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).
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Publication number: 20240009692Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Pascal HENNEMANN, Gwénaël DOULIN
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Publication number: 20230201852Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Promens SAInventors: Sabine GOETTKE, Gwénael DOULIN, Pascal HENNEMANN
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Patent number: 10821456Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: PROMENS SA.Inventors: Pascal Hennemann, Gwénael Doulin, Joey Kurtz
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Publication number: 20200047202Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Pascal HENNEMANN, Gwénael DOULIN, Joey KURTZ
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Patent number: 10357790Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: PROMENS SAInventors: Pascal Hennemann, Gwénael Doulin
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Publication number: 20160144388Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: Promens SAInventors: Pascal Hennemann, Gwénael Doulin
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Publication number: 20160023381Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT, RAIGIInventors: Philippe MAZABRAUD, Fabien Nony, Charles Deleuze, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Rocle, Gwenael Doulin, Abbas Tcharkhtchi, Albert Lucas
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Patent number: 9079206Abstract: 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 tType: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: PROMENS SAInventors: Gwénaël Doulin, Pascal Hennemann, Dominique Rusconi
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Publication number: 20140346195Abstract: 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 tType: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: PROMENS SAInventors: Gwénaël Doulin, Pascal Hennemann, Dominique Rusconi
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Publication number: 20120318442Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Inventors: Philippe MAZABRAUD, Gwénaël DOULIN, Katia BARRAL
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Publication number: 20120024904Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: PROMENS SAInventors: Gwenael Doulin, Pascal Hennemann
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Patent number: 7785506Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie AtomiqueInventors: Philippe Mazabraud, Gwenael Doulin, Andre Sanchez, Jean-Francois Cotel
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Publication number: 20090266823Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2007Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE, RAIGIInventors: Philippe Mazabraud, Fabien Nony, Charles Deleuze, Olivier Perrier, Dominique Rocle, Gwenael Doulin, Abbas Tcharkhtchi, Albert Lucas
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Publication number: 20070246475Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2005Publication date: October 25, 2007Inventors: Philippe Mazabraud, Gwenael Doulin, Katia Barral
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Publication number: 20060022365Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2003Publication date: February 2, 2006Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUEInventors: Philippe Mazabraud, Gwenael Doulin, Andre Sanchez, Jean-Francois Cotel