Patents by Inventor Gerard Luciano

Gerard Luciano 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).

  • Process and device for regulating the movement of a member by employing a fluid flow
    Patent number: 4625933
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and device for regulating at any instant the speed of a mobile member, such as a pulley, moving in a stroke of determined uniform direction, by employing a fluid passing under pressure through an orifice of restricted section. According to the invention, said pressurized fluid is made to pass several times alternately in one direction and in the other through said orifice, during said stroke of determined uniform direction. The invention is more particularly applicable to the deployment of appendices mounted on board space vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale
    Inventors: Gerard Luciano, Pierre Poveda, Pierre Croiset