Patents by Inventor Pierre Raymond

Pierre Raymond 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: 20250055315
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a photovoltaic unit, an energy storage unit, a voltage detector, a load switch and an application load. The device is configured to harvest and store energy from ambient illumination, and to optimise power delivery to the application load from at least one of the harvested energy and the stored energy. The photovoltaic unit, the energy storage unit, the voltage detector and an input of the load switch are connected to a common point. The photovoltaic unit harvests energy from the ambient illumination. An output of the load switch is coupled to the application load. The voltage detector measures a voltage at the common point and turns on the load switch when the measured voltage has increased to a level that is greater than or equal to a first voltage, in order to provide optimised power delivery to the application load from at least one of the energy storage unit and photovoltaic unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Julien Pierre Raymond Campos, Mathieu Bellanger, Nathan James Smith, Matthias Kauer
  • Patent number: 11549555
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement for a turbomachine includes first and second roller element bearings. The first bearing and the second bearing are disposed on opposite axial ends of an intermediate sleeve of the rotating group. The first bearing has a first inner race with a first inner radial surface and a first outer radial surface. The first inner radial surface has a first interference fit with a shaft of the rotating group. The first outer radial surface has a second interference fit with the intermediate sleeve. The second bearing has a second inner race with a second inner radial surface and a second outer radial surface. The second inner race receives the shaft with a clearance fit. The second outer radial surface has a third interference fit with the intermediate sleeve. The second inner race is coaxially aligned with the first inner race and the shaft via coaxial alignment of the intermediate sleeve and the first inner race.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC.
    Inventors: Mahidhar Raju Ratnakaram, Joel Pierre Raymond Castan, Christopher Clive Keith Mitchell, Kiran Somashekar Rao Nazare, Jean-Luc Perrin, Gérard Dieudonné
  • Publication number: 20220412368
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement for a turbomachine includes first and second roller element bearings. The first bearing and the second bearing are disposed on opposite axial ends of an intermediate sleeve of the rotating group. The first bearing has a first inner race with a first inner radial surface and a first outer radial surface. The first inner radial surface has a first interference fit with a shaft of the rotating group. The first outer radial surface has a second interference fit with the intermediate sleeve. The second bearing has a second inner race with a second inner radial surface and a second outer radial surface. The second inner race receives the shaft with a clearance fit. The second outer radial surface has a third interference fit with the intermediate sleeve. The second inner race is coaxially aligned with the first inner race and the shaft via coaxial alignment of the intermediate sleeve and the first inner race.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Garrett Transportation I Inc.
    Inventors: Mahidhar Raju Ratnakaram, Joel Pierre Raymond Castan, Christopher Clive Keith Mitchell, Kiran Somashekar Rao Nazare, Jean-Luc Perrin, Gérard Dieudonné
  • Patent number: 9625057
    Abstract: A pipe-laying vessel has a bow, a stern and a weather deck therebetween, with a moonpool passing through the weather deck. The vessel includes an S-lay pipe deployment facility located below the weather deck, having a main firing line extending along a centerline of the vessel and a pipe assembly factory for assembling single lengths of pipe to form pipe assemblies and introduce them into the firing line for deployment from the vessel. The vessel further includes a J-lay pipe deployment facility for deploying pipe through the moonpool, the J-lay pipe deployment facility including a tower located above the moon pool and pipe handling equipment for delivering pipe assemblies from the firing line to the tower. The moonpool is located to one side of the firing line. By virtue of this configuration a relatively compact structure can be achieved whereby minimal length and width dimensions for the vessel are achievable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Petrofac Ltd.
