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Briand, FR

Alexandre Briand, Saint Cyr FR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110236944METHOD FOR PRODUCING INTERMEDIATE MATERIAL INTENDED FOR ETHANOL PRODUCTION, AND RESULTING INTERMEDIATE MATERIAL - A process for the production of an intermediate product from a lignocellulosic raw material that is intended for the production of ethanol, which process includes pulping the raw material in an extruder at a temperature of between 60° C. and 180° C., in the presence of a quantity of water that represents between 200% and 450% of the mass of the raw material and preferably in the presence of a strong acid or a strong base that is weakly concentrated. An intermediate product can be obtained by this process for producing ethanol.09-29-2011
20110236945USE OF RECYCLED COTTON FOR PRODUCING ETHANOL, AND PRODUCTION METHOD - Recycled textile cotton is used for producing ethanol by the execution of a process that includes a) a stage of pretreatment of textile cotton, optionally with grinding of textile cotton, pretreatment of textile cotton that may or may not be ground by pulping 09-29-2011

Francis Briand, Paris FR

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20090134132Laser Beam Welding Method with a Metal Vapour Capillary Formation Control - The invention relates to a method for welding at least one, preferably two metal parts to each other, by a laser beam consisting in using a laser beam (05-28-2009
20090218326CUTTING METHOD USING A LASER HAVING AT LEAST ONE YTTERBIUM-BASED FIBER, IN WHICH AT LEAST THE POWER OF THE LASER SOURCE, THE DIAMETER OF THE FOCUSED BEAM AND THE BEAM QUALITY FACTOR ARE CONTROLLED - The invention relates to method for cutting a part using a laser beam, involving the use of laser beam generation means comprising at least one ytterbium-based fibre having a wavelength of between 1 and 4 μm in order to generate the laser beam. The laser beam is selected to have a power of less than 100 kW, a power density of at least 1 MW/cm2, a focused beam diameter of at least 0.1 mm and a quality factor (BPP) of less than 10 mm·mrad.09-03-2009
20110226746Process for Laser-ARC Hybrid Welding Aluminized Metal Workpieces - Process for laser welding at least one metal workpiece (09-22-2011
20110248005Laser Cutting Method and Equipment, with means for Modifying the Laser Beam Quality Factor by a Diffractive Optical Component - A method of cutting a work-piece to be cut by a laser beam, in which an incident laser beam is generated that has an initial beam parameter product (BPP), given by means of a laser source, preferably an ytterbium-doped or erbium-doped fiber laser source, coupled to at least one optical fiber for conveying the beam. Said incident laser beam is brought to a focusing head comprising at least one optical focusing device. The incident laser beam is focused by means of said optical focusing device, so as to obtain a focused laser beam, and the work-piece is cut by means of the focused laser beam. According to the invention, the quality factor of the incident laser beam is adjusted or modified by means of an optical device designed to be able to modify or vary the BPP of a laser beam so as to obtain a modified focused laser beam having a modified BPP which is different from the BPP of said incident laser beam. Associated equipment for implementing said method.10-13-2011
20120012570Method for Cutting C-Mn Steel with a Fiber Laser - The invention relates to a laser cutting method for cutting a C—Mn steel workpiece, characterized in that laser beam generation means comprising at least one silica fiber with an ytterbium-doped core is used to generate the laser beam. Preferably, the ytterbium-based fiber has a wavelength between 01-19-2012

Patent applications by Francis Briand, Paris FR

Francois-Yves Briand, Nouvoitou FR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100054134Method of collection of quality statistics and corresponding method of management of collection of quality statistics - The invention relates to the field of telecommunication and more particularly, to the acquisition of a statistics related to quality related to data reception, for instance quality of service and/or quality of user experience of digital audio and/or video services. In particular, the objective of the present invention is to improve the collection of quality statistics.03-04-2010

Gerard Briand, Cesson Sevigne FR

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20110090307METHOD FOR THE REAL-TIME COMPOSITION OF A VIDEO - The invention relates to a method for live construction of a video sequence comprising a modelled 3D object, the method comprising the following steps: 04-21-2011

Gerard Briand, Cesson Sevigne Cedex FR

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20120001911METHOD FOR GENERATING SHADOWS IN AN IMAGE - As to generate shadows in an image, the method comprises the steps of: 01-05-2012

