Patents by Inventor Nicolas Pierre

Nicolas 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).

  • Patent number: 12348875
    Abstract: A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and an optional projecting lens. The light source module is configured to receive or generate a control signal for adjusting different ones of the illumination elements to control a light field emitted from the light source module. In some embodiments, the light source module is also configured to adjust the projecting lens responsive to objects in an illuminated scene and a field of view of an imaging device. A controller for a light source module may determine a light field pattern based on various parameters including a field of view of an imaging device, an illumination sensitivity model of the imaging device, depth, ambient illumination and reflectivity of objects, configured illumination priorities including ambient preservation, background illumination and direct/indirect lighting balance, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bosheng Zhang, Angelo M Alaimo, Noah D Bedard, Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki, Tongbo Chen, Paul M Hubel, Farhan A Baqai, Nicolas Pierre Bonnier, Bryan Dang
  • Patent number: 12337556
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite material part having a cellular structure that includes at least one cell delimited by walls. The method includes supplying at least a first core, providing a web of a first fibrous reinforcement comprising a plurality of long discontinuous fibers randomly distributed in a plane, and producing at least one strip of the first fibrous reinforcement. The method further includes producing a second fibrous reinforcement in the shape of a sock, inserting the first core into the sock, draping the strip around the sock containing the first core, placing the sock containing the first core and the wrapped strip in a mold, and thermocompression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre Lanfant, Patrick Dunleavy
  • Publication number: 20250067216
    Abstract: A system for cooling a liquid for lubricating an aircraft turbomachine, includes an exchanger including a cooling volume and a circuit for cooling a heat-transfer fluid by a loop for circulating the two-phase fluid, with thermocapillary pumping. The cooling circuit includes a condenser including channels connected in parallel to one another in order to make it possible to cool the fluid circulating in the condenser from a vapour state to a liquid state, a first capillary evaporator of the exchanger in order to absorb the heat of the lubricating liquid in the first volume, the first evaporator including a capillary porous wick for separating the heat-transfer fluid in the two-phase state between a liquid state and a gaseous state by a capillary pressure jump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Ephraïm TOUBIANA, Samer MAALOUF, Jean-Nicolas Pierre BOUCHOUT
  • Publication number: 20250050546
    Abstract: A method for producing a bladed component for an aircraft turbine engine, this bladed component comprising including a blade which has a stacking axis and at least one longitudinal end of which is connected to a transverse platform, the method including the steps of: a) producing a fibrous preform, this preform including a first part that is intended to form a blade and at least one second part that is intended to form a platform, this second part of the preform including a disconnect that defines two stacked portions that are separated by a disconnect surface that is substantially parallel to the axis, b) folding the portions, respectively, on two opposing sides of the first part, and c) stiffening the preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre LANFANT, Sebastien PAUTARD
  • Patent number: 12214540
    Abstract: A method for continuously manufacturing a complex acoustic multi-element panel for an acoustic attenuation structure, the method including supplying a thermoplastic resin film at the entry of a stamping system including at least one pair of complementary cylinders, a heating of the thermoplastic resin film upstream of the entry of the stamping system, and a passage of the thermoplastic resin film between the at least one pair of complementary cylinders, the pair of complementary cylinders including a male cylinder with teeth radially protruding from the cylinder and a female cylinder with cavities on its radial surface, the cavities of the female cylinder being of shapes complementary to the shapes of the teeth of the male cylinder and a separation of the stamped film at the exit of the stamping system using a separator disposed at the exit of the stamping system between the stamped film and the female cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre Lanfant, Hugues Laurent Alglave, Patrick Dunleavy
  • Patent number: 12203389
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a blade made of composite material for a turbomachine. The blade includes an airfoil having a pressure side and a suction side which extend from a leading edge to a trailing edge of the airfoil. The blade further includes a metal sheath that extends along the leading edge of the airfoil. The process includes the steps of: placing a preform, produced by three-dimensionally weaving fibers, in a mold, the sheath being positioned on an edge of the preform intended to form the leading edge of the airfoil; and injecting polymerizable resin into the mold to impregnate the preform so as to form the airfoil after solidifying. At least one double-sided adhesive film may be inserted between the sheath and the edge of the preform prior to injection of the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Adrien Touze, Nicolas Pierre Lanfant, Romain Picon, Loïc Sorgnard
