Patents by Inventor Axel BELAIR

Axel BELAIR has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11747836
    Abstract: This cartridge comprises a housing, a base, attached to the housing and enclosing a chamber for mixing a cold fluid and a hot fluid, a thermostatic control system, arranged in the chamber and capable of controlling the temperature of the mixture leaving the chamber to a setpoint temperature, and a flow rate adjustment system, suitable for adjusting the flow rate of the mixture from outside the housing. This adjustment system comprises both a control member, which is able to move at least partially inside the housing in such a way as to vary the flow rates of cold fluid and hot fluid supplying the chamber, and an adjustment ring, which is arranged outside the housing and is centred on an axis (X-X) around which this ring is able to rotate relative to the housing, the ring being connected, through the housing, to the control member, by a connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: VERNET
    Inventor: Axel Belair
  • Publication number: 20220163985
    Abstract: This cartridge comprises a housing, a base, attached to the housing and enclosing a chamber for mixing a cold fluid and a hot fluid, a thermostatic control system, arranged in the chamber and capable of controlling the temperature of the mixture leaving the chamber to a setpoint temperature, and a flow rate adjustment system, suitable for adjusting the flow rate of the mixture from outside the housing. This adjustment system comprises both a control member, which is able to move at least partially inside the housing in such a way as to vary the flow rates of cold fluid and hot fluid supplying the chamber, and an adjustment ring, which is arranged outside the housing and is centred on an axis (X-X) around which this ring is able to rotate relative to the housing, the ring being connected, through the housing, to the control member, by a connecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Axel BELAIR
  • Publication number: 20200310473
    Abstract: A cartridge has a base, a slide, a thermostatic actuator, a cover, and a regulation and control system. A mixing chamber has base in an assembled state has two superimposed base parts which, in an assembled state, are superimposed one against the other along an axis with an interpositioned seal. The slide is movable in the chamber to inversely vary the flow sections of two passages, supplied through the two base parts and delimited axially between the slide and the two base parts. The thermostatic actuator in the chamber moves the slide to a regulation position as a function of the temperature of the mixture exiting the chamber. The cover is secured to the base in the assembled cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Axel BELAIR, Cédric MOLLARD
  • Publication number: 20200285257
    Abstract: A cartridge has a controller, which is movable between an initial position, an intermediate position and a terminal position, an adjuster, which includes a positioner actuated by the controller from a retracted position to an extended position when the controller is moved from the intermediate position to the terminal position, a shutter, which is movable to differentially modify the respective flow rate entering the cartridge, a thermo-actuator, which has a primary part fixedly attached to the shutter and a secondary part moving relative to the primary part as a function of an outlet temperature, and an over-travel spring, which is interposed between the positioner and the secondary part. The positioner is held in the retracted position, when the controller is moved from the initial position to the intermediate position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Axel BELAIR, Pierre-Olivier FASSOLETTE