Jean-Francois Briand, Orsay FR

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20100216160METHOD FOR THE SCREENING PROTEASOME OF ACTIVITY-MODULATING AGENTS AND MEANS FOR CARRYIING OUT SAID METHOD - An in cellulo method for the screening of proteasome activity-modulating agents, includes the following steps of: 08-26-2010
20110104162Compounds which can be used for the Treatment of Cancers - The present invention relates to a compound of general formula (I): and also to the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to the isomers or isomer mixtures thereof in all proportions, in particular to an enantiomer mixture, and especially to a racemic mixture. The present invention also relates to the use of these compounds as a medicament, and in particular for the treatment of cancer, and also to the compositions containing them.05-05-2011

Jean Paul Briand, Strasbourg FR

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20100047333Modified Peptides and Their Use for the Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases - Disclosed herein are a modified peptide, compositions containing the same and their use in the treatment of autoimmune diseases. The modified peptide is provided by a chemical modification of at least one of the several amino acid residues comprising the peptide. The modification is carried out by phosphorylation, acetylation or methylation, or as a combination thereof.02-25-2010
20100184849UREA OLIGOMERS, THEIR PREPARATION PROCESS AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THEM - A method for treating a cytotoxic disease by administrating compounds having a general formula X-(A)n-Y, wherein: n varies between 6 and 20; X denotes a hydrogen atom, an RaCO, RaOCO, RaNHCO or RaSO2 group, Ra being an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl, heteroaryl group, the groups being substituted or not, on condition that X is different from H when n is equal to 6; A denotes either a group having formula (I) or (II), wherein Ri is a hydrogen atom, an amino acid side chain, an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl or heteroaryl group, said groups being substituted or not, i being an integer of between 1 and n; Y is an NRbRc, Rb and Rc group having the same meaning as given earlier for Ra.07-22-2010
20100247618Novel synthetic peptide vaccines for HIV: the CBD epitope as an effective immunogen to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV - The present invention relates to peptides, referred to as CBD-1, CBD-2, CBM-1/TH-1, CBM-1/TH-2, CBM-2/TH-1, CBM-2/TH-2 and C-20 peptides, which are antigenic and elicit protective immune response against HIV infection. Compositions, pharmaceutical compositions and vaccines comprising these antigenic peptides are also encompassed by the present invention, as well as neutralizing antibodies which inhibit infection of primary CD4+ T lymphocytes by various HIV isolates. Methods for diagnosis of HIV are also disclosed.09-30-2010
20100298206HYBRID OLIGOMERS, THEIR PREPARATION PROCESS AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THEM - The present invention relates to compositions and methods for producing therapeutic oligomeric compounds. In one aspect the invention relates to methods for administering the oligomeric compounds for the treatment and prevention of disease, for example, a fungal infection, bacterial infection, or cancer, in a mammal. In particular, the invention relates to medicaments comprising various novel oligomeric compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds of the invention may optionally be administered with at least one of a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, pharmacologically active agent or a combination thereof.11-25-2010
20110065649USE OF MULTIVALENT SYNTHETIC LIGANDS OF SURFACE NUCLEOLIN FOR TREATING CANCER OR INFLAMMATION - A method for treating disorders involving deregulation of cell proliferation and/or angiogenesis comprising the administration of an effective amount of a multivalent synthetic compound comprising a support on which at least 3 pseudopeptide units are grafted, said compound being of formula (I).03-17-2011
20110201559New Optically Pure Compounds for Improved Therapeutic Efficiency - The present invention relates to new optically pure compounds displaying an improved anticancer activity compared to previously known complex mixtures of stereoisomers thereof. Such compounds are of formula (I): wherein each X independently represents any amino acid; n is 0 or 1; m is an integer between 0 and 3; k is an integer of at least 3; Psi is a reduced bond of formula replacing the peptide amide bond between Lys and Pro; and wherein Lys residues in pseudopeptide units of said compound of formula (I) are either all in L configuration or all in D configuration. A method for preparing such compounds, and therapeutic uses thereof are also provided. The synthetic method involves the selective reduction of the peptide bond between Lys and Pro in a dipeptide intermediate with borane. The therapeutic uses are against cancer, inflammation and for wound healing.08-18-2011

