Patents by Inventor Bertrand Legrand

Bertrand Legrand 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: 8104811
    Abstract: A hooking device attaches an equipment like a fall limiter to an anchorage structural element by means of a stick. The device comprises an elongated member to which the equipment is attachable. A hooking head slides along the elongated member. The hooking head has a hook forming an opening in which the anchorage structural element is engageable. An actuating mechanism operates a locking element of the opening in response to a sliding of the hooking head with respect to the elongated member. A stick detachable fastening element is used to slide the hooking head with respect to the elongated member in response to a movement of the stick when the anchorage structural element is engaged in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Hydro-Quebec
    Inventors: Paul Antoine Sèguin, Pierre Beaulieu, Sébastien Riopel, Yves Thibault, Yves Vermette, Bertrand Legrand
  • Publication number: 20100101059
    Abstract: A hooking device for attaching an equipment like a fall limiter to an anchorage structural element by means of a stick. The device comprises an elongated member to which the equipment is attachable. A hooking head slides along the elongated member. The hooking head has a hook forming an opening in which the anchorage structural element is engageable. An actuating mechanism operates a locking element of the opening in response to a sliding of the hooking head with respect to the elongated member. A stick detachable fastening element is used to slide the hooking head with respect to the elongated member in response to a movement of the stick when the anchorage structural element is engaged in the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Paul Antoine Séguin, Pierre Beaulieu, Sébastien Riopel, Yves Thibault, Yves Vermette, Bertrand Legrand
  • Patent number: 7705587
    Abstract: According to the invention, the position sensor is characterized in that the correction means (3) are achieved by at least one saturated magnetic pole, a so-called stabilization pole (Ps), having a sign opposite to the sign of the irregular pole (Pi) which is also saturated, each stabilization pole (Ps) extending from one to the other edge of the magnetic ring, by being inserted in the irregular pole, so as to stabilize the magnetic signal delivered by the passage of the poles adjacent to the irregular pole, said magnetic signal delivered between the passage of the adjacent poles not passing through the zero value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Electrifil Automotive
    Inventors: Bertrand Legrand, Olivier Andrieu
  • Publication number: 20080290862
    Abstract: According to the invention, the position sensor is characterized in that the correction means (3) are achieved by at least one saturated magnetic pole, a so-called stabilization pole (Ps), having a sign opposite to the sign of the irregular pole (Pi) which is also saturated, each stabilization pole (Ps) extending from one to the other edge of the magnetic ring, by being inserted in the irregular pole, so as to stabilize the magnetic signal delivered by the passage of the poles adjacent to the irregular pole, said magnetic signal delivered between the passage of the adjacent poles not passing through the zero value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: ELECTRICFIL AUTOMOTIVE
    Inventors: Bertrand Legrand, Olivier Andrieu
  • Patent number: 7388368
    Abstract: The object of the invention relates to an encoder for a position sensor, including at least one junction (J) between one so-called small pole (P) and one so-called large pole (G), having an angular width larger than the angular width of the small pole, the small pole (P) and the large pole (G) corresponding to each junction (J) having polarities of opposite signs, characterized in that, for each junction (J), the large pole (G) of a given sign consists: of at least one small stabilizing pole (ps) of the same sign placed adjacent to the small pole (P) of opposite sign and having an angular width substantially identical with that of said first pole, one the one hand and of at least one complementary pole (pc) of the same sign as the stabilizing pole (ps), the complementary pole (pc) and/or the small stabilizing pole (ps) having a gradual magnetization profile adapted for stabilizing the passing through zero gauss of the radial component of the magnetic induction, on the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Electricfil Automotive
    Inventors: Bertrand Legrand, Jérôme Corona
  • Publication number: 20080018330
    Abstract: The object of the invention relates to an encoder for a position sensor, including at least one junction (J) between one so-called small pole (P) and one so-called large pole (G), having an angular width larger than the angular width of the small pole, the small pole (P) and the large pole (G) corresponding to each junction (J) having polarities of opposite signs, characterized in that, for each junction (J), the large pole (G) of a given sign consists: of at least one small stabilizing pole (ps) of the same sign placed adjacent to the small pole (P) of opposite sign and having an angular width substantially identical with that of said first pole, one the one hand and of at least one complementary pole (pc) of the same sign as the stabilizing pole (ps), the complementary pole (pc) and/or the small stabilizing pole (ps) having a gradual magnetization profile adapted for stabilizing the passing through zero gauss of the radial component of the magnetic induction, on the other hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Bertrand Legrand, Jerome Corona
  • Patent number: 7265685
    Abstract: The object of the invention relates to an encoder for a rotary position sensor, including a multipolar magnetic ring driven into rotation around its axis, and provided at its circumference with magnetic poles of a given sign, alternately positioned with magnetic poles of an opposite sign, so as to form at least one series of pairs of magnetic poles with a determined period, each magnetic pole of a given sign having a width Ii and a magnetic polarisation value Mi whereas each magnetic pole of opposite sign has a width Ii+1 different from width Ii and a magnetic polarisation value Mi+1, characterized in that the polarization of the magnetic poles is such that Mi×Ii=Mi+1×Ii+1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Electricfil Automotive
    Inventor: Bertrand Legrand
  • Patent number: 7248185
