Patents by Inventor Marc Beranger

Marc Beranger 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: 10027000
    Abstract: An accumulator battery system includes series-connected accumulators with potentials across stages powering corresponding controllers that measure potential differences between terminals of accumulators. A first analog-to-digital converter encodes the potential measured between terminals of an accumulator. A first output delivers a first digital sequence corresponding to the encoded potential difference, logic levels of which are defined by at least two potentials across the first-stage accumulator terminals. A decoder decodes a potential measured by the first control-device from the first digital sequence. A second analog-to-digital converter selectively encodes a potential difference measured between terminals of a second-stage accumulator of the second stage and two potentials of the digital sequence received on the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Renault S.A.S.
    Inventors: Michaël Palmieri, Marc Beranger, Sébastien Carcouet, Lionel Cordesses, Alexis Derbey, Michel Mensler, Christophe Dang-Van-Nhan
  • Publication number: 20170133728
    Abstract: An accumulator battery system includes series-connected accumulators with potentials across stages powering corresponding controllers that measure potential differences between terminals of accumulators. A first analog-to-digital converter encodes the potential measured between terminals of an accumulator. A first output delivers a first digital sequence corresponding to the encoded potential difference, logic levels of which are defined by at least two potentials across the first-stage accumulator terminals. A decoder decodes a potential measured by the first control-device from the first digital sequence. A second analog-to-digital converter selectively encodes a potential difference measured between terminals of a second-stage accumulator of the second stage and two potentials of the digital sequence received on the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Palmieri, Marc Beranger, Sébastien Carcouet, Lionel Cordesses, Alexis Derbey, Michel Mensler, Christophe Dang-Van-Nhan
  • Patent number: 9595837
    Abstract: A system of batteries of accumulators includes electrochemical accumulators in series, a power connection connecting either a load or recharging power supply across the accumulators, a control device connected to the accumulators by the power connection, measuring circuits, each of which is attached to a respective accumulator and configured to measure voltage across its terminals, and communication circuits, each of which is attached to an accumulator and configured to induce a voltage drop across its terminals when the measured voltage crosses a threshold. The control device identifies this drop in voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Renault S.A.S.
    Inventors: Marc Beranger, Marco Ranieri
  • Publication number: 20140132218
    Abstract: A system of batteries of accumulators includes electrochemical accumulators in series, a power connection connecting either a load or recharging power supply across the accumulators, a control device connected to the accumulators by the power connection, measuring circuits, each of which is attached to a respective accumulator and configured to measure voltage across its terminals, and communication circuits, each of which is attached to an accumulator and configured to induce a voltage drop across its terminals when the measured voltage crosses a threshold. The control device identifies this drop in voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie Atomique et aux energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Marc Beranger, Marco Ranieri
  • Patent number: 8552610
    Abstract: An alternator including a rotatably-assembled permanent magnet, the magnetization direction of the magnet being orthogonal to the rotation axis, and a winding with no iron core surrounding the magnet and having each turn in a plane substantially parallel to a plane containing the rotation axis, the winding extending across a dihedral angle from the rotation axis smaller than 75 degrees and, radially, over a distance ranging between one quarter and half of the magnet diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Marc Beranger
  • Patent number: 8044338
    Abstract: A device for counting the number of rotations of an object in a system, in which a storage means carries counting data designed to represent the number of rotations counted. The counting data is used for conditionally resetting the storage means if and only if two separate conditions are fulfilled, where at least of one of the conditions is the reception of information from an external device, thereby insuring that the counting data represents the number of rotations counted from a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Franck Vial, Marc Beranger
  • Publication number: 20110140563
    Abstract: An alternator including a rotatably-assembled permanent magnet, the magnetization direction of the magnet being orthogonal to the rotation axis, and a winding with no iron core surrounding the magnet and having each turn in a plane substantially parallel to a plane containing the rotation axis, the winding extending across a dihedral angle from the rotation axis smaller than 75 degrees and, radially, over a distance ranging between one quarter and half of the magnet diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Altematives
    Inventor: Marc BERANGER
  • Patent number: 7916019
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is a device for detecting a relative position of a first element (12, 14) having a main mechanical function and a second element, including an electric circuit (4) the opening and closing of which respectively correspond to a first and a second position of the first and second elements with respect to each other, wherein at least the first element is part of the electric circuit (4). An object of the present invention is also a monitoring installation comprising such detecting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Commissariat A l'Energie Atomique, Etablissement Public A Caractere Industriel Et Commercial
    Inventors: Franck Vial, Laurent Jouanet, Marc Beranger, Roland Blanpain, Gerard Evreux, Dominique Jacquin
  • Patent number: 7617722
    Abstract: In an electronic device for counting the number of rotations for a tire and wheel assembly, a storage means holds counting information (NbRot) intended to represent the number of rotations counted at each moment. The counting information (NbRot) represents the number of rotations counted from a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Beranger, Franck Daumas, Franck Liberge, Thierry Penot, Franck Vial, Marie-José Villard
  • Patent number: 7504820
    Abstract: A current measurement device includes a current sensor including a magnetic circuit, a plurality of windings including at least one excitation winding charged with the excitation of the magnetic circuit, and at least one detection winding. The sensor is equipped with windings forming a transformer of which at least one primary winding opposite the magnetic circuit through which a current I to be measured is designed to enter, and at least one secondary winding opposite the magnetic circuit capable of producing a counter reaction magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Elisabeth Delevoye, Marc Beranger
  • Publication number: 20090003510