    Inventor: Yves Pierre Raymond Inbona
  • Patent number: 9445327
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) includes an architecture for handling femtocell fingerprints, and searching for femtocells. The architecture may control the frequencies for which the femtocell search is performed in various manners. For example, the architecture may schedule a round-robin list of femtocell frequencies for measurement, and may reduce the search space according to the frequency bands actually in use in the region in which the UE is located, according to whether or not reselection timers are running for specific frequencies, or in other ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Romain Marie Pierre Raymond Garcin, Sudip Alexei Gupta, Abhishek Pandit, Yongqian Wang, Yuan Liu, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sridhar Prakasam, Sultan Budhwani
  • Publication number: 20150316174
    Abstract: A pipe-laying vessel has a bow, a stern and a weather deck therebetween, with a moonpool passing through the weather deck. The vessel includes an S-lay pipe deployment facility located below the weather deck, having a main firing line extending along a centreline of the vessel and a pipe assembly factory for assembling single lengths of pipe to form pipe assemblies and introduce them into the firing line for deployment from the vessel. The vessel further includes a J-lay pipe deployment facility for deploying pipe through the moonpool, the J-lay pipe deployment facility including a tower located above the moon pool and pipe handling equipment for delivering pipe assemblies from the firing line to the tower. The moonpool is located to one side of the firing line. By virtue of this configuration a relatively compact structure can be achieved whereby minimal length and width dimensions for the vessel are achievable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventor: Yves Pierre Raymond INBONA
  • Publication number: 20150024759
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) includes an architecture for handling femtocell fingerprints, and searching for femtocells. The architecture may control the frequencies for which the femtocell search is performed in various manners. For example, the architecture may schedule a round-robin list of femtocell frequencies for measurement, and may reduce the search space according to the frequency bands actually in use in the region in which the UE is located, according to whether or not reselection timers are running for specific frequencies, or in other ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Romain Marie Pierre Raymond Garcin, Sudip Alexei Gupta, Abhishek Pandit, Yongqian Wang, Yuan Liu, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sridhar Prakasam, Sultan Budhwani
  • Patent number: 8583575
    Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the representation of a scanning function by means of a neuronal network and a device for the implementation of the process, whereby measurement values associated with a turbulent wave front, which contain phase information, are compared with reference values, with the result that the intermediate values thus obtained can be compared with comparison functions, in order, in the best case, to describe the measured pattern with a selection of comparison functions, whereby a neuronal network is trained in the comparison functions, so that the processing of the measured pattern can take place in near-real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis
    Inventors: Alexander Pichler, Pierre Raymond, Marc Eichhorn
  • Patent number: 8422768
    Abstract: A method for processing images consisting of pixels generated by an image sensor with a view to supplying input data to a simulated or wired neural process. The method includes reading pixels pixel-by-pixel in real time and constructing prototype vectors during the pixel-by-pixel reading process on the basis of the values read, the prototype vectors constituting the input data of the neural process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis
    Inventors: Pierre Raymond, Alexander Pichler
  • Patent number: 8091306
    Abstract: A metal joint for concrete slabs including means of separating the slabs and means allowing the horizontal movement of slabs relative to each other while avoiding vertical movement between the edges of the slabs, the metal joint comprising a first part incorporated in a first slab, comprising a vertical web with an upper edge and provided with a series of tenons which extend horizontally towards the exterior of the slab and a second part incorporated in a second slab comprising in its upper section a web with an upper edge and a series of mortise elements which extend towards the interior of the slab and are arranged opposite the tenons so that they can engage with each other, wherein the upper edges of the webs terminate at the top by an upper sharp edge strengthened by a cold-rolled fold so as to form a right angle on the outer side of the slab and a sharp edge with an acute angle in contact with the concrete of the slab thus forming a smooth upper surface and a sharp edge of the joint of the adjacent s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Plakabeton S.A.
    Inventor: Pierre Raymond Kerrels
  • Publication number: 20110055129
    Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the representation of a scanning function by means of a neuronal network and a device for the implementation of the process, whereby measurement values associated with a turbulent wave front, which contain phase information, are compared with reference values, with the result that the intermediate values thus obtained can be compared with comparison functions, in order, in the best case, to describe the measured pattern with a selection of comparison functions, whereby a neuronal network is trained in the comparison functions, so that the processing of the measured pattern can take place in near-real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: INSTITUT FRANCO-ALLEMAND DE RECHERCHES DE SAINT-LOUIS
    Inventors: Alexander Pichler, Pierre Raymond, Marc Eichhorn
  • Publication number: 20100166297
    Abstract: The technical field of the invention is that of processing or generating image data, and it more particularly relates to a method for processing images consisting of pixels generated by an image sensor with a view to supplying input data to a simulated or wired neural process. The method is characterized in that it comprises a step of reading pixel-by-pixel in real time by processing means and a step of constructing prototype vectors during the pixel-by-pixel reading process on the basis of the values read, the prototype vectors constituting the input data of the neural process. It is intended for applications in global environmental perception and movement analysis. The method to which the invention relates may also be used for conventional image processing operations such as temporal filtering, and it makes it possible to save on computing time and memory space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Institut Franco-Allemand De Recherches De Saint-Louis
