Patents by Inventor Jacques Espagnol

Jacques Espagnol 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: 4197546
    Abstract: A device facilitating the design and adjustment of millimeter wave sources comprising an active component of quasi-microscopic dimensions which has to be coupled with extreme accuracy to the input of a directional antenna having relatively large dimensions. In various embodiments the device exhibits the following common features: an assembly incorporating a solid-state active component, a resonant cavity, means for coupling said cavity to a directional antenna, adjusting means and a directional antenna, said assembly being fitted in such a manner that a simultaneous adjustment of the position of said component in said cavity and of said coupling means, is made possible by acting upon said adjusting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1980
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Gerard Cachier, Jacques Espagnol