Patents by Inventor Philippe Gerard
Philippe Gerard 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: 12648971Abstract: The present invention relates to the preventive or curative treatment of inflammatory diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and inflammatory bowel diseases using Adlercreutzia bacteria.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignees: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET INDUSTRIES DU VIVANT ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT, ENTEROME, UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAYInventors: Hervé Blottiere, Philippe Gerard, Sebastian Burz, Florian Plaza Oñate
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Publication number: 20230310519Abstract: The present invention relates to the preventive or curative treatment of inflammatory diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and inflammatory bowel diseases using Adlercreutzia bacteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: HERVÉ BLOTTIERE, PHILIPPE GERARD, SEBASTIAN BURZ, FLORIAN PLAZA-ONATE
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Patent number: 9526927Abstract: A breathing assembly for aircraft comprising a storage unit, a breathing mask and a releasable securing device. The storage unit has a guiding surface extending perpendicularly to an elevation direction and a maintaining element. The breathing mask comprises a rigid support having a sliding surface adapted to slide in contact with the guiding surface of the storage unit, along a sliding direction between a storage position and an exit position. The support further has a maintaining element. In the storage position, the sliding surface of the support is prevented from moving away from the guiding surface of the storage unit along the elevation direction at the distal end by engagement of the maintaining element of the support with the maintaining element of the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Zodiac AerotechnicsInventors: Sebastien Bruckert, Philippe Gerard, Didier Lamourette, Frederic Berthet
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Patent number: 8863744Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a stowage box for a breathing mask that includes a frame forming a receptacle for the mask, the frame having an open face for inserting and extracting the mask, and a pneumatic assembly to control the feed of a breathing gas under pressure to the breathing mask. The pneumatic assembly is adapted to close the feed of breathing gas when the mask is inserted into the frame and to open the feed of breathing gas when the mask is extracted from the frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Zodiac AerotechnicsInventors: Leopoldine Bachelard, Philippe Gerard
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Publication number: 20130213403Abstract: A breathing assembly for aircraft comprising a storage unit, a breathing mask and a releasable securing device. The storage unit has a guiding surface extending perpendicularly to an elevation direction and a maintaining element. The breathing mask comprises a rigid support having a sliding surface adapted to slide in contact with the guiding surface of the storage unit, along a sliding direction between a storage position and an exit position. The support further has a maintaining element. In the storage position, the sliding surface of the support is prevented from moving away from the guiding surface of the storage unit along the elevation direction at the distal end by engagement of the maintaining element of the support with the maintaining element of the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: INTERTECHNIQUEInventors: Sebastien Bruckert, Philippe Gerard, Didier Lamourette, Frederic Berthet
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Patent number: 7841889Abstract: Locking device for a shielded sub-miniature connection assembly having two sub-miniature connectors with housings made of two molded thermoplastic half-shells, a high contact density miniature sub-assembly with a molded thermoplastic insulating body provided with contact cavities for the positioning and retention of contacts, wherein one of the housings includes on at least one of its faces a movable metal latch able to co-act with a slot made in at least one of the outside faces of the complementary housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: SouriauInventors: Philippe Gerard, Philippe Mallet
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Patent number: 7670061Abstract: A miniature high density connector including a thermoplastic insulating body having contact cavities for the insertion, the positioning and the retention of electrical, optical or electro-optical contacts, a back plate having clips for the locking of the contacts into the contact cavities of the insulating body, a receptacle shell constituting an interface element for coupling with a complementary mating connector having a flange for the assembly and the retention of the insulating body and the back plate in the receptacle shell, the back plate being movable and including a projecting dimple located on the side wall, making possible its locking into the receptacle shell.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: SouriauInventors: Philippe Gerard, Philippe Mallet
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Patent number: 7670180Abstract: A shielded subminiature connection assembly having two subminiature connectors with housings provided with means of locking, two molded thermoplastic half-shells having a high contact density miniature sub-assembly with a molded thermoplastic insulating body provided with contact cavities for the positioning and retention of contacts, a back plate provided with a contact-retaining clip and whose sidewalls comprise projecting members, a molded thermoplastic receptacle shell including a flange provided with oblong apertures into which the projecting members of the back plate are locked. The disclosed embodiments also concern the process of forming the connection assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: SouriauInventors: Philippe Gerard, Philippe Mallet
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Patent number: 7549420Abstract: The invention concerns a protective headgear comprising a respirator (2) capable of being connected to a breathing mixture source, an eye protecting shield (5) and first (32) and second (56) lock elements, respectively located on the respirator (2) and on the shield (6) and adapted to co-operate with each other to secure the shield (6) to the respirator (2), when the respirator is in its use position on the user's face, the first (32) and second (56) lock elements being adapted to be mutually engaged and interlocked by a movement bringing the shield (6) closer to the respirator (2), from above.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: IntertechniqueInventors: Patrice Martinez, Jean-Claude Urgel, Patrick Maire, Philippe Gerard, Xavier Flament
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Publication number: 20090004896Abstract: A shielded sub-miniature connection assembly having two sub-miniature connectors with housings provided with means of locking, two molded thermoplastic half-shells having a high contact density miniature sub-assembly with a molded thermoplastic insulating body provided with contact cavities for the positioning and retention of contacts, a back plate provided with a contact-retaining clip and whose sidewalls comprise projecting dimples, a molded thermoplastic receptacle shell including a flange provided with oblong apertures into which the projecting dimples of the back plate are locked. The disclosed embodiments also concern the process of forming the connection assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: SOURIAUInventors: Philippe Gerard, Philippe Mallet
