Patents by Inventor Olivier Martin
Olivier Martin 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).
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Publication number: 20190232710Abstract: A value document having a security element in the form of a strip with a first polymer layer which comprises at least one embossed diffraction structure, having at least one reflection layer which visually interacts with the diffraction structure in order to form a reflection hologram as the first visually recognisable security feature, and having at least one imprint which is luminescent under UV radiation and which forms a second security feature that is visually recognisable under UV light, wherein the reflection hologram comprises at least one see-through region on the second security feature. In order to increase the level of protection against forgery of the security element, the luminescent imprint comprises a halftone print image, and the see-through region is formed by at least one recess in the reflection layer and by the polymer layer which is free in this region of the recess from the diffraction structure at least above the halftone print image of the imprint.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Klaus SCHMIDEGG, Sonja LANDERTSHAMER, Fabrice CAPIEZ, Olivier MARTIN, Roger VILCOT, Michel BLANC
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Patent number: 10344390Abstract: This aluminum smelter comprises a row of cells (50) arranged transversely in relation to the length of the row, the cells (50) individually comprising an anode (52), rising and connecting electrical conductors (54) running upwards along the two opposite longitudinal edges of the cell (50) to route the electrolysis current towards the anode (52), and a cathode (56) through which pass cathode conductors (55) connected to cathode outputs connected to linking conductors to route the electrolysis current to the rising and connecting electrical conductors of the next cell (50). Furthermore the aluminum smelter comprises a compensating electrical circuit separate from the electrical circuit through which the electrolysis current flows, running beneath the cells (50), through which a compensating current may flow beneath the cells (50) in a direction opposite to the overall direction of flow of the electrolysis current.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Rio Tinto Alcan International LimitedInventors: Steeve Renaudier, Benoit Bardet, Olivier Martin, Christian Duval
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Patent number: 10239280Abstract: The present invention relates to a set (1) of plates (2, 3; 12, 13; 21, 22; 41) or parts obtained by cutting a block (4, 4?, 4??, 35) of metal or composite material extending around a plane (5) comprising a first plate (2, 12, 21, 41) or part having an upper face (7, 33) and is second plate (3, 13, 22) or part having a lower face (8). The upper face (7, 33) of the first plate (2, 12, 21, 41) or part has a surface (7, 330) having at least two lines of inflection or changing slope with respect to said plane (5), and the lower face (8) of the second plate (3, 13, 22) or part has a surface (8) with a shape complementary to the upper face (7, 33) of the opposite first plate (2, 12, 21, 41) at a more or less constant height, corresponding to the height of the cutting line (34) in the block (4,35).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Mecachrome FranceInventors: Arnaud De Ponnat, Cedric Bonnet, Olivier Martin
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Publication number: 20190009383Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for sharpening a worn removable machining tip (3) and the corresponding sharpened tip. The tip having a first cutting edge (7) damaged after a first use (u1), said tip having, in the state prior to the use of same, specific dimensional and geometrical parameters within a defined tolerance range and said first undamaged cutting edge (7) having a defined sharpness, the method involves sharpening the cutting face (9) by removing material from said cutting face on said first damaged edge (7), in order to make said tip (3) match said specific dimensional and geometrical parameters within said defined tolerance range, having a second cutting edge (7?) of said defined sharpness.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Ludovic Loison, Arnaud De Ponnat, Olivier Martin
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Patent number: 10047612Abstract: A method and device for manufacturing turbine blades (5; 7; 28; 33) made of a metal alloy. Starting with aluminum and titanium alloy bar (10; 34) having a simple and/or axisymmetric shape, at least two mutually interlocking blanks (2; 3; 4; 8; 11) are produced in the bar (10; 34) by waterjet cutting (16) and then each one of the blanks (2; 3; 4; 8; 11) thus obtained is machined separately in order to obtain the blades (5; 7; 28; 33) having a final profile.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Mechachrome FranceInventors: Arnaud De Ponnat, Olivier Martin
