Patents Assigned to Tetra Laval Holding & Finance S.A.
  • Patent number: 11134651
    Abstract: An auger assembly (1) for receiving and conveying cheese curd downstream along a cheese processing line (32) includes an auger housing (2), a first auger (3) having a first shaft (5) extending through the auger housing (2), a second auger (4) having a second shaft (6) extending through the auger housing (2) and arranged colinearly with the first shaft (5), a first bearing (9) mounted to the auger housing (2) and arranged at the end (7) of the first shaft (5), and a second bearing (10) mounted to the auger housing (2) and arranged at the end (8) of the second shaft (6). The first bearing (9) and second bearing (10) are colinear and facing each other. At least one slotted groove (11, 12) is formed the bearings (9, 10) to enable a cleaning fluid to contact a surface (13, 14) of the respective bearing (9, 10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Kyle Johnson, Michael Olson
  • Patent number: 11122768
    Abstract: A method for processing milk, including separating raw milk into cream and skim milk, determining protein contents in the skim milk and the cream, dividing the skim milk into a first skim milk portion and a second skim milk portion, filtering the second skim milk portion into a permeate and a protein rich retentate, determining protein content in the permeate, calculating which flow rates are required for the first skim milk portion, the cream remix portion and the permeate to obtain a predetermined protein content of a mixture of the first skim milk portion, the cream remix portion and the permeate, which together form a standardized milk product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Magnus Önnheim, Anna Loserius
  • Publication number: 20210284379
    Abstract: A packaging material is provided, comprising a core material layer and at least one polymer layer being laminated thereto. The core material layer is provided with at least one area being configured to assist in folding the packaging material into a bottom end corner of a package to be formed, wherein the packaging material comprises a first set of crease lines being designed to form a bottom end of the package, and a second set of crease lines being designed to form a main body of the package. The at least one area comprises an intersection of a plurality of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section, while a plurality of crease lines of the first set of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section and having a virtual extension through the intersection, are terminated such that they end at a distance from the intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca RONCHETTI, Andrea GIAMPIERI, Marcello BARBIERI, Davide MORCIANO
  • Publication number: 20210284409
    Abstract: A packaging material having a core layer and inside and outside laminate portions is provided. The packaging material comprises a first area to form a first package, and a second area to form a second and adjacent package. The first area and the second area have a transversal sealing area between them, and the core layer is provided with at least one weakening portion at the transversal sealing area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventor: Mattias LENNARTSSON
  • Patent number: 11116232
    Abstract: A method for producing a first milk product having a first fat content and a second milk product having a second fat content. The method includes separating raw milk into cream and skim milk, diverting a first part of the cream into a first cream pipe, and a second part of the cream into a second cream pipe, dividing the skim milk in the main skim milk pipe, such that a first part of the skim milk flows into a first skim milk pipe and a second part of the skim milk flows into a second skim milk pipe. Flow rates for the two cream parts and the skim milk parts are determined, and valves are adjusted based on the determined flow rates, such that the milk products are obtained when mixing the cream and skim milk parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventor: Magnus Önnheim
  • Publication number: 20210269189
    Abstract: There is described a pre-creased sheet packaging material for forming a sealed package comprising: a plurality of longitudinal crease lines, which extend along a longitudinal direction; a plurality of transversal crease lines, which extend along a transversal direction; at least one first additional crease line, which extends along a further direction, which is slanted with respect to longitudinal direction and transversal direction; a first joining point, at which longitudinal crease line and a transversal crease line join with respect to one another; and at least one first area, which is bounded by longitudinal crease line, transversal crease line and additional crease line; further direction being incident to first longitudinal crease line and to first transversal crease line in first joining point; at least one of first longitudinal crease line, first transversal crease line and first additional crease line being interrupted at first joining point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca RONCHETTI, Marcello BARBIERI, Marco POPPI, Alberto MAMELI, Roberto DE PIETRI TONELLI, Andrea GIAMPIERI, Davide MORCIANO
