Patents by Inventor Serge Lecomte
Serge Lecomte 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).
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Patent number: 11938003Abstract: A compression bandage in the form of a knit obtained with warp knit technology, formed of synthetic yarns and composed of two textile surfaces having the same or different textile structure, linked together by spacer threads, each surface has elastic yarns, and the spacer threads of the knit are multifilaments. The knit has longitudinal elongation measured as per standard EN 14704-1 of between 30 and 160% and threshold shear stress equal to or higher than 2800 Pa and/or conformability equal to or lower than 65 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: URGO RECHERCHE INNOVATION DEVELOPPEMENTInventors: Céline Cohade, David Grange, Magali Roblot, Serge Lecomte
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Patent number: 11896463Abstract: A compression bandage in the form of a knit obtained by warp stitch technology on the basis of synthetic yarns and comprising two textile surfaces of respective textile structures that may be identical or different, the surfaces being interconnected by spacer yarns, each surface including elastic yarns, the bandage being characterized in that said knit presents: longitudinal stretch measured in compliance with the standard EN 14704-1 lying in the range 30% to 160%; and threshold shear stress greater than or equal to 2800 Pa.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: URGO RECHERCHE INNOVATION ET DEVELOPPEMENTInventors: Céline Cohade, David Grange, Serge Lecomte, Magali Roblot
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Publication number: 20220296428Abstract: A compression bandage formed by a knit obtained by warp stitch technology, based on synthetic yarns which is made up of two textile surfaces whose textile structure is identical or different connected to each other by spacer yarns. Each textile surface has elastic yarns and the spacer yarn being a monofilament. The knit has a longitudinal elongation measured according to standard EN 14704-1 of between 30 and 160%. The textile surface which comes into contact with the skin has synthetic multifilament yarns, the filaments of which have a count of between 1.2 and 5 dtex and the number of filaments is between 15 and 150, and a dynamic coefficient of friction measured according to standard EN ISO 8295 greater than or equal to 0.25 and less than or equal to 1.2.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Urgo Recherche Innovation Et DeveloppementInventors: Céline Cohade, David Grange, Serge Lecomte, Magali Roblot
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Patent number: 11285238Abstract: The present invention relates to an adherent interface dressing intended for application directly to a wound. Said adherent interface dressing includes a non-adherent cohesive gel formed from a hydrophobic elastomeric matrix consisting of a styrene-(ethylene/butylene)-styrene or styrene-(ethylene/propylene)-styrene triblock elastomer optionally associated with a styrene-(ethylene/butylene) or styrene-(ethylene/propylene) diblock copolymer; said elastomer plasticized by means of a mineral oil, and containing dispersed therein a small quantity of hydrophilic particles of a hydrocolloid; and a flexible open-mesh fabric, said fabric including threads coated with the non-adherent cohesive gel such as to leave the meshes substantially unsealed, The fabric is a heat-set knit with weft yarns, said yarns being continuous multifilament yarns with non-elastic filaments, whereof the extensibility in the transverse direction measured in accordance with standard EN 13726-4 is between 0.01 and 0.5 N/cm.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: LABORATOIRES URGO, SOCIETE DE DEVELOPPEMENT ET DE RECHERCHE INDUSTRIELLEInventors: Serge Lecomte, Jean-Marc Pernot
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Patent number: 9913756Abstract: A compression bandage that is formed by the assembling of a self-adhesive nonwoven based on short conjugate fibers which have been crimped and of an elastic material, the effectiveness of which increases over time. The bandage can be used, alone or in a bilayer compression system, for the prevention or treatment of venous pathologies or lymphedema.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: URGO RECHERCHE INNOVATION ET DEVELOPPEMENTInventors: Jean-Marc Henri Maurice Pernot, Serge Lecomte
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Patent number: 9913755Abstract: A compression bandage formed by the assembling of a nonwoven based on short conjugate fibers which have been crimped and of a nonelastic material. The compression bandage can be used in a bilayer compression system, in particular for the prevention or treatment of venous pathologies.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: URGO RECHERCHE INNOVATION ET DEVELOPPEMENTInventors: Jean-Marc Henri Maurice Pernot, Serge Lecomte
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Patent number: 9913754Abstract: A self-adhesive compression bandage, in particular for the treatment and prevention of pathologies of venous origin and lymphedema. This bandage is manufactured by the assembling of two self-adhesive nonwovens based on short conjugate fibers which have been crimped. The fibers are preferably made of polyester. The bandage can in addition comprise a supplementary layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: URGO RECHERCHE INNOVATION ET DEVELOPPEMENTInventors: Jean-Marc Henri Maurice Pernot, Serge Lecomte
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Patent number: 9474661Abstract: The present invention relates to an item (10) having liquid (L) storage and/or discharge properties, in particular a bandage, comprising: —a liquid-permeable proximal structure (20), consisting of a material capable of inflating in the presence of liquid (L), —a distal structure (30) capable of draining a liquid (L), —a hydrophobic and non-absorbent spacer structure (40) extending between the distal (30) and proximal (20) structures, and being capable of locally limiting, when said material is not inflated, the exchange of liquid between the distal and proximal structures by maintaining a gap between said structures, and of authorizing a local expansion of the proximal structure in at least one zone (P) where said material is inflated in response to coming into contact with a liquid, said expansion causing the proximal and distal structure to move together locally and the transfer of said liquid from the zone of the proximal structure (20) having undergone expansion to the distal structure (30).Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Laboratoires UrgoInventors: Yves Fouillet, Cyril Marsiquet, Frederic Revol-Cavalier, Jean-Marc Pernot, Serge Lecomte, Michel Lamoise
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Publication number: 20150250653Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel self-adhesive compression bandage, in particular for the treatment and prevention of pathologies of venous origin and lymphedema. This bandage is manufactured by the assembling of two self-adhesive nonwovens based on short conjugate fibers which have been crimped. The fibers are preferably made of polyester. The bandage can in addition comprise a supplementary layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Jean-Marc Henri Maurice Pernot, Serge Lecomte
