Patents by Inventor Bruno Beche

Bruno Beche 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: 11927518
    Abstract: A method for determining a rate of sedimentation or of creaming of a mixture in suspension, including an application of a sample of the mixture in suspension to a photonic microresonator, an application of a first optical signal at the input of the photonic microresonator carrying the sample of the mixture in suspension, an acquisition and a recording of a second optical signal, delivered at the output of the microresonator carrying the sample of the mixture in suspension, and a determination of information representing a rate of sedimentation or of creaming of the mixture from the recorded second signal, by successive iterations of spectral analysis of the second optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE RENNES 1, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)
    Inventors: Bruno Beche, Hervé Lhermite, Véronique Vie, Lucas Garnier
  • Publication number: 20200363307
    Abstract: A method for determining a rate of sedimentation or of creaming of a mixture in suspension, including an application of a sample of the mixture in suspension to a photonic microresonator, an application of a first optical signal at the input of the photonic microresonator carrying the sample of the mixture in suspension, an acquisition and a recording of a second optical signal, delivered at the output of the microresonator carrying the sample of the mixture in suspension, and a determination of information representing a rate of sedimentation or of creaming of the mixture from the recorded second signal, by successive iterations of spectral analysis of the second optical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE DE RENNES 1, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)
    Inventors: Bruno BECHE, Hervé LHERMITE, Véronique VIE, Lucas GARNIER
  • Patent number: 9360382
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring a heat flux, comprising a thermopile formed of a plurality of thermojunctions of distributed type. The device is formed of a first and a second ceramic substrate (Ce1, Ce2), a first face of the first substrate (Ce1) is composed of cavities which are separated by ceramic spacers (Ca1, Ca2, Ca3, Ca4), the thermopile is placed on a second planar face of the first substrate which is located opposite the first face, the spacers of the first substrate are arranged beneath one thermojunction (Tj2, Tj4, Tj6, Tj8) in two of the thermopile, a face of the second substrate (Ce2) is composed of cavities which are separated by ceramic spacers (Ca5, Ca6, Ca7, Ca8, Ca9), the spacers of the second substrate rest on a thermojunction (Tj1, Tj3, Tj5, Tj7, Tj9) beneath which a spacer of the first substrate is not arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITE DU MAINE
    Inventors: Lionel Camberlein, Etienne Gaviot, Frédéric Polet, Bruno Beche, Guillaume Failleau, Ronan Morice, Véronique Le Sant
  • Publication number: 20130215927
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring a heat flux, comprising a thermopile formed of a plurality of thermojunctions of distributed type. The device is formed of a first and a second ceramic substrate (Ce1, Ce2), a first face of the first substrate (Ce1) is composed of cavities which are separated by ceramic spacers (Ca1, Ca2, Ca3, Ca4), the thermopile is placed on a second planar face of the first substrate which is located opposite the first face, the spacers of the first substrate are arranged beneath one thermojunction (Tj2, Tj4, Tj6, Tj8) in two of the thermopile, a face of the second substrate (Ce2) is composed of cavities which are separated by ceramic spacers (Ca5, Ca6, Ca7, Ca8, Ca9), the spacers of the second substrate rest on a thermojunction (Tj1, Tj3, Tj5, Tj7, Tj9) beneath which a spacer of the first substrate is not arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE DU MAINE
    Inventors: Lionel Camberlein, Etienne Gaviot, Frédéric Polet, Bruno Beche, Guillaume Failleau, Ronan Morice, Véronique Le Sant