Ball Patents (Class 401/209)
  • Patent number: 8317422
    Abstract: A distributor (1) of fluid, particularly of liquid soap, has a sealed shell (2) suitable for containing the fluid to be distributed. The shell (2) has a shape and dimensions suitable for being able to be held between the hands of a user when the hands are being washed. Distribution mechanisms (30) are mounted movably on the shell (2) between a rest position in which they prevent the fluid from coming out of the shell and an active position in which they allow the fluid to come out when the user presses his hands against them during washing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Societe Civile MGS
    Inventor: Guy Schell
  • Patent number: 8303206
    Abstract: The writing tool 100 having an ink composition for a writing tool 12 in an ink holding tube 14, the ink composition for a writing tool 12 containing a metal powder, a gelling agent and spherical resin fine particles, wherein the viscosity (V1) at a shear rate of 1000 s?1 is no greater than 45 mPa·s and the viscosity (V2) at a shear rate of 0.01 s?1 is at least 100 Pa·s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Zebra Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20120251222
    Abstract: In order to provide an ink composition for an aqueous ink ball point pen with which a sufficiently high line intensity is obtained even when a thermochromic microcapsule pigment having a small average particle diameter is used and which is excellent in storage stability and a writing performance and an aqueous ink ball point pen, a composition of the above ink composition for an aqueous ink ball point pen is provided with such a constitution that it contains at least a microcapsule pigment which has an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m and in which a wall film is formed by an amino resin and a chemical substance which is a polymer comprising ketone as a main chain and has an acidic functional group in the chemical structure and which has an acid value of 3 to 40 (mgKOH/g).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Toomi, Masanao Yano, Takeshi Hayakawa, Syuji Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20120219349
    Abstract: Disclosed is package for a consumer care composition. The package comprises a container containing a consumer care composition, the container having a base for standing the package on a surface, a body portion above the base, a neck portion above the body portion, and a dispensing head above the neck portion. The body portion is aligned along a first axis and the neck portion is aligned along a second axis which is inclined to the first axis so that the dispensing head is directed upwardly and laterally towards a front of the container. The neck portion and the dispensing head have an exterior periphery which is not equal to that of the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY
    Inventors: Kiat-Cheong Toh, Jonas Damon, Daniel Antonio Pacis-Sanchez, Allison Stacey Conner
  • Publication number: 20120207532
    Abstract: An automatic switch for a power circuit of a bottle container is provided. The bottle container includes a bottle body, a cover and an electronic unit for allowing an accommodating unit to be assembled between the bottle body and the cover. A liquid is received in the bottle body. A ball is disposed in a mouth at a front end of the cover, and the ball is capable of opening/closing the mouth by means of an elastic body. The elastic body has a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. The first conductive portion is brought into electrical contact with a positive electrode (or negative electrode) of a power source of the electronic unit. The second conductive portion is located above the negative electrode (or positive electrode) of the power source of the electronic unit by a distance when the elastic body is not pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Jui-Sheng Ho
  • Patent number: 8221018
    Abstract: A roller receiving device for a packaging system for fluids, the packaging system including a container for receiving a fluid; a roller and a roller receiving device for receiving the roller and for holding the roller on the container, the roller receiving device has a first part for receiving the roller, as well as a second part, different from the first part and held on the first part, the first part forming a first sealing segment for sealing the roller receiving device relative to the container, and the second part forming a first holding segment for forming a locking connection between the roller receiving device and the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Weener Plastik GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Ingolf Steinhagen, Bernd Hackmann
  • Publication number: 20120155947
    Abstract: Disclosed is a package for a composition, the package comprising a container having a base comprising a base face for standing the package on a planar surface, and a cap removably connected to and covering a dispensing end of the container opposite to the base. The cap has an end face which is inclined to the base face, and the container and cap are shaped to permit the package, independent of the amount of the consumer composition contained within the container, selectively to be stood on the base face in an upright orientation on the planar surface or on the end face in an inverted orientation on the planar surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY
    Inventors: Kiat-Cheong Toh, Jonas Damon, Daniel Antonio Pacis-Sanchez, Allison Stacey Conner
  • Patent number: 8192100
    Abstract: A fluid applicator device having the interconnected components of a container, a base, a shaft, a piston, a collar, a plurality of fluid conduction pathways and an applicator head is presented. The applicator head is rotatably mounted within the collar and slidably held in place by the inner surface of the collar. The inner surface of the collar also has a plurality of fluid conduction pathways cut into it so that a viscous fluid confined within the container may be flow into the fluid conduction pathways and onto the applicator head so that it may be soothingly applied onto a portion of a user's epidermis such as onto the lips of a user. The method of using the applicator device includes the acts of manipulating, obtaining, pressing, removing, returning, rolling, and withdrawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Blistex Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wojcik, Kelly Sanborn
