. The diffuser includes a lighting sub-assembly arranged in space between the mirror and semi-transparent mirror and having a transparent optical material and a light source arranged for emission of light rays propagated within a thickness of the optical material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Publication number: 20130003397
    Abstract: A device is for a lighting/signaling assembly of an automotive vehicle. The assembly includes a substantially transparent optical material and at least one light source of an “LED” type arranged for emitting light rays propagating within a thickness of the optical material. The device comprises a plate of substantially transparent optical material forming a screen and including at least one substantially bilateral elongated bulge defining a substantially circular overall substantially perpendicular cross-section and substantially mean longitudinal axis in a substantially mid-plane of the bulge and being adapted to form a light guide. At least one LED is disposed at at least one end of the light guide and defines a main axis of the LED that is substantially orthogonal to a substantially longitudinal axis of the light guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Alain Buisson
  • Publication number: 20120216628
    Abstract: A system and method for determining pressure differences of a fluid flowing through a differential pressure conduit positioned in a wellbore. The system comprises a first pressure measurement circuit positioned at a first pressure measuring station and including a first pressure sensor to generate a first pressure measurement signal indicative of the pressure measured by the first pressure sensor at a first signal point, and a second pressure measurement circuit positioned at a second pressure measuring station and including a second pressure sensor to generate a second pressure measurement signal indicative of the pressure measured by the second pressure sensor at a second signal point. The calculation of the pressure differential between the first and second pressure measuring stations is based on the first and second pressure measurement signals taken or read from the first and second signal points, wherein the first and third second points are symmetrical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Fadhel Rezgui, Alain Buisson, Eric Paul Donzier