Patents by Inventor Dominique Claire FOURGUETTE

Dominique Claire FOURGUETTE 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).

  • Whispering-gallery-mode-based seismometer
    Patent number: 8743372
    Abstract: A whispering-gallery-mode-based seismometer provides for receiving laser light into an optical fiber, operatively coupling the laser light from the optical fiber into a whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator, operatively coupling a spring of a spring-mass assembly to a housing structure; and locating the whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator between the spring-mass assembly and the housing structure so as to provide for compressing the whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator between the spring-mass assembly and the housing structure responsive to a dynamic compression force from the spring-mass assembly responsive to a motion of the housing structure relative to an inertial frame of reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignees: Michigan Aerospace Corporation, Southern Methodist University
    Inventors: Dominique Claire Fourguette, M. Volkan Otugen, Liane Marie Larocque, Greg Alan Ritter, Jason Jeffrey Meeusen, Tindaro Ioppolo
  • WHISPERING-GALLERY-MODE-BASED SEISMOMETER
    Publication number: 20120056072
    Abstract: A whispering-gallery-mode-based seismometer provides for receiving laser light into an optical fiber, operatively coupling the laser light from the optical fiber into a whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator, operatively coupling a spring of a spring-mass assembly to a housing structure; and locating the whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator between the spring-mass assembly and the housing structure so as to provide for compressing the whispering-gallery-mode-based optical resonator between the spring-mass assembly and the housing structure responsive to a dynamic compression force from the spring-mass assembly responsive to a motion of the housing structure relative to an inertial frame of reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Dominique Claire FOURGUETTE, M. Volkan OTUGEN, Liane Marie LAROCQUE, Greg Alan RITTER, Jason Jeffrey MEEUSEN, Tindaro IOPPOLO
  • LEAF SPRING
    Publication number: 20120056363
    Abstract: A leaf spring formed of sheet elastic material comprises a plurality of at least three elastic structures connecting a central and peripheral portions of the leaf spring to one another, wherein each elastic structure is substantially identically shaped, and is azimuthally equiangularly spaced and equiradially located around and relative to a center of the central portion of the leaf spring. Each elastic structure incorporates at least one pair of serpentine profiles, wherein each serpentine profile of the pair defines a corresponding edge of a common portion of the sheet elastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Greg Alan RITTER, Dominique Claire FOURGUETTE, Liane Marie LAROCQUE