  • Patent number: 8173052
    Abstract: A writing implement with a thermochromic coloring color-memory composition which comprises a homogeneous solubilized mixture of (A) an electron donative coloring organic compound, (B) an electron accepting compound and (C) a reaction medium which controls color reactions of the components (A) and (B), wherein a complete decoloring temperature (T4) of the thermochromic coloring color-memory composition is 50° C. or higher and a coloring starting temperature (T2) of thermochromic coloring color-memory composition is 10° C. or lower regarding the color density-temperature curve, and the thermochromic coloring color-memory composition has color-memory ability at the ordinary temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Fujita
  • Patent number: 8173730
    Abstract: A biodegradable polylactic acid material being suitable for the manufacture of articles, such as pens, is the heated mixed product of the following components, 93% by weight to 96% by weight polylactic acid, 0.8% by weight to 1.2% by weight of a chain extender, 0.6% by weight to 1.0% by weight of a nucleating agent, and 2.5% by weight to 5.0% by weight of a filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Beifa Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ronghua Luo
  • Patent number: 8137019
    Abstract: The ink composition for a writing instrument has an aqueous component containing water, a thixotropic agent, a polyhydric alcohol and a pigment, dispersed in an oil component having dyes and non-dye components, wherein the IOB value for all of the dyes in the oil component is no greater than 0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Zebra Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayumi Yamaguchi, Yu Tsukamoto, Akinori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120039663
    Abstract: Provided are a ballpoint pen tip which can, even if ink having properties which assures that the amount of supply of the ink to the pen tip by shear of a writing ball is sufficient is adopted, prevent partially faint written traces from occurring and provide smooth writing, a ballpoint pen refill, a ballpoint pen, and a method of manufacturing a ballpoint pen tip. A triangular pyramid-shaped recess (42) gradually tapered toward an ink guide hole (36) is provided in the bottom of a ball housing (31), and troughs (44) formed in the recess (42) are utilized as ink reservoirs and ink paths. Because the troughs (44) have sufficient length, width, and depth, the amount of containment of the ink and the amount of supply of the ink are increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihide Ishii
  • Publication number: 20120014740
    Abstract: In order to provide a thermosensitive decolorable ink composition which can readily be decolored with simple heating by rubbing and the like without using a microcapsule and is not developed again in color even after stored at very low temperature (?50° C. or lower) and which is excellent in stability with passage of time and has a vivid hue intensity, the above thermosensitive decolorable ink composition is provided with a constitution in which it contains as a colorant, color developing particles comprising at least a leuco dye, a developer and a crystalline substance and in which it further contains a decolorant comprising an amorphous resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Hiroyuki Okuyama
  • Publication number: 20110293355
    Abstract: Disclosed are an ink composition for oil-based ballpoint pens which exhibits soft writing sensation due to low viscosity of 300 to 3000 cps, enables writing even at low temperatures and thus exhibits superior stability, and is free of leakage (of ink), and an oil-based ballpoint pen using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Doo Young Chung, Soon Suck Lee
  • Publication number: 20110286780
    Abstract: An adjustable liquid-wiping device includes an adjustable handle and a serving container. The adjustable handle is a shaft which is flexible and telescopic. The serving container, connected to one end of the adjustable handle, forms a liquid-reserving space therein for containing lotion, medical liquid, or other liquid. The serving container is provided with a liquid supplying portion. Whereby, the adjustable liquid-wiping device is very convenient for assisting a user in wiping liquid on any parts of user's body by utilizing the adjusting function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Pi-Fen Lin
  • Publication number: 20110274477
    Abstract: It is an aim to provide a tip unit for a liquid applicator and a liquid applicator that make written (applied) lines to change in thickness and give excellent durability. A tip unit used for a liquid applicator includes a ball house having an opening at its distal end and an introduction channel for application liquid in communication with the ball house, wherein the ball house holds therein at least two balls having a leading ball and an adjacent ball next to the leading ball, the balls being serially lined in an axial direction of the tip unit, the leading ball being partly exposed outside from the opening, and the leading ball being softer than the adjacent ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Yasunori Nakatani, Sakiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110262209
