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).
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Patent number: 11867563Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LYNREDInventors: Roger Petigny, Patrick Robert
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Patent number: 11656129Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: LYNREDInventor: Patrick Robert
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Publication number: 20220355036Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Ronan Garrec, Patrick Robert, Olivier David, Christian Pauly
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Patent number: 11486969Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Patrick Robert, Vincent Marie
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Publication number: 20220260426Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventor: Patrick Robert
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Publication number: 20210364602Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Patrick ROBERT, Vincent MARIE
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Publication number: 20210072087Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Roger Petigny, Patrick Robert
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Patent number: 10904460Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Safran Electronics & DefenseInventors: Patrick Robert, Hervé Sik
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Publication number: 20200236304Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Patrick ROBERT, Hervé SIK
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Patent number: 10199990Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: ULISInventor: Patrick Robert
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Publication number: 20170111015Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventor: Patrick Robert
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Patent number: 8987668Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: ULISInventors: Michel Vilain, Patrick Robert
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Publication number: 20140239180Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: ULISInventors: Michel Vilain, Patrick Robert
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Patent number: 8803074Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignees: Commissariat à l'énergie et aux énergies alternatives, ULISInventors: Jean-Jacques Yon, Patrick Robert
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Patent number: D814119Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Avent, Inc.Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
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Patent number: D814120Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Avent, Inc.Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
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Patent number: D823545Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
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Patent number: D833685Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
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Patent number: D834757Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria
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Patent number: D836255Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.Inventors: Shantilal Modha, Patrick Robert, Sopha Issara, Zamsari Zakaria