  • Patent number: 11104462
    Abstract: A guiding device for guiding a sheet of packaging material in a packaging machine for producing sealed packages includes: a plurality of folding rollers defining a passage for the sheet of packaging material, the passage having a longitudinal axis, wherein the plurality of folding rollers are configured to cause a first longitudinal edge of the sheet of packaging material to superimpose to a second longitudinal edge of the sheet of packaging material, opposite the first longitudinal edge, wherein the first longitudinal edge and the second longitudinal edge define an overlapping area having an extension, wherein the plurality of folding rollers include: a group of first folding rollers configured to rotate around first rotation axes, and at least one second folding roller configured to rotate around a second rotation axis, and a driving arrangement configured to move the at least one second folding roller towards and away from the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Costa, John Richard Pedretti, Luciano Amidei
  • Patent number: 11100630
    Abstract: A method of defect detection in packaging containers for liquid food is disclosed, where packaging containers are produced in a machine. The method comprises capturing image data of the packaging containers, defining image features in the image data representing defects in the packaging containers, associating the image features with different categories of defects, inputting the image features to a machine learning-based model for subsequent detection of categories of defects in packaging containers based on the image features, determining time stamps for the occurrence of defects in said subsequent detection, determining associated production parameters of the packaging containers in the machine for the occurrence of defects based on the time stamps, and correlating said occurrence and category of the defects with said production parameters. A system for defect detection in packaging containers is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Johan Wendel, Henrik Forsbäck, Bengt Ask
  • Patent number: 11097868
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminated liquid food packaging material, comprising a bulk layer of paper or carton or other cellulose-based material and outer layers of thermoplastic polymers on both sides, having a decorative print pattern arranged beneath one of the outer thermoplastic polymer layers. The invention further relates to the method for manufacturing the laminated packaging material and to a packaging container for liquid food packaging, comprising the laminated packaging material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Peter Öhman, Nils Toft
  • Patent number: 11097880
    Abstract: A packaging container having excellent water repelling properties on the outer or inner surface of the packaging container includes at least an outer resin layer, a paper core layer, and an inner resin layer. Minute protrusions are formed on the surface of the outer resin layer or the inner resin layer, and the minute protrusion structure has a fractal dimension of 1.08 to 1.17, wherein the fractal dimension is a numeric value calculated by the box count method at a resolution at which the length per one pixel is 0.5-1.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventor: Kazuya Ono
  • Patent number: 11094506
    Abstract: Barrier films comprising a PECVD barrier coating with diamond-like carbon are disclosed, along with methods of manufacturing such films, and laminated packaging materials comprising such films, in particular intended for liquid food packaging are disclosed. Packaging containers comprising the laminated packaging material or being made from the laminated packaging material, in particular to a packaging container intended for liquid food packaging are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre Fayet, Jerome Larrieu
  • Publication number: 20210245949
    Abstract: A laminated packaging material for liquid food products comprising, a core layer of paper or paperboard or other cellulose-based material, a laminate portion being arranged on a first side of the core layer, a dark colored flexographic ink composition printed onto the free surface of the laminate portion, the dark colored ink composition comprises color bases mixed at a ratio such that a total energy absorption by the dark colored flexographic ink composition, when provided on the laminated packaging material, is below 80%, such as below 70% in an emission spectra from a tungsten light source in the region 250-2500 nm at a temperature of 3000 K, the dark colored flexographic ink composition has a color space lightness value L*?25, and a color space difference equal to or lower than 6, with respect to a specified black reference composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Sverker OLSSON, Anders GLEMMING, Martin BÄCKMAN, Christer KARLSSON
  • Patent number: 11086782
