Patents by Inventor Pierre L. V. Breant

Pierre L. V. Breant 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).

  • Patent number: 4184150
    Abstract: This circuit arrangement, which is connected to a delta modulation encoder operating with a sampling rate F and producing a first delta modulation signal, comprises means for producing the two bits b.sub.2n-1, b.sub.2n-2 which in this first signal precede each of the bits b.sub.2n occurring at the instants 2nT and having a rate F/2, a first flip-flop which is controlled at said instants 2nT for maintaining or not maintaining the state thereof, depending on whether the two above-mentioned bits b.sub.2n-1, and b.sub.2n-2 are identical or not, a second flip-flop to which the output signal of the first flip-flop is applied through a logic circuit, and which assumes either the state of the above-mentioned bit b.sub.2n or the state of the bit b.sub.2n-1, depending on whether the first flip-flop is in the one or in the other state. The output of this second flip-flop produces the desired delta modulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1980
    Assignee: Telecommunications Radioelectriques et Telephoniques TRT
    Inventors: Gilbert M. M. Ferrieu, Pierre L. V. Breant
  • Patent number: 4180859
    Abstract: By combining three single-phase output voltages of a synchro, signals are obtained which are proportional to the sine and the cosine of the angle of rotation of the synchro shaft. Said signals are sampled at predetermined instants by switching means controlled by a clock voltage, and are applied to computing means which form a signal representative of the speed of rotation of the shaft of the synchro and of a change in the altitude at which an aircraft flies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre L. V. Breant, Alain C. Fresnel