Patents by Inventor Op De Beeck

Op De Beeck 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).

  • Rotary pump for a vehicle
    Patent number: 9255574
    Abstract: A rotary pump can pump a liquid for pollution control of exhaust gases in a system on board a vehicle and can include a rotor and a stator that are positioned in a casing. The casing can include a wall delimiting a main internal volume and an integral outlet pipe for the pump. A pressure sensor can be positioned within the main internal volume of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventors: Ignacio Garcia-Lorenzana, Joel Op De Beeck, Stephane Leonard, Vincent Potier, Jean-Baptiste Gouriet, Frédéric Jannot
  • Chemical Reactor Device
    Publication number: 20160001199
    Abstract: A chemical reactor is described comprising a substrate with a fluid channel and a set of organized pillar structures positioned in the channel. The individual pillar structures have a length in the longitudinal direction of the channel and a width in the width direction of the channel whereby their width-to-length aspect ratio is at least 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: PHARMAFLUIDICS NV
    Inventors: Wim DE MALSCHE, Gert DESMET, Jeff OP DE BEECK, Paul JACOBS
  • Method for monitoring an SCR system
    Patent number: 9222849
    Abstract: A method for detecting whether an injector with a valve controlled by a PWM signal of an SCR system is clogged, the SCR system including a rotary positive-displacement pump driven by a motor and pressure of which is controlled by a controller that continuously measures rotational speed of the motor and pressure at an outlet of the pump. During operation of the SCR system at a given pressure: the associated average rotational speed is measured; the speed is held at the measured value; a curve of a change in pressure is compared to reference curves stored in a memory and a condition of the injector, for example whether the injector is clogged or not, is deduced therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (Société Anonyme)
    Inventors: Frederic Peucat, Jean-Claude Habumuremyi, Joel Op de Beeck
  • Method for regulating a pump of an SCR system
    Patent number: 9175677
    Abstract: A method for regulating a motor-driven pump of an SCR system, the pump delivering a pressure, being subjected to a hydraulic torque in relation to this pressure and also to a resistive torque and being driven by an electric motor including coils supplied with a current and developing a torque in relation to this current, according to which to regulate the pump, use is made of a mechanism to measure the current in the coils of the motor, of a regulator of overall current consumed by the motor, and of a model of the relation between the current and the pressure using an estimate of part of the resistive torque, namely the dry frictions, obtained by rotating the pump under no-load conditions at different speeds and by measuring the associated current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Habumuremyi, Volodia Naydenov, Joel Op De Beeck
  • Liquid developer dispersion for digital printing process
    Patent number: 9170515
    Abstract: This invention is related to a liquid developer dispersion for use in a digital printing apparatus comprising a non volatile carrier liquid, a marking particle and a dispersing compounds, wherein the marking particle in the liquid developer dispersion is stabilized during storage and wherein at fusing two phases are formed. The invention is also related to the use of the developer in a digital printing apparatus and to a method for preparing the liquid developer dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Xeikon IP BV
    Inventors: Lode Erik Dries Deprez, Werner Jozef Johan Op de Beeck, Mathias Jo Bert van Remortel, Dirk Marcel Constant Gijsbrechts
  • BIOCOMPATIBLE PACKAGING
    Publication number: 20150297136
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for packaging a device, e.g., for bio-medical applications. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining a component on a substrate and separating the component and a first part of the substrate from a second part of the substrate using at least one physical process inducing at least one sloped side wall on the first part of the substrate. The method also includes providing an encapsulation for the chip. The resulting packaged chip advantageously has a good step coverage resulting in a good hermeticity, less sharp edges resulting in a reduced risk of damaging or infection after implantation and has a relatively small packaged volume compared to conventional big box packaging techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Maria Op De Beeck, Eric Beyne, Philippe Soussan
  • Liquid Toner Dispersion and Use Thereof
    Publication number: 20150205221
