Patents by Inventor Pierre Renaud

Pierre Renaud 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: 11976796
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes a cavity, at least one illumination source arranged in the cavity, and at least one detection system which is arranged in the cavity and includes an emitter and/or a receiver designed to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves in a predetermined wavelength range. The lighting device includes a trim arranged in the cavity and behind which the emitter and/or the receiver of the detection system are arranged. The trim includes an interference filter which is transparent in transmission at wavelengths in the predetermined wavelength range and is reflective for the wavelengths transmitted in the visible spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Alexandre Joerg, Pierre Renaud
  • Patent number: 11958401
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light element of a vehicle with at least one light source configured to emit light rays, a reflective layer. With a pattern made wholly or partly in the reflective layer. The light element further including an optical element configured to project the light rays from the at least one light source towards the reflective layer. With a dark layer extending along the optical element on the side opposite the reflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Christophe Grard, Pierre Renaud, Gregory Planche
  • Publication number: 20240012098
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly including a radar sensor configured to emit radar waves over a range of wavelengths with an arrangement of layers placed opposite the radar sensor, including a first subset of layers configured to perform an optical function, each layer having a refractive index and a thickness, and a second subset of layers configured to provide protection for the first set of layers, each layer having a refractive index and a thickness. The total thickness of the second subset of layers is dimensioned so that the total thickness of the arrangement of layers is equal to m times a wavelength of the range divided by twice the equivalent refractive index of the first subset of layers and of the second subset of layers, times the cosine of a refracted angle corresponding to the angle of incidence of the radar waves, where m is an integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre ALBOU, Pierre RENAUD
  • Publication number: 20240012137
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle assembly including a radar sensor configured to emit radar waves over a range of wavelengths, a luminous module. The luminous module including a sub-layer and a layer of patterns forming a sub-wavelength structured dielectric element with a repetition period of the patterns that is less than a quarter of a wavelength of the range, with the total thickness of the luminous module is equal to m times a wavelength of the range, the whole being divided by twice the equivalent refractive index of the sub-layer and of the layer of patterns, times the cosine of a refracted angle corresponding to an angle of incidence of the radar waves, where m is an integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre ALBOU, Pierre RENAUD
  • Publication number: 20240012099
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly including a radar sensor configured to emit radar waves, an arrangement of layers including a primary layer, placed opposite the radar sensor and having an input surface for the radar waves, a secondary layer including at least one relief, with the secondary layer being adjacent to the primary layer and including a primary junction surface with the primary layer and a secondary junction surface with an adjacent tertiary layer, with the tertiary layer including a radar wave output surface parallel to the input surface, the primary layer, the secondary layer and the tertiary layer having a primary refractive index, a secondary refractive index and a tertiary refractive index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre ALBOU, Pierre RENAUD, Lucas PERDRIX
  • Publication number: 20230243961
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle assembly for a vehicle, with the vehicle assembly including a radar sensor configured to transmit/receive radar waves. The radar sensor being placed facing a layer assembly. The layer assembly includes at least two dielectric layers, these dielectric layers including a primary layer and a secondary layer separated by a layer of air. The layer of air has a thickness equal to (m3×(?/2))/cos(?3), with ?3 an angle of incidence of exiting reflected waves striking the secondary layer and m3=1, . . . to N, N being an integer, the exiting reflected waves deriving from radar waves transmitted by the radar sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre RENAUD, Pierre ALBOU
  • Publication number: 20230051331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light element of a vehicle with at least one light source configured to emit light rays, a reflective layer. With a pattern made wholly or partly in the reflective layer. The light element further including an optical element configured to project the light rays from the at least one light source towards the reflective layer. With a dark layer extending along the optical element on the side opposite the reflective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Christophe GRARD, Pierre RENAUD, Gregory PLANCHE
  • Publication number: 20230048569
    Abstract: The invention is related to an automotive lighting device (10) comprising a light source (1) configured to emit light in a light direction (dl), a sensor (2) and a cover (3). The sensor (2) is configured to acquire information outside the lighting device by emitting a wave in a sensor direction (d2), the wavelength of the wave being comprised between 1 mm and 1 cm. The cover (3) comprises a first portion (31) located in the light direction and a second portion (32) located in the sensor direction, the second portion (32) comprising a sensor region (33) having a refractive index and a thickness which is comprised between 0.8 and 1.2 times an ideal thickness, the ideal thickness being equal to a natural number multiplied by the wavelength and divided by two times the refractive index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre RENAUD, Alexandre JOERG
  • Publication number: 20220373148
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes a cavity, at least one illumination source arranged in the cavity, and at least one detection system which is arranged in the cavity and includes an emitter and/or a receiver designed to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves in a predetermined wavelength range. The lighting device includes a trim arranged in the cavity and behind which the emitter and/or the receiver of the detection system are arranged. The trim includes an interference filter which is transparent in transmission at wavelengths in the predetermined wavelength range and is reflective for the wavelengths transmitted in the visible spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Alexandre JOERG, Pierre RENAUD
  • Publication number: 20220342079
    Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle including at least one light source, at least one sensor configured to acquire information outside the vehicle based on infrared. A cover including a first portion covers the at least one light source and a second portion that is opaque to visible light and to infrared. The cover further includes a third portion that is opaque to visible light and transparent to infrared, substantially centered on said at least one sensor and integrated into the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre RENAUD, Gregory PLANCHE, Anthony LOZANO, Alexandre JOERG
  • Patent number: 11435046
    Abstract: Lighting module of a lighting and/or signalling device for a motor vehicle including at least one light source positioned on a source support, an optical element comprising an input face which receives light rays emitted by said at least one light source and is positioned facing the latter, and a frame supporting the optical element and fastened to said source support. The optical element has at least one stud having a free end projecting towards the source support, said at least one stud being made of the same material as the optical element and being in direct or indirect contact with the source support when the lighting module is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre Renaud, Benoit Delande
  • Publication number: 20210348732
    Abstract: Lighting module of a lighting and/or signalling device for a motor vehicle including at least one light source positioned on a source support, an optical element comprising an input face which receives light rays emitted by said at least one light source and is positioned facing the latter, and a frame supporting the optical element and fastened to said source support. The optical element has at least one stud having a free end projecting towards the source support, said at least one stud being made of the same material as the optical element and being in direct or indirect contact with the source support when the lighting module is assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre RENAUD, Benoit DELANDE
  • Patent number: 11028990
    Abstract: A single-piece optical vehicle part comprising: a plurality of entrance dioptric interfaces and/or a plurality of exit dioptric interfaces; at least one junction between two adjacent entrance dioptric interfaces and/or at least one junction between two adjacent exit dioptric interfaces. The junction between two adjacent entrance dioptric interfaces and/or the junction between two adjacent exit dioptric interfaces has a structural modification allowing light to be absorbed and/or scattered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre Renaud, Alexandre Joerg, Francois Gratecap, Yves Gromfeld
  • Patent number: 10845017
    Abstract: A luminous motor-vehicle module intended to generate a light beam that projects forward an image. The image comprises at least one horizontal row of pixels. The luminous module is arranged so that a first pixel of the horizontal row of pixels comprises a lower end and/or an upper end that are/is vertically offset with respect to a lower end and/or an upper end of a second pixel of the same row, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre Renaud, Alexandre Joerg
  • Patent number: 10677408
    Abstract: An optical module for a motor vehicle including a first optical element including light guides and a projection optic arranged at a distance from the first optical element and having a longitudinal optical axis. The light guides are aligned in a series, perpendicular to the longitudinal optical axis and in a transverse direction, and they include first light guides and second light guides. The first light guides are arranged successively with respect to each other by being interposed between the second light guides, the first light guides each having a transverse dimension less than the equivalent transverse dimension of each of the second light guides. The first light guides are predominantly offset transversely with respect to the longitudinal optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre Renaud, Alexandre Joerg
  • Publication number: 20200080699
    Abstract: A single-piece optical vehicle part comprising: a plurality of entrance dioptric interfaces and/or a plurality of exit dioptric interfaces; at least one junction between two adjacent entrance dioptric interfaces and/or at least one junction between two adjacent exit dioptric interfaces. The junction between two adjacent entrance dioptric interfaces and/or the junction between two adjacent exit dioptric interfaces has a structural modification allowing light to be absorbed and/or scattered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre RENAUD, Alexandre JOERG, Francois GRATECAP, Yves GROMFELD
  • Publication number: 20200032973
    Abstract: A luminous motor-vehicle module intended to generate a light beam that projects forward an image. The image comprises at least one horizontal row of pixels. The luminous module is arranged so that a first pixel of the horizontal row of pixels comprises a lower end and/or an upper end that are/is vertically offset with respect to a lower end and/or an upper end of a second pixel of the same row, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre RENAUD, Alexandre JOERG
  • Patent number: 10511136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light module including a semiconductor laser element emitting a laser beam in a first cone of light, a photoluminescent element, and an optical means for transforming the light coming from the photoluminescent element into an exit light beam. The optical means has a guiding portion arranged to guide at least a portion of the light emitted in the first cone of light into a second cone of light and a device for detection of incident light. The light module comprises a means of deviation designed to deviate the light of the second cone of light toward a third cone of light directed toward the detection device arranged outside of the second cone of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Pierre Renaud
  • Publication number: 20190219241
    Abstract: An optical module for a motor vehicle including a first optical element including light guides and a projection optic arranged at a distance from the first optical element and having a longitudinal optical axis. The light guides are aligned in a series, perpendicular to the longitudinal optical axis and in a transverse direction, and they include first light guides and second light guides. The first light guides are arranged successively with respect to each other by being interposed between the second light guides, the first light guides each having a transverse dimension less than the equivalent transverse dimension of each of the second light guides. The first light guides are predominantly offset transversely with respect to the longitudinal optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre RENAUD, Alexandre JOERG
  • Patent number: RE49327
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a support for a light source of a lighting device of a motor vehicle, including a zone for positioning the light source, referencing elements with respect to three given mutually transverse axes, one of the referencing elements, termed a referencing element with two portions, a first portion extending along or parallel to a first axis of the three given axes, and a second portion extending transversely relative to this first given axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: David Dorn, Christophe Cherreau, Pierre Renaud, Silas Bakary-Gando, Laurent Garrouste