Patents by Inventor Benoit Urban

Benoit Urban 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).

  • Device for floatingly mounting a shaft
    Patent number: 5269617
    Abstract: An apparatus for floatingly mounting a shaft, includes a housing (2), a rigid casing (4) for receiving and rotatably supporting one end of the shaft (1), and an elastically deformable element (5) floatingly supporting the rigid casing (4) in the housing (2). The elastically deformable element (5) is a bellows of synthetic material, mounted at one of its ends by an annular portion (5,) of smaller diameter than the internal folds of the bellows, on an external seat (6) of the rigid casing (4) and at its other end, by an annular portion (5") of greater diameter than the external folds of the bellows, in an internal seat (7) of the housing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Inventors: Benoit Urban, Jean-Marc Hubsch, Pierre Stephan