Patents by Inventor Mauro Morandi

Mauro Morandi 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: 10315139
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fuel filter assembly, a filter element, and a method of draining water from a fuel filter assembly. The fuel filter assembly comprises a filter element with a water collecting space; the filter element being connected to a fuel pipe for feeding an upstream side of the filter element with fuel and for providing filtered fuel from a downstream side of the filter element to a combustion engine or parts thereof; a fuel pump arranged downstream from the filter element, wherein the fuel pump can be operated in a first mode for drawing fuel through the filter element and in a second, reverse mode for feeding fuel back to the filter element; a one-way fuel valve arranged upstream of the filter element allowing for flow towards the upstream side of the filter element; a pressure-actuated one-way drain valve in communication with the water collecting space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Gert Willems, Daniel Fertil, Mauro Morandi
  • Publication number: 20170021295
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fuel filter assembly, a filter element, and a method of draining water from a fuel filter assembly. The fuel filter assembly comprises a filter element with a water collecting space; the filter element being connected to a fuel pipe for feeding an upstream side of the filter element with fuel and for providing filtered fuel from a downstream side of the filter element to a combustion engine or parts thereof; a fuel pump arranged downstream from the filter element, wherein the fuel pump can be operated in a first mode for drawing fuel through the filter element and in a second, reverse mode for feeding fuel back to the filter element; a one-way fuel valve arranged upstream of the filter element allowing for flow towards the upstream side of the filter element; a pressure-actuated one-way drain valve in communication with the water collecting space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Gert WILLEMS, Daniel FERTIL, Mauro MORANDI
  • Patent number: 6079618
    Abstract: An opening arrangement for packaging containers which is manufactured from a flexible packaging laminate and includes a prefabricated outlet opening which is covered by a tear-off strip or pull-tab. To facilitate pouring of the contents and permit reclosure of the packaging container, the container also displays a prefabricated pouring device surrounding the outlet opening, the pouring device being applied on the outside of the packaging container and comprising a reclosable lid. In order to ensure satisfactory function and facilitate application of the pouring device onto the packaging container, the pull-tab extends, according to the present invention, in beneath the pouring edge of the pouring device and is fixedly sealed between the pouring device and the upper side of the packaging container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Peter Hedberg, Lars Jonsson, Gian Luca Furini, Mauro Morandi
  • Patent number: 5938107
    Abstract: Substantially parallelepipedic packaging and gable-top containers for liquid contents, for example milk, are manufactured by folding and sealing of laminated packaging material and include two substantially planar end portions, as well as four vertical wall panels. The volume of the packaging container may be increased in relation to the area of the packaging material employed in that the vertical wall panels, the primary wall panels, are supplemented with secondary wall panels which are defined by straight, vertical fold lines which, at the upper and lower ends of the panels, respectively, merge into pairwise converging diagonal fold lines which intersect at a point. In a blank for the packaging containers, the wall panels are defined throughout the greater part of their length, by straight, parallel, vertical fold lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: David Anchor, Tommy Bo Goran Ljungstrom, Mauro Morandi
  • Patent number: D464566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: David Anchor, Tommy Bo Goran Ljungstrom, Mauro Morandi
  • Patent number: D473464
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: David Anchor, Tommy Bo Goran Ljungstrom, Mauro Morandi
  • Patent number: D494861
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA
    Inventors: Lorenzo Guidotti, Mauro Morandi