    Abstract: A sensor including at least one rotary magnetic coder with first and second rotary tracks, at least two detection cells, and logical resources for processing of digital signals delivered by the cells. At least the detection cell located in relation to a magnetic track with a singular pole is a single-element detection cell, and the generator elements of the magnetic tracks and the detection cells are arranged in dependence on the logical processing resources such that the digital output signal has the same constant period, both on its regular coding part and on its irregular coding part, and the regular coding part and the irregular coding part have cyclic ratios that are unbalanced and different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Electricfil Automotive
    Inventor: Bertrand Legrand
  • Publication number: 20070139042
    Abstract: The invention concerns a position sensor in which the irregular pole includes resources for correcting the value of its magnetic field so as to stabilize the differential signal in such a way that the part of the differential signal taken at the passage through zero, and located between the parts of the differential signal corresponding to the passages of the adjacent poles, has a slope whose value, in absolute terms, is more-or-less identical to the values of the slopes of the parts of the differential signal obtained at the passage through zero and corresponding to the passages of the other poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: ELECTRICFIL AUTOMOTIVE
    Inventor: Bertrand LEGRAND
  • Publication number: 20070120556
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor including a first resource (3) for the creation of a magnetic field, oriented along a first axis in the direction of the axis of movement, and a second resource (6) for the creation of a magnetic field, oriented along a second axis in the direction of the axis of movement, opposed to the first direction. The first and second field-creation resources are mounted opposite to each other in order to form, between them, a magnetic measuring gap in which the measuring element that is sensitive to the value of the magnetic flux generated by the first and second field-creation resources is located, with the measuring element or the first and second field-creation resources being linked to the mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: ELECTRICFIL AUTOMOTIVE
    Inventors: Laurent DUFOUR, Bertrand LEGRAND
  • Publication number: 20060186879
    Abstract: The object of the invention relates to an encoder for a rotary position sensor, including a multipolar magnetic ring driven into rotation around its axis, and provided at its circumference with magnetic poles of a given sign, alternately positioned with magnetic poles of an opposite sign, so as to form at least one series of pairs of magnetic poles with a determined period, each magnetic pole of a given sign having a width Ii and a magnetic polarisation value Mi whereas each magnetic pole of opposite sign has a width Ii+1 different from width Ii and a magnetic polarisation value Mi+1, characterized in that the polarization of the magnetic poles is such that Mi×Ii=Mi+1×I+1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventor: Bertrand Legrand
  • Publication number: 20060152388
    Abstract: The sensor according to the invention includes at least one rotary magnetic coder (2), at least two detection cells (3, 4), and logical resources for processing of the digital signals delivered by the cells. The sensor is characterised in that: at least the detection cell (4), located in relation to the magnetic track (6), with a singular pole (PS), is a single-element detection cell, and the generator elements (7, 8, 9) of the magnetic tracks and the detection cells (3, 4) are arranged so that, depending on the logical processing resources, the digital output signal (S) has the same constant period (T), both on its regular coding part (S1) and on its irregular coding part (S2), the regular coding part (S1) and the irregular coding part (S2) having cyclic ratios that are unbalanced and different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventor: Bertrand Legrand
  • Patent number: 6501029
    Abstract: A high-voltage homogeneous co-curing composite insulator includes first and second end fittings longitudinally separated by a spacer, a resin impregnated fiber core wound onto the end fittings and onto the spacer, and an outer sheath moulded onto the fiber core. Since the resin matrix of the core and the material used to form the outer sheath each include curable resins from the same family and are, therefore, chemically compatible, a chemical link exists between these two elements. The end fittings are provided with a relatively thin wall defining a mechanical fuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Electro Composites, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Guillemette, Bertrand Legrand
  • Patent number: 6346677
    Abstract: A high-voltage bushing for insulating a conductor going through a metallic wall is described herein. To allow a conventional current transformer to be used to monitor the current flowing through the conductor, an external shield is embedded in the tubular body of the bushing and electrically connected to the metallic wall. An internal shield, also embedded in the tubular body of the bushing and electrically connected to the conductor, is provided to prevent the electric field to generate high levels of partial discharge in the air surrounding the conductor in the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Electro Composites, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Guillemette, Bertrand Legrand
  • Patent number: 5533340
    Abstract: A double-walled container for transporting and storing a liquified gas or cryogenic liquid at low temperature. The container has an inner liquified gas holding vessel and an outer shell enclosing the inner vessel. The outer shell is coaxial with the vessel and of such a size as to provide a closed insulated space all around it. The inner vessel is suspended by its ends within the outer shell, with one end of the vessel being rigidly connected to the adjacent end of the shell while the other opposite end of the vessel is slidably connected to the other adjacent end of the shell so as to allow thermal expansion of the inner vessel and outer shell with respect to each other. Closable feeding and exit pipes pass through the outer shell and the inner vessel for introducing and draining the liquified gas into and off from the inner vessel. This container is light weight and can be of very great size; it can be used for the international transportation of liquid hydrogen by air, sea, rail or road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignees: Hydro-Quebec, Econoden Inc., FRE Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Elie W. Shama, Bertrand Legrand, Dominique Kluyskems