Patents by Inventor Georges Rapin

Georges Rapin 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).

  • Device for controlling a gearbox
    Patent number: 7975567
    Abstract: A device for controlling a gearbox, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising fixed permanent magnets, mounted on a gearbox casing and cooperating by magnetic attraction or repulsion with a mobile permanent magnet mounted on a transmitter member driving into rotation or translation a shaft for selecting and/or changing gears, in order to define stable gear selecting or changing positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Teleflex Automotive France SAS
    Inventors: Georges Rapin, Jean-Pierre Baz
  • DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A GEARBOX
    Publication number: 20080167159
    Abstract: A device for controlling a gearbox, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising fixed permanent magnets, mounted on a gearbox casing and cooperating by magnetic attraction or repulsion with a mobile permanent magnet mounted on a transmitter member driving into rotation or translation a shaft for selecting and/or changing gears, in order to define stable gear selecting or changing positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Georges Rapin, Jean-Pierre Baz
  • DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A GEARBOX
    Publication number: 20080148894
    Abstract: A device for controlling a gearbox, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a lever pivotably mounted in a fixed support and permanent magnets borne by a components integral with the lever or displaceable by the latter and cooperating by magnetic attraction or repulsion with permanent magnets mounted on the fixed support along the paths covered by the permanent magnets displaced by the lever for defining stable positions of the lever, detent ball forces applied to the lever between the stable positions and forces for restoring the lever towards its stable positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Georges Rapin, Marc De Bortoli, Jean-Pierre Baz