Patents by Inventor Clément JANY
Clément JANY 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: 11855585Abstract: A device for receiving and demodulating an amplitude-modulated RF signal, comprising: a first antenna; a first amplifier coupled to the first antenna; a receiving module including: a) a second antenna; b) a second amplifier coupled to the second antenna; c) a phase-shifter coupled to the second amplifier and applying a phase-shift ?; d) a mixer comprising inputs coupled to the phase-shifter and to the first amplifier, and outputting a product of signals received at the input, and wherein the value of the phase-shift ? is such that the device performs a demodulation of the RF signal when a wavefront of the RF signal forms, with an axis of alignment of the antennas, an angle ? having a particular value a which depends on the phase-shift ? and on a distance between the antennas.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Clément Jany, Baudouin Martineau
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Patent number: 11539560Abstract: A device for OOK modulating an input signal, comprising at least: an injection-locked oscillator comprising a power supply input, an injection signal input and an output to which the OOK modulated signal is to be delivered; a first controlled switch comprising a control input to which the input signal is to be applied, and configured to couple or not a power supply source to the power supply input of the injection-locked oscillator in dependence on the value of the input signal; a periodic signal providing device configured to deliver, on an output which is electrically coupled to the injection signal input of the injection-locked oscillator, a periodic injection signal whose frequency and amplitude trigger locking of the injection-locked oscillator at the frequency of the injection signal or a multiple of this frequency.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A LENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Clément Jany, Michaël Pelissier
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Publication number: 20220302938Abstract: The present description concerns a radio transmission device including a plurality of elementary cells, each including a transmit circuit and an antenna connected to an output terminal of the transmit circuit, each transmit circuit including a power detector coupled to its output terminal, the device further including a control circuit configured to: a) simultaneously activating in transmit mode a first cell, deactivating in transmit mode a second cell, and reading from an output node of the power detector of the second cell a signal representative of a radio frequency power received on the output terminal of the second cell via the antenna of the second cell; and b) deducing from the signal read at step a) information relative to the state of the device or of its environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Commissariat à IÉnergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventors: Clément Jany, Michel Durr, Frédéric Hameau
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Publication number: 20220109591Abstract: A device for OOK modulating an input signal, comprising at least: an injection-locked oscillator comprising a power supply input, an injection signal input and an output to which the OOK modulated signal is to be delivered; a first controlled switch comprising a control input to which the input signal is to be applied, and configured to couple or not a power supply source to the power supply input of the injection-locked oscillator in dependence on the value of the input signal; a periodic signal providing device configured to deliver, on an output which is electrically coupled to the injection signal input of the injection-locked oscillator, a periodic injection signal whose frequency and amplitude trigger locking of the injection-locked oscillator at the frequency of the injection signal or a multiple of this frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Clément JANY, Michaël PELISSIER
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Publication number: 20220057479Abstract: A generator of a frequency modulated radar signal, comprising: a generator of a periodic signal frequency modulated over a part Tramp of a period T, corresponding to a square signal of which the frequency varies linearly in a first frequency band Bin of central frequency fin; an oscillator generating a sinusoidal signal of frequency fc>fin and comprised in a second frequency band Bamp>Bin and corresponding to the linear variation of the frequency of the radar signal; means coupled to an electrical supply input of the oscillator such that they generate a voltage for supplying the oscillator at the frequency of the frequency modulated periodic signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Mykhailo ZARUDNIEV, Etienne ANTIDE, Cédric DEHOS, José-Luis GONZALEZ JIMENEZ, Clément JANY, Alexandre SILIGARIS
