Patents by Inventor Alain Cartelier

Alain Cartelier 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).

  • Patent number: 5978073
    Abstract: The device uses the principle of the Doppler effect laser velocimeter. It comprises emitter and receiver optic guides formed by integrated optics techniques on a single substrate, preferably made of glass. The emitter guides, connected to a light source, produce two mutually coherent beams inclined with respect to one another in such a way as to constitute interference fringes in a measuring volume situated outside the substrate. The receiver guides transmit the light diffused by the passage of particles in movement through the measuring volume to a detection and processing circuit. The substrate is mounted in a support fixed in an orifice of a wall along which a fluid flows transporting the particles to be examined. The substrate comprises a face which comes into contact with the fluid. This device enables the velocity, size and/or number of particles in movement in a fluid moving along a wall to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Schneider Electric SA
    Inventors: Pierre Benech, Alain Cartelier, Isabelle Schanen