    Abstract: A fluid application device for applying a fluid to a surface and removing the same as necessary. The device may generally comprise a fluid applicator and a textile base member for sanitizing gym equipment, wiping windows, applying sunscreen, and the like. The fluid applicator may comprise a spray applicator, a permeable bladder, and the like. The textile base member may include but is not limited to a hand towel, a wristband, and any other known textile configurations. In one embodiment, the present invention may be used by gym patrons to sanitized gym equipment before and/or after use. The present invention may also be used to clean other surfaces including but not limited to household windows, vehicle windows, and the like. Additional embodiments of the present invention may also be used either to apply sunscreen on a user or as a fishing towel to clean hands and remove odor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventor: James Landy
  • Publication number: 20110091265
    Abstract: An improved structure for a make-up pen with a function of vibration massage comprises an accommodating tube body, a discharging set, a cover, a shelter, a battery cover, an elastic element, a battery, a vibration motor, a tumbler switch, and a switch piece. The accommodating tube body comprises an outlet end, which has a discharging hole. The discharging set is disposed at the outlet end of the accommodating tube body; the cover is female-connected to the outlet end of the accommodating tube body one end of the switch piece is disposed at the tumbler switch and the other end is electrically connected to the battery, the switch piece is electrically connected to the vibration motor through the tumbler switch in order to turn on/off the vibration motor for massage and discharging make-up liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventor: Jun ZHANG
  • Patent number: 7914222
    Abstract: A tip unit (1) incorporated in a liquid applicator such as a ball-point pen, the tip unit being capable of an increased rate of liquid discharge with no leaking or clogging problem. To achieve it, the tip unit (1) is accommodated in a tip body (11) having a ball housing (15), a ball (10), a capillary hole (16), and a proximal bore, the ball housing (15) being a passage for allowing liquid to flow therethrough, the ball (10) being rotatively held in the ball housing (15). The ball housing (15) is provided with at least one ink channel (47) adapted to communicate the ball housing (15) with the capillary hole (16) or the proximal bore. The ball housing (15) has a ball resting seat (45) and a side wall (41) that are connected by a connecting surface (71) having a shape of a truncated conical surface with its apex toward the distal end of the tip unit (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sakura Color Products Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Norimasa Kurihara, Shoko Matsumoto, Kyoko Sano, Takeshi Omatsu, Shigeki Yoneda, Yasunori Nakatani, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Kozaburo Fujita
  • Publication number: 20110013967
    Abstract: To provide a water-based ballpoint pen with a good feel while writing, which hardly causes the proceeding of ball corrosion with time and can maintain an excellent lubrication performance at writing. A water-based ballpoint pen using a cemented carbide ball comprising tungsten carbide and a metal binder as a writing front end, wherein cobalt and/or nickel are contained in the cemented carbide ball as the metal binder in an amount of 1 to 20% by weight based on the total amount of the ball and which further includes an aqueous ink composition containing a colorant, water, a phosphate ester-based surfactant, and any one or more compounds of a thiadiazole represented by formula (1), 5-mercapto-3-phenyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole-2-thione or a salt thereof, and an oligomer of 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole: wherein X and Y each represents any substituent of CH3, NH2, and SM, and M represents any of hydrogen, an alkali metal, an ammonium, and an alkanolamine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: THE PILOT INK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kitaoka, Hisashi Nakamura, Itsuka Goshima
  • Patent number: 7862249
    Abstract: There is provided a ballpoint pen tip in which a shoulder of a bent portion does not touch a paper surface during writing and bleeding caused by deformation of an inner periphery of the bent portion can be prevented, and an ink refill using thereof. The ballpoint pen tip 20 comprises a first tapered surface 22 formed by tapering an outer periphery at a front end of a holder 21, a connecting surface 23 that is formed at a front end side of the first tapered surface 22 and has an outside angle larger than 180° with respect to the first tapered surface 22, a second tapered surface 24 that is formed at a front end side of the connecting surface 23 and has an outside angle smaller than 180° with respect to the connecting surface 23, and a bent portion 25 in which a front end portion of the second tapered surface 24 is bent inwardly so as to hold a writing ball 35 inserted into a ball house 29.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Kabushikikaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Ohashi, Atsushi Nakajima, Kazuhiko Furukawa, Hiroyuki Muto
  • Publication number: 20100310300
    Abstract: A writing implement with a thermochromic coloring color-memory composition which comprises a homogeneous solubilized mixture of (A) an electron donative coloring organic compound, (B) an electron accepting compound and (C) a reaction medium which controls color reactions of the components (A) and (B), wherein a complete decoloring temperature (T4) of the thermochromic coloring color-memory composition is 50° C. or higher and a coloring starting temperature (T2) of thermochromic coloring color-memory composition is 10° C. or lower regarding the color density-temperature curve, and the thermochromic coloring color-memory composition has color-memory ability at the ordinary temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: THE PILOT INK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Fujita
  • Patent number: 7841797