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Patent number: 9971587Abstract: A computer implemented method for validating the identity of a controller for an automated banking machine based on displayed indicia. The method includes detecting access to a secure compartment of an automated banking machine, displaying a security indicia visible from the secure compartment, receiving the security indicia at an input device and a first controller accessible from outside of the secure compartment, and validating the identity of the controller based on the received security indicia.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Glory Global Solutions (International) LimitedInventors: Bryan James Christophersen, Dominik Cipa, Gunnar Kunz, Ulrich Marti, Olivier Martin
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Publication number: 20180116442Abstract: The invention concerns beverage production system comprising a capsule (10) and a module (1) for producing a beverage from the capsule, the capsule (10) comprising an enclosure (10a) and a rim (10b), and the module (2) comprising a first capsule engagement member (3), which can be displaced relative to a second, co-operating capsule engagement member (2d) between a capsule discharge position and a beverage production position, and the displaceable first capsule engagement member (3) comprises holding means configured for holding the capsule within, the module comprising at least two means (7, 7a, 7b) for engaging the rim of the capsule extending beyond the first capsule engagement member when the first capsule engagement member (3) is displaced from the beverage production position to its capsule discharge position, and wherein the holding means are discrete hooks (341, 342) configured to engage with the rim (10b) of the capsule, and the retaining means are configured so that, during the displacement of the fType: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Matthieu Ozanne, Olivier Martin, Didier Vuagniaux
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Publication number: 20180030047Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the following formula I: wherein: m represents an integer being equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, X represents a simple bond or a radical —CHR1— wherein R1 represents: a hydrogen atom, or a linear or branched, possibly interrupted by up to 3 heteroatoms selected from O, S or N and/or possibly substituted, (C1-C12)-alkyl, R2, R3 and R4 represent independently from each other: a hydrogen atom, or a linear or branched (C1-C12)-alkyl or (C1-C12)-acyl R5 represents: a hydrogen atom, or a linear or branched, possibly substituted, (C1-C13)-alkyl possibly interrupted by up to 3 heteroatoms selected from O, S or N, R6 represents: a hydrogen atom, or a linear or branched possibly substituted (C1-C12)-alkyl, possibly substituted and possibly interrupted by up to 3 heteroatoms selected from O, S or N, for their use as antibacterial drugs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2015Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Olivier MARTIN, Estelle GALLIENNE-BOIVINEAU, Cyril NICOLAS, Piotr B. HECZKO, Grazyna STOCHEL, Magdalena STRUS, Agnieszka KYZIOL, Diana MIKOLAJCZYK, Agnieszka MACHUL
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Patent number: 9846154Abstract: A method for analyzing a metalloprotein and/or the interaction with its environment comprising the following steps: (a) Providing a medium that enhances the detection of the electromagnetic cross-section signal of metalloproteins, (b) Incorporating a metalloprotein to analyse into said medium, (c) Contacting said medium with electromagnetic radiation, (d) Obtaining the electromagnetic cross-section spectrum of said metalloprotein, (e) Determining from said electromagnetic cross-section spectrum at least one parameter related to one or several analytes of interest.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)Inventors: Guillaume Suárez, Christian Santschi, Olivier Martin
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Patent number: 9767235Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for thermal simulation of electronic systems involving breaking down the system into parts being in a single material and represented as a detailed model, to form a plurality of detailed models each including at least a mesh, a heat admittance system, a heat transfer interface, a connection interface, a power multi-source interface, and a temperature measurement interface; reducing each of the detailed models into a compact model by controlling the maximum of a heat flow frequency; interpolating nodes of the heat transfer interface, connection interface, power multi-source interface, or temperature measurement interface of at least one of the detailed models and the coupling of at least two of the compact models into a macromodel; and reducing the macromodel to form a compact and flexible thermal model.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Stephane Guedon, Nicolas Peltier, Sylvian Kaiser, Olivier Martins
