Patents by Inventor Bertrand Vaysse
Bertrand Vaysse 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).
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Patent number: 11927036Abstract: A device for detecting an intention of a user to lock or unlock an opening element of a motor vehicle includes a capacitive sensor and incorporates an inductive sensor with an amagnetic metal target moving under the action of the hand of the user on the handle or the frame, the target being associated with a coil placed in an oscillating circuit being connected to an inductive measurement circuit detecting the intention of the user to lock or unlock the opening element. The intention is only confirmed when detected by both the capacitive and inductive sensors, the target of the inductive sensor being borne by the electrode of the capacitive sensor and a member supporting the electrode being elastically deformable under the action of the user on the handle or the frame, the inductive and capacitive measurement circuits being independent of each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Gabriel Spick, Nicolas Gerard, Bertrand Vaysse
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Patent number: 11421453Abstract: A device for detecting a user's intention to lock or to unlock a motor vehicle door. The device contained in a watertight housing, integrated into a non-watertight handle, the lower part of which includes drainage holes, a part of the housing being immersed in water. The device including: a capacitive approach and/or contact detection sensor, having at least one detection electrode, a variable detection capacitance representative of the approach of the user's hand, a charging/discharging capacitor Cs, and a protective electrode Ep situated in the part of the housing that is immersed in water, electrically coupled to the detection electrode and connected to a terminal of the charging/discharging capacitor Cs such that the protective electrode Ep is simultaneously at the same potential as the terminal of the charging/discharging capacitor during the various steps of charging/discharging the detection capacitor and the charging/discharging capacitor that are necessary to estimate the detection capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Inventors: Gabriel Spick, Bertrand Vaysse, Bernadette Peris, Stéphan Baudru
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Patent number: 11402236Abstract: Disclosed is a device for detecting a user's intention to lock or unlock a motor vehicle opening element, the device being intended to be integrated into a handle or into a frame of the opening element and including a voltage source, a printed circuit and at least one sensor for detecting an approach and/or contact of a hand of the user on the handle or the frame. A detection unit of the detection sensor is at least partially in the form of a metallized layer borne by part of an outer contour of a foam block in contact against the housing through a bearing face, the face of the foam block opposite the bearing face bearing the majority of the metallized layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Gabriel Spick
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Publication number: 20220205285Abstract: A method for detecting actuation of a handle of a motor-vehicle opening panel-vehicle, including the steps of continuously generating the request to unlock signal, detecting an increase in the value of the request to unlock signal beyond a first predetermined detection threshold representative of the presence of a hand of a user on the handle, detecting a decrease in the value of the request to unlock signal below a second predetermined detection threshold representative of the user pulling on the handle, consecutively to the detection of the decrease in the value of the request to unlock signal below the second detection threshold, triggering a time counter, stopping the time counter at the end of a predetermined “confirmation time”, and validating the detection of a request to unlock the opening panel if the value of the request to unlock signal remained greater than a third predetermined threshold throughout the confirmation time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Yannis Escalante, Bertrand Vaysse, Baptiste Lorenzi, Mathieu Girodin
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Publication number: 20210246694Abstract: Disclosed is a device for detecting an intention of a user to lock or unlock an opening element of a motor vehicle. The device includes a capacitive sensor and incorporates an inductive sensor with an amagnetic metal target moving under the action of the hand of the user on the handle or the frame, the target being associated with a coil placed in an oscillating circuit being connected to an inductive measurement circuit detecting the intention of the user to lock or unlock the opening element. The intention is only confirmed when detected by both the capacitive and inductive sensors, the target of the inductive sensor being borne by the electrode of the capacitive sensor and a member supporting the electrode being elastically deformable under the action of the user on the handle or the frame, the inductive and capacitive measurement circuits being independent of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Gabriel SPICK, Nicolas GERARD, Bertrand VAYSSE
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Publication number: 20210231464Abstract: Disclosed is a device for detecting a user's intention to lock or unlock a motor vehicle opening element, the device being intended to be integrated into a handle or into a frame of the opening element and including a voltage source, a printed circuit and at least one sensor for detecting an approach and/or contact of a hand of the user on the handle or the frame. A detection unit of the detection sensor is at least partially in the form of a metallized layer borne by part of an outer contour of a foam block in contact against the housing through a bearing face, the face of the foam block opposite the bearing face bearing the majority of the metallized layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Bertrand VAYSSE, Gabriel SPICK