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Publication number: 20150250654Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel compression bandage formed by the assembling of a nonwoven based on short conjugate fibers which have been crimped and of a nonelastic material. The invention also relates to the use of this bandage in a bilayer compression system, in particular for the prevention or treatment of venous pathologies.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Jean-Marc Henri Maurice Pernot, Serge Lecomte
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Publication number: 20150238365Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel compression bandage, formed by the assembling of a self-adhesive nonwoven based on short conjugate fibers which have been crimped and of an elastic material, the effectiveness of which increases over time. The invention also relates to the use of this bandage, alone or in a bilayer compression system, in particular for the prevention or treatment of venous pathologies or lymphedema.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Jean-Marc Henri Maurice Pernot, Serge Lecomte
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Publication number: 20150209200Abstract: The present invention relates to an item (10) having liquid (L) storage and/or discharge properties, in particular a bandage, comprising:—a liquid-permeable proximal structure (20), consisting of a material capable of inflating in the presence of liquid (L),—a distal structure (30) capable of draining a liquid (L),—a hydrophobic and non-absorbent spacer structure (40) extending between the distal (30) and proximal (20) structures, and being capable of locally limiting, when said material is not inflated, the exchange of liquid between the distal and proximal structures by maintaining a gap between said structures, and of authorising a local expansion of the proximal structure in at least one zone (P) where said material is inflated in response to coming into contact with a liquid, said expansion causing the proximal and distal structure to move together locally and the transfer of said liquid from the zone of the proximal structure (20) having undergone expansion to the distal structure (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Yves Fouillet, Cyril Marsiquet, Frederic Revol-Cavalier, Jean-Marc Pernot, Serge Lecomte, Michel Lamoise
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Publication number: 20140364788Abstract: The present invention relates to an adherent interface dressing intended for application directly to a wound.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Serge Lecomte, Jean-Marc Pernot
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Patent number: 8894590Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention is a system for measuring interface pressure exerted on the skin, that is in particular of use in compression therapy, characterized in that it comprises: —a supporting member bearing sensors, including at least two pressure sensors spaced out on the supporting member in order to make it possible to measure the pressure exerted at two predetermined positions; —an electronic system connected to the sensors and capable of acquiring the values simultaneously measured by these sensors; and in that each pressure sensor comprises a transducer element, which is preferably substantially flat, said transducer element having a surface intended to come into contact with the skin in the operating position, either directly or by means of a layer of a material covering said surface of the transducer, the elastic modulus of compression of said transducer or of said intermediate layer, measured at the surface intended to come into contact with the skin, being between 30 and 500 kPaType: GrantFiled: January 13, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Laboratoires UrgoInventors: Michel Lamoise, Serge Lecomte, Julien Steinbrunn
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Publication number: 20130165838Abstract: The present invention relates to a wound dressing which comprises a hydrocolloid adhesive mass comprising a hydrophobic elastomer matrix comprising poly(styrene-olefin-styrene) block copolymers, particles of hydrocolloid(s) dispersed in said elastomer matrix, and at least one tackifying hydrocarbon resin, characterized in that the hydrocolloid adhesive mass has a deformation ratio ? comprised between at least 0.10 and at most 0.40, as measured by subjecting a cylindrical sample having a diameter of 10 mm, of said hydrocolloid adhesive mass having a thickness of 1.0 mm, at a temperature of 37° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: LABORATOIRES URGOInventors: Stephane Auguste, Cecile Richard, Sebastien Renard, Serge Lecomte, Christelle Guillamaud
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Publication number: 20110319787Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention is a system for measuring interface pressure exerted on the skin, that is in particular of use in compression therapy, characterized in that it comprises:—a supporting member bearing sensors, including at least two pressure sensors spaced out on the supporting member in order to make it possible to measure the pressure exerted at two predetermined positions;—an electronic system connected to the sensors and capable of acquiring the values simultaneously measured by these sensors; and in that each pressure sensor comprises a transducer element, which is preferably substantially flat, said transducer element having a surface intended to come into contact with the skin in the operating position, either directly or by means of a layer of a material covering said surface of the transducer, the elastic modulus of compression of said transducer or of said intermediate layer, measured at the surface intended to come into contact with the skin, being between 30 and 500 kPa,Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: LABORATOIRES URGOInventors: Michel Lamoise, Serge Lecomte, Julien Steinbrunn
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Patent number: 7956233Abstract: The present invention relates to a support system particularly intended for treatment and prevention of diseases of venous origin, characterized in that it comprises a first support layer, which is composed of an elastic band attached across its entire surface to an absorbent layer, and a second support layer, which is a self-adhesive elastic band. This support system has a dynamic coefficient of elasticity of between 5 and 55 Newton/cm.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Laboratoires UrgoInventors: Serge Lecomte, Guy Dupasquier, Catherine Vermeulen
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Publication number: 20090112145Abstract: The present invention relates to a support system particularly intended for treatment and prevention of diseases of venous origin, characterized in that it comprises a first support layer, which is composed of an elastic band attached across its entire surface to an absorbent layer, and a second support layer, which is a self-adhesive elastic band. This support system has a dynamic coefficient of elasticity of between 5 and 55 Newton/cm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: LABORATOIRES URGOInventors: Serge Lecomte, Guy Dupasquier, Catherine Vermeulen