  • Patent number: 12200290
    Abstract: An information processing system for obtaining an audio content file for video data providing video content representing a sport event, including: a receiver configured to receive a data stream including the video data; a preference data obtainer configured to obtain preference data, wherein the preference data indicate a selected competitor participating in the sport event; a category identifier obtainer configured to obtain a category identifier from a machine learning algorithm into which the video data is input, wherein the machine learning algorithm is trained to classify a scene represented in the video content into a category of a predetermined set of categories associated with the sport event, wherein the category identifier indicates the category into which the scene is classified; an audio content file obtainer configured to obtain, based on the obtained category identifier and the obtained preference data, the audio content file from a prestored set of audio content files, wherein the audio cont
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthias Frey, Nabil Loghin, Nicolas Pierre Rose
  • Publication number: 20250001653
    Abstract: A method for producing a component including a plurality of hollow complex elements, includes: filling a plurality of molding cavities with a thermoplastic material, the mold being maintained at a first temperature, applying a hold pressure to the thermoplastic material while the mold is cooled to a second temperature, and interrupting the hold pressure on the thermoplastic material while the mold is cooled to a third temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Hugues Laurent ALGLAVE, Nicolas Pierre LANFANT, Patrick DUNLEAVY
  • Publication number: 20240384654
    Abstract: A method for loading blades onto a wheel by an articulated arm, including determining a list of blades which are intended to succeed one another along a guideway of the wheel in the order of this list, in a predefined direction of rotation from a notch until returning to this notch, such that the list has a predefined number of blades at a first end, termed first end blades, and a predefined number of blades at a second end of the list, termed second end blades, each of the first end blades having a circumferential size which is less than each of the second end blades; and-commanding the articulated arm so that the gripper seizes the blades and loads them into the notch according to the order of the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre DYLEWSKI, Nathan SCHAAL
  • Patent number: 12115734
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acoustic panel by welding of at least two acoustic components made of thermoplastic material, a thermal gradient being applied on the acoustic components during the welding operation so as to apply a temperature higher than the glass transition or melting temperature of the material on the area to be welded and so as to apply a temperature lower than or equal to the geometric stabilization temperature of the material on the parts furthest from the area to be welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre Lanfant, Hugues Laurent Alglave, Patrick Dunleavy
  • Publication number: 20240326358
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbomachine vane made of composite material and having a cavity, the method includes producing a core having the shape of the cavity of the vane to be manufactured, the core including a reinforcing structure occupying only a portion of the volume of the core, the core further including a sealed envelope defining the outer surface of said core; and forming a composite material skin around the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre LANFANT, Bastien TRANQUART
  • Publication number: 20240326359
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite material vane with a cavity, includes making a core with the shape of the cavity of the vane to be manufactured, the core including a reinforcing structure occupying only part of the volume of the core, the remaining volume of the core being occupied by a material of a fleeting nature, forming a composite material skin around the core, and eliminating the fleeting material to obtain a composite material vane with a cavity reinforced by the reinforcing structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre LANFANT, Bastien TRANQUART
  • Publication number: 20240321256
    Abstract: A phononic circuit component including a membrane coupled to a substrate, the membrane including a region having an array of holes and a channel provided in the substrate beneath the region so that the region is released from the substrate, thereby allowing the region to propagate transverse acoustic waves, wherein the holes are spaced by a distance that is substantially smaller than a wavelength of the acoustic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Warwick Paul BOWEN, Christopher Galmiche BAKER, Glen Ivor HARRIS, Nicolas Pierre MAURANYAPIN, Timothy Martin Fox HIRSCH, Erick Rafael ROMERO SANCHEZ
  • Publication number: 20240316894
