Patents by Inventor Florent Duqueroie
Florent Duqueroie 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).
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Patent number: 7059333Abstract: An application member for applying a product to a surface may comprise a base portion and a plurality of teeth extending from the base portion. Each of the plurality of teeth may be formed of an elastically deformable material and may comprise a free end and an end adjacent to the base portion. At least one of the teeth may further comprise a dispensing orifice at the free end and a passage configured to enable flow communication between the dispensing orifice and a reservoir associated with the application member. The application member may further comprise at least one wall on the base portion. The at least one wall may be located at least partially along a periphery of a region of the base portion from which at least some of the teeth extend and may be configured to collect product flowing from the dispensing orifice of the at least one of the teeth.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2001Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Patent number: 6932246Abstract: An assembly for packaging and dispensing a product, especially a cosmetic product. The assembly includes a container containing the product and delimited by a body, one end of which is closed by a bottom. A movable component is movable relative to the body of the container and is capable, in response to an action exerted manually on a surface of an actuation component, of passing from a first position in which the volume delimited between the movable component and the bottom of the container is a maximum, to a second position in which the volume is a minimum, so as to pressurize the product contained in the volume and deliver the product through at least one dispensing orifice. When the movable component returns from the second position towards the first, air passes into the volume through at least one passage formed between the movable component and an internal surface of the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Daniel Crosnier, Florent Duqueroie, Nicolas Albisetti
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Patent number: 6874966Abstract: A packaging and applicator device is disclosed. The device comprising a compartment for receiving a receptacle containing a substance; a applicator capable of being releasably fixed to the device; a first opening through which the applicator can take the substance; a shutter associated with the first opening and capable of taking a closed position and an opened position; a transmission member capable of being driven in displacement by the applicator to move the shutter into at least one of the open and closed positions; and a second opening distinct from the first and through which the receptacle can be inserted in said compartment, by being moved relative to the transmission member.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2002Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Florent Duqueroie, Nicolas Albisetti
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Patent number: 6860404Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid product includes a reservoir configured to contain a fluid product and air, a spray orifice associated with the reservoir, and a dip tube. The reservoir may include at least one deformable zone having a predetermined threshold resistance to deformation. The deformable zone may be configured to deform in response to pressure exerted on the deformable zone so as to cause the product to be sprayed out from the orifice. When pressure exerted on the deformable zone is less than a threshold pressure Ps sufficient to overcome the predetermined threshold resistance to deformation of the deformable zone, the internal volume of the reservoir is not substantially reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Patent number: 6755357Abstract: A spray container device for a fluid product is disclosed. The device includes a container having at least one compressible wall. A first end of the container delimits a first opening for filling the container with a fluid product. The first opening is sealed after filling of the container. A second end of the container is closed and is capable, prior to the first use of the device, of being opened so as to uncover a second opening through which the product can be dispensed. The device further includes an insert arranged inside of the container. The insert delimits a spray orifice in communication with the product. The spray orifice faces the second opening. The insert is also preferably configured to isolate the product from the first opening prior to the sealing thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Florent Duqueroie, Alain Bethune
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Patent number: 6742724Abstract: A device for containing and dispensing a fluid product, such as a cosmetic product, in the form of a spray. The device includes a reservoir containing the product at substantially atmospheric pressure, with the reservoir having flexible walls that preferably do not have shape memory. The device is equipped with a spray member for spraying the product in response to pressure exerted on the flexible walls of the reservoir, and an anti-air-intake element provided in order to prevent any entry of air inside the reservoir when said pressure ceases. When pressure is applied, the walls are deformed and the product is sprayed from the container. After dispensing is completed, the walls are maintained in the deformed state because air is prevented from entering the container. As a result, the next spraying action occurs more immediately and consistently because the container remains substantially filled with the product as the volume of the container is reduced upon deformation of the container walls.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Patent number: 6715697Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid product includes a reservoir configured to contain a fluid product and a spray orifice associated with the reservoir. The reservoir may include at least one actuating zone having a predetermined threshold resistance to deformation. The actuating zone may be configured to deform in response to pressure exerted on the actuating zone so as to cause the product to be sprayed out from the orifice. When pressure exerted on the actuating zone is less than a threshold pressure Ps sufficient to overcome the predetermined threshold resistance to deformation of the actuating zone, substantially no portion of the product is sprayed from the spray orifice. Actuating zone deformation resulting from exertion of at least the threshold pressure Ps on the actuating zone may persist when the pressure exerted ceases.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: L′Oreal S.A.Inventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Patent number: 6679439Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid product includes a reservoir configured to contain a fluid product and a spray orifice associated with the reservoir. The reservoir may include at least one actuating wall having a predetermined threshold resistance to deformation. The actuating wall may be configured to deform in response to pressure exerted on the actuating wall so as to cause the product to be sprayed out from the orifice. When pressure exerted on the actuating wall is less than a threshold pressure Ps sufficient to overcome the predetermined threshold resistance to deformation of the actuating wall, substantially no portion of the product is sprayed from the spray orifice. At least upon a first use of the device, continuous exerting of the threshold pressure Ps on the actuating wall causes spraying of the product from the spray orifice for a spray duration that is capable of being altered.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.Inventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Publication number: 20030209567Abstract: An assembly for packaging and dispensing a product, especially a cosmetic product. The assembly includes a container containing the product and delimited by a body, one end of which is closed by a bottom. A movable component is movable relative to the body of the container and is capable, in response to an action exerted manually on a surface of an actuation component, of passing from a first position in which the volume delimited between the movable component and the bottom of the container is a maximum, to a second position in which the volume is a minimum, so as to pressurize the product contained in the volume and deliver the product through at least one dispensing orifice. When the movable component returns from the second position towards the first, air passes into the volume through at least one passage formed between the movable component and an internal surface of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Applicant: L'OREALInventors: Daniel Crosnier, Florent Duqueroie, Nicolas Albisetti
