Patents by Inventor Gwenael Doulin

Gwenael Doulin 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: 20240009692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispensing device, comprising: a connecting member to be mounted on the opening of a container, a piston, a cylinder body in which the piston is arranged so as to define a metering chamber between the piston and the cylinder body, the piston comprising a dosing inlet and a dispensing opening, the cylinder body being slidable along the piston, an inlet check valve provided to open the dosing inlet when subjected to negative pressure, an outlet check valve provided to open the dispensing opening when subjected to positive pressure. The outlet check valve comprises a membrane with a sealing lip adapted to slide against the inner axial surface of the cylinder body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Pascal HENNEMANN, Gwénaël DOULIN
  • Publication number: 20230201852
    Abstract: A pump for dispensing a fluid, has a pump head , a piston body with a piston, a pump chamber limited by a pump chamber body, an inlet valve and an outlet valve, the piston being moveable by respective movement of the pump head between an upper starting position and a lower end position. A return stroke force for a return stroke from the lower end position into the upper starting position is provided by a bellows, formed by two bellows arranged one above the other, Each of the bellows is folded up, when moving the pump head into the lower end position, by exerting a compression force on the pump head, the first bellows receiving the compression force by direct engagement with the pump head, the second bellows receiving the compression force only by engagement with the first bellows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Promens SA
    Inventors: Sabine GOETTKE, Gwénael DOULIN, Pascal HENNEMANN
  • Patent number: 10821456
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for dispensing a product (L), comprising: an element for connection to a container (R) containing the product; a piston (3) that is stationary in relation to the connection element; a cylinder body that moves around the piston, thereby defining a dosing chamber (100), the piston comprising a dosing inlet (35) for said chamber and the apex (64) of the dosing chamber comprising an outlet of the dosing chamber; and an inflow non-return valve (5) with a membrane for opening or closing the dosing inlet, the piston being in two parts, one of which forms a sealing joint with the cylinder body, the piston and the inflow non-return valve forming separate parts and being arranged such that the membrane is tightly clamped to the top of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: PROMENS SA.
    Inventors: Pascal Hennemann, Gwénael Doulin, Joey Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20200047202
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for dispensing a product (L), comprising: an element for connection to a container (R) containing the product; a piston (3) that is stationary in relation to the connection element; a cylinder body that moves around the piston, thereby defining a dosing chamber (100), the piston comprising a dosing inlet (35) for said chamber and the apex (64) of the dosing chamber comprising an outlet of the dosing chamber; and an inflow non-return valve (5) with a membrane for opening or closing the dosing inlet, the piston being in two parts, one of which forms a sealing joint with the cylinder body, the piston and the inflow non-return valve forming separate parts and being arranged such that the membrane is tightly clamped to the top of the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Pascal HENNEMANN, Gwénael DOULIN, Joey KURTZ
  • Patent number: 10357790
    Abstract: A device for withdrawing and dispensing a viscous product includes a pumping member and a dip tube that includes an upper end connected to a corresponding portion of the pumping member. The dip tube includes a lower portion having a free lower end, with a circumference of the lower portion opened by at least one longitudinal slot formed parallel to a longitudinal axis of the dip tube, wherein the longitudinal slot forms a gutter with a bottom, the lower portion includes pins arranged inside the gutter and extending transversally to the longitudinal slot and away from the bottom of the gutter, the pins being dispatched along the longitudinal slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: PROMENS SA
    Inventors: Pascal Hennemann, Gwénael Doulin
  • Publication number: 20160144388
    Abstract: A device for withdrawing and dispensing a viscous product without taking in air is described. The device on the one hand includes a pumping member positioned, by its base, at the open end of a rigid container associated with a retractable flexible inner pouch, intended to receive the product, and on the other hand a plunger tube connected by its upper end to a corresponding part of the pumping member, such that the upper end is partially submerged in the product and the free lower end is completely submerged in the product, such that the plunger tube is made up of a first upper part, with a closed circumference, defining a reference section of the tube and a second lower part submerging the first, with a circumference open by at least one longitudinal slot, made along a generatrix and defining a C- or U-shaped section on that part of the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: Promens SA
    Inventors: Pascal Hennemann, Gwénael Doulin
  • Publication number: 20160023381
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a polymer bladder assuring the internal sealing of a tank vis-à-vis a pressurized fluid which is contained therein, wherein said polymer is a thermosetting polymer, and said method comprises at least one step of polymerizing at least two precursor compounds of said thermosetting polymer carried out in a mould in rotation. A tank for storing a pressurized fluid for example a type IV tank comprising said polymer bladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT, RAIGI
    Inventors: Philippe MAZABRAUD, Fabien Nony, Charles Deleuze, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Rocle, Gwenael Doulin, Abbas Tcharkhtchi, Albert Lucas
  • Patent number: 9079206
