Patents by Inventor Vincent Delpy

Vincent Delpy 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: 12669196
    Abstract: A pipe of an air duct including, from the interior toward the exterior, an internal layer, at least one insulating intermediate layer, an external layer and at least at one of its ends a pipe coupling distinct from the internal layer including a first end section that cooperates with the internal layer in sealed manner and a second end section not covered by any of the layers that is configured to cooperate with a connection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Simon Foucart-Gaudy, Vincent Delpy, Gérard Millet
  • Publication number: 20260163348
    Abstract: A cable holder including a first disk which has first seats each configured to receive a first cable, at least one second disk which can pivot relative to the first disk between first and second angular positions, this second disk being configured to allow the first cables to be inserted into the first seats in the first angular position and to prevent the first cables from coming out of the first seats in the second angular position. An electrical installation including at least one such cable holder and an aircraft including at least one such electrical installation are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2025
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Inventors: Gérard MILLET, Vincent DELPY
  • Patent number: 12603197
    Abstract: An electric cable configured to be mounted in an aircraft. This electric cable includes at least one spacer at least partially surrounding a part of the electric cable and making it possible to hold it at a distance greater than a minimum segregation distance from any other element. According to one configuration, the electric cable comprises several spacers distributed along the electric cable and separated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Gérard Millet, Vincent Delpy
  • Patent number: 12584571
    Abstract: A set of pipes comprising two pipes, a sleeve into which the pipes are fitted, for each pipe, a clamping collar arranged around the sleeve and an anchoring element secured to the pipe and comprising a first fastener, for each clamping collar, a retaining element secured to the clamping collar and having a through-passage, and a tie passing through the through-passages and having, at each end, a second fastener cooperating with a first fastener in order to fasten each end of the tie an anchoring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Gérard Millet, Vincent Delpy
  • Patent number: 12565958
    Abstract: A sleeve fastening system fastened to a joist pierced with a hole and receiving two pipes and including a cylinder fitted into the hole of which each end receives a pipe, wherein the wall of the cylinder has cut into it at least one tunnel, a flange, each tunnel having openings that emerge on either side of the flange that has a bearing face bearing against the joist and a free face, and for each tunnel, a holding system having a link, a shoe and a locking system, the link being housed in the tunnel with the shoe blocked in a first opening on the side of the free face and wherein the link exits via a second opening on the side of the bearing face and wherein the locking system attaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Gérard Millet, Vincent Delpy, Simon Foucart-Gaudy, Marc-Antoine Brocard
  • Patent number: 12409582
    Abstract: A tool for laying a sealing strip around a protruding part of a connecting element protruding from a bearing surface, the laying tool including an annular duct having an outer surface configured to delimit, with the bearing surface and the protruding part, a cavity when the annular duct is positioned around the protruding part and in contact with the bearing surface, the annular duct including at least one orifice for supplying pasty composition and outlet orifices for injecting the pasty composition into the cavity to form the sealing strip. A method for laying a sealing strip using the tool is disclosed and an aircraft with at least one sealing strip obtained using the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Gérard Millet, Vincent Delpy, Simon Foucart-Gaudy
  • Patent number: 12374824
    Abstract: An electrical connection device including a first end-fitting secured to a first part of an electrical cable, including a first cylindrical lateral surface coaxial to a first axis and a first end surface forming a first angle with the first axis, a second end-fitting secured to a second part of an electrical cable, including a second cylindrical lateral surface coaxial to a second axis and a second end surface forming a second angle with the second axis equal to the first angle, and a holding system configured to hold the first and second end surfaces pressed against one another. The first and second end-fittings are directly in contact with one another and held in contact via a holding system coaxial to the first and second end-fittings and supported by the latter, which contributes to obtaining a compact device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Vincent Delpy, Gérard Millet
  • Patent number: 12292137
    Abstract: A drainage valve comprising a through hole, a seat around the through hole, a shutter comprising an end face and movable in a longitudinal direction between a first position in which the end face of the shutter is away from the seat and a second position in which the end face of the shutter is pressed against the seat and blocks the through hole, and an elastic element configured to keep the shutter in the first position. The shutter has a recess, emerging at its end face, configured to introduce therein a part of a tool in order to temporarily secure the part of the tool and the shutter in order to displace it in two directions longitudinally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Vincent Delpy, Gérard Millet
  • Publication number: 20250092971
    Abstract: A set of pipes comprising two pipes, a sleeve into which the pipes are fitted, for each pipe, a clamping collar arranged around the sleeve and an anchoring element secured to the pipe and comprising a first fastener, for each clamping collar, a retaining element secured to the clamping collar and having a through-passage, and a tie passing through the through-passages and having, at each end, a second fastener cooperating with a first fastener in order to fasten each end of the tie an anchoring element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Gérard MILLET, Vincent DELPY
  • Publication number: 20240312676
    Abstract: An electric cable configured to be mounted in an aircraft. This electric cable includes at least one spacer at least partially surrounding a part of the electric cable and making it possible to hold it at a distance greater than a minimum segregation distance from any other element. According to one configuration, the electric cable comprises several spacers distributed along the electric cable and separated from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Gérard MILLET, Vincent DELPY
  • Publication number: 20240286374
