Patents by Inventor Thibault Champion
Thibault Champion 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: 11905198Abstract: A glass furnace including an additive-containing product including an additive selected from: phosphorus compounds other than glasses and vitroceramics, tungsten compounds other than glasses and vitroceramics, molybdenum compounds other than glasses and vitroceramics, iron in the form of metal, aluminum in the form of metal, silicon in the form of metal, and their mixtures, silicon carbide, boron carbide, silicon nitride, boron nitride, glasses including elemental phosphorus and/or iron and/or tungsten and/or molybdenum, vitroceramics including elemental phosphorus and/or iron and/or tungsten and/or molybdenum, and their mixtures, and having the following chemical analysis, exclusively of the additive, as a percentage by weight on the basis of the oxides: Cr2O3?2%, and Cr2O3+Al2O3+CaO+ZrO2+MgO+Fe2O3+SiO2+TiO2?90%, and Cr2O3+Al2O3+MgO?60%, the content by weight of additive being in the range 0.01% to 6%.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Thibault Champion, Pierrick Vespa, Lionel Moitrier, Olivier Citti, Julien Pierre César Fourcade, Nabil Nahas
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Publication number: 20230399263Abstract: A sintered product having: the following chemical analysis, as percentage by mass based on the oxides: Al2O3: remainder to 100%, 0.26%?Na2O?4%, 0%?oxides other than Al2O3 and Na2O?6%, provided that SiO2?2%, the following crystalline phases, as percentages by mass based on the total amount of crystalline phases: 5%?beta-alumina?37%, less than 6% of crystalline phases other than beta-alumina and alpha-alumina, remainder to 100%: alpha-alumina.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Thibault CHAMPION, Michel BOBO
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Publication number: 20220365032Abstract: A non-destructive process of inspecting an object can include positioning a first and second ultrasonic element relative to the body of the object and offsetting the first and second ultrasonic elements in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the body. A further process of inspecting an object can include creating a map of the body of the object including at least one anomaly and providing a quality value associated with the body based on evaluation of one or more criteria selected from the group consisting of the type, number, size, shape, position, orientation, edge sharpness, and any combination thereof of the at least one anomaly. An ultrasonic system can include a first and second ultrasonic element and a processing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Damien BOLORE, Betiglu JIMMA, Mickael BOINET, Thibault CHAMPION, Brian BEAUVAIS, Remi j. GOULET, Darren ROGERS
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Patent number: 11059752Abstract: A sintered concrete having the following mean chemical composition, as mass percentages on the basis of the oxides and for a total of 100%; ZrO2: 55 to 70%, SiO2: 25 to 40%, P2O5: 0.2 to 9.0%, Al2O3: 0.5 to 7.0%, CaO: >0.2%, CaO+MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3: 0.2 to 10.0%, MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3; ?7.5%, B2O3+MgO: ?4.5%, ZrO2+SiO2+P2O5+Al2O3+CaO+MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3: ?95.0%, and containing more than 70% of zircon, as a mass percentage on the basis of the mass of the crystalline phases.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Thibault Champion, Michel Bobo
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Publication number: 20210078893Abstract: A glass furnace including an additive-containing product including an additive selected from: phosphorus compounds other than glasses and vitroceramics, tungsten compounds other than glasses and vitroceramics, molybdenum compounds other than glasses and vitroceramics, iron in the form of metal, aluminum in the form of metal, silicon in the form of metal, and their mixtures, silicon carbide, boron carbide, silicon nitride, boron nitride, glasses including elemental phosphorus and/or iron and/or tungsten and/or molybdenum, vitroceramics including elemental phosphorus and/or iron and/or tungsten and/or molybdenum, and their mixtures, and having the following chemical analysis, exclusively of the additive, as a percentage by weight on the basis of the oxides: Cr2O3?2%, and Cr2O3+Al2O3+CaO+ZrO2+MgO+Fe2O3+SiO2+TiO2?90%, and Cr2O3+Al2O3+MgO?60%, the content by weight of additive being in the range 0.01% to 6%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Thibault CHAMPION, Pierrick VESPA, Lionel MOITRIER, Olivier CITTI, Julien Pierre César FOURCADE, Nabil NAHAS
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Publication number: 20190367414Abstract: The present invention relates to a sintered concrete having the following mean chemical composition, as mass percentages on the basis of the oxides and for a total of 100%: ZrO2: 55 to 70%, SiO2: 25 to 40%, P2O5: 0.2 to 9.0%, Al2O3: 0.5 to 7.0%, CaO: >0.2%, CaO+MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3: 0.2 to 10.0%, MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3: ?7.5%, B2O3+MgO: ?4.5%, ZrO2+SiO2+P2O5+Al2O3+CaO+MgO+B2O3+Fe2O3: ?95.0%, and containing more than 70% of zircon, as a mass percentage on the basis of the mass of the crystalline phases.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Thibault CHAMPION, Michel BOBO
