Patents by Inventor Michel Pierre
Michel Pierre 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).
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Publication number: 20240102124Abstract: Method for thermally treating a scrolling steel strip (5), said method comprising the following steps: heating the strip (5) in a zone for heating with a direct flame (10); temperature homogenisation of the strip (5) in a homogenisation chamber (20) comprising at least one radiant heating tube (25), so as to homogenise the strip (5) in temperature after the passing thereof into the zone for heating with a direct flame (10) of the preceding step; oxidation of the strip (5) in an oxidation chamber (30) with an oxidising atmosphere having an oxygen volume concentration greater than 1%; reduction of the strip (5) in a reduction zone (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: DREVER INTERNATIONALInventors: Jean-Pierre Crutzen, Lutz Kümmel, Frank Maschler, Michel Renard
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Publication number: 20240031645Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for transferring an interactive feature from a first device to a second device. Two users may be consuming a media asset. Upon receipt of a command to active an interactive feature, a determination is made whether a user who did not activate the interactive feature is interested in the media asset. Upon that determination, a timer is activated that tracks an amount of time for which the interactive feature is active and a determination is made whether a threshold time period has been met. Once the threshold time period is met, a device associated with the user that activated the interactive feature is identified and the users are prompted to transfer the interactive feature to the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: John Blake, Milan Patel, Rowena Young, Jean Michel Pierre Bourdon
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Publication number: 20230421845Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for efficiently “catching-up” a user that is interested in a media asset when that user has missed a portion of the media asset while consuming the media asset together with other people. The system may detect that multiple people are consuming a media asset and may determine, based on a respective profile of each person, whether that person is interested in the media asset. When the system detects that the user is disregarding the media asset, the missed portion of the media asset is stored if the user is interested in the media asset, and is not stored if the user is not interested in the media asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: John Blake, Milan Patel, Rowena Young, Jean Michel Pierre Bourdon
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Patent number: 11792478Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for efficiently “catching-up” a user that is interested in a media asset when that user has missed a portion of the media asset while consuming the media asset together with other people. The system may detect that multiple people are consuming a media asset and may determine, based on a respective profile of each person, whether that person is interested in the media asset. When the system detects that the user is disregarding the media asset, the missed portion of the media asset is stored if the user is interested in the media asset, and is not stored if the user is not interested in the media asset.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: John Blake, Milan Patel, Rowena Young, Jean Michel Pierre Bourdon
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Patent number: 11729462Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for transferring an interactive feature from a first device to a second device. Two users may be consuming a media asset. Upon receipt of a command to active an interactive feature, a determination is made whether a user who did not activate the interactive feature is interested in the media asset. Upon that determination, a timer is activated that tracks an amount of time for which the interactive feature is active and a determination is made whether a threshold time period has been met. Once the threshold time period is met, a device associated with the user that activated the interactive feature is identified and the users are prompted to transfer the interactive feature to the device.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: John Blake, Milan Patel, Rowena Young, Jean Michel Pierre Bourdon
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Publication number: 20230127638Abstract: A database system, method, and computer program product of handling purchases of products is presented, in which the database system comprises a relational database storing relational data for a plurality of products, a key-value database storing a plurality of first files and a plurality of second files, an interface module connecting the relational database with the key-value database, and a shopping engine to communicate with the key-value database. The interface module converts relational data stored in the relational database into first files and second files. The shopping engine queries the key-value database to retrieve available products in response to an availability request.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Yoann POULAIN, Charles Michel Pierre Guillaume CULTIEN, Grégory VALIGIANI, Luigi DI NOIA, Philippe SARCEY
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Patent number: 11560854Abstract: A fuel supply system for a turbomachine, comprising a fuel circuit comprising pressurizer at the output of the circuit, a pump arranged to send into the circuit a fuel flow rate which is an increasing function of the rotational speed of a shaft of the pump, and a control circuit arranged to control the device to comply with a flow rate setpoint at the output of the fuel circuit. The system further comprises a feedforward corrector circuit configured to calculate an increment of the flow rate setpoint as a function of the engine speed of the turbomachine and of a variation in the engine speed of the turbomachine, and to add this increment to the flow rate setpoint. A method of regulating the pump is also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Loïc Michel Pierre Pora
