Patents by Inventor Patrick Robert

Patrick Robert 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: 11867563
    Abstract: A device of integration of an electric current received on an integration node, includes an operational amplifier, an integration capacitor, and a circuit for modifying an output voltage of the operational amplifier formed by a charge transfer circuit configured to be connected on the integration node and to transfer charges into the integration capacitor. The device also includes a comparison circuit configured to trigger the modification circuit at least once during the integration duration, and a storage circuit configured to store the number of triggerings which have occurred during the integration duration. The received electric current is calculated according to the output voltage as well as to the number of triggerings multiplied by the modification of the output voltage induced by the modification circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LYNRED
    Inventors: Roger Petigny, Patrick Robert
  • Patent number: 11656129
    Abstract: An infrared sensor includes an assembly of pixels juxtaposed in rows and in columns, each pixel integrating an imaging microbolometer and an integrator assembly. The integrator assembly includes a transistor assembled as an amplifier, and a capacitor assembled in feedback on the transistor between an output node and an integration node. The integration node is connected to a skimming transistor operating as a current mirror with a skimming control transistor offset outside of the pixel. A skimming current flowing through the skimming control transistor is controlled according to the temperature of at least one thermalized microbolometer. The current mirror assembly enables to transmit the skimming current flowing through said skimming control transistor onto the integration node so that the capacitor integrates the difference between a current flowing through the imaging microbolometer and the skimming current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LYNRED
    Inventor: Patrick Robert
  • Publication number: 20220355036
    Abstract: This medical container includes a tubular barrel defining a reservoir for a medical product and a longitudinal distal tip defining a fluid path in communication with the reservoir in order to allow the medical product to be expelled from the medical container. The distal tip and the barrel are made of glass and the distal tip is provided with a thread, the thread being configured to connect the distal tip to a connecting element having a complementarily shaped internal thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ronan Garrec, Patrick Robert, Olivier David, Christian Pauly
  • Patent number: 11486969
    Abstract: An optical module (10) is attached in front of an optical outlet (21) of a monostatic or quasi-monostatic laser rangefinder (20), for the purpose of transversely offsetting a laser beam of primary radiation (F) emitted by the optical outlet. In this manner, the risk of damage to an optical sensor (23) of the rangefinder can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Patrick Robert, Vincent Marie
  • Publication number: 20220260426
    Abstract: An infrared sensor includes an assembly of pixels juxtaposed in rows and in columns, each pixel integrating an imaging microbolometer and an integrator assembly. The integrator assembly includes a transistor assembled as an amplifier, and a capacitor assembled in feedback on the transistor between an output node and an integration node. The integration node is connected to a skimming transistor operating as a current mirror with a skimming control transistor offset outside of the pixel. A skimming current flowing through the skimming control transistor is controlled according to the temperature of at least one thermalized microbolometer. The current mirror assembly enables to transmit the skimming current flowing through said skimming control transistor onto the integration node so that the capacitor integrates the difference between a current flowing through the imaging microbolometer and the skimming current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Patrick Robert
  • Publication number: 20210364602
    Abstract: An optical module (10) is attached in front of an optical outlet (21) of a monostatic or quasi-monostatic laser rangefinder (20), for the purpose of transversely offsetting a laser beam of primary radiation (F) emitted by the optical outlet. In this manner, the risk of damage to an optical sensor (23) of the rangefinder can be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Patrick ROBERT, Vincent MARIE
  • Publication number: 20210072087
    Abstract: A device of integration of an electric current received on an integration node, includes an operational amplifier, an integration capacitor, and a circuit for modifying an output voltage of the operational amplifier formed by a charge transfer circuit configured to be connected on the integration node and to transfer charges into the integration capacitor. The device also includes a comparison circuit configured to trigger the modification circuit at least once during the integration duration, and a storage circuit configured to store the number of triggerings which have occurred during the integration duration. The received electric current is calculated according to the output voltage as well as to the number of triggerings multiplied by the modification of the output voltage induced by the modification circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Roger Petigny, Patrick Robert
  • Patent number: 10904460
    Abstract: An imaging instrument for controlling a target designation makes it possible to visualise a target designation spot (SP) within a scene (SC), while using only one image sensor. To do this, a filter is arranged on the image sensor, in a restricted area (ZC) of same. The filter makes it possible to increase a contrast and a signal-to-noise ratio for an image of the target designation spot, when a misalignment (DP) is produced in order to bring the image of the target designation spot into the area of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Electronics & Defense
    Inventors: Patrick Robert, Hervé Sik
  • Publication number: 20200236304
