Patents by Inventor Nicolas Chomel

Nicolas Chomel 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: 20110298163
    Abstract: A forming method, in a mold fitted with a wall forming a cavity, of a container from an intermediate container including at least one lateral protrusion projecting toward the exterior of the container. The method includes a boxing operation of pushing back the lateral protrusion in order to form, by turning it around an articulation zone, a hollow reserve projecting toward the interior of the container and a local cooling operation, after turning the protrusion over, of sweeping a circulation fluid over the articulation zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Nicolas Chomel, Sylvain Auvray, Jean-Christophe Langlois, Arnaud Briard
  • Publication number: 20110298161
    Abstract: A forming method, in a mold provided with a wall forming a cavity, of a container from a blank, which includes a boxing operation of pushing back the material of the blank by an insert movably mounted with respect to the wall of the mold between a retracted position in which the insert is retracted into the wall, and a deployed position in which the insert protrudes with respect to the wall, in order to form on the container, by pushing back, a hollow reserve projecting toward the interior of the container. Additionally, a local pressurization operation is performed, after formation of the hollow reserve, of injecting a pressurized fluid between the insert and the hollow reserve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Nicolas Chomel, Sylvain Auvrey, Jean-Christophe Langlois, Arnaud Briard
  • Publication number: 20110300250
    Abstract: Device for forming containers from blanks made of plastic material, having a mold provided with a wall defining a cavity intended to receive the blank; a boxing insert mounted movably with respect to the mold between a retracted position in which the insert is retracted into the wall, and an extended position in which the insert projects from the wall toward the interior of the cavity; a plate, on which the insert is rigidly fixed; a support on which the plate is removably mounted; and a system for the quick attachment of the plate to the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Arnaud Briard, Nicolas Chomel, Sylvain Auvray, Jean-Christophe Langlois
  • Patent number: 7975646
    Abstract: Device for depositing a coating on an internal surface of a container, of the type in which the deposition is carried out by means of a low-pressure plasma created inside the container by excitation of a precursor gas by microwave-type electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Rius, Nicolas Chomel, Yves-Alban Duclos
  • Patent number: 7838071
    Abstract: A container-treatment method, of the type in which the container (12) is disposed inside a chamber (16) which defines a cavity (18) outside the container (12) and which is connected to a Vacuum pumping circuit (50), the interior of the container (12) being connected to the pumping circuit (50). The method includes a preliminary pumping step (E1) which is followed by a treatment step (E2). The preliminary step (E1) includes the following successive phases, namely: an external pumping phase (P1) which produces a drop in the pressure inside the cavity (18) only; and an internal pumping phase (P2) which produces a drop in the pressure inside the container (12) only. A machine used to implement the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Laurent Danel, Frédéric Lecomte, Nicolas Chomel
  • Publication number: 20100000856
    Abstract: Method for controlling a high-voltage power supply generator for a magnetron (16) for producing a cold plasma inside a hollow body in order to carry out the deposition of a boundary layer within said hollow body, characterised in that it comprises selecting (E2) a generator operation mode from a plurality of operation modes (MODE 1, MODE 2, MODE 3), modifying the operation mode (MODE 1, MODE 2, MODE 3) of the generator by varying at least one coefficient ((a, b, c); (a1, b1, c1)) defining a maximal power Pmax of the waveform of the supply power of the magnetron (16) according to a set average power Pmoy of the magnetron (16), the magnetron (16) supply waveform being repeated recurrently with a cyclic conduction ratio Th depending on the set average power Pmoy and/or on the maximal power Pmax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Nicolas Chomel, Naima Boutroy, Ertan Cetinel
  • Publication number: 20080226431
    Abstract: The invention concerns a rotating machines for treating containers. When a workstation Pi enters (&thetas;1) a treatment zone, the treating equipment automatically consists of a stationed part (Eq 1) and a common part (Cj) which is mutually coupled with another workstation which is not located at the same time as the station (Pi) in the working zone (3). The same arrangement is used for a control equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Sidel Participations
    Inventors: Nicolas Chomel, Jean-Michel Rius, Frederic Lecomte, Guy Feuilloley
  • Publication number: 20080099472
    Abstract: The electrical power supply to a magnetron (M) is regulated as a function of an instantaneous microwave power setpoint by: predetermining and storing (20) a value (?) for the electrical efficiency of the magnetron; inputting (19) a setpoint mean microwave power value, and converting it into a low frequency setpoint instantaneous power signal that is sampled at high frequency; measuring (8, 9) and sampling the instantaneous values of anode current and of the high voltage fed to the magnetron; calculating (10) the difference at a sampling instant (n) between the setpoint instantaneous microwave power and the product of the current multiplied by the high voltage multiplied by the efficiency; determining an instantaneous microwave power value at the consecutive sampling instant (n+1) that is corrected as a function of a predetermined regulation relationship that is valid at said instant (n+1); and converting it into an analog signal representative of the corrected instantaneous microwave power for powering the ma
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Ertan CETINEL, Nicolas CHOMEL
  • Publication number: 20080011232
    Abstract: Device for depositing a coating on an internal surface of a container (10), of the type in which the deposition is carried out by means of a low-pressure plasma created inside the container (10) by excitation of a precursor gas by microwave-type electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Rius, Nicolas Chomel, Yves-Alban Duclos
  • Publication number: 20070254097
    Abstract: A container-treatment method, of the type in which the container (12) is disposed inside a chamber (16) which defines a cavity (18) outside the container (12) and which is connected to a vacuum pumping circuit (50), the interior of the container (12) being connected to the pumping circuit (50). The method includes a preliminary pumping step (E1) which is followed by a treatment step (E2). The preliminary step (E1) includes the following successive phases, namely: an external pumping phase (P1) which produces a drop in the pressure inside the cavity (18) only; and an internal pumping phase (P2) which produces a drop in the pressure inside the container (12) only. A machine used to implement the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventors: Laurent Danel, Frederic Lecomte, Nicolas Chomel