Patents by Inventor Raphaël Pugin

Raphaël Pugin 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: 12091314
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a timepiece comprising at least one first part produced by a microfabrication or microforming method in at least one first material, said method comprising at least: a step of depositing, on said first part, without moulding, at least one second part of said timepiece in at least one second material, and a step of treating the second material in order to connect together the components on the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA—Recherche et Développement
    Inventors: Sébastien Lani, Raphaël Pugin
  • Patent number: 11434131
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a micromechanical component intended to cooperate with another micromechanical component, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate, forming a mould on said substrate, said mould defining sidewalls arranged to delimit said micromechanical component, providing particles on at least said sidewalls, depositing a metal in said mould so as to form said micromechanical component, and liberating said micromechanical component from said mould and removing said particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT
    Inventors: Nicolas Blondiaux, Raphaël Pugin
  • Publication number: 20210171340
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a micromechanical component intended to cooperate with another micromechanical component, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate, forming a mould on said substrate, said mould defining sidewalls arranged to delimit said micromechanical component, providing particles on at least said sidewalls, depositing a metal in said mould so as to form said micromechanical component, and liberating said micromechanical component from said mould and removing said particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA - Recherche et Développement
    Inventors: Nicolas BLONDIAUX, Raphaël PUGIN
  • Patent number: 10954123
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a micromechanical component intended to cooperate with another micromechanical component, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate, forming a mould on said substrate, said mould defining sidewalls arranged to delimit said micromechanical component, providing particles on at least said sidewalls, depositing a metal in said mould so as to form said micromechanical component, and liberating said micromechanical component from said mould and removing said particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT
    Inventors: Nicolas Blondiaux, Raphaël Pugin
  • Publication number: 20190367359
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a micromechanical component intended to cooperate with another micromechanical component, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate, forming a mould on said substrate, said mould defining sidewalls arranged to delimit said micromechanical component, providing particles on at least said sidewalls, depositing a metal in said mould so as to form said micromechanical component, and liberating said micromechanical component from said mould and removing said particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA - Recherche et Développement
    Inventors: Nicolas BLONDIAUX, Raphaël PUGIN
  • Publication number: 20180361472
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a timepiece comprising at least one first part produced by a microfabrication or microforming method in at least one first material, said method comprising at least: a step of depositing, on said first part, without moulding, at least one second part of said timepiece in at least one second material, and a step of treating the second material in order to connect together the components on the first part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHN IQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT
    Inventors: Sébastien Lani, Raphaël Pugin
  • Patent number: 8542442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isotropic zero-order diffractive color filter, to a method to manufacture an embossing tool and to a method to manufacture such a filter. The zero-order diffractive color filter comprises diffractive microstructures and a wave-guiding layer, wherein the diffractive microstructures possess a short range ordering over at least four times the period of the microstructures, and the diffractive microstructures possess a long range disordering over length scales of more than 100 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA—Recherche et Developpement
    Inventors: Nicolas Blondiaux, Mickaël Guillaumee, Raphaël Pugin, Ross Stanley, Alexander Stuck, Harald Walter
  • Patent number: 8088929
    Abstract: A method for producing special supramolecular assemblies of colorants, in particular cyanine dyes, called J aggregates consists in depositing a monolayer of dendrimers on a support and subsequently in deposing cyanines in solution for forming the organized monolayer of J aggregates. The method can be used for producing a secondary light source for injecting light into a waveguide from a light energy received from a primary light source emitting at different wavelength. The secondary source, which consists of the J aggregates incorporating energy acceptors, can also be integrated into an optical device incorporating the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA - Recherche et Developpment
    Inventors: Myriam Losson, Raphaël Pugin, Rolf Steiger, Véronique Monnier, Rino E. Kunz, Stanley Ross
  • Patent number: 7824617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the realization of particular supramolecular assemblies of dyes, in particular cyanines, called J aggregates. The invention concerns an assembly made up of a support including a mesoporous layer whereof the pores have an average BET diameter greater than 1.5 nm, macromolecules with dendritic architecture functionalizing said layer, at least in its pores, a layer of molecules from the family of cyanines interacting with the macromolecules with dendritic architecture and organized into J aggregates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA-Recherche et Development
    Inventors: Rolf Steiger, Raphaël Pugin