Patents Assigned to Valois
  • Fixing member for fitting a pump or a valve on a reservoir
    Patent number: 7497357
    Abstract: A fastener member (1) for fastening a dispenser member (4) on a fluid reservoir, the fastener member (1) having a fastener ring (2) and a covering hoop (3). The fastener ring (2) includes a reception device that receives the dispenser member (4), and a fastener device that fastens on the reservoir, the covering hoop (3) being mounted by axial engagement around the ring (2) in such a manner as to mask it at least in part. The hoop (3) includes a hook co-operating with a retention device (225) formed by the ring (2), the hook (35) prevents the hoop (3) from rotating around the ring (2) and preventing the hoop (3) from moving in axial translation. The retention device formed by the ring (2) includes a retention housing (225) that co-operates with the hook. The hook includes at least one barb profile (352) adapted to bite into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventors: Xavier Brahim, Alain Lafosse
  • Ring for Aerosol Dispenser Valve
    Publication number: 20090008584
    Abstract: A ring (10) for disposing around a valve body (21) of an aerosol dispenser valve (20) that is mounted by means of a fastener element (50), such as a crimpable capsule, on a reservoir (1) containing substance to be dispensed, said ring (10) being characterized in that it comprises at least an outer portion (15) and an inner portion (11, 11?) that co-operates with said valve body, said outer portion (15) comprising a deformable axial wall portion (16) that extends towards the bottom of the reservoir and that is capable of deforming elastically in a radially-inward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Valois SAS
    Inventors: Jacques Fontela, David Goujon, Christophe Jacuk
  • Fluid dispenser having a deformable sleeve
    Patent number: 7469802
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser assembly including a fluid dispenser (1) having a fluid reservoir (11) and a dispensing orifice (12). The dispenser also includes a sleeve (2) in which the fluid dispenser (1) is slidably mounted. The sleeve (2) is deformable between a dispenser reception position, in which it holds the dispenser (1) inside the sleeve (2), and a dispenser dispensing position, in which the dispenser (1) can be extracted from the sleeve (2), in particular by gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventors: Alex Milian, Fabienne Uguen
  • Cover Member, Method of Producing One Such Member and Dispenser Comprising One Such Member
    Publication number: 20080296309
    Abstract: A covering member (1) for mounting on a fastener ring (2), the ring and the covering member co-operating with each other to form a fastener device for fastening a dispenser system (3), such as a pump or a valve, on a receptacle neck (40), the covering member presenting a general configuration that is substantially cylindrical and that includes an outside wall (14) and an inside wall (15) for coming into clamping contact around the ring (2), the inside wall forming an array of grooves (16, 17) hollowed out in a base zone (151), the grooves extending in at least two different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Valois SAS
    Inventors: Gilles Jourdin, Cedric Mesnil
  • Fastener assembly for fastening a fluid dispenser member
    Patent number: 7451899
    Abstract: A fastener assembly (1, 2) for fastening a fluid dispenser member (3), such as a pump or a valve, designed to be associated with a neck (51) of a receptacle (5), said assembly comprising: a fastener ring (1) provided with securing means (10) for securing the ring to the receptacle neck, and fastener means (11) for fastening the dispenser member (3); and a trim band (2) mounted around the ring (1) in a manner such as to mask said ring at least in part; said fastener assembly being characterized in that said band is made of at least two distinct materials, said two materials comprising a metal material (20) and a plastics material (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S
    Inventor: Olivier de Pous
  • Fluid product spray head and distributing pump comprising this spray head
    Patent number: 7448559
    Abstract: A fluid product spray head (40) comprises a spray orifice (45) and a spray profile (100) upstream from this spray orifice (45). Said spray profile has a swirling chamber (101) connected, during the spraying of the product, to the spray orifice (45) and to at least one non-radial channel (110) connected to the swirling chamber (101). The spray profile (100) is provided in the bottom of the spray head (40). A obturator (38) interacts with the spray orifice (45) while being able to be displaced and/or deformed between a closing position of the spray orifice (45) and an open position of the spray orifice (45). The inventive spray head (40) has an axially hollow sleeve (150) that accommodates the spray profile (100), and said obturator (38) axially displaces and/or deforms at least partially in said sleeve (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventors: François Le Maner, Wilfrid Beaujour
