Patents by Inventor Christophe Michot

Christophe Michot 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: 7034082
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with cross-linked sulfonated polymers, eventually perfluorinated, and their preparation process. When molded in the form of membranes, the polymers are useful in electrochemical cells, in a chlorine-sodium electrolysis process, as separator in an electrochemical preparation or organic and inorganic compounds, as separators between an aqueous phase and an organic phase, or as catalyst for Diels-Alder additions, Friedel-Craft reactions, aldol concentrations, cationic polymerisation, esterification, and acetal formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Hydro-Quebec
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand
  • Publication number: 20050266289
    Abstract: Ionic perfluorovinyl compounds and their uses as components of ionic conductors of the polymer type, of selective membranes or of catalysts. The compounds comprise at least one perfluorovinyl group and at least one group chosen from —O or one of the groups C?N, —C(C?N)2, —NSO2R or —C[SO2R]2 or a pentacyclic group comprising at least one N, C—C?N, CR, CCOR or CSO2R group. The compounds and/or their polymers are of use in the preparation of ionically conducting materials, electrolytes and selective membranes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicants: ACEP Inc., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Montreal
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot
  • Publication number: 20050158631
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ionic compound corresponding to the formula [R1X1(Z1)-Q?X2(Z2)—R2]m Mm+ in which Mm+ is a cation of valency m, each of the groups Xi is S=Z3, S=Z4, P—R3 or P—R4; Q is N, CR5, CCN or CSO2R5, each of the groups Zi is ?O, ?NC?N, ?C(C?N)2, ?NS(=Z)2R6 or ?C[S(=Z)2R6]2, each of the groups Ri, is Y, YO—, YS—, Y2N— or F, Y represents a monovalent organic radical or alternatively Y is a repeating unit of a polymeric frame. The compounds are useful for producing ion conducting materials or electrolytes, as catalysts and for doping polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot, Yurii Yagupolskii, Lev Yagupolskii, Andrej Bezdudny, Natalya Kondratenko
  • Publication number: 20050123831
    Abstract: The invention relates to ionic compounds in which the anionic load has been delocalized. A compound disclosed by the invention includes an anionic portion combined with at least one cationic portion Mm+ in sufficient numbers to ensure overall electronic neutrality; the compound is further comprised of M as a hydroxonium, a nitrosonium NO+, an ammonium —NH4+, a metallic cation with the valence m, an organic cation with the valence m, or an organometallic cation with the valence m. The anionic load is carried by a pentacyclical nucleus of tetrazapentalene derivative bearing electroattractive substituents. The compounds can be used notably for ionic conducting materials, electronic conducting materials, colorant, and the catalysis of various chemical reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand, Michel Gauthier, Yves Choquette
  • Publication number: 20050084763
    Abstract: The invention concerns novel ionic compounds with low melting point whereof the onium type cation having at least a heteroatom such as N, O, S or P bearing the positive charge and whereof the anion includes, wholly or partially, at least an ion imidide such as (FX1O)N?(OX2F) wherein X1 and X2 are identical or different and comprise SO or PF, and their use as solvent in electrochemical devices. Said composition comprises a salt wherein the anionic charge is delocalised, and can be used, inter alia, as electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand, Michel Gauthier, Nathalie Ravet
  • Publication number: 20050074668
    Abstract: The invention concerns ionic compounds in which the anionic load has been delocalized. A compound disclosed by the invention is comprised of an amide or one of its salts, including an anionic portion combined with at least one cationic portion M+m in sufficient numbers to ensure overall electronic neutrality; is the compound is further comprised of M as a hydroxonium, a nitrosonium NO+, an ammonium —NH4+, a metallic cation with the valence m, an organic cation with the valence m, or an organometallic cation with the valence m. The anionic portion matches the formula RF—SOx—N-Z, wherein RF is a perfluorinated group, x is 1 or 2, and Z is an electroattractive substituent. The compounds can be used notably for ionic conducting materials, electronic conducting materials, colorants, and the catalysis of various chemical reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand, Michel Gauthier, Yves Choquette