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for dispensing a pasty liquid material (2) by means of a low-pressure manual metering pump (5), which is provided with an system for closing an end (32), and which is intended for a rigid or flexible container (4), the operation of said pump being ensured by: a lower check valve (11) and a metering chamber (10) which consists of a resiliently deformable bellows (9) and which is in communication with an upper valve (14) consisting of in series: a stopper (16) for the channel (13) of the spout (8), which ensures that the end (32) is closed; a resiliently deformable diaphragm (15) enabling the stopper (16) to be opened; an auxiliary return member (17) suitable for the low pressures causing the closing of the stopper (16); and a sealed vessel (18), characterized in that the resiliently deformable diaphragm (15) is combined with the vessel (18) that said diaphragm seals, wherein the auxiliary return member (17) is arranged inside said vessel so as to be permanently linked to t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: PROMENS SA
    Inventors: Gwénaël Doulin, Pascal Hennemann, Dominique Rusconi
  • Publication number: 20140346195
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for dispensing a pasty liquid material (2) by means of a low-pressure manual metering pump (5), which is provided with an system for closing an end (32), and which is intended for a rigid or flexible container (4), the operation of said pump being ensured by: a lower check valve (11) and a metering chamber (10) which consists of a resiliently deformable bellows (9) and which is in communication with an upper valve (14) consisting of in series: a stopper (16) for the channel (13) of the spout (8), which ensures that the end (32) is closed; a resiliently deformable diaphragm (15) enabling the stopper (16) to be opened; an auxiliary return member (17) suitable for the low pressures causing the closing of the stopper (16); and a sealed vessel (18), characterized in that the resiliently deformable diaphragm (15) is combined with the vessel (18) that said diaphragm seals, wherein the auxiliary return member (17) is arranged inside said vessel so as to be permanently linked to t
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: PROMENS SA
    Inventors: Gwénaël Doulin, Pascal Hennemann, Dominique Rusconi
  • Publication number: 20120318442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a bladder (2) of thermoplastic polymer for leaktightness to the gases of a type IV composite tank (1) and to a type IV tank (1) capable of being obtained by this process. The process of the invention comprises a stage of polymerization of a precursor monomer of said thermoplastic polymer to give said thermoplastic polymer in a rotating mold heated to a working temperature greater than or equal to the melting point of said monomer and lower than the melting point of said polymer, so as to form said bladder (2) by polymerization of said monomer coupled to rotomolding and without melting of the thermoplastic polymer obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Philippe MAZABRAUD, Gwénaël DOULIN, Katia BARRAL
  • Publication number: 20120024904
    Abstract: A device for dispensing a liquid-to-pasty product to be placed at the open end of a rigid container and consisting of a manual metering pump for dispensing a predetermined amount of the product to be dispensed, includes a base member to be placed on the container, a push button provided with a dispensing spout capable of acting, when pumped, against an intermediate bellows comprising an opening/closing device provided at the upper end of the bellows, characterized in that the push button is combined with a cylindrical chamber directed towards the inside of the bellows and extending inside the bellows so as to form a dead volume with a predetermined value inside same and to accordingly reduce the available air volume, thereby improving the compression rate when pumped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: PROMENS SA
    Inventors: Gwenael Doulin, Pascal Hennemann
  • Patent number: 7785506
    Abstract: A foam layer is formed by rotomoulding including heating a foaming polymer, and wherein the heating is interrupted before the foaming temperature is reached. A thermal inertia of the system also composed of the mold and previously placed layers assures completion of heating, but not sufficient to cause disorderly foaming. The foam layer is uniform and bonding. Dense layers surrounding the foam layer may be different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Philippe Mazabraud, Gwenael Doulin, Andre Sanchez, Jean-Francois Cotel
  • Publication number: 20090266823
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a polymer bladder assuring the internal sealing of a tank vis-à-vis a pressurized fluid which is contained therein, wherein said polymer is a thermosetting polymer, and said method comprises at least one step of polymerizing at least two precursor compounds of said thermosetting polymer carried out in a mould in rotation. A tank for storing a pressurized fluid for example a type IV tank comprising said polymer bladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE, RAIGI
    Inventors: Philippe Mazabraud, Fabien Nony, Charles Deleuze, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Rocle, Gwenael Doulin, Abbas Tcharkhtchi, Albert Lucas
  • Publication number: 20070246475
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a bladder (2) of thermoplastic polymer for leaktightness to the gases of a type IV composite tank (1) and to a type IV tank (1) capable of being obtained by this process. The process of the invention comprises a stage of polymerization of a precursor monomer of said thermoplastic polymer to give said thermoplastic polymer in a rotating mold heated to a working temperature greater than or equal to the melting point of said monomer and lower than the melting point of said polymer, so as to form said bladder (2) by polymerization of said monomer coupled to rotomolding and without melting of the thermoplastic polymer obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Philippe Mazabraud, Gwenael Doulin, Katia Barral
  • Publication number: 20060022365
    Abstract: A foam layer is formed by rotomoulding including heating a foaming polymer, and wherein the heating is interrupted before the foaming temperature is reached. A thermal inertia of the system also composed of the mold and previously placed layers assures completion of heating, but not sufficient to cause disorderly foaming. The foam layer is uniform and bonding. Dense layers surrounding the foam layer may be different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
    Inventors: Philippe Mazabraud, Gwenael Doulin, Andre Sanchez, Jean-Francois Cotel