Publications by Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Dynamic balancing of a flexure-based Watt's linkage horological oscillator

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Mechanical watches are generally regulated by a balance and a spring constituting a harmonic oscillator. This mechanism is intrinsically force-balanced, which makes it essentially insensitive to gravity as well as to the linear accelerations of the watch. ...

Elsevier BV2025

Design, Characterization and Tuning of 1-DOF and 2-DOF Balanced Flexure-Based Horological Oscillators

Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Mechanisms such as those used in space applications, robotics, micro-electromechanical systems or watchmaking must meet strict environmental specifications related to thermal exchanges, electromagnetic exchanges, radiation resistance, vacuum compatibility, ...

EPFL2025

Design of a Flexure-Based Flywheel for the Storage of Angular Momentum and Kinetic Energy

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Patrick Robert Flückiger, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

The flywheel is a widespread mechanical component used for the storage of kinetic energy and angular momentum. It typically consists of cylindrical inertia rotating about its axis on rolling bearings, which involves undesired friction, lubrication, and wea ...

2024

High-precision flexure-based XY-stage with high stiffness and load capacity

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Patrick Robert Flückiger, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Typical flexure-based XY-stages have a serial design, and their layout results in the flexures being loaded in flection in face of heavy payloads or vertical loads. This paper presents a design with zero parasitic shift in which all flexures are loaded in ...

2024

Mechanism balancing taxonomy

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

The balancing of mechanisms consists in distributing their moving masses, inertias, and elastic components in order to achieve key mechanical properties, such as the elimination of the shaking forces and moments exported onto their supporting structure or ...

2023

Mechanism Balancing Taxonomy for the Classification of Horological Oscillators

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

The balancing of mechanisms consists in distributing their moving masses, inertias, and elastic components in order to achieve key mechanical properties, such as the insensitivity of the mechanism to gravity and to the motions of its chassis, or the elimin ...

2023

Flexure-based planar xy transition table

Charles Baur, Patrick Robert Flückiger, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Flexure mechanism (1) comprising:- an end effector (3) arranged to be able to move in a first plane (XY);- an intermediate stage (7) linked to said end effector (3) by means of at least three first beams (5) extending substantially perpendicular to said fi ...

2022

Rectilinear translation four-bar flexure mechanism based on four Remote Center Compliance pivots

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Quentin Gubler

This paper presents a novel planar four-bar linkage compliant mechanism (called 4-RCC) based on four flexure-based Remote Center of Compliance (RCC) pivots. With particular configurations and dimensions, the beam shortening of the RCC pivots can compensate ...

euspen2022

Detection mechanism for a medical sensing tool, medical sensing tool

Charles Baur, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

A micromachined mechanism (5) for a sensing tool (1), the mechanism comprising a support, a probe, pivotally mounted with respect to the support, a beam (10) connected to the support (8), and the probe, the probe (9) being intended to apply a load (Ftool) ...

2022

Analytical modeling and experimental validation of rotationally actuated pinned–pinned and fixed–pinned buckled beam bistable mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Buckled beams have become key building blocks in compliant mechanisms to achieve nonlinear behaviors, such as bistability, constant-force and stiffness tuning. However, designing and modeling such components is challenging due to their highly nonlinear cha ...

2022

Active load cell with positive, negative and zero stiffness operating modes for micronewton range contact force monitoring in electrical probing

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Michal Stanislaw Smreczak, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

This article describes a novel method for applying a contact force in the range of 1 to 100 μN with pointed probe on a microscale sample in order to perform ohmic electrical measurements. The solution is based on the new TIVOT active load cell combining th ...

2022

System for moving a patient

Charles Baur, Marine Chantal Elisabeth Geneviève Clogenson, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Lisa Anaïs Jeanne Bonnefoy

The invention relates to a system (13) for moving a lying patient (P) from a first position to a second position according to a controlled motion comprising a back sheet, a front sheet, each comprising two lateral edges (L1, L2). The system (13) comprises ...

2022

Shaking force balancing of a 2-DOF isotropic horological oscillator

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Despite centuries of research and significant advances, the escapement mechanism used to count and maintain oscillations of mechanical time bases remains a complex mechanism and a major source of energy losses. We showed in previous work that, instead of t ...

2021

Experimental Evaluation of Needle Tip Force Sensing Associated to Tactile Feedback for Improving Needle Remote Insertion

Charles Baur, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Lisa Anaïs Jeanne Bonnefoy

In this paper, we present an experimental evaluation of tactile feedback for remote needle insertion in soft tissues. A needle with tip force sensing is used to detect changes of tissues and puncture events during insertion. This information is provided to ...

Springer Nature2021

Statically and dynamically balanced oscillator based on Watt's linkage

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

We present a new mechanical oscillator architecture that can be made insensitive to linear and angular accelerations while keeping constant oscillation frequency. The oscillator has the kinematics of a Watt linkage, so we call it a Watt oscillator. In orde ...

EUSPEN2020

Programmable Logic Gates Based On Tunable Multistable Mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Binary logic operations are the building blocks of computing machines. In this paper, we present a new programmable binary logic gate based on programmable multistable mechanisms (PMM), which are multistable structures whose stability behavior depends on m ...

AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS2020

Reconfigurable Logic Gates Based on Programable Multistable Mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Binary logic gates are building blocks of computing machines, in particular, electronic computers. One variant is the programable logic gate, also known as the reconfigurable logic gate, in which the logical function implemented can be modified. In this pa ...

2020

Sensor system

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Thomas Jean Julien Fussinger, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Lisa Anaïs Jeanne Bonnefoy

Sensor system (1) comprising a frame (306) supporting a force-sensing tip (310) arranged to generate a signal based upon a force applied by said force-sensing tip (310) to a material to be tested,characterised in that said system (1) further comprises:- an ...

2020