Patents by Inventor Jean Rigaud

Jean Rigaud 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: 8561648
    Abstract: A flexible pipe and a method of producing it. The pipe has two tubular structures, internal and external, and a tubular axial blocking layer. The tubular blocking layer comprises two section wires each having a trapezoidal cross section. The trapezoidal cross section defines a base and two sloping lateral flanks. The base of one of the two section wires is oriented toward the internal tubular structure. The base of the other section wire is oriented in the opposite direction. The section wires are wound side by side forming contiguous coils. The internal tubular structure includes a wire having a wound structure to form transversely blocked coils. One of the two section wires is wound against said structure coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Technip France
    Inventors: Fabrice Bectarte, Alain Coutarel, Pascal Estrier, Patrice Joël Louis Jung, Jean Rigaud
  • Publication number: 20100089481
    Abstract: A flexible pipe and a method of producing it. The pipe has two tubular structures, internal and external, and a tubular axial blocking layer. The tubular blocking layer comprises two section wires each having a trapezoidal cross section. The trapezoidal cross section defines a base and two sloping lateral flanks. The base of one of the two section wires is oriented toward the internal tubular structure. The base of the other section wire is oriented in the opposite direction. The section wires are wound side by side forming contiguous coils. The internal tubular structure comprises a wire having a wound structure to form transversely blocked coils. One of said two section wires is wound against said structure coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Fabrice Bectarte, Alain Coutarel, Pascal Estrier, Patrice Joël Louis Jung, Jean Rigaud
  • Patent number: 6382681
    Abstract: A device for crimping or coupling end elements of a flexible pipe. The pipe includes a metal carcass of a helically wound wire wherein the winding provides gaps between adjacent windings. A sealing sheath outward of the carcass. The device comprises a cylindrically shaped tubular nipple that fits over the carcass with a tapered first conical leading end that is insertable between the sealing sheath and the carcass. The nipple has over a portion of its external surface grooves which substantially match in shape the squeezed out or crept parts of the sheath such that after the nipple has been installed at least part of the squeezed out crept parts of the sheath are almost completely housed in the grooves of the nipple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Coflexip
    Inventors: Hugues Berton, Jean Rigaud, Eric Buon
  • Patent number: 4023339
    Abstract: Automatic device for loading and unloading identical objects e.g. textile or yarn supports, on at least one machine and for conveying said objects between the machine, a take up area and a feed area for use particularly in the automatic doffing and donning operation of textile machines, and more especially, machines with vertical spindles, such as synthetic yarn drawing machines.The device includes at least two groups of cars having gripping and laying means. The first group is used for removing treated objects e.g. bobbin with yarn winding thereon, from the machine and conveying them to a take up area, the second group for conveying objects to be treated e.g. empty bobbins, from the feed area and positioning them on the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1977
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc-Textile
    Inventors: Paul Laderach, Charles Michalet, Jean Rigaud