Patents by Inventor Clement Nouvel

Clement Nouvel 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).

  • Publication number: 20090165764
    Abstract: A device for controlling a power supply of a radio frequency ignition of a combustion engine, including: an interface that receives measurement signals of operating parameters of a combustion engine; an interface that outputs a control signal; a module that stores relationships between measurement signals and the frequency of a control signal to be generated; a module that determines the frequency of a control signal to be generated on the basis of measurement signals received on the reception interface and of the relationships stored; and a module that applies the control signal at the determined frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Andre Agneray, Julien Couillaud, Clement Nouvel
  • Publication number: 20090153142
    Abstract: A device for measuring an ionization current of a spark plug of a type with a resonant structure, including a motor vehicle ignition system, the spark plug being coupled to a generator including a regulating capacitor. The generator includes a polarizer that polarizes the spark plug, connected between the generator and the spark plug, and a device that measures ionization current of the spark plug, connected between the regulating capacitor and ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Andre Agneray, Clement Nouvel
  • Publication number: 20090091212
    Abstract: A device for driving ultrasound piezoelectric actuators, on the basis of a DC voltage. The device includes an impedance matching branch mounted in parallel with the actuators and including a capacitor in series with a selection switch, which is closed and opened, at the same time as the selection switch of the actuator to be excited, so that the voltage across the terminals of the matching capacitor and the voltage across the terminals of the selected actuator are almost zero before the start and after the end of the injection. A method of controlling the matching switch makes it possible to benefit from the capacitive charge during the pulse train causing the injection, while circumventing abrupt discharges at the start of the train. Such a device and method may find application to the engines of motor vehicles, as one example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Christophe Ripoll, Clement Nouvel
  • Publication number: 20080315864
    Abstract: A load measuring circuit including a cable including first and second conductors and a shielding. The conductors are connected by a first end thereof to a load, the shielding is not connected to a ground at the end, and the conductors are connected to a generator by the second end thereof. A transformer includes a first winding connected to a conductor on the second end of the cable, a second winding is connected between a ground and the shielding on the second end of the cable, and a third winding is connected to a current measuring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Renault s.a.s.
    Inventors: Andre Agneray, Clement Nouvel
  • Publication number: 20080309381
    Abstract: A control device including: an input terminal for receiving a logic control signal; an output terminal for delivering an output control signal from the high-voltage MOS transistor; a first NMOS control transistor with low internal impedance, which is connected between ground and the output terminal and the gate of which is connected to the input terminal; and a second PMOS control transistor, which is connected between a supply terminal and the output terminal and the gate of which is connected to the input terminal by a bipolar transistor mounted to a common base, and which is current controlled at the emitter thereof by a capacitive connecting circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: RENAULT S.A.S.
    Inventors: Andre Agneray, Clement Nouvel