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Patent number: 9665360Abstract: A computer implemented method for updating configuration data in at least one automated banking machine is configured to execute configuration update steps embodied with a computer readable medium. The method includes identifying one or more sub-systems implemented within the automated banking machine, receiving an update to configuration data for at least one of the identified sub-systems, generating a restore point based on a current implementation of the sub-systems for the automated banking machine, and installing the configuration data in the automated banking machine. The identified sub-systems can include at least two of roll storage modules, a note handling module controller, a note detector module, and an interface controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Glory Global Solutions (International) LimitedInventors: Dominik Cipa, Gunnar Kunz, Ulrich Marti, Olivier Martin
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Patent number: 9598783Abstract: An aluminum smelter comprising: (i) a series of electrolytic cells, designed for the production of aluminum, forming one or more rows, (ii) a supply station designed to supply the series of electrolytic cells with an electrolysis current, the said electricity supply station comprising two poles, (iii) a main electrical circuit through which the electrolysis current flows, having two extremities each connected to one of the poles of the supply station, (iv) at least one secondary electrical circuit comprising an electrical conductor made of superconducting material through which a current flows, running along the row or rows of electrolytic cells, characterized in that the electrical conductor made of superconducting material in the secondary electrical circuit runs along the row or rows of electrolytic cells at least twice in such a way as to make several turns in series.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Rio Tinto Alcan International LimitedInventors: Christian Duval, Steeve Renaudier, Benoit Bardet, Olivier Martin, Stéphane Wan Tang Kuan
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Publication number: 20160326661Abstract: This cell (1) comprises a pot shell (2) defining an opening through which an anode block (10) is designed to be moved, said anode block (10) being suspended from an anode support (8) forming with said anode block an anode assembly mobile in relation to the pot shell (2), and a confinement chamber (22) defining a closed volume above said opening for the containment of the gases generated during the production of aluminum, the anode support (8) being connected to an electrical conductor (26) to supply an electrolysis current to the anode block (10), the anode assembly is fully contained in the confinement chamber (22), and in that the electrical connection between the mobile electrical conductor (26) and the anode support (8) is made within the confinement chamber (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Olivier MARTIN, Christian DUVAL, Steeve RENAUDIER, Benoit BARDET
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Publication number: 20160318051Abstract: A method of using a fluid dispenser unit having a reservoir and a piston that slides in the reservoir. The unit includes an extractor head secured to the reservoir to suck fluid to be dispensed into the reservoir, and a spray head assembled on the extractor head to spray the fluid out from the reservoir. The method includes the steps of sucking a fluid to be dispensed into the reservoir through the extractor head; assembling the spray head on the extractor head; and spraying the fluid through the spray head. The step of sucking up a fluid to be dispensed includes a first step of extracting a fluid, such as a solvent, from an extraction reservoir, and a second step of mixing the fluid with a first substance, such as a powder or a lyophilisate, so as to form the fluid to be dispensed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicant: APTAR FRANCE SASInventors: Ludovic PETIT, Olivier MARTINS
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Patent number: 9484637Abstract: A horn that radiates a radioelectric wave coming from an input waveguide, comprises a grating placed over the aperture of the horn. The waveguide comprises a horn-shaped segment, an entrance, an aperture, and a grating placed next to the aperture. It makes it possible for at least one linearly polarised electromagnetic wave to propagate between the entrance and the aperture along a first axis. The grating comprises a frame and a set of plates extending longitudinally and continuously from a first short side of the frame to a second short side of the frame, so as to form a linear polarising filter for any electromagnetic wave the electric field of which is not polarised along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. The grating of the waveguide comprises corrugations to reinforce the filtering of the electromagnetic wave the electric field of which is not polarised along the second axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: ThalesInventors: Michael Jardin, Claude Labourdette, Thierry Judasz, Bruno Benoist, Olivier Martin