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Patent number: 10233107Abstract: An unshaped product including a particulate mixture containing: a coarse fraction, representing >50%<91% of particulate mixture, in mass percentage, and containing particles size ?50 ?m, “coarse particles”, and matrix fraction, forming remainder up to 100% of particulate mixture, and containing particles sizes <50 ?m, product having chemical analysis, in mass percentage based on oxides of product, such: ?45%<Al2O3, ?7.5%<SiO2<35%, ?0%?ZrO2<33%, providing 10%<SiO2+ZrO2<54%, ?0.15%<B2O3<8%, other oxides: <6%, Al2O3 forming remainder up to 100%, coarse fraction including more than 15% coarse particles having size >1 mm, in mass percentage based on particulate mixture, matrix fraction having a chemical analysis, in mass percentage based on oxides of matrix fraction, such: Al2O3+SiO2+ZrO2>86%, providing 35%<Al2O3.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Thibault Champion, Olivier Citti, Michel Bobo
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Patent number: 10167233Abstract: A sintered refractory product having the form of a block and consisting of a granulate formed by all the grains having a size larger than 100 ?m, referred to as “coarse grains”, and a matrix binding the coarse grains and consisting of the grains having a size smaller than or equal to 100 ?m, the granulate representing between 45% and 90% by mass of the product, the product having a composition such that, in a mass percentage based on the oxides: Al2O3>80%, SiO2<15%, Na2O<0.15%, Fe2O3<0.05%, CaO<0.1%, the other oxides forming the remainder up to 100%, and the Na2O content in the matrix being greater than 0.010%, in a mass percentage based on the mass of the product.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Laurie San-Miguel, Fabiano Rodrigues, Christian His, Thibault Champion
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Patent number: 9908816Abstract: A powder is disclosed having a coarse fraction representing more than 60% and less than 85% of the powder, as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides, and that is constituted of particles having a size greater than or equal to 50 ?m, referred to as “coarse particles”, the powder comprising at least 5% of coated grains having a size greater than or equal to 50 ?m, as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides of the powder, and a fine fraction, forming the balance to 100% as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides, constituted of particles having a size of less than 50 ?m, referred to as “matrix particles”. The powder can be applied in combustion chambers in which the temperature may reach 1400° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Thibault Champion, Christian His
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Publication number: 20160340220Abstract: An unshaped product including a particulate mixture containing: a coarse fraction, representing >50%<91% of particulate mixture, in mass percentage, and containing particles size ?50 ?m, “coarse particles”, and matrix fraction, forming remainder up to 100% of particulate mixture, and containing particles sizes <50 ?m, product having chemical analysis, in mass percentage based on oxides of product, such: ?45%<Al2O3, ?7.5%<SiO2<35%, ?0%?ZrO2<33%, providing 10%<SiO2+ZrO2<54%, ?0.15%<B2O3<8%, other oxides: <6%, Al2O3 forming remainder up to 100%, coarse fraction including more than 15% coarse particles having size >1 mm, in mass percentage based on particulate mixture, matrix fraction having a chemical analysis, in mass percentage based on oxides of matrix fraction, such: Al2O3+SiO2+ZrO2>86%, providing 35%<Al2O3.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Thibault CHAMPION, Olivier CITTI, Michel BOBO
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Publication number: 20160185666Abstract: A sintered refractory product having the form of a block and consisting—of a granulate formed by all the grains having a size larger than 100 ?m, referred to as “coarse grains”, and—a matrix binding said coarse grains and consisting of the grains having a size smaller than or equal to 100 ?m, the granulate representing between 45% and 90% by mass of the product, said product having a composition such that, in a mass percentage based on the oxides: —Al2O3>80%, —SiO2<15%, —Na2O<0.15% —Fe2O3<0.05%, —CaO<0.1%,—the other oxides forming the remainder up to 100%, the Na2O content in the matrix being greater than 0.010%, in a mass percentage based on the mass of the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Laurie SAN-MIGUEL, Fabiano RODRIGUES, Christian HIS, Thibault CHAMPION
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Publication number: 20150315082Abstract: A powder is disclosed having a coarse fraction representing more than 60% and less than 85% of the powder, as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides, and that is constituted of particles having a size greater than or equal to 50 ?m, referred to as “coarse particles”, the powder comprising at least 5% of coated grains having a size greater than or equal to 50 ?m, as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides of the powder, and a fine fraction, forming the balance to 100% as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides, constituted of particles having a size of less than 50 ?m, referred to as “matrix particles”. The powder can be applied in combustion chambers in which the temperature may reach 1400° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Thibault CHAMPION, Christian HIS
