Patents by Inventor Julien GOUEREC

Julien GOUEREC 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: 11969907
    Abstract: A handle for razor is made of polylactic acid (PLA) and another bioplastic polymer such as polybutylene adipate terephtalate (PBAT), bio-polyethylene (bio-PE), and polybutylene succinate (PBS), combined with mineral fillers selected from the group of calcium carbonate and shells of shellfish, such as oyster shells or scallop shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: BIC VIOLEX SINGLE MEMBER S.A., SOCIETE BIC
    Inventors: Nikolaos Chatzigrigoriou, Julien Gouerec
  • Patent number: 11865855
    Abstract: There is a lead casing for pencil for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring made of a composition having, by weight relative to the total weight of the lead casing for pencil: a) from 50 to 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and polybutylene adipate terephthalate in a weight ratio polylactic acid/polybutylene adipate terephthalate ranging from 60/40 to 90/10, and b) from 5 to 40% of mineral fillers chosen in the group consisting of shellfish shells, more specifically oyster shells, and even more specifically milled oyster shells. There is also a pencil including the lead casing for the pencil of the disclosure, for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring as well as a method for manufacturing such a pencil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventor: Julien Gouerec
  • Publication number: 20230373236
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer-based extendable lead or refill for writing, drawing and/or painting tools comprising a binder comprising a mixture of polylactide with at least one polymer having a flexural modulus inferior to the flexural modulus of polylactide and at least one filler. It also relates to writing, drawing and/or painting tool, advantageously a pencil, comprising lead or a refill according to the invention and to the use of a binder comprising a mixture of polylactide with at least one polymer having a flexural modulus inferior to the flexural modulus of polylactide according to the invention to improve the vividness of polymer-based extrudable lead or refill for writing, drawing and/or painting tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC
  • Patent number: 11718124
    Abstract: A body for a writing, tracing, drawing or coloring pencil has a composition that has, by weight, with respect to a total weight of the body between 50% and 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and polybutylene succinate in a polylactic acid/polybutylene succinate ratio by weight of between 90/10 and 60/40 and between 5% and 50% of filler that includes an organic filler, such as wood fibers. A writing, tracing, drawing or coloring pencil includes such a body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Société BIC
    Inventor: Julien Gouerec
  • Patent number: 11524518
    Abstract: There is a lead casing for pencil for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring, made of a composition having, by weight relative to the total weight of the lead casing for pencil: a) from 50 to 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and bio-polyethylene in a weight ratio polylactic acid/bio-polyethylene ranging from 60/40 to 90/10, and b) from 5 to 40% of vegetable fillers chosen in the group consisting of wood fibers. There is a pencil including the lead casing for the pencil of the disclosure for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring as well as a method for manufacturing such a pencil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventor: Julien Gouerec
  • Patent number: 11485165
    Abstract: There is a lead casing for pencil for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring. The casing is made of a composition having, by weight relative to the total weight of the lead casing for pencil: a) from 50 to 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and bio-polyethylene in a weight ratio polylactic acid/bio-polyethylene ranging from 60/40 to 90/10, and b) from 5 to 40% of mineral fillers chosen in the group consisting of shellfish shells, more specifically oyster shells, and even more specifically milled oyster shells. There is also a pencil including the lead casing of the disclosure for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring, as well as a method for manufacturing such a pencil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventor: Julien Gouerec
  • Publication number: 20220063321
    Abstract: There is a lead casing for pencil for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring, made of a composition having, by weight relative to the total weight of the lead casing for pencil: a) from 50 to 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and polybutylene adipate terephtalate in a weight ratio polylactic acid/polybutylene adipate terephtalate ranging from 60/40 to 90/10, and b) from 5 to 40% of vegetable fillers chosen in the group consisting of wood fibers. There is also a pencil including the lead casing for the pencil of the disclosure for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring, as well as a method for manufacturing such a pencil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC, I
  • Publication number: 20220063320
    Abstract: There is a lead casing for pencil for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring. The casing is made of a composition having, by weight relative to the total weight of the lead casing for pencil: a) from 50 to 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and bio-polyethylene in a weight ratio polylactic acid/bio-polyethylene ranging from 60/40 to 90/10, and b) from 5 to 40% of mineral fillers chosen in the group consisting of shellfish shells, more specifically oyster shells, and even more specifically milled oyster shells. There is also a pencil including the lead casing of the disclosure for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring, as well as a method for manufacturing such a pencil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC, I
  • Publication number: 20220055397
    Abstract: There is a lead casing for pencil for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring, made of a composition having, by weight relative to the total weight of the lead casing for pencil: a) from 50 to 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and bio-polyethylene in a weight ratio polylactic acid/bio-polyethylene ranging from 60/40 to 90/10, and b) from 5 to 40% of vegetable fillers chosen in the group consisting of wood fibers. There is a pencil including the lead casing for the pencil of the disclosure for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring as well as a method for manufacturing such a pencil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC, I
