Patents by Inventor Luc Mion

Luc Mion 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: 6374452
    Abstract: A tool storage door for a floor care appliance encloses a tool storage compartment formed on the floor care appliance for storing various floor care accessory tools. The tool storage door receives and supports at least one of the accessory tools. A cutout area is formed in the tool storage door for providing direct and unobstructed visibility to the accessory tool and for allowing a portion of the accessory tool to extend therethrough. A recess which is substantially complementary to the shape of the accessory tool is formed in an underside of the tool storage door for receiving the accessory tool on the tool storage door. A pair of latching tabs extends downwardly from the underside of the tool storage door for releasably retaining the accessory tool within the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Hoover Company
    Inventors: John D. Essex, Gad Shaanan, Ivan Brousseau, Walter Francovich, Luc Mion, Darwin T. McKnight
  • Patent number: 5201513
    Abstract: A device for conveying and piling flat workpieces includes a conveyor comprising side-by-side endless belts with a vacuum chamber for each belt, which vacuum chambers are interconnected to a common source of vacuum and which chambers are separated by ducts which are in communication with either atmospheric air or pressurized air and contain ejector levers acting on an elongated flexible element to eject a sheet from the belts and to break the suction from the vacuum chambers on the sheet by uncovering openings in the ducts to supply air at atmospheric pressure or pressurized air to each of the vacuum chambers. The conveyor places the sheet in a piling store, which can then be removed as a batch of a certain number of sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: SA Martin
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Mion
  • Patent number: 4506875
    Abstract: Feeder with a movable suction box, intended more particularly for equipping a magazine supplying sheets to a machine for making cases consisting of corrugated cardboard. The suction plate (10) of its suction box (6) is surrounded by a frame (17) made of flexible material, the assembly being designed in such a way so as to form a suction cup with flexible edges (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: S. A. Martin
    Inventors: Bernard Capdebosco, Jean-Luc Mion