Patents by Inventor Gilles Sauvat

Gilles Sauvat 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: 6457380
    Abstract: This connecting rod is intended to be connected between two rigid components in order to limit their relative movements in a longitudinal direction. The connecting rod comprises a long rigid body which extends in the longitudinal direction and which connects two bushes. The body comprises two opposite external longitudinal ribs and an external transverse rib. The rib has first and second halves symmetrical relative to a median plane containing the longitudinal direction, the first half connecting the first bush and the first external longitudinal rib, and the second half connecting the first bush and the second external longitudinal rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Khalid Aazizou, Gilles Sauvat
  • Patent number: 6446947
    Abstract: This anti-vibration mount, comprising a base and a head connected by an elastomer body, is intended to be interposed between two rigid elements to damp the vibrations between these two elements, on a central axis. This mount comprises a non-extensible limiting cable forming a loop, which is fixed to the base and to the head, this cable comprising a first part which is supported on the head by winding around it and which extends towards the base from the head, and a second part which runs along at least a first portion of the periphery of the base and winds around at least a first return element integral with the base, level with two joints between this second part and the first part of the cable, the cable being restrained by the return element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Gilles Sauvat, Jean Lor, Hervé Visage, Sylvain Durand
  • Patent number: 6131893
    Abstract: A hydraulic antivibration support has two rigid strength members with at least the first strength member having an aluminum body. The strength members are connected to each other by an elastomer body which defines a first hydraulic chamber belonging to a liquid-filled hydraulic assembly, said hydraulic assembly being closed in sealed manner by a closure element crimped by means of a steel insert which is partially embedded in the aluminum body of the first strength member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Stephane Seynaeve, Gilles Sauvat, Jean Lor, Pascal Petit