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Publication number: 20210123270Abstract: A device for detecting a user's intention to lock or to unlock a motor vehicle door. The device contained in a watertight housing, integrated into a non-watertight handle, the lower part of which includes drainage holes, a part of the housing being immersed in water. The device including: a capacitive approach and/or contact detection sensor, having at least one detection electrode, a variable detection capacitance representative of the approach of the user's hand, a charging/discharging capacitor Cs, and a protective electrode Ep situated in the part of the housing that is immersed in water, electrically coupled to the detection electrode and connected to a terminal of the charging/discharging capacitor Cs such that the protective electrode Ep is simultaneously at the same potential as the terminal of the charging/discharging capacitor during the various steps of charging/discharging the detection capacitor and the charging/discharging capacitor that are necessary to estimate the detection capacitance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2018Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Gabriel Spick, Bertrand Vaysse, Bernadette Peris, Stéphan Baudru
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Patent number: 10790581Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sensor having an ultra-high-frequency antenna printed on a receiving area on a first face of a printed circuit board. The first face of the board is inserted into a first housing portion with a seal and a compression element, the seal surrounding the receiving area while a first space remains free in the portion. A second face of the board is inserted into a second housing portion and the portions are pressed together, a second space remaining free. Then, polyurethane is injected into the first and second spaces, the seal preventing the polyurethane from penetrating into the receiving area.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignees: Continental Automotive France, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Gabriel Spick, Bertrand Vaysse, Maxime Micheau
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Patent number: 10696275Abstract: A method for activating a function of a vehicle from a portable access device borne by a user. The method includes measurement of the received signal strength of signals exchanged between the access device and transceiver modules installed in the vehicle, detection of human presence, determination of the position of the access device from the signal strength measurements, and activation of a function of the vehicle when human presence has been detected and the position of the authenticated access device is determined as being within a predetermined proximity zone around the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignees: Continental Automotive France, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Gabriel Spick, Bertrand Vaysse, Maxime Micheau
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Publication number: 20200010050Abstract: A method for activating a function of a vehicle from a portable access device borne by a user. The method includes measurement of the received signal strength of signals exchanged between the access device and transceiver modules installed in the vehicle, detection of human presence, determination of the position of the access device from the signal strength measurements, and activation of a function of the vehicle when human presence has been detected and the position of the authenticated access device is determined as being within a predetermined proximity zone around the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Gabriel Spick, Bertrand Vaysse, Maxime Micheau
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Publication number: 20190393591Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sensor having an ultra-high-frequency antenna printed on a receiving area on a first face of a printed circuit board. The first face of the board is inserted into a first housing portion with a seal and a compression element, the seal surrounding the receiving area while a first space remains free in the portion. A second face of the board is inserted into a second housing portion and the portions are pressed together, a second space remaining free. Then, polyurethane is injected into the first and second spaces, the seal preventing the polyurethane from penetrating into the receiving area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Gabriel Spick, Bertrand Vaysse, Maxime Micheau
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Patent number: 9671477Abstract: An inductive sensor (100) for a motor vehicle, includes: a field coil (101) designed to form an electromagnetic field, a coil (103) for measuring a magnetic field and designed to provide an output signal representative of the position of a metal target (102) in the magnetic field formed by the field coil (101), and at least two electric circuits (111) connected simultaneously in parallel to the terminals of the field coil (101), each electric circuit (111) including an inverter element (112) and a capacitive element (113), and forming, together with the field coil (101) an electric oscillator (110) designed to form an AC voltage at the terminals of the field coil (10) via electric resonance, the electric oscillators (110) being of the same resonance frequency.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Alain Fontanet, Jeremie Blanc, Jean-Louis Roux
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Patent number: 9121728Abstract: A device for measuring the position of a target includes a track, which includes a primary winding (513) supplied with an alternating current at high frequency, and a plurality of secondary windings (511, 512). The device measures the position of the leading edge (510) of the target (500) in a so-called longitudinal direction (5000) between a first position and a second position between which the target (500) completely covers the track (550). Surprisingly, this configuration enables a very significant increase in the useful measurement length of such a track (550).Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Jérémie Blanc, Alain Fontanet, Jean-Louis Roux
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Publication number: 20140139217Abstract: An inductive sensor (100) for a motor vehicle, includes: a field coil (101) designed to form an electromagnetic field, a coil (103) for measuring a magnetic field and designed to provide an output signal representative of the position of a metal target (102) in the magnetic field formed by the field coil (101), and at least two electric circuits (111) connected simultaneously in parallel to the terminals of the field coil (101), each electric circuit (111) including an inverter element (112) and a capacitive element (113), and forming, together with the field coil (101) an electric oscillator (110) designed to form an AC voltage at the terminals of the field coil (10) via electric resonance, the electric oscillators (110) being of the same resonance frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicants: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GmbH, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCEInventors: Bertrand VAYSSE, Alain FONTANET, Jeremie BLANC, Jean-Louis ROUX
