Patents by Inventor Serge Esteveny

Serge Esteveny 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).

  • Device for weighing a person confined to bed
    Patent number: 5780781
    Abstract: Apparatus for weighing a person that is confined to a bed that includes a series of modular units for supporting a bed frame and sensors associated with each of the modular units that are capable of performing in combination a weighing function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Centre Stephanois de Recherches Mecaniques Hydromecanique et Frottement S.A.
    Inventors: Antoine Berger, Serge Esteveny
  • Movable surface with articulated plates
    Patent number: 5549195
    Abstract: Articulated plates (L) are assembled in combination with at least two drive rums supported by a framework (6). The plates (L) present longitudinally, two by two, complementary guiding and articulation profiles (R) and (C) defined to create at least one continuous flat face. The plates are coupled to one another by flexible links (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignees: Entre-Prises, Centre Stephanois de Recherches Mecaniques Hydromecaniques et Frottement
    Inventors: Michel Aulagner, Serge Esteveny
  • Device for the introduction and/or the removal, in an airtight manner of solid bodies across one aperture at least of an enclosure treatment, more particularly under low pressure
    Patent number: 4494478
    Abstract: A seal permitting wire, rod or the like to fed into a chamber at low prese comprising a Venturi tube constituting in its interior and in succession a convergence a neck and a divergence. The tube has a coaxial sleeve on its convergence side into which the solid to be treated can be introduced. This sleeve is partially engaged inside the Venturi tube over a length determined so as to create a rapid change of section which defines a dynamic joint zone in combination with the pressure, flow and speed of the fluid injected toward the inside of the Venturi tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: Centre Stephanois de Recherches Mecaniques Hydromecanique et Frottement
    Inventors: Gilles Lacour, Serge Esteveny