    Abstract: The liquid toner dispersion comprises marking particles to which dispersing agent is bound for dispersing the marking particles in a substantially non-polar carrier liquid. The dispersing agent is of a hyper-dispersant type comprising an anchor group for binding to a marking particle and stabilizing groups coupled to the anchor group for stabilizing said marking particle in the carrier liquid. The dispersion further comprises a spacer agent that comprises a polar head group and a substantially non-polar tail, and that acts as a spacer of the marking particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Geert Gaston Paul Deroover, Lode Erik Dries Deprez, Werner Jozef Johan Op de Beeck
  • Liquid Toner Dispersion and Use Thereof
    Publication number: 20150198903
    Abstract: A liquid toner dispersion provided with marking particles comprising a pigment and a polyester based resin, the dispersion comprising a nonpolar organic carrier liquid and a hyperdispersant comprising a graft copolymer provided with an anchor group comprising an amine-functionalized polymer onto which at least one stabilizing group is grafted, wherein a first stabilizing group and a second stabilizing group are coupled to the anchor group, wherein the first stabilizing group is a polyolefin and the second stabilizing group is hydroxylated fatty acid compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Geert Gaston Paul Deroover, Lode Erik Dries Deprez, Werner Jozef Johan Op de Beeck
  • Liquid Toner Dispersion and Use Thereof
    Publication number: 20150168863
    Abstract: A liquid toner dispersion provided with marking particles comprising a pigment and a polyester based resin. The dispersion includes a nonpolar organic solvent and a hyperdispersant including a graft copolymer provided with an anchor group including an amine-functionalised polymer onto which at least one stabilising group is grafted. The stabilising group includes a hydroxylated fatty acid oligomer. The amine-functionalised polymer has a weight-average molecular weight of less than 1000 g/mol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Werner Jozef Johan Op de Beeck, Lode Erik Dries Deprez, Geert Gaston Paul Deroover
  • Biocompatible packaging
    Patent number: 9048198
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for packaging a device, e.g., for bio-medical applications. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining a component on a substrate and separating the component and a first part of the substrate from a second part of the substrate using at least one physical process inducing at least one sloped side wall on the first part of the substrate. The method also includes providing an encapsulation for the chip. The resulting packaged chip advantageously has a good step coverage resulting in a good hermeticity, less sharp edges resulting in a reduced risk of damaging or infection after implantation and has a relatively small packaged volume compared to conventional big box packaging techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: IMEC
    Inventors: Maria Op De Beeck, Eric Beyne, Philippe Soussan
  • Method and device for sorting products
    Patent number: 9006599
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and apparatus for sorting a stream of products by scanning this stream of products with a bundle of concentrated light and analyzing the light originating from the scanned products and a background element, wherein this background element is chosen such that the corresponding detected light signal differs from the light signals originating from the products to be sorted in at least one parameter and wherein one or more control signals are generated by shifting the background level of the observed light signals to a signal level chosen such that, in the thus obtained signal, the signal level of the signal of a scanned product to be accepted distinguishes itself from the signal level of the signal of a scanned product to be rejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Visys
    Inventors: Dirk Adams, Pieter Op De Beeck
  • ENGINE EXHAUST GAS ADDITIVE STORAGE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140345258
    Abstract: System for storing an internal combustion engine exhaust gas liquid additive, the said system comprising a tank for storing the additive and an “immersed” baseplate (1) positioned through an opening made in the bottom wall of the tank, the said baseplate comprising at least one orifice through which a system for injecting the said additive into the exhaust gases can be fed, and also incorporating at least one other active component of the storage system and/or of the injection system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (SOCIETE ANONYME)
    Inventors: Francois DOUGNIER, Joel OP DE BEECK
  • System and Method for Individually Inspecting Objects in a Stream of Products and a Sorting Apparatus Comprising Such System
    Publication number: 20140333755
