Patents by Inventor Nicolas Dumay

Nicolas Dumay 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: 10598813
    Abstract: The invention relates to equipment (1) for the radiography of a load (11) moving relative thereto, the radiography equipment comprising a source (2) for emitting pulses (16) of divergent X-rays, a collimator (4) for the source for delimiting an incident x-ray beam (22), and sensors (8) for receiving X-rays, which are aligned with the incident beam so as to collect the X-rays after the latter have passed through the load and generate raw image signals. The equipment includes a reference block (6) comprising intermediate x-ray sensors (28) which are to be located within the incident beam, between the source and the load, so as to be irradiated by at least two separate angular sectors of the incident beam, and which are to output separate reference signals corresponding to each angular sector to be used in the conversion of raw image signals into a portion of a radiographic image. The invention also relates to a corresponding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SMITHS HEIMANN SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Desaute, Irène Dorion, Nicolas Dumay
  • Patent number: 10228334
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for scanning an object of interest. The system can include a controller for generating scan instructions. The system can further include a scanner, responsive to the scan instructions, for providing radiation at an energy to generate scan data for the object of interest and an other scanner, responsive to scan instructions from the controller generated based on the scan data, for providing radiation an at other energy to generate scan data for the object of interest. The system can also include a conveyance controller for generating conveyance instructions to control the relative movement of the scanner and the other scanner with respect to the object of interest based on the scan data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Smiths Detection Group Limited
    Inventors: Kristofer J. Roe, Timothy S. Norton, Nicolas Dumay
  • Publication number: 20140341342
    Abstract: The invention relates to equipment (1) for the radiography of a load (11) moving relative thereto, the radiography equipment comprising a source (2) for emitting pulses (16) of divergent X-rays, a collimator (4) for the source for delimiting an incident x-ray beam (22), and sensors (8) for receiving X-rays, which are aligned with the incident beam so as to collect the X-rays after the latter have passed through the load and generate raw image signals. The equipment includes a reference block (6) comprising the intermediate x-ray sensors (28) which are to be located within the incident beam, between the source and the load, so as to be irradiated by at least two separate angular sectors of the incident beam, and which are to output separate reference signals corresponding to each angular sector to be used in the conversion of the raw image signals into a portion of a radiographic image. The invention also relates to a corresponding method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Pascal Desaute, Irène Dorion, Nicolas Dumay
  • Publication number: 20130156156
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for scanning an object of interest. The system can include a controller for generating scan instructions. The system can further include a scanner, responsive to the scan instructions, for providing radiation at an energy to generate scan data for the object of interest and an other scanner, responsive to scan instructions from the controller generated based on the scan data, for providing radiation an at other energy to generate scan data for the object of interest. The system can also include a conveyance controller for generating conveyance instructions to control the relative movement of the scanner and the other scanner with respect to the object of interest based on the scan data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Kristofer J. Roe, Timothy S. Norton, Nicolas Dumay
  • Publication number: 20110193711
    Abstract: Method for detecting, in a load (2), the presence of objects suspected of containing at least one material having a given atomic weight, in which the load (2) is exposed to at least a first X-ray beam having a first spectrum and an atomic number class to which the materials, including the load through which the X-rays pass, is determined by high-energy discrimination. Furthermore, at least one g-ray or neutron beam spontaneously emitted by the load is measured, a spontaneous g and/or neutron radiation emission class of the material including the load is determined from the spontaneous radiation measurement, and a class of interest of the material of the load is determined from the atomic number class and the spontaneous radiation class that were determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: SMITHS HEIMANN SAS
    Inventors: Jean Michel Faugier, Nicolas Dumay, Eric Simon, Eric Falzon, Jean Philippe Denis