Abstract: Methods and devices for emitting volatile materials are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods and devices for emitting two or more fragrance compositions are disclosed. In one non-limiting embodiment of a device, the device has a housing, and the housing is supported on an electrical outlet by a plug at least indirectly joined to the housing. The device contains a first volatile composition and a second volatile composition. The first volatile composition is emitted in an alternating period relative to said second volatile composition. In one embodiment of the method, the volatile compositions are alternately emitted during periods that are greater than 15 minutes and less than 2 hours.
Abstract: Methods and devices for emitting volatile materials are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods and devices for emitting two or more fragrance compositions are disclosed. In one non-limiting embodiment of a device, the device has a housing, and the housing is supported on an electrical outlet by a plug at least indirectly joined to the housing. The device contains a first volatile composition and a second volatile composition. The first volatile composition is emmitted in an alternating period relative to said second volatile composition. In one embodiment of the method, the volatile compositions are alternately emitted during periods that are greater than 15 minutes and less than 2 hours.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 9, 2005
Date of Patent:
September 13, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Frank Andrej Kvietok, Eileen Marie St. Pierre
Abstract: Air freshener products and methods for freshening air are disclosed. In some embodiments, the air freshening product may include a container for storing an air freshening composition that may contain compressed gas such as compressed air, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, inert gases, or carbon dioxide. When the container is completely filled with propellant and air freshening composition, the air freshening composition may be released from the container at a flow rate of from about 0.0001 grams/second to about 1.2 grams/second. The method of freshening air, in certain embodiments, provides improved delivery of an air freshening composition using a non-hydrocarbon propellant. If malodor counteractants are used, the method may also provide a reduction in malodors.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2004
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2011
Assignee:
The Proctor & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Hirotaka Uchiyama, Christopher Eugene Bates, Eric Laurence Wagnon, Cynthia Jean McCann, Carl-Eric Kaiser, Steven Louis Diersing
Abstract: Methods and devices for emitting volatile materials are disclosed. In some embodiments, methods and devices for emitting two or more fragrance compositions are disclosed. In one non-limiting embodiment of a device, the device has a housing, and the housing is supported on an electrical outlet by a plug at least indirectly joined to the housing. The device contains a first volatile composition and a second volatile composition. The first volatile composition is emitted in an alternating period relative to said second volatile composition. In one embodiment of the method, the volatile compositions are alternately emitted during periods that are greater than 15 minutes and less than 2 hours.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 16, 2007
Date of Patent:
July 19, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Frank Andrej Kvietok, Eileen Marie St. Pierre
Abstract: A delivery system and methods for generating droplets of liquid active materials, such as a perfume, air freshener, insecticide formulation, and volatile materials, to the atmosphere by means of a electromechanical transducer. The electromechanical transducer employs a first period of activation and a second period of deactivation to increase the distribution of volatile materials contained within the liquid active materials to the atmosphere and reduce the hedonic habituation of the user. The electromechanical transducer is configured to improve flow rate and decrease deposition of the droplets on to nearby surfaces.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 2007
Date of Patent:
November 16, 2010
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Fernando Ray Tollens, Steven Louis Diersing, John Philip Hecht, Steven James Schroeck, William Paul Mahoney, III
Abstract: The present invention relates to a hard surface cleaning composition comprising a copolymer, wherein said copolymer comprises a zwitterionic unit A or a mixture thereof and another unit B or a mixture thereof, wherein said unit A comprises a betaine group or a mixture thereof and wherein said betaine group of said unit A is a sulphobetaine group or a mixture thereof, and wherein said unit B is derived from vinyl-pyrrolidone.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 25, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 12, 2010
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Stefano Scialla, Luca Sarcinelli, Annick Julia Oscar Mertens, Marc Francois Theophile Evers, Evelyne Prat, Olivier Anthony, Marie Pierre Labeau, Chi-Thanh Vuong
Inventors:
Walter Pierre Van den Broeck, Victor Klabbers, Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert, Corrine Elizabeth Elstow, Robin Lefebvre, James Samuel Richardson