Patents by Inventor Robert Andre

Robert Andre 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: 8991764
    Abstract: A space probe including a descent module with a mobile exploration vehicle, wherein the descent module is a landing module inside which the mobile exploration vehicle is fastened, the landing module being provided with landing legs which can be deployed under the lower level of the mobile exploration vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Astrium SAS
    Inventors: Valery Auger, Christophe Balemboy, Robert Andre Laine, Marie-Claire Perkinson
  • Publication number: 20150054768
    Abstract: A method of generating a haptic effect on a device includes detecting a position of an object relative to the device. The method further includes, based at least on the position, determining a gesture indicated by the object, and generating the haptic effect on the device based on the determined gesture, where the haptic effect is generated without the object contacting the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Danny A. GRANT, Pedro GREGORIO, Robert Andre LACROIX
  • Patent number: 8898564
    Abstract: A method of generating haptic effects on a device includes detecting the presence of an object near an input area of the device and generating a haptic effect on the device in response to the presence detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Danny A. Grant, Pedro Gregorio, Robert Andre Lacroix
  • Publication number: 20140296904
    Abstract: A nasal dilator comprises magnets. The nasal dilator is a set comprising two bodies. Each of the two bodies has a first leg having at a distal portion thereof a magnet; and a second leg connected to the first leg via a bridge comprising flexible material. Each of the two bodies are designed so as to allow said body to be clamped to an ala nasi of a human nose between the distal portions of said first leg and said second leg. The magnets of the bodies are aligned such that with a body clamped to the ala nasi of a nose, the magnet is oriented at an angle to a plane defined by the ala nasi area clamped between said two distal portions of said first leg and second leg. Thanks to the repelling action of the magnets, the alae nasi are pushed apart, resulting in improved ease of breathing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Andre
  • Patent number: 8757546
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle includes an air intake (12) followed at the upper part by a part (14) integral with the mast, called a cap, and at least one door (16) with a curved profile, and a device for encircling it in the form of at least one flexible element (38), guide elements (40) for allowing the at least one flexible element (38) to follow the curved profile of the at least one door, a first anchoring point (42) of the at least one flexible element (38) integral with a first edge (78) of the cap and another anchoring point of the at least one flexible element (38) integral with a second edge (80) of the cap, whereby the anchoring points (42) allow a relative translational movement, in a direction that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the nacelle, between the cap (14) and the at least one door (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Robert Andre, Matthieu Fargues
  • Patent number: 8733079
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric thruster for a spacecraft. According to the invention, the thruster (II) comprises a jet generating portion (G1) and a jet accelerating portion (A2), pivotably connected (H1) such that the jet accelerating portion (A2) can rotate in relation to the jet generating portion (G1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Astrium SAS
    Inventor: Robert André Laine
  • Publication number: 20140142460
    Abstract: There is provided a fall detector for detecting a potential fall by a user, the fall detector comprising a sensor for measuring the skin conductivity of the user; and a processor for analyzing the skin conductivity measurements to determine whether the user has had a potential fall, wherein the processor is configured to analyze the skin conductivity measurements by matching the skin conductivity measurements to a predetermined skin conductivity response corresponding to a stressful event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Constant Paul Marie Jozef Baggen, Heribert Baldus, Warner Rudolph Theophile Ten Kate, Martin Ouwerkerk, Anthony Robert Andre Schoofs
  • Patent number: 8720184
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for supplying a combustion chamber of a space propulsion engine with cryogenic liquid fuel and oxidizer propellants. The propellants are mixed at constant pressure to produce a propellant mixture, with the propellants being mixed at a location upstream of an orifice of a propellant injector. The propellant mixture is fed to an enclosure of the propellant injector, and from the propellant injector enclosure, the propellant mixture is injected into the combustion chamber. The flow rate of the propellant mixture from the propellant injector enclosure into the combustion chamber is varied by adjustment of the propellant injector, with the injection of the propellant mixture from the propellant injector enclosure into the combustion chamber being at constant pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Astrium SAS
    Inventor: Robert Andre Laine
  • Patent number: 8717234
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a monitoring system which comprises at least one monitoring satellite placed in orbit at a lower altitude than that of the satellites of the satellite constellation so as to be capable of receiving the positioning signals emitted towards the Earth by said satellites, and which comprises a processing unit intended for verifying the integrity of said received positioning signals, using position information that is separate from said signals for this purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Astrium SAS
    Inventor: Robert André Lainé
  • Patent number: 8698672
    Abstract: According to the invention, the system comprises: at least three position beacons (3) arranged about said location (2) and emitting in the long-wave range, and an apparatus associated with the user (1) and including means for receiving, processing and displaying the information transmitted by said beacons (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Astrium SAS
    Inventor: Robert André Laine
  • Patent number: 8619051
    Abstract: A haptic feedback system that includes a controller, a memory coupled to the controller, an actuator drive circuit coupled to the controller, and an actuator coupled to the actuator drive circuit. The memory stores at least one haptic effect that is executed by the controller in order to create a haptic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Immersion Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Andre Lacroix, Pedro Gregorio, Kollin M. Tierling
