Patents by Inventor Luc Andre

Luc Andre 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: 10632894
    Abstract: The two stackable loading level pallet makes it possible to transport one or two stacked cars in a container or airplane pallet. Said pallet is non-motorized, capable of being folded flat, stackable, and capable of being opened out by a forklift truck. In a lower position, the top support structure of said pallet, which is framed and has a completely free central space, fits into the bottom support structure of said pallet, and the top and rear front wheel support devices of the top support structure are inserted onto or in alignment with the bottom wheel support assembly of the bottom support structure and thus form all or part of a lower rolling path that makes it possible to load a motor vehicle onto the top support structure of said pallet via the own movement thereof and without an access ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: LOHR INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Andre, Pierre Leonhart
  • Publication number: 20200086685
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motorized axle for a vehicle comprising a casing incorporating a rotational movement transmission, on each side of the casing, an axle piece comprising a free end equipped with a hub and another end mounted on said casing, each axle piece comprising members for establishing a kinematic link between the corresponding hub and the rotational movement transmission, an electric, pneumatic or hydraulic motor mounted on the casing, having an axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the axle, said motor being connected to the rotational movement transmission by means of a kinematic link that can be at least partially disengaged and at least one auxiliary device of said vehicle, able to be driven by said motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Jean-Luc ANDRE, Jacques OBER
  • Publication number: 20200001768
    Abstract: The tie-down hook includes a curved hooking finger whereof the free end, intended to be inserted in oblong through orifices provided in the deck of a transport vehicle, includes a flattened spatula extending laterally on each side by a lateral extension. It also includes an elongated intermediate part with a round or oval section, and a connecting part that is preferably annular whereof the orifice is delimited in its inner part by rounded edges. The upper surface of the spatula that is oriented facing toward the connecting part is rounded in relief when considered in profile. The tie-down hook preferably includes a conventional second curved hooking finger provided opposite the other finger so as to form an S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Andre
  • Patent number: 10518689
    Abstract: The tie-down hook includes a curved hooking finger whereof the free end, intended to be inserted in oblong through orifices provided in the deck of a transport vehicle, includes a flattened spatula extending laterally on each side by a lateral extension. It also includes an elongated intermediate part with a round or oval section, and a connecting part that is preferably annular whereof the orifice is delimited in its inner part by rounded edges. The upper surface of the spatula that is oriented facing toward the connecting part is rounded in relief when considered in profile. The tie-down hook preferably includes a conventional second curved hooking finger provided opposite the other finger so as to form an S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LOHR INDUSTRIE
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Andre
  • Patent number: 10501130
    Abstract: A system for immobilizing a semi-trailer kingpin on a transport vehicle includes a balance arm and a substantially horizontal rigid linking structure designed to guide the vertical movement of the receiving nacelle, hold it in position above the lifting system in a horizontal plane and take up the forces exerted thereon. The longitudinal rigid linking structure is hingedly linked to the receiving nacelle and to the transport vehicle in order to take up the longitudinal forces from same, and the balance arm includes preloaded springs that take up the forces exerted on the balance arm when the receiving nacelle is temporarily inclined relative to the horizontal plane. The lifting system for lifting the receiving nacelle is mounted pivoting on the railway unit at a pivot pin transverse to the longitudinal axis of the transport vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: LOHR INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Jacques Ober, Jean-Luc Andre
  • Publication number: 20190356599
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method according to the present disclosure includes receiving a topology change message at a core edge node and performing a network address information removal operation. The core edge node participates in network communications with one or more access network nodes of an access network using an access network protocol. The topology change message indicates that a topology change has occurred in the access network, and the topology change message conforms to the access network protocol. The network address information removal operation removes network address information stored by the core edge node, and the network address information is used by the core edge node in participating in the network communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Patrice Brissette, Ali Sajassi, Mei Zhang, Luc Andre Burdet
  • Patent number: 10414414
