Patents by Inventor Andrea Babini

Andrea Babini 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: 20240017502
    Abstract: An induction sealing device for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food products, said sealing device comprising: an inductor configured to induce a current in the packaging material, the inductor comprising conductor elements; a polymer insert holding said conductor elements; and a supporting body holding said polymer insert; wherein the polymer insert comprises a polymer matrix into which boron nitride particles are dispersed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Håkan ANDERSSON, Andrea BABINI, Gloria GUIDETTI, Richard SANDBERG
  • Publication number: 20230391018
    Abstract: An induction sealing device for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food products, the sealing device comprising: an inductor configured to induce a current in the packaging material, the inductor comprising conductor elements; a polymer insert holding the conductor elements; and a supporting body holding the polymer insert; wherein the polymer insert comprises a polymer matrix into which graphene particles are dispersed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Håkan ANDERSSON, Andrea BABINI, Gloria GUIDETTI, Richard SANDBERG
  • Publication number: 20180134432
    Abstract: An induction heating sealing device (30) for sealing a packaging material comprises an electrically conductive layer and advancing, in use, along a first direction (A), said induction heating sealing device (30) comprising an inductive element (100), said inductive element (100) comprising a first leg (31) and a second leg (32) extending along said first direction (A) and within which, in use, an alternate current flows, said first leg (31) having a first body (33) facing a second body (34) of said second leg (32) and at least one projection (35) laterally projecting from said first body (33) and facing, in use, an area (53) of said packaging material to be sealed and being configured to induce, in use, an eddy current within said area (53).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventor: Andrea BABINI
  • Publication number: 20180133976
    Abstract: An induction heating sealing device (30) for sealing a packaging material comprising an electrically conductive layer and advancing, in use, along a first direction (A), said induction heating sealing device (30) comprising an inductive element (100), said inductive element (100) comprising a first leg (31) extending along said first direction (A) and within which, in use, an alternate currents flows, said first leg (31) facing, in use, an area (44) of said packaging material to be sealed and being configured to induce, in use, an eddy current within said area (44), and a second leg (32) arranged on one side of said first leg (31) and facing a further area (45) of said packaging material, wherein said first leg (31) comprises at least one first portion (41) and at least one second portion (42) spaced apart from one another in a second direction (S) transversal to said first direction (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Andrea BABINI, Andrea DALCERO, Elisa LUPPI, Thomas Sergio MANCIN
  • Patent number: 9352869
    Abstract: An induction sealing device for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food products, comprising: at least one first inductor which comprises, in turn, a first active surface adapted to be arranged on the side of packaging material and to heat-seal it; and a member made of plastic material; first active surface is covered by the member made of plastic material adapted to cooperate with the packaging material during its heat-sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Babini, Alessandro Belloi, Bernt Larsson, Roland Palmquist, Håkan G. Andersson, Richard Nilsson, Thomas Aul
  • Patent number: 9174754
    Abstract: An induction sealing device for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food products and fed in a first direction, the sealing device having an inductor device which interacts with the packaging material by at least one active surface; a supporting body made of heat-conducting material and housing the inductor device; an insert made of magnetic flux-concentrating material and housed in the supporting body; and a member made of plastic material, and having at least a first portion interposed, in the first direction, between the supporting body and the insert so as to be at least partly surrounded by the supporting body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Roland Palmquist, Andrea Babini, Håkan G. Andersson, Ulf Danielsson
  • Patent number: 8839597
    Abstract: A sealing element for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of food products which are pourable within a tube of packaging material; sealing element comprises a heater adapted to heat-seal the packaging material at spaced cross sections of tube so as to form a plurality of sealed packages, and a groove which may be engaged by a cutting element carried by a counter sealing element during a cutting operation in which a sealed package is separated from tube; sealing element comprises at least a slot which extends between groove and a first outer wall of sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Babini, Roland Palmquist
  • Publication number: 20140075884
