Patents by Inventor Fabien VAUTIER

Fabien VAUTIER 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: 20230349223
    Abstract: At least one leaf of this door is equipped with a detection device comprising a mechanical detection device and a contactless sensor each capable of detecting a presence. The control circuit board comprises a control unit for movement of each leaf and a diagnostic unit, while means transfer, from the detection device in the direction of the diagnostic unit and the control unit, a first item of information representative of the activation state of the mechanical device, and a second item of information representative of the activation state of the contactless sensor. The diagnostic unit can identify a malfunction at least of the contactless detection device, when the first item of information has an active value while the second item of information has an inactive value. The invention allows redundancy to improve the availability of the detection device, while performing predictive maintenance for the operator, in particular a malfunction of the contactless sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Fabien Vautier
  • Patent number: 11634080
    Abstract: This assembly firstly comprises a framework fastened on the body of a vehicle, a swiveling floor intended for the forward motion of travelers, in particular, persons with reduced mobility, and an intermediate device, located below the surface for forward motion. The intermediate device and the swiveling floor are able to swivel in relation to the framework in a mutually independent manner. This assembly moreover comprises a sliding system that is movable in translation in relation to the intermediate device between a stowed position and a deployed position, in which this sliding system forms, together with the surface for forward motion, a ramp extending through a lateral opening of the framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FAIVELEY TRANSPORT TOURS
    Inventors: Florian Brion, Yann Brunet, Fabien Vautier, Thierry Montanie, Aurélien Gohard, Yannick Saluden, Matthieu Lefort, Valérie Klein
  • Publication number: 20220381079
    Abstract: A control and drive assembly for a transport vehicle door, and which includes a main control unit; a main motor to drive the door leaves and which is controlled by the main control unit to displace the leaves; an auxiliary control module; an auxiliary motor operable to: control the auxiliary motor so as to displace the leaves in at least one direction to a closed position, control a locking of the leaves in the closed position; and a connection device arranged between the main control unit and the auxiliary motor to facilitate transmission of a reference signal by the main control unit to the auxiliary control module, the reference signal being representative of a proper operating state of the main motor and the main control unit. The auxiliary control module is operable to actuate the auxiliary motor when the auxiliary control module does not receive the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: FAIVELEY TRANSPORT TOURS
    Inventor: Fabien VAUTIER
  • Patent number: 11293549
    Abstract: A releasable seal assembly is provided that may include a first extension profile and a second extension profile extending from a core. The first extension profile may include a first exit panel side wing resiliently hinged to the core, and a first host panel side wing extending from the core. The first exit panel side wing and the first host panel side wing may define a first key cavity, and the first exit panel side wing has a first arcuate surface that may define a first retention tongue recess of the first key cavity. Additionally, the first host panel side wing has a second arcuate surface that defines a second retention tongue recess of the first key cavity. The first exit panel side wing may include a first exit panel side wing tongue configured to be received within the second retention tongue recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Vu, Fabien Vautier, Olivier Salles
  • Publication number: 20210101533
    Abstract: This assembly firstly comprises a framework fastened on the body of a vehicle, a swiveling floor intended for the forward motion of travelers, in particular, persons with reduced mobility, and an intermediate device, located below the surface for forward motion. The intermediate device and the swiveling floor are able to swivel in relation to the framework in a mutually independent manner. This assembly moreover comprises a sliding system that is movable in translation in relation to the intermediate device between a stowed position and a deployed position, in which this sliding system forms, together with the surface for forward motion, a ramp extending through a lateral opening of the framework.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Florian Brion, Yann Brunet, Fabien Vautier, Thierry Montanie, Aurélien Gohard, Yannick Saluden, Matthieu Lefort, Valérie Klein
  • Publication number: 20200355269
    Abstract: A releasable seal assembly is provided that may include a first extension profile and a second extension profile extending from a core. The first extension profile may include a first exit panel side wing resiliently hinged to the core, and a first host panel side wing extending from the core. The first exit panel side wing and the first host panel side wing may define a first key cavity, and the first exit panel side wing has a first arcuate surface that may define a first retention tongue recess of the first key cavity. Additionally, the first host panel side wing has a second arcuate surface that defines a second retention tongue recess of the first key cavity. The first exit panel side wing may include a first exit panel side wing tongue configured to be received within the second retention tongue recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Vu, Fabien Vautier, Olivier Salles
  • Patent number: 10814708
    Abstract: A signaling assembly for a door leaf of an access door to a transport vehicle, including a seal that has an attaching region intended to be received at least partially in the housing of a profile of the door leaf, as well as a lighting region, and means of lighting, able to illuminate the lighting region of the seal, in such a way as to emit at least one visual signal, in particular representative of the opened and/or closed state of the door. The assembly includes a locking key received at least partially in an interior volume of the seal, with the key being able to prevent a pulling off of the seal outside the profile along a transversal direction, in reference to the main direction of the seal, the means of lighting being fixed on the locking key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FAIVELEY TRANSPORT TOURS
    Inventors: Olivier Salles, Fabien Vautier
  • Publication number: 20200207196
    Abstract: A removal seal for emergency access and egress for panels in transit vehicles has a pair of exit panel side wings separated by two key cavities. A locking strip is inserted within the two key cavities to urge the exit panel side wings against the exit panel to secure the exit panel. The locking strip may then be removed with relative ease such that the exit panel may be freed from the exit panel side wings and released. A method for achieving such a task is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Vu, Fabien Vautier, Olivier Salles
  • Publication number: 20190255923
    Abstract: A signaling assembly for a door leaf of an access door to a transport vehicle, including a seal that has an attaching region intended to be received at least partially in the housing of a profile of the door leaf, as well as a lighting region, and means of lighting, able to illuminate the lighting region of the seal, in such a way as to emit at least one visual signal, in particular representative of the opened and/or closed state of the door. The assembly includes a locking key received at least partially in an interior volume of the seal, with the key being able to prevent a pulling off of the seal outside the profile along a transversal direction, in reference to the main direction of the seal, the means of lighting being fixed on the locking key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: FAIVELEY TRANSPORT TOURS
    Inventors: Olivier SALLES, Fabien VAUTIER