Patents by Inventor Alain Rousseau

Alain Rousseau 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: 20240263358
    Abstract: The invention relates to a textile elementary monofilament consisting of a polyester, said textile elementary monofilament having a melting point Tm of greater than or equal to 240° C., a tenacity of greater than or equal to 2.5 cN/tex and an elongation at break of greater than or equal to 10%, and also to a process for producing such a monofilament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: MARC SUTTER, CHRISTOPHE LE CLERC, MÉLISSA POLONI, MARION COLELLA, JULIEN BERNARD, ALAIN ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20240183873
    Abstract: A conveyor system including a conveyor unit including a carriage guide element defining a conveyor track, and a self-propelled conveyor carriage movable along the conveyor track and configured to move a container holder along a travel path; and a plurality of receiving locations arranged along the travel path. The self-propelled conveyor carriage includes two gripping arms mounted movable between a gripping position in which the gripping arms are configured to grip and lift a container holder arranged in one of the receiving locations, and a release position in which the gripping arms are configured to release the container holder and deposit the container holder in one of the receiving locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Alain ROUSSEAU, Laurent CROISÉ
  • Patent number: 11953421
    Abstract: The analysis method includes a step of measuring cytometry parameters for each biological cell contained in a biological sample; a step of determining, for each biological cell of the biological sample, a point in a N-dimensional space whose coordinates are defined depending on the cytometry parameters measured for the corresponding biological cell, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 3; a step of automatic clustering of the points into different cell clusters depending on the measured cytometry parameters, so as to define a sample cluster file; and a step of comparing the sample cluster files with reference cluster files, each of the reference cluster files being defined from cytometry parameters of a respective pathological or abnormal biological sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DIAGNOSTICA STAGO
    Inventor: Alain Rousseau
  • Patent number: 11867709
    Abstract: The conveying system includes a support guide element defining a guide track, the support guide element being configured to receive a containers support and guide said containers support in translation along the guide track; and a self-propelled conveying carriage displaceable along a conveying track extending along the support guide element, the self-propelled conveying carriage comprising a drive element movably mounted between at least one drive position in which the drive element is configured to transmit a drive movement to the containers support so received on the support guide element, and a release position in which the drive element is configured to release the containers support, the self-propelled conveying carriage being configured to displace the containers support in translation along the guide track when the drive element is in the drive position and the self-propelled conveying carriage is displaced along the conveying track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ARTEION
    Inventor: Alain Rousseau
  • Patent number: 11859046
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastic polymer comprising at least one 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol unit (A), at least one alicyclic diol unit (B) other than the 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol units (A) and at least one high-viscosity terephthalic acid unit (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ROQUETTE FRERES
    Inventors: Nicolas Jacquel, René Saint-Loup, Jean-Pierre Pascault, Françoise Fenouillot, Alain Rousseau
  • Patent number: 11718765
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crosslinkable composition for forming a polyurethane coating on different types of substrate. The present invention relates in particular to a polyurethane composition comprising isosorbide as a diol chain extender, and to the polyurethane coating obtained from this composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Roquette Freres
    Inventors: Nicolas Jacquel, René Saint-Loup, Jean-Pierre Pascault, Héloïse Blache, Alain Rousseau, Françoise Mechin, Etienne Fleury
  • Publication number: 20220314225
    Abstract: A container for a reactive product including a container body having a neck delimiting a neck opening; a closure member comprising a puncturable closure membrane which tightly seals off the neck opening; a suction tube located in the container body and comprising a first end portion attached to the closure member and a second end portion extending in the proximity of the bottom of the container body; and a cap attached to the neck and comprising a passage opening which is located facing the puncturable closure membrane and the first end portion of the suction tube, the cap being configured so as to enable the penetration of a sampling needle through the passage opening and the puncturable closure membrane such that the sampling needle is fluidly connected to the suction tube, and so as to enable the penetration of a venting needle through the passage opening and the puncturable closure membrane such that the venting needle is fluidly connected to an internal volume of the container body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Alain ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20220113326