    Abstract: A device for packaging and applying a product including a container holding the product. In an example, the container has a lengthwise axis X and is provided with an applicator element designed to come into contact with a surface to be treated in order to apply the product. The applicator element is in fluid communication with the container when it is in contact with this surface to be treated. A support defines a seating for the applicator element, with the support being at least in a fixed axial position relative to the container. The device further includes a grasping element connected to the support by a resiliently deformable connecting element in a manner such that, in response to a force exerted on the applicator element when the device is being held by the grasping element, the support is able to move relative to the grasping element. In addition, the support is preferably designed to revert to its initial position when the exertion of force ceases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Delage
  • Publication number: 20100254750
    Abstract: There is provided a ballpoint pen tip in which a shoulder of a bent portion does not touch a paper surface during writing and bleeding caused by deformation of an inner periphery of the bent portion can be prevented, and an ink refill using thereof. The ballpoint pen tip 20 comprises a first tapered surface 22 formed by tapering an outer periphery at a front end of a holder 21, a connecting surface 23 that is formed at a front end side of the first tapered surface 22 and has an outside angle larger than 180° with respect to the first tapered surface 22, a second tapered surface 24 that is formed at a front end side of the connecting surface 23 and has an outside angle smaller than 180° with respect to the connecting surface 23, and a bent portion 25 in which a front end portion of the second tapered surface 24 is bent inwardly so as to hold a writing ball 35 inserted into a ball house 29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Ohashi, Atsushi Nakajima, Kazuhiko Furukawa, Hiroyuki Muto
  • Publication number: 20100256100
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly (1) for packaging and application of a cosmetic and/or dermatological composition, comprising a container (2) having an opening (3), an applicator element (4), mounted in such a way as to be freely rotatable, in the vicinity of said opening (3), the applicator element (4) comprising an outer surface which can be brought into fluidic communication with the inside of the container (2), characterized in that the container (2) comprises a cosmetic and/or dermatological composition in the form of a gel having a viscosity at 25° C. of between 0.1 and 60 poises, and comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium: (a) at least 1% by weight of salicylic acid and/or at least one derivative thereof, relative to the total weight of the composition; (b) at least one polyol; and (c) at least one gelling agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Sylvie Quedville, Geoffroy Remaut, Anthony Potin
  • Patent number: 7799847
    Abstract: Provided is a water-based ink composition for a writing instrument comprising at least a colorant and water, characterized by comprising an alkylene oxide-added glycerin ester in which a principal skeleton is glycerin and 60 to 150 moles of alkylene oxide is added thereto and in which the glycerin is ester-bonded with a carboxylic acid-containing substance in an amount of 0.1 to 30% by weight based on the total amount of the ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ikoma, Yusuke Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100232865
    Abstract: A water-based ink composition for a ballpoint pen wherein the initial start of writing and writing over time is good, and no blur in handwriting occur and a stable writing performance can be sustained and good handwriting can be continuously formed. A water-based ink composition for a ballpoint pen dissolving or dispersing a coloring agent in an aqueous medium. The aqueous medium substantially contains no water-soluble organic solvent and is composed of water. The water-based ink composition includes a thickening inhibitor together with a shear thinning viscosity-imparting agent. As the thickening inhibitor, one or two or more are selected from a group of polyalkylene glycol, polypropylene glycol derivatives, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, cellulose-based polymer compounds, polymer compounds having a polyalkylene oxide group and/or surfactants having a polyoxyethylene group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Kitaoka
  • Patent number: 7771524
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a security ink useful for producing indelible markings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: George William Adamson
  • Publication number: 20100172689
    Abstract: A refill of a low viscosity water-based ink ballpoint pen is provided with a housing, a pen tip attached to a front end of the housing, an ink tank (4) formed inside the housing, an ink guide member guiding ink in the ink tank (4) to the pen tip, and an air passage formed between the ink tank and the pen tip in the housing and connecting the ink tank and outside of the housing. The inside of the ink tank is divided by partition walls (11) into a plurality of ink chambers arranged in the longitudinal direction, and the ink guide member is used to guide the ink in these ink chambers from the ink chambers close to the pen tip successively to the pen tip. A substantially uniform clearance (13) is provided over the entire circumferences between the outer circumferential surface of each partition wall (11) and the inner circumferential surface of the ink tank (4). A ring-shaped ink film formed at each clearance (13) is used to hold the ink in each ink chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventor: Hisami Tamano
  • Publication number: 20100166489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a content-reservoir (1)/product applicator (3) assembly, especially designed for use as a refill of a cosmetic product, as well as to a package (4) containing it. The present invention also relates to a reservoir (1)/product-applicator (3) assembly, also especially designed for packing a cosmetic product, for direct use by the user, that is to say, without being packed in a package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: NATURACOSMETICOS S.A.
