Patents by Inventor Jean Francois Boucher

Jean Francois Boucher 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: 7222882
    Abstract: A loader implement includes a support mast that is provided with a mounting area for a front loader arrangement. The loader implement includes a roll-over protective assembly that is coupled to one of the other or both of the loader implement, or support mast. The protective assembly can be selectively pivoted between a raised protective position wherein it extends over an operator's platform and a lowered non-protective position, wherein it extends forward of the operator's platform. So as to prevent the loader arrangement from being used without the benefit of the protective assembly in its protective position, the mounting area for the loader arrangement is blocked by the protective assembly when the latter is in its non-protective position and is not cleared to permit the mounting of the loader arrangement until the protective assembly is moved to its protective position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Boucher
  • Publication number: 20050073140
    Abstract: The entire right, title and interest in and to this application and all subject matter disclosed and/or claimed therein, including any and all divisions, continuations, reissues, etc., thereof are, effective as of the date of execution of this application, assigned, transferred, sold and set over by the applicant(s) named herein to Deere & Company, a Delaware corporation having offices at Moline, Ill. 61265, U.S.A., together with all rights to file, and to claim priorities in connection with, corresponding patent applications in any and all foreign countries in the name of Deere & Company or otherwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: April 7, 2005
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Boucher
  • Patent number: 6715410
    Abstract: A baler includes a baling chamber configured for forming parallelepiped bales. The baling chamber has a top wall that is adjustable toward and away from a bottom wall of the chamber. The top wall is provided with a plurality of transversely spaced, parallel slots extending lengthwise of the chamber. A baling piston is mounted for movement within the baling chamber and includes an upper part which is defined by a plurality of transversely spaced ribs that are respectively received in the slots in the top wall and accommodate the movement of the latter during adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Boucher, Jocelyn Motret
  • Publication number: 20030029331
    Abstract: A baler includes a baling chamber configured for forming parallelepiped bales. The baling chamber has a top wall that is adjustable toward and away from a bottom wall of the chamber. The top wall is provided with a plurality of transversely spaced, parallel slots extending lengthwise of the chamber. A baling piston is mounted for movement within the baling chamber and includes an upper part which is defined by a plurality of transversely spaced ribs that are respectively received in the slots in the top wall and accommodate the movement of the latter during adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Boucher, Jocelyn Motret
  • Patent number: 6421994
    Abstract: A mower-conditioner includes a conditioning device which is mounted for being selectively shifted transverse the direction of travel so as to be offset relative to the longitudinal centerline of the mowing device. Associated with the conditioning device is a crop guide device which may be selectively adjusted to cause a narrowed stream of conditioned crop to be deposited to opposite sides of a longitudinal centerline of the conditioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Jean Francois Boucher, Roger Franet, Larry Neil Smith, Matthew Jay Mentzer