    Inventors: Pierre Raymond, Alexander Pichler
  • Publication number: 20100100514
    Abstract: A sensor unit comprising a sensor, a neural processor and a communication device, wherein the sensor unit is adapted to perform pattern recognition by means of the neural processor and to transfer the result of the pattern recognition via the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Deutsch-Franzosisches Forschungsinstitut Saint- Louis
    Inventors: Pierre Raymond, Guy Paillet, Anne Menendez
  • Publication number: 20090007512
    Abstract: A metal joint for concrete slabs including means of separating the slabs and means allowing the horizontal movement of slabs relative to each other while avoiding vertical movement between the edges of the slabs, the metal joint comprising a first part incorporated in a first slab, comprising a vertical web with an upper edge and provided with a series of tenons which extend horizontally towards the exterior of the slab and a second part incorporated in a second slab comprising in its upper section a web with an upper edge and a series of mortise elements which extend towards the interior of the slab and are arranged opposite the tenons so that they can engage with each other, wherein the upper edges of the webs terminate at the top by an upper sharp edge strengthened by a cold-rolled fold so as to form a right angle on the outer side of the slab and a sharp edge with an acute angle in contact with the concrete of the slab thus forming a smooth upper surface and a sharp edge of the joint of the adjacent slabs
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventor: Pierre Raymond Kerrels
  • Publication number: 20040196367
    Abstract: The apparatus for performing reconnaissance, intelligence-gathering and surveillance over a zone is of the type comprising means forming a projectile launcher, a projectile (1) equipped with a camera (2) and with an image transmitter circuit (4), and a receiver member for receiving the images transmitted in this way. The launcher-forming means are of a type in which they are individual, manually operated, and portable so that they can be carried by an individual person. The projectile (1) is of small or medium caliber. The receiver member comprises a viewing monitor and a receiver circuit, both of which are small in size so as to form a receiver member that is also individual, and portable. The apparatus can be used and transported by a person on his/her own.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Pierre Raymond, Volker Wegner, Wolfgang Knorr
  • Patent number: 6354053
    Abstract: The joint includes at least two profile elements having such a shape as to enable mutual engagement thereof as a male part and at least a female part, each being integral with one of the edges of two adjacent slabs. One edge of the slab is provided with a substantially L-shaped female profile, whose vertical stem extends all along the edge up to the sharp edge of the upper surface of the slab, and whose base stem extends towards the inner part of the slab and is downwardly folded to form a further stem, extending parallel to the base stem and forming a small space therebetween, for possible engagement of a part of the male profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Eurosteel S.A.
    Inventor: Pierre Raymond Kerrels
  • Patent number: 5705756
    Abstract: A device measures the torsional moment being exerted on a shaft. The device includes two magnetic circuits, essentially cylindrical and arranged around the shaft, each equipped with at least one permanent magnet generating a magnetic flux and with a variable air gap on the rotor. Each variable air gap includes two facing relative parts each fastened to the shaft at respective points offset with respect to each other in the longitudinal direction of the shaft, in such a manner that torsion of the shaft leads to a modification of the air gap which differs depending on the direction of the torque exerted. The two magnetic circuits include a common central yoke part with which is associated at least one measurement means sensitive to the algebraic sum of the magnetic fluxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Labinal
    Inventors: Valerie Evelyne LeMarquand, Guy Pierre Raymond Lucien LeMarquand
  • Patent number: 4886940
    Abstract: A bus duct joint comprising a plurality of conductive links for joining the buses, a plurality of intervening insulators and a single pressure providing bolt passing through the links and the insulators and between the ends of the buses being joined to provide substantially uniform pressure on the surfaces of the buses. The intervening insulators align and retain the conductive links and locate the joint with respect to the buses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Claude Gagnon, Claude Gelineau, Pierre Raymond, Zygmunt P. Krzelowski, George Galletly
  • Patent number: 4037156
    Abstract: Power supplies having power input excitation terminals and power output terminals are tested under differing load and excitation conditions. Excitation sources having differing parameters are selectively connected to the input terminals. A variable impedance load is connected to the output terminals. Voltage measuring apparatus is selectively connected to be responsive to the voltage derived from the selective connecting means and the voltage across the load and is selectively connected to a readout means. A dynamic signal source derives control signals for respectively controlling the parameters of the excitation sources, the impedance of the load, and the connections of the readout means and the measuring apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Assignee: Compagnie Honeywell Bull (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventors: Roger Hubert Goujon, Jacques Pierre Raymond Raphael Menard, Georges Claude Andre Pagny
  • Patent number: 4012145
    Abstract: The apparatus comprises a coherent radiation source which emits, in succession, respective ones of a plurality of different wavelengths. The emitted radiation is separated into a reference portion and a measurement portion. The measurement portion propagates through a medium such as the atmosphere to be analyzed and is received by a measurement detector. The reference portion is received directly by a reference detector. A processing circuit processes signals representing the portions, produced by the detectors to produce numerical data relating to the spectral analysis of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1977
    Assignee: Etat Francais
    Inventors: Francois Marie Maurice Chabannes, Edouard Sylvain Milot, Pierre Raymond Louis Godfrin, Pierre Philippe Louis Mailly