Patents Examined by David J. Walczak
  • Patent number: 12290159
    Abstract: A frozen serum and applicator thereof may include a mold having a first half releasably engaged with a second half. When engaged, the first half and the second half may form a reservoir therebetween to accept a volume of a serum. The serum may be frozen within the mold to produce a frozen serum having at least one receiver molded thereon to releasable engage with an applicator configured to permit the frozen serum to be rolled. An opening may be provided on the mold to permit the serum to be disposed within the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Christina Chamchoum
  • Patent number: 12290223
    Abstract: A floor cleaning apparatus. The apparatus has a cleaning head portion for engaging a floor surface during cleaning, an upstanding portion for maneuvering movement of the cleaning head portion, a liquid delivery assembly, a handle portion extending from the upstanding portion and a sealed liquid storage container. The assembly includes a single needle defining a first passageway for allowing cleaning detergent from the sealed storage container to travel to the cleaning head portion therethrough and a second passageway for allowing as or air to travel from the surrounding to the sealed storage container for pressure equalization, and wherein the needle has a non-cylindrical configuration and a flattened configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Tung Hing Plastic Manufactory Limited
    Inventors: Sven Eschrich, Kin Wong Yau, Heung Kin Chan
  • Patent number: 12285967
    Abstract: A writing instrument and a pen tip part include: a pen tip which includes a writing portion and has a directional specification for writing of the writing portion; a cylindrical inner cylinder which fixes the pen tip; a cylindrical outer cylinder into which the inner cylinder can be inserted and which includes a finger guide portion on an outer peripheral surface; and a fixture which fixes the outer cylinder to the inner cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: THE SAILOR PEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakadai
  • Patent number: 12274347
    Abstract: A compressible distributor for fluid product, of a longitudinal axis and of the type including an elastically compressible body intended to accommodate the fluid product an applicator mounted on the elastically compressible body and extending it longitudinally, and a longitudinal distributing member of the fluid product intended to convey the fluid product from the interior of the elastically compressible body in the direction of the applicator, the applicator is provided with two outlet orifices opening onto an external surface of the applicator and allowing the distribution of the fluid product, where the distributor has each outlet orifice, at the level of the external surface of the applicator, an elongated shape along an axis, and in that the axes of the two outlet orifices belong to the same plane parallel to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TEXEN
    Inventors: Margot Labeylie, Denis Paccaud
  • Patent number: 12275271
    Abstract: Provided is a ballpoint pen refill including: an ink storage tube made of a synthetic resin and storing an ink thereinside; a ball holder made of a synthetic resin and attached to a distal end of the ink storage tube; a ball pressing rod mounted inside the ball holder; and a writing ball stored in a distal end of the ball holder and having a rear end side held by the ball pressing rod, in which the ball pressing rod includes: a fixing portion fixed to the ball holder; a movable portion slidable in a front-rear direction with respect to the ball holder; a compression portion connecting the fixing portion and the movable portion; and a rearward movement restricting portion protruding from a distal end of the fixing portion and provided with a gap from a rear end of the compression portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuichiro Homma
  • Patent number: 12274348
    Abstract: A lotion application device is used for applying creams or lotions on difficult-to-reach places on the body, like the feet. The lotion application device comprises a base component that is configured with an open cavity for a user to insert at least one foot. Within the open cavity of the base component, an electrically powered brush with two spinning brush heads is positioned. The electrically powered brush is operated via a remote control. Further, lotion or ointment is stored within the base component and dispensed onto a user's feet and ankles, as needed. Once a person places their foot into the open cavity of the base component, he/she can activate the device with the remote control and utilize the gentle scrubbing brush heads to evenly distribute lotion to treat dry and cracked skin on the feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Inventor: Frank Washington
  • Patent number: 12268289