    Abstract: The conveying system includes a support guide element defining a guide track, the support guide element being configured to receive a containers support and guide said containers support in translation along the guide track; and a self-propelled conveying carriage displaceable along a conveying track extending along the support guide element, the self-propelled conveying carriage comprising a drive element movably mounted between at least one drive position in which the drive element is configured to transmit a drive movement to the containers support so received on the support guide element, and a release position in which the drive element is configured to release the containers support, the self-propelled conveying carriage being configured to displace the containers support in translation along the guide track when the drive element is in the drive position and the self-propelled conveying carriage is displaced along the conveying track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: Alain ROUSSEAU
  • Patent number: 11237181
    Abstract: The conveying system includes a support guide element defining a guide track, the support guide element being configured to receive a containers support and guide said containers support in translation along the guide track; and a self-propelled conveying carriage displaceable along a conveying track extending along the support guide element, the self-propelled conveying carriage comprising a drive element movably mounted between at least one drive position in which the drive element is configured to transmit a drive movement to the containers support received on the support guide element, and a release position in which the drive element is configured to release the containers support, the self-propelled conveying carriage being configured to displace the containers support in translation along the guide track when the drive element is in the drive position and the self-propelled conveying carriage is displaced along the conveying track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ARTEION
    Inventor: Alain Rousseau
  • Publication number: 20210063426
    Abstract: The drive device includes a guide element defining a guide track, the guide element being configured to receive and guide a cuvettes strip in translation along the guide track, and a drive belt configured to displace the cuvettes strip in translation along the guide track when the cuvettes strip is received in the guide element. The drive belt is disposed below the guide track and is configured to cooperate with lower portions of the cuvettes of the cuvettes strip when the cuvettes strip is received in the guide element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventor: Alain ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20200393356
    Abstract: The analysis method includes a step of measuring cytometry parameters for each biological cell contained in a biological sample; a step of determining, for each biological cell of the biological sample, a point in a N-dimensional space whose coordinates are defined depending on the cytometry parameters measured for the corresponding biological cell, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 3; a step of automatic clustering of the points into different cell clusters depending on the measured cytometry parameters, so as to define a sample cluster file; and a step of comparing the sample cluster files with reference cluster files, each of the reference cluster files being defined from cytometry parameters of a respective pathological or abnormal biological sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventor: Alain ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20200339835
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crosslinkable composition for forming a polyurethane coating on different types of substrates. The present invention relates in particular to a polyurethane composition with a high biosourced monomer content, comprising isosorbide as a diol chain extender and a pentamethylene diisocyanate trimer; the invention also relates to the polyurethane coating obtained from this composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Nicolas JACQUEL, René SAINT-LOUP, Jean-Pierre PASCAULT, Héloïse BLACHE, Alain ROUSSEAU, Françoise MECHIN, Etienne FLEURY
  • Publication number: 20200339834
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crosslinkable composition for forming a polyurethane coating on different types of substrate. The present invention relates in particular to a polyurethane composition comprising isosorbide as a diol chain extender, and to the polyurethane coating obtained from this composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Nicolas JACQUEL, René SAINT-LOUP, Jean-Pierre PASCAULT, Héloïse BLACHE, Alain ROUSSEAU, Françoise MECHIN, Etienne FLEURY
  • Patent number: 10745520
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing aromatic polyimides, comprising the following steps: (a) preparation of one or more solid salt(s) by reacting one or more aromatic tetracarboxylic acid(s) and one or more diamine(s) according to a mole ratio ranging from 0.95 to 1.05; (b) drying of the solid salt(s), (c) addition, to the dry salt resulting from step (b), of one or more compound(s) (C) comprising one or more group(s) chosen from a carboxylic acid group, an anhydride group, an ester group and an acyl chloride group; (d) solid-state polymerization of said solid salt(s) in the presence of the compound(s) (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON1, UNIVERSITE JEAN MONNET SAINT-ETIENNE, Rhodia Operations, Institut National Des Sciences Appliquees De Lyon
