Patents by Inventor Philippe Are

Philippe Are 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).

  • Offset cancellation and reduced source induced 1/f noise of voltage reference by using bit stream from over-sampling analog-to-digital converter
    Patent number: 7538705
    Abstract: An over-sampling analog-to-digital converter (ADC) uses a chopper stabilized voltage reference with improved reference voltage offset cancellation and reduced source induced 1/f noise. The chopper stabilized voltage reference receives chopper clocks that have been correlated with the serial bitstream produced by the sigma-delta modulator of the ADC. The chopper clocks are generated so that the reference voltage produces for each distinct bitstream level an independent sequence of voltages that comprise alternatively positive and negative voltage reference offset contributions. After integration (averaging) is performed within the sigma-delta modulator, these equal and opposite reference offset contributions cancel out regardless of the bit pattern comprising the bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Philippe Deval, Vincent Quiquempoix
  • Component module applique for vehicle lift gate
    Patent number: 7537256
    Abstract: A module in the form of a carrier with an optional decorative body is mountable on an exterior surface of a vehicle lift gate and provides a mounting platform for a plurality of components. The components include at least two of light sources in the form of LEDs or incandescent bulbs, an actuatable switch, a camera, a key lock cylinder and a movable handle. The carrier is affixed to the body and is alignable with apertures in the body for transmission of light from the light sources exteriorly of the body as well as to provide a field of view for the camera. The electric switch is actuatable through a resilient membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Valeo Electrical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence M. Gates, Philippe Gougeon, Leonida S. Vaitus, William Ethan A. McClure
  • Intervertebral disk prosthesis
    Patent number: 7537615
    Abstract: The intervertebral disk prosthesis comprises first and second parts (2, 3) intended to be attached respectively to two adjacent vertebrae, an intermediate part (4) inserted between the first and second parts (2, 3) and comprising articular surfaces (9, 10) that cooperate with respective articular surfaces (6, 8) of the first and second parts (2, 3), and means (11, 12) for coupling the first part (2) and the intermediate part (4). The coupling means (11, 12) are arranged to leave the intermediate part (4) free relative to the first part (2) during a first phase of a tilting movement of the first part (2) relative to the second part (3), but to displace the intermediate part (4) toward an end (E2) of the prosthesis that is opposite to an end (E1) toward which the first part (2) is displaced by tilting relative to the second part (3), during a second phase of the tilting movement of the first part (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Eden Spine Europe SA
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Lemaire
  • ADAPTIVE ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PROTECTION OF DEVICE INTERFACE FOR LOCAL INTERCONNECT NETWORK (LIN) BUS AND THE LIKE
    Publication number: 20090128970
    Abstract: Adaptive electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection of a device interface has very good ESD robustness when it is handled or when installed into or removed from a system. And has robust immunity to DPI, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and the like, when it is operational in a system. There is a significant capacitive coupling between the drain and gate of a ESD protection metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device to enhance ESD protection and lower snap back voltage thereof whenever there is no (or a low level) DPI on the external connection to be protected. Whereupon when a significant DPI/EMI signal is detected on the external connection, the capa citive coupling between the drain and gate of the MOS ESD protection device is disconnected, bypassed or attenuated so that DPI/EMI immunity of the device is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Philippe Deval, Patrick Besseux, Randy Yach
  • SYSTEM FOR SECURING AN AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PLAN
    Publication number: 20090132103
    Abstract: The system for securing an aircraft flight plan has a flight management system delivering: a flight plan and points comprising passage setpoints in terms of speed, altitude and time; an avionics computer; at least one resource for storing environmental data constituting a hazard for the aircraft; a performance model of the aircraft defining limiting flight conditions according to the performance capabilities of said aircraft; at least one resource for processing the aircraft's avoidance trajectories. It makes it possible, based on a sampling of points of the flight plan, to calculate a set of avoidance trajectories and correlate them with the environmental data in order to detect the engagement points requiring a corrective maneuver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Nicolas MARTY, Aurelie Sallier, Philippe Salmon
  • Lossless Compression of Color Image Data Using Entropy Encoding
    Publication number: 20090129691
    Abstract: A method compresses a digital continuous tone image of pixels situated on scan lines. The method includes the steps of, for a current pixel to be encoded, said current pixel having an actual pixel value, predicting a predicted pixel value based on pixel values of at least one previously processed pixel from the same image, using a fixed rule, determining a difference parameter based on a difference value of said predicted pixel value and the actual pixel value of said current pixel to be encoded, and inspecting the difference parameter for existence of an uninterrupted series of highest order bits having a value equal to zero, removing at least part of said highest order zero bits, and, if a number of bits within predetermined limits remains, generating a compression code having a predetermined fixed length, said code indicating the number of remaining bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: OCE'-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Maurice L. M. Luttmer, Philippe Sobczak, Julien Malik
  • DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING HYDRAULIC BRAKING OF A TRAILER HITCHED TO A TRACTOR
    Publication number: 20090127927
    Abstract: A hydraulic circuit having a brake pipe suitable for being connected to a pressurized fluid source or to a pressure-free reservoir, i.e. to a reservoir without excess pressure, via a proportional pressure reducer controlled by an electronic control unit (ECU). The circuit includes link solenoid-valve means suitable for connecting the proportional pressure reducer to the reservoir or, via a calibrated pressure reducer, to the pressurized fluid source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Jean Heren, Andre Prigent, Jean-Philippe Raisin
  • Automatically Analyzing and Modifying a Remote Graphical Program via a Network
    Publication number: 20090132940
    Abstract: A system and method for programmatically analyzing and modifying a graphical program via a network. The graphical program may be stored on a memory medium at a first location. A program may be executed on a computer system at a second location. The computer system at the second location may be coupled via a network to the memory medium at the first location or may be coupled to a computer system or device which includes or has access to the memory medium at the first location. The program on the computer system at the second location may execute to programmatically analyze the graphical program via the network. In one embodiment the program on the computer system at the second location may also execute to programmatically modify the graphical program via the network, based on the programmatic analysis of the graphical program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Philippe G. Joffrain, Joel Sumner, Darshan K. Shah, Darren M. Nattinger
  • METHOD FOR MANAGING FRAMES IN A GLOBAL-AREA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND TUNNEL ENDPOINT
    Publication number: 20090129389
    Abstract: A method for managing frames in a global-area communications network comprises a plurality of sub-networks linked to one another by tunnels at the ends of which there are tunnel endpoints, at least one of the sub-networks comprising at least one source device connected to one of said tunnel endpoints through said sub-network. When a given tunnel endpoint receives from a local sub-network, to which said given tunnel endpoint is connected, a frame sent out by a source device in the global-area network, the given tunnel endpoint performs the following steps: obtaining, from said frame, an address of the source device; verifying that the obtained address is included in a first list of addresses comprising addresses associated with source devices connected to remote sub-network or sub-networks distinct from the local sub-network; and in the event of positive verification, discarding said frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TRISTAN HALNA DeFRETAY, PHILIPPE BOUCACHARD
  • METHOD FOR MONITORING A PATIENT AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD
    Publication number: 20090131766
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for monitoring a patient suffering, for example, from a nervous disease such as epilepsy, characterized in that it consists at least in the following steps: recording continuously video images of the patient in a buffer, determining the occurrence of a seizure of the patient at a time t0, extracting the video images recorded in the buffer between time t0?n and t0+m minutes, and recording the video sequence between t0?n and t0+m on a medium. The invention also concerns a method for diagnosing a neurological disease of a patient characterized in that it consists in monitoring the patient using the inventive monitoring method and in viewing the recorded sequence on a display device. Finally, the invention concerns a system for monitoring a patient for implementing said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Alexandros Arzimanoglou, Philippe Ryvlin
  • SEALING A ROTOR RING IN A TURBINE STAGE
    Publication number: 20090129917
    Abstract: A turbine stage in a turbomachine, the stage comprising a wheel mounted in a ring carried by a turbine casing, and a nozzle situated upstream from the wheel and including an annular fastener rim for fastening to the turbine casing, sealing being provided between the outer rim of the nozzle and the upstream end of the ring by a radial annular sheet bearing axially at its inner and outer peripheries against a downstream face of the outer rim of the nozzle, with its middle annular portion being axially spaced apart from the outer rim of the nozzle and bearing axially against the upstream end of the ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Philippe Gerard Marie HAZEVIS, Xavier Firmin Camille Jean Lescure, Aurelien Rene-Pierre Massot, Jean-Luc Soupizon
  • AMINE REACTION COMPOUNDS COMPRISING ONE OR MORE ACTIVE INGREDIENT
    Publication number: 20090131294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a product of reaction between a primary and/or secondary amine and one or more active ingredients. By the present invention, there is provided a release of the active component over a longer period of time than by the use of the active itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol, Alfred Busch, Hugo Denutte, Christophe Laudamiel, Peter Marie Kamiel Perneel, Marie Montserrat Sanchez-Pena, Johan Smets
  • VEHICLE MASTER CYLINDER CONNECTED TO AN AUXILIARY BRAKING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20090126362
