Patents by Inventor Patrick Claudel

Patrick Claudel 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: 6339729
    Abstract: A process for regulating a furnace which includes a sequence of sections, cooling sections, baking sections, and preheating sections, in which the preheating sections at the tail are fitted with exhaust pipes for combustion gases, and in the transverse direction with a series of flue walls and pits in which blocks containing carbon to be baked are stacked, in which gas streams circulate through the flue walls. The mass flow in each of the streams of combustion exhaust gases is regulated by measuring this flow and the temperature in order to obtain a predetermined set value of energy flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Aluminium Pechiney
    Inventors: Christian Dreyer, Patrick Claudel