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Publication number: 20160201208Abstract: This aluminum smelter comprises a row of cells (50) arranged transversely in relation to the length of the row, the cells (50) individually comprising an anode (52), rising and connecting electrical conductors (54) running upwards along the two opposite longitudinal edges of the cell (50) to route the electrolysis current towards the anode (52), and a cathode (56) through which pass cathode conductors (55) connected to cathode outputs connected to linking conductors to route the electrolysis current to the rising and connecting electrical conductors of the next cell (50). Furthermore the aluminum smelter comprises a compensating electrical circuit separate from the electrical circuit through which the electrolysis current flows, running beneath the cells (50), through which a compensating current may flow beneath the cells (50) in a direction opposite to the overall direction of flow of the electrolysis current.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Steeve Renaudier, Benoit Bardet, Olivier Martin, Christian Duval
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Publication number: 20160186344Abstract: This cell (1) comprises a pot shell (2) having two longitudinal sides (18) which are symmetrical in relation to a longitudinal median plane (P) of the electrolytic cell (1), an anode assembly which can only move in vertical translation with respect to the pot shell (2), the anode assembly comprising an anode block (100) and a transverse anode support (200) extending at right angles to the longitudinal sides (18) of the pot shell (2), from which support the anode block (100) is suspended. The anode support (200) comprises two connecting portions (202) from which electrolysis current is supplied to the anode support (200), and the cell (1) comprises electrical connection conductors (20) electrically connected to the two connecting portions (202) of the anode support (200), the two connecting portions (202) being located on either side of the plane (P).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Rio Tinto Alcan International LimitedInventors: Steeve Renaudier, Benoit Bardet, Yves Rochet, Denis Laroche, Olivier Martin
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Patent number: 9367837Abstract: A controller comprising: a database; a control module associated with the database; and a network interface configured to connect, over a network, to a plurality of workstations and at least one machine for performing operations to handle cash and/or other physical financial documents. The network interface receives requests from at least some of the workstations over the network, each comprising a request to pre-order a respective one of the operations. The requests are stored in the database. The network further receives, over the network, a signal from or on behalf of a slave module of the machine for retrieving one of the requests from the database. The control module processes the signal and in response releases the respective operation, the release comprising issuing an instruction to the slave module over the network controlling the machine to perform the respective operation to handle the cash and/or other physical financial document.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: GLORY GLOBAL SOLUTIONS (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITEDInventors: Olivier Martin, Douglas Jay Wielard, Michael Eugene Bielamowicz, Bryan James Christophersen, James William Long, Stefan Albert
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Publication number: 20160136831Abstract: The invention relates to a device, a method and an assembly of parts produced by cutting in a block B of metal or composite material, following a determined trajectory. The device comprises a guide (3) forming said trajectory and a support (chain 9) mounted in the guide in a sliding manner, comprising a lateral blank (23) provided with at least one cutting plate (24) comprising a protruding cutting edge (25) arranged so as to carry out the cutting in a normal direction (26) in relation to the blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Cedric Bonnet, Arnaud De Ponnat, Olivier Martin, Ludovic Loison, Antoine Bosselut, Frederic De Oliveira Cunha
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Publication number: 20160129664Abstract: The present invention relates to a set (1) of plates (2, 3; 12, 13; 21, 22; 41) or parts obtained by cutting a block (4, 4?, 4??, 35) of metal or composite material extending around a plane (5) comprising a first plate (2, 12, 21, 41) or part having an upper face (7, 33) and is second plate (3, 13, 22) or part having a lower face (8). The upper face (7, 33) of the first plate (2, 12, 21, 41) or part has a surface, (7, 330) having at least two lines of inflection or changing slope with respect to said plane (5), and the lower face (8) of the second plate (3, 13, 22) or part has a surface (8) with a shape complementary to the upper face (7, 33) of the opposite first plate (2, 12, 21, 41) at a more or less constant height, corresponding, to the height of the cutting line (34) in the block (4,35).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: Arnaud De Ponnat, Cedric Bonnet, Olivier Martin