Patents by Inventor Jean-Michel Martin
Jean-Michel Martin 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).
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Publication number: 20240060001Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous lubricant composition for lubricating moving parts in a mechanical system, comprising at least water, glycerol; and hypericin. It also relates to the use of this aqueous lubricant composition for lubricating moving parts in a mechanical system, in particular in a vehicle propulsion system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Maria Isabel DE BARROS BOUCHET, Yun LONG, Jean-Michel MARTIN, BenoƮt THIEBAUT, Chantal BOYER
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Publication number: 20230286732Abstract: The present invention is directed to a closed flexible package comprising: (i) flexible or semi-flexible lateral walls (2) that form a flatten package body, and (ii) a cup-shaped bottom portion adapted to the insertion of a fluid injection element of the machine, the package body and cup-shaped bottom portion being formed from a one-piece elongated primary flat blank sheet made of flexible material, preferably a fiber-based material, that is folded in a U-shape around its transversal symmetry axis, and sealed along its lateral and upper edges, wherein said cup-shaped bottom portion is a hollow volume having a concave lower side and convex lateral sides, and the profile curvature of said lower side being identical to the profile curvature of each of said lateral sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: STEPHANE PELLEGRINI, OLIVIER JEAN-MICHEL MARTIN, ALEXEY VISHTAL
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Publication number: 20230018037Abstract: The invention relates to a container (1) for use in a beverage preparation machine. The container (1) has a non-symmetrical shape such that it is inserted functionally inside the beverage preparation machine with a specific orientation. The container (1) comprises a container body (2) having a back side (40) and a front side (3), the back side (40) and the front side (3) delimiting a compartment adapted to be traversed by water injected therein by the beverage preparation machine through the back side (40), and a plant material for preparing a tea beverage, the plant material being inside said compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: JAMES STUART CLULOW, OLIVIER JEAN-MICHEL MARTIN
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Patent number: 9677611Abstract: A low friction assembly is desired. The present invention relates to a new low-friction lubrication assembly comprising a first member relatively slidable against a second member, the first member having chemical affinity with an OH-group on its sliding surface; and one or more oxygen containing compounds, provided on the sliding surface of the first member and being able to produce a tribofilm attached to the sliding surface of the first member through hydrogen bond interactions. Preferably the second member comprises a similar OH-terminated sliding surface wherein an oxygen containing compound (lubricant)-supported interface between the first and second sliding surfaces results in a H- and/or OH-terminated interface developing repulsive forces thereinbetween.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignees: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jean Michel Martin, Makoto Kano, Takumaru Sagawa, Masahiko Watanabe, Yutaka Mabuchi
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Publication number: 20130190216Abstract: [Object] A low friction assembly is desired. [Solving Means] The present invention relates to a new low-friction lubrication assembly comprising a first member relatively slidable against a second member, the first member having chemical affinity with an OH-group on its sliding surface; and one or more oxygen containing compounds, provided on the sliding surface of the first member and being able to produce a tribofilm attached to the sliding surface of the first member through hydrogen bond interactions. Preferably the second member comprises a similar OH-terminated sliding surface wherein an oxygen containing compound (lubricant)-supported interface between the first and second sliding surfaces results in a H- and/or OH-terminated interface developing repulsive forces thereinbetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Inventors: Jean Michel MARTIN, Makoto KANO, Takumaru SAGAWA, Masahiko WATANABE, Yutaka MABUCHI
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Patent number: 8422339Abstract: [Object] A low friction assembly is desired. [Solving Means] The present invention relates to a new low-friction lubrication assembly comprising a first member relatively slidable against a second member, the first member having chemical affinity with an OH-group on its sliding surface; and one or more oxygen containing compounds, provided on the sliding surface of the first member and being able to produce a tribofilm attached to the sliding surface of the first member through hydrogen bond interactions. Preferably the second member comprises a similar OH-terminated sliding surface wherein an oxygen containing compound (lubricant)-supported interface between the first and second sliding surfaces results in a H- and/or OH-terminated interface developing repulsive forces thereinbetween.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jean Michel Martin, Makoto Kano, Takumaru Sagawa, Masahiko Watanabe, Yutaka Mabuchi
