Patents by Inventor Louis Destannes

Louis Destannes 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: 4939496
    Abstract: A strain gauge for compensating the creep of a support and a process for obtaining a strain gauge. The gauge is bonded to a support and includes a piezoresistive pattern etched on one face of a flexible film. A layer of a material subject to relaxation is deposited on the other face of the film. The relaxation layer is bonded to a test piece of the same material as the support. A constant force is applied for producing a creep on the test piece and the resistance of gauge as a function of time is measured. The thickness of the relaxation layer is adjusted to cancel out the evolution of the resistance of the gauge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Louis Destannes
  • Patent number: 4532016
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a capacitive hygrometer comprising a capacitor (1) having a dielectric material (3), whose dielectric constant varies as a function of the quantity of water absorbed. It has on one of its conductive faces numerous fissures bringing the dielectric material into direct contact with the atmosphere whose degree of humidity is to be measured. However, the electrical continuity of the fissured conductive face is maintained.Application to the measurement of the degree of humidity of the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Bernard Chambaz, Gilles Delapierre, Louis Destannes
  • Patent number: 4438480
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a capacitive hygrometer comprising a capacitor (1) having a dielectric material (3), whose dielectric constant varies as a function of the quantity of water absorbed. It has on one of its conductive faces numerous fissures bringing the dielectric material into direct contact with the atmosphere whose degree of humidity is to be measured. However, the electrical continuity of the fissured conductive face is maintained. Application to the measurement of the degree of humidity of the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Bernard Chambaz, Gilles Delapierre, Louis Destannes
  • Patent number: 4199228
    Abstract: The method consists in forming a first insulating plate coated with an electrode, in depositing at the periphery of the plate a wall formed of a first material which is chemically inert with respect to the film and fusible at a first temperature, in passing through the wall a filler tube of a second material having a higher melting point than the wall, in forming a second transparent insulating plate coated with a semitransparent electrode, in sealing the tube in the wall and the first and second plates on the wall by heating the cell elements to a temperature at least equal to the first temperature and lower than the melting point of the second material, then in allowing the cell elements to cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Louis Destannes, Jacques Duchene, Robert Meyer