    Inventors: Alfredo Rossi Neto, Ranato Wakimoto
  • Publication number: 20100135711
    Abstract: The writing tool 100 having an ink composition for a writing tool 12 in an ink holding tube 14, the ink composition for a writing tool 12 containing a metal powder, a gelling agent and spherical resin fine particles, wherein the viscosity (V1) at a shear rate of 1000 s?1 is no greater than 45 mPa·s and the viscosity (V2) at a shear rate of 0.01 s?1 is at least 100 Pa·s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: ZEBRA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masafumi YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20100129136
    Abstract: The present invention provides a joining member for connecting an ink accommodating member and a ballpoint pen tip provided in a ballpoint pen, the joining member comprising, as a constituent material, a resin comprising a copolymer of polyethylene terephthalate and polyethylene naphthalate. By this means, it is possible to provide a joining member for a ballpoint pen having, in particular, both sufficiently excellent transparency and gas barrier properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: ZEBRA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tomooki Okabe
  • Publication number: 20100098475
    Abstract: Provided are a writing instrument produced at a lower cost than conventional thermochromic writing instruments utilizing frictional heat, slim like a pencil and not bulky because it contains an ink directly in a barrel thereof, and excellent in portability; and a set of the writing instruments. The writing instrument 1 is obtained by directly filling a barrel thereof with an ink 2 which becomes colorless or colored, or undergoes a color change by heating and an ink follower 5 following the ink with its consumption; firmly fixing a writing tip portion 3 to the end of the barrel directly or via a relay member; and disposing a friction body 6 having an elasticity at the rear end portion of the barrel. The writing instrument set has a plurality of the writing instruments respectively different from each other in color tone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: THE PILOT INK CO., LTD
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Fujita, Youichi Takasu, Kuniyuki Senga
  • Publication number: 20100086343
    Abstract: A regulator structure of a cartridge roller ball pen is provided. The regulator structure is disposed within a front shell. A through hole is disposed in the center of the regulator for the disposal of a cotton core. A plurality of buffer regions formed of guide vanes is disposed on the surface of the regulator. A guide gap is disposed on an end of the regulator. Additionally, an ink discharge hole is disposed on the surface of the regulator. The ink discharge hole is communicated with the through hole. Thus, ink that expanded in volume due to heat is ink discharge buffered, and the ink is guided back into a cartridge ink box after the temperature is restored, so as to prevent the pollution resulted from ink ejected from the front end of the front shell, and to reduce the ink waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Hwan Yu Lung INC.
