Patents by Inventor Lionel A. Martin

Lionel A. Martin 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).

  • Publication number: 20250095289
    Abstract: The disclosed systems, components, methods, and processing steps are directed to determining user-item fit characteristics of an item for a user body part by accessing a three-dimensional (3D) reconstructed model of the user body part, accessing information about one or more 3D reference models of the item, the information for each 3D reference model including respective dimensional measurement, spatial, and geometrical attributes, performing a 3D matching process based on the 3D reconstructed model and the accessed information of the one or more 3D reference models to determine a best-fitting 3D reference model from the one or more 3D reference models, integrating the best-fitting 3D reference model with the 3D reconstructed model to provide a 3D best fit representation and displaying the 3D best fit representation along with visual indications of user-item fit characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Lionel LE CARLUER, Bryan MARTIN, Azadeh FARHADMONFARED, Laurent JUPPE, Sherif Esmat Omar ABUELWAFA, Danae BLONDEL
  • Publication number: 20250075742
    Abstract: A large rolling bearing assembly includes a rolling bearing and at least one displacement sensor module. The rolling bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, and a plurality of rolling elements between the inner ring and the outer ring, the inner ring is supported on a shaft, the outer ring is mounted in a housing, and the at least one displacement sensor module is configured to measure a radial position of the shaft in order to detect wear of the rolling bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Lionel MARTIN, Franck LANDRIEVE
  • Publication number: 20240410363
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a screw pump comprising: a casing with an inlet, an outlet and a flow chamber between the inlet and the outlet; and at least two screws housed in the flow chamber to force a fluid flow through the flow chamber from the inlet to the outlet; wherein at least one of the screws comprises a lubricated polymer material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Lionel MARTIN, Didier RICHARD
  • Patent number: 12110957
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a globoid worm gear (4) for engagement with a worm (3) in a worm gear assembly (1). The globoid worm gear (4) includes first and second side surfaces (17, 18), a circumferential surface (10), and an axis of rotation. The globoid worm gear (4) also includes a plurality of gear teeth (9) spaced about the circumferential surface (10) with spaces (11) arranged between adjacent gear teeth (9), the plurality of gear teeth (9) being configured to engage the worm (3). The plurality of gear teeth (9) are configured such that the spaces (11) between adjacent gear teeth (9) open into the first side surface (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Didier Richard, Lionel Martin
  • Publication number: 20230408373
    Abstract: A bearing includes a first ring and a second ring capable of rotating concentrically relative to one another and a system for determining wear of the bearing in a machine. The system for determining wear includes identifying means for identifying a set of parameters of the machine acting on the load applied on the bearing, measuring means, conditioning means, determining means, first determining means, second determining means, and third determining means for determining the state of wear of the bearing according to the value of the representative parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Franck Landrieve, Lionel MARTIN, Ghufran JAN, Farrukh YAQUB
  • Publication number: 20230102311
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a globoid worm gear (4) for engagement with a worm (3) in a worm gear assembly (1). The globoid worm gear (4) includes first and second side surfaces (17, 18), a circumferential surface (10), and an axis of rotation. The globoid worm gear (4) also includes a plurality of gear teeth (9) spaced about the circumferential surface (10) with spaces (11) arranged between adjacent gear teeth (9), the plurality of gear teeth (9) being configured to engage the worm (3). The plurality of gear teeth (9) are configured such that the spaces (11) between adjacent gear teeth (9) open into the first side surface (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Didier RICHARD, Lionel MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20220381178
    Abstract: A cooling circuit for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, includes a pump having at least one rotor that is driven in rotation by a motor and configured to force the circulation of cooling liquid in the circuit. The at least one rotor includes at least one driving screw that is driven by the motor, and at least one driven screw that is driven by the at least one driving screw, the driving screw(s) and driven screw(s) being configured to force the circulation of cooling liquid in the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Didier RICHARD, Lionel MARTIN, Dominique VAGINET
  • Publication number: 20210341076
    Abstract: A gear train (4) for a valve actuator (1) includes a motor (2) and a valve shaft (3), and is configured to rotationally couple the motor to the valve shaft. The gear train includes a motor gear (7) attachable to a motor shaft (5), and a face gear (8) mountable such that a rotational axis (9) of the face gear is perpendicular to a rotational axis (6) of the motor. The face gear includes an axially directed face gear portion (10) for engaging the motor gear. The gear train also includes an output gear (20) attachable to the valve shaft. The output gear and valve shaft are mountable such that a rotational axis (21) of the output gear is parallel to the rotational axis of the face gear. The gear train also includes a pinion gear arrangement configured to rotationally couple the face gear to the output gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Lionel Martin, Didier Richard
  • Patent number: 9989090
    Abstract: A slewing bearing providing a first ring, a second ring, the rings being concentric around a central axis (X1), at least one row of rolling elements arranged between the rings in order to form an axial thrust that can transmit axial forces, at least one row of rolling elements arranged between the rings in order to form a radial thrust that can transmit radial forces, and at least one sealing assembly arranged between the first ring and the second ring. The sealing assembly provides first sealing means being arranged outside second sealing means, an annular sealed chamber being defined between the first sealing means and second sealing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Bruno Capoldi, Lionel Martin, Eric Robba
  • Publication number: 20170356491
    Abstract: A slewing bearing providing a first ring, a second ring, the rings being concentric around a central axis (X1), at least one row of rolling elements arranged between the rings in order to form an axial thrust that can transmit axial forces, at least one row of rolling elements arranged between the rings in order to form a radial thrust that can transmit radial forces, and at least one sealing assembly arranged between the first ring and the second ring. The sealing assembly provides first sealing means being arranged outside second sealing means, an annular sealed chamber being defined between the first sealing means and second sealing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Bruno Capoldi, Lionel Martin, Eric Robba