  • Fluid product dispensing pump and fluid product dispensing device comprising same
    Patent number: 7445134
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser pump having a pump body (10) in which at least one piston (15) slides between a rest position and an actuated position, and a turret (20) fixed to the pump body (10). The turret (20) includes an outer portion (21) extending outside the pump body (10) and on the outer portion (21) a support (30) for receiving and holding a sealing gasket (40). The support (30) including a radial shoulder (31), the gasket (40) being snap-fastened onto the shoulder (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventor: Jean-Marc Pardonge
  • Breath actuated dry powder inhaler and tape dose strip
    Patent number: 7434579
    Abstract: A dry powder inhaler, including a powder dispersion engine with one or more beads in a dispersion chamber, an airflow path leading into the dispersion chamber, an elongated tape with spaced apart blisters, each blister holding a dose of a dry powder, and blister opening mechanism that sequentially opens the blisters on the elongated tape and releases the dose of each blister into the airflow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S
    Inventors: Matthew Young, Stuart Kay, Neil Harrison, Ian Darby, Peter Crew, Anne Powell, Cheryl Vanessa Rogerson
  • Valve gasket
    Patent number: 7396019
    Abstract: A valve gasket for sealing a fluid dispenser device comprising a valve, in particular a metering valve, mounted on a fluid reservoir, said gasket being characterized in that it comprises an alloy of vulcanized ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and/or of butyl (IIR) or of vulcanized halobutyl (CIIR or BIIR) with one or more materials selected from the group constituted by polyoctene ethylene (POE), ethylene propylene (EP), ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) and chloroprene rubber (CR), all of these materials being vulcanized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S
    Inventors: Sandrine Barranco, Patrice Leone
  • Fluid product spraying device
    Patent number: 7389946
    Abstract: A fluid spray device having a body (10) provided with a spray orifice (15), a reservoir (20) containing the fluid to be sprayed, a spray device (30) that sprays one or more doses of the fluid contained in the reservoir (20); and an actuator (40) that actuates the spray device (30). The reservoir (20) is closed in a sealed manner before the spray device is actuated for the first time, the body (10) including reservoir opening device (11) adapted to open the reservoir (20) while the device is being actuated. The reservoir (20) forms a sealed unit that is separate from the body (10), filled with fluid and hermetically sealed before it is assembled in the body (10). The body (10) includes a receiver device (13) that receives the reservoir, and a lateral access device that enables the filled reservoir (20) to be assembled sideways into the body (10) and to be secured therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S
    Inventors: Pascal Bruna, Matthieu Savalle
  • Fluid Product Dispensing Device
    Publication number: 20080099016
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser device, in particular a dry-powder inhaler, including a plurality of individual reservoirs (21) each containing a single dose of fluid, such as powder, said reservoirs (21) being made in the form of an elongate strip (20), opening means (40) being provided for opening a reservoir on each actuation, said device including strip receiver means for receiving the strip portion (35) supporting the empty reservoirs, said receiver means comprising a rotary element that is fastened to the front end of said reservoir strip (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: Valois SAS
    Inventors: Andrew Pocock, Stuart Kay, Paul Greenhalgh, Wayne O'Hara, Xavier Donnette
  • Fluid Product Dispensing Device
    Publication number: 20080099015
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser device including at least one individual reservoir (21) containing a single dose of fluid, opening means (40) being provided for opening an individual reservoir (21) each time the device is actuated, said opening means (40) comprising perforator and/or cutter means (41) and movable support means (50), said movable support means (50) being adapted to displace an individual reservoir (21) against said perforator and/or cutter means (41) on each actuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: Valois SAS
    Inventors: Andrew Pocock, Stuart Kay, Paul Greenhalgh, Wayne O'Hara, Xavier Donnette
  • Fluid product dispensing device
    Patent number: 7363924
