Patents by Inventor Nicolas BARD

Nicolas BARD 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).

  • Publication number: 20240075626
    Abstract: A tire picking system (100) performs a process for picking one or more tires stored in an unknown arrangement and for which a target location must be realized. A gripper (108) and a robot (102) including a gripping device (104) supported by a pivotable elongated arm (106), the gripping device extending from the elongated arm to a free end (104a) where the gripper is disposed, form part of the system (100). An image processing module applies data representative of the physical environment around the robot (102) to a deployed neural network in order to determine one or more parameters of a target tire (P*); the robot is set in motion based on the determined parameters of the target tire, so that the gripper can pick a target tire (P*) selected by the system (100) from among the stored tires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: JEAN-MARIE DETTORRE, NICOLAS BARD, QUENTIN DENIAU, MICHEL DRUET, MOHAMED-ABBAS KONATE
  • Publication number: 20240051770
    Abstract: A process for directing the movement of a robot (102) with a gripper (108) that picks a target tire (P*) from an arrangement of tires includes the following steps: providing a system (100) for picking one or more tires stored in the arrangement of tires, the robot forming part of this system; determining one or more parameters of the target tire in the arrangement of tires; determining the diameter of the target tire; determining the tire radius (RP) and the rim radius (RJ) of the target tire; an approaching step whereby the robot approaches the target tire identified for picking; a picking step whereby the target tire is picked by the gripper; and extracting the target tire from the arrangement of tires in order to place it in a target location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: JEAN-MARIE DETTORRE, NICOLAS BARD, QUENTIN DENIAU, MOHAMED-ABBAS KONATE, MICKAEL ROUBY
  • Publication number: 20230405955
    Abstract: The method is related to automatically and successively laying elastomeric elements using a facility for manufacturing tire blanks. The facility includes a drum for manufacturing tire blanks and at least one collaborative robotized arm equipped with at least one effector. A stage of laying an elastomeric element includes a predetermined sequence of step. The sequence comprises the steps of grasping and drawing the elastomeric element towards the drum using said arm. The automatic and successive laying of elastomeric elements includes instructions which can be executed by the processor of a control unit in order to implement. The sequence includes a stage of automatic performance of a step according to said sequence. The sequence also includes a stage of interruption of said sequence. The sequence further includes a stage of manual performance of the interrupted step or the next step according to said sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jean-Marie DETTORRE, Nicolas BARD, Quentin DENIAU, Michel DRUET, Matthieu LUTZ