Patents by Inventor Thierry Thomas
Thierry Thomas 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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Publication number: 20240141852Abstract: A rear portion of a convergent-divergent nozzle turbojet engine includes a device for controlling the position of a divergent flap relative to that of a convergent flap, including a first connecting rod having a first end portion hinged to the convergent flap and an opposite second end portion, a second connecting rod having a first end portion hinged to the divergent flap and an opposite second end portion, and a third connecting rod having a first end portion hinged to a synchronization ring and an opposite second end portion. The second end portion of the first connecting rod is hinged to the second end portion of the second connecting rod and/or to the second end portion of the third connecting rod, and the second end portion of the third connecting rod is hinged to the second end portion of the second connecting rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thierry KOHN, Dimitri Thomas KRAJKA
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Publication number: 20240111972Abstract: A device for locating objects stored in a storage unit includes a plurality of storage spaces, each object being equipped with an RFID tag, the object-locating device comprising: a plurality of inhibitor circuits each intended to be placed in an associated storage space and configured to prevent the RFID tag of the object from being read by an RFID reader, a control unit configured to control activation of the inhibitor circuits in a predetermined activation sequence; a locating unit configured to control the RFID reader, and to receive, in each step of the activation sequence, a list of identifiers of the objects stored in the storage unit, the list being supplied by the RFID reader, and configured to identify the storage space of each object based on the lists of identifiers and on the activation sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Mélanie DESCHARLES, Thierry THOMAS, François FRASSATI
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Publication number: 20240111787Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for join operations of a plurality of relations that are distributed over a plurality of storage locations over a network of computing components.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski, Allison Waingold Lee, Philipp Thomas Unterbrunner
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Patent number: 11624082Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring kinase activity or activation in a sample, the method comprises the steps of a) providing a sample comprising a kinase, b) incubating the sample with a protease to cleave the kinase provided in step a) into protease specific proteolytic peptides, c) applying phosphopeptide enrichment to the sample, d) analysing the sample obtained in step c) via liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, and e) detecting phosphorylations of the kinase provided in step a), wherein the detection of step e) is performed only in case a proteolytic peptide associated with the activation region of the kinase is identified.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Adrianus Fredrik Maarten Altelaar, Thierry Thomas Schmidlin
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Publication number: 20220050073Abstract: The invention relates to a system for detecting the evolution of an environmental parameter (1), comprising: at least one detection module (12) including an LC resonant circuit responsive to an evolution of said environmental parameter, configured to operate, as a function of the value of said environmental parameter, either in a first mode, in which said resonant circuit has a resonance frequency within a predefined range for which the detection module is detectable by magnetic coupling by excitation in said range, or in a second mode, in which said resonant circuit has a resonance frequency outside said range or an absence of resonance frequency; a declaration module (11) arranged in proximity to said detection module (12), configured to communicate without near-field contact even in the event of a variation in the value of said environmental parameter, and configured to declare the presence of the detection module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventor: Thierry THOMAS
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Publication number: 20210262007Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring kinase activity or activation in a sample, the method comprises the steps of a) providing a sample comprising a kinase, b) incubating the sample with a protease to cleave the kinase provided in step a) into protease specific proteolytic peptides, c) applying phosphopeptide enrichment to the sample, d) analysing the sample obtained in step c) via liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, and e) detecting phosphorylations of the kinase provided in step a), wherein the detection of step e) is performed only in case a proteolytic peptide associated with the activation region of the kinase is identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Adrianus Fredrik Maarten ALTELAAR, Thierry Thomas SCHMIDLIN