    Inventor: Shih-Lou LO
  • Patent number: 7678066
    Abstract: A massage and/or dispensing device includes a body, and an applicator element intended to be placed in contact with a surface to be massaged and/or a surface to which a product is to be applied. The applicator element is movably retained in the body or mounted for movement relative to the body. The arrangement further includes a cooling arrangement which includes means of expanding a refrigerant liquefied gas directly in contact with the applicator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Jacques Habatjou
  • Publication number: 20100054847
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispenser for a hand treatment product. The dispenser (1) comprises an applicator (3), a hand treatment product storage reservoir (5) in fluid communication with the applicator (3), and a restraining means (7) for restraining the dispenser to a support surface, wherein, in use, when a hand is moved across the applicator (3), hand treatment product is applied to the hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Adam F.R. Sutcliffe, Robin B.K. Chilton, Graeme H. Davies, Katie L. Goodwin
  • Publication number: 20100054848
    Abstract: The ink composition for a writing instrument according to the invention has an aqueous component containing water, a thixotropic agent, a polyhydric alcohol and a pigment, dispersed in an oil component having dyes and non-dye components, wherein the IOB value for all of the dyes in the oil component is no greater than 0.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: ZEBRA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mayumi Yamaguchi, Yu Tsukamoto, Akinori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20100003062
    Abstract: A slide body (6) is arranged in a cut-away portion of a holder 1 under a clip (2a) so as to not hinder writing or portability, and a safety mechanism is constituted so as to be engaged with the clip (2a). Due to functions of a knock rod cam (4a) of a knock rod (4) and a knock cam (3a) of a rotor (3), further, the rotor (3) is rotated and moved forward responsive to each knocking operation, a refill (7) is brought to a writing position and a holding position alternately responsive to each knocking operation due to a cam mechanism provided in the inner wall of an inner cylinder (2) and a reactive force of a spring (5). A slide body cam (6a) provided on the slide body (6) is incorporated in a portion of the cam mechanism so that the knock type writing instrument thrusts the pen point out, by one knock even after the safety operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Hisami Tamano, Yoshiharu Namiki
  • Patent number: 7641412
    Abstract: A ball-point pen, wherein a cover member (6) is fitted to a joint member (3) connecting a writing tip (1) rotatably supporting a writing ball (2) at the tip thereof to an ink storage tube. When the cover member (6) is fitted to the joint member (3) along the outer peripheral surface thereof, a part of the cover member does not come within 0.2 mm (within the range of the chain double-dashed line) from around the writing tip. Thus, even if the accuracies of parts and assembly machines are dispersed, a problem with an existing ball-point pen wherein a cover member is brought into contact with a writing tip and the writing tip is damaged in an assembly step can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koichi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20090263435
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions comprising at least one xanthine compound, preferably further comprising at least one agent which acts on capillary circulation and/or at least one natural moisturizing agent, which can be used to treat, or to reduce and/or minimize the appearance of, defects such as dark circles, bags and/or puffiness around eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventors: Anthony Potin, Isabelle Bossant, Camille Amar
  • Patent number: 7600937
    Abstract: An aqueous gel ballpoint pen 1 having an ink-storage tube storing an aqueous gel ink containing a pigment as a coloring agent, and a ballpoint pen tip having a ball rotatably held at its leading end and also having an ink flow pore which is formed so that the aqueous gel ink flows from the ink-storage tube to the ball, wherein an ink flow pore diameter r (unit: mm) in the ballpoint pen tip and a storage modulus G? (unit: Pa) at 20° C. of the aqueous gel ink satisfy conditions represented by the following formulas (1) and (2): 0.24?r?0.64??(1), and 1.3?G??16r?3.2??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Zebra Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 7594774
    Abstract: A writing instrument has a barrel and a tip section through which a writing substance is applied by the writing instrument. The barrel has a shape that is graspable in the hand of a user so as to allow the tip section to be moved against a surface to controllably supply a writing substance thereto. The tip section has a tip assembly that one of (a) is a nib of a fountain pen and (b) simulates in appearance a nib of a fountain pen. The tip section has a barrel end and a writing substance applying end. The writing instrument further includes a writing substance applying assembly. The writing substance applying assembly has a surface contacting end and a supply of a writing substance that is applied to a surface by bearing the surface contacting end against the surface. The writing substance applying assembly functions to supply the writing substance to a surface without the tip section performing a normal nib function for a fountain pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Inventor: Robert Kronenberger
  • Publication number: 20090196676
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tip for a writing instrument includes: a tip main body; a ball seat formed at the front end of the tip main body, communicated with the ink channel, and having a chamfer on the inner side thereof; a ball retained with a portion exposed, in the ball seat; and an elastic member disposed in the ink channel of the tip main body and always applying force to the ball in the exposure direction, in order to keep the tip clean and achieve a smooth line by preventing ink from remaining at the front end of the tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: DONG-A PENCIL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak-Jae KIM, Myeong-Ki KIM
