Patents by Inventor Ernesto Violato

Ernesto Violato 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: 9474337
    Abstract: A female component of a press stud including a monolithic body made by hot forming and defining a housing seat for a retaining member housed in the housing seat and intended to lock a corresponding male component in position selectively during use. A locking lip, integral with the monolithic body, extends from the housing seat and is deformed so as to partially close the housing seat in order to secure the retaining member therein. In order to produce the female component, the monolithic body is hot formed, and the locking lip is deformed after the introduction of the retaining member into the housing seat, by hot or cold crimping, upsetting or deformation in general.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: RIRI S.A.
    Inventor: Ernesto Violato
  • Patent number: 9003618
    Abstract: A reinforcing eyelet for a hole, comprising two annular metal plates (3, 23, 43; 5, 25, 45) capable of being fastened, in use, the one opposed to the other on a substrate (T). An annular pad (12, 32, 52) placed adjacent to a first (5, 23, 45) of the two annular metal plates and intended to make contact, in use, with the substrate (T) in order to improve its bond to the reinforcing eyelet. The outer edge (15, 33, 53) of the said first annular metal plate (5, 23, 45) being folded over part of the annular pad (12, 32, 52) in order to hold it and conceal it from view in the fastened condition of the reinforcing eyelet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Riri S.A.
    Inventor: Ernesto Violato
  • Publication number: 20140109352
    Abstract: A female component of a press stud including a monolithic body made by hot forming and defining a housing seat for a retaining member housed in the housing seat and intended to lock a corresponding male component in position selectively during use. A locking lip, integral with the monolithic body, extends from the housing seat and is deformed so as to partially close the housing seat in order to secure the retaining member therein. In order to produce the female component, the monolithic body is hot formed, and the locking lip is deformed after the introduction of the retaining member into the housing seat, by hot or cold crimping, upsetting or deformation in general.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventor: Ernesto VIOLATO
  • Publication number: 20140033474
    Abstract: A reinforcing eyelet for a hole, comprising two annular metal plates (3, 23, 43; 5, 25, 45) capable of being fastened, in use, the one opposed to the other on a substrate (T). An annular pad (12, 32, 52) placed adjacent to a first (5, 23, 45) of the two annular metal plates and intended to make contact, in use, with the substrate (T) in order to improve its bond to the reinforcing eyelet; The outer edge (15, 33, 53) of the said first annular metal plate (5, 23, 45) being folded over part of the annular pad (12, 32, 52) in order to hold it and conceal it from view in the fastened condition of the reinforcing eyelet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: Ernesto VIOLATO
  • Publication number: 20120304427
    Abstract: A press-stud comprises a female element having a seat in which is accommodated a resiliently deformable anchoring member (22) which is to anchor a male element in a closed configuration of the stud. The anchoring member is a ring having a flattened cross-section with an inner edge (24) on which are defined substantially freely bending arcuate lips (29) which project in a cantilevered manner from a support wall of the female element (10) by not more than one third of the width of the flattened cross-section of the anchoring ring (22). Preferably, the press-stud has an overall height, in the closed configuration, which does not exceed 2.5 mm, and a ratio between the diameter and the height which is greater than 3.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventor: Ernesto Violato