Patents by Inventor Fran.cedilla.ois-Hugues Gauthier

Fran.cedilla.ois-Hugues Gauthier 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).

  • Patent number: 5926281
    Abstract: A device for the alignment of a laser beam amplification system comprises at least measuring means and alignment templates positioned instead of filtering hole plates of the amplification system, the alignment templates having holes whose centers have substantially the same spatial positions as the centers of the filtering holes, certain template holes being provided with reference sights offset in an angular way with respect to one another, the tips of these sights being pointed towards the center of the holes, the measuring means defining, by sighting at the end of the amplification system, the divergences between the focusing points of the beam in the holes, merged at a single point, and the tips of the sights, their angular positions enabling them to be assigned to their respective holes, the positions of elements of the amplification system being then controlled as a function of the measurements of divergences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Thomas-CSF
    Inventors: Jacques Rioland, Michel Delon, Fran.cedilla.ois-Hugues Gauthier, Patrice Jano