Patents by Inventor Rene Nantua

Rene Nantua 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: 20030057651
    Abstract: An assembly comprises a stationary armature to be secured to a stationary support, a moving armature bearing a magnetic disk to be secured to a rotating support, and a seal. The seal covers at least part of an exterior lateral face of a seal support wall of the stationary armature. The seal has at least one dynamic sealing means for rubbing against the rotating support and a ferromagnetic annulus attracted toward the magnetic disk, due to a magnetic field developed by the magnetic disk, to bias the dynamic sealing means against the rotating support. The stationary support and the rotating support may be stationary and rotating rings, respectively, of a bearing, upon which the assembly is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: The Torrington Company
    Inventors: Rene Nantua, Bernard Liatard, Jean-Pierre Sand
  • Publication number: 20030059138
    Abstract: An assembly forming a seal with a built-in multi-pole magnetic encoder, intended to be mounted between a stationary support and a rotating support forming part of a rolling bearing. The assembly comprises a stationary armature secured to the stationary support and a moving armature bearing the encoder and secured to the rotating support. The assembly has no means allowing the association of a sensor past which the encoder moves. The magnetic encoder comprises a low even number of poles allowing the sensor to be distanced from the stationary armature such that magnetic flux of the encoder may be detected by the sensor that can electronically compensate for the reduction in the number of the pairs of poles, with detection being performed through the stationary armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: The Torrington Company
    Inventors: Rene Nantua, Alain Bochet, Jean-Pierre Sand
  • Patent number: 6232772
    Abstract: A device for measuring the rotation of a rotating element comprising an encoder element rotating with the rotating element and a sensor unit connected to a stationary element. A scraping element cooperates with a surface of the encoder element in order to eliminate contaminating particles present on the surface of the encoder element. The scraping element may be carried on the sensor device and may be biased against the encoder element by an elastic device or by magnetism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: The Torrington Company
    Inventors: Bernard Liatard, Rene Nantua, Isabelle Riviere
  • Patent number: 5097702
    Abstract: Automobile wheel hub comprising a bearing with rolling elements in a housing in said hub and a device for sensing information, the coding element of which moves integrally with the hub and rotates in front of a stationary sensor, characterized in that the coding element is integrated into the bearing seal and that the sensing element, integral with a support which is stationary with respect to the wheel, is coaxial to the coding element in a radial position essentially equal to the value of the radius of the coding element and longitudinally shifted by a maximum value corresponding to the air gap allowed by the technology of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: The Torrington Company
    Inventors: Rene Nantua, Roger Guers, Fernand Peilloud
  • Patent number: 5097701
    Abstract: Automobile wheel hub comprising a bearing with rolling elements in a housing in said hub and a device for sensing information, the coding element of which moves integrally with the hub and rotates in front of a stationary sensor, characterized in that the coding element is integrated into the bearing seal and that the sensing element, integral with a support which is stationary with respect to the wheel, is coaxial to the coding element in a radial position essentially equal to the value of the radius of the coding element and longitudinally shifted by a maximum value corresponding to the air gap allowed by the technology of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: The Torrington Company
    Inventors: Rene Nantua, Roger Guers, Fernand Peilloud