Patents by Inventor Alessandro Caprara

Alessandro Caprara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240074814
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wearable augmented reality optical assembly for use in a center for treating objects, in particular in a surgical instrument sterilization unit, to an optical apparatus comprising an optical assembly according to the invention, as well as a control unit, a method for the management of objects, in particular surgical instruments, a management and tracking program that implements said method, and a method for the management of a treatment cycle of an object to be sanitized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Alessandro CAPRARA
  • Publication number: 20170313461
    Abstract: A device for joining webs with self-adhesive labels comprises a web retaining element (18) for, in use, selectively retaining the starting end (16) of a new web (13) at an operating zone (15) positioned along a feed path of a first web being used and a pressure element (26) positioned on the opposite side of the first web; at least one of either the retaining element (18) or the pressure element (26) being movable relative to the other, between a non-operating position in which they are at a distance from each other and an operating position in which the pressure element (26) presses the first web (10) onto an adhesive element fixed to the new web (13); it also comprises a cutting (27) movable between a non-interference position and a cutting position, movement means for moving the cutting element (27) from the non-interference position to the cutting position, and controlled feeding means for the first web (10) which are operatively associated with the movement means for causing controlled feeding of the fir
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: GIOVANNI SACCARDI, ROBERTO BUSI, ALESSANDRO CAPRARA
  • Patent number: 8042271
    Abstract: An aspirating roller (1) for transferring labels, comprising at least a pair of pads (20;21) projecting relative to a lateral surface (1a) of the roller (1). The roller (1) is characterised in that at least a portion of the lateral surface (1a) of the roller (1) present between the pads (20;21) is elastically deformable. A method for removing/mounting an elastically deformable plate-like element (6), of the type present between a pair of pads (20;21) and defining a lateral surface (1a) of a roller (1) for transferring labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sidel Holdings & Technology SA
    Inventors: Alessandro Caprara, James Frederick Robertson Carmichael
  • Publication number: 20080029205
    Abstract: An aspirating roller (1) for transferring labels, comprising at least a pair of pads (20;21) projecting relative to a lateral surface (1a) of the roller (1). The roller (1) is characterised in that at least a portion of the lateral surface (1a) of the roller (1) present between the pads (20;21) is elastically deformable. A method for removing/mounting an elastically deformable plate-like element (6), of the type present between a pair of pads (20;21) and defining a lateral surface (1a) of a roller (1) for transferring labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Alessandro Caprara, James Frederick Robertson Carmichael
  • Patent number: 6832640
    Abstract: The device (1) for gripping and handling bottles (3) in a labelling machine comprises at least one body carrying a gripping member (2) of the neck of a bottle (3), control means (4) in rotation of said gripping member (2) and a centering member (5) of the bottle (3) with respect to said gripping member (2). In the method of bottle filling/pressurising a stem (9) of a gripping and handling device (1) for bottles (3), provided with a passage (14) for the filling/pressurising gas for bottles (3), associates with an opening of the bottle (3), after that a tubular member (7) containing the stem (9) translates with respect to the stem (9) and opens an on-off valve (15), thereby causing the filling/pressurising of the bottle (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: SIG Alfa S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alessandro Caprara, Emanuele Mazzotta
  • Publication number: 20020166640
    Abstract: The device (1) for gripping and handling bottles (3) in a labelling machine comprises ;at least one body carrying a gripping member (2) of the neck of a bottle (3), control means (4) in rotation of said gripping member (2) and a centering member (5) of the bottle (3) with respect to said gripping member (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: SIG ALFA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alessandro Caprara, Emanuele Mazzotta