Patents by Inventor Pierre Brevet

Pierre Brevet 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).

  • Safety device for use with prestressing cables
    Patent number: 7992357
    Abstract: Safety equipment for use with prestressing cables as used in civil engineering and building structures, the safety equipment having two principle parts adapted to fit over a cable at a point where the cable interfaces with anchoring members or walls, the safety equipment configured to take over from original anchoring elements in the event of a rupture of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignees: Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussees
    Inventors: Marwan Dannawi, Pierre Brevet
  • Method for protecting works of art with prestressing tensioned cables
    Publication number: 20060010814
    Abstract: A method includes providing installation of safety equipment on the cable which takes over from original anchoring elements of the cable, in case the latter breaks. The safety equipment consists of a component (11) serving as hammer in the form of two half-shells, fixed on the cable (7), and a damping device (12) subject of the patent application FR-02 05105, in the form of a U-shaped or ohm-shaped gutter, which encloses the cable (7) and whereof the deformability corresponds to the variation in the length of the cable when its tension is released after breaking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Marwan Dannawi, Pierre Brevet