  • Publication number: 20090129851
    Abstract: An aqueous gel ballpoint pen 1 having an ink-storage tube storing an aqueous gel ink containing a pigment as a coloring agent, and a ballpoint pen tip having a ball rotatably held at its leading end and also having an ink flow pore which is formed so that the aqueous gel ink flows from the ink-storage tube to the ball, wherein an ink flow pore diameter r (unit: mm) in the ballpoint pen tip and a storage modulus G? (unit: Pa) at 20° C. of the aqueous gel ink satisfy conditions represented by the following formulas (1) and (2): 0.24?r?0.64??(1), and 1.3?G??16r?3.2??(2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Zebra Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masafumi YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20090123219
    Abstract: A bottom filled, refillable, cylindrical roll-on bottle adapted to allow the consumer to purchase larger volumes of their favorite consumer products. The roll-on bottle includes a threaded/screw cap (located at the top of the bottle) to protect the roll-on ball and a threaded/screw cap (for the bottom of the bottle) to re-fill the product into the bottle with ease. In addition, we also created a bottom filled, refillable, cylindrical, roll-on bottle which will have an angle (at the top of the bottle) and the bottom, refillable cap will allow for a handle to be added thus making it easier for someone with limited mobility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventor: Carol Ann Baltzell
  • Patent number: 7524126
    Abstract: A device for at least one of packaging and dispensing a product may include a receptacle configured to contain a product and at least one body. The at least one body may include a binder and a plurality of particles associated with the binder. The at least one body may define at least one cavity visible to the naked eye, and the device may be configured so that, at least during use of the device, the at least one body is at least partially in contact with the product and at least some of the plurality of particles is at least partially in contact with the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Louis H. Gueret
  • Publication number: 20090092438
    Abstract: An applicator adapted for applying a liquid from a source of liquid to the skin of an individual subject. The applicator includes a housing delimiting a chamber, and a roller rotatably mounted in the housing with an adhesion side extending into the chamber and a transfer side extending out of the chamber. A cylinder is attached to the housing, at least one outlet and one through hole which are formed in the wall of the cylinder, is connecting the cylinder to the source of liquid and to the chamber, respectively, with the through holes axially and angularly displaced in relation to each other. A slider is arranged for sliding between first and second positions in the cylinder, a recess is formed in the slider, and the recess communicates with the source of liquid in the first position of the slider via the at least one first through hole and with the chamber in the second position of the slider via the at least one second through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: SANTOSOLVE AS
    Inventors: Thorfinn Ege, Oscar Rosengren, Christian Malm, Robert Axelsson
  • Patent number: 7473047
    Abstract: A device for applying a liquid or gel-like product, in particular a cosmetic product, comprising a rotatably supported ball serving as an applicator element, and a storage chamber for the product to be applied on a side of the ball in opposite relationship to an applicator side of the ball for loading the ball on its side in opposite relationship to its applicator side, wherein the storage chamber has a feed opening for the product to be applied. A vent opening is disposed behind the feed opening as viewed from the ball for venting the storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Schwan-Stabilo Cosmetics GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Friedrich Biegel
  • Publication number: 20080310908
    Abstract: A metered liquid dispensing device for dispensing a quantity of liquid from a container. The device includes an applicator and a rotatable metering device. The metering device includes an cavity or chamber and rotates from a first position, wherein the chamber is filled from the container, to a second position, wherein the liquid contents of the chamber flows into the applicator. The applicator may include a roll-on applicator or similar topical applicator. Seals may prevent leakage of liquid from apertures and openings during transitions and while in the first and second positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: METCON PLASTICS INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Antonio Ceccarelli, Gabriele Ceccarelli, Goyko Martinovic
  • Publication number: 20080286031
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for dispensing doses of fluid substances with different viscosities or densities, comprising a container (11), a piston (25) housed and sliding in a chamber (24) formed by a portion of the container, a load tank (33) formed by a remaining portion of said container and designed to contain the substance to be delivered, a metering mechanism (12) associated and moving with the piston (25), a preloaded thrusting device (27) associated with the piston with the metering mechanism to push it normally towards the substance in the load tank, and blocking means (12) between the metering mechanism and the container to alternately stop and release the piston to have it move forward under the thrust of said preloaded flexible device in lengths corresponding to a dose of the substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventor: Gianfranco de Paoli Ambrosi