Patents by Inventor Xavier Caugant

Xavier Caugant 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: 5327164
    Abstract: A process and device for providing and fixing a captor of activation detection. The present invention discloses a tactile designation device for continuous capacitance detection comprising a glass plate covered by a metallic deposit on its entire surface and supported by flexible strips, means of supply of the metallized surface, and strain gauges mounted on top of the strips in order to measure their flexing. According to the present invention, the strips support the plate from a printed circuit of assembly. Each strip comprises at least one conducting part in contact, at one of its ends, with a supply track formed by the printed circuit, and at its other end, with the attachment devices of the plate on the strip that is electrically conducting and in contact with the metallized surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Sextant Avionique
    Inventors: Pierre Fagard, Claude Nigen, Jean-Marc Coppin, Xavier Caugant