Patents by Inventor Gilles M. Colin

Gilles M. Colin 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: 5339720
    Abstract: The invention relates to an episcopic sight usable for observation and firing by day or night on a vehicle equipped with a gun. The sight includes an assembly of interchangeable moduli grouping the optical elements, particularly made of a head modulus 1 containing a mirror controlled in elevation, a height increase modulus 2, a day sight modulus 4, a night sight modulus 5, a rangefinder modulus 6, an electronic case associated to a fire-control computer. It includes a modulus of separation 3 of the day and night channels interposed between the height increase modulus 2, and the day and night moduli 4, 5, the modulus of separation 3 containing the means for generating a sight reticle in the day and night channels. The means of generating a firing reticle include a projection collimator of this reticle and a rhombohedron to inject this reticle into the day and night moduli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Giat Industries
    Inventors: Jean-Francois R. Pellarin, Gilles M. Colin
  • Patent number: 5204489
    Abstract: The invention relates to an episcopic sight usable for observation and firing by day or night on a vehicle equipped with a gun. The sight includes an assembly of interchangeable moduli grouping the optical elements, particularly made of a head modulus 1 containing a mirror controlled in elevation, a height increase modulus 2, a day sight modulus 4, a night sight modulus 5, a rangefinder modulus 6, an electronic case associated to a fire-control computer. It includes a modulus of separation 3 of the day and night channels interposed between the height increase modulus 2, and the day and night moduli 4, 5, the modulus of separation 3 containing the means for generating a sight reticle in the day and night channels. The means of generating a firing reticle include a projection collimator of this reticle and a rhombohedron to inject this reticle into the day and night moduli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: GIAT Industries
    Inventors: Jean-Francois R. Pellarin, Gilles M. Colin