Patents by Inventor Thierry Sollier

Thierry Sollier 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).

  • Method for assembling a high-dynamic and high-spatial resolution eddy current testing head
    Patent number: 8274282
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing an assembly of at least one transmission coil (B1) and one reception coil (B2) for eddy current testing, the reception coil receiving in the absence of fault a complex amplitude signal VR, subject to a variation ?VR in the presence of a characteristic fault to be detected. The method consists in selecting the distance ?ER between the axes of the transmission coil and the reception coil so as to maximize the ratio I?VR/VRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Decitre, Thierry Sollier
  • Method and device for non destructive evaluation of defects in a metallic object
    Patent number: 8063631
    Abstract: A device for non destructive evaluation of defects in a metallic object (2) by eddy currents, comprises a field emitter (3) for emitting an alternating electromagnetic field at a first frequency fi in the neighborhood of the metallic object (2), and a magnetoresistive sensor (1) for detecting a response signal constituted by a return electromagnetic field which is re-emitted by eddy currents induced by the alternating electromagnetic field in the metallic object (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Claude Fermon, Myriam Pannetier, Nicolas Biziere, Francois Vacher, Thierry Sollier
  • METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A HIGH-DYNAMIC AND HIGH-SPATIAL RESOLUTION EDDY CURRENT TESTING HEAD
    Publication number: 20100139081
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing an assembly of at least one transmission coil (B1) and one reception coil (B2) for eddy current testing, the reception coil receiving in the absence of fault a complex amplitude signal VR, subject to a variation ?VR in the presence of a characteristic fault to be detected. The method consists in selecting the distance ?ER between the axes of the transmission coil and the reception coil so as to maximize the ratio I?VR/VRI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Decitre, Thierry Sollier
  • Method and device for non destructive evaluation of defects in a metallic object
    Publication number: 20090206831
    Abstract: A device for non destructive evaluation of defects in a metallic object (2) by eddy currents, comprises a field emitter (3) for emitting an alternating electromagnetic field at a first frequency fi in the neighbourhood of the metallic object (2), and a magnetoresistive sensor (1) for detecting a response signal constituted by a return electromagnetic field which is re-emitted by eddy currents induced by the alternating electromagnetic field in the metallic object (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2002
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Claude Fermon, Myriam Pannetier, Nicolas Biziere, Francois Vacher, Thierry Sollier