SOCPRA-SCIENCES ET GENIE, S.E.C. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150185898 | Active Acoustic Pressure Mapping System - Method and apparatus for determining that a pressure field is applied on a structure. A plurality of acoustic waves are generated within the structure using at least one wave generator and a plurality of measurements of the acoustic waves is taken using at least one wave sensor. A pressure field applied to a surface of the structure is determined by processing at least two of the plurality of measurements. The wave generator and the wave sensor may be piezoelectric elements, which may alternate between acting as the wave generator and the wave sensor. Processing the measurements may comprise obtaining a differential measurement value and comparing the value to a threshold. Determining that the pressure field is applied may comprise processing the measurements using a model based on acoustic wave propagation or experimental results. The processing may provide a mapping of the pressure field of an object on the structure. | 07-02-2015 |
20140290259 | COMBUSTION SYSTEMS AND COMBUSTION SYSTEM COMPONENTS FOR ROTARY RAMJET ENGINES - A combustion systems and components for rotary ramjet engines. An injection system, optionally stratified for ease of engine startup, provides an air and fuel mixture to a combustion chamber. An ignition system ignites the mixture. A flameholding system may be positioned for communication with the combustion chamber to force an ignited flow of the air and fuel mixture toward a center of rotation within the ramjet engine. The ramjet engine may have a diverging stator for improved exhaust efficiency. The ignition may take place in the engine air intake. Alternatively, the ignition may take place within the combustion chamber using a dual-hub electrically charged system. An impulse turbine may use recirculation of injected fuel to cool a rim-rotor and/or to reduce windage on the rim-rotor. A sealing system may reduce gas leaks from a fuel conduit into the engine air intake. | 10-02-2014 |
20140153383 | DISTRIBUTED ELECTRICAL LOAD MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNITY LOADS - A load management method for controlling a plurality of distributed community loads with a plurality of controllers. The controllers are connectable to a network and the distributed community loads are connectable to a power grid. The loads are controllable by a corresponding one of the controllers according to a local need and a power grid supply or a community need of the loads. A network node device adapted to communicate with other node devices of a same community within an overlay network topology system. The system has a plurality of node devices organized in a number of hierarchically linked rings. The plurality of node devices of a same ring is interconnected in groups of node devices. One of the node devices is a parent node for linking the node devices of a first ring to node devices of a second ring at another hierarchy by being a parent node to both first and second rings. | 06-05-2014 |
20140114975 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND AGGREGATION ENGINE FOR PROVIDING STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PHYSICAL ENTITIES - The present disclosure relates to a method a system and an aggregation engine for providing a structural representation of a physical entity. Processing units provide representation of elements composing the physical entity. Processing units comprise a label, which represent the elements, and a state. Links are established between the processing units. By iteration in the aggregation engine, the states and labels of the processing units are updated based on states and labels of linked processing units. A graphical representation of the physical entity is obtained based on the labels, on the states, and on the links. | 04-24-2014 |
20140018312 | STEROID ALKALOIDS AND USES THEREOF AS ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AGAINST ELECTRON TRANSPORT-DEFICIENT MICROBES AND AS POTENTIATORS FOR ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AGAINST PATHOGENIC BACTERIA - The present invention includes novel compounds based on the tomatidine skeleton as well as composition comprising these compounds alone and in combination with known compounds, which exhibit antimicrobial activity against extracellular or intracellular electron transport-deficient microbes and/or increase the antimicrobial activity of aminoglycoside antibiotics against their targets, and which are useful as antibacterial agents for treatment or prophylaxis of monomicrobiotic or polymicrobic bacterial infections or for the reduction of antibiotic resistance development in animals or in humans, or for use as antiseptics or agents for sterilization or disinfection. | 01-16-2014 |
20130337541 | THERMOSTABLE CHITOSANASE - The present application concerns a thermostable chitosanase, originally identified in | 12-19-2013 |
20130322813 | LOW LOSS DIRECTIONAL COUPLING BETWEEN HIGHLY DISSIMILAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES FOR HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUITS - An optocoupler, an optical interconnect and method of manufacture providing same are provided for coupling an optical signal between a high refractive index waveguide of an integrated circuit and a waveguide external to the integrated circuit. The optocoupler includes a thinned high refractive index waveguide having a thickness configured to exhibit an effective refractive index substantially matching a refractive index of the external waveguide. | 12-05-2013 |
20130248611 | Epitaxial Deposition Apparatus, Gas Injectors, and Chemical Vapor Management System Associated Therewith - An epitaxial deposition apparatus comprises a deposition chamber with at least one gas injector having a gas injection surface and a substrate support having a deposition surface; and at least one vacuum pump having a gas aperture in fluid communication with the deposition chamber and facing the gas injection surface of the at least one gas injector, the substrate support being inter-posed between the at least one gas injector and the gas aperture of the at least one vacuum pump. The invention also relates to an epitaxial deposition gas injector and a nozzle for an epitaxial deposition gas injector. Furthermore, the invention relates to a gas supply and handling system for an epitaxial deposition apparatus. | 09-26-2013 |
20130247919 | POSITIONING APPARATUS FOR BIOMEDICAL USE - There is described a medical positioning apparatus for positioning and holding an object, comprising: a telescopic member; a support member for receiving the object; a base member securable to a base; a first and a second joint mechanism movably securing the telescopic member to the support member and the base member and each having at least two rotational degrees of freedom; a locking device operatively connected to the joint mechanisms and the telescopic member, the locking device operable between a locked position in which the configuration of the positioning apparatus is fixed, and a released position in which the configuration of the positioning apparatus may be changed, the locking device being passively biased in the locked position; and a lock activation device to unlock the locking device in order to change the configuration of the positioning apparatus. | 09-26-2013 |