    Abstract: A tubular insert designed to be positioned in a through-orifice of a sandwich panel. This tubular insert comprises a tubular body and at least one tab that has a first end connected to the tubular body and a second end at a distance from the first end, the tab being able to move between a deployed position in which the second end is moved away from the tubular body and a retracted position in which the second end is positioned at the tubular body, the latter having, for each tab, a cutout delimiting the tab and an opening when the tab is in the deployed position. Also a sandwich panel having at least one such insert and a method for placing such an insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Gérard MILLET, Vincent DELPY, Simon FOUCART-GAUDY, Marc-Antoine BROCARD
  • Patent number: 12038036
    Abstract: A seal includes a barrel extending between a base and a top, in which the barrel has a cylindrical cavity passing through it between its base and its top, and a skirt indissociable from the barrel and extending around said barrel, in which the skirt adopts the shape of a dome of which the exterior edges extend out beyond the base starting from the top. The seal is able to divert the fluid and keep the space under the skirt fluid tight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Simon Foucart-Gaudy, Vincent Delpy, Gerard Millet
  • Publication number: 20240218900
    Abstract: An assembly comprising a nut, in addition to a retaining system which is configured to retain the hole of the nut substantially in the extension of a through-hole of a part. The retaining system comprises at least two resilient tabs which are configured to be housed in the through-hole of the part, the free ends of the resilient tabs being positioned, in the undeformed state, on a circle having a greater diameter than an internal diameter of the through-hole. Also a mounting system comprising such a retaining system for a nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Gérard MILLET, Vincent DELPY, Simon FOUCART-GAUDY, Marc-Antoine BROCARD
  • Publication number: 20240200707
    Abstract: A sleeve fastening system fastened to a joist pierced with a hole and receiving two pipes and including a cylinder fitted into the hole of which each end receives a pipe, wherein the wall of the cylinder has cut into it at least one tunnel, a flange, each tunnel having openings that emerge on either side of the flange that has a bearing face bearing against the joist and a free face, and for each tunnel, a holding system having a link, a shoe and a locking system, the link being housed in the tunnel with the shoe blocked in a first opening on the side of the free face and wherein the link exits via a second opening on the side of the bearing face and wherein the locking system attaches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Gérard Millet, Vincent Delpy, Simon Foucart-Gaudy, Marc-Antoine Brocard
  • Publication number: 20240026997
    Abstract: A pipe comprising at least one flexible duct, wherein the pipe comprises at least one stiffening band, which is pressed against the duct over at least some of its length, extends along a longitudinal direction substantially parallel to the axis of the duct and has, at least in one state, considerable rigidity along the longitudinal direction, the stiffening band being configured to deform elastically between a rolled-up state, when the cross sections of the stiffening band are rectilinear, and an elongate and rigid state, when the cross sections of the stiffening band are curved. An aircraft comprising at least one such pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Simon FOUCART-GAUDY, Vincent DELPY, Gérard MILLET
  • Publication number: 20230373134
    Abstract: A tool for laying a sealing strip around a protruding part of a connecting element protruding from a bearing surface, the laying tool including an annular duct having an outer surface configured to delimit, with the bearing surface and the protruding part, a cavity when the annular duct is positioned around the protruding part and in contact with the bearing surface, the annular duct including at least one orifice for supplying pasty composition and outlet orifices for injecting the pasty composition into the cavity to form the sealing strip. A method for laying a sealing strip using the tool is disclosed and an aircraft with at least one sealing strip obtained using the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Gérard Millet, Vincent Delpy, Simon Foucart-Gaudy
  • Publication number: 20230313915
    Abstract: A pipe of an air duct comprising, from the interior toward the exterior, an internal layer, at least one insulating intermediate layer, an external layer and at least at one of its ends a pipe coupling distinct from the internal layer including a first end section that cooperates with the internal layer in sealed manner and a second end section not covered by any of the layers that is configured to cooperate with a connection system. Thus, no clamp of a connection system exerts compression forces on the internal layer of the pipe, which consequently is not necessarily reinforced by means of fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Simon FOUCART-GAUDY, Vincent DELPY, Gérard MILLET
  • Publication number: 20230133758
    Abstract: A drainage valve comprising a through hole, a seat around the through hole, a shutter comprising an end face and movable in a longitudinal direction between a first position in which the end face of the shutter is away from the seat and a second position in which the end face of the shutter is pressed against the seat and blocks the through hole, and an elastic element configured to keep the shutter in the first position. The shutter has a recess, emerging at its end face, configured to introduce therein a part of a tool in order to temporarily secure the part of the tool and the shutter in order to displace it in two directions longitudinally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Vincent DELPY, Gérard MILLET
  • Publication number: 20230011060
    Abstract: An electrical connection device including a first end-fitting secured to a first part of an electrical cable, including a first cylindrical lateral surface coaxial to a first axis and a first end surface forming a first angle with the first axis, a second end-fitting secured to a second part of an electrical cable, including a second cylindrical lateral surface coaxial to a second axis and a second end surface forming a second angle with the second axis equal to the first angle, and a holding system configured to hold the first and second end surfaces pressed against one another. The first and second end-fittings are directly in contact with one another and held in contact via a holding system coaxial to the first and second end-fittings and supported by the latter, which contributes to obtaining a compact device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Vincent DELPY, Gérard MILLET
  • Patent number: 11518322
    Abstract: A boom for an electrical harness, including a straight bar extending in a longitudinal direction, and several supports distributed along and attached to the bar, to which supports at least one electrical harness is connected in operation. The bar includes at least two parts configured to slide relative to one another in the longitudinal direction so that a length of the bar can be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Gérard Millet, Vincent Delpy