    Abstract: A bottle including a reservoir for a cosmetic liquid and including a longitudinal neck between the interior and the exterior, an applicator mounted in the neck and including an application tip to apply the product to a user's body, the tip formed from a porous material. A porous wick is formed by, or connected to, the application tip, the wick extending in the reservoir to dip into the product, the application tip being mounted in the neck for imperviousness to the product, and the bottle including at least one channel extending in the neck between the interior of the reservoir and the exterior of the bottle, the at least one channel having a cross-section calibrated to allow passage of air while opposing product passage. Included is an insert between an interior surface of the neck and an external surface of the application tip, with at least one channel formed by the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: CHANEL PARFUMS BEAUTE
    Inventor: Paulo Fogueteiro
  • Patent number: 12262805
    Abstract: A refill unit includes a lift shell and a holder. The lift shell includes: a shell cylinder, which is shaped as a hollow column to form a shell space with an insertion hole formed in a lower surface, and a shell coupler part, which extends downward around the insertion hole to form an enclosing space and has an outwardly protruding shell curb formed on a lower portion. The holder includes: a holder body arranged within the shell space; and a holder coupler part extending downwards from the holder body to be inserted through the insertion hole into the enclosing space. The holder coupler part has a holder space formed on the inside and an inwardly protruding holder curb formed on a lower portion, with the holder coupler part open towards the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAMHWA CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kyungchang Lee, Ho Sang Kang, Kwan Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 12251007
    Abstract: A cosmetic deposition device comprises a housing; a printhead within the housing, the printhead including one or more nozzle to dispense one or more formulation; an applicator face connected to the housing, wherein an exterior side of the applicator face includes a roller adjacent to the one or more nozzle, and the applicator face is configured to rotate with respect to the housing, and the applicator face is detained at more than one rotational setting with respect to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: L'Oreal, Prinker Korea Inc.
    Inventors: Maya Kelley, Fred Orsita, Juwan Hong, Kyu Suk Lee, Yong Min Jeong, Tae Sik Yun, Jong In Lee
  • Patent number: 12239207
    Abstract: A packaged deodorant stick product comprising a deodorant stick composition, a retaining member and a holder, the deodorant stick composition being mounted on the retaining member and the retaining member comprises one of a bayonet element and a socket and the holder comprises the other of the bayonet element and the socket, wherein the bayonet element is lockably receivable within the socket such that the retaining member is removably connectable to the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CONOPCO, INC.
    Inventors: Frank Van Der Blom, Benjamin George Oglesby, Cornelius Sebastianus Maria Verhoeve
  • Patent number: 12239208
    Abstract: A rod-shaped cosmetic includes a rod-shaped main body part composed of a cosmetic composition, and a cavity part extending in the longitudinal direction of the rod-shaped main body part and opening at one end or at both ends of the rod-shaped main body part is provided inside the rod-shaped main body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 12239206
    Abstract: A packaging tube includes a cartridge core and a base. The cartridge core and the base are both made of metal materials, the cartridge core has an axial direction in space, and the cartridge core includes a bead, a fork and a spiral in sequence from inside to outside. The inner wall of the spiral is provided with a thread structure, when the spiral rotates relative to the fork, the thread structure drives the bead to slide in the axial direction relative to the fork, an adaptation structure capable of being inserted and pulled in the axial direction is provided between the fork and the base, and the adaptation structure limits the relative movement of the fork and the base in the axial direction and in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG AXILONE SHUNHUA ALUMINUM & PLASTIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yongqing Fang, Weifeng Zhu, Bokun Ni, Junjie Huang
  • Patent number: 12241246
    Abstract: A sealant dispensing system includes a sealant dispensing trowel having a handle and a trowel pad, where the trowel pad includes a trowel surface having an opening thereon through which sealant is configured to flow for applying sealant to a building surface. The trowel pad further includes a concave portion on the trowel surface with the trowel pad including a leading edge and a trailing edge with the concave portion extending to the trailing edge and with the opening on the trowel surface being disposed at the concave portion. In a particular configuration the concave portion is narrower at the opening and wider at the trailing edge, with the trowel surface including a flat portion and the concave portion being recessed relative to the flat portion and having a depth relative to the flat portion that is greater at the trailing edge than at the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Altenloh, Brinck & Co. U.S., Inc.
