Patents by Inventor Michel Dumas

Michel Dumas 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: 11993408
    Abstract: A bladed disc for masking a moving disc of a jet engine, including blades, each blade including a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall that meet at a leading-edge and at a trailing edge, and wherein each blade has a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall each including a concave zone and a convex zone that are at a distance from the leading-edge and from the trailing edge and are spaced apart from one another, these concave zones and these convex zones each extending over the majority of the height of the blade, the concave zone of the pressure-side wall is opposite the convex zone of the suction-side wall, the concave zone of the suction-side wall is opposite the convex zone of the pressure-side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Dumas, Laurent Christophe Francis Villaines
  • Publication number: 20220042518
    Abstract: A bladed disc for masking a moving disc of a jet engine, including blades, each blade including a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall that meet at a leading-edge and at a trailing edge, and wherein each blade has a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall each including a concave zone and a convex zone that are at a distance from the leading-edge and from the trailing edge and are spaced apart from one another, these concave zones and these convex zones each extending over the majority of the height of the blade, the concave zone of the pressure-side wall is opposite the convex zone of the suction-side wall, the concave zone of the suction-side wall is opposite the convex zone of the pressure-side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel DUMAS, Laurent Christophe Francis VILLAINES
  • Patent number: 6953924
    Abstract: A method for extracting an illuminated zone from a matrix of photosensors may include: (a) dividing the matrix into a plurality of search zones, (b) searching for the presence of an active photosensor in the search zones, (c) stopping the search as soon as an active photosensor is found in a search zone, and (d) further subdividing the first search zone determined to have an active photosensor into a plurality of search zones. Additionally the method may include repeating steps (b) through (d) until a search zone having only active photosensors is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: MBDA France
    Inventors: Michel Boubal, Jean Michelis, Michel Dumas
  • Publication number: 20030209650
    Abstract: Method for extracting an illuminated zone from a matrix of photosensors of a light-detecting device and light-detecting device implementing this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Michel Boubal, Jean Michelis, Michel Dumas
  • Patent number: 6216100
    Abstract: A method for the simulation of responses of a nonlinear amplifier provides for measuring characteristics of nonlinearity of amplitude and of amplitude/phase-shift conversion of the amplifier, each measurement being made at an amplitude that is constant in input. The method further includes measuring the characteristics at different frequencies, developing the characteristics in sequences of direct transfer functions, computing frequency correctors for the direct transfer functions, measuring characteristics of distortion of amplitude modulation, each measurement being performed by modulating the input amplitude, computing modulation transfer functions reproducing the distortion amplitudes at output according to the input modulation amplitudes and correcting the direct transfer functions when the input amplitude is modulated in order to simulate the envelope memory effect. There is a direct application of the invention to the field of the simulation of high efficiency microwave amplification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: France Telecom SA
    Inventors: Vahid Meghdadi, Jean-Pierre Cances, François-René Chevallier, Jean-Michel Dumas