Patent applications by Jean Paul Briand, Strasbourg FR

Jean Pierre Briand, Antony FR

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20090124159Method of fabrication of cold cathodes on thin diamondlike carbon films irradiated with multicharged ions and field emissive corresponding surfaces - The invention relates to a method of fabrication of cold cathodes by irradiation of doped Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) films with multicharged ions. According to the invention each multicharged ion prints on the surface an isolative dot from which, directly or after a conditioning process, one can extract at room temperature intense electronic currents with very low electric fields. These dots may be printed on very inexpensive DLC films on areas, of predetermined shapes, sizes and emissivity. The invention also relates to the corresponding emissive surfaces and all applications of the method to the fabrication of electron guns of exceptional intensity and geometrical properties and owning very low energy consumption to be used for portable instruments. These cold cathodes may be used in all instruments based on electron beams, such as flat panel displays, x ray or all electronic tubes, vacuum components and so on.05-14-2009

Manuel Briand, Solna FR

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20090083045Device and Method for Graduated Encoding of a Multichannel Audio Signal Based on a Principal Component Analysis - A system and a method for the scalable coding of a multi-channel audio signal comprising a principal component analysis (PCA) transformation of at least two channels (L, R) of the audio signal into a principal component (CP) and at least one residual sub-component (r) by rotation defined by a transformation parameter (θ), comprising the following steps: formation of a frequency subband-based residual structure (Sf03-26-2009

Manuel Briand, Saint Quay Perros FR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080319764Method for Determining an Audio Data Spatial Encoding Mode - A method of determining a spatial coding mode for audio data sent by a sender entity (12-25-2008
20090083044Device and Method for Encoding by Principal Component Analysis a Multichannel Audio Signal - A system and a method for coding by principal component analysis (PCA) of a multi-channel audio signal comprising the following steps: decomposing at least two channels (L, R) of said audio signal into a plurality of frequency sub-bands (03-26-2009

Olivier Briand, Caen FR

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20100262667SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FEDERATED MESSAGINGS - The invention relates to a system for managing messagings comprising a plurality of messagings and adapted for receiving and storing messages intended for at least one user furnished with a plurality of terminals for accessing said messagings. Such a system furthermore comprises: means for centralized management of any event specific to any message stored with said respective messagings; means for processing messages stored by at least one of said messagings to render said messages compatible with at least one second messaging of said plurality of messagings.10-14-2010

Patent applications by Olivier Briand, Caen FR

Thierry Briand, Croissy Sur Seine FR

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20100069030FREQUENCY MEASURING BROADBAND DIGITAL RECEIVER - A microwave receiver configured for measuring the frequency F of a microwave signal received by the receiver, in a band of frequencies whose maximum frequency is Fmax. The receiver comprises N frequency measuring digital stages E03-18-2010
20110286551WIDEBAND DIGITAL RECEIVER COMPRISING A SIGNAL DETECTION MECHANISM - A wideband microwave digital receiver comprises an antenna, an amplifier, and a digital IFM device for measuring the frequency of the received signal or signals. A consistency indicator indicates the consistency of the frequency measurements and is calculated by analyzing the values taken by said measurements obtained over two consecutive transforms. The presence of signal pulses at the input of the receiver is detected when said indicator signals the consistency of at least one frequency measurement.11-24-2011
20110286552WIDEBAND DIGITAL RECEIVER COMPRISING A PHASE JUMP DETECTION MECHANISM - A wideband digital receiver includes an antenna, an amplifier, and a digital IFM device for measuring the frequency of the received signal or signals based on the result of discrete Fourier transforms DFT applied to said received signals. The receiver includes means for periodically estimating the phase jumps of said signals by combining the measurements of the phase of said signals produced by the transforms DFT.11-24-2011

Valerie Briand, Caudebec-Les-Elbeuf FR

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120056416SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING ELECTRICAL CONTINUITY ABOUT PIPES AND OTHER CONDUITS - Systems and methods for establishing electrical continuity about pipes and other conduits are detailed. The systems may include conductive seals formed, for example, of polymeric and conductive materials. Polymeric materials may include rubber, silicon, and fluorosilicon and conductive materials may include metal charges, carbon, carbon nanotubes, carbon fibers, and intrinsically conducting polymers, although neither type of material is so limited.03-08-2012