Patents by Inventor Stéphane AVRILLON

Stéphane AVRILLON 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: 10797398
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antenna designed to emit and/or receive surface waves with a decametric, hectometric or kilometric central wavelength ?0, characterised in that it comprises at least one horizontal wire aerial element of between 0.5?0 and ?0 in length, and at least three vertical wire aerial elements of the same length between 0.03?0 and 0.1?0, arranged in a same plane and each comprising an upper end and a lower end, said upper ends being connected to the horizontal wire aerial element, said lower ends being designed to be connected to a conducting medium having a substantially horizontal surface. The invention also relates to an antenna, an antenna array and a use of an antenna or of an antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: UNVERSITE DE RENNES 1, TDF
    Inventors: Mathilde Bellec, Jean-Yves Laurent, Sébastien M. Palud, Pierre-Yves Jezequel, Franck Colombel, Stéphane Avrillon
  • Patent number: 10735111
    Abstract: A method for determining a distance to a passive intermodulation source in a device under test, the method comprising transmitting at least two signals with respective different frequencies to the device under test, receiving a complex response signal from the device under test, the complex response signal comprising a passive intermodulation of the at least two signals, generating an autocorrelation matrix using the complex response signal, the autocorrelation matrix representing power information of the complex response signal, decomposing the complex response signal, using the autocorrelation matrix, into a signal component part and a noise component part and determining a distance to the passive intermodulation source in the device under test using the noise and/or signal component part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: NOKIA SHANGHAI BELL CO., LTD., UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Harel, Gilles Duteil, Patrick Lecam, Franck Colombel, Stéphane Avrillon
  • Publication number: 20190312655
    Abstract: A method for determining a distance to a passive intermodulation source in a device under test, the method comprising transmitting at least two signals with respective different frequencies to the device under test, receiving a complex response signal from the device under test, the complex response signal comprising a passive intermodulation of the at least two signals, generating an autocorrelation matrix using the complex response signal, the autocorrelation matrix representing power information of the complex response signal, decomposing the complex response signal, using the autocorrelation matrix, into a signal component part and a noise component part and determining a distance to the passive intermodulation source in the device under test using the noise and/or signal component part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre HAREL, Gilles DUTEIL, Patrick LECAM, Franck COLOMBEL, Stéphane AVRILLON
  • Publication number: 20190165477
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antenna designed to emit and/or receive surface waves with a decametric, hectometric or kilometric central wavelength ?0, characterised in that it comprises at least one horizontal wire aerial element of between 0.5?0 and ?0 in length, and at least three vertical wire aerial elements of the same length between 0.03?0 and 0.1?0, arranged in a same plane and each comprising an upper end and a lower end, said upper ends being connected to the horizontal wire aerial element, said lower ends being designed to be connected to a conducting medium having a substantially horizontal surface. The invention also relates to an antenna, an antenna array and a use of an antenna or of an antenna array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicants: TDF, UNIVERSITE DE RENNES 1
    Inventors: Mathilde BELLEC, Jean-Yves LAURENT, Sébastien M. PALUD, Pierre-Yves JEZEQUEL, Franck COLOMBEL, Stéphane AVRILLON