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Patent number: 11512647Abstract: A planet-carrier cage is provided for a turbomachine speed reducer having a planetary gear set. The cage contains a central sun gear and an annular row of planet gears arranged around the sun gear axis and engaging both the sun gear and an internal gear that surrounds the cage. A periphery of the cage has axial receiving elements configured to receive axial fingers secured to a cage carrier of the speed reducer. Each receiving element is penetrated by a radial spindle that guides the rotation of a connection means, such as a swivel joint or a bearing, which is supported by the fingers. The spindles include means for projecting lubricating oil into regions in which the planet gears mesh with the internal gear.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventor: Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni
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Patent number: 11499436Abstract: A turbine blade including a root carrying an impeller terminated by a tip in the form of a squealer tip. This impeller also includes a serpentine median circuit, including a first radial pipe collecting air at the root and that is connected by a first bend to a second radial pipe that is connected by a second bend to a third radial pipe, a cavity under the squealer tip running along the pressure side wall, extending from a central region of the tip to the trailing edge, and a radial central pipe collecting air at the root extending between at least two of the three pipes of the median circuit and directly supplying the cavity under the squealer tip.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Léandre Ostino, Pierre Guillaume Auzillon, Romain Pierre Cariou, Thomas Olivier Michel Pierre De Rocquigny, Patrice Eneau, Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger, Vianney Simon, Michel Slusarz, Ba-Phuc Tang
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Patent number: 11499623Abstract: An installation for mounting an outer sun gear in a reduction gear. The reduction gear includes an outer sun gear and planet gears meshing with an inner sun gear and with the outer sun gear and each mounted for free rotation around a pivot of a planet carrier. The outer sun gear includes a first crown having a first toothing and a second crown having a second toothing each meshing with first and second toothings of the planet gears. The installation includes a frame for supporting the reduction gear along its longitudinal axis, and first and second torque applicators, such as cylinders, that apply a torque around an axis of first and second rings, respectively. The first ring is configured to engage with the first crown of the outer sun gear and the second ring is configured to engage with a second crown of the outer sun gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni, Florian Rappaport
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Patent number: 11421537Abstract: A turbine engine vane including a blade extending following a radial axis and a cooling circuit arranged inside the blade, the cooling circuit including a first cavity and a second cavity arranged downstream from the first cavity following a direction of circulation of a cooling fluid, the first and second cavities extend radially inside the blade and being separated at least partially by a radial partition having a radially external free end which delimits at least partially a passage connecting the first and second cavities, the radial partition connecting a first wall in contact with the outside environment of the blade to a second opposite wall substantially following a transversal axis, perpendicular to the radial axis, respectively in a connection zone. According to the invention, at least one connection zone presents a thickening having a substantially triangular general transversal cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRANInventors: Jeremy Jacques Attilio Fanelli, Romain Pierre Cariou, Thomas Olivier Michel Pierre De Rocquigny, Ba-Phuc Tang
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Publication number: 20220248085Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for efficiently “catching-up” a user that is interested in a media asset when that user has missed a portion of the media asset while consuming the media asset together with other people. The system may detect that multiple people are consuming a media asset and may determine, based on a respective profile of each person, whether that person is interested in the media asset. When the system detects that the user is disregarding the media asset, the missed portion of the media asset is stored if the user is interested in the media asset, and is not stored if the user is not interested in the media asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: John Blake, Milan Patel, Rowena Young, Jean Michel Pierre Bourdon
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Patent number: 11396941Abstract: An oil supply device intended to supply oil to an epicyclic reduction gear, the oil coming from at least one oil injector fixed with respect to the reduction gear, the oil supply device including at least one cup which is integral with a planet carrier of the reduction gear and substantially annular open radially with respect to an axis of the reduction gear and the walls of which delimit a cavity supplied by the at least one oil injector and which supplies at least one of the oil distribution circuits of the reduction gear. The oil supply device is staged and includes at least two independent stages provided with cups coaxial, of different diameters, each supplying an associated oil circuit and configured to receive the oil axially, centripetally, or tangentially, or according to an inclined direction combining two of the directions.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Antoine Jacques Marie Pennacino, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni
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Patent number: 11396940Abstract: A lubricant nozzle for a planetary gear set speed reducer of a turbomachine, the nozzle having a generally elongate shape and including a body with a longitudinal axis B, the body having a longitudinal inner cavity in fluid communication with a lubricant inlet located at a longitudinal end of the body and with lubricant outlet apertures that are provided in an annular wall of the body and that extend substantially radially relative to axis B, wherein the apertures are formed in at least one boss of the body, which boss projects radially outwards on the wall and extends, about the axis, at an angular extent that does not exceed 180°.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni, Alexis Claude Michel Dombek, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli
