Patents by Inventor Alain Nguyen
Alain Nguyen 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).
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Patent number: 11420566Abstract: A trim element having a body and a covering element extending over part of the body. The covering element includes at least two substantially rigid panels connected to one another by a flexible branch forming a bending line of the panels relative to one another and fastened to the body by a fastening edge forming a hinge between the panels and the body, the covering element being deformable around the bending line. The covering element hinges between a retracted position, in which the panels of the covering element are pressed against the body, and a deployed position, in which the panels are moved away from the body, the covering element defining a storage volume with the body in the deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: FAURECIA INTERIEUR INDUSTRIEInventors: Cédric Habert, Alain Nguyen
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Publication number: 20200284475Abstract: The present invention discloses groundwater heat transfer system comprising a primary pump suspended in a well and connected to at least one water supply pipe, a heat exchange system being connected to said primary pump via a secondary pump, a return pipe being connected to the heat exchange system and returning water from the heat exchange system to the well, wherein the primary pump provides motive pressure to a primary nozzle of a liquid jet ejector submerged in the well, which entrains filtered groundwater through a secondary nozzle of the liquid jet ejector, wherein the secondary pump, placed after the primary pump and before the heat exchange system, provides the remaining system head.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCESInventors: Alain NGUYEN, Hamed BASHIRI
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Publication number: 20200122650Abstract: A trim element having a body and a covering element extending over part of the body. The covering element includes at least two substantially rigid panels connected to one another by a flexible branch forming a bending line of the panels relative to one another and fastened to the body by a fastening edge forming a hinge between the panels and the body, the covering element being deformable around the bending line. The covering element hinges between a retracted position, in which the panels of the covering element are pressed against the body, and a deployed position, in which the panels are moved away from the body, the covering element defining a storage volume with the body in the deployed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Cédric HABERT, Alain NGUYEN
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Patent number: 10539015Abstract: Apparatus and methods for assessing contamination of formation fluid. A downhole sampling tool is operated to draw fluid from a subterranean formation into a chamber of the downhole sampling tool. The downhole sampling tool is then operated to discharge the fluid from the chamber while monitoring pressure of the fluid and volume of the chamber. Contamination of the discharged fluid is assessed based on the monitored fluid pressure and the monitored chamber volume.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Alain Nguyen-Thuyet
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Patent number: 10107080Abstract: A downhole tool for conveyance within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation. The downhole tool comprises a moveable member comprising a first surface defining a moveable boundary of a first chamber, and a second surface defining a moveable boundary of a second chamber. The downhole tool further comprises hydraulic circuitry selectively operable to establish reciprocating motion of the moveable member by exposing the first chamber to an alternating one of a first pressure and a second pressure that is substantially less than the first pressure.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Peter Airey, Alain Nguyen-Thuyet
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Publication number: 20170074095Abstract: Apparatus and methods for assessing contamination of formation fluid. A downhole sampling tool is operated to draw fluid from a subterranean formation into a chamber of the downhole sampling tool. The downhole sampling tool is then operated to discharge the fluid from the chamber while monitoring pressure of the fluid and volume of the chamber. Contamination of the discharged fluid is assessed based on the monitored fluid pressure and the monitored chamber volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Alain Nguyen-Thuyet
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Patent number: 9371728Abstract: The techniques herein relate to a pressure compensation system for a sensor in a wellbore having a wellbore fluid therein. The system includes a downhole tool (104) and at least one pressure compensator (112) positionable therein. The pressure compensator includes a first compensating fluid section having a first compensating fluid (238) therein, a first pressure compensation section having a first pressure regulation device (226) for adjusting a compensation pressure of the first compensating fluid based on a wellbore pressure of the wellbore fluid, at least one second compensating fluid section having a second compensating fluid (252) therein, and at least one second pressure compensation section having a second pressure regulation device (246) for adjusting a sensor pressure of the second compensating fluid based on the compensation pressure of the first compensating fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Gregoire Jacob, Alain Nguyen-Thuyet
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Publication number: 20150285043Abstract: A downhole tool for conveyance within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation. The downhole tool comprises a moveable member comprising a first surface defining a moveable boundary of a first chamber, and a second surface defining a moveable boundary of a second chamber. The downhole tool further comprises hydraulic circuitry selectively operable to establish reciprocating motion of the moveable member by exposing the first chamber to an alternating one of a first pressure and a second pressure that is substantially less than the first pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Peter Airey, Alain Nguyen-Thuyet
