Patents by Inventor Olivier L. Berne

Olivier L. Berne 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: 6662072
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and control device to grind a knife shaft used in a machine intended for cutting sheets of materials into strips, for example, sheets of paper, plastic, plates of photosensitive film or any other material having the form of thin sheets. The process includes determining the actual differences of position of the knives of the knife shaft in relation to a theoretical position and then dividing these differences to cut the film strips by widths practically equal to one another, and determining the quantities of material to be eliminated by grinding for each knife. This process especially finds its principal application in the photographic industry, in particular on grinding machines for the knives of knife shafts equipping the film slitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Olivier L. Berne, Frederic J. Gaudiller
  • Patent number: 6544105
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device to grind a knife shaft used in a machine intended for cutting sheets of materials into strips, for example sheets of paper, plastic, plates of photosensitive film or any other material having the form of thin sheets. The control device according to the invention enables the grinding of the knives of knife shafts of a slitter by checking and controlling the drift of the dimensional differences of position of the knives on the knife shaft and by controlling the variability of the pitches between the knives. This with the goal of obtaining the precision and the quality of cutting required for cut photographic film strips. This device especially finds its principal application in the photographic industry, in particular on grinding machines for the knives of knife shafts equipping the film slitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Olivier L. Berne, Frederic J. Gaudiller
  • Publication number: 20030060129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device to grind a knife shaft used in a machine intended for cutting sheets of materials into strips, for example sheets of paper, plastic, plates of photosensitive film or any other material having the form of thin sheets. The control device according to the invention enables the grinding of the knives of knife shafts of a slitter by checking and controlling the drift of the dimensional differences of position of the knives on the knife shaft and by controlling the variability of the pitches between the knives. This with the goal of obtaining the precision and the quality of cutting required for cut photographic film strips. This device especially finds its principal application in the photographic industry, in particular on grinding machines for the knives of knife shafts equipping the film slitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Olivier L. Berne, Frederic J. Gaudiller
  • Publication number: 20030019338
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and control device to grind a knife shaft used in a machine intended for cutting sheets of materials into strips, for example, sheets of paper, plastic, plates of photosensitive film or any other material having the form of thin sheets. The process includes determining the actual differences of position of the knives of the knife shaft in relation to a theoretical position and then dividing these differences to cut the film strips by widths practically equal to one another, and determining the quantities of material to be eliminated by grinding for each knife. This process especially finds its principal application in the photographic industry, in particular on grinding machines for the knives of knife shafts equipping the film slitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Olivier L. Berne, Frederic J. Gaudiller
  • Patent number: 6359675
    Abstract: In a motion picture recording process, filming defects are reduced by enabling the collection of particles generated over time on a film, just before the exposure of the film in the recording motion-picture camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Alain M. Enon, Claude Peugnet, Olivier L. Berne