Patents by Inventor Michel Girardin

Michel Girardin 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: 8679794
    Abstract: Method for extracting oils, proteins and fermentable sugars from vegetable material in an aqueous medium, includes: a) adding water to the vegetable material; b) adding an enzyme mixture containing at least one cellulase, at least one hemicellulase, and at least one pectinase, the ratio between the pectinase activity and the cellulase activity being at least 0.14, and the ratio between the pectinase activity and the hemicellulase activity being at least 7.10?3, the pectinase activity being less than 120 ?mol/min/mL; c) incubating the vegetable material and the enzyme mixture with stirring to release oils, proteins and fermentable sugars in the reaction medium; d) separating the reaction medium to obtain free oil, an aqueous phase containing proteins and fermentable sugars, and a solid phase; e) optionally separating and recycling an emulsion of free oil or aqueous phase, to the medium; f) separating the proteins and fermentable sugars from the aqueous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Universite de Lorraine
    Inventors: Lionel Muniglia, Michel Girardin, Bernadette Piffaut, Guillaume Ricochon
  • Publication number: 20120196332
    Abstract: Method for extracting oils, proteins and fermentable sugars from vegetable material in an aqueous medium, includes: a) adding water to the vegetable material; b) adding an enzyme mixture containing at least one cellulase, at least one hemicellulase, and at least one pectinase, the ratio between the pectinase activity and the cellulase activity being at least 0.14, and the ratio between the pectinase activity and the hemicellulase activity being at least 7.10?3, the pectinase activity being less than 120 ?mol/min/mL; c) incubating the vegetable material and the enzyme mixture with stirring to release oils, proteins and fermentable sugars in the reaction medium; d) separating the reaction medium to obtain free oil, an aqueous phase containing proteins and fermentable sugars, and a solid phase; e) optionally separating and recycling an emulsion of free oil or aqueous phase, to the medium; f) separating the proteins and fermentable sugars from the aqueous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE
    Inventors: Lionel Muniglia, Michel Girardin, Bernadette Piffaut, Guillaume Ricochon
  • Patent number: 4090352
    Abstract: The reducing gear train of an electronic watch with analog display comprises a driving pinion of a step-by-step motor, a second wheel and pinion, a third wheel and pinion and a great wheel. A cannon pinion non-coaxially mounted in relation to the great wheel meshes with an intermediate wheel meshing with a great-wheel-arbor pinion frictionally coupled to the great wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1978
    Assignee: Devhorl S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre M. Jeannet, Michel Girardin