    Inventor: Jason R. Wigboldy
  • Patent number: 12232674
    Abstract: A scrub body, a scrub anchoring system, and a method for securing and releasing a tube coupler into and from a scrub body are provided. The scrub body can comprise two portions, or regions, within a single, unibody sponge-like material or as two similar or dissimilar layers within the sponge-like material. The scrub body includes an anchoring pocket extending into the scrub body between the portions, regions or layers, to accommodate a tube coupler releasably secured inside the anchoring pocket. The scrub body with anchoring pocket can be discarded when worn out while the more expensive tube coupler can be readily removed from the anchoring pocket and re-inserted into a new scrub body to provide the same low-flow liquid releasing tube into a new scrub body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Geyser Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Ballesteros, Ian M. Anderson
  • Patent number: 12232591
    Abstract: A contents container may include: a container part having a space defined to accommodate contents and including a spout portion disposed on one end of the container part, a shoulder part detachably coupled to the spout portion of the container part, a lifting part coupled to the sealing wall of the shoulder part, a rotating part coupled to the first guide part of the shoulder part, and a cover part that is coupled to the lifting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: YONWOO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Hwan Kim, Yu Seob Kim
  • Patent number: 12220937
    Abstract: A writing ball capable of suppressing wear of a ball seat of a ballpoint pen tip and obtaining stable ink outflow, a writing ball that is a sphere, the sphere comprising, at least: a first hard component containing a first metal; a second hard component containing a second metal; and a binding component, the writing ball comprising: a first outer surface from which the first hard component is exposed, the first outer surface being an outermost surface of the sphere; and a recess including, as a bottom surface, a second outer surface from which the second hard component is exposed, the second outer surface being recessed inward from the first outer surface, wherein the first outer surface includes a smooth surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Takayama
  • Patent number: 12220040
    Abstract: Cosmetic dispensers including a base, for example, having a cavity and an interior surface where the interior surface includes a spiral recess. The cosmetic dispenser may further include a pedestal assembly received within the cavity of the base. The pedestal assembly can include a pedestal having a base plate at a first distal end of the pedestal and a cup member at a second distal end opposite the first distal end. The cup member may be configured to receive a cosmetic that extends above the cup member. The sleeve may be movably received within the cavity, and can include at least one engaging element coupled to the spiral recess. The engaging element may be configured to slide along the spiral recess to raise and lower the sleeve. In embodiments, the sleeve is configured to completely surround the cosmetic in a raised first position, and is configured to at least partially not surround the cosmetic in a lowered second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: AMPAC Limited
    Inventors: James Christopher Wightman, Gary E. Myer
  • Patent number: 12220039
    Abstract: A dispensing container includes: an operation portion including a dispensing member, the dispensing member extending in an up-down direction and being provided with a spiral groove; a sleeve surrounding the outside of the dispensing member and provided so as to be rotatable on a container axis; a middle plate body holding contents and provided inside the sleeve so as to be movable in the up-down direction in a state where rotation of the middle plate body on the container axis relative to the sleeve is restricted; and a movable tube extending downward from the middle plate body and including an engagement protrusion that engages with the spiral groove. A sliding portion, which is formed of softer material than either one member of the sleeve and the operation portion and on which the other member of the sleeve and the operation portion slides as the sleeve and the operation portion rotate relative to each other, is fixed to the one member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akinori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12214617
    Abstract: A biodegradable marker pen including a barrel, a cap, and an ink reservoir. The barrel has a hollow cylindrical structure, the ink reservoir is placed in the barrel, and the cap is detachably coupled with the barrel hermetically. The barrel, the cap, and the ink reservoir comprise 2 to 10 mass percentage of a biodegradable masterbatch respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Sunny Pro Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Ting Hsieh, Jung-Shan Huang, Shun-Chih Fang, Chao-Han Huang, Siu-Hei Choi
  • Patent number: 12207723
    Abstract: A lotion dispensing assembly includes a canister that is foraminous to contain and subsequently release a fluid skin treatment. A first handle is rotatably attached to the canister which can be gripped by a user. A second handle is removably attachable to the canister which can be gripped by the user thereby facilitating the user to position the canister against their back to release the fluid skin treatment onto the user's back. A rotation unit is integrated into the canister to rotate the canister on the first handle to evenly apply the fluid skin treatment on the user's back. A heating element is integrated into the canister such that the heating element is in thermal communication with the canister to warm the fluid skin treatment in the canister when the heating element is turned on thereby enhancing comfort for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Monica Kelley