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle master cylinder (1). More specifically, the invention relates to a piston (4, 5) of the master cylinder which has a first indentation (24) and a second indentation (27), which indentations are formed upstream of a port (13, 14) of the piston. The first indentation and the second indentation delimit a space within which hydraulic brake fluid can be stored so that it can be tapped off by an auxiliary braking device of the E.S.P. type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Yannick Nen, Omar Brahmi, Marc Noblet, Dominique Rault, Philippe Bourlon, Lionel Bourgois, Jeremy Labarre
  • METHOD FOR MAKING A CHLOROHYDRIN
    Publication number: 20090131631
    Abstract: Process for preparing a chlorohydrin, comprising the following steps: (a) a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon, an ester of a polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon or a mixture thereof is reacted with a chlorinating agent and an organic acid so as to give a mixture containing the chlorohydrin and esters of the chlorohydrin (b) at least part of the mixture obtained in step (a) is subjected to one or more treatments in steps subsequent to step (a) (c) polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon is added to at least one of the steps subsequent to step (a), so as to react, at a temperature greater than or equal to 20° C., with the esters of the chlorohydrin, so as to form, at least partly, esters of the polyhydroxylated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: SOLVAY (SOCIETE ANONYME)
    Inventors: Philippe Krafft, Patrick Gilbeau, Dominique Balthasart, Valentine Smets
  • ADAPTIVE ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PROTECTION OF DEVICE INTERFACE FOR LOCAL INTERCONNECT NETWORK (LIN) BUS AND THE LIKE
    Publication number: 20090128969
    Abstract: Adaptive electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection of a device interface has very good ESD robustness when it is handled or when installed into or removed from a system. And has robust immunity to DPI, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and the like, when it is operational in a system. There is a significant capacitive coupling between the drain and gate of a ESD protection metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device to enhance ESD protection and lower snap back voltage thereof whenever there is no (or a low level) DPI on the external connection to be protected. Whereupon when a significant DPI/EMI signal is detected on the external connection, the capa citive coupling between the drain and gate of the MOS ESD protection device is disconnected, bypassed or attenuated so that DPI/EMI immunity of the device is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Philippe Deval, Patrick Besseux, Randy Yach
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING FLOW PARAMETERS AND ELECTRIC PARAMETERS OF POROUS MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20090126462
    Abstract: The invention is a method and device for evaluating simultaneously, and with the same equipment, the electric resistivity and flow parameters of a porous medium, from experimental measurements obtained from at least one multi-flow type displacement experiment which has application in oil reservoir development. The method continuously measures as a function of time the differential pressure between two ends of a sample, the electric resistivity of the sample and, for each stabilization step, at least two values of a displaced fluid production volume are also measured. A continuous curve of the displaced fluid production volume, from which flow parameters are estimated by means of a numerical flow simulator, is then deduced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Marc Fleury, Philippe Poulain, Patrick Egermann
  • ACTUATOR CONTROL REDUCING THE LEVEL OF VIBRATION OF AN ASSOCIATED FLEXIBLE STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20090132102
    Abstract: The aim of the method of controlling at least one mechanical system exhibiting at least one flexible structure element and at least one actuator or group of actuators is to reduce the level of vibrations of said element while controlling the actuator or group of actuators in such a way as to achieve at least one objective assigned to the mechanical system. The control consists of increments having to be carried out at a sampling period T, each of the increments being constant in amplitude in a sampling time interval extending between two successive sampling instants and each of the increments being applied during a duration which is less than or equal to the sampling period T. In each sampling interval, at least one of the initial and final instants of application of the increment is modified by adding a variable, random or pseudo-random, temporal deviation dT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: ASTRIUM SAS
    Inventor: Philippe GUYOT
  • Clamping Device for a Connection Terminal
    Publication number: 20090130893
    Abstract: A connection terminal clamping device clamping a conductor wire to a connection conductor bar comprises a part forming a conductor housing provided with at least one upwardly oriented opening for receiving at least one connectable conductor wire and the connection conductor bar, a clamping spring which maintains the conductor wire introduced into a housing-forming part in position against the conductor bar by means of an elastic force and which comprises a first connecting arm formed by the extension of a wall defining said housing-forming part and connected by an elbow to a second clamping arm provided with a free clamping end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: ABB France
    Inventors: Noel Revollon, Philippe France
  • All-terrain vehicle body assembly
    Patent number: D593002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Bombardier Recreational Products Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Sanschagrin, Jean-Philippe Crepeau, Christopher Rudwal
  • Rear body assembly for an all-terrain vehicle
    Patent number: D593003
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Bombardier Recreational Products Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Sanschagrin, Jean-Philippe Crepeau, Christopher Rudwal