Patents by Inventor Joel Menager

Joel Menager 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: 6364294
    Abstract: An anti-vibration support comprising two rigid frames joined to one another by an elastomer body which is applied against a rigid partition to define a hydraulic working chamber linked to a compensating chamber by a throttled passage. The liquid contained in the working chamber is in contact with a piston controlled by an electromagnetic actuator with a proportional electromagnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: André Gennesseaux, Patrice Loubat, Jean-Luc Gastineau, Joël Menager
  • Patent number: 6236296
    Abstract: Electromagnetic actuator including a mobile magnetic member made up of stacked ferromagnetic plates and two fixed electromagnets for reciprocating the mobile magnetic member along a central axis. The ferromagnetic plates each have two opposite edges parallel to the central axis which are crimped to two rigid transverse strips. Elastomer bodies join each transverse strip to a fixed spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: André Gennesseaux, Jean-Luc Gastineau, Sylvain Durand, Joël Menager
  • Patent number: 5788209
    Abstract: An elastic mount for a vehicle engine including an outer armature (1) intended to be connected to the engine, an inner armature (2) intended to be connected to the body (4) of the vehicle, and arms (5) made of elastic material connecting these two armatures together. The elastic material is bonded to the inner armature via the respective ends, of the arms the inner armature thus is radially covered with the elastic material. The two armatures have respectively complementary bearing surfaces capable of interacting so as to maintain the mutual centering of these two armatures in the axial direction in which the bearing surfaces are nested together as long as the mount is not subjected to the load of the engine. This interaction and the maintaining of centering are both automatically eliminated as soon as the mount is loaded by the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Jacques Dandre, Gilles Chenais, Joel Menager