Patents by Inventor Valerie Lemarquand

Valerie Lemarquand 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: 9327961
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of electrodynamic speakers. Particularly, the present invention relates to an electrodynamic speaker structure having MEMS technology. More particularly, the invention relates to such a structure comprising stator-forming means, diaphragm-forming means, and resiliently shape-changing means for connecting such means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: UNIVERSITE DU MAINE, UNIVERSITE PARIS-SUD 11
    Inventors: Guy Lemarquand, Valerie Lemarquand, Elie Marie Lefeuvre, Marion Alexandra Laurence Woytasik, Johan Moulin, Fabien Jean François Parrain
  • Publication number: 20130156253
    Abstract: Said electrodynamic speaker structure having MEMS technology, comprising a stator-forming means (2), diaphragm-forming means (3), and resiliently shape-changing means (4) for connecting all of said means, is characterized in that the stator-forming means (2), diaphragm-forming means (3), and connecting means (4) are made of a single part by machining a silicon chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE PARIS-SUD 11, UNIVERSITE DU MAINE
    Inventors: Guy Lemarquand, Valerie Lemarquand, Elie Marie Lefeuvre, Marion Alexandra Laurence Woytasik, Johan Moulin, Fabien Jean François Parrain
  • Patent number: 8131005
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrodynamic transducer (1) with a dome type diaphragm (2), comprising an electrodynamic motor with a coil (6) borne by a mandrel (3) integral with the diaphragm suspended to a yoke (7), the coil being placed in an air gap of a vertical free space in which it can move and which is defined, toward the center, by an internal magnetic construction (4), and toward the periphery, by an external magnetic construction (5), wherein the suspension comprises neither peripheral suspension nor internal suspension, the transducer comprises at least two magnetic field confinement means (11) in the air gap in order to form by mean of a ferromagnetic liquid at least two ferrofluidic seals (12, 13, 14) stepped in the air gap, fulfilling at least the guidance of the coil and the pneumatic tightness between the front and rear faces of the diaphragm, at least one of the ferrofluidic seals being continuous. Application to loudspeakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignees: Universite du Maine
    Inventors: Guy Lemarquand, Bernard Richoux, Valérie Lemarquand
  • Patent number: 8111870
    Abstract: An electrodynamic transducer includes a frame and contains at least one electric coil which is placed in a static magnetic field and which can move about a rest position in a vertical free space. The coil(s) is wound around and fixed to a mandrel and a return member is used to return the coil-bearing mandrel to the rest position in the absence of an external bias, the straight cylinder defining an inner volume and an outer volume. The magnetic field is produced by outer and inner magnetic structures which each comprise at least one fixed permanent magnet in the form of a ring. The motor does not contain any ferromagnetic or magnetic part between the outer volume and the inner volume. At least the part of the frame that is used to fix the magnets is made from a non-ferromagnetic and non-magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignees: Universite du Maine
    Inventors: Guy Lemarquand, Bernard Richoux, Valérie Lemarquand
  • Publication number: 20090028375
    Abstract: An electrodynamic transducer includes a frame and contains at least one electric coil which is placed in a static magnetic field and which can move about a rest position in a vertical free space. The coil(s) is wound around and fixed to at mandrel and a return member is used to return the coil-bearing mandrel to the rest position in the absence of an external bias, the straight cylinder defining an inner volume and an outer volume. The magnetic field is produced by outer and inner magnetic structures which each comprise at least one fixed permanent magnet in the form of a ring. The motor does not contain any ferromagnetic or magnetic part between the outer volume and the inner volume. At least the part of the frame that is used to fix the magnets is made from a non-ferromagnetic and non-magnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE DU MAINE, GILLES MILOT
    Inventors: Bernard Richoux, Guy Lemarquand, Valerie Lemarquand
  • Publication number: 20080285788
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrodynamic transducer (1) with a dome type diaphragm (2), comprising an electrodynamic motor with a coil (6) borne by a mandrel (3) integral with the diaphragm suspended to a yoke (7), the coil being placed in an air gap of a vertical free space in which it can move and which is defined, toward the center, by an internal magnetic construction (4), and toward the periphery, by an external magnetic construction (5), wherein the suspension comprises neither peripheral suspension nor internal suspension, the transducer comprises at least two magnetic field confinement means (11) in the air gap in order to form by mean of a ferromagnetic liquid at least two ferrofluidic seals (12, 13, 14) stepped in the air gap, fulfilling at least the guidance of the coil and the pneumatic tightness between the front and rear faces of the diaphragm, at least one of the ferrofluidic seals being continuous. Application to loudspeakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE DU MAINE
    Inventors: Guy Lemarquand, Bernard Richoux, Valerie Lemarquand