Patents by Inventor Jean-Francois Cornet

Jean-Francois Cornet 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).

  • Publication number: 20200071646
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a module for a photobioreactor suitable for being assembled to an identical adjacent module, comprising: —a panel having a first face and a second face, opposite the first face, the first face delimiting, with the second face of the adjacent panel, a cavity suitable for containing a culture medium when the modules are assembled, the cavity (14) having a thickness of between 1 millimetre and 2 centimetres, and —a gas injection device, capable of injecting gas bubbles into the culture medium contained in the cavity, such that the bubbles rise along the faces of the panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicants: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite De Nantes, Ecole Nationale Superieure De Chimie De Clermont-Ferrand
    Inventors: Jérémy Pruvost, Jack Legrand, Jean-Francois Cornet
  • Publication number: 20140017778
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sunlight-guiding module (2) for a photobioreactor (1) comprising a reaction chamber (11), the module (2) comprising: —a concentrating device (21) placed outside the reaction chamber (11) in order to concentrate the sunlight into a concentrated beam; —a scattering device (24) placed in the reaction chamber (11); characterised in that the module (2) also comprises a homogenising device (22) placed between the concentrating device (21) and the scattering device (24) in order to make the concentrated beam homogeneous before the concentrated beam enters the scattering device (24). The invention also relates to a light-guiding panel (3) comprising at least two light-guiding modules (2). Finally, the invention relates to a photoreactor (1) comprising a reaction chamber (11), characterised in that it also comprises a light-guiding module (2) or panel (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Jean-François Cornet, Vincent Goetz, Gaël Plantard, Roger Garcia, Pascal Lafon, Frédéric Joyard