Patents by Inventor Laurent Pepin

Laurent Pepin 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).

  • Process for hooking up a group control module with a control module and/or an action module and/or a measurement module
    Patent number: 6339798
    Abstract: The process comprises a user acting on an initial group control module so as to commence the hooking up as a first step. It also includes the following steps: a request for signaling in the network of all the modules which are hooked up with the initial group control module by comparing the addresses which they have stored with the address of the initial group control module, the user acting on one or more of the modules of the network so as to hook it up with the initial group control module or to cancel it s hookup with the initial group control module. The process is terminated by the user acting on the initial group control module in order to terminate the hookup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Somfy
    Inventors: Eric Cheron, Emeric Motte, Laurent Pépin
  • Instruction broadcast by sensor
    Patent number: 5969492
    Abstract: The network (N) links control modules (CM) of a device (M) on the basis of a common instruction and of a quantity measured by a sensor (S) associated with a measurement module (MM). The instruction is formulated in the measurement module and broadcast over the network by the measurement module together with the measurement value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Somfy
    Inventors: Emeric Motte, Laurent Pepin, Eric Cheron, Bernhard Holzmayer
  • Adjustable height sink module
    Patent number: D412741
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Inventor: Laurent Pepin