  • Publication number: 20220055396
    Abstract: There is a lead casing for pencil for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring made of a composition having, by weight relative to the total weight of the lead casing for pencil: a) from 50 to 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and polybutylene adipate terephtalate in a weight ratio polylactic acid/polybutylene adipate terephtalate ranging from 60/40 to 90/10, and b) from 5 to 40% of mineral fillers chosen in the group consisting of shellfish shells, more specifically oyster shells, and even more specifically milled oyster shells. There is also a pencil including the lead casing for the pencil of the disclosure, for writing, drawing, marking, plotting, and/or coloring as well as a method for manufacturing such a pencil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC, I
  • Publication number: 20220048312
    Abstract: A body for a writing, tracing, drawing or coloring pencil has a composition that includes, by weight, with respect to the total weight of the body between 50% and 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and of polybutylene succinate in a polylactic acid/polybutylene succinate ratio by weight of between 90/10 and 60/40 and between 5% and 50% of filler that can have shellfish shells and/or calcium carbonate. A writing, tracing, drawing or coloring pencil has such a body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC
  • Publication number: 20210394549
    Abstract: A body for a writing, tracing, drawing or coloring pencil has a composition that has, by weight, with respect to a total weight of the body between 50% and 95% of a mixture of polylactic acid and polybutylene succinate in a polylactic acid/polybutylene succinate ratio by weight of between 90/10 and 60/40 and between 5% and 50% of filler that includes an organic filler, such as wood fibers. A writing, tracing, drawing or coloring pencil includes such a body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC
  • Patent number: 11072722
    Abstract: A pencil lead and a pencil containing the pencil lead wherein the pencil lead is polymer-based, extrudable, non-expanded, non-calcined and comprises graphite, of which 25% to 100% by weight or 50% to 100% by weight of the graphite, in relation to the total weight of the graphite, is expanded graphite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SOCIETE BIC
    Inventors: Julien Gouerec, Frédéric Claptien, Philippe Lefebvre, Christelle Debrauwer
  • Publication number: 20210206989
    Abstract: There is a polymer-based extrudable non-calcined pencil lead having a lamellar mineral filler having a lamellarity index greater than 2.8, advantageously greater than 3.5, in particular greater than 4. There is also a pencil having such a lead and the use of a lamellar mineral filler having a lamellarity index greater than 2.8 to improve the flexural resistance and/or the smoothness, and/or the vividness of a polymer-based extrudable non-calcined pencil lead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC
  • Publication number: 20210094198
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a handle for razor made of polylactic acid (PLA) with another bioplastic polymer such as polybutylene adipate terephtalate (PBAT), bio-polyethylene (bio-PE), and polybutylene succinate (PBS), combined with mineral fillers chosen in the group consisting of calcium carbonate and shells of shellfish, such as oyster shells or scallop shells. The present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing such handle, a razor including such handle, and a skincare kit including such handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Nikolaos CHATZIGRIGORIOU, Julien GOUEREC
  • Publication number: 20210095116
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a handle for razor made of polylactic acid (PLA) with another bioplastic polymer such as polybutylene adipate terephtalate (PBAT), bio-polyethylene (bio-PE), and polybutylene succinate (PBS), combined with vegetable fillers chosen in the group consisting of wood, wheat, flax, and seagrass. The present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing such handle, a razor including such handle, and a skincare kit including such handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Nikolaos CHATZIGRIGORIOU, Julien GOUEREC
  • Patent number: 10814665
    Abstract: A writing or coloring pencil has three layers obtained by co-extrusion, including an unexpanded polymer-based lead, an unexpanded intermediate protective layer surrounding the lead and comprising an ethylene (C1-C4 alkyl) acrylate copolymer, alone or as a blend with a styrene polymer, and an expanded styrene polymer-based synthetic wood material surrounding the intermediate protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CONTE
    Inventors: Julien Gouerec, Philippe Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 10774232
    Abstract: A wax-based coloring crayon for a porous surface and for a non-porous surface includes at least one wax, an ethoxylated fatty alcohol, stearin, a filler, at least one pigment, and optionally an additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIETE BIC
    Inventors: Julien Gouerec, Alice Danel, Philippe Lefebvre
  • Publication number: 20200115581
    Abstract: A pencil lead and a pencil containing the pencil lead wherein the pencil lead is polymer-based, extrudable, non-expanded, non-calcined and comprises graphite, of which 25% to 100% by weight or 50% to 100% by weight of the graphite, in relation to the total weight of the graphite, is expanded graphite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Julien GOUEREC, Frédéric CLAPTIEN, Philippe LEFEBVRE, Christelle DEBRAUWER
  • Publication number: 20190322120
    Abstract: The present invention provides a writing or coloring pencil comprising the following three layers obtained by co-extrusion: an unexpanded polymer-based lead; an unexpanded intermediate protective layer surrounding the lead and comprising an ethylene (C1-C4 alkyl) acrylate copolymer, alone or as a blend with a styrene polymer; and an expanded styrene polymer-based synthetic wood material surrounding the intermediate protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventor: Julien GOUEREC