Patents by Inventor Olivier Gerardiere

Olivier Gerardiere 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: 20100085212
    Abstract: A method and device for locating each of the wheels of a pair of twinned wheels mounted on a vehicle. Each twinned wheel is equipped with an electromagnetic receiving antenna, and these two twinned wheels are provided with elements of relative blocking rotation-wise designed to make it possible to obtain an offset by a predetermined angle (?), such that (?) is different from 0° and 180°, between the receiving antennas with which the two twinned wheels are equipped. The vehicle is equipped with a fixed source of emission of an electromagnetic signal suitable for covering an area passed through by the receiving antennas, and the electromagnetic field received by each of the receiving antennas is measured, so as to deduce, from the analysis of the time offset between the variations of the two measured electromagnetic fields, the location of each of the twinned wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE
    Inventor: Olivier Gerardiere
  • Publication number: 20090295641
    Abstract: A method of locating the positions of wheels (2) of a vehicle (1) each fitted with an electronic module (3), whereby, in order to locate a wheel (2) on the one hand, the vehicle (1) is equipped with an electromagnetic emission source consisting of at least two emitting antennas (5, 6) positioned close to the wheel (2) and physically offset so that the emitting antennas present separate shadow areas along the trajectory of the electronic module (3) of the wheel and, on the other hand, a sequential switching of the emitting antennas (5, 6) is ordered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE
    Inventor: Olivier GERARDIERE
  • Patent number: 7327233
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for locating the position of wheels (2-5) of a vehicle (1). According to the invention, the vehicle (1) is equipped with transmit antennas (11-14) each disposed in such a way as to be positioned in proximity to a wheel (2-5) or to a pair of wheels (2-4, 3-5, 2-3, 4-5), and a locating procedure is implemented according to which, successively for each of the transmit antennas (11-14), the transmission, by said transmit antenna, of an identification request signal is instructed, and simultaneously with the transmission of said identification request signal, the transmission, by each of the antennas positioned in proximity to the other wheels, of a garbled signal designed to scramble the identification request signal is instructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive
    Inventor: Olivier Gerardiere
  • Publication number: 20060192661
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for locating the position of wheels (2-5) of a vehicle (1). According to the invention, the vehicle (1) is equipped with transmit antennas (11-14) each disposed in such a way as to be positioned in proximity to a wheel (2-5) or to a pair of wheels (2-4,3-5,2-3,4-5), and a locating procedure is implemented according to which, successively for each of the transmit antennas (11-14), the transmission, by said transmit antenna, of an identification request signal is instructed, and simultaneously with the transmission of said identification request signal, the transmission, by each of the antennas positioned in proximity to the other wheels, of a garbled signal designed to scramble the identification request signal is instructed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventor: Olivier Gerardiere