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Publication number: 20220021339Abstract: A device for receiving and demodulating an amplitude-modulated RF signal, comprising: a first antenna; a first amplifier coupled to the first antenna; a receiving module including: a) a second antenna; b) a second amplifier coupled to the second antenna; c) a phase-shifter coupled to the second amplifier and applying a phase-shift ?; d) a mixer comprising inputs coupled to the phase-shifter and to the first amplifier, and outputting a product of signals received at the input, and wherein the value of the phase-shift ? is such that the device performs a demodulation of the RF signal when a wavefront of the RF signal forms, with an axis of alignment of the antennas, an angle ? having a particular value a which depends on the phase-shift ? and on a distance between the antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Clément JANY, Baudouin MARTINEAU
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Patent number: 10862721Abstract: A carrier recovery system for a receiver of a phase-modulated signal N-PSK, the system including a first pre-conditioning circuit of the signal received (S(t)), with the pre-conditioned signal (SP(t)) having a component, non-modulated in phase, at the frequency Nƒc where ƒc is the carrier used for the modulation N-PSK, and a carrier regeneration circuit to regenerate two sinusoidal signals in quadrature at the frequency ƒc, with these signals being phase locked with respect to said non-modulated component in phase of the pre-conditioned signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVEInventors: Alexandre Siligaris, Cedric Dehos, Jose-Luis Gonzalez Jimenez, Clement Jany, Baudouin Martineau
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Patent number: 10790839Abstract: Device for adjusting the locking of an injection locked frequency multiplier, including: a first input receiving a first signal of frequency f1, and a second input receiving a second signal of frequency f2 outputted by the frequency multiplier; a sub-sampler of the second signal; a control circuit configured for: receiving a third signal corresponding to the second signal sub-sampled by the first signal or by another multiple signal of frequency of f1, then carrying out a high-pass or band-pass filtering of the third signal; determining that the frequency multiplier is locked on a multiple of f1 when the signal obtained after filtering is substantially zero, then outputting a signal the value of which is representative of the locking or not of the frequency multiplier.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Clement Jany, Jose-Luis Gonzalez Jimenez, Frederic Hameau, Alexandre Siligaris
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Patent number: 10727849Abstract: A frequency synthesis device with high multiplication rank, including a base frequency generator generating two first base signals of square shape of same frequency and opposite to each other, a first synthesis stage including two first switching power supply oscillators, of which the power supplies are respectively switched by the two first base signals, a second synthesis stage including a second switching power supply oscillator of which the supply is switched by a combination of the output signals of the two first oscillators, the output of the second switching power supply oscillator being filtered by a frequency discriminator circuit realized with an injection locked oscillator.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Clement Jany, Frederic Hameau, Alexandre Siligaris
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Publication number: 20200091921Abstract: A frequency synthesis device with high multiplication rank, including a base frequency generator generating two first base signals of square shape of same frequency and opposite to each other, a first synthesis stage including two first switching power supply oscillators, of which the power supplies are respectively switched by the two first base signals, a second synthesis stage including a second switching power supply oscillator of which the supply is switched by a combination of the output signals of the two first oscillators, the output of the second switching power supply oscillator being filtered by a frequency discriminator circuit realized with an injection locked oscillator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Clement JANY, Frederic HAMEAU, Alexandre SILIGARIS
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Publication number: 20200091922Abstract: Device for adjusting the locking of an injection locked frequency multiplier, including: a first input receiving a first signal of frequency f1, and a second input receiving a second signal of frequency f2 outputted by the frequency multiplier; a sub-sampler of the second signal; a control circuit configured for: receiving a third signal corresponding to the second signal sub-sampled by the first signal or by another multiple signal of frequency of f1, then carrying out a high-pass or band-pass filtering of the third signal; determining that the frequency multiplier is locked on a multiple of f1 when the signal obtained after filtering is substantially zero, then outputting a signal the value of which is representative of the locking or not of the frequency multiplier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Clement JANY, Jose-Luis GONZALEZ JIMENEZ, Frederic HAMEAU, Alexandre SILIGARIS
