Patents by Inventor Maurizio Corti
Maurizio Corti 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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Publication number: 20240116254Abstract: The present invention relates to a spacer for high pressure mixing head comprising a control cylinder flange, a head body flange, and a plurality of uprights adapted to interconnect the control cylinder flange and the head body flange. At least one of the plurality of uprights comprises at least one deformation detection sensor applied at at least one available deformation surface thereof and adapted to detect longitudinal deformations and/or transversal deformations of the at least one of the plurality of uprights. The present invention also relates to a related mixing and dosing head and to a related apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Afros S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Fabio Fini
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Patent number: 11904504Abstract: A device for mixing at high-pressure two or more reactive liquid components or resins includes a head-body provided with a mixing chamber with inlet and outlet openings for the injecting and recirculating reactive components; a single-piece tubular element, for delivering the mixture; a valve member with longitudinal recirculation slots; the tubular element is removably inserted into a pass-through hole of the head-body, having annular shoulder zone, separated and distant from the transversal hole; fixing elements removably lock the annular shoulder zone at the head-body for holding the tubular element in the aforesaid hole; a clearance gap between the tubular element and the pass-through hole of the head-body is provided such that the forces are exchanged through the annular shoulder zone; sealing and centering elements avoid leakages of polymeric mixture. Deformation-detecting elements detect the deformation conditions which the tubular element is subjected.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Fabio Fini, Luca Campi, Samuele Zampini
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Patent number: 11794394Abstract: The invention relates to a high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head for injection or casting reaction molding, said high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head comprising a head body, a mixing chamber, obtained in the head body wherein a valve element or mixing valve slides and in fluid communication with a supply duct, and a self-cleaning element comprising a scraping portion, said self-cleaning element being structured to slide in said supply duct, as well as comprising an apparatus for controlling and commanding mixing, supply and recirculation comprising a plurality of sensors and transducers mounted on board of the head body and of the components parts of the head connected thereto to detect and transform representative physical quantities of at least one operational status of said high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head into electrical signals and an electronic control and storing system adapted to synchronously control and scan said sensors and transducers and adapted toType: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Afros S.P.A.Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti
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Patent number: 11559920Abstract: A method for obtaining and applying a sealing gasket element on a slide-valve sliding in a cavity of an apparatus for the recirculation and mixing of chemically reactive polymeric components, comprises the steps of: obtaining from an elastic-plastic material a precursor element of the seal element, with a grid structure having a reticular shape; positioning the precursor element around the slide-valve; exerting on the precursor element, through temporary clamping elements, a radial compression and contraction action to insert it and couple it to one or more housing seats provided on the slide-valve so as to obtain the seal element well coupled to the latter; progressively removing the clamping elements to sequentially release successive parts of the gasket element and gradually free the slide-valve to gradually introduce the parts of the slide-valve—freed in succession—in the housing cavity allowing the sealing gasket element to gradually expand radially due to the elastic return by adhering tightly to the inType: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Fabio Fini, Luca Campi
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Publication number: 20220362724Abstract: An injector device for supplying a chemically reactive component to a mixing head includes a modular structure defined by a hollow housing and guiding body extending around a longitudinal symmetry axis and having one or more supply openings for supplying the chemically reactive component; in the hollow body a nozzle orifice is obtained arranged to face and communicate with a mixing chamber obtained in the mixing head; a pin-shaped partialization and control element, which is housed and slidably movable—along the longitudinal symmetry axis—in the hollow body and configured to vary a narrowed active section of the nozzle orifice; on the partialization and control element a tip portion is obtained that is conformed to receive pressure from the respective polymer component delivered to said hollow body so as to move away said partialization and control element from said nozzle orifice to vary the area of said narrowed active section; a modular adjusting and contrasting unit, which is removably couplable with theType: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Marco VOLPATO, Maurizio CORTI, Luca CAMPI, Giorgio MOLTENI, Samuele ZAMPINI, Pierangelo OLIVIERI
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Patent number: 11433567Abstract: A high-pressure mixing device adapted to form a polymeric mixture from the reaction of two or more reactive liquid components or resins, comprises a head-body with a mixing chamber having an inner cylindrical surface with inlet and outlet openings for injecting and recirculating reactive components; a duct for delivering the mixture, a valve body with recirculation longitudinal slots; the delivery duct, of the self-cleaning type, is a single-piece tubular element, insertable into a hole passing through the head-body, having an intermediate transversal hole aligned with the mixing chamber with a diameter greater than a diameter of the mixing chamber for avoiding protrusions of the walls of the transversal hole from forming inwardly of the mixing chamber of the head-body. Sealing elements duly arranged between the coupling interfaces of the various components prevent the leakage of polymeric mixture and lubricant liquid. There is also disclosed a related method.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Giorgio Molteni, Fabio Fini