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acoustic attenuation structure including the following steps: making a complex acoustic multi-element panel including a plurality of hollow complex acoustic elements and a plurality of partitions forming acoustic cavities, each complex acoustic element being housed in an acoustic cavity so as to form an acoustic cell, making a first skin, piercing a plurality of perforations on the first skin at determined locations to form a multi-perforated acoustic skin, assembling the complex acoustic multi-element panel with the multi-perforated acoustic skin. The multi-perforated acoustic skin including on its assembly face a plurality of positioning studs configured to cooperate with a hollow complex acoustic element or an acoustic cavity during the assembly of the complex acoustic multi-element panel with the multi-perforated acoustic skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre LANFANT, Hugues Laurent ALGLAVE, Patrick DUNLEAVY
  • Patent number: 12093454
    Abstract: An electronic device that includes a display and an eye tracker configured to collect eye tracking data regarding a gaze of one or more of a user's eyes across the display is disclosed herein. The electronic device includes processing circuitry that is operatively coupled to the display and configured to foveate one or more areas of the display according to the eye tracking data. If the eye tracking data input is lost, the processing circuitry is configured to recover from the loss of eye tracking data by changing one or more aspects of the foveated areas (e.g., size, resolution, etc.) until a threshold is satisfied. As time elapses since loss of eye tracking, the foveated areas move toward a center or a salient region of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yashas Rai Kurlethimar, Can Jin, Nicolas Pierre Marie Frederic Bonnier, Jiaying Wu, Andrew B. Watson
  • Patent number: 12092033
    Abstract: An acoustic treatment panel intended to be disposed on at least one wall of a turbojet in contact with a fluid flow, the panel comprising a first sheet, a second sheet parallel to the first sheet and having a first face intended to be in contact with a fluid flow and a second face facing the first sheet, and acoustic treatment cells extending between the first and second sheets and each including an enclosure and a cavity delimited by the enclosure. The enclosure of each cell comprises two openings facing one another, at least one of the openings being coincident with an opening of the enclosure of an adjacent cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Georges Jean Xavier Riou, Jacky Novi Mardjono, Renaud Yannick Fabien Daon, Nicolas Pierre Alain Edme De Cacqueray-Valmenier
  • Publication number: 20240270400
    Abstract: An acoustic treatment device for an aircraft propulsion assembly includes two skins that enclose an acoustic structure. The acoustic structure has a cellular structure with hollow cells and a structure of shapes with protruding shapes, each of which is engaged in a different hollow cell of the cellular structure. The structure of shapes additionally has stubs designed to fit into the hollow cells of the cellular structure and to allow the acoustic treatment device to be fixed to a component of the aircraft propulsion assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre LANFANT, Hugues Laurent ALGLAVE, Patrick DUNLEAVY
  • Publication number: 20240262042
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acoustic panel by welding of at least two acoustic components made of thermoplastic material, a thermal gradient being applied on the acoustic components during the welding operation so as to apply a temperature higher than the glass transition or melting temperature of the material on the area to be welded and so as to apply a temperature lower than or equal to the geometric stabilization temperature of the material on the parts furthest from the area to be welded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre LANFANT, Hugues Laurent ALGLAVE, Patrick DUNLEAVY
  • Patent number: 12049333
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising a battery holding portion configured to releasably hold a first battery to provide electrical power to the UAV, the battery holding portion being configured to hold the first battery in a position relative to a direction of travel of the UAV such that, upon the UAV encountering a second battery positioned in the path of travel of the UAV, the first battery receives a mechanical impulse from the second battery causing the first battery to be released from the battery holding portion and the second battery replaces the first battery to become held by the battery holding portion to provide electrical power to the UAV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Europe B.V.
    Inventor: Nicolas Pierre Rose
  • Publication number: 20240127400
    Abstract: A multi-layer low-pass filter is used to filter a first frame of video data representing at least a portion of an environment of an individual. A first layer of the filter has a first filtering resolution setting for a first subset of the first frame, while a second layer of the filter has a second filtering resolution setting for a second subset. The first subset includes a data element positioned along a direction of a gaze of the individual, and the second subset of the frame surrounds the first subset. A result of the filtering is compressed and transmitted via a network to a video processing engine configured to generate a modified visual representation of the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Can Jin, Nicolas Pierre Marie Frederic Bonnier, Hao Pan