Patents by Inventor Didier Monin

Didier Monin 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: 7402814
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid-state X-ray detector comprising a photosensitive sensor associated with a radiation converter, known as a scintillator, transforming the X-rays into a radiation to which the sensor is sensitive, and an entry window through which the X-rays pass upstream of the scintillator. The entry window is mounted on the scintillator, without being fixed to the scintillator, and the entry window and the sensor are fixed by a water vapor-tight seal. The scintillator consists of a support, distinct from the sensor, and a scintillating substance. The application areas of this type of detector are notably radiology (radiography, fluoroscopy and mammography), but equally, non-destructive testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Trixell S.A.S.
    Inventors: Gérard Vieux, Didier Monin
  • Patent number: 7291843
    Abstract: A solid-state X-ray detector comprising a photosensitive sensor combined with a radiation converter or scintillator is described. The radiation detector includes an entry window through which the X-rays upstream of the scintillator pass, and means for applying an electrical voltage between the entry window and the photosensitive sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Didier Monin, Bruno Commere, Gérard Vieux
  • Publication number: 20060153334
    Abstract: A solid-state X-ray detector comprising a photosensitive sensor combined with a radiation converter or scintillator is described. The radiation detector includes an entry window through which the X-rays upstream of the scintillator pass, and means for applying an electrical voltage between the entry window and the photosensitive sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Didier Monin, Bruno Commerce, Gerard Vieux
  • Publication number: 20040245474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid-state X-ray detector comprising a photosensitive sensor associated with a radiation converter, known as a scintillator, transforming the X-rays into a radiation to which the sensor is sensitive, and an entry window through which the X-rays pass upstream of the scintillator. The entry window is mounted on the scintillator, without being fixed to the scintillator, and the entry window and the sensor are fixed by a water vapor-tight seal. The scintillator consists of a support, distinct from the sensor, and a scintillating substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Gerard Vieux, Didier Monin
  • Publication number: 20030155515
    Abstract: The present invention is a radiation detector comprising a scintillator (7) made from a material sensitive to wet oxidation, placed between a photosensitive sensor (1) and an entrance window (8, 9, 80) for the radiation. The entrance window (8, 9, 80) is titanium-based.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Moy, Patrick Ducol, Didier Monin
  • Patent number: 6583419
    Abstract: A solid state photosensitive detector including a solid state photosensitive sensor associated with a converter designed to convert radiation to be detected into radiation to which the photosensitive sensor is sensitive. The photosensitive sensor includes one or more photosensitive elements connected to conductors and a passivation layer covering the photosensitive elements and the conductors to protect them. Between the passivation layer and the converter, a barrier is provided that is impermeable to at least one chemical species that is corrosive for the sensor, capable of being released by the converter during at least one chemical reaction. Such a detector may find particular application to radiation detectors for medical radiology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Trixell S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Moy, Gérard Vieux, Didier Monin, Odile Feron
  • Patent number: 5131876
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns television cameras having an image pick-up electron tube. The signal input plate of the tube according to the invention is made by molding and a connection pin is embedded in the glass during the molding operation itself. When the internal and external faces of the input plate are then polished, the end of the pin on the internal side of the pin is levelled down at the same time. All that remains to be done then is to deposit a transparent conductive layer and a photoconductive target on this perfectly plane face. Furthermore, the unpolished edges of the input plate and, more particularly, its lateral edges are covered with a light-absorbing black layer which is produced not by the deposition of a black paint but by chemical reduction of the metal oxides contained in the glass. This blackening is preferably obtained during the molding operation itself, by placing the mold in a hydrogen-reducing atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Thomson Tubes Electroniques
    Inventors: Gerard Vieux, Didier Monin, Jean-Luc Ricaud