    Abstract: There is described a heating induction sealing device for forming a seal in a packaging material comprising an electrically conductive element and advancing along a direction; sealing device comprises one first inductive element and one second inductive element; first inductive element comprises a first portion facing second inductive element and defining with second inductive element a passage for packaging material; and a second portion; sealing device is selectively arrangeable in a first configuration, in which alternate currents flow within first and second inductive element; first portion and second inductive element are configured to generate a first magnetic flux transversally to direction, when sealing device is arranged in first configuration; second portion is configured to generate, in use, a second magnetic flux with a main component parallel to direction, when sealing device is arranged in first configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A
    Inventors: Fabrizio Sighinolfi, Andrea Babini, Pietro Monari
  • Publication number: 20140069064
    Abstract: There is described a heating induction sealing device for forming a seal in a packaging material comprising an electrically conductive element and advancing, in use, along a first direction; the sealing device comprises at least one inductive element; inductive element comprises a first and second leg within which alternate currents flow, in use, in opposite direction; first leg is configured to induce, in use, a first portion of an eddy current within an area to be sealed of packaging material; second leg faces first leg along a second direction; second leg is configured to induce, in use, a second portion of eddy current within area to be sealed of packaging material; first and second leg have a length in a third direction parallel, in use, to first direction and transversal to second direction; first and second leg are nonsymmetrical with respect to third direction, so that seal is formed as continuous along second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Fabrizio Sighinolfi, Andrea Babini, Pietro Monari
  • Publication number: 20130263556
    Abstract: An induction sealing device for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food products, comprising: at least one first inductor which comprises, in turn, a first active surface adapted to be arranged on the side of packaging material and to heat-seal it; and a member made of plastic material; first active surface is covered by the member made of plastic material adapted to cooperate with the packaging material during its heat-sealing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Babini, Alessandro Belloi, Bernt Larsson, Roland Palmquist, Håkan G. Andersson
  • Publication number: 20110308200
    Abstract: A sealing element for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of food products which are pourable within a tube of packaging material; sealing element comprises a heater adapted to heat-seal the packaging material at spaced cross sections of tube so as to form a plurality of sealed packages, and a groove which may be engaged by a cutting element carried by a counter sealing element during a cutting operation in which a sealed package is separated from tube; sealing element comprises at least a slot which extends between groove and a first outer wall of sealing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Babini, Roland Palmquist
  • Publication number: 20100180545
    Abstract: An induction sealing device for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food products and fed in a first direction, the sealing device having an inductor device which interacts with the packaging material by at least one active surface; a supporting body made of heat-conducting material and housing the inductor device; an insert made of magnetic flux-concentrating material and housed in the supporting body; and a member made of plastic material, and having at least a first portion interposed, in the first direction, between the supporting body and the insert so as to be at least partly surrounded by the supporting body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Roland Palmquist, Andrea Babini, Håkan G. Andersson, Ulf Danielsson
  • Patent number: 7059100
    Abstract: There is described an induction sealing device for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food product and fed in a first direction. The sealing device has induction means interacting with the packaging material by means of a pair of first active surfaces and a pair of second active surfaces interposed between the first active surfaces in the first direction; and the second active surfaces have, in the first direction, a width greater than the width of the first active surfaces at least along most of the length of the first and second active surfaces in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA
    Inventors: Andrea Babini, Gianni Fangarezzi
  • Publication number: 20040182046
    Abstract: There is described an induction sealing device (15) for heat sealing packaging material for producing sealed packages of pourable food products and fed in a first direction (A). The sealing device (15) has induction means (20, 21) interacting with the packaging material by means of a pair of first active surfaces (26) and a pair of second active surfaces (25) interposed between the first active surfaces (26) in the first direction (A); and the second active surfaces (25) have, in the first direction (A), a width (L1) greater than the width (L2) of the First active surfaces (26) at least along most of the length of the first and second active surfaces (26, 25) in a second direction (B) perpendicular to the first direction (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Andrea Babini, Gianni Fangarezzi