Patents by Inventor Michel Dufour

Michel Dufour 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: 10662340
    Abstract: A liquid concentrate of pigments of mineral and organic hybrid solid particles of 0.5 to 2 ?m, including a copolymer consisting of: 5 to 40 wt % of anchor sequence(s) consisting of a linear copolymer formed from a first monomer with a basic nitrogenous group added from compound(s) selected from vinylpyridines, and a second monomer of the anchor sequence consists of an ethylene monomer containing an aromatic group, the weight content of the first monomer relative to the second monomer being 40-60 wt %, 25 to 90 wt % of the hydrophobic sequence(s) obtained from a polymer-substituted ethylene macromonomer of which the monomer units contain —COOR10 groups, where R10 is an optionally substituted C1-C10 alkyl, and 5 to 70 wt % of hydrophilic sequence(s) obtained from an ethylene macromonomer substituted by a hydrophilic sequence comprising a polyethylene glycol sequence substituted by a terminal alkoxy group, or connected to a polypropylene glycol sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: COLORIS GLOBAL COLORING CONCEPT
    Inventors: Daniel Lefevre, Michel Dufour
  • Publication number: 20180355192
    Abstract: A liquid concentrate of pigments of mineral and organic hybrid solid particles of 0.5 to 2 ?m, including a copolymer consisting of: 5 to 40 wt % of anchor sequence(s) consisting of a linear copolymer formed from a first monomer with a basic nitrogenous group added from compound(s) selected from vinylpyridines, and a second monomer of the anchor sequence consists of an ethylene monomer containing an aromatic group, the weight content of the first monomer relative to the second monomer being 40-60 wt %, 25 to 90 wt % of the hydrophobic sequence(s) obtained from a polymer-substituted ethylene macromonomer of which the monomer units contain —COOR10 groups, where R10 is an optionally substituted C1-C10 alkyl, and 5 to 70 wt % of hydrophilic sequence(s) obtained from an ethylene macromonomer substituted by a hydrophilic sequence comprising a polyethylene glycol sequence substituted by a terminal alkoxy group, or connected to a polypropylene glycol sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: COLORIS GLOBAL COLORING CONCEPT
    Inventors: Daniel LEFEVRE, Michel DUFOUR
  • Publication number: 20130067974
    Abstract: There is provided an integrated method of composting compostable organic waste matter by macerating compostable organic waste matter with a structuring agent and mixing additional compostable organic waste matter and/or structuring agent in the composting mixture. There is also provided an integrated method of biological valorization of compostable organic waste matter for composting by collecting in a coordinated manner a compostable organic waste matter from waste matter generator and delivering in a coordinated manner the collected compostable organic waste matter to a composting site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventor: Michel Dufour
  • Patent number: 6703916
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microswitch containing conductors located on a first level and conductors located on a second level, where the conductors on the first level are supported by a deformable element which can switch by means of an actuator with a bimetallic effect, and where the effect of this switching is that the gap between the conductors on the first level and the conductors on the second level is modified, characterised in that the actuator with a bimetallic effect consists of resistors in close and localised contact with the deformable element, and in that the resistors are capable, when traversed by an electric control current, of expanding sufficiently under the effect of the heat produced by the passage of the electric command current to cause, by the bimetallic effect, the deformable element to trigger before the heat produced in the resistors has been able to propagate into the deformable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Pierre-Louis Charvet, Michel Dufour
  • Publication number: 20020097133
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microswitch containing conductors located on a first level and conductors located on a second level, where the conductors on the first level are supported by a deformable element which can switch by means of an actuator with a bimetallic effect, and where the effect of this switching is that the gap between the conductors on the first level and the conductors on the second level is modified, characterised in that the actuator with a bimetallic effect consists of resistors in close and localised contact with the deformable element, and in that the resistors are capable, when traversed by an electric control current, of expanding sufficiently under the effect of the heat produced by the passage of the electric command current to cause, by the bimetallic effect, the deformable element to trigger before the heat produced in the resistors has been able to propagate into the deformable element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Pierre-Louis Charvet, Michel Dufour
  • Patent number: 5528937
    Abstract: A capacitive acceleration sensor is composed of two electrodes placed on a support and a mobile inertial mass connected to the support by a rigid frame and blades. The network of blades is selected so that the acceleration inside the plane of the blades causes a uniform movement of the upper electrode, irrespective of the direction of acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Michel Dufour
  • Patent number: 5317917
    Abstract: A resonant pressure transducer, having a deformable diaphragm or membrane exposed to an ambient environment wherein a pressure force to be measured exists, is provided. A transducer according to the present invention comprises a converter for transmitting the pressure force experienced by the diaphragm to a resonator vibrated by an exciter whose resonant frequency is a function of the intensity of the ambient pressure force to be determined. The converter and resonator are mounted in a rigid frame. The converter has flexible bending means able to absorb the bending moments resulting from the deformation of the diaphragm, so as to transmit to the resonator a tension or a compression force free from bending moments that generate stresses at the entrance of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Michel Dufour
  • Patent number: 4711835
    Abstract: The invention relates to electric circuits formed by depositing a thick layer of conductive, resistive or dielectric paste on a flat substrate. The thick layers are deposited using a squeegee or by silk screen printing. In this first case, the resolution of the patterns is at best 200 microns, limited by the mesh of the silk screen printing screens. For obtaining finer patterns, the thick layer is dried, then masted using a photoresist, whose patterns may have a resolution of 50 microns, with a space of 50 microns. The thick layer is then etched, in its parts not protected by the photoresist mask, using a mixture of organic solvents which have a differential solubility with respect to the thick layer and to the photoresist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1987
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventor: Michel Dufour
  • Patent number: 4150343
    Abstract: Laser pulses are generated by means of a gas laser in which a gas mixture containing carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium is at every pulse exposed to an electrical discharge. To achieve a homogeneous discharge, the vapor of a metallocene is added to the gas mixture which prior to at least a first discharge is irradiated with a pulse of ultra-violet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1979
    Assignee: Lasag AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang H. Seelig, Michel A. Dufour, Hans Egger