    Abstract: A device for counting the number of rotations of an object in a system, in which a storage means carries counting data designed to represent the number of rotations counted. The counting data is used for conditionally resetting the storage means if and only if two separate conditions are fulfilled, where at least of one of the conditions is the reception of information from an external device, thereby insuring that the counting data represents the number of rotations counted from a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Franck Vial, Marc Beranger
  • Publication number: 20080246467
    Abstract: A device for counting rotations of an object in a referential, in which a magnetic sensor linked to the object measures a field associated with the referential in order to generate measuring signals at the rotational frequency of the object. The sensor also functions as an antenna for receiving an electromagnetic wave. A method for controlling a counting device includes receiving measurement signals and a radio-frequency triggering signal from a sensor and sending information representative of the numbering cycles in the measurement signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Franck Vial, Marc Beranger
  • Patent number: 7378843
    Abstract: A magnetic field measuring device, equipped with a fluxgate magnetometer, the device including a magnetic sensor equipped with at least one magnetic core and a plurality of windings, and configured to deliver at least one output signal, pulse generating means for emitting at least one excitation signal at the input of the magnetic sensor, in the form of a succession of excitation pulses, one excitation pulse of the excitation pulses having a duration at least 50 times less than a period of the at least one excitation signal, sampling means for sampling the output signal of the magnetic sensor, and means for, following the emission of at least one excitation pulse of the succession of excitation pulses and during the duration of the at least one excitation pulse, triggering at least one acquisition of the output signal of the magnetic sensor by the sampling means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Marc Beranger
  • Publication number: 20080094239
    Abstract: The main object of the present invention is a device for detecting a relative position of a first element (12, 14) having a main mechanical function and a second element, including an electric circuit (4) the opening and closing of which respectively correspond to a first and a second position of the first and second elements with respect to each other, wherein at least the first element is part of the electric circuit (4). An object of the present invention is also a monitoring installation comprising such detecting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Franck VIAL, Laurent JOUANET, Marc BERANGER, Roland BLANPAIN, Gerard EVREUX, Dominique JACQUIN
  • Patent number: 7360411
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an autonomous device which is intended to be carried by a tire and wheel assembly in order to detect revolutions of said assembly, comprising at least one sensor which produces signals and an interpreter device which is connected to the sensor in order to interpret the signals produced by the sensor. The sensor is a passive sensor, the produced signals of which are proportional to the temporal variations of a magnetic flux though this sensor, and is intended to be integral in rotation with the tire such that the revolutions of said assembly correspond to the revolutions of said sensor. The invention likewise relates to an assembly provided with an autonomous device which permits detection of revolutions of the assembly, and a method for detecting revolutions of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique, S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Beranger, Christian Jeandey
  • Publication number: 20080048643
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a current measurement device comprising a current sensor comprising: a magnetic circuit, a plurality of windings including at least one excitation winding charged with the excitation of the magnetic circuit, at least one detection winding, wherein the sensor is equipped with windings forming a transformer of which at least one primary winding opposite the magnetic circuit through which a current I to be measured is designed to enter, and at least one secondary winding opposite the magnetic circuit capable of producing a counter reaction magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Elisabeth Delevoye, Marc Beranger
  • Publication number: 20070222569
    Abstract: In an electronic device for counting the number of rotations for a tire and wheel assembly, a storage means holds counting information (NbRot) intended to represent the number of rotations counted at each moment. The counting information (NbRot) represents the number of rotations counted from a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Beranger, Franck Daumas, Franck Liberge, Thierry Penot, Franck Vial, Marie-Jose Villard
  • Publication number: 20070170916
    Abstract: The invention concerns a magnetic field measuring device equipped with a fluxgate magnetometer, the device comprising: a magnetic sensor or magnetic sensor (110,210) capable of delivering at least one output signal (S2), and equipped with at least one magnetic core, means of exciting said magnetic core, comprising generating means (120,220,420) capable of emitting an excitation signal (S1, S10) at the input of the circuit or magnetic sensor, in the form of a succession of pulses (125,126,225,226), means (130,230,330,430) of sampling the output signal (S1) of the magnetic circuit (110,210), further comprising means for: following the emission of at least one given pulse of said succession of pulses, triggering at least one acquisition of the output signal (S2) of the magnetic circuit by the sampling means during the duration of said given pulse. The invention further concerns a method employed by means of such a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventor: Marc BERANGER
  • Publication number: 20060152212
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an autonomous device which is intended to be carried by a tire and wheel assembly in order to detect revolutions of said assembly, comprising at least one sensor which produces signals and an interpreter device which is connected to the sensor in order to interpret the signals produced by the sensor. The sensor is a passive sensor, the produced signals of which are proportional to the temporal variations of a magnetic flux though this sensor, and is intended to be integral in rotation with the tire such that the revolutions of said assembly correspond to the revolutions of said sensor. The invention likewise relates to an assembly provided with an autonomous device which permits detection of revolutions of the assembly, and a method for detecting revolutions of the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: Michelin Recherche et Technique, S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Beranger, Christian Jeandey
  • Patent number: 5504429
    Abstract: A probe for detecting and dosing molecular oxygen by the electronic paramagnetic resonance spectrometry of a sample of lithium phthalocyanine in contact with the atmosphere to be tested. The probe includes a fixed glass tube with the shape of a hairpin, traversed by a flow of an atmosphere to be tested. The top of the tube contains a chamber with porous walls traversed by the flow of the atmosphere to be tested. The chamber contains the phthalocyanine sample and is surrounded by the spires of an electronic resonance detector trip coil. A movable magnet surrounds the tube and is provided with windings to create a continuous field for polarizing the phthalocyanine sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Mehdi Moussavi, Marc Beranger