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Publication number: 20140030163Abstract: Sintered refractory product including, in percentages by weight on the basis of the oxides, —more than 10% of chromium oxide Cr2O3, —more than 2% of hafnium oxide HfO2, —more than 1% of zirconium oxide ZrO2, the total content of chromium, hafnium and zirconium oxides Cr2O3+HfO2+ZrO2 being greater than 70%.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Christian His, Franceline Villermaux, Thibault Champion, Nicolas Raffin, Laurie San Miguel
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Publication number: 20130090230Abstract: A powder is disclosed having a coarse fraction representing more than 60% and less than 85% of the powder, as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides, and that is constituted of particles having a size greater than or equal to 50 ?m, referred to as “coarse particles”, the powder comprising at least 5% of coated grains having a size greater than or equal to 50 ?m, as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides of the powder, and a fine fraction, forming the balance to 100% as a weight percentage on the basis of the oxides, constituted of particles having a size of less than 50 ?m, referred to as “matrix particles”. The powder can be applied in combustion chambers in which the temperature may reach 1400° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Thibault Champion, Christian His
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Patent number: 8376318Abstract: A powder including: (a) more than 92% of zircon particles; (b) 1% to 2% of silica particles having a size less than 50 microns; (c) 0.3% to 5% of particles comprising one, two, or three oxides selected from CaO, MgO, and Y2O3; (d) less than 1% of particles comprising other oxides; the powder also being such that it includes: more than 5% of zircon aggregate particles having a size greater than 1 mm; and 8% to 20% of zircon matrix particles having a size less than 15 ?m and including, for more than 95% of the weight thereof, a monoclinic phase.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Saint-Gobain Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes EuropeenInventors: Franceline Villermaux, Thibault Champion, Christian His
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Patent number: 8273674Abstract: A refractory self-flow filler mortar, includes in mass % with relation to the basic refractory material, at least 1% and at most 10% of non-granulated spherical particles with median size greater than 0.1 ?m and less than or equal to 2 mm and further includes in mass % with relation to the total dry mass of the mortar, less than 4.5% of silica (SiO2) and between 1% and 8% water, the standard deviation of the non-granulated spherical particle size being less than 100%.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2006Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Saint-Gobain Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes EuropeanInventors: Thibault Champion, Christian Claude His, Franceline Marguerite Louise Villermaux
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Publication number: 20120018007Abstract: A powder including: (a) more than 92% of zircon particles, (b) 1% to 2% of silica particles having a size less than 50 microns; (c) 0.3% to 5% of particles comprising one, two, or three oxides selected from CaO, MgO, and Y2O3; (d) less than 1% of particles comprising other oxides; the powder also being such that it includes: more than 5% of zircon aggregate particles having a size greater than 1 mm; and 8% to 20% of zircon matrix particles having a size less than 15 ?m and including, for more than 95% of the weight thereof, a monoclinic phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET' D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Franceline Villermaux, Thibault Champion, Christian His
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Patent number: 7943541Abstract: The invention concerns a sintered refractory product having the following average chemical composition, in weight percentages based on oxides: 20%<Al2O3<90%; 6%=SiO2<30%; 3%<ZrO2<50%; 0%=Cr2O3<50%. The inventive product is characterized in that it comprises 17 to 85 wt. % of mullite-zirconium grains.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Saint Gobain Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes EuropeenInventors: Richard Avedikian, Michel Bobo, Thibault Champion, Christian His
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Publication number: 20090221415Abstract: The invention concerns a sintered refractory product having the following average chemical composition, in weight percentages based on oxides: 20%<Al2O3<90%; 6%=SiO2<30%; 3%<ZrO2<50%; 0%=Cr2O3<50%. The inventive product is characterized in that it comprises 17 to 85 wt. % of mullite-zirconium grains.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: Saint-Gobain Centre De Recherche ET D'Etudes EupopeenInventors: Richard Avedikian, Michel Bobo, Thibault Champion, Christian His
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Publication number: 20090091051Abstract: A refractory self-flow filler mortar, includes in mass % with relation to the basic refractory material, at least 1% and at most 10% of non-granulated spherical particles with median size greater than 0.1 ?m and less than or equal to 2 mm and further includes in mass % with relation to the total dry mass of the mortar, less than 4.5% of silica (SiO2) and between 1% and 8% water, the standard deviation of the non-granulated spherical particle size being less than 100%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2006Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE LA RECHERCHE ET D'ETUDES EUROPEENInventors: Thibault Champion, Christian Claude His, Franceline Marguerite Louise Villermaux