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Patent number: 10802172Abstract: A system for detecting a specific relative position between a reader and a receiver, including: an inductive contactless receiver including an antenna winding and a circuit for selectively modulating a load; an inductive contactless reader including: a transceiver antenna circuit having nonzero mutual inductance with the antenna winding for the position, a communication circuit connected to the transceiver antenna circuit, a receiver antenna circuit having mutual inductance with the antenna winding that exhibits a minimum for the position, and a processing circuit for: identifying presence of a receiver by detecting nonzero mutual inductance between the transceiver antenna circuit and an antenna winding, and detecting a mutual inductance minimum between the receiver antenna circuit and an antenna winding.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Thierry Thomas, Jacques Reverdy
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Publication number: 20200249372Abstract: A system for detecting a specific relative position between a reader and a receiver, including: an inductive contactless receiver including an antenna winding and a circuit for selectively modulating a load; an inductive contactless reader including: a transceiver antenna circuit having nonzero mutual inductance with the antenna winding for the position, a communication circuit connected to the transceiver antenna circuit, a receiver antenna circuit having mutual inductance with the antenna winding that exhibits a minimum for the position, and a processing circuit for: identifying presence of a receiver by detecting nonzero mutual inductance between the transceiver antenna circuit and an antenna winding, and detecting a mutual inductance minimum between the receiver antenna circuit and an antenna winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2017Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Thierry THOMAS, Jacques REVERDY
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Patent number: 9768645Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for emitting energy by electromagnetic coupling which comprises: a single generator (5) outputting an AC electric signal between two terminals; a series of resonant modules (2i) each including a capacitor and a first inductance, and first to fourth terminals (Ai, Bi, Ci, Di), the first (Ai) and second (Bi) terminals of a first module being connected to terminals of the generator, and the first (Ai) and second (Bi) terminals of the other module or modules being connected to the third (Ci) and fourth (Di) terminals of the module of the previous row.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2012Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternativesInventors: Yann Tetu, Sylvain Bacquet, Thierry Thomas
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Patent number: 9719876Abstract: This fluid pressure sensor includes a coil the self inductance of which varies as a function of the pressure of a fluid inside the flexible pipe. This coil includes a turn including: a first portion and a second portion of its periphery rigidly mechanically connected to a first location and a second location on the periphery of the pipe, respectively, and third and fourth free portions of the periphery of the turn situated between the first and second portions and each on a respective side of a central axis of the pipe and each separated from the flexible pipe by a clearance.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Jacques Reverdy, Thierry Thomas
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Patent number: 9665751Abstract: The method for managing a set (100) of communicating objects (101), which are distributed such that each object (101) in the set (100) is neighboring at least one other object (101) in said set (100) so as to form a pair of neighboring objects that are capable of communicating with one another, has the following steps: activation (E1) of an initial object (101a) chosen among the objects (101) in the set (100); propagation (E2), from the activated initial object (101a), of a signal to each of the other objects in the set, said propagation being configured such that each of said other objects in the set has received, at the end of the step of propagation (E2), said signal from at least one neighboring object belonging to said set at least once.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Rosolino Lionti, Mélanie Descharles, Hélène Lhermet, Thierry Thomas
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Patent number: 9548706Abstract: The power stage at the output of a high-frequency generates operates in class D and comprises a voltage supply and a common earth, a first and a second switch linked to the common earth and periodically switched on at a high frequency F; these switches are linked to two common-mode inductors connected in a Guanella balun. Each common-mode inductor comprises two inductive lines with strong mutual coupling.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Thierry Thomas, Vincent Josselin
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Patent number: 9424448Abstract: A locating device for determining a distance of an RFID tag with respect to an interface between two media comprising an inductive coupling antenna and a sensor for determining a distance between the antenna and the interface. There is an energizing circuit configured to energize the antenna to generate an electromagnetic field with various successive amplitude values and a detection device for detecting an electromagnetic field response from the RFID tag. There is a processing circuit configured to determine several pairs of information, each pair including: a distance between the antenna and the interface and a minimum electromagnetic field value detected by the detection device from the RFID tag at the determined distance between the antenna and the interface. The processing circuit also evaluates the distance between the RFID tag and the interface as a function of the several pairs.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternativesInventors: Thierry Thomas, François Frassati