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Publication number: 20120172264Abstract: Disclosed are additive compositions for transmission oils comprising an oil dispersion of a hydrated alkali metal borate and an oil dispersion of hexagonal boron nitride, as well as lubricating oil compositions containing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicants: Total France, Chevron Oronite S.A.Inventors: Pierre Tequi, Sylvain Iovine, Bernard Constans, Raphaele Ladaviere, Jean Michel Martin, Thierry Le Mogne
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Patent number: 8206035Abstract: The invention provides a low-friction sliding mechanism, a low-friction agent composition, a friction reduction method, a manual transmission and a final reduction gear unit that can exert very excellent low friction characteristics to sliding surfaces present under various applications, and, in particular, that have more excellent low friction characteristics than that of a combination of an existing steel material and an organic Mo compound. The low-friction sliding mechanism has an oxygen-containing organic compound or an aliphatic amine compound interposed between sliding surfaces that a DLC coated sliding member and a sliding member form. The low-friction agent composition contains an oxygen-containing organic compound or an aliphatic amine compound. The friction reduction method includes supplying the low-friction agent composition between sliding surfaces that a DLC coated sliding member and a sliding member form.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Jean Michel Martin, Shigeki Takeshima, Shozaburo Konishi, Makoto Kano, Yutaka Mabuchi, Takao Ishikawa, Takafumi Ueno, Kiyotaka Nakamura, Takahiro Hamada
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Patent number: 7771821Abstract: A low-friction sliding member such as a piston, a piston ring, a piston skirt section and a cylinder liner section of an internal combustion engine. The low-friction sliding member includes a base material having a surface. A hard carbon thin film is formed at at least a part of the surface of the base material. Here, a tribo-film having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of ether linkage, oxido and hydroxyl group is formed on the hard carbon thin film when the hard carbon thin film is in slidable contact with an opposite member in presence of an organic oxygen-containing compound.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2004Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jean Michel Martin, Saihei Kano, Makoto Kano, Yoshiteru Yasuda, Yusuke Okamoto, Yutaka Mabuchi, Takafumi Ueno
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Publication number: 20090186783Abstract: [Object] A low friction assembly is desired. [Solving Means] The present invention relates to a new low-friction lubrication assembly comprising a first member relatively slidable against a second member, the first member having chemical affinity with an OH-group on its sliding surface; and one or more oxygen containing compounds, provided on the sliding surface of the first member and being able to produce a tribofilm attached to the sliding surface of the first member through hydrogen bond interactions. Preferably the second member comprises a similar OH-terminated sliding surface wherein an oxygen containing compound (lubricant)-supported interface between the first and second sliding surfaces results in a H- and/or OH-terminated interface developing repulsive forces thereinbetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2007Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jean Michel Martin, Makoto Kano, Takumaru Sagawa, Masahiko Watanabe, Yutaka Mabuchi
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Publication number: 20090118148Abstract: [Summary] [Object] To provide a low-friction sliding mechanism capable of exhibiting an extremely excellent ultra-low friction characteristics at a sliding face existing in a variety of uses. [Solving means] A low-friction sliding mechanism is constituted by disposing a lubricant containing glycerol, at a sliding face formed between sliding members which have respectively hard carbon thin films. A low-friction sliding mechanism is constituted by disposing a lubricant containing hydroxyl group, at a sliding face formed between sliding members which have respectively hard carbon thin films, wherein a friction coefficient of smaller than 0.02 is exhibited in a sliding contacting condition under a boundary lubrication which exhibits a friction coefficient of 0.1 to 0.14 at a sliding face between a steel and a steel in presence of an engine oil. Each hard carbon thin film is formed of a-C or ta-C. Each hard carbon thin film has a hardness of 1500 to 5000 Hv in micro-Vickers hardness under a load of 10 g.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: May 7, 2009Inventors: Jean Michel Martin, Makoto Kano, Takumaru Sagawa, Masahiko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20080153724Abstract: Disclosed are additive compositions for transmission oils comprising an oil dispersion of a hydrated alkali metal borate and an oil dispersion of hexagonal boron nitride, as well as lubricating oil compositions containing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Pierre Tequi, Sylvain Iovine, Bernard Constans, Raphaele Ladaviere, Jean Michel Martin, Thierry Le Mogne
