Patents by Inventor Ludovic Tournier

Ludovic Tournier 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: 20200262045
    Abstract: A drilling tool configured to operate in two drilling modes, respectively with and without hammer action, said tool comprising a front end equipped with a rotating part for mounting a drill bit by way of an SDS-type push-fitting, characterized in that said rotating part comprises mechanism for the removable attachment to a first longitudinal end of a tubular extension, this tubular extension being configured to extend along and around a drill bit mounted in the rotating part and comprising a second longitudinal end configured to bear at least one screw-driving element, such that the tool can be used for a screw-driving operation even when it is equipped with the drill bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Matthieu Perrier, Ludovic Tournier
  • Publication number: 20180111297
    Abstract: A tool for injecting chemical anchor resin into a hole in a wall, comprising a main handgrip for holding the tool, a trigger for operating at least one function of the tool, and a member of elongate shape intended to be inserted into a hole in the wall, said tool being equipped with a depth stop intended to bear against the wall, wherein the depth stop is situated at a free longitudinal end of a piston rod of a linear actuator of the tool and in that the tool further comprises actuator control mechanism(s) configured to vary the deployed length of said piston rod while the tool is in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Emmanuel Vallon, Pascale Grandjean, Jérôme Couvreur, Jean-Luc Simonin, Guy Jaillet, Matthieu Perrier, Michel Gleizolles, Ludovic Tournier
  • Publication number: 20180111154
    Abstract: A nozzle for a tool for injecting chemical anchor resin into a hole in a wall, said nozzle comprising a body of elongate shape and comprising a longitudinal end for connection to said tool or to at least one cartridge of said tool, said body comprising at least one internal longitudinal duct for the passage of resin, wherein said nozzle comprises mechanisms for cleaning said hole by brushing and/or injection of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Emmanuel Vallon, Pascale Grandjean, Jérôme Couvreur, Jean-Luc Simonin, Guy Jaillet, Matthieu Perrier, Michel Gleizolles, Ludovic Tournier
  • Patent number: 8360280
    Abstract: The invention concerns a diffuser device for an aerosol can with secure actuation having a cap, an end piece adapted to be fixed onto a diffusion valve of the aerosol can, the end piece being moveable in a direction of actuation so as to actuate the diffusion valve. An actuator is adapted to cause movement of the end piece in the direction of actuation, the actuator having a second degree of freedom between an initial secure position in which the actuator is blocked with respect to the direction of actuation and at least one unblocked position in which an actuating movement is possible, a cut-out being provided in the cap for the actuator. The actuating has an edge surface which is located, in the initial secure position, facing a rim of the cut-out parallel to the actuating direction, the movement in the second degree of freedom being a movement of pushing-in until the edge surface is clear of the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: I.T.W. Fastex France
    Inventor: Ludovic Tournier
  • Patent number: 8348569
    Abstract: The one-piece cage for fixing device to an object by screwing blind to a plate or the like perforated by a square mounting hole, of the kind including that cage and, therein, a threaded part adapted to cooperate screw-fashion with a complementary threaded part to assure the required fixing, and comprising four identical radial lugs extending in two orthogonal diametral directions and whose profile is such that the resulting cross-shape can be inserted with a small clearance into the square hole, which cage is adapted to be inserted with a small clearance into the mounting hole and to bear on the edges of that hole at the end of the introduction of the cage therein, and is characterized in that it takes the general form of an elastically deformable U-shape having four lugs angularly offset at 90° to each other and adapted to receive contiguously between them the four lugs of the threaded part, the lugs being connected in pairs by two symmetrical bridges adapted to bear on the edges of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: ITW Fastex France
    Inventor: Ludovic Tournier
  • Publication number: 20090256005
    Abstract: The invention concerns a diffuser device for an aerosol can with secure actuation comprising: a cap; an end piece adapted to be fixed onto a diffusion valve of the aerosol can, the end piece being moveable in a direction of actuation so as to actuate the diffusion valve; and an actuator adapted to cause movement of the end piece in the direction of actuation, the actuator having a second degree of freedom between an initial secure position in which the actuator is blocked with respect to the direction of actuation and at least one unblocked position in which an actuating movement is possible, a cut-out being provided in the cap for the actuator, the actuator comprising an edge surface which is located, in the initial secure position, facing a rim of the cut-out parallel to the actuating direction, the movement in the second degree of freedom being a movement of pushing-in until the edge surface is clear of the rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: I.T.W. FASTEX FRANCE
    Inventor: Ludovic Tournier
  • Publication number: 20080145175
    Abstract: The one-piece cage for fixing device to an object by screwing blind to a plate or the like perforated by a square mounting hole, of the kind including that cage and, therein, a threaded part adapted to cooperate screw-fashion with a complementary threaded part to assure the required fixing, and comprising four identical radial lugs extending in two orthogonal diametral directions and whose profile is such that the resulting cross-shape can be inserted with a small clearance into the square hole, which cage is adapted to be inserted with a small clearance into the mounting hole and to bear on the edges of that hole at the end of the introduction of the cage therein, and is characterized in that it takes the general form of an elastically deformable U-shape having four lugs angularly offset at 90° to each other and adapted to receive contiguously between them the four lugs of the threaded part, the lugs being connected in pairs by two symmetrical bridges adapted to bear on the edges of the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: ITW FASTEX FRANCE
    Inventor: Ludovic Tournier
  • Patent number: 6951266
    Abstract: A rotation-retarding device includes two members having rotational movement relative to each other to be retarded. The first member has an axle and the second member has a housing (25) adapted to receive the axle. A retarding arrangement includes at least a part of the wall (24) of the housing. The wall is made of elastically deformable flexible material, and has, facing the axle, at least one working surface (28) of cam form. The retarding arrangement also includes at least one projection on that axle, adapted to cooperate with the working surface (28) associated therewith to retard the movement with the resisting couple being adapted to the driving couple at each angular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: ITW Fastex France Zac les Echavagnes
    Inventor: Ludovic Tournier
  • Publication number: 20030146061
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device comprising two members having rotational movement relative to each other to be retarded, of which the first member comprises an axle and the second a housing (25) adapted to receive the axle. This device is characterized by retarding means comprising at least a part of the wall (24) bounding the housing, of elastically deformable flexible material, and having, facing the axle, at least one working surface (28) of cam form, and at least one projection on that axle, adapted to cooperate with a working surface (28) associated therewith to retard the movement with the resisting couple being adapted to the driving couple at each angular position. Preferably, the first member is a rotor and each projection is a gadroon extending the length of a generatrix of the axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Ludovic Tournier