Patents by Inventor Freddy Vandenbroucke

Freddy Vandenbroucke 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).

  • Publication number: 20240050961
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pneumatic device (10) comprising modules (100), each module having compressed air supply valves (12), the intensity of the compressed air jet supplied by each module (100) being variable according to the combination of valves (12) activated, and outlet nozzles (14) of one or more air jets coming from the modules (100), according to the number of modules (100) activated, the nozzles having aligned outlet orifices. The invention also relates to an object sorting system comprising the pneumatic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Freddy VANDENBROUCKE, Martial DOLLINGER
  • Publication number: 20230280209
    Abstract: Measurement equipment can be used for control with spectroscopic analysis of individual moving objects. The measurement equipment includes a probe with a surface, from which one or more illumination optical fibres and measurement optical fibres emerge. The optical fibres are arranged so that at least one of the second acceptance cones intersects at least one first acceptance cone at less than 10 mm from the surface. The measurement equipment includes a triggering device detecting the objects upstream of the probe to activate or deactivate the observation of the objects by the probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Freddy VANDENBROUCKE, Martial DOLLINGER
  • Publication number: 20100012220
    Abstract: A dimensionally stable receptacle for accommodating at least one flexible packing drum in an interior space of the receptacle comprises a bottom, a side wall at least one suction line leading into the interior space, at least one passage device, and at least one feed opening. At least one first docking coupling is located in or adjacent to the feed opening and/or forming the feed opening, for docking a first feeding conduit for bulk material such that, when a flexible packing drums located in the receptacle is coupled to the first docking coupling of the feed opening, the interior space may be sealed, in which a state of vacuum is obtainable through suction in the suction line. The invention further relates to a filling module and method for filling a flexible packing drum with bulk material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: GEA NIRO GMBH
    Inventors: Michael S. Waldron, Freddy Vandenbroucke, Jurgen Boeckx, Peter Lais, Martin Koch