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Publication number: 20040147409Abstract: Disclosed are additive compositions for transmission oils comprising an oil dispersion of a hydrated alkali metal borate and an oil dispersion of hexagonal boron nitride, as well as lubricating oil compositions containing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Pierre Tequi, Sylvain Iovine, Bernard Constans, Raphaele Ladaviere, Jean Michel Martin, Thierry Le Mogne
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Patent number: 5039438Abstract: Methods for improving the anti-friction and wear-reducing properties of lubricating oils by adding to such oils polyfluoro chain-containing amines of the formula ##STR1## or the commercially available mixtures of such materials, wherein n is an integer from 1 to 20, a is two or four, R.sub.2 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl group, and R.sub.1 and Z are:When Z is hydrogen, R.sub.1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group having from one to six carbon atoms, an aryl radical, or an alicyclic radical having from three to ten carbon atoms, orR.sub.1 and Z are selected from alkyl radicals having from one to six carbon atoms, orZ is ##STR2## while R.sub.1 is hydrogen, an alkyl group having from one to six carbon atoms, or ##STR3## R and R' being hydrogen or methyl, or R.sub.1 and Z together form a linear alkylene group containing from three to ten carbon atoms,and lubricating oils containing such polyfluoro chain-containing amines and "ash-free" or organometallic dispersant/detergent additives.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1987Date of Patent: August 13, 1991Assignee: AtochemInventors: Robert Thermet, Marc Hermant, Jean-Michel Martin, Dominique Basset
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Patent number: 5011641Abstract: Shaped articles of agglomerated particulate material are prepared by conveying plates having apertures therethrough on a surface for forming, by reason of the plate apertures and the forming surface, article shaping cells. Particulate material to be formed into the shaped articles is fed into the cells, and then while the plates remain on the forming surface, the particulate material in the cells first is tamped, and then while the plates ascend from the forming surface, the tamped material is ejected from the cells onto the forming surface in a form of shaped articles.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1989Date of Patent: April 30, 1991Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Marcel Buhler, Jean-Michel Martin
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Patent number: 4936200Abstract: An endless conveyor transporting a plurality of juxtaposed shaping plates containing apertures therethrough is positioned such that a lower horizontal run of the shaping plates is positioned above and in alignment with a portion of an upper horizontal run of a belt conveyor and such that a lower surface of the plates abut the upper run of the belt conveyor for forming, by reason of the plate apertures and belt conveyor surface, article shaping cells. Means are provided for filling the cells with material to be formed into individual articles. The plates containing material in the cells are transported to a movable ejector unit having pistons which correspond in number, arrangement and shape with the number, arrangement and shape of the apertures of the plates.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1988Date of Patent: June 26, 1990Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Marcel Buhler, Jean-Michel Martin
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Patent number: 4824585Abstract: Calcium superbase soaps consist essentially of calcium dissolved in at least one oil in the form of carbonate and of salts of acids, the said acids consisting of a mixture or otherwise of saturated organic carboxylic acids containing from 7 to 13 carbon atoms in which the linear acid content is from 0 to 40% by weight, the content of acids branched on carbon 2 is from 0 to 20% by weight and the content of acids which are mono- or polysubstituted on carbon 3 and/or of higher rank is higher than or equal to 46% by weight.These soaps are used in particular as additives in lubricating oils or as oxidation catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1986Date of Patent: April 25, 1989Assignee: NorsolorInventors: Yves Marotel, Francis Hurier, Jean-Louis Mansot, Jean-Michel Martin