Patents by Inventor Catherine Jouanneaux

Catherine Jouanneaux 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: 6786166
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquefied gas storage barge in the form of a concrete floating structure. The barge of the invention is essentially constituted by a floating structure (1) of reinforced and prestressed concrete containing tanks (2) for liquefied gas. Said tanks (2) are cylindrical tanks each having a cross-section perpendicular to its longitudinal axes that comprises a preferably circular curved portion (3) corresponding to the bottom of said tank, said portion being preferably a bottom half-circumference resting directly on the concrete bottom of the barge, which barge bottom is in the form of adjacent part-cylindrical troughs (3), each part-cylindrical trough having the same preferably circular, partially curved section in register with the bottom of each tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Bouygues Offshore
    Inventors: Denis Marchand, Catherine Jouanneaux, Christophe Prat