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Publication number: 20210308906Abstract: A method is disclosed for preparing and dispensing a mixture obtained by mixing at least one first chemically reactive component and at least one second chemically reactive component containing a dispersed solid material i.e. a filler, by a high pressure mixing device comprising a head provided with injectors and one or more interception and supply devices defined by respective nozzles for narrowing the passage of the flows and with correlated plug members that are movable axially and settable for controlling said narrowing. The injectors and the interception and supply device transform the pressure energy of the fluids into kinematic energy of the jets that clash in the mixing chamber to mix the components for turbulence induced by the jets, in which a valve member is slidable, in particular a slide-valve, provided with longitudinal slots for recirculating the components to respective storage tanks.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Marco VOLPATO, Maurizio CORTI, Luca CAMPI
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Patent number: 11034812Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus (1) for the dispersion of an expansion gas even in supercritical conditions, e.g. carbon dioxide, in a reactive resin, of the kind in which a reaction chamber having an input (27) for gas and an input (37) for resin is provided. Advantageously, the chamber is a dispersion and containment chamber made into a casing (2) of predetermined high resistance susceptible to sustain high pressure and is divided into two sections (6,7) by a head (14) of a dispersion and mixing cylinder-piston group (4) in fluid communication between themselves by means of at least one pouring passage (31, 36, 32, 39) provided with a static mixer (38), motor means (3) being provided for piston (34) control of said mixing cylinder-piston group (4).Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: AFROS S.P.A.Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti
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Publication number: 20210001525Abstract: The invention relates to a high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head for injection or casting reaction molding, said high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head comprising a head body, a mixing chamber, obtained in the head body wherein a valve element or mixing valve slides and in fluid communication with a supply duct, and a self-cleaning element comprising a scraping portion, said self-cleaning element being structured to slide in said supply duct, as well as comprising an apparatus for controlling and commanding mixing, supply and recirculation comprising a plurality of sensors and transducers mounted on board of the head body and of the components parts of the head connected thereto to detect and transform representative physical quantities of at least one operational status of said high-pressure mixing, dosing and recirculation head into electrical signals and an electronic control and storing system adapted to synchronously control and scan said sensors and transducers and adapted toType: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: MARCO VOLPATO, MAURIZIO CORTI
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Publication number: 20200307024Abstract: A device for mixing at high-pressure two or more reactive liquid components or resins comprises a head-body provided with a mixing chamber with inlet and outlet openings for the injecting and recirculating reactive components; a single-piece tubular element, for delivering the mixture, communicates, through an intermediate transversal hole with the mixing chamber and slidingly houses a cleaning member; a valve member with longitudinal recirculation slots slides in the mixing chamber between a backward position, in which the inlet openings are released, and an advanced position, in which the inlet openings are put in communication with the respective outlet openings for recirculating the respective reactive components; the tubular element is removably inserted into a pass-through hole of the head-body, transversal to the mixing chamber, and it has an annular shoulder zone, separated and distant from the transversal hole; fixing elements removably lock the annular shoulder zone at the head-body for holding theType: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Fabio Fini, Luca Campi, Samuele Zampini
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Publication number: 20200307025Abstract: A high-pressure mixing device adapted to form a polymeric mixture from the reaction of two or more reactive liquid components or resins, comprises a head-body provided with a mixing chamber having an inner cylindrical surface with inlet and outlet openings for injecting and recirculating reactive components; a duct for delivering the mixture, communicating with the mixing chamber; a valve body with recirculation longitudinal slots, sliding into the mixing chamber between a backward position in which it clears the inlet openings and enables to mix components, and an advanced position, in which the slots put inlet openings in communication with outlet openings for recirculating the reactive components; the delivery duct, of the self-cleaning type, is a single-piece tubular element, removably fastened—by means of fixing members—and can be inserted into a hole transversal to the mixing chamber passing through the head-body; the tubular element has an intermediate transversal hole aligned with the mixing chamber wType: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Marco VOLPATO, Maurizio CORTI, Giorgio MOLTENI, Fabio FINI
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Publication number: 20200180187Abstract: A method for obtaining and applying a sealing gasket element on a slide-valve sliding in a cavity of an apparatus for the recirculation and mixing of chemically reactive polymeric components, comprises the steps of: obtaining from an elastic-plastic material a precursor element of the seal element, with a grid structure having a reticular shape; positioning the precursor element around the slide-valve; exerting on the precursor element, through temporary clamping elements, a radial compression and contraction action to insert it and couple it to one or more housing seats provided on the slide-valve so as to obtain the seal element well coupled to the latter; progressively removing the clamping elements to sequentially release successive parts of the gasket element and gradually free the slide-valve to gradually introduce the parts of the slide-valve—freed in succession—in the housing cavity allowing the sealing gasket element to gradually expand radially due to the elastic return by adhering tightly to the inType: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Fabio Fini, Luca Campi