    Abstract: An impact detection device for a system for locking the kingpin of a semitrailer on a railway unit includes a rigid connecting piece connected to a kingpin receiving structure and a connecting shaft connecting the rigid connecting piece to the railway unit, mounted on the railway unit, received with the ability to pivot in an oblong provided in the rigid connecting piece and capable of moving in the oblong. The device also includes a shear pin that prevents the connecting shaft from moving in the oblong and which breaks in the event of an impact so as to allow the connecting shaft to move in the oblong, a bypass pipe mounted as a bypass on the general pipe of the railway unit, and a cutoff tool secured to the railway unit, which cuts off the bypass pipe when the shear pin is broken and a connecting shaft is moving in the oblong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LOHR INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Andre, Nicolas Kretz, Jacques Ober
  • Publication number: 20190032680
    Abstract: The security unit ensures, by blocking the hydraulic flow, that the rod of a cylinder is held in position. It includes two preferably twinned isolation devices, each mounted on one of the hydraulic lines supplying fluid to a chamber of the cylinder. Each isolation device includes two series-connected ball-check valves allowing the flow in the direction of inlet of the fluid into the respective chamber; and a longitudinal, separate rod, inserted between the balls but not linked thereto, and capable of being slidably guided towards each of the balls and driving same. The rod is too short to contact both balls simultaneously when the two valves are closed; but it is sufficiently long to push the ball of the second valve, thereby causing it to open, when it slides under the pushing action of the ball of the first valve upon the latter being controlled to be opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Andre
  • Publication number: 20180370412
    Abstract: The two stackable loading level pallet makes it possible to transport one or two stacked cars in a container or airplane pallet. Said pallet is non-motorized, capable of being folded flat, stackable, and capable of being opened out by a forklift truck. In a lower position, the top support structure of said pallet, which is framed and has a completely free central space, fits into the bottom support structure of said pallet, and the top and rear front wheel support devices of the top support structure are inserted onto or in alignment with the bottom wheel support assembly of the bottom support structure and thus form all or part of a lower rolling path that makes it possible to load a motor vehicle onto the top support structure of said pallet via the own movement thereof and without an access ramp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Andre, Pierre Leonhart
  • Publication number: 20180334204
    Abstract: A system for immobilizing a semi-trailer kingpin on a transport vehicle includes a balance arm and a substantially horizontal rigid linking structure designed to guide the vertical movement of the receiving nacelle, hold it in position above the lifting system in a horizontal plane and take up the forces exerted thereon. The longitudinal rigid linking structure is hingedly linked to the receiving nacelle and to the transport vehicle in order to take up the longitudinal forces from same, and the balance arm includes preloaded springs that take up the forces exerted on the balance arm when the receiving nacelle is temporarily inclined relative to the horizontal plane. The lifting system for lifting the receiving nacelle is mounted pivoting on the railway unit at a pivot pin transverse to the longitudinal axis of the transport vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Jacques Ober, Jean-Luc Andre
  • Publication number: 20180309596
    Abstract: Presented herein is an exemplified system and method that implicit aliasing in an EVPN network having provider edge nodes in a network infrastructure (e.g., a MPLS infrastructure). In particular, the exemplified system and method employ a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) based EVPN construct that facilitates multiplexing across large number of different physical interfaces, among multiple device manufacturers and vendors, while providing implicit antialiasing functionality, and being fully supportive of EVPN capabilities. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that joins the reachability information from a first network device and a second network device, in response to receiving a first EVPN advertisement from the first network device and receiving a second EVPN advertisement from the second network device, such that traffic later transmitted in associated with the first EVI or the first ESI are routable to both the first network device and the second network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Patrice Brissette, Luc André Burdet, Samir Thoria
  • Publication number: 20180257672
    Abstract: An impact detection device for a system for locking the kingpin of a semitrailer on a railway unit includes a rigid connecting piece connected to a kingpin receiving structure and a connecting shaft connecting the rigid connecting piece to the railway unit, mounted on the railway unit, received with the ability to pivot in an oblong provided in the rigid connecting piece and capable of moving in the oblong. The device also includes a shear pin that prevents the connecting shaft from moving in the oblong and which breaks in the event of an impact so as to allow the connecting shaft to move in the oblong, a bypass pipe mounted as a bypass on the general pipe of the railway unit, and a cutoff tool secured to the railway unit, which cuts off the bypass pipe when the shear pin is broken and a connecting shaft is moving in the oblong.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Andre, Nicolas Kretz, Jacques Ober
  • Patent number: 9963833
