Patents by Inventor Laurent Tardif

Laurent Tardif 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).

  • Connecting device for one or two electric cables, and process for mounting this device on the end of the cable or cables
    Patent number: 5230640
    Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting device (200) to equip an end of an electric cable (100), including a multilayer sleeve having an axis (202) and having an insulating intermediate layer (204) interposed between two layers suitable for ensuring the guiding of an electric field.According to the invention, only the end or ends (207) of the sleeve designed to cooperate with a cable end are in a state of radial expansion such that they present an inside diameter that is greater than the outside diameter of the corresponding cable end and which will be less than this outside diameter once retraction of the said ends of the sleeve has been brought about.The invention also relates to a process for mounting this device on the cable or cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Cables Pirelli
    Inventor: Laurent Tardif