Commissariat a L'energie Atomique

Commissariat &#xc0; L'&#xc9;nergie Atomique Et Aux &#xc9;nergies Alternatives

Jean-Jacques Chaillout

Ghislain Despesse

Thomas Jager

Jean-Michel Leger

Marcel Locatelli

Christian Jeandey

Nelly Kernevez

Corinne Mestais

Edmond Tournier

Sébastien Boisseau

Andréa Vassilev

Michel Brochier

Sebastien Boisseau

Andre Briguet

Patrice Giordano

Claire Jean-Mistral

Alexandre-Benoit Duret

Romain Guigon

Tournier Edmond

A spring-mass system including a support, a mass mobile with respect to the support, at least one first and one second spring connecting the mass to the support allowing a displacement of the mass relative to the support along a first direction, the first spring being the symmetrical of the second spring with respect to an axis, each first and second spring comprising at least first and second series-connected beams arranged in zigzag, and a first closed frame surrounding the mass, at a distance from the mass and the support, each first beam having a first end connected to the support and a second end attached to the first frame and each second beam having a third end attached to the first frame and a fourth end connected to the mass.

Spring-mass system with a small transverse displacement

Device for converting mechanical energy from the impact of objects into electrical energy, comprising a frame, a membrane suspended on said frame by at least a first and second longitudinal end, said membrane being intended to be impacted by said objects in a direction substantially transverse to a mid-plane of the membrane, said membrane comprising a core made from material for transducing mechanical energy into electrical energy, extending from the first longitudinal end to the second longitudinal end, and at least one electrode on a first face of the core and at least one electrode on a second face of the core, said electrodes extending from the first to the second longitudinal end.

Device for converting mechanical impact energy into electrical energy with optimised efficiency

An electroactive polymer transducer comprising a membrane formed of an approximately rectangular electroactive polymer portion surrounded by two electrodes, at least two points of the membrane being connected to rigid supports, and comprising at least one deformable element for limiting the deformations that the membrane may undergo, the limiting element having a meandering form and being connected to the membrane in several approximately distributed points.

Electroactive polymer transducer

A method for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy by at least one piezoelectric element and at least one variable capacitor. The method: a) mechanically deforms the piezoelectric element; b) recovers charges produced by the deformation of the piezoelectric element; c) transfers the charges from the piezoelectric element to the capacitor; d) modifies the capacitance of the capacitor; and e) recovers at least some of the electrical energy. A device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy includes a piezoelectric element and a variable capacitor. The piezoelectric element is capable of transferring charges to the capacitor.

Method and device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy

A variable capacitance device including at least one first fixed electrode and a second electrode free to move with respect to the fixed electrode, each electrode including a body and protuberances projecting from at least one face of the body. Each electrode is arranged such that the faces of each electrode provided with the protuberances are facing each other, the distance separating the two faces facing each other being greater than the sum of the heights of a protuberance from the fixed electrode and a protuberance from the mobile electrode. The electrodes are capable of moving with respect to each other in two parallel planes along at least one main direction.

Optimized energy conversion device

A capacitive device comprising at least one first and one second comb, respectively provided with interdigital fingers, adapted to be mobile relative to each other depending on the closing-spacing apart of the axes of the fingers, at least one finger of the first comb including a face opposite a face of a finger of the second comb wherein the axis of the finger of the first comb and the axis of the finger of the second comb are inclined relative to a plane orthogonal to the first direction of displacement of the combs, the plane being defined by the second and third directions perpendicular to the direction, and perpendicular to each other.

Device with optimised capacitive volume

A system for conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy by electrostatic conversion that includes at least one fixed electrode () and at least one mobile electrode () that can be vibrated by mechanical energy, facing the fixed electrode, said fixed () and mobile () electrodes being separated at rest by an air gap distance (&#x394;). The system includes means () of modifying the air gap distance as a function of the variation of the vibration amplitude of the mobile electrode (). An energy conversion method using such a system is also described.

Energy conversion system with variable airgap distance and energy recovery method

A well logging system using an induction measurement. The system includes an emitting coil and a plurality of receiving coils. The emitting coil induces eddy currents in the medium surrounding the coils. The receiving coils then measure magnetic fields produced by the eddy currents. Two of the receiving coils are selected at a time and used as a receiving coil and a counter-receiving coil. The signal generated in the two coils are used to determine a weighted difference to better define the vertical resolution of the device. Compensation coils may be added to remove fields which are induced in the receiving coils directly from the transmitting coil.

Inductive logging system having multiple coils from which are selected a

A device for the measurement by induction of a medium through a metal wall using a transmission portion permitting the induction of a signal in the medium beyond the metal wall and a receiver for receiving a signal transmitted by the medium in response to the induced signal. The transmission portion includes at least one current generator directly connected to the metal wall in such a way that the current passing into the wall induces a signal beyond the wall.

Induction measuring device in the presence of metal walls

A device for induction measurement of a medium adjacent a cylindrical, metallic, magnetic walled well of a well casing includes at least two magnetic circuits for magnetically saturating the metallic wall. Each of the magnetic circuits has a plate-like central portion, situated between two lateral portions, each of which lateral portions has a lateral end which comes into contact with the wall, along a zone parallel to the cylindrical axis of the wall. After magnetic saturation of the metallic wall, an induction signal is induced into the medium beyond the metallic wall and retransmitted by the medium in response to the induction signal.

Induction measurement in the presence of metallic, magnetic walls

A nuclear detection device, especially a gamma-camera type device which features deconvolution filters. In a gamma-camera variant, the device includes digital filters for deconvoluting electric measuring signals. A transfer function of these filters is opposite that of a circuit having formed the electric signals. It is then possible to separate any pulses which would overlap. Such a system finds particular application in nuclear physics and in particular in the medical field.

Nuclear detection device especially a gamma-camera type device, with

Optical pumping magnetometer with controlled polarization. This magnetometer comprises a linear polarizer (16), whose orientation is controlled (42,44) in such a way that the detection signal is at a maximum, no matter what the orientation of the field to be measured. Application to the construction of isotropic magnetometers.

Optical pumping, resonance magnetometer using a light beam with

A magnetometer for precise measurement of weak magnetic fields involves a system which injects a plurality of light beams into a gas containing cell. An optical multiplexer receives the light beams emitted by a source and successively supplies a plurality of light beams which traverse a corresponding number of polarizers. The beams are subsequently injected into the cell 10 in the plurality of different directions in order to optically pump the gas. A detection device detects an electrical resonance signal and supplies a plurality of signals corresponding to the optical pumping beams.

Optical pumping, resonance magnetometer using a plurality of multiplexed

An improved optical pumping magnetometer with sequential polarization for measurement of weak magnetic fields involves a device which sequentially modifies the polarization either in the direction of the polarization or from clockwise to counterclockwise circular polarization. As a result of the sequential modification of the polarization, the magnetometer for measurement of the weak magnetic fields has excellent isotropy while still retaining a simple construction and a small overall dimension to the device by using only a single cell.

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St Etienne de Crossey, France

Jean-Jacques Chaillout