Patents by Inventor Wafa BEN HASSEN

Wafa BEN HASSEN 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: 11860214
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the state of a cable, includes a plurality of reflectometry devices able to inject a test signal at a point of injection into the cable and to measure a signal having propagated back through the cable to the point of injection into the cable, the reflectometry devices being intended to be positioned along the cable so as to divide the cable into successive segments, the system comprising a control unit that is able to communicate with the reflectometry devices and that is configured so as to carry out at least one reflectometry test consisting in injecting a test signal into the cable by means of a first reflectometry device and measuring the test signal, by means of the first reflectometry device, after it has propagated through the cable and been reflected from an impedance discontinuity, the system further comprising a post-processing unit able to communicate with the reflectometry devices and configured to analyze the measurement of the test signal with a view to detecting an ampli
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Marie-Bénédicte Jacques, Wafa Ben Hassen, Cyril Chastang
  • Publication number: 20220365126
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the state of a cable, includes a plurality of reflectometry devices able to inject a test signal at a point of injection into the cable and to measure a signal having propagated back through the cable to the point of injection into the cable, the reflectometry devices being intended to be positioned along the cable so as to divide the cable into successive segments, the system comprising a control unit that is able to communicate with the reflectometry devices and that is configured so as to carry out at least one reflectometry test consisting in injecting a test signal into the cable by means of a first reflectometry device and measuring the test signal, by means of the first reflectometry device, after it has propagated through the cable and been reflected from an impedance discontinuity, the system further comprising a post-processing unit able to communicate with the reflectometry devices and configured to analyze the measurement of the test signal with a view to detecting an ampli
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Marie-Bénédicte JACQUES, Wafa BEN HASSEN, Cyril CHASTANG
  • Patent number: 11333699
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a fault in a transmission line network, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a first measured time reflectogram Rm from a signal previously injected into the network, obtaining a second time reflectogram Rs corresponding to the network in the absence of faults, determining the time difference Rref between the first measured time reflectogram Rm and the second time reflectogram Rs, identifying, in the time difference Rref, an amplitude peak characterizing the presence of a fault and its time abscissa indicating the position of the fault, simulating a plurality of time reflectogram hypotheses each corresponding to the network comprising a fault at the identified position, each hypothesis being associated with a different value of at least one parameter characteristic of the fault, selecting the time reflectogram hypothesis closest to the time difference Rref.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Moussa Kafal, Wafa Ben Hassen
  • Publication number: 20210278452
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a fault in a transmission line network, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a first measured time reflectogram Rm from a signal previously injected into the network, obtaining a second time reflectogram Rs corresponding to the network in the absence of faults, determining the time difference Rref between the first measured time reflectogram Rm and the second time reflectogram Rs, identifying, in the time difference Rref, an amplitude peak characterizing the presence of a fault and its time abscissa indicating the position of the fault, simulating a plurality of time reflectogram hypotheses each corresponding to the network comprising a fault at the identified position, each hypothesis being associated with a different value of at least one parameter characteristic of the fault, selecting the time reflectogram hypothesis closest to the time difference Rref,
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Moussa KAFAL, Wafa BEN HASSEN
  • Publication number: 20210141011
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a fault in a network of at least one transmission line, the method includes the steps of: injecting a first reference signal into the network, acquiring a first measurement of the first reference signal after its propagation in the network, temporally reversing the measurement to generate a second reference signal, injecting the second reference signal into the network, acquiring a second measurement of the second reference signal after its propagation in the network, calculating the intercorrelation between the second measurement and the second reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Wafa BEN HASSEN, Esteban CABANILLAS, Moussa KAFAL
  • Patent number: 10935589
    Abstract: A method for detecting soft faults in a transmission line includes the following steps: acquiring a measurement, called time-domain reflectogram, of a signal characteristic of the reflection of a reference signal previously injected into the line, determining the difference between the time-domain reflectogram and a time-domain reflectogram measured previously for the same line or an identical line of similar characteristics, in order to obtain a corrected time-domain reflectogram, applying a plurality of independent transformations to the corrected time-domain reflectogram in order to obtain a plurality of independent transformed reflectograms, converting the transformed reflectograms into a plurality of mutually independent probabilities of occurrence of a fault, applying a data merging method to the probabilities of occurrence of a fault to deduce therefrom a unified value of the probability of occurrence of a fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Wafa Ben Hassen, Julien Mottin, Antoine Dupret, Miguel Gallego Roman, Suzanne Lesecq, Diego Puschini Pascual, Nicolas Ravot, Armando Zanchetta
  • Patent number: 10488454
    Abstract: A method for generating a reflectometry signal for the diagnosis of defects impacting a transmission line or a network of transmission lines, the method executed by a diagnosis device belonging to a distributed system comprising a plurality of diagnosis devices connected to the line or network of lines, the method comprises the following steps: Generating an electrical signal comprising a plurality of frequency carriers regularly dispersed within a frequency band subdivided into sub-carriers so that each device of the distributed system uses different sub-carriers from the other devices of the system; injecting the electrical signal into the line or network of lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Wafa Ben Hassen, Fabrice Auzanneau
  • Publication number: 20190107573
    Abstract: A method for detecting soft faults in a transmission line includes the following steps: acquiring a measurement, called time-domain reflectogram, of a signal characteristic of the reflection of a reference signal previously injected into the line, determining the difference between the time-domain reflectogram and a time-domain reflectogram measured previously for the same line or an identical line of similar characteristics, in order to obtain a corrected time-domain reflectogram, applying a plurality of independent transformations to the corrected time-domain reflectogram in order to obtain a plurality of independent transformed reflectograms, converting the transformed reflectograms into a plurality of mutually independent probabilities of occurrence of a fault, applying a data merging method to the probabilities of occurrence of a fault to deduce therefrom a unified value of the probability of occurrence of a fault.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Wafa BEN HASSEN, Julien MOTTIN, Antoine DUPRET, Miguel GALLEGO ROMAN, Suzanne LESECQ, Diego PUSCHINI PASCUAL, Nicolas RAVOT, Armando ZANCHETTA
  • Publication number: 20160266194
    Abstract: A method for generating a reflectometry signal for the diagnosis of defects impacting a transmission line or a network of transmission lines, the method executed by a diagnosis device belonging to a distributed system comprising a plurality of diagnosis devices connected to the line or network of lines, the method comprises the following steps: Generating an electrical signal comprising a plurality of frequency carriers regularly dispersed within a frequency band subdivided into sub-carriers so that each device of the distributed system uses different sub-carriers from the other devices of the system; injecting the electrical signal into the line or network of lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Wafa BEN HASSEN, Fabrice AUZANNEAU