    Abstract: An imaging instrument for controlling a target designation makes it possible to visualise a target designation spot (SP) within a scene (SC), while using only one image sensor. To do this, a filter is arranged on the image sensor, in a restricted area (ZC) of same. The filter makes it possible to increase a contrast and a signal-to-noise ratio for an image of the target designation spot, when a misalignment (DP) is produced in order to bring the image of the target designation spot into the area of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Patrick ROBERT, Hervé SIK
  • Patent number: 10199990
    Abstract: A device for integrating an electric current during a period Tint, including an operational amplifier and a capacitor connected between a first input and an output of the amplifier, a second input of the amplifier being taken to a voltage VBUS, output voltage Vout of the amplifier being saturated at a high voltage VsatH and a low voltage VsatH according to the charge quantity in the capacitor. The device also includes: a circuit for switching the terminals of the capacitor; and a circuit for triggering the circuit at least once during period Tint when voltage Vout both grows and is substantially equal to a reference voltage VREF, the voltage VREF being smaller than or equal to voltage VsatH, and reference voltage VREF and voltage VBUS being selected to comply with relation 2·VBUS?VREF?VsatL; and a storage circuit for storing the number of triggerings having occurred between the initial time and the end time of the integration period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ULIS
    Inventor: Patrick Robert
  • Publication number: 20170111015
    Abstract: A device for integrating an electric current during a period Tint, including an operational amplifier and a capacitor connected between a first input and an output of the amplifier, a second input of the amplifier being taken to a voltage VBUS, output voltage Vout of the amplifier being saturated at a high voltage VsatH and a low voltage VsatH according to the charge quantity in the capacitor. The device also includes: a circuit for switching the terminals of the capacitor; and a circuit for triggering the circuit at least once during period Tint when voltage Vout both grows and is substantially equal to a reference voltage VREF, the voltage VREF being smaller than or equal to voltage VsatH, and reference voltage VREF and voltage VBUS being selected to comply with relation 2·VBUS?VREF?VsatL; and a storage circuit for storing the number of triggerings having occurred between the initial time and the end time of the integration period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Patrick Robert
  • Patent number: 8987668
    Abstract: An infrared detector including an array of detection bolometers each having a bolometric membrane suspended above a substrate, and associated with each bolometer: a detection branch, including the bolometer and a circuit performing a biasing according to a voltage set point, a compensation branch, including a compensation bolometer thermalized to the substrate, a circuit performing a biasing according to a voltage set point, an integrator for generating a voltage by integrating a difference between the currents flowing through said branches, a circuit generating a quantity depending on substrate temperature, including: a bolometer thermalized to the substrate, and a circuit for biasing the bolometer, and a circuit for generating the voltage set points according to said quantity. When the array is exposed to a uniform reference scene, the average of the differences between currents flowing through said branches is within the integrator dynamic range for a substrate temperature range from ?30° C.-90° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: ULIS
    Inventors: Michel Vilain, Patrick Robert
  • Publication number: 20140239180
    Abstract: An infrared detector including an array of detection bolometers each having a bolometric membrane suspended above a substrate, and associated with each bolometer: a detection branch, including the bolometer and a circuit performing a biasing according to a voltage set point, a compensation branch, including a compensation bolometer thermalized to the substrate, a circuit performing a biasing according to a voltage set point, an integrator for generating a voltage by integrating a difference between the currents flowing through said branches, a circuit generating a quantity depending on substrate temperature, including: a bolometer thermalized to the substrate, and a circuit for biasing the bolometer, and a circuit for generating the voltage set points according to said quantity. When the array is exposed to a uniform reference scene, the average of the differences between currents flowing through said branches is within the integrator dynamic range for a substrate temperature range from ?30° C.-90° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: ULIS
    Inventors: Michel Vilain, Patrick Robert
  • Patent number: 8803074
    Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation detection device including multiple elementary detectors grouped into one or more sub-assemblies each including several elementary detectors, where each elementary detector is connected by an interconnection to an impedance-matching device. The impedance-matching device is common to all the elementary detectors of a single sub-assembly, in each sub-assembly the interconnections have roughly the same resistance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Commissariat à l'énergie et aux énergies alternatives, ULIS
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Yon, Patrick Robert
  • Patent number: D814119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Avent, Inc.
    Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
  • Patent number: D814120
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Avent, Inc.
    Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
  • Patent number: D823545
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.
    Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
  • Patent number: D833685
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.
    Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
  • Patent number: D834757
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.
    Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
  • Patent number: D836255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.
    Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria