Patents by Inventor Pascal Joffre

Pascal Joffre 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: 5936484
    Abstract: A UHF phase shifter including a UHF waveguide having an electrooptical element lying between two elements 3 and 4 made of materials which have permittivity higher than that of the electrooptical element. An electric polarization field is applied for controlling the electrooptical element and a UHF line is inserted into the element. The control of the orientation of the molecules of the electrooptical element allows for a variation of the index of the element as seen by the field of a UHF wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Daniel Dolfi, Jean-Pierre Huignard, Pascal Joffre, Michele Labeyrie, Jean-Claude Lehureau
  • Patent number: 5467206
    Abstract: A color display device comprises a source of light simultaneously emitting several ranges of chromatic components and a spatial light modulator comprising several dots, each dot comprising at least one sub-pixel per range of chromatic component to be displayed. Between the light source and the spatial light modulator there are provided at least one chromatic separator angularly separating the light of the different chromatic range along different directions, a lens focusing the light of the different chromatic ranges at distinct points or along distinct lines contained in a determined plane, at least one spatial filter located along this determined plane and selectively filtering the light of the different chromatic ranges, and an array of lenses, each enabling the focusing of the light of each chromatic range substantially on a sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Brigitte Loiseaux, Cecile Joubert, Jean-Pierre Huignard, Pascal Joffre, Christophe Nicolas
  • Patent number: 5150241
    Abstract: The disclosed deflector includes a thin film of liquid crystal on either side of which there is positioned at least one plane of electrodes, the assembly forming an array of elementary, quadripolar phase-shifters placed side by side, their electrodes being taken to different control potentials, generating a spatial modulation of the phase of the beam going through the deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Pascal Joffre, Gerard Illiaquer, Jean-Pierre Huignard