  • Patent number: 9701504
    Abstract: A winding device for formation of fibrous rolls includes: a first conveyor and a second conveyor; a movable compression roller which delimits a winding area with guide surfaces of the conveyors; a movable pre-compression conveyor including an upstream roller, a downstream assembly with a curved downstream end, and a belt wound around the upstream roller and the downstream assembly. The belt is held under tension against the downstream assembly and forms, facing the guide surface of the first conveyor, a circulating pre-compression surface for pre-compression of a fibrous mat to be wound, the pre-compression surface being a pre-compression element closest to the winding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER
    Inventors: Rene Van Gurp, Lionel Martin, Fabrice Delesse, Pierre Cognard
  • Publication number: 20150166287
    Abstract: A winding device for formation of fibrous rolls includes: a first conveyor and a second conveyor; a movable compression roller which delimits a winding area with guide surfaces of the conveyors; a movable pre-compression conveyor including an upstream roller, a downstream assembly with a curved downstream end, and a belt wound around the upstream roller and the downstream assembly. The belt is held under tension against the downstream assembly and forms, facing the guide surface of the first conveyor, a circulating pre-compression surface for pre-compression of a fibrous mat to be wound, the pre-compression surface being a pre-compression element closest to the winding area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER
    Inventors: Rene Van Gurp, Lionel Martin, Fabrice Delesse, Pierre Cognard
  • Patent number: 8488843
    Abstract: A method for following hand movements in an image flow, includes receiving an image flow in real time, locating in each image in the received image flow a hand contour delimiting an image zone of the hand, extracting the postural characteristics from the image zone of the hand located in each image, and determining the hand movements in the image flow from the postural characteristics extracted from each image. The extraction of the postural characteristics of the hand in each image includes locating in the image zone of the hand the center of the palm of the hand by searching for a pixel of the image zone of the hand the furthest from the hand contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics SA, Universite Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III
    Inventors: Lionel Martin, Salah Bourennane, Simon Conseil
  • Patent number: 8442339
    Abstract: A method for selecting images from a set of images (according to sharpness and contrast criteria), comprising pre-selecting images by a simplified sharpness and/or contrast analysis of each image in the set of images, and of selecting images by a finer analysis of the sharpness and/or contrast of each pre-selected image. This method is particularly useful to perform an identification by recognition of the iris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.A., Universite Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III
    Inventors: Lionel Martin, William Ketchantang, Stéphane Derrode
  • Patent number: 8386518
    Abstract: When a user records confidential data in a communicating object, the user inputs the confidential data which are encoded and transmitted, with a reference of the user, towards a server in order to record the encoded confidential data in association with the reference. When a user searches for a reference of another user of a communicating object in the communicating object, the user inputs a search datum which is encoded and transmitted to the server for comparing therein the encoded search datum transmitted to all of the encoded confidential data recorded in the server. The server transmits a reference associated with an encoded confidential datum corresponding to the encoded search data to the communicating object. In this way, the user of the communicating object is put into contact with the other user without knowing the data of the other user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Gemalto SA
    Inventors: Frederic Faure, Gary Chew, Lionel Martin
  • Patent number: 8363106
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a video surveillance method comprising steps of a video camera periodically capturing an image of a zone to be monitored, analyzing the image to detect a presence therein, and of the video camera transmitting the image only if a presence has been detected in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Lionel Martin, Tony Baudon
  • Patent number: 8325996
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for locating the iris in an image of an eye, comprising steps of locating the pupil in the image, of detecting positions of intensity steps of pixels located on a line passing through the pupil and transition zones between the iris and the cornea, on either side of the pupil, and of determining the center and the radius of a circle passing through the detected positions of the transitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics Rousset SAS, Universite Paul Cezanne Aix Marseille III
    Inventors: Lionel Martin, Guillaume Petitjean, Stéphane Derrode, William Ketchantang
  • Publication number: 20120294489
    Abstract: A method for following hand movements in an image flow, includes receiving an image flow in real time, locating in each image in the received image flow a hand contour delimiting an image zone of the hand, extracting the postural characteristics from the image zone of the hand located in each image, and determining the hand movements in the image flow from the postural characteristics extracted from each image. The extraction of the postural characteristics of the hand in each image includes locating in the image zone of the hand the center of the palm of the hand by searching for a pixel of the image zone of the hand the furthest from the hand contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE PAUL CEZANNE AIX-MARSEILLE III, STMICROELECTRONICS SA
    Inventors: Lionel Martin, Salah Bourennane, Simon Conseil
  • Patent number: 8254627
    Abstract: A method for following hand movements in an image flow, includes receiving an image flow in real time, locating in each image in the received image flow a hand contour delimiting an image zone of the hand, extracting the postural characteristics from the image zone of the hand located in each image, and determining the hand movements in the image flow from the postural characteristics extracted from each image. The extraction of the postural characteristics of the hand in each image includes locating in the image zone of the hand the center of the palm of the hand by searching for a pixel of the image zone of the hand the furthest from the hand contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics SA, Universite Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III
    Inventors: Lionel Martin, Salah Bourennane, Simon Conseil
  • Patent number: 8139823
    Abstract: A method for capturing a sequence of video images, using an imager including an estimation of the parameters of a model of global motion between successive images. The method may include measurement of local motions on edges of the images, with the estimation of the parameters of the global motion model performed using the result of the measurement of local motions on the edges of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Fabrice Gensolen, Lionel Martin, Guy Cathebras