Patents by Inventor Eric Milhamont

Eric Milhamont 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).

  • Method of measuring variation in the elongation of a very long magnetizable element of small transverse dimensions, and apparatus for implementing the method
    Patent number: 4782294
    Abstract: A method of measuring variation in the elongation of a very long element of small transverse dimensions and made of magnetizable material, optionally covered by non-magnetic material, and running between a lower elongation zone and a higher elongation zone, or vice versa, said method consisting in periodically magnetically marking the elongate element simultaneously at two points spaced apart by a predetermined distance therealong in a first one of said zones, and then in detecting the instants at which said magnetic marks pass at least one point situated in the other one of said zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: Les Cables de Lyon
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Libert, Eric Milhamont, Jean-Luc Canivet, Jean-Patrick Vives