Patents by Inventor Yvan Avenas

Yvan Avenas 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).

  • Publication number: 20230413495
    Abstract: A power electronic system including a plurality of power components and a plurality of electrically-conductive heatsinks, each of said power components being disposed between two electrically-conductive heatsinks of the plurality of electrically-conductive heatsinks, at least one electrically-conductive heatsink being configured to be polarised according to a phase potential, called phase heatsink, at least one electrically-conductive heatsink being configured to be polarised according to a +DC potential, called cathode heatsink, and at least one electrically-conductive heatsink configured to be polarised according to a ?DC potential, called anode heatsink, the system further includes at least one external phase connection, and at least one external +DC connection, and at least one external ?DC connection respectively connected to the phase heatsink, to the cathode heatsink and to the anode heatsink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yvan AVENAS, Wendpanga BIKINGA, Bachir MEZRAG
  • Patent number: 11823971
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic system including a plurality of adjacent, elementary power electronics modules and connected to one another by an electrical module connection. Each elementary module including at least one power component integrated on a printed circuit inserted between two electrically conductive heat sinks. The electrical module connection is made by heat sinks at the side and/or central connection surfaces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE
    Inventor: Yvan Avenas
  • Publication number: 20220077021
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic system including a plurality of adjacent, elementary power electronics modules and connected to one another by an electrical module connection. Each elementary module including at least one power component integrated on a printed circuit inserted between two electrically conductive heat sinks. The electrical module connection is made by heat sinks at the side and/or central connection surfaces thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Yvan AVENAS
  • Patent number: 9693480
    Abstract: An electronic device with cooling of a heat dissipation source, by a liquid metals spreader, the device including at least one heat dissipation source, at least one spreader through which at least one liquid metal circulation channel passes forming a loop routed below a heat dissipation source, at least one heat sink, and at least one electromagnetic pump moving the liquid metal in the at least one channel such that the liquid metal absorbs heat dissipated by a heat dissipation source and transports the absorbed heat to be evacuated by the heat sink. Each spreader includes at least two plates made of an electrical insulating material located on each side of at least one bar made of deformable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: LABINAL POWER SYSTEMS, Institut Polytechnic de Grenoble, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Jacques Salat, Yvan Avenas, Regis Bernard Albert Meuret, Mansour Tawk
  • Publication number: 20150289410
    Abstract: An electronic device with cooling of a heat dissipation source, by a liquid metals spreader, the device including at least one heat dissipation source, at least one spreader through which at least one liquid metal circulation channel passes forming a loop routed below a heat dissipation source, at least one heat sink, and at least one electromagnetic pump moving the liquid metal in the at least one channel such that the liquid metal absorbs heat dissipated by a heat dissipation source and transports the absorbed heat to be evacuated by the heat sink. Each spreader includes at least two plates made of an electrical insulating material located on each side of at least one bar made of deformable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicants: HISPANO SUIZA, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Jacques Salat, Yvan Avenas, Regis Meuret, Mansour Tawk
  • Patent number: 8766433
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic chip, comprising: a semiconductor substrate (6) having an active area (8) formed by at least one P doped region and at least one N doped region which form one or more P-N junctions through which most of the useful current flows when said electronic chip is in a conductive state, and at least one channel (44) through which a heat transport coolant can flow, the channel(s) passing through at least said P or N doped region of the active area. Each channel (44) is rectilinear and passes through the substrate (6) in a direction which is collinear with a direction F to the nearest ±45°, where the direction F is perpendicular to the plane of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble
    Inventors: Yvan Avenas, Jean-Christophe Crebier, Julie Widiez, Laurent Clavelier, Kremena Vladimirova
  • Publication number: 20130146955
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic chip, comprising: a semiconductor substrate (6) having an active area (8) formed by at least one P doped region and at least one N doped region which form one or more P-N junctions through which most of the useful current flows when said electronic chip is in a conductive state, and at least one channel (44) through which a heat transport coolant can flow, the channel(s) passing through at least said P or N doped region of the active area. Each channel (44) is rectilinear and passes through the substrate (6) in a direction which is collinear with a direction F to the nearest ±45°, where the direction F is perpendicular to the plane of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Yvan Avenas, Jean-Christophe Crebier, Julie Widiez, Laurent Clavelier, Kremena Vladimirova