  • Patent number: 6858691
    Abstract: Ionic perfluorovinyl compounds and their uses as components of ionic conductors of the polymer type, of selective membranes or of catalysts. The compounds comprise at least one perfluorovinyl group and at least one group chosen from —O or one of the groups C?N, —C(C?N)2, —NSO2R or —C[SO2R]2 or a pentacyclic group comprising at least one N, C—C?N, CR, CCOR or CSO2R group. The compounds and/or their polymers are of use in the preparation of ionically conducting materials, electrolytes and selective membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignees: Acep Inc., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Montreal
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot
  • Publication number: 20050027022
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with cross-linked sulfonated polymers, eventually perfluorinated, and their preparation process. When molded in the form of membranes, the polymers are useful in electrochemical cells, in a chlorine-sodium electrolysis process, as separator in an electrochemical preparation or organic and inorganic compounds, as separators between an aqueous phase and an organic phase, or as catalyst for Diels-Alder additions, Friedel-Craft reactions, aldol concentrations, cationic polymerisation, esterification, and acetal formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand
  • Publication number: 20050014917
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with novel ion-exchange membranes, their method of preparation and their uses. The membranes are made of a polymer obtained from a monomer or a mixture of bifunctional monomers of general formula [T-SO2—Y—SO2T1]?M+. The polymers are useful in an alkali-chloride electrolysis process, as a separator in an electrochemical preparation of inorganic and organic compounds, as a separator between an aqueous and an organic phase, or as a catalyst for Diels-Alder additions, Friedel-Craft reactions, aldol condensations, cationic polymerizations, esterifications, and acetal formations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand
  • Patent number: 6841304
    Abstract: The invention concerns novel ionic compounds with low melting point whereof the onium type cation having at least a heteroatom such as N, O, S or P bearing the positive charge and whereof the anion includes, wholly or partially, at least an ion imidide such as (FX1O)N?(OX2F) wherein X1 and X2 are identical or different and comprise SO or PF, and their use as solvent in electrochemical devices. Said composition comprises a salt wherein the anionic charge is delocalised, and can be used, inter alia, as electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignees: ACEP, Inc., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Montreal
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand, Michel Gauthier, Nathalie Ravet
  • Patent number: 6841638
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ionic compound corresponding to the formula [R1X1(Z1)—Q?—X2(Z2)—R2]m Mm+ in which Mm+ is a cation of valency m, each of the groups Xi is S?Z3, S?Z4, P—R3 or P—R4; Q is N, CR5, CCN or CSO2R5, each of the groups Zi is ?O, ?NC?N, ?C(C?N)2, ?NS (?Z)2R6 or ?C[S(?Z)2R6]2, each of the groups Ri, is Y, YO—, YS—, Y2N— or F, Y represents a monovalent organic radical or alternatively Y is a repeating unit of a polymeric frame. The compounds are useful for producing ion conducting materials or electrolytes, as catalysts and for doping polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignees: ACEP Inc., Universite de Montreal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institute of Organic Chemistry National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot, Yurii Yagupolskii, Lev Yagupolskii, Andrej Bezdudny, Natalya Kondratenko
  • Patent number: 6835495
    Abstract: The invention relates to ionic compounds in which the anionic load has been delocalized. A compound disclosed by the invention includes an anionic portion combined with at least one cationic portion Mm+ in sufficient numbers to ensure overall electronic neutrality; the compound is further comprised of M as a hydroxonium, a nitrosonium NO+, an ammonium —NH4+, a metallic cation with the valence m, an organic cation with the valence m, or an organometallic cation with the valence m. The anionic load is carried by a pentacyclical nucleus of tetrazapentalene derivative bearing electroattractive substituents. The compounds can be used notably for ionic conducting materials, electronic conducting materials, colorant, and the catalysis of various chemical reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignees: Hydro-Quebec, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand, Michel Gauthier, Yves Choquette
