Patents by Inventor Fabien Formosa

Fabien Formosa 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).

  • Publication number: 20210226561
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a mechanical vibration energy device including an assembly of spring blades between two points and at least two masses respectively on either side of the blade assembly, wherein the blade assembly is buckled between the two points by the bringing of the masses towards each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE DE CHAMBERY-UNIVERSITE SAVOIE MONT BLANC
    Inventors: Adrien BADEL, Fabien FORMOSA
  • Publication number: 20210211073
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a mechanical vibration energy harvesting device including a bistable spring blade structure in a frame, and a sliding joint at the level of a wall of the frame between said structure and at least one mechanical-to-electrical device external to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Adrien BADEL, Fabien FORMOSA, Thomas HUGUET
  • Patent number: 8970092
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electricity generator having recovery of mechanical vibration energy, including a bistable system suitable for adopting one stable position or another relative to two ends in response to being energized in a predetermined direction (FEXT); at least one monostable oscillating system suitable for periodically engaging with at least one of the two ends, in response to said energizing; and a device for converting the movement of the element of the bistable system into electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Universite de Savoie
    Inventor: Fabien Formosa
  • Publication number: 20120319532
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electricity generator having recovery of mechanical vibration energy, including a bistable system suitable for adopting one stable position or another relative to two ends in response to being energized in a predetermined direction (FEXT); at least one monostable oscillating system suitable for periodically engaging with at least one of the two ends, in response to said energizing; and a device for converting the movement of the element of the bistable system into electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE DE SAVOIE
    Inventor: Fabien Formosa
  • Patent number: 7832209
    Abstract: Miniaturised device, which can operate as an engine or a cooler according to a Stirling thermodynamic cycle, comprising an expansion chamber and a compression chamber, which are interconnected by means of a regenerator enabling the working fluid to flow through from the expansion chamber to the compression chamber, and vice versa, under the effect of the movement of a displacing mechanism, a fraction of the compression chamber being mobile and operating as a piston in order to modify the volume of the said compression chamber, characterized in that it also comprises a complementary chamber which is connected to the compression chamber by means of a complementary connection channel, the said complementary chamber being at an intermediate temperature between the temperature of the compression chamber and the temperature of the expansion chamber, the complementary chamber being separated from the expansion chamber by means of the displacing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Fabien Formosa
  • Publication number: 20090056330
    Abstract: Miniaturised device, which can operate as an engine or a cooler according to a Stirling thermodynamic cycle, comprising an expansion chamber and a compression chamber, which are interconnected by means of a regenerator enabling the working fluid to flow through from the expansion chamber to the compression chamber, and vice versa, under the effect of the movement of a displacing mechanism, a fraction of the compression chamber being mobile and operating as a piston in order to modify the volume of the said compression chamber, characterized in that it also comprises a complementary chamber which is connected to the compression chamber by means of a complementary connection channel, the said complementary chamber being at an intermediate temperature between the temperature of the compression chamber and the temperature of the expansion chamber, the complementary chamber being separated from the expansion chamber by means of the displacing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Fabien FORMOSA
  • Patent number: 6520015
    Abstract: Diapason type gyrometers using a micro-mechanical structure of vibrating beams. The gyrometer includes a micro-machined sensitive element with at least two symmetrically positioned excitation beams on each side of and parallel to a sensitive Oy axis of the gyrometer. The two beams are connected at their ends through at least one transverse element fixed in its central part to the sensitive Oy axis, to a frame through an elastic torsion return element acting in opposition to the rotation of the transverse element about the Oy axis. The elastic return elements are sized such that the variation of their resonant natural frequency in torsion with temperature is similar to the variation of the resonant natural frequency in bending of the beams with temperature. Such a device may find particular application in the measurement of the angular velocity of a mobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Thales Avionics S.A.
    Inventors: Hélène Wehbe Alause, Fabien Formosa