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).
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Patent number: 12179087Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
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Publication number: 20220184483Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
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Patent number: 11235225Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLCInventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
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Patent number: 10413804Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY, LLCInventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
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Publication number: 20180147475Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2018Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
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Patent number: 9878229Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY, LLCInventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
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Publication number: 20140252736Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Aky Hung, Dmitry Rusakov
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Publication number: 20040185430Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Marc Andre Lefebvre, Richard Martin, Myriam Kauffmann
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Patent number: 5714677Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 1996Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Inventors: Philippe Parsy, Marc Andre Lefebvre