Patents by Inventor Alexis Gaveau

Alexis Gaveau 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: 20200216149
    Abstract: An item of equipment for producing a floating photovoltaic installation, of modular design, which includes float modules constituted, in whole or in part, of plastic casings, confining an air volume, having a neck with an opening, blocked by a stopper, structural modules, support elements, and possibly, connecting modules. The structural modules and/or the connecting modules include lugs intended to face one another for the assembly of the modules, and wherein the float modules are configured such that the assembly of the lugs facing one another is obtained, in whole or in part, by inserting the neck through the lugs, the stopper not present, then locking the assembly by the placing of the stopper blocking the opening of the neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: CIEL ET TERRE INTERNATIONAL
    Inventor: Alexis GAVEAU
  • Publication number: 20180026577
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for attaching a solar panel including at least two retaining elements, suitable for retaining a panel by engaging with two opposing parts of the solar panel, at least one of the retaining elements being movable in a direction defined by a guide system and in such a way as to allow an adjustment of the spacing between the two retaining elements. The device includes: an assembly including a fixed support and the mobile retaining element, the mobile retaining element and the fixed support consisting respectively of two synthetic parts, in particular two plastic parts, the guide system being produced by mutually engaging structures between the mobile retaining element and the fixed support produced as a one-piece component with the parts forming the fixed support and the mobile retaining element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Alexis GAVEAU, Florian GOFFART
  • Patent number: 9849945
    Abstract: A floating support device (1) for a photovoltaic panel, includes: a structure (2) including coupling elements (3) for coupling to other floating devices in such a way as to allow a network (R) of floating devices to be formed; one or a plurality of floats (4), intended to ensure that the device does float, which are rigidly connected to the structure (2); and elements for holding at least one photovoltaic panel (P), and in which the structure is an element separate from the float(s) so as to allow forces to be transmitted between the floating devices of the network without transmitting the forces from the network to the float(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: CIEL ET TERRE INTERNATIONAL
    Inventor: Alexis Gaveau
  • Publication number: 20160368577
    Abstract: A floating support device (1) for a photovoltaic panel, includes: a structure (2) including coupling elements (3) for coupling to other floating devices in such a way as to allow a network (R) of floating devices to be formed; one or a plurality of floats (4), intended to ensure that the device does float, which are rigidly connected to the structure (2); and elements for holding at least one photovoltaic panel (P), and in which the structure is an element separate from the float(s) so as to allow forces to be transmitted between the floating devices of the network without transmitting the forces from the network to the float(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Alexis GAVEAU
  • Patent number: 9314904
    Abstract: A device (1) for attaching a framed or unframed photovoltaic panel (P), includes holding members (2) capable of holding a photovoltaic panel by engaging with two parallel edges of the photovoltaic panel or indeed two parallel wings of the frame of the photovoltaic panel. The device includes the holding members including elements (3-6) engaging with the two parallel edges of the photovoltaic panel, or indeed with the two parallel wings of the frame of the photovoltaic panel, each element having a slot (7) intended to receive a wing of the frame of a framed photovoltaic panel, or indeed to receive the edge of an unframed photovoltaic panel, in such a way as to ensure the photovoltaic panel is blocked at least in the direction perpendicular to the photovoltaic panel and in a direction parallel to the plane of the photovoltaic panel and perpendicular to the axis of the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: CIEL ET TERRE INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Manuel Veloso, Alexis Gaveau
  • Patent number: 9132889
    Abstract: A device (1) for supporting a photovoltaic panel essentially includes a sealed plastic jacket (2), the plastic jacket (2) forming a lower wall (3), an upper wall (4), and four sidewalls (5, 6, 7, 8), the device including elements for securing a photovoltaic panel to the upper wall (4) of the plastic jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: CIEL ET TERRE INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Manuel Veloso, Alexis Gaveau
  • Publication number: 20150075587
    Abstract: A device (1) for attaching a framed or unframed photovoltaic panel (P), includes holding members (2) capable of holding a photovoltaic panel by engaging with two parallel edges of the photovoltaic panel or indeed two parallel wings of the frame of the photovoltaic panel. The device includes the holding members including elements (3-6) engaging with the two parallel edges of the photovoltaic panel, or indeed with the two parallel wings of the frame of the photovoltaic panel, each element having a slot (7) intended to receive a wing of the frame of a framed photovoltaic panel, or indeed to receive the edge of an unframed photovoltaic panel, in such a way as to ensure the photovoltaic panel is blocked at least in the direction perpendicular to the photovoltaic panel and in a direction parallel to the plane of the photovoltaic panel and perpendicular to the axis of the slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: CIEL ET TERRE INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Manuel Veloso, Alexis Gaveau
  • Publication number: 20140224165
    Abstract: A device (1) for supporting a photovoltaic panel essentially includes a sealed plastic jacket (2), the plastic jacket (2) forming a lower wall (3), an upper wall (4), and four sidewalls (5, 6, 7, 8), the device including elements for securing a photovoltaic panel to the upper wall (4) of the plastic jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: CIEL ET TERRE INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Manuel Veloso, Alexis Gaveau