Patents by Inventor Claude Beignet

Claude Beignet 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: 8197958
    Abstract: An electric battery includes a plurality of electric energy generators and a system for mechanical and thermal conditioning of the elements, which system includes a one-piece structural body in which housings are formed in order to each receive an element, in which the housings have at least one internal area of contact with an element, and the contact area is continuous and has a shape suitable for ensuring contact between the area and the periphery of the element, in which the body also includes chambers that each extend around a contact area, and which system also includes a device enabling a thermal conditioning fluid to circulate in the chambers so as to ensure the thermal conditioning of the elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Dow Kokam France SAS
    Inventors: Fabien Gaben, Claude Beignet, Alain Douarre
  • Publication number: 20110276295
    Abstract: A method of monitoring the voltage UELT of an electrical energy generating element of a battery, comprising measuring the voltage UBRUT at the terminals of said element by means of a subtractor assembly and carrying out a calibrating procedure. The invention also relates to a monitoring device for the implementation of this method, a system for monitoring voltages of elements of a battery as well as an electric battery comprising at least one module formed from several electrical energy generating elements, said battery comprising, for each module, a system for monitoring voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: DOW KOKAM FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Fabien Gaben, Claude Beignet
  • Publication number: 20100119926
    Abstract: An electric battery includes a plurality of electric energy generators and a system for mechanical and thermal conditioning of the elements, which system includes a one-piece structural body in which housings are formed in order to each receive an element, in which the housings have at least one internal area of contact with an element, and the contact area is continuous and has a shape suitable for ensuring contact between the area and the periphery of the element, in which the body also includes chambers that each extend around a contact area, and which system also includes a device enabling a thermal conditioning fluid to circulate in the chambers so as to ensure the thermal conditioning of the elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: SOCIETE DE VEHICULES ELECTRIQUES
    Inventors: Fabien Gaben, Claude Beignet, Alain Douarre
  • Publication number: 20100119929
    Abstract: An electric battery has a plurality of elements generating electrical energy. A system for the mechanical and thermal packaging of the elements includes a bed of thermal packaging fluid on which the elements are placed so as to leave a lateral space between the adjacent elements. The packaging system further includes a plurality of thermal packaging modules, each provided with a path for the fluid to flow between an upstream port and a downstream port, each flow path extending along a lateral space with the ports in fluid communication with the bed. The packaging system further includes a structural matrix made of a thermally conductive and electrically insulating polymer resin, the matrix filling the lateral spaces, at least partly encapsulating the generator elements and the packaging modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: SOCIETE DE VEHICULES ELECTRIQUES
    Inventors: Fabien Gaben, Claude Beignet, Alain Douarre