  • Publication number: 20040220348
    Abstract: The present invention concerns polymers obtained by anionic initiation and bearing functions that can be activated by cationic initiations that are not reactive in the presence of anionic polymerization initiators. The presence of such cationic initiation functions allow an efficient cross-linking of the polymer after moulding, particularly in the form of a thin film. It is thus possible to obtain polymers with well-defined properties in terms of molecular weight and cross-linking density. The polymers of the present invention are capable of dissolving ionic compounds inducing a conductivity for the preparation of solid electrolytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Alain Vallee, Paul-Etienne Harvey, Michel Gauthier, Michel Armand
  • Publication number: 20040202930
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with novel compounds derived from polyquinonic ionic compounds and their use in electrochemical generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot, Nathalie Ravet
  • Publication number: 20040162362
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ionic compound corresponding to the formula [R1X1(Z1)-Q−-X2(Z2)-R2]m Mm+ in which Mm+ is a cation of valency m, each of the groups Xi is S=Z3, S=Z4, P—R3 or P—R4; Q is N, CR5, CCN or CSO2R5, each of the groups Zi is ═O, ═NC≡N, ═C(C≡N)2, ═NS (=Z)2R6 or ═C[S(=Z)2R6]2, each of the groups Ri, is Y, YO—, YS—, Y2N— or F, Y represents a monovalent organic radical or alternatively Y is a repeating unit of a polymeric frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot, Yurii Yagupolskii, Lev Yagupolskii, Andrej Bezdudny, Natalya Kondratenko
  • Patent number: 6743877
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with novel compounds derived from polyquinonic ionic compounds and their use in electrochemical generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignees: ACEP Inc, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montréal
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot, Nathalie Ravet
  • Publication number: 20040097757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluorination process for producing fluorinated compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Milos Cernik, Antonin Ruzicka, Zdirad Zak, Virginie Pevere, Christophe Michot
  • Publication number: 20040023092
    Abstract: Ionic perfluorovinyl compounds and their uses as components of ionic conductors of the polymer type, of selective membranes or of catalysts. The compounds comprise at least one perfluorovinyl group and at least one group chosen from —O or one of the groups C≡N, —C(C≡N)2, —NSO2R or —C[SO2R]2 or a pentacyclic group comprising at least one N, C—C≡N, CR, CCOR or CSO2R group. The compounds and/or their polymers are of use in the preparation of ionically conducting materials, electrolytes and selective membranes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicants: ACEP Inc., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Montreal
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot
  • Patent number: 6682855
    Abstract: The invention relates to an tonically conductive material, to its preparation and to its uses. The material includes at least one ionic compound in solution in an aprotic solvent, chosen from the compounds (1/mM)+[(ZY)2N]−, (1/mM)+[(ZY)3C]− and (1/mM)+[(ZY)2CQ]−, in which Y denotes SO2 or POZ, Q denotes —H, —COZ or Z, each substituent Z independently denotes a fluorine atom or an optionally perfluorinated organic group which optionally contains at least one polymerizable functional group, at least one of the substituents Z denoting a fluorine atom, and M denotes a cation. Application to electrochemical generators, supercapacities, to the doping of polymers and to electrochromic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Hydro-Quebec
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand, Jean-Yves Sanchez, Yves Choquette, Michel Gauthier
  • Patent number: 6670424
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with cross-linked sulfonated polymers, eventually perfluorinated, and their preparation process. When molded in the form of membranes, the polymers are useful in electrochemical cells, in a chlorine-sodium electrolysis process, as separator in an electrochemical preparation or organic and inorganic compounds, as separators between an aqueous phase and an organic phase, or as catalyst for Diels-Alder additions, Friedel-Craft reactions, aldol concentrations, cationic polymerisation, esterification, and acetal formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Hydro-Quebec
    Inventors: Christophe Michot, Michel Armand