Patents by Inventor Marc Andre Lefebvre

Marc Andre Lefebvre 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: 12179087
    Abstract: A boot form for a hockey skate is made of multiple plastic materials having different hardness properties, or different flexural moduli, and is formed via an injection-molding process or another similar process. One or more of the plastic materials may be reinforced with fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, or another stiffening material to strengthen one or more regions of the boot form. For example, pellets of a first plastic material having a flexural modulus of approximately 190 MPa (e.g., a polyamide elastomer block amide) may be injected into a mold to form a softer upper region of the boot form. And pellets of a second plastic having a flexural modulus of approximately 20,000 MPa (e.g., a Nylon 12 with long glass fibers) may be injected into the mold to form a stiffer lower region of the boot form. Additional skate components may then be attached to the boot form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLC
    Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
  • Publication number: 20220184483
    Abstract: A boot form for a hockey skate is made of multiple plastic materials having different hardness properties, or different flexural moduli, and is formed via an injection-molding process or another similar process. One or more of the plastic materials may be reinforced with fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, or another stiffening material to strengthen one or more regions of the boot form. For example, pellets of a first plastic material having a flexural modulus of approximately 190 MPa (e.g., a polyamide elastomer block amide) may be injected into a mold to form a softer upper region of the boot form. And pellets of a second plastic having a flexural modulus of approximately 20,000 MPa (e.g., a Nylon 12 with long glass fibers) may be injected into the mold to form a stiffer lower region of the boot form. Additional skate components may then be attached to the boot form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
  • Patent number: 11235225
    Abstract: A boot form for a hockey skate is made of multiple plastic materials having different hardness properties, or different flexural moduli, and is formed via an injection-molding process or another similar process. One or more of the plastic materials may be reinforced with fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, or another stiffening material to strengthen one or more regions of the boot form. For example, pellets of a first plastic material having a flexural modulus of approximately 190 MPa (e.g., a polyamide elastomer block amide) may be injected into a mold to form a softer upper region of the boot form. And pellets of a second plastic having a flexural modulus of approximately 20,000 MPa (e.g., a Nylon 12 with long glass fibers) may be injected into the mold to form a stiffer lower region of the boot form. Additional skate components may then be attached to the boot form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLC
    Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
  • Patent number: 10413804
    Abstract: A boot form for a hockey skate is made of multiple plastic materials having different hardness properties, or different flexural moduli, and is formed via an injection-molding process or another similar process. One or more of the plastic materials may be reinforced with fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, or another stiffening material to strengthen one or more regions of the boot form. For example, pellets of a first plastic material having a flexural modulus of approximately 190 MPa (e.g., a polyamide elastomer block amide) may be injected into a mold to form a softer upper region of the boot form. And pellets of a second plastic having a flexural modulus of approximately 20,000 MPa (e.g., a Nylon 12 with long glass fibers) may be injected into the mold to form a stiffer lower region of the boot form. Additional skate components may then be attached to the boot form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
  • Publication number: 20180147475
    Abstract: A boot form for a hockey skate is made of multiple plastic materials having different hardness properties, or different flexural moduli, and is formed via an injection-molding process or another similar process. One or more of the plastic materials may be reinforced with fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, or another stiffening material to strengthen one or more regions of the boot form. For example, pellets of a first plastic material having a flexural modulus of approximately 190 MPa (e.g., a polyamide elastomer block amide) may be injected into a mold to form a softer upper region of the boot form. And pellets of a second plastic having a flexural modulus of approximately 20,000 MPa (e.g., a Nylon 12 with long glass fibers) may be injected into the mold to form a stiffer lower region of the boot form. Additional skate components may then be attached to the boot form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
  • Patent number: 9878229
    Abstract: A boot form for a hockey skate is made of multiple plastic materials having different hardness properties, or different flexural moduli, and is formed via an injection-molding process or another similar process. One or more of the plastic materials may be reinforced with fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, or another stiffening material to strengthen one or more regions of the boot form. For example, pellets of a first plastic material having a flexural modulus of approximately 190 MPa (e.g., a polyamide elastomer block amide) may be injected into a mold to form a softer upper region of the boot form. And pellets of a second plastic having a flexural modulus of approximately 20,000 MPa (e.g., a Nylon 12 with long glass fibers) may be injected into the mold to form a stiffer lower region of the boot form. Additional skate components may then be attached to the boot form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
  • Publication number: 20140252736
    Abstract: A boot form for a hockey skate is made of multiple plastic materials having different hardness properties, or different flexural moduli, and is formed via an injection-molding process or another similar process. One or more of the plastic materials may be reinforced with fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, or another stiffening material to strengthen one or more regions of the boot form. For example, pellets of a first plastic material having a flexural modulus of approximately 190 MPa (e.g., a polyamide elastomer block amide) may be injected into a mold to form a softer upper region of the boot form. And pellets of a second plastic having a flexural modulus of approximately 20,000 MPa (e.g., a Nylon 12 with long glass fibers) may be injected into the mold to form a stiffer lower region of the boot form. Additional skate components may then be attached to the boot form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
  • Publication number: 20040185430
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for evaluating the cosmetic or dermatological activity of a product, comprising bringing the product to be evaluated into contact with a plant material and determining the variation induced by the product to be evaluated in at least one parameter chosen from mechanical, optical, physical, and chemical parameters of the plant material in the region of contact with the product as well as a process for screening activity principles, a method for marketing a product, a process for identifying undesirable effects of multiple active principles, and a combination comprising a cosmetic product and a notification indicating that the cosmetic process has been evaluated by using a plant material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Richard Martin, Myriam Kauffmann
  • Patent number: 5714677
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for automatically injecting substances solubilised or diluted in a solvent for a gaseous phase chromatographic analysis column (14), wherein it includes a concentration/calcination chamber (10), a vaporization chamber (12) in contact with the chromatographic column (14), a sample support (16) moving in the concentration/calcination chamber between a first position in which the sample is in the concentration/calcination chamber and a second position in which the sample is in the vaporization chamber, as well as a system (18) for scavenging the two chambers with a vector gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Inventors: Philippe Parsy, Marc Andre Lefebvre