Patents by Inventor Pierre-Yves Le Tiec

Pierre-Yves Le Tiec 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: 6923862
    Abstract: The invention provides a device for coating a conductor wire, the device comprising an enameling oven, the oven comprising a chamber through which the wire coated in an enameling varnish passes, and being provided for this purpose with a wire inlet and a wire outlet, and with means for heating the wire along its path within the chamber in order to evaporate solvent from the varnish and bake the varnish on the wire, the atmosphere inside the chamber having low oxygen content, the chamber further comprising a fan and an air feed inlet communicating with the chamber and servo-controlled to means for measuring the oxygen content. In the device, the fan and the air feed inlet are situated in distinct positions that are spaced apart from each other, the fan being situated between the solvent evaporation zone and the air feed inlet in such a manner as to entrain the solvent towards the air feed inlet so that the solvent is treated by combustion outside the zone in which the varnish is baked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Le Tiec, Michel Debray, Vincent Boutte
  • Publication number: 20040058292
    Abstract: The invention provides a device for coating a conductor wire, the device comprising an enameling oven, the oven comprising a chamber through which the wire coated in an enameling varnish passes, and being provided for this purpose with a wire inlet and a wire outlet, and with means for heating the wire along its path within the chamber in order to evaporate solvent from the varnish and bake the varnish on the wire, the atmosphere inside the chamber having low oxygen content, the chamber further comprising a fan and an air feed inlet communicating with the chamber and servo-controlled to means for measuring the oxygen content. In the device, the fan and the air feed inlet are situated in distinct positions that are spaced apart from each other, the fan being situated between the solvent evaporation zone and the air feed inlet in such a manner as to entrain the solvent towards the air feed inlet so that the solvent is treated by combustion outside the zone in which the varnish is baked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Le Tiec, Michel Debray, Vincent Boutte
  • Patent number: 6214462
    Abstract: An enameling lacquer comprises a base first polymer and a copolymer which is compatible with said first polymer and which contains polymeric chains selected from polysiloxanes, fluorated chains and alkane chains. The lacquer is of particular application to an enameled wire comprising at least one layer of an enamel obtained by reticulation of the lacquer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Alcatel N.V.
    Inventors: Raymond Andre, Jean-Yves Barraud, Germaine Binder, Jean-François Fauvarque, Pierre-Yves Le Tiec, Laurent Preux
  • Patent number: 6186089
    Abstract: The enamelling apparatus includes at least one assembly constituted by an applicator for applying varnish on a conductive wire and an associated enamelling oven, with the wire passing through both of them. The enamelling oven has a single chamber filled internally with radiant heater elements facing the path of the wire and the atmosphere inside the chamber is controlled to have an oxygen content that is low, and less than 6% . The apparatus is suitable for use in the production of an enamelled wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Le Tiec, Raymond Andre, Michel Debray
  • Patent number: 6071553
    Abstract: In a method for the production of melt-bonding wires to enable the use of non-solvent-containing thermoplastic or thermosetting coating materials, meltable thermoplastic or thermosetting materials are supplied to a fusion chamber (8) where they are melted. The insulated electrical conductor (1) to be coated is drawn through the melt and after the coating process leaves the coating chamber (12) through a calibration device (5), which is followed by cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Maurice Ferne, Rolf Nagel, Pierre Yves Le Tiec