公开(公告)号：US11223265B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-11

申请号：US16771353

申请日：2018-12-12

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST) ,  LUXEMBOURG PATENT COMPANY S.A.

Inventor： Mathieu Gerard ,  Jérôme Polesel Maris

IPC: F03B13/00 ,  H02P9/04 ,  H02K21/24 ,  F16K51/00 ,  H02K7/08 ,  H02K7/18

Abstract: An electric generator comprising a rotor housing; a rotor mounted in the rotor housing, with two opposed main faces; permanent magnets circumferentially arranged in front of one of the main faces of the rotor; coils circumferentially arranged in front of the other one of the main faces of the rotor; the rotor being configured for, upon rotation, vary a magnetic flux through the coils produced by the permanent magnets, so as to generate electromotive forces in said coils; wherein the coils are arranged outside of the rotor housing. Also a valve for gas cylinder, equipped with a corresponding electric generator.

公开(公告)号：US12287229B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17615892

申请日：2020-07-06

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： Jérôme Polesel ,  Mathieu Gerard

IPC: G01F1/06 ,  G01F1/10 ,  G01F1/38 ,  G01F15/00

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention pertains to a method for determining the volumetric flow rate of a compressible fluid flow flowing through a volume flowmeter having a flow inlet, a wheel downstream of the flow inlet and a constriction downstream of the flow inlet and upstream of the wheel, the compressible fluid flowing through the flow inlet and actuating the wheel. The method comprises measuring the rotational speed of the wheel and determining the permanent pressure loss across the wheel based on the measured rotational speed. The method further comprises measuring the fluid pressure of the compressible fluid flow at the flow inlet and determining whether the compressible fluid flow in the volume flowmeter is in the subsonic or in the supersonic regime based on the determined permanent pressure loss and the measured fluid pressure. The method also comprises measuring the fluid temperature of the compressible fluid flow at the flow inlet and determining the volumetric flow rate of the compressible fluid flow based on the determined permanent pressure loss, the measured fluid pressure, the regime of the compressible fluid flow and the measured fluid temperature. Other aspects of the present invention pertain to volume flowmeter for determining the volumetric flow rate of a compressible fluid flow, a data processing device for controlling a volume flowmeter, a computer program for the controller and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon the computer program.

公开(公告)号：US20230407834A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-21

申请号：US18248777

申请日：2021-10-13

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)

Inventor： Jérôme Polesel ,  Bruno Soares ,  Mathieu Gerard

IPC: F03B13/20 ,  F03B17/02

CPC classification number: F03B13/20 ,  F03B17/025 ,  F05B2240/93 ,  F05B2250/44 ,  F05B2260/4031

Abstract: A system configured for producing electric power from sea waves. The system includes a buoyant body; an electric generator including an input shaft adapted to rotate with respect to the buoyant body; a first arm coupled to the electric generator; a second arm; and a pivot joint rotatably joining the second arm to the first arm, said arm. The pivot joint is at a distance, along the first arm, from the input shaft. The first arm connects the second arm to the generator. The tandem arms form a double pendulum system powering an autonomous floating sea analysing station.

公开(公告)号：US11728708B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US16771253

申请日：2018-12-12

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST) ,  LUXEMBOURG PATENT COMPANY S.A.

Inventor： Mathieu Gerard ,  Jérôme Polesel Maris

IPC: H02K7/18 ,  H02K1/14 ,  H02K1/27 ,  H02K5/16

CPC classification number: H02K7/1823 ,  H02K1/145 ,  H02K1/27 ,  H02K5/163 ,  H02K7/1846

Abstract: An electric generator comprising a rotor with permanent magnets, configured for rotating about a rotation axis; at least one magnetic yoke with at least two arms extending axially inside or outside of the rotor so as to be adjacent to the radial inner or outer side, respectively, of the rotor; wherein the permanent magnets are arranged according to an Halbach array so as to maximize the magnetic field on the radial side of the rotor adjacent to the arms of the at least one yoke. Also, a valve for gas cylinder, equipped with a corresponding electric generator.

公开(公告)号：US12123389B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US18248777

申请日：2021-10-13

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)

Inventor： Jérôme Polesel ,  Bruno Soares ,  Mathieu Gerard

IPC: F03B13/20 ,  F03B17/02

CPC classification number: F03B13/20 ,  F03B17/025 ,  F05B2240/93 ,  F05B2250/44 ,  F05B2260/4031

Abstract: A system configured for producing electric power from sea waves. The system includes a buoyant body; an electric generator including an input shaft adapted to rotate with respect to the buoyant body; a first arm coupled to the electric generator; a second arm; and a pivot joint rotatably joining the second arm to the arm. The pivot joint is at a distance, along the first arm, from the input shaft. The first arm connects the second arm to the generator. The tandem arms form a double pendulum system powering an autonomous floating sea analysing station.