  • Patent number: 8464541
    Abstract: A closing system for a fan cowling on a jet engine of an aircraft that has at least one assembly including a male contrivance integral with the cowling, and a female contrivance integral with the jet engine that has a lower element forming at least one first guide ramp and an upper element forming at least one second guide ramp, with the aforementioned female contrivance being suitable on the one hand for guiding the male contrivance during the opening and/or the closing of the fan cowling, and on the other hand providing a limitation of the radial and circumferential displacements of the male contrivance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Robert Andre, Loic Dussol, Frederic Ridray
  • Patent number: 8439298
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle includes an air intake followed at the upper part by a part that is integral with the mast, called a cap, and at least one door with a curved profile that includes a stiffening device arranged at the edge upstream from the door and which includes: a flexible element that follows the curved profile of the door between two remote anchoring points, at least one safety index including a latch pivotable around an axis of rotation, and connected to the door so as to occupy a locked position in which the end of the latch rests against the inside surface of an edge upstream from the door, and an unlocked position in which the end of the latch is offset relative to the edge, whereby in the locked position, the latch prevents the scooping phenomena by limiting movements of the door in the radial direction toward the outside of the nacelle, and elements for stretching the flexible element between the two anchoring points and for controlling the pivoting in the locked position of the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Robert Andre, Matthieu Fargues
  • Patent number: 8346439
    Abstract: A system and method of activating a restraint system of a vehicle is described. The method includes generating a vehicle speed signal that represents a longitudinal speed of a vehicle, generating a lateral acceleration signal that represents a lateral acceleration of the vehicle, filtering the lateral acceleration signal to generate a filtered lateral acceleration signal, comparing the filtered lateral acceleration signal to a predetermined lateral acceleration enable threshold, estimating a lateral speed of the vehicle based on the vehicle speed signal when the filtered lateral acceleration exceeds the predetermined lateral acceleration enable threshold, and activating a restraint system of the vehicle based in part on the estimated lateral velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Teves, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Andres, Patrick Messi, Eric Mertz, Holger Faisst
  • Patent number: 8272752
    Abstract: A projection device (1) includes: a projector (2) adapted for projecting a mother image along a projection axis (11); and a convex mirror adapted for at least partially reflecting the mother image and projecting it onto a three-dimensional environment (7, 8a, 8b) such as the ground, a ceiling, one or more side walls and the content of a room. When combining the projector with a convex mirror, the mother image can for example be projected into a solid angle higher than 2? steradians (i.e. a half-sphere), or even substantially equal to or slightly lower than 4? steradians (i.e. a sphere). A method implemented by the device is also described. The field of the invention is particularly that of video projectors for virtual or mixed reality applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Universite Clermont 1, MB Optique
    Inventors: Robert Andre Marcel Stehle, Michael Bray, Laurent Sarry, Eric Zeghers
  • Publication number: 20120226666
    Abstract: A system and methods are provided for remotely recovering and purging data from a wireless device in a communications network. The system includes a wireless device capable of executing a data recovery/purge application program for receiving a message from a communications device in the network. The application program retrieves the data in the wireless device, purges the data from the wireless device, and sends a return message, including the data retrieved from the wireless device, to the communications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventors: Robert Koch, Robert Andres
  • Publication number: 20120210808
    Abstract: A system includes a mother probe forming a carrier space vehicle (1) and a plurality of daughter probes (2a, 2b, 2c) aligned in a longitudinal axis (A) of the mother probe, in which the attachment of the daughter probes to the mother probe is carried out by a plurality of probe-supporting annular segments (5a, 5b, 5c) each provided with an annular collar (3a, 3b, 3c) for attaching a daughter probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: ASTRIUM SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Balemboy, Robert Andre Laine, Xavier Sembely
  • Publication number: 20120164077
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating mammalian brain injuries, which entails administering human neuropotentiating cells to a brain of a mammal in need thereof in order to enhance dendritic and axonal plasticity, and axonal transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Tonya Bliss, Robert Andres, Gary Steinberg
  • Publication number: 20120153077
    Abstract: A landing system of a body and a space probe provided with such a system for landing on a bearing ground. The landing system includes landing legs (5), each with a footpad (6) at the end thereof, intended for braking the landing impact of the body when coming into contact with the ground and for supporting the body on the ground after landing. The footpads (6) are not coplanar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: ASTRIUM SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Balemboy, Mark Kinnersley, Robert Andre Laine, Xavier Sembely
  • Patent number: 8180859
    Abstract: A system and methods are provided for remotely recovering and purging data from a wireless device in a communications network. The system includes a wireless device capable of executing a data recovery/purge application program for receiving a message from a communications device in the network. The application program retrieves the data in the wireless device, purges the data from the wireless device, and sends a return message, including the data retrieved from the wireless device, to the communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Robert Koch, Robert Andres