Patents by Inventor Philippe Garcin

Philippe Garcin 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).

  • Publication number: 20110114639
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor (7) intended to be fastened in a lock stator by immobilizing means. According to the invention, the means for immobilizing the rotor (7) comprise a latch (11) having an elastically deformable protuberance (13) which is capable of engaging with an associated chamfered region (15) of the rotor (7) in order to immobilize said rotor in a mounting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: VALEO SECURITE HABITACLE
    Inventors: Philippe Garcin, Philippe Reiner
  • Patent number: 6341727
    Abstract: The invention proposes an arrangement of the type comprising a unit into which a badge is introduced manually into a housing in the unit, and which comprises a lever for immobilizing the badge in an active position in the unit and an electromagnet made to lock the immobilizing lever, wherein this arrangement comprises a member for manually unlocking the immobilizing lever which acts on the mobile core plunger of the electromagnet. It is applicable on board of a motor vehicle in which the anti-theft functions are partially or completely fulfilled by data processing, some of which data represents an authorized user of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Valeo Securite Habitacle Renault
    Inventors: Louis Canard, Philippe Garcin
  • Patent number: 6163081
    Abstract: The invention proposed an arrangement of the type comprising a unit into which the medium is introduced manually, and the type in which a device comprises means for longitudinally holding the data medium in an active position and means providing assistance with introducing and extracting the data medium, wherein the data medium has a window, and where the unit comprises a lever for immobilizing the medium which is mounted so that it can pivot, between a stable immobilizing position towards which the immobilizing lever is elastically returned and in which an immobilizing finger of the immobilizing lever extends vertically into the window, and a stable retracted position, to allow the data medium to be extended from the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignees: Valeo Securite Habitacle, Renault
    Inventors: Louis Canard, Philippe Garcin