公开(公告)号：US11770058B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-26

申请号：US17298231

申请日：2019-11-28

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST) ,  Rotarex S.A

Inventor： Jérôme Polesel ,  Mathieu Gerard ,  Mohamed El Hachemi ,  Abdelmoumin Allioua

IPC: H02K1/14 ,  H02K21/14 ,  H02K1/27 ,  H02K7/18 ,  H02K21/12

CPC classification number: H02K21/14 ,  H02K1/27 ,  H02K7/1823 ,  H02K7/1846 ,  H02K21/125 ,  H02K2213/03

Abstract: An electric generator having a rotor with permanent magnets, configured for rotating about a rotation axis; a stator having at least one magnetic yoke with arms extending axially inside or outside of the rotor so as to be adjacent to a radial inner or outer side, respectively, of the rotor; wherein the arms of the at least one magnetic yoke are circumferentially distributed so as to form a slot between each pair of adjacent arms, each slot and each arm showing a width. The widths of the arms and/or the widths of the slots have different values distributed along the circumference. The invention is also directed to a valve having the electric generator equipped with a turbine wheel for being driven by a flow of gas in the valve.

公开(公告)号：US11071964B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-27

申请号：US16064697

申请日：2016-12-20

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)

Inventor： Cesar Pascual Garcia ,  Mathieu Gerard ,  Jean Sebastien Thomann

IPC: B01J19/00

Abstract: The present invention is related to an electrochemical reactor (1) and a microfluidic platform (20) comprising this reactor (1), controlling pH in a closed environment, wherein this reactor (1) comprises at least one cell (2), wherein each cell (2) containing at least one micro-well (3a) able to contain a liquid and reagents and a cap (7) to close the said cell (2) and wherein the cell (2) further comprises at least one working electrode (5) producing reversible REDOX reactions.

公开(公告)号：US11756770B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US16333827

申请日：2017-09-08

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)

Inventor： Simon Bulou ,  Patrick Choquet ,  Thomas Gaulain ,  Mathieu Gerard

IPC: H01J37/32 ,  C23C16/54 ,  C23C16/452 ,  C23C16/503 ,  H05H1/24

CPC classification number: H01J37/32348 ,  C23C16/452 ,  C23C16/503 ,  C23C16/545 ,  H01J37/3277 ,  H01J37/32357 ,  H01J37/32568 ,  H05H1/2443

Abstract: A post-discharge plasma coating device for a wired substrate comprising an inner tubular electrode on an inner tubular wall for receiving the substrate and a precursor moving axially in a working direction; an outer tubular electrode coaxial with, and surrounding, the inner tubular electrode. The inner and outer electrodes are configured to be supplied with an electrical power source for producing a plasma when a plasma gas is supplied between the electrodes and is thereby excited, the plasma excited gas flowing axially in the working direction and reacting with the precursor in a coating area at the end of the inner tubular wall in the direction. The inner tubular wall extends axially towards the coating area at least until, in various instances beyond, the end of the outer electrode, in the working direction and at least one dielectric tubular wall extends axially between the inner tubular electrode and the outer tubular electrode.

公开(公告)号：US11655442B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US16954235

申请日：2018-12-31

Applicant: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)

Inventor： Arno Gutleb ,  Tommaso Serchi ,  Mathieu Gerard

IPC: C12M1/42 ,  C12M1/00 ,  C12M1/34

CPC classification number: C12M35/04 ,  C12M29/14 ,  C12M41/14 ,  C12M41/40

Abstract: A system for incubating one or more cells and/or organotypic cultures for biological investigation, in particular for toxicology assessment, comprising a bio-incubator and a pressure system fluidly connected with the bio-incubator. The pressure system is a cyclic gas pressure system configured for cyclically varying the gas pressure in the bio-incubator between a negative pressure and a positive pressure compared to the atmospheric pressure, so as to reproduce the pressure conditions in lungs of a living mammal. The system is remarkable in that the cyclic gas pressure system comprises a feedthrough with a pipe configured to deviate the air influx from the one or more cells and/or organotypic cultures.

公开(公告)号：US20190259583A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-22

申请号：US16333819

申请日：2017-09-14

Applicant: Luxembourg Institute Of Science And Technology (LIST)

Inventor： Kamal Baba ,  Nicolas Boscher ,  Simon Bulou ,  Patrick Choquet ,  Mathieu Gerard ,  Miguel Quesada Gonzalez

IPC: H01J37/32 ,  C23C16/40 ,  C23C16/448 ,  C23C16/511

Abstract: A plasma post-discharge deposition device for depositing crystalline metal oxide derivative on a substrate, the device comprising a gas source with a substrate inlet, a post-discharge deposition chamber with a substrate outlet, the substrate inlet and the substrate outlet defining a longitudinal central axis, and a dielectric tube placed between the gas source and the deposition chamber on the longitudinal central axis; configured to confine a plasma discharge and comprising a discharge zone lying on the internal surface of the dielectric tube and a central zone centred on the longitudinal central axis. The deposition device is remarkable in that the central zone is located at a distance comprised between 1 mm and 2.5 mm from the internal surface of the dielectric tube. Also a plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition method.