    Abstract: A system and a method for inspecting a stream of products (3, 3?, 3?) is disclosed, comprising a scanning focused light beam (5) for scanning the product stream and a camera (7) for detecting light beams directly returned from the scanned product stream, whereby the scanning movement of the focused light beam is synchronized with the exposure time of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: VISYS NV
    Inventors: Dirk Adams, Pieter Op de Beeck
  • Method And System For Reduction Of Caking
    Publication number: 20140301756
    Abstract: A method for the reduction of caking of excess liquid developer dispersion that remains present on the surface of a member after transfer of liquid developer dispersion from one member to another member in a digital printing apparatus, comprising the step of adding a dispersing composition to the excess liquid developer dispersion, wherein the dispersing composition comprises a dispersing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: XEIKON IP BV
    Inventors: Dirk Marcel Constant Gijsbrechts, Werner Jozef Johan Op De Beeck, Wim Libaers, Lode Erik Dries Deprez
  • Engine exhaust gas additive storage system
    Patent number: 8850797
    Abstract: System for storing an internal combustion engine exhaust gas liquid additive, the system comprising a tank for storing the additive and an “immersed” baseplate positioned through an opening made in the bottom wall of the tank, the baseplate comprising at least one orifice through which a system for injecting the additive into the exhaust gases can be fed, and also incorporating at least one other active component of the storage system and/or of the injection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Inergy Automotive Systems Research S.A.
    Inventors: Francois Dougnier, Joel Op De Beeck
  • Coupling arrangement for phantom-mode transmission
    Patent number: 8773178
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, the coupling arrangement includes adders for adding a common-mode signal to a differential-mode signal and amplification units for individually and evenly amplifying input signals present on their input terminals, thereby yielding amplified common-and-differential-mode signals. Coupling units with capacitive coupling are configured to pass the amplified common-and-differential-mode signals towards a wire pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Eric Van Den Berg, Edmond Op De Beeck
  • Line equipped with a coupling having an integrated heating element
    Patent number: 8755681
    Abstract: A urea feed or return line (2) that comprises a hollow coupling (1) enabling it to be connected to a urea tank and that comprises a passage for the urea, this coupling being, in addition, equipped with a heating filament (9), at least one part of which extends freely inside the passage provided for the urea, this part having the shape of a loop or a spiral capable of also extending at least partly into the tank and/or into a tube attached thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Inergy Automotive Systems Research (S.A.)
    Inventors: Stephane Leonard, Joel Op De Beeck, Vincent Potier
  • Resilient Sensor for Biopotential Measurements
    Publication number: 20140107458
    Abstract: A sensor for biopotential measurement, comprising: an electrical contacting unit for establishing an electrical contact with an animal or human skin, the electrical contacting unit being resilient. The sensor comprises a housing comprising a cavity wherein the electrical contacting unit is partially secured, and means for maintaining said electrical contacting unit in a resiliently deformed state when in contact with said skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicants: KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, KU LEUVEN R&D, IMEC
    Inventors: Maria Op de Beeck, Filip Vanlerberghe
  • Liquid Developer Dispersion for Digital Printing Process
    Publication number: 20140093822
    Abstract: This invention is related to a liquid developer dispersion for use in a digital printing apparatus comprising a non volatile carrier liquid, a marking particle and a dispersing compounds, wherein the marking particle in the liquid developer dispersion is stabilized during storage and wherein at fusing two phases are formed. The invention is also related to the use of the developer in a digital printing apparatus and to a method for preparing the liquid developer dispersion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Xeikon IP BV
    Inventors: Lode Erik Dries Deprez, Werner Jozef Johan Op de Beeck, Mathias Jo Bert van Remortel, Dirk Marcel Constant Gijsbrechts
  • UREA TANK AND BASE PLATE WITH AN INTEGRATED HEATING ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20140093226
    Abstract: Urea tank and base plate with an integrated heating element in which the heating element comprising at least one resistive track affixed to one flexible film and/or placed between two flexible films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (SOCIETE ANONYME)
    Inventors: Vincent Potier, Stéphane Leonard, Joël OP DE BEECK, François Dougnier, Nadia Walling, Larry Tipton, Volodia Naydenov