    Abstract: A method of logging process data in a PLC controlled equipment is disclosed. Sections of a PLC application code comprise tasks configured to execute program functions at specific execution rates. Each of the tasks comprise program functions having dedicated memory areas assigned as tags, and each data entry of the process data comprises a tag value and an associated process value. The method comprises receiving process data from the PLC application code, assigning process values to threads of a thread pool, and receiving, for each of the threads, in a respective data table associated with each of the threads, the tag- and process values of the received process data, and determining a hash code for each of the tags according to a hash function of the respective data table for arranging the tag values and the associated process values in the respective data table according to said hash code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Lukas Karlsson, Ashraf Zarur
  • Publication number: 20210237325
    Abstract: A molding apparatus that injection molds an opening device on a packaging material sheet includes first and second molding units to injection mold a wall portion of the opening device on the sheet; the first molding unit comprising first and second molding elements configured to cooperate in contact to delimit at least part of a mold cavity fillable with molten material for forming a pull-member of the opening device; the mold cavity being delimited at least by first and second surfaces defined by the first and second molding elements respectively; a third molding unit cooperable with the first and second molding elements to delimit the mold cavity, and defining a third surface, facing the first and second surfaces and delimiting, together with these latter, the mold cavity; the third surface is shaped to be equidistant from the first and second surfaces when the first and second molding elements cooperate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Pietro MARTINI, Francesca TAVONI, Giulio BERTANI, Maurizio FILIPPINI
  • Patent number: 11074534
    Abstract: A method of determining a microbiological risk level in food, comprising determining zero-inflated binomial (ZIB) distribution parameters (?, p); i) determining cumulative relative frequencies (fo, fi, f2, . .. , fx) for a number of occurrences (0, 1, 2, x) of defective samples; ii) calculating a vector of a sub-set of zero-inflation parameters (?) of k+1 elements according to; o/o=[0, 1* fo/k, 2*fo/ k, k*fo/k]; iii) calculating a vector of a sub-set of first parameters (?) based on the sub-set of zero-inflation parameter (?); iv) for the vector pairs (p, ?) in the sub-set of first parameters and the sub¬set of zero-inflation parameters, determining a square error between said cumulative relative frequencies and cumulative theoretical probabilities Px of having ?x occurrences over N samples for a ZIB distribution; v) determining the zero-inflation parameter lt) and the first parameter (p) as the vector pair providing the least square error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Luca Piccicuto, Pietro Tarantino
  • Patent number: 11066223
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an opening device comprising a first portion on one side of a fibre based packaging laminate and a second portion on an opposite side of the fibre based packaging laminate, the first and second portion being formed in one and the same piece and joined by at least one material bridge extending through the packaging laminate. The present invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the opening device and to a packaging material to be used is such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Pär Andersson, Pär Rydberg, Göran Johansson, Mattias Lennartsson, Thorbjörn Andersson, Per Ohlsson
  • Patent number: 11046059
    Abstract: Barrier films comprising a PECVD barrier coating from diamond-like carbon are disclosed, along with methods of manufacturing such films, and laminated packaging materials comprising such films, in particular for liquid food packaging, are disclosed. Packaging containers comprising the laminated packaging material or being made from the laminated packaging material, in particular a packaging container for liquid food packaging, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Jerome Larrieu, Pierre Fayet
  • Patent number: 11046060
    Abstract: A packaging laminate that includes a barrier film having a PECVD barrier coating of diamond-like carbon is disclosed, along with a method of manufacturing such films, and laminated packaging materials comprising such films, in particular intended for liquid food packaging are disclosed. Packaging containers that include the laminated packaging material or being made from the laminated packaging material, in particular to a packaging container intended for liquid food packaging are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Cesare Lorenzetti, Pierre Fayet, Gil Rochat, Claude Bergerioux
  • Patent number: D926030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Marcello Barbieri, Alberto Mameli
  • Patent number: D926570
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Anna Genowefa Engelbrecht, Nicoletta Marangoni, Davide Morciano, Giorgia Zanotti, Carlo Forcellini, Marcello Barbieri