    Inventors: Stéphane Jeol, René Rossin, Vincent Mollet, Benjamin Paci, Françoise Fenouillot-Rimlinger, Alain Rousseau
  • Publication number: 20200166534
    Abstract: The conveying system includes a support guide element defining a guide track, the support guide element being configured to receive a containers support and guide said containers support in translation along the guide track; and a self-propelled conveying carriage displaceable along a conveying track extending along the support guide element, the self-propelled conveying carriage comprising a drive element movably mounted between at least one drive position in which the drive element is configured to transmit a drive movement to the containers support received on the support guide element, and a release position in which the drive element is configured to release the containers support, the self-propelled conveying carriage being configured to displace the containers support in translation along the guide track when the drive element is in the drive position and the self-propelled conveying carriage is displaced along the conveying track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventor: Alain ROUSSEAU
  • Patent number: 10605801
    Abstract: This determination method comprises the steps consisting of providing a reaction vessel (2) containing a blood sample (33) and a ferromagnetic ball (11) placed on a raceway (9) provided in the bottom of the reaction vessel (2), subjecting the ball (11) to a magnetic field so as to move the ball along the raceway (9) in an oscillatory motion, exposing the blood sample to an incident light beam (36), detecting a light beam (38) transmitted through the reaction vessel (2) and coming from the incident light beam (36) in such a way as to provide a measurement signal, carrying out a first processing of the measurement signal in such a way as to provide a first signal representative of the variation of at least one physical quantity representative of the movement of the ball (11), carrying out a second processing of the measurement signal in such a way as to provide a second signal representative of the variation of at least one optical property of the blood sample, determining a first value of the coagulation time
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: DIAGNOSTICA STAGO
    Inventors: Alain Rousseau, Norbert Brutt, Bertrand Guyon
  • Patent number: 10400062
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing a polyester containing at least one 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol unit comprising: •a step of introducing, into a reactor, monomers comprising at least one monomer (A) that is a diacid or a diester and at least one monomer (B) that is a 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol; •a step of introducing, into the reactor, a catalytic system comprising either a catalyst comprising the element germanium and a catalyst comprising the element aluminum, or a catalyst comprising the elements germanium and aluminum, or a mixture of said two catalysts; •a step of polymerizing said monomers to form the polyester; •a step of recovering a polyester composition comprising the polyester and the catalytic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: ROQUETTE FRERES
    Inventors: Nicolas Jacquel, René Saint-Loup, Françoise Fenouillot-Rimlinger, Jean-Pierre Pascault, Alain Rousseau
  • Patent number: 10267722
    Abstract: A flow cytometry system including a measuring chamber, an injection device arranged to inject a flow of biological particles to be analyzed in the measuring chamber, an evacuation device arranged to evacuate outside of the cytometry system the flow of biological particles injected in the measuring chamber, a measuring set arranged to measure at least one optical property of the biological particles to be analyzed, the measuring set including an emission device arranged to emit a light beam in the direction of the measuring chamber and capable of crossing the flow of biological particles, and at least one collecting device arranged to collect light rays coming from the measuring chamber, where the flow cytometry system further includes a support on which the injection device, the evacuation device, the emission device and the at least one collecting device are mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: ARTEION
    Inventor: Alain Rousseau
  • Publication number: 20180355109
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing aromatic polyimides, comprising the following steps: (a) preparation of one or more solid salt(s) by reacting one or more aromatic tetracarboxylic acid(s) and one or more diamine(s) according to a mole ratio ranging from 0.95 to 1.05; (b) drying of the solid salt(s), (c) addition, to the dry salt resulting from step (b), of one or more compound(s) (C) comprising one or more group(s) chosen from a carboxylic acid group, an anhydride group, an ester group and an acyl chloride group; (d) solid-state polymerization of said solid salt(s) in the presence of the compound(s) (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Stéphane JEOL, René ROSSIN, Vincent MOLLET, Benjamin PACI, Francoise FENOUILLOT-RIMLINGER, Alain ROUSSEAU
  • Publication number: 20180155493
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastic polymer comprising at least one 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol unit (A), at least one alicyclic diol unit (B) other than the 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol units (A) and at least one high-viscosity terephthalic acid unit (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: Roquette Freres
    Inventors: Nicolas Jacquel, René Saint-Loup, Jean-Pierre Pascault, Françoise Fenouillot, Alain Rousseau