Patents by Inventor Gerard Prost

Gerard Prost 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: 5485483
    Abstract: A device achieves thermal protection and cooling of the poles of an electromagnetic inductor, in particular for an induction furnace. The furnace comprises a plurality of tubes, arranged side by side and substantially coplanar, through which a coolant fluid flows. The connection of the tubes to the inlet and outlet pipes for the coolant fluid is made by a combination of socket and O-rings designed to ensure both electrical discontinuity and leaktightness between each tube and the pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Celes
    Inventors: Claude Couffet, Jean Hellegouarc'h, Gerard Prost, Jean C. Uring
  • Patent number: 5430274
    Abstract: Electromagnetic-induction heating coil, especially for the heating of metallurgical products, in which coil conductors are cooled with the aid of a tube in which a cooling fluid, in thermal contact with the conductors, circulates, wherein the conductors are wound in at least one ply, as a helix around the cooling tube so that the ply has at least one twist of one complete turn between two electrical terminals of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Celes
    Inventors: Claude Couffet, Jean Hellegouarc'h, Gerard Prost, Jean C. Uring
  • Patent number: 5397877
    Abstract: Device for the induction heating of flat metallic products on the move with the aid of electrical coils provided on magnetic armatures arranged on either side of the large faces of the product to be heated, which moves continuously between the said coils, wherein the inductors are mechanically independent of each other and they are arranged symmetrically in relation to the median plane of the product so that the magnetic fields generated are in phase opposition, leading to a ring-like distribution of the currents induced in the product to be heated up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Celes
    Inventors: Claude Couffet, Jean Hellegouarc'h, Gerard Prost, Jean C. Uring
  • Patent number: 5370172
    Abstract: Mobile modules for electromagnetic-induction heating or reheating a flat metallurgical product on the move, wherein each of the said modules is mounted so as to move on a track perpendicular to the direction of movement of the product. Each module includes an on-board counterweight, the potential energy of which may, at any instant, be used to quickly remove the module from the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Celes
    Inventors: Claude Couffet, Jean Hellegouarc'h, Gerard Prost, Jean C. Uring
  • Patent number: 5208433
    Abstract: A cooling tube (T) is incorporated into each conductor (C1) of the coil. The current carried by this conductor is divided between the strands which are maintained in thermal contact with the tube even in transposition or twist areas in which the conductor undergoes particularly marked deformations. The conductor features at least one half-turn twist between the electrical terminals of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Rotelec S. A.
    Inventors: Jean Hellegouarc'h, Gerard Prost
  • Patent number: 4960967
    Abstract: The device for protecting the poles of an electromagnetic inductor comprises a heat exchanger formed by one or more co-planar metal tubes (6) designed to allow the circulation of a cooling fluid therein and of such an arrangement that there is at most one electrical junction between any two tubes or tube elements. The exchanger is fastened to a rigid electrically insulating support plate (5) coated with refractory concrete (10) and covers the entire polar surface as far as the cowls (3). The exchanger can be shaped in the form of a series of alternating hairpins or in the form of a spiral with one or more branches. The device serves especially for protecting the poles of inductors used for the induction heating of metal products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Institut de Recherches de la Siderurgie Francaise
    Inventors: Marc Buffenoir, Rene Pierret, Jean Hellegouarc'h, Gerard Prost