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Publication number: 20220220499Abstract: The present invention relates to a tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, plant that is resistant to Tobamovirus, wherein the plant comprises one or more genomic sequences conferring Tobamovirus resistance. More specifically the invention relates to a tomato plant that is resistant to Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (TBRFV). The present invention further relates to a genomic sequence or locus providing resistance to Tobamovirus. In addition, the present invention relates to methods for proving a tomato plant that is resistant to Tobamovirus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.Inventors: Marieke YKEMA, Cornelis Walter VERWEIJ, Sergio DE LA FUENTE VAN BENTEM, Frederic Michel Pierre PEREFARRES
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Publication number: 20220205365Abstract: A turbine vane includes a root carrying a blade terminated by a squealer tip, the blade having intrados and extrados walls, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a tip wall delimiting a bottom of the squealer tip, by which the intrados wall is connected to the extrados wall. The blade also includes: a serpentine median circuit, including a first radial pipe that collects air at the root and is connected by a first bend to a second radial pipe that is connected by a second bend to a third radial pipe; a cavity under the squealer tip running along the extrados wall and extending from a central region of the squealer tip to the trailing edge; and a central radial pipe collecting air at the root and extending between at least two of the three pipes of the median circuit and directly supplying the cavity under the squealer tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Léandre OSTINO, Pierre Guillaume AUZILLON, Michel SLUSARZ, Patrice ENEAU, Thomas Olivier Michel Pierre DE ROCQUIGNY, Romain Pierre CARIOU, Ba-Phuc TANG, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER, Vianney SIMON
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Patent number: 11339869Abstract: A lubricating and cooling core for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, for example of an aircraft, is configured to be mounted in an axis of a planet gear of the reduction gear. The core includes first and second coaxial and substantially frusto-conical shields, each having a first end with a greater diameter and a second opposite end with a smaller diameter, the shields being secured to one another by their second ends and being configured to extend inside the axis and to cover at least a radially internal surface of the axis to define with the latter at least one annular cavity for the circulation of oil for lubricating and cooling the axis, the second ends of the first and second shields having fluid connection means configured to connect the at least one cavity to a source of lubricating and cooling oil.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli
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Patent number: 11339724Abstract: A deflector for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, for example of an aircraft, is configured to be inserted between two adjacent planets of the reduction gear. The deflector includes a block having a first lateral surface that is cylindrical and concave and has a radius of curvature R1 measured from an axis G1. The block also has a second lateral surface, opposite the first lateral surface, that is cylindrical and concave and that has a radius of curvature R1 measured from an axis G2 that is parallel to G1. Each of the first and second surfaces has at least one protruding tab having a generally elongate shape about the respective axis G1, G2 of the surface considered and having an internal periphery that is concavely curved and a has radius of curvature R2 measured from the respective axis G1, G2, R2 being less than R1.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni, Adrien Louis Simon
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Patent number: 11326524Abstract: A ring gear (114) for an epicyclic or planetary reduction gear (110) of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft, said ring gear extending about an axis and comprising first and second coaxial annular elements (114a, 114b) and comprising, respectively, two inner annular toothing sets (150) of different orientation, said first and second annular elements further comprising, respectively, first and second radially outer annular flanges (114ab, 114bb) for attaching said first and second elements to each other, characterised in that one of said first and second flanges comprises, at its outer periphery, a cylindrical centring rim (164) configured to cooperate with the outer periphery of the other of said first and second flanges.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni, Alexis Claude Michel Dombek, Florian Rappaport
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Patent number: 11313283Abstract: The invention relates to the lubrication of a planet-carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular of an aircraft, said planet-carrier comprising a cage defining an internal housing intended to receive a central sun gear with an axis of rotation X, and an annular row of planet gears arranged around the sun gear, said cage comprising two annular walls that are radial with respect to said axis X, and connected to one another at their outer periphery by a cylindrical wall of axis X, at least one of these radial walls comprising orifices for mounting the axes of said planet gears, and the cylindrical wall comprising through-holes for the passage of the gearings of the planet gears so that they may engage with a gearing of the ring gear, which is intended to extend around the planet gears and the cage.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Mathieu Jean Charrier, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni, Simon Loic Clement Lefebvre, Guillaume Jean Pierre Robinet