Patents by Inventor Michel Facon

Michel Facon 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: 6383546
    Abstract: The invention pertains to the formulation and process for producing a universal fruit base, which is an apple mash-polysaccharide mixture to which fruit puree(s) and optionally concentrated fruit juice(s) are to be added to form beverage concentrates. The beverage concentrates are to be diluted with water and/or fruit juice(s) to create supreme, distinctive, refreshing, healthy, creamy, smooth, thick, non-gummy and non-settling fruit beverages (smoothies). The resulting beverages possess hydrated cellular particulates, which are stabilized by modified starch and xanthan gum and thus sedimentation of particulates does not occur during the storage of the resulting beverages. Homogenization is not required for particulate stabilization. Pasteurization and sterilization of the resulting beverages can be carried out without the loss of textural and flavour quality attributes and without particulate destabilization and sedimentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Pacific Rim Marketing Limited
    Inventors: William Duncan Powrie, Michel Facon, Perry Lidster
  • Publication number: 20010053404
    Abstract: The invention pertains to the formulation and process for producing a universal fruit base, which is an apple mash-polysaccharide mixture to which fruit puree(s) and optionally concentrated fruit juice(s) are to be added to form beverage concentrates. The beverage concentrates are to be diluted with water and/or fruit juice(s) to create supreme, distinctive, refreshing, healthy, creamy, smooth, thick, non-gummy and non-settling fruit beverages (smoothies). The resulting beverages possess hydrated cellular particulates, which are stabilized by modified starch and xanthan gum and thus sedimentation of particulates does not occur during the storage of the resulting beverages. Homogenization is not required for particulate stabilization. Pasteurization and sterilization of the resulting beverages can be carried out without the loss of textural and flavor quality attributes and without particulate destabilization and sedimentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: William Duncan Powrie, Michel Facon, Perry Lidster
  • Patent number: 4484112
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display screen horizontal scanning control protection device. The device comprises a switch making it possible to open or close the supply circuit of the scanning control circuit, said switch being activated with the aid of a signal supplied by an AND gate, whose state is a function of the level of the supply voltage of the central unit, which itself generates the horizontal scanning sync signal activating the scanning control circuit.Application to telematic terminals equipped with a cathode-ray tube screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1984
    Assignee: Thomson CSF Telephone
    Inventors: Michel Facon, Robert Julien
  • Patent number: 4245180
    Abstract: A regulated power supply device, in particular for a line sweep circuit in a television receiver, containing a chopper circuit (10) which contains in series an inductor (16) and a bidirectional switch (15), which is controlled and mounted in parallel with a capacitor (13), forming a resonant circuit with the inductor (16) when the chopper switch (15) opens. The inductor (16) contains a winding (21), called the power supply winding, of a transformer (20), called the line transformer, in which another winding (22), mounted in series with a reservoir capacitor (33), is connected in parallel with another bidirectional switch (35 and 36), which equips the line sweep output stage (30). The transfer of energy between the chopper circuit (10) and the output stage (30) is done through the windings (21 and 22) of the transformer (20) and its effect is to charge the reservoir capacitor (33) which feeds, apart from the output stage (30), the preceding stages of the sweep circuit (which are not shown).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Assignee: Thomson-Brandt
    Inventors: Gerard Rilly, Michel Facon