Patents by Inventor Paul Menard
Paul Menard 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: 8520587Abstract: The invention relates to a device, a method and an apparatus for acquiring data, the device comprising a wireless network including a set of nodes (100), each node (100) including a sender (140) and a receiver (150) for sending and/or receiving and/or relaying data and/or commands, and a satellite positioning system (130), characterized in that each satellite positioning system (130) includes means for providing specific data used for time-stamping the data relative to a common time reference, organizing an access to the wireless network in a perfectly controlled manner, and routing data and/or commands within the network.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2005Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: SercelInventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Jacques Hamon, Pierre Sagot
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Patent number: 7869444Abstract: A data acquisition network includes an assembly of nodes including at least one wireless network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by radio waves. The assembly of nodes also includes at least one other network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by a cable. The data is also conveyed by radio waves. The at least one other network forms a cabled network of nodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2005Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: SercelInventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Daniel Pennec, Dominique Deniau, Jean-Luc Dronet
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Patent number: 7797998Abstract: The invention relates to an accelerometer comprising a moving mass (5) and a fixed part (2), which uses variations in capacitance (3, 4) in order to detect the movement of the mass (5). The inventive accelerometer comprises a first series of electrodes (4) which are solidly connected to the mass (5) and which are interdigitated with a series of electrodes (3, 7) which are solidly connected to the fixed part (2). According to the invention, each moving electrode (4), together with an adjacent fixed electrode (3), forms a capacitance which varies according to the position of the moving mass (5). The accelerometer further comprises an electronic circuit which is used to detect the variation in at least one capacitance between the moving mass (5) and the fixed part (2), in the form of a moving mass displacement indicator.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2004Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: SercelInventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Maurice Moreau
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Patent number: 7612886Abstract: The invention relates to a fiber-optic seismic sensor (200) with a test body (110), characterized in that the test body (110) comprises several separate dishes (113, 114, 115, 116) that are distributed around the direction of the sensitive axis of the sensor and two star-shaped elements (120, 130) placed on either side of the dishes (113, 114, 115, 116) and mechanically linking said dishes (113, 114, 115, 116) together.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: SercelInventors: Laurent Guerineau, Sylvie Menezo, Jean-Paul Menard, Mathieu Sanche, Hubert Dieulangard
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Patent number: 7552638Abstract: An accelerometer uses variations in capacitance to detect and measure the movement of a moving mass in relation to a fixed part. The accelerometer comprises a first series of electrodes, which are solidly connected to the mass and which are interdigitated with a second series of electrodes. The second series of electrodes are solidly connected to the fixed part. The accelerometer further comprises an electronic circuit which: detects the variation in at least one capacitance between the moving mass and the fixed part, in the form of a moving mass displacement indicator; and also generates an electrostatic stress in order to return the moving mass to the initial position thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2004Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: SercelInventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Maurice Moreau
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Patent number: 7548600Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for data acquisition, the apparatus being characterized in that it comprises an analog/digital converter (510) sampling at an imperfect frequency FE provided by a local clock (100) data acquired by a sensor (500) thus providing a series of sampled and dated data E[k], a time-stamping module (300) for measuring the frequency error of the local clock (100) by determining the sampling dates according to a universal time UTC(t), and a resampling module (400) for correcting the sampled and dated data E[k].Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2005Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: SercelInventors: Jérôme Laine, Jean-Paul Menard
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Patent number: 7474591Abstract: A seismic data acquisition system includes a plurality of sensors which are arranged so they can be used to measure translation movements of a medium with three independent spatial components and of the rotation movements around each of the three independent spatial components, thus forming a six-component system.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2006Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: SercelInventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Jérôme Laine
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Publication number: 20080196500Abstract: The invention relates to an accelerometer comprising a moving mass (5) and a fixed part (2), which uses variations in capacitance (3, 4) in order to detect the movement of the mass (5). The inventive accelerometer comprises a first series of electrodes (4) which are solidly connected to the mass (5) and which are interdigitated with a series of electrodes (3, 7) which are solidly connected to the fixed part (2). According to the invention, each moving electrode (4), together with an adjacent fixed electrode (3), forms a capacitance which varies according to the position of the moving mass (5). The accelerometer further comprises an electronic circuit which is used to detect the variation in at least one capacitance between the moving mass (5) and the fixed part (2), in the form of a moving mass displacement indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2004Publication date: August 21, 2008Inventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Maurice Moreau
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Publication number: 20080092651Abstract: The invention relates to an accelerometer comprising a moving mass (5) and a fixed part (2), which uses variations in capacitance (3, 4) in order to detect the movement of the mass (5). The inventive accelerometer comprises a first series of electrodes (3, 4) which are solidly connected to the mass (5) and which are interdigitated with a series of electrodes (3, 4) which are solidly connected to the fixed part (2). According to the invention, each moving electrode (4), together with an adjacent fixed electrode (3), forms a capacitance which varies according to the position of the moving mass (5). The accelerometer further comprises an electronic circuit which is used to: (i) detect the variation in at least one capacitance between the moving mass (5) and the fixed part (2), in the form of a moving mass displacement indicator; and also (ii) generate an electrostatic stress in order to return the moving mass (5) to the initial position thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2004Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Maurice Moreau