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser device having a reservoir (1), a metering valve (2) having a valve member (3), and an automatic trigger system for actuating the valve. The trigger system has a resilient element (10) moved manually into a cocked position. The trigger system releases the resilient element (10) and moves to an actuating position by moving the valve member (3) towards its dispensing position. The resilient element (10) is returned manually to its rest position. The fluid dispenser device includes a valve member release system co-operating with the reservoir (1) or with the valve member (3) so that, after dispensing the fluid, the valve member (3) is released from the force exerted by the resilient element (10), so that, after the device is actuated, the valve member (3) is returned to its rest position by the return spring of the valve, independently of the position of the resilient element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Stradella
  • Fluid product dispenser
    Patent number: 7350677
    Abstract: A fluid product dispenser having a reservoir of fluid product defining a moveable actuating wall, a distribution orifice, and a spring structured to act on the actuating wall to produce a state of maximum volume of the reservoir. The spring co-operates with an arming element structured to cause the spring from an initial state in which the spring does not bias the actuating wall to a state in which the spring biases the actuating wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S
    Inventors: Frédéric Duquet, Hervé Pennaneac'h
  • Blister Assembly For Inhalation Device
    Publication number: 20080072898
    Abstract: A blister pack for an inhaler, the blister pack comprising a blister support (10) with a plurality of blisters (11), each blister (11) being hermetically sealed by a closure layer (20), the blister support (10) being in the form of an elongate strip, the blisters (11) being disposed one after the other along said blister support strip, said blister support (10) including two lateral profiles (15), one on either longitudinal side of said blister support (10), said lateral profiles being formed by alternating depressions (18) and projections (16), each projection including an abutment surface (17) for displacing said blister pack in accurate manner each time said inhaler is actuated, each abutment surface (17) being connected to the adjacent abutment surface (17) via a slide surface (19) formed by each depression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventor: Michel Quoniam
  • Fluid dispenser device having reservoir with adjustment mechanism cooperating with device body
    Patent number: 7325544
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser device comprising a fluid reservoir (10), and a dispensing member (20), such as a metering valve, fitted to said reservoir (10), said reservoir (10) and said valve (20) being assembled into a body (30) incorporating a dispensing orifice (31), said device being characterized in that it includes an adjustment element (40) disposed between the reservoir (10) and the body (30), said adjustment element (40) being provided with adapter means (45) that are movable and/or deformable and that co-operate with the body (30) and/or with the reservoir (10) while the reservoir (10) is being assembled into the body (30), thereby compensating for the manufacturing tolerances of said body (30) and/or of said reservoir and/or said dispensing member (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventor: Pascal Bruna
  • Breath actuated dry powder inhaler and tape dose strip
    Patent number: 7322354
    Abstract: A method for operating a dry powder inhaler, the dry powder inhaler having a dose tape having spaced apart doses of a powder pharmaceutical, each dose being in a respective sealed blister. The inhaler includes a breath actuated blister opening system that sequentially opens a blister on the tape. The method involves routing the dose tape between first and second rotating elements; spring biasing the first rotating element to turn in a first direction; holding the first rotating element from rotating against the spring biasing; and releasing the first rotating element, and allowing it to rotate a fraction of one rotation, when air flows adjacent to the first rotating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S
    Inventors: Matthew Young, Stuart Kay, Neil Harrison, Ian Darby, Peter Crew, Anne Powell, Cheryl Vanessa Rogerson
  • Breath actuated dry powder inhaler and tape dose strip
    Patent number: 7322353
    Abstract: A dry powder inhaler, including a housing having an airflow path leading from an inlet, past a powder release location, to a mouthpiece; a drive spool engaged with a capstan adjacent to the powder release location; a spring biasing a ratchet into engagement with the drive spool; and a breath trigger in the airflow path. The breath trigger is moveable from a first position, wherein the breath trigger holds the ratchet, to a second position, wherein the breath trigger releases the ratchet to allow the ratchet to turn the drive spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventors: Matthew Young, Stuart Kay, Neil Harrison, Ian Darby, Peter Crew, Anne Powell, Cheryl Vanessa Rogerson
  • Inhaler
    Patent number: D557799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventors: Paul Greenhalgh, Andrew Gordon Pocock, Stuart Brian William Kay, Wayne O'Hara
  • Flask and cap
    Patent number: D563223
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Valois S.A.S.
    Inventors: Gérard Cornet, Patrick Bousquel