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Publication number: 20200044900Abstract: A carrier recovery system for a receiver of a phase-modulated signal N-PSK, the system including a first pre-conditioning circuit of the signal received (S(t)), with the pre-conditioned signal (SP(t)) having a component, non-modulated in phase, at the frequency Nƒc where ƒc is the carrier used for the modulation N-PSK, and a carrier regeneration circuit to regenerate two sinusoidal signals in quadrature at the frequency ƒc, with these signals being phase locked with respect to said non-modulated component in phase of the pre-conditioned signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Alexandre SILIGARIS, Cedric DEHOS, Jose-Luis GONZALEZ JIMENEZ, Clement JANY, Baudoin MARTINEAU
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Patent number: 9859991Abstract: Radiofrequency communication device comprising at least one TORP signal generation circuit, the TORP signal corresponding to oscillations trains periodically repeated at a frequency FPRP for which the oscillation frequency is FOL>FPRP and for which each oscillations train lasts for a duration of less than 1/FPRP, and at least one multiplier circuit for which an input is coupled to an output of said at least one TORP signal generation circuit such that it is capable of multiplying the TORP signal with a baseband signal comprising at least one of information intended to be transmitted by the radiofrequency communication device and a radiofrequency signal intended to be received by the radiofrequency communication device.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternativesInventors: Clement Jany, Alexandre Siligaris
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Patent number: 9787351Abstract: A radiofrequency receiver device including: a local oscillator oscillating at an adjustable local frequency; a mixer receiving radiofrequency signals and the output of the local oscillator for the supply of intermediate-frequency signals; a filtering system configured and positioned to filter the signals according to a bandpath with an adjustable frequency bandwidth; and a data detector in the intermediate-frequency signals. It further includes means for adjusting the local frequency of the local oscillator, between minimum and maximum oscillation frequencies, and for adjusting the bandpath of the filtering system, between minimum and maximum frequency bandwidths, wherein the adjusting means are suitable for adjusting the local frequency and the bandpath until the detector detects a predetermined identification code in one of the intermediate-frequency signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternativesInventors: Baudouin Martineau, Clement Jany
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Publication number: 20160028495Abstract: Radiofrequency communication device comprising at least one TORP signal generation circuit, the TORP signal corresponding to oscillations trains periodically repeated at a frequency FPRP for which the oscillation frequency is FOL>FPRP and for which each oscillations train lasts for a duration of less than 1/FPRP, and at least one multiplier circuit for which an input is coupled to an output of said at least one TORP signal generation circuit such that it is capable of multiplying the TORP signal with a baseband signal comprising at least one of information intended to be transmitted by the radiofrequency communication device and a radiofrequency signal intended to be received by the radiofrequency communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Clement JANY, Alexandre SILIGARIS
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Patent number: 9209748Abstract: A frequency synthesis device including: a first generator configured to generate a periodic signal of frequency f1; a second and third generator, coupled with the first generator and configured to receive as an input the periodic signal of frequency f1 and to generate a signal SG corresponding to a train of oscillations of frequency substantially equal to N·f1, of a time less than T1=1/f1 and repeated periodically at the frequency f1, where N is a whole number greater than 1; and a fourth generator configured to generate, from the signal SG, a periodic signal wherein a frequency spectrum includes a primary line of frequency f2=(N+i)·f1, where i is a whole number.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Commissariat á l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternativesInventors: Alexandre Siligaris, Clement Jany
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Publication number: 20140323062Abstract: A frequency synthesis device including: a first generator configured to generate a periodic signal of frequency f1; a second and third generator, coupled with the first generator and configured to receive as an input the periodic signal of frequency f1 and to generate a signal SG corresponding to a train of oscillations of frequency substantially equal to N·f1, of a time less than T1=1/f1 and repeated periodically at the frequency f1, where N is a whole number greater than 1; and a fourth generator configured to generate, from the signal SG, a periodic signal wherein a frequency spectrum includes a primary line of frequency f2=(N+i)·f1, where i is a whole number.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux ene altInventors: Alexandre Siligaris, Clement Jany