    Abstract: The invention concerns a rail crossing device designed for crossing a first rail embedded in a road surface with a guide rail, embedded in the road surface. It comprises at least one extensible portion provided in the guide rail and at least one mechanism designed for lengthwise extension and contraction of the extensible portion. This mechanism is designed to extend and contract the extensible portion in a lengthwise direction, defining a contracted position in which one end of the guide rail is separated from the first rail to allow a vehicle or any other movable device to travel along this rail, and an extended position in which said end of the guide rail is moved towards the first rail in order to guide a vehicle onto the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: NewTL
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Andre
  • Patent number: 9782352
    Abstract: A solid oral pharmaceutical composition in the form of a tablet consisting of a core including a Krebs cycle precursor salt as active ingredient, and of a coating including a coating agent, the composition including from 40% to 80% by weight of this precursor salt on the basis of the total weight of the composition, the composition being able to release this salt in vitro, both in purified water at pH 7 and in a solution buffered at pH 1.3, with a dissolution device in accordance with the European Pharmacopoeia, at a rate of from 2 to 15% in 15 minutes, from 15 to 25% in 30 minutes, and from 30 to 50% in one hour. The composition is a usefeul medicament, in particular in the treatment and/or prevention of urinary lithiasis occurring at a physiological pH and/or during urinary acidosis and/or during hypocitraturia and/or during hypercalciuria and/or during hyperoxaluria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ADVICENNE
    Inventors: Caroline Roussel-Maupetit, Luc-Andre Granier, Catherine Guittet
  • Patent number: 9662296
    Abstract: A solid oral pharmaceutical composition in the form of at least one tablet, the tablet consisting of a core including at least one bicarbonate salt as active ingredient and at least one prolonged-release matrix, and of a coating including at least one coating agent, the composition allowing continuous release in vivo over a period from after a quarter of an hour and up to twelve hours after taking a single dose, for use thereof as a medicament, in particular in the treatment and/or prevention of urinary lithiasis and related diseases, occurring at a physiological pH and/or during urinary acidosis and/or during hypobicarbonataemia and/or during hypocitraturia and/or during hypercalciuria and/or during hyperoxaluria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ADVICENNE
    Inventors: Caroline Roussel-Maupetit, Luc-Andre Granier, Catherine Guittet
  • Patent number: 9643666
    Abstract: The invention relates to a removable supporting cross-member (1) comprising: a built-in adjustable-height fifth wheel (18) for receiving the kingpin of semi-trailer, and front (26, 27) and rear (28) openings for the passage of the fork arms of a forklift truck or tractor. The invention can be used for moving a semi-trailer, positioning the semi-trailer horizontally on a carriage and securing same for transport, as well as for the corresponding operations during unloading, using only a forklift truck or tractor suitably dimensioned for the loads to be supplied. The invention is suitable for use by those involved in intermodal trail transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: LOHR INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Andre, Jacques Ober
  • Patent number: 9636304
    Abstract: A solid oral pharmaceutical composition in the form of tablets including:—a first solid oral pharmaceutical formulation in the form of at least one micro-tablet, the micro-tablet consisting of a core including at least one Krebs cycle precursor salt as active ingredient, and of a coating including at least one coating agent, and—a second oral pharmaceutical formulation in the form of at least one mini-tablet, the mini-tablet consisting of a core including at least one bicarbonate salt as active ingredient and at least one prolonged-release matrix, and of a coating including at least one coating agent. The use thereof as a medicament, in particular in the treatment and/or prevention of cystinuria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ADVICENNE
    Inventors: Catherine Guittet, Luc-Andre Granier, Caroline Roussel-Maupetit
  • Patent number: 9586483
    Abstract: An electrical power supply system with assistance with the making of electrical contact, of a type having a power supply arm mounted on a post positioned alongside the road, entering into electrical contact with a longitudinal conductor rail carried on the vehicle, is characterized in that the arm has—at its end—a means of rolling or sliding that enters into moving contact with an adjacent lane alongside the conductor rail at the beginning of its length. This invention concerns the domain of electrically-propelled vehicles carrying at least one longitudinal power supply rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: NewTL
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Andre
  • Patent number: 9488577
    Abstract: A gas sensor (20) comprising a substrate (231); an objective (211) situated on the substrate (231), adapted to collect a light beam (212, 213) emitted by a light source (210); an eyepiece (250) situated on the substrate (231), adapted to collect an incident light beam to focus it on a detector (251); return reflective surfaces (281, 282), situated facing said substrate; and at least one field lens (221), arranged on an intermediate reflective surface (222) formed on the substrate (231), and adapted to deviate the rays (213) of the light beam emitted by the light source, to bring them closer to the optical axis of the eyepiece (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Luc Andre
  • Patent number: D852365
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Andre