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Patent number: 10507492Abstract: A method is disclosed for dispensing a polyurethane mixture onto a substrate by generating a liquid mixture from reactive component resins; introducing the mixture in an inlet section of a dispensing device so as to advance it towards a planar-shaped outlet slit section, transversely to the advancement direction of the substrate; distributing the mixture along a gap chamber having a cross section diverging towards the outlet slit section; and dispensing the mixture through the outlet slit section, so as to deposit a thin, uniform film onto the substrate. Fractions of the mixture travel equal distances from the inlet section to the outlet slit section, in equal times, maintaining equal average speeds along each section having zones placed all at the same path distance either from the inlet section or from the outlet slit section.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CANNON S.P.A.Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti
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Patent number: 10247349Abstract: In a configuration of a method for preventing progression of corrosion in a steel pipe structure according to the present invention, two or more types of liquids 150 are injected, while being mixed, into a steel pipe that constitutes the steel pipe structure, from an opening at one of both ends of the steel pipe, and the inside of the steel pipe is filled with resin foam product (foam product 152) by foam expansion and hardening of the two or more types of liquids.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Nitto Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaishi, Takehiro Miyazawa, Yoshio Tamura, Takuhiko Ohashi, Masashi Suematsu, Osamu Hatsumi, Tadashi Kimura, Makoto Ide, Isao Naganuma, Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti, Tetsuya Matayoshi, Kouei Miyazato, Shinichi Suzuki, Nobuo Okamura, Kozo Hatsumi, Hiromi Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20190002661Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus (1) for the dispersion of an expansion gas even in supercritical conditions, e.g. carbon dioxide, in a reactive resin, of the kind in which a reaction chamber having an input (27) for gas and an input (37) for resin is provided. Advantageously, the chamber is a dispersion and containment chamber made into a casing (2) of predetermined high resistance susceptible to sustain high pressure and is divided into two sections (6,7) by a head (14) of a dispersion and mixing cylinder-piston group (4) in fluid communication between themselves by means of at least one pouring passage (31, 36, 32, 39) provided with a static mixer (38), motor means (3) being provided for piston (34) control of said mixing cylinder-piston group (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: MARCO VOLPATO, MAURIZIO CORTI
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Patent number: 10040040Abstract: A method and high-pressure mixing device for co-injection of polymeric reactive components, in particular for polyurethane and epoxy mixtures. The polymeric components are supplied in a common pressure chamber where they flow at a same pressure and in an unmixed state into a forwardly converging fore portion of the pressure chamber, and through a settable co-injection orifice to be co-injected, in the unmixed state, into a mixing chamber transversely oriented to the pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: AFROS S.P.A.Inventors: Marco Volpato, Maurizio Corti
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Patent number: 9731267Abstract: A high-pressure mixing apparatus for polymeric components suitable for providing a reactive mixture for a polymerizable resin, provided with a self-regenerating seal. An annular sealing element is housed in a circular seat inside a cross hole of a bush transversely extending to and in communication with the mixing chamber, in a sealing zone downstream the injection holes for the polymeric components, between the mixing chamber and the same delivery bush; worn and/or torn parts of the annular sealing element are automatically regenerated by the reactive mixture delivered during operation of the mixing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: AFROS S.P.A.Inventors: Carlo Fiorentini, Maurizio Corti
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Publication number: 20170036243Abstract: A method is disclosed for dispensing a polyurethane mixture onto a substrate by generating a liquid mixture from reactive component resins; introducing the mixture in an inlet section of a dispensing device so as to advance it towards a planar-shaped outlet slit section, transversely to the advancement direction of the substrate; distributing the mixture along a gap chamber having a cross section diverging towards the outlet slit section; and dispensing the mixture through the outlet slit section, so as to deposit a thin, uniform film onto the substrate. Fractions of the mixture travel equal distances from the inlet section to the outlet slit section, in equal times, maintaining equal average speeds along each section having zones placed all at the same path distance either from the inlet section or from the outlet slit section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: CANNON S.P.A.Inventors: Marco VOLPATO, Maurizio CORTI
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Publication number: 20160319981Abstract: In a configuration of a method for preventing progression of corrosion in a steel pipe structure according to the present invention, two or more types of liquids 150 are injected, while being mixed, into a steel pipe that constitutes the steel pipe structure, from an opening at one of both ends of the steel pipe, and the inside of the steel pipe is filled with resin foam product (foam product 152) by foam expansion and hardening of the two or more types of liquids.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Kazuhiro TAKAISHI, Takehiro MIYAZAWA, Yoshio TAMURA, Takuhiko OHASHI, Masashi SUEMATSU, Osamu HATSUMI, Tadashi KIMURA, Makoto IDE, Isao NAGANUMA, Marco VOLPATO, Maurizio CORTI, Tetsuya MATAYOSHI, Kouei MIYAZATO, Shinichi SUZUKI, Nobuo OKAMURA, Kozo HATSUMI, Hiromi HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 9308512Abstract: A method for forming a self-regenerating seal in a mixing chamber of a high-pressure mixing apparatus for polymeric components suitable for providing a reactive mixture for a polymerizable resin. An annular sealing element is provided in a circular housing seat inside the mixing chamber, in a sealing zone downstream the injection holes for the polymeric components; worn and/or torn parts of the annular sealing element are automatically regenerated by the same reactive mixture delivered during operation of the mixing apparatus. A high-pressure mixing apparatus with self-regenerating sealing element is also claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: AFROS S.P.A.Inventors: Carlo Fiorentini, Maurizio Corti