Patents by Inventor Patrick Hurpin

Patrick Hurpin 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: 8306833
    Abstract: A system is provided for the collective transport of people using a plurality of vehicles within a urban territory equipped with parking structures near transfer stations. Each parking structure comprises boxes for parking available vehicles in rows that provide a handling platform comprising a return area in front of a first row and a pick-up area in front of a second row. A mechanism displaces the boxes and brings, at the level of the handling platform, an empty box and an occupied box. The vehicle is thereafter advanced from the occupied box onto the pick-up area and taken therefrom. The vehicle is thereafter brought to the return area of a second parking structure, advanced and introduced in the empty box thereof. The empty box thereafter containing the vehicle is raised by the mechanism and replaced by a second empty box ready to receive a further vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventor: Patrick Hurpin
  • Publication number: 20090313095
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a process and a global system for the transportation of people using shared individual vehicles, where multiple vehicles (5) are put to the disposition of a population of users for the purpose of commuting within a territory equipped with multiple parking structures (T) with an automated means to return and retrieve a vehicle. According to the invention. serving an urban district whose territory is equipped with a public transportation network (R. M), the parking structures (T) are situated at a short distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventor: Patrick Hurpin