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Publication number: 20070153631Abstract: A seismic data acquisition system includes a plurality of sensors which are arranged so they can be used to measure translation movements of a medium with three independent spatial components and of the rotation movements around each of the three independent spatial components, thus forming a six-component system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2006Publication date: July 5, 2007Inventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Jerome Laine
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Publication number: 20070025484Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for data acquisition, the apparatus being characterized in that it comprises an analog/digital converter (510) sampling at an imperfect frequency FE provided by a local clock (100) data acquired by a sensor (500) thus providing a series of sampled and dated data E[k], a time-stamping module (300) for measuring the frequency error of the local clock (100) by determining the sampling dates according to a universal time UTC(t), and a resampling module (400) for correcting the sampled and dated data E[k].Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2005Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventors: Jerome Laine, Jean-Paul Menard
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Publication number: 20070025308Abstract: The invention relates to a device, a method and an apparatus for acquiring data, the device comprising a wireless network including a set of nodes (100), each node (100) including a sender (140) and a receiver (150) for sending and/or receiving and/or relaying data and/or commands, and a satellite positioning system (130), characterized in that each satellite positioning system (130) includes means for providing specific data used for time-stamping the data relative to a common time reference, organizing an access to the wireless network in a perfectly controlled manner, and routing data and/or commands within the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2005Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Jacques Hamon, Pierre Sagot
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Publication number: 20070025307Abstract: A data acquisition network includes an assembly of nodes including at least one wireless network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by radio waves. The assembly of nodes also includes at least one other network of nodes in which two neighboring nodes transmit data between each other by a cable. The data is also conveyed by radio waves. The at least one other network forms a cabled network of nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2005Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventors: Jean-Paul Menard, Daniel Pennec, Dominique Deniau, Jean-Luc Dronet
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Publication number: 20070008544Abstract: The invention relates to a fiber-optic seismic sensor (200) with a test body (110), characterized in that the test body (110) comprises several separate dishes (113, 114, 115, 116) that are distributed around the direction of the sensitive axis of the sensor and two star-shaped elements (120, 130) placed on either side of the dishes (113, 114, 115, 116) and mechanically linking said dishes (113, 114, 115, 116) together.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2005Publication date: January 11, 2007Inventors: Laurent Guerineau, Sylvie Menezo, Jean-Paul Menard, Mathieu Sanche, Hubert Dieulangard
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Patent number: 6786297Abstract: A module is described for acquiring geophysical signals. The module includes at least one casing which is individually linked to one track. Each casing houses a processor which operates to digitize the geophysical signals. The module further includes two cable sections associated with each casing. Each cable section includes at a first end, a connector suitable for being coupled up to a complementary connector, and at a second end, an adapted configured to be fixed to a casing and to effect an electrical link with the processor housed in the casing.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: SercelInventor: Jean-Paul Menard
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Patent number: 6497149Abstract: A slave mobile plate accelerometer using variations of capacitance to detect the movement of a mass. The apparatus comprises at least one pair of fixed electrodes rigidly attached to an armature, and at least one mobile electrode suspended by springs from the armature, between the two fixed electrodes of each pair of fixed electrodes, to form two capacitors, each mobile electrode being adapted to move between the fixed electrodes of each pair of fixed electrodes, due to the effect of acceleration, so causing a variation of the capacitance of each capacitor. The accelerometer further includes an electronic circuit for adjusting the electrostatic stiffness of at least one combination of a fixed electrode and a mobile electrode and a control system for detecting the variation of the capacitance of each capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2000Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: SercelInventors: Maurice Moreau, Jean-Paul Menard
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Patent number: 4749698Abstract: Compounds having the general structure ##STR1## and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein the substituents are defined herein, which exhibit antihypertensive activity.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1985Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignee: Rorer Pharmaceutical CorporationInventors: Edward S. Neiss, John T. Suh, John R. Regan, Jerry W. Skiles, Jeffrey N. Barton, James J. Mencel, Paul Menard
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Patent number: 4746676Abstract: Compounds having the general structure ##STR1## and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein the substituents are defined herein, which exhibit antihypertensive activity.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1984Date of Patent: May 24, 1988Assignee: Rorer Pharmaceutical CorporationInventors: Edward S. Neiss, John T. Suh, John R. Regan, Jerry W. Skiles, Jeffrey N. Barton, Paul Menard
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Patent number: 4666906Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein the substituents are as defined herein, having antihypertensive activity.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1985Date of Patent: May 19, 1987Assignee: USV Pharmaceutical CorporationInventors: John J. Piwinski, John T. Suh, Paul Menard, Howard Jones, Edward S. Neiss, John R. Regan
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Patent number: 4596791Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein the substituents are as defined herein, having antihypertensive activity.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1985Date of Patent: June 24, 1986Assignee: USV Pharmaceutical Corp.Inventors: John J. Piwinski, John T. Suh, Paul Menard, Howard Jones, Edward S. Neiss