Patents by Inventor Dominique Gerard

Dominique Gerard 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).

  • PROCESSES FOR PREPARING DRIED POLYSACCHARIDES
    Publication number: 20210269603
    Abstract: There is provided inter alia a process for drying an isolated polysaccharide comprising the step of spray drying a liquid composition comprising the isolated polysaccharide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Jacques Dominique GÉRARD, Jean-François Paul HOCHSTENBACH
  • Method and device for making a strand comprising glass filaments
    Publication number: 20040025543
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for manufacturing a strand including glass filaments. The process and apparatus include a drawing roll, around which the filaments coming from a bushing are wound in web form, a prespinning unit storing the filaments intended for scrapping, a spinning unit allowing the filaments to be removed from the roll and taken up, and a mechanism for guiding the filaments in the spinning unit and as far as a winder in the form of a strand. The prespinning unit is placed downstream of the spinning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Alain Chabrol, Pierre Cervantes, Dominique Gerard
  • Method of producing and treating glass threads by blowing dried air across coated fibers
    Patent number: 5795365
    Abstract: A thread is formed of one or a plurality of fans of continuous filaments on which a sizing composition is deposited. The moisture content on the thread is controlled by subjecting the fans of filaments to a current of air transversely to the direction of movement of the filaments between the zone in which the size is deposited and the zone in which the filaments are gathered together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Vetrotex France
    Inventors: Yvan Salvador, Dominique Gerard, Eric Huet
  • Method of colorimetric analysis of malonic dialdehyde and 4-hydroxy-2-enaldehydes as indexes of lipid peroxidation, kits for carrying out said method, substituted indoles for use in said method and their preparation
    Patent number: 5726063
    Abstract: A colorimetric assay of enaldehydes or of malonic dialdehyde as lipid peroxidation indices in an aqueous medium includinga) addition to the medium of a reagent of a compound of general formula I and their optional addition salts with organic or inorganic bases or with organic or inorganic acids. ##STR1## in which formula: A and C, which may be identical or different, each represent H, ##STR2## wherein A and C cannot simultaneously represent H, with:R.sup.1 =H; alkyl; aralkyl; aryl substituted on the aryl ring; alkyl sulfonate Y.sup.+ ; alkyl phosphonate, Y.sup.+ ; or alkyl carboxylate, Y.sup.+ ;R.sup.2 =H; --OR.sup.4 ; F; Cl; Br; I; --NO.sub.2 ; SO.sub.3.sup.31 Y.sup.+ ; --CN; --COOR.sup.4 ; or --CONR.sup.5 R.sup.6 ;R.sup.3 =H; --OR.sup.4 ; --NR.sup.5 R.sup.6 ; --SR.sup.4 ; F; Cl; Br; I; --NO.sub.2 ; --SO.sub.3 --Y.sup.+ ; --CN; --COR.sup.5 ; --COOR.sup.4 ; or --CONR.sup.5 R.sup.6 ;R.sup.4 =H; alkyl; aralkyl; or aryl substituted on the aryl ring;R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Oxis Isle of Man, Limited
    Inventors: Dominique Gerard-Monnier, Irene Erdelmeier, Jean Chaudiere, Jean-Claude Yadan
  • Apparatus for producing and treating glass threads
    Patent number: 5443611
    Abstract: A thread is formed of one or a plurality of fans of continuous filaments on which a sizing composition is deposited. The moisture content on the thread is controlled by subjecting the fans of filaments to a current of air transversely to the direction of movement of the filaments between the zone in which the size is deposited and the zone in which the filaments are gathered together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Vetrotex France
    Inventors: Yvan Salvador, Dominique Gerard, Eric Huet