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Patent number: 9379442Abstract: The invention relates to an inductive antenna, comprising: a first planar conductive winding (42) on a first surface of a substrate, said first winding being cut off at regular intervals so as to form a series of pairs of first conductors (522, 524; 542, 546; 562, 564); and a second planar conductive winding (44) on a second surface of the substrate, said second winding being provided opposite the first winding and cut off in a direction vertically perpendicular to that of the cutoffs of the first winding so as to form a series of pairs of second conductors (526, 528; 546, 548; 66, 568).Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternativesInventor: Thierry Thomas
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Patent number: 9362622Abstract: The invention relates to an inductive antenna formed from at least two pairs of segments (32, 34) geometrically butted together and each comprising first (322, 342) and second (324, 344) parallel conductors insulated from each other, each pair having, at each end, a single terminal for the electrical connection of its first conductor to that of the neighboring pair, in which said pairs are of a first type (3), in which the conductors are interrupted approximately at their mid-points so as to define the two segments, the first (respectively second) conductor of one segment being connected to the second (respectively first) conductor of the other segment of the pair, or of a second type, in which the first conductor is interrupted approximately at its mid-point so as to define the two segments, the second conductor not being interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique aux énergies alternativesInventor: Thierry Thomas
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Publication number: 20160105154Abstract: The power stage at the output of a high-frequency generates operates in class D and comprises a voltage supply and a common earth, a first and a second switch linked to the common earth and periodically switched on at a high frequency F; these switches are linked to two common-mode inductors connected in a Guanella balun. Each common-mode inductor comprises two inductive lines with strong mutual coupling.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Thierry THOMAS, Vincent JOSSELIN
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Publication number: 20160061678Abstract: This fluid pressure sensor includes a coil the self inductance of which varies as a function of the pressure of a fluid inside the flexible pipe. This coil includes a turn including: a first portion and a second portion of its periphery rigidly mechanically connected to a first location and a second location on the periphery of the pipe, respectively, and third and fourth free portions of the periphery of the turn situated between the first and second portions and each on a respective side of a central axis of the pipe and each separated from the flexible pipe by a clearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Jacques REVERDY, Thierry Thomas
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Patent number: 9256820Abstract: A method for managing a data transfer system includes recovering energy at peripheral devices, and wireless transfer recovered energy to a base by synchronizing RF signals transmitted by double-loop antennas. Synchronizing includes implementing a listening phase to detect a radio-frequency signal transmitted by said central base, and either sending an RF signal that is synchronous with the detected signal or transmitting a signal at a predetermined frequency depending on whether an RF signal is detected at the base. The method includes, in response to receiving a signal from the peripheral device at that frequency, causing the base to recover the received signal and to re-transmit at the predetermined frequency to the peripheral devices. This signal synchronization enables simultaneous energy transfer from peripheral devices to the central base while avoiding mutually destructive effects between said signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternativesInventors: Sylvain Bacquet, Elisabeth Crochon, Thierry Thomas
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Publication number: 20160004954Abstract: An electronic tag including: a first planar conductive winding forming an antenna coupled, with or without contact, with an electronic circuit; and a correction element, placed on the first winding and having its shape and position relative to the first winding selected according to a resonance frequency correction desired for the assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Estelle LE BARON, Thierry Thomas
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Publication number: 20150302233Abstract: The method for managing a set (100) of communicating objects (101), which are distributed such that each object (101) in the set (100) is neighbouring at least one other object (101) in said set (100) so as to form a pair of neighbouring objects that are capable of communicating with one another, has the following steps: activation (E1) of an initial object (101a) chosen among the objects (101) in the set (100); propagation (E2), from the activated initial object (101a), of a signal to each of the other objects in the set, said propagation being configured such that each of said other objects in the set has received, at the end of the step of propagation (E2), said signal from at least one neighbouring object belonging to said set at least once.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Rosolino Lionti, Mélanie Descharles, Hélène Lhermet, Thierry Thomas