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Publication number: 20030147686Abstract: The present invention relates to a packaging and applicator device comprising a compartment for receiving a receptacle containing a substance; a applicator capable of being releasably fixed to the device; a first opening through which the applicator can take the substance; a shutter associated with the first opening and capable of taking a closed position and an opened position; a transmission member capable of being driven in displacement by the applicator to move the shutter into at least one of the open and closed positions; and a second opening distinct from the first and through which the receptacle can be inserted in said compartment, by being moved relative to the transmission member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: L'OrealInventors: Florent Duqueroie, Nicolas Albisetti
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Publication number: 20030075554Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid product includes a reservoir configured to contain a fluid product and air, a spray orifice associated with the reservoir, and a dip tube. The reservoir may include at least one deformable zone having a predetermined threshold resistance to deformation. The deformable zone may be configured to deform in response to pressure exerted on the deformable zone so as to cause the product to be sprayed out from the orifice. When pressure exerted on the deformable zone is less than a threshold pressure Ps sufficient to overcome the predetermined threshold resistance to deformation of the deformable zone, the internal volume of the reservoir is not substantially reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Inventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Publication number: 20030010795Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid product includes a reservoir configured to contain a fluid product and a spray orifice associated with the reservoir. The reservoir may include at least one actuating zone having a predetermined threshold resistance to deformation. The actuating zone may be configured to deform in response to pressure exerted on the actuating zone so as to cause the product to be sprayed out from the orifice. When pressure exerted on the actuating zone is less than a threshold pressure Ps sufficient to overcome the predetermined threshold resistance to deformation of the actuating zone, substantially no portion of the product is sprayed from the spray orifice. Actuating zone deformation resulting from exertion of at least the threshold pressure Ps on the actuating zone may persist when the pressure exerted ceases.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Publication number: 20030010844Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid product includes a reservoir configured to contain a fluid product and a spray orifice associated with the reservoir. The reservoir may include at least one actuating wall having a predetermined threshold resistance to deformation. The actuating wall may be configured to deform in response to pressure exerted on the actuating wall so as to cause the product to be sprayed out from the orifice. When pressure exerted on the actuating wall is less than a threshold pressure Ps sufficient to overcome the predetermined threshold resistance to deformation of the actuating wall, substantially no portion of the product is sprayed from the spray orifice. At least upon a first use of the device, continuous exerting of the threshold pressure Ps on the actuating wall causes spraying of the product from the spray orifice for a spray duration that is capable of being altered.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Publication number: 20030006309Abstract: A device for containing and dispensing a fluid product, such as a cosmetic product, in the form of a spray. The device includes a reservoir containing the product at substantially atmospheric pressure, with the reservoir having flexible walls that preferably do not have shape memory. The device is equipped with a spray member for spraying the product in response to pressure exerted on the flexible walls of the reservoir, and an anti-air-intake element provided in order to prevent any entry of air inside the reservoir when said pressure ceases. When pressure is applied, the walls are deformed and the product is sprayed from the container. After dispensing is completed, the walls are maintained in the deformed state because air is prevented from entering the container. As a result, the next spraying action occurs more immediately and consistently because the container remains substantially filled with the product as the volume of the container is reduced upon deformation of the container walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2002Publication date: January 9, 2003Applicant: L'OREALInventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Patent number: 6484876Abstract: A box made of cardboard or similar material is formed from a single-piece, pre-cut, substantially flat blank delimiting four faces joined together along substantially parallel longitudinal fold lines so as, after folding, to form a sleeve whose ends are closed by two end wall panels. A wedging structure is provided for wedging the object inside the box, the wedging structure being formed of a portion of the flat blank extending substantially in the continuation of a first face, to which the portion is connected by a first transverse fold line. The portion has one end adjacent to the first face, and a free end intended to be fixed to a second. The box is suitable particularly for packaging a tube.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: L'OrealInventor: Florent Duqueroie
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Publication number: 20020117519Abstract: A spray container device for a fluid product is disclosed. The device includes a container having at least one compressible wall. A first end of the container delimits a first opening for filling the container with a fluid product. The first opening is sealed after filling of the container. A second end of the container is closed and is capable, prior to the first use of the device, of being opened so as to uncover a second opening through which the product can be dispensed. The device further includes an insert arranged inside of the container. The insert delimits a spray orifice in communication with the product. The spray orifice faces the second opening. The insert is also preferably configured to isolate the product from the first opening prior to the sealing thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2002Publication date: August 29, 2002Applicant: L'OREALInventors: Florent Duqueroie, Alain Bethune
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Publication number: 20010042553Abstract: An application member for applying a product to a surface may comprise a base portion and a plurality of teeth extending from the base portion. Each of the plurality of teeth may be formed of an elastically deformable material and may comprise a free end and an end adjacent to the base portion. At least one of the teeth may further comprise a dispensing orifice at the free end and a passage configured to enable flow communication between the dispensing orifice and a reservoir associated with the application member. The application member may further comprise at least one wall on the base portion. The at least one wall may be located at least partially along a periphery of a region of the base portion from which at least some of the teeth extend and may be configured to collect product flowing from the dispensing orifice of the at least one of the teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Inventor: Florent Duqueroie