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Publication number: 20080317404Abstract: A miniature high density connector including a thermoplastic insulating body having contact cavities for the insertion, the positioning and the retention of electrical, optical or electro-optical contacts, a back plate having clips for the locking of the contacts into the contact cavities of the insulating body, a receptacle shell constituting an interface element for coupling with a complementary mating connector having a flange for the assembly and the retention of the insulating body and the back plate in the receptacle shell, the back plate being movable and including a projecting dimple located on the side wall, making possible its locking into the receptacle shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: SOURIAUInventors: Philippe Gerard, Philippe Mallet
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Publication number: 20080318462Abstract: Locking device for a shielded sub-miniature connection assembly having two sub-miniature connectors with housings made of two molded thermoplastic half-shells, a high contact density miniature sub-assembly with a molded thermoplastic insulating body provided with contact cavities for the positioning and retention of contacts, wherein one of the housings includes on at least one of its faces a movable metal latch able to co-act with a slot made in at least one of the outside faces of the complementary housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: SOURIAUInventors: Philippe Gerard, Philippe Mallet
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Patent number: 7343918Abstract: A breathing gas feed assembly for the flight crew of an airplane comprises an emergency breathing mask and a stowage box for the mask. The box is adapted to receive the mask diagonally and it is closed by two doors hinged about respective hinge axes situated on two adjacent edges of the box.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: IntertechniqueInventors: Patrice Martinez, Philippe Gerard, Benoit Lelievre, Dominique Lemasson
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Publication number: 20050210556Abstract: The invention concerns a protective headgear comprising a respirator (2) capable of being connected to a breathing mixture source, an eye protecting shield (5) and first (32) and second (56) lock elements, respectively located on the respirator (2) and on the shield (6) and adapted to co-operate with each other to secure the shield (6) to the respirator (2), when the respirator is in its use position on the user's face, the first (32) and second (56) lock elements being adapted to be mutually engaged and interlocked by a movement bringing the shield (6) closer to the respirator (2), from above.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2003Publication date: September 29, 2005Inventors: Patrice Martinez, Jean-Claude Urgel, Patrick Maire, Philippe Gerard, Xavier Flament
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Publication number: 20040144384Abstract: A breathing gas feed assembly for the flight crew of an airplane comprises an emergency breathing mask and a stowage box for the mask. The box is adapted to receive the mask diagonally and it is closed by two doors hinged about respective hinge axes situated on two adjacent edges of the box.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Patrice Martinez, Philippe Gerard, Benoit Lelievre, Dominique Lemasson
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Patent number: 6165329Abstract: Multilayer magnetic transducer and structure and process for the production of the structure. The magnetic structure only has one stack of layers of a magnetic material separated by layers of a non-magnetic metallic material having a thickness such that there is an anti-ferromagnetic coupling between the magnetic layers, the magnetic material being chosen from among the alloys FeNi, FeNiCo, and NiCo and the non-magnetic material is silver.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1999Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie AtomiqueInventors: Bernard Rodmacq, Andre Pierrot, Philippe Gerard, Jean Mouchot
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Patent number: 5140289Abstract: This combined microwave and optic rotary joint has a fixed part and a rotating part in rotation about an axis .DELTA. in relation to the fixed part. It has at least one pair of microwave guide inputs, one of which is positioned in the fixed part while the other is positioned in the rotating part, these microwave guide inputs being coupled to each other by a coaxial link that is fixedly joined to the rotating part and placed in a conduit going through the fixed and rotating parts along the rotation axis .DELTA.. The core of the coaxial link is drilled with a longitudinal channel enabling the passage of an optic fiber fixedly joined to the rotating part. The end of this optic fiber goes through the fixed part and emerges in a case where it is coupled through an optic rotation plane to the end of another optic fiber fixedly joined to the fixed part.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1991Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignee: Thomson-CSFInventors: Francois Andrieu, Andre Jacquemet, Philippe Gerard
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Patent number: 5047642Abstract: Radioluminescent screen with an improved quality factor and spatial resolution for X or gamma photon imaging having a transparent plate (2) made from a scintillating material cooperating with an image sensor (16) transforming the light photons produced in the scintillating plate (2) by X or gamma photons into currents supplying a video system, characterized in that the scintillating plate (2) has in its volume light deflecting lines (4) distributed in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the plate, in accordance with spacings equal to or smaller than those of the image points of the said plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1990Date of Patent: September 10, 1991Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie AtomiqueInventors: Gaetan Pleyber, Philippe Gerard
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Patent number: 4711694Abstract: Process for producing a ferrimagnetic garnet layer having a high magnetic anisotropy on an amagnetic substrate, wherein it comprises the stages of forming at least one ferrimagnetic garnet layer by epitaxy from the amagnetic substrate, high dose ion implantation in the ferrimagnetic garnet layer in order to produce defects therein and heating the entity in the presence of a reducing agent to a temperature between 250.degree. and 450.degree. C.Application to the production of bubble stores with non-implanted propagation patterns.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1985Date of Patent: December 8, 1987Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie AtomiqueInventors: Thierry Capra, Philippe Gerard
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Patent number: 4624858Abstract: Process for producing a ferrimagnetic garnet layer having a high magnetic anisotropy on an amagnetic substrate, wherein it comprises the stages of forming at least one ferrimagnetic garnet layer by epitaxy from the amagnetic substrate, implanting ions in the ferrimagnetic garnet layer in order to produce defects therein, depositing on the ferrimagnetic garnet layer a metal layer able to activate and diffuse hydrogen into said garnet layer and heating under a hydrogen atmosphere of the complete structure, in order to bring about the diffusion of hydrogen into the ferrimagnetic garnet layer.Application to the production of bubble stores with non-implanted propagation patterns.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1985Date of Patent: November 25, 1986Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie AtomiqueInventors: Thierry Capra, Philippe Gerard