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Patent number: 8346467Abstract: A roof-cleaning device for moving side windows of a convertible vehicle an appropriate distance clear of a roof hinged to the vehicle body, and capable of detecting an event in or in the surroundings of the vehicle, includes: a first motion detector designed to occupy a first operational state and a second standby state, and a second detector coupled to the first detector and of lower power consumption, wherein I. with the first detector in the standby state, if the second detector detects an event to which it is sensitive, then the first detector switches into the operational state so that it can play a part in moving the window clear of the roof, II. and if, while in this operational state, the first detector detects the presence, intervention or action of the individual, then the windows are rolled down before the door is, or can be, opened.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Continental Automotive FranceInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Laurent Satge, Frédéric Cantie, Karim Bendhia
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Publication number: 20120223701Abstract: A device for measuring the position of a target includes a track, which includes a primary winding (513) supplied with an alternating current at high frequency, and a plurality of secondary windings (511, 512). The device measures the position of the leading edge (510) of the target (500) in a so-called longitudinal direction (5000) between a first position and a second position between which the target (500) completely covers the track (550). Surprisingly, this configuration enables a very significant increase in the useful measurement length of such a track (550).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicants: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCEInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Jérémie Blanc, Alain Fontanet, Jean-Louis Roux
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Patent number: 8213869Abstract: A method and device for filtering electromagnetic interference generated by the antenna of a transmitter on a sensor sensitive to electromagnetic waves, characterized in that it includes: vi. elements suitable for sampling the signal received by the sensor, vii. elements for count down the elapsed time, called the detection time, after the sampled signal has exceeded a threshold value, the signal, before exceeding the threshold value, being in a range of standard values, viii. elements for comparing in real time the detection time with a threshold time value, ix. elements suitable for providing a diagnosis of electromagnetic interference to be filtered if the sampled signal reverts to a standard value after a detection time of less than the threshold time value, and a diagnosis of an uninterfered sampled signal if this is not the case, x. elements for generating an output signal from the sensor eliminating the diagnosed electromagnetic interference.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Continental Automotive FranceInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Karim Ben Dhia, Frederic Cantie, Benoit Depont, Xavier Hourne
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Publication number: 20100117760Abstract: A method and device for filtering electromagnetic interference generated by the antenna of a transmitter on a sensor sensitive to electromagnetic waves, characterized in that it includes: vi. elements suitable for sampling the signal received by the sensor, vii. elements for count down the elapsed time, called the detection time, after the sampled signal has exceeded a threshold value, the signal, before exceeding the threshold value, being in a range of standard values, viii. elements for comparing in real time the detection time with a threshold time value, ix. elements suitable for providing a diagnosis of electromagnetic interference to be filtered if the sampled signal reverts to a standard value after a detection time of less than the threshold time value, and a diagnosis of an uninterfered sampled signal if this is not the case, x. elements for generating an output signal from the sensor eliminating the diagnosed electromagnetic interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCEInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Karim Ben Dhia, Frederic Cantie, Benoit Depont, Xavier Hourne
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Publication number: 20090164072Abstract: A roof-cleaning device for moving side windows of a convertible vehicle an appropriate distance clear of a roof hinged to the vehicle body, and capable of detecting an event in or in the surroundings of the vehicle, includes: a first motion detector designed to occupy a first operational state and a second standby state, and a second detector coupled to the first detector and of lower power consumption, wherein I. with the first detector in the standby state, if the second detector detects an event to which it is sensitive, then the first detector switches into the operational state so that it can play a part in moving the window clear of the roof, II. and if, while in this operational state, the first detector detects the presence, intervention or action of the individual, then the windows are rolled down before the door is, or can be, opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCEInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Laurent Satge, Frédéric Cantie, Karim Bendhia
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Patent number: 7161499Abstract: A system for monitoring a plurality of zones includes detection devices, disposed in the zones to be monitored, that emit detection signals on two different channels. A processor processes the signals and includes first and second computers, respectively connected to one or the other of the channels, and electrically isolating links that connect the first and second computers.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2004Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Airbus FranceInventors: Bertrand Vaysse, Pierre Lascours, Céline Virgulin, Laurent Escaich, Jean-Yves Vilain