Patents by Inventor Jean Grenier

Jean Grenier 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: 8606560
    Abstract: An interpretation system that includes an optical or audio acquisition device for acquiring a sentence written or spoke in a source language and an audio restoration device for generating, from an input signal acquired by the acquisition device, a source sentence that is a transcription of the sentence in the source language. The interpretation system further includes a translation device for generating, from the source sentence, a target sentence that is a translation of the source sentence in a target language, and a speech synthesis device for generating, from the target sentence, an output audio signal reproduced by the audio restoration device. The interpretation system includes a smoothing device for calling the recognition, translation and speech synthesis devices in order to produce in real time an interpretation in the target language of the sentence in the source language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventor: Jean Grenier
  • Publication number: 20100256972
    Abstract: An interpretation system that includes an optical or audio acquisition device for acquiring a sentence written or spoke in a source language and an audio restoration device for generating, from an input signal acquired by the acquisition device, a source sentence that is a transcription of the sentence in the source language. The interpretation system further includes a translation device for generating, from the source sentence, a target sentence that is a translation of the source sentence in a target language, and a speech synthesis device for generating, from the target sentence, an output audio signal reproduced by the audio restoration device. The interpretation system includes a smoothing device for calling the recognition, translation and speech synthesis devices in order to produce in real time an interpretation in the target language of the sentence in the source language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: Jean Grenier
  • Patent number: 7424961
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tester or cosmetic liquid dispensing apparatus. More specifically, the tester includes a support, a holder for holding a bottle of cosmetic liquid, and controller for actuating a valve. The valve pumps liquid cosmetic such as perfume or toilet water (“eau de toilette”) from the tester. The tester may be used with bottles of perfume of different sizes and the controller can be easily removed and replaced when a new perfume bottle is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Inventor: Jean Grenier
  • Publication number: 20070138210
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tester or cosmetic liquid dispensing apparatus. More specifically, the tester includes a support, a holding means for holding a bottle of cosmetic liquid, and control means for actuating a valve. The valve pumps liquid cosmetic such as perfume or toilet water (“eau de toilette”) from the tester. The tester may be used with bottles of perfume of different sizes and the control means can be easily removed and replaced when a new perfume bottle is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventor: Jean Grenier
  • Patent number: 7162802
    Abstract: A hand tool is formed of a handle and a removable tool part . The tool has a protruding section and a first magnet at the end of the protruding section. The handle has a bore with a second magnet. The tool is assembled by inserting the protruding section into the bore so that the first magnet contacts the second magnet. Ramps are provided on the tool part and handle; the tool is disassemble by rotating the tool part relative to the handle. Thanks to the ramps, the magnets are separated : the tool part and the handle may then be pulled apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Inventors: Anne-Laure Benardeau, Jean Grenier
  • Patent number: 5000301
    Abstract: In the suitcase according to this invention each of its two parts (container or cover) is formed from a dismountable belt with four panels and from a bottom connected at the four corners through four structural connection parts, each of the latter comprising known assembling and/or fitting in elements or means for the edge portions of two adjacent panels and for the corresponding angle of the bottom to be connected so as to form a rectangular trihedron used as means for supporting, mounting and securing a protective corner, on the one hand, and on the other hand, reinforcing corner irons protecting from shocks in the longitudinal, vertical and transverse directions, each corner iron clamping the selvedge of a suitcase coating material against the corresponding panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: 501 Louis Vuitton Malletier
    Inventor: Jean Grenier
  • Patent number: 4658472
    Abstract: The hinge of the strap type is made as a connecting mechanism between the parts to be secured to the elements to be connected together. The strap comprises the cylindric selvedges each of which cooperates with at least one groove formed in at least a portion of a double part in form of a jaw and made integral with each of the elements to be assembled together, a central band in the strap having minimum width to permit free rotation of such elements relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: Louis Vuitton, SA
    Inventor: Jean Grenier
  • Patent number: 4572401
    Abstract: The holding device comprises a part provided at each of its ends with a lug, each lug being caught between the walls of a groove of elongated shape formed in a casing and capable of having a translational and rotational motion, each groove having adjacent at least one of its ends a zone of narrowed cross-section with elastic walls, and each casing being intended for securement to the corresponding element of the jointed assembly to which the device of the invention is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Louis Vuitton, S.A.
    Inventor: Jean Grenier
  • Patent number: 4206182
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the treatment of an uraniferous ore containing sulfur in the form of sulfates or sulfides with one or more alkaline solutions containing sodium carbonate in the presence of an oxidant, for extracting uranium in the form of soluble uranium salt in said solution.It comprises subjecting the ore, in a first step, to the action of a dilute pre-leach solution of sodium carbonate, whose concentration does not substantially exceed, or by very little, that which is required for the solubilization of the major part of the sulfur initially contained in the ore to convert it to sulfate in the presence of the oxidant and, in a second step, to the action of a leach solution, more concentrated in sodium carbonate, enabling the extraction and solubilization in the medium of the major part of the uranium still contained in the ore, not extracted in the pre-leach medium of the first step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1980
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Matieres Nucleaires (COGEMA)
    Inventors: Paul J. Lafforgue, Jean Grenier, Guy Rivoire