Patents by Inventor Andre Rivaud

Andre Rivaud 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: 8777470
    Abstract: This interior wall includes at least one cladding panel (4) covered with a luminous fabric (6), lying in a substantially vertical plane and having a front face receiving the luminous fabric, a rear face opposite the front face, a bottom edge, and a top edge. The luminous fabric includes optical fibers (7) extending substantially vertically over the front face of the first cladding panel and first ends of which are bent around the bottom edge of the first cladding panel toward its rear face. A casing (8) accommodates light sources and includes connecting elements (10) for the ends of the optical fibers (7) of the luminous fabric bent around the bottom edge of the first cladding panel. The first casing (8) is fastened to the first cladding panel and is supported by feet (20) extending beyond the bottom edge of the first cladding panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: BPB Limited
    Inventors: Sylvie Perez, Yves Benkemoun, Patrick Truquin, Andre Rivaud
  • Patent number: 8534891
    Abstract: This board is a complex including a rigid support covered with a luminous fabric. The rigid support has a front face, a rear face, a first edge, and a second edge opposite the first edge. The luminous fabric at least partly covers the front face of the rigid support, extending from the first edge toward the second edge, and includes optical fibers extending over the front face of the rigid support substantially perpendicular to the first edge and the second edge. First ends of the optical fibers are bent around the first edge toward the rear face of the rigid support, and a gripping element are provided on the first edge and form a clamp for gripping the bent parts of the optical fibers and the first edge of the rigid support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: BPB Limited
    Inventors: Sylvie Perez, Yves Benkemoun, Patrick Truquin, Andre Rivaud
  • Publication number: 20110280041
    Abstract: This board is a complex including a rigid support covered with a luminous fabric. The rigid support has a front face, a rear face, a first edge, and a second edge opposite the first edge. The luminous fabric at least partly covers the front face of the rigid support, extending from the first edge toward the second edge, and includes optical fibers extending over the front face of the rigid support substantially perpendicular to the first edge and the second edge. First ends of the optical fibers are bent around the first edge toward the rear face of the rigid support, and a gripping element are provided on the first edge and form a clamp for gripping the bent parts of the optical fibers and the first edge of the rigid support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: BPB LIMITED
    Inventors: Sylvie Perez, Yves Benkemoun, Patrick Truquin, Andre Rivaud
  • Publication number: 20110228548
    Abstract: This interior wall includes at least one cladding panel (4) covered with a luminous fabric (6), lying in a substantially vertical plane and having a front face receiving the luminous fabric, a rear face opposite the front face, a bottom edge, and a top edge. The luminous fabric includes optical fibers (7) extending substantially vertically over the front face of the first cladding panel and first ends of which are bent around the bottom edge of the first cladding panel toward its rear face. A casing (8) accommodates light sources and includes connecting elements (10) for the ends of the optical fibers (7) of the luminous fabric bent around the bottom edge of the first cladding panel. The first casing (8) is fastened to the first cladding panel and is supported by feet (20) extending beyond the bottom edge of the first cladding panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: BPB LIMITED
    Inventors: Sylvie Perez, Yves Benkemoun, Patrick Truquin, Andre Rivaud
  • Patent number: 7200971
    Abstract: A suspender bottom bracket for ceiling frameworks, includes a support wall that is adapted to be fastened to a rod of the suspender and is extended by two flanges in parallel planes that each have a rim parallel to the support wall, the two rims being directed toward the interior of the volume encompassed by the support wall and the planes of the flanges. The rims have at their end a fixing lug, the fixing lugs being on the opposite side of the support wall relative to the rims, perpendicular to the support wall, and are offset in a direction parallel to the planes of the flanges by a distance sufficient to provide a passage for the framework. The flanges that extend from the support wall as far as the rims have the overall shape of parallelograms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Placoplatre
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Klein, Andre Rivaud, Pascal Ozouf
  • Publication number: 20030066261
    Abstract: A suspender bottom bracket for ceiling frameworks, which bottom bracket (10) comprises a support wall (11) which is adapted to be fastened to a rod (31) of the suspender and is extended by two flanges (12, 13) in parallel planes and each having a rim (14, 15) parallel to the support wall (11), the two rims (14, 15) being directed toward the interior of the volume encompassed by the support wall (11) and the planes of the flanges (12, 13): the rims (14, 15) have at their end a fixing lug (16, 17), said fixing lugs (16, 17) being on the opposite side of the support wall (11) relative to the rims (14, 15), perpendicularly to the support wall (11), and being offset in a direction parallel to the planes of the flanges (12, 13) by a distance sufficient to provide a passage for the framework, said flanges (12, 13) that extend from the support wall (11) as far as said rims (14, 15) having the overall shape of parallelograms (22, 23).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: PLACOPLATRE
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Klein, Andre Rivaud, Pascal Ozouf
  • Patent number: 4979239
    Abstract: A support structure for sanitary apparatus to be wall-mounted on a partition wall incorporating an internal framework.In accordance with the invention the support structure comprises, joined to each other in one piece by two legs (31), two crossmembers (32, 33) at least one of which comprises at least one pair of holes (34) disposed symmetrically to each other on either side of a median vertical axis (M) and adapted to fasten the sanitary apparatus (11) concerned and locating means adapted to enable fastening to it at a given location of at least one pipe or the like (23, 24, 25, 26) adapted to serve the sanitary apparatus (11).Application to the wall-mounting of any kind of sanitary apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Placoplatre
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Klein, Claude Gabel, Marc Funten, Andre Rivaud