Patents by Inventor Hervé Spanier

Hervé Spanier 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: 7316411
    Abstract: A board for gliding over snow, more particularly for children, includes a structure made of just one homogeneous material of an injected thermoplastic polymer, two metal side edges with wings, bordering the bottom surface forming the gliding surface. The structure includes a top surface and a bottom surface forming a gliding surface, and defines a hollow volume. The wings of the metal side edges are embedded in the homogeneous material of an injected thermoplastic polymer material of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Skis Dynastar
    Inventors: Hervé Spanier, Michel Veillard, Denis Bouttie, Fanny Caspar, Claudia Stern, Fabrice Magoni, Jean-Paul Alussi, Stéphane Bernard, Marc Rene
  • Ski
    Patent number: 7083183
    Abstract: A short ski (1) having a length LT of less than 110 cm, in particular for skiing by children, having a reduced-thickness region (3) in its central zone (2), which is bounded at the front and the rear by maximum-thickness regions (4, 5) each capable of holding the elements (6, 7) of a safety binding, said ski having an overall flexibility (SG), that is to say a flexure under deformation by a force F of 20 decanewtons applied to the upper surface of the ski midway between the two supporting points respectively lying level with the front contact line (LCFR) and rear contact line (LCRE), which is between: L p 3 H max 2 × 10 - 5 ? ? and ? ? L p 3 H max 2 × 2.10 - 5 expressed in millimeters, where Lp is the bearing length as defined between the front and rear contact lines and Hmax is the maximum thickness of the ski, both expressed in millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignees: Skis Dynastar, Skis Rossignol S.A.
    Inventors: Hervé Spanier, Fanny Caspar, Claudia Stern, Fabrice Magoni, Jean-Paul Alussi, Stéphane Bernard, Marc Rene