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Publication number: 20140318817Abstract: The techniques herein relate to a probe for forming a seal between a downhole tool and a wall of a wellbore. The probe includes a probe inlet extending from the downhole tool for fluid communication with a subterranean formation, a base positionable about the downhole tool about the probe inlet, a packer positionable on the base for forming a seal with the wellbore wall, and a raised packer support and/or packer stopper for supporting the packer as the packer is compressed against the wellbore wall. The packer may have an inlet channel extending therethrough for receiving the probe inlet. The raised packer support can extend from the base for supporting the packer, and the packer may have a support channel extending a distance therein for receiving the raised packer support. The packer stopper can extend from the base about a perimeter of the packer with an expansion gap defined therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Alain Nguyen-Thuyet, Lionel Belair, Bruno Tesson, Sebastien Rodrigues
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Publication number: 20140284050Abstract: The techniques herein relate to a pressure compensation system for a sensor in a wellbore having a wellbore fluid therein. The system includes a downhole tool (104) and at least one pressure compensator (112) positionable therein. The pressure compensator includes a first compensating fluid section having a first compensating fluid (238) therein, a first pressure compensation section having a first pressure regulation device (226) for adjusting a compensation pressure of the first compensating fluid based on a wellbore pressure of the wellbore fluid, at least one second compensating fluid section having a second compensating fluid (252) therein, and at least one second pressure compensation section having a second pressure regulation device (246) for adjusting a sensor pressure of the second compensating fluid based on the compensation pressure of the first compensating fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Gregoire Jacob, Alain Nguyen-Thuyet
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Patent number: 8726725Abstract: Techniques for determining at least one downhole parameter of a wellsite are provided. A sensor apparatus is operatively connectable to a downhole tool deployable into a borehole of the wellsite, the downhole tool having a conduit system for receiving downhole fluid. The sensor apparatus has a housing, at least one gauge, a gauge carrying body positionable in the housing for receiving the gauge, and a flowline extending through the gauge carrying body for operatively connecting the conduit system to the gauge whereby parameters of the downhole fluid are measured. The gauge has at least one pressure sensor and at least one temperature sensor. The gauge carrying body has a pressure resistant block and a thermal absorber positionable about the gauge.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Alain Nguyen-Thuyet, Pierre-Marie Petit
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Publication number: 20120227480Abstract: Techniques for determining at least one downhole parameter of a wellsite are provided. A sensor apparatus is operatively connectable to a downhole tool deployable into a borehole of the wellsite, the downhole tool having a conduit system for receiving downhole fluid. The sensor apparatus has a housing, at least one gauge, a gauge carrying body positionable in the housing for receiving the gauge, and a flowline extending through the gauge carrying body for operatively connecting the conduit system to the gauge whereby parameters of the downhole fluid are measured. The gauge has at least one pressure sensor and at least one temperature sensor. The gauge carrying body has a pressure resistant block and a thermal absorber positionable about the gauge.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventors: Alain Nguyen-Thuyet, Pierre-Marie Petit
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Publication number: 20120178527Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a media recognition game. In an illustrative embodiment, the game is provided on a smartphone application. The application can be provided on a graphical user interface. The smartphone can be connected to, but is not required, a network interface for communicating with an online service such as the Zune Marketplace®, Rhapsody® or iTunes®. In operation, the application can retrieve media from the online service or local data storage. In turn, a portion of the media can be played to the user. The user can then provide, to the best of their ability, an identifier for the media. The application can determine whether the user was correct and display a message dependent on whether the user's identification was right.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Inventors: Brian Kaskie, Alain Nguyen
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Patent number: 6191670Abstract: A duplexer for microwave signals that requires no system of settings by screws. The duplexer includes two tunnels, each having a longitudinal passage and compartments demarcated by transversal partition walls. The compartments, the longitudinal passages and the common part are hollowed out in the plane upper surface of a monolithic block. The tunnels are closed on the top by a lid that adheres uniformly to the plane surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Inventor: Alain Nguyen
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Patent number: 5913252Abstract: A pyrotechnic firing device for tools connected to a firing plunger movably mounted in a launch tube. The device consists of an inner barrel or frame (1), and a firing gas generator (9) housed in a modular breech (7) at one end of the launch tube (5) secured to a weight (3) which receives the recoil on the breech (7) during firing and is connected to one end of a damping cylinder (6) between the frame (1) and the weight (3). The device is useful as an easily adaptable and convertible firing device capable of being fitted with a wide variety of tools.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1997Date of Patent: June 15, 1999Assignee: Bernard CastagnerInventors: Bernard Castagner, Jean Pierre Boyault, Dominique Dufaut, Alain Nguyen, Claude Waitzenegger