20130210077 | CSNR-DEFICIENT ACTINOBACTERIA FOR THE PRODUCTION OF AN ENZYME HAVING CHITOSANASE ACTIVITY - The present invention relates to genetically modified actinobacteria for the production of an enzyme having chitosanase activity. The genetically modified actinobacteria have a reduced (or abolished) activity of the CsnR polypeptide. Such reduced activity can be obtained by reducing the capacity of expressing the csnR gene, its corresponding transcript or expressing a dominant-negative CsnR polypeptide. Such genetically modified actinobacteria are less dependent (and, in some embodiment, totally independent) on the presence of chitosan in the culture medium for producing an enzyme having chitosanase activity. In addition, the genetically modified bacteria produce less proteases in the culture medium and ultimately provide a chitosanase end-product with higher purity. | 08-15-2013 |
20130205761 | INTEGRATED DEVICE FOR ORIENTING AN OBJECT ACCORDING TO A GIVEN SPATIAL ORIENTATION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There is disclosed an integrated device for orienting an object according to a given spatial orientation comprising a frame and a supporting member connected thereto and adapted for supporting a portion of the object. The integrated device comprises a plurality of fluid actuated devices integrally molded and joined together through a joining portion to form an integral unit for displacing the supporting member with respect to the frame. Each fluid actuated device is actuatable between a first position wherein the device has a first length and a second position wherein the device has a second length. The integrated device comprises an actuation mechanism for actuating each fluid actuated device between the first position and the second position to enable displacing the supporting member with respect to the frame, thereby orienting the object according to the given spatial orientation. The integrated device may be of particular interest in the medical sector as a medical object manipulator for reaching a given target in an anatomical structure. A manufacturing method is also provided. | 08-15-2013 |
20130158453 | MECHANICAL WAVE GENERATOR AND METHOD THEREOF - A wave generator has a wave emitter including an elongated dispersive waveguide and a source operatively connected to a first end of the waveguide. The source covers at least partially a surface area thereof. A signal generator is in operative connection with the transducer to create electrical signals. A computer is in operative connection with the signal generator to cause it to generate the electrical signals. A mechanical input wave is created by the source at the first end of the waveguide. The mechanical input wave is constructed independently of data related to a mechanical wave received from a source in the medium and taking into account the different predetermined propagation velocities of at least two component waves of the mechanical input wave so that they combine with each other at a second end of the waveguide to form the desired mechanical output wave in the medium. | 06-20-2013 |
20130064845 | BACTERIAL VACCINE COMPONENTS FROM STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS AND USES THEREOF - Agents, compositions, methods and kits useful for the treatment and diagnosis of Staphylococcal intramammary infection are disclosed. The agents, compositions, methods and kits are derived from genes expressed during Staphylococcal intramammary infection, and more particularly genes SACOL0029, SACOL0264, SACOL0442, SACOL0718, SACOL0720, SACOL1353, SACOL1416, SACOL1611, SACOL1944, SACOL2144, SACOL2365 or SACOL2599, based on the gene nomenclature from the | 03-14-2013 |
20120122819 | GUANINE RIBOSWITCH BINDING COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE AS ANTIBIOTICS - The present invention includes novel compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable formulations of said compounds which exhibit antibiotic activity against microorganisms bearing a guanine riboswitch that controls the expression of the guaA gene, including organisms which are resistant to certain antibiotic families, and which are useful as antibacterial agents for treatment or prophylaxis of bacterial infections in animals or in humans, in particular but not limited to infections of the mammary gland, or their use as antiseptics, agents for sterilization or disinfection. | 05-17-2012 |
20120041252 | DEVICE FOR ORIENTING AN OBJECT ACCORDING TO A GIVEN SPATIAL ORIENTATION - There is disclosed a device for orienting an object according to a given spatial orientation. The device comprises a frame and a supporting member connected to the frame and adapted for supporting at least a portion of the object. The device for orienting an object comprises a plurality of fluid actuated devices for displacing the supporting member with respect to the frame. Each of the fluid actuated devices is actuatable between a first position wherein the device has a first length and a second position wherein the device has a second length. The device for orienting comprises an actuation mechanism comprising a plurality of actuating valves for actuating the corresponding fluid actuated device; wherein an actuation of at least one of the fluid actuated devices enables to displace the supporting member with respect to the frame, thereby orienting the object according to the given spatial orientation. The device for orienting may be of particular interest in the medical sector as a medical object manipulator for reaching a given target in an anatomical structure with a suitable accuracy, for example in the treatment and/or diagnosis of prostate cancer. | 02-16-2012 |
20110064559 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TONAL NOISE FROM SUBSONIC FANS - A method and apparatus for reducing a selected tonal noise generated by a fan operating in a non-uniform flow by locating at least one obstruction in the non-uniform flow such that the at least one obstruction generates a noise that is out of phase with the selected tonal noise. The noise generated by the at least one obstruction interferes with the selected tonal noise, thus reducing the selected tonal noise. It is also contemplated to use additional obstructions to reduce other tonal noises generated by the fan. | 03-17-2011 |
20090203519 | NON-POROUS CATALYSTS FOR CO2 SEQUESTRATION THROUGH DRY REFORMING - A carbon sequestration and dry reforming process for the production of synthesis gas and sequestered carbon from carbon dioxide. Two-dimension (non-porous) catalysts for sequestering carbon are also disclosed and a process to produce same as well as a method for activating two dimension catalysts. | 08-13-2009 |