Patents by Inventor Damien Pano

Damien Pano 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: 10525509
    Abstract: A sorting conveyor has pivotally mounted flaps for sorting articles into sorting outlets as a function of a sorting indication affixed to each of the articles. The conveyor includes a monitoring and control unit designed to cause each flap to pivot between a closed position in which the flap forms a conveyor portion suitable for conveying an article in a certain conveying direction and an open position in which the flap interrupts conveying of an article on the conveyor to deflect it towards an appropriate sorting outlet. The monitoring and control unit is also arranged to retrieve thickness data from a memory giving a certain thickness for the article to be deflected, and to respond by causing the flap to pivot into an open position through a certain opening amplitude determined as a function of the thickness data about the article that is to be deflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Solystic
    Inventors: Jacques Chapelet, Raymond Chifflet, Damien Pano
  • Publication number: 20190193978
    Abstract: A detector device comprising an activator element (220) and a detector element (210) mounted to move relative to each other, the detector element generating a detection signal by a proximity effect when the activator element is facing it, a swing system with a first lever (212) carrying the detector element (210) and a second lever (222) carrying the activator element (220), said levers being mounted on a common pivot (230) while being offset angularly from each other, the second lever being designed to pivot from a rest position towards the first lever under the effect of thrust until the activator element and the detector element are in alignment, said first and second levers being designed such that, starting from the state of alignment and under the effect of the thrust, the second lever causes the first lever to pivot through a certain angular range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Damien Pano, Christian Duclot, Arnaud Vimard
  • Patent number: 10315229
    Abstract: A postal sorting machine comprises an unstacker in a mailpiece feed inlet, a sorting conveyor, and sorting outlets, each of which is provided with a receptacle designed for storing the mailpieces in a stack and on an edge. Each sorting outlet is provided with a wheel having a helical blade. The wheel projects through an opening in the bottom of the receptacle and is mounted on a transmission shaft. The transmission shaft is disposed under the receptacle to impart a rotary movement to the helical blade so that the helical blade pushes the base of a current mailpiece in the receptacle against the stack of mailpieces that is being formed. The wheel is also mounted on the transmission shaft by being clipped by moving in translation across the axis of rotation of the transmission shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SOLYSTIC
    Inventors: Damien Pano, Raymond Chifflet, Frédéric Mestrallet
  • Publication number: 20180264521
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sorting conveyor having pivotally mounted flaps for sorting articles into sorting outlets as a function of a sorting indication affixed to each of the articles. The conveyor includes a monitoring and control unit designed to cause each flap to pivot between a closed position in which the flap forms a conveyor portion suitable for conveying an article in a certain conveying direction and an open position in which the flap interrupts conveying of an article on the conveyor to deflect it towards an appropriate sorting outlet. The monitoring and control unit is also arranged to retrieve thickness data from a memory giving a certain thickness for the article to be deflected, and to respond by causing the flap to pivot into an open position through a certain opening amplitude determined as a function of the thickness data about the article that is to be deflected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Jacques Chapelet, Raymond Chifflet, Damien Pano
  • Publication number: 20180036772
    Abstract: A postal sorting machine comprises an unstacker in a mailpiece feed inlet, a sorting conveyor, and sorting outlets, each of which is provided with a receptacle designed for storing the mailpieces in a stack and on an edge. Each sorting outlet is provided with a wheel having a helical blade. The wheel projects through an opening in the bottom of the receptacle and is mounted on a transmission shaft. The transmission shaft is disposed under the receptacle to impart a rotary movement to the helical blade so that the helical blade pushes the base of a current mailpiece in the receptacle against the stack of mailpieces that is being formed. The wheel is also mounted on the transmission shaft by being clipped by moving in translation across the axis of rotation of the transmission shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Damien Pano, Raymond Chifflet, Frédéric Mestrallet