Patents by Inventor Richard Bourgeois
Richard Bourgeois 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: 20230312219Abstract: Shipping system for temperature-sensitive materials. In one embodiment, the shipping system may include an insulated container. The insulated container may include a frame surrounding a payload space, the frame including a door providing access to the payload space. The shipping system may additionally include a door brace assembly. The door brace assembly may be mounted within the payload space just inside the door and may include a door plug configured to substantially close the payload space. The door brace assembly may additionally include a door brace mounted within the door plug. The door brace may be transformable between a retracted state and an expanded state. When in its retracted state, the door brace assembly may be loaded into or removed from the insulated container. When in its expanded state, the door brace assembly engages the four corners of the frame just inside the door to keep the frame square.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: William D. Robertson, Connor Richard Bourgeois, Mark P. Fyrer, Gregory Cook, Michael Donahue, Matthew Dunham, Benjamin Quay, Chad Michael Adams, Tony Farnsworth Adams
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Patent number: 11548255Abstract: Methods of making vents in containers made from flexible materials, including forming vent openings in a first flexible material, forming vent stand-offs on a second flexible material, and combining the flexible materials to form a vent passage for the flexible container.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mark Mason Hargett, Michael Paul Hausfeld, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Richard Matthew Giachetto, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Gavin John Broad
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Patent number: 11491803Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for applying a transfer material onto one or more surfaces of an article are disclosed, including apparatuses and methods of transfer printing on and/or decorating three-dimensional articles, as well as the articles printed and/or decorated thereby. The apparatuses and methods may include providing a deposition device, such as a printing device; providing a transfer component; depositing a material onto a portion of the transfer component with the deposition device; modifying the portion of the transfer component with the transfer material thereon to conform the transfer component to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional article; and transferring the transfer material onto the one or more surfaces of the article.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Marc Richard Bourgeois, Matthew Richard Allen, Mark Mason Hargett, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Philip Andrew Sawin
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Patent number: 11472146Abstract: A non-durable flexible container can include a first film wall including a first portion comprising at least one first structural support member defined in the first film wall, and a second portion that is free of a structural support member. The container can further include a second film wall including at least one second structural support member defined in the second film wall, wherein at least a portion of the first structural support member is adjacent to at least a portion of the second structural support member to define a seam region, and a side of the seam region defines an edge of the non-durable flexible container. The container can also include a closed produce volume defined between first and second film walls; and a seam projecting outwardly from the seam region at an intersection of the first and second film walls.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Scott Kendyl Stanley, Charles John Berg, Jr., Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Joseph Craig Lester, Andrew Paul Rapach
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Patent number: 11338975Abstract: A container blank having an article handling feature for handling the container blank as well as the flexible packages made therefrom during manufacture, and method of making flexible packages using such a feature are described herein. Also described herein is an array of flexible packages containing a common article handling feature provided by such a method.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Richard Matthew Giachetto
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Publication number: 20210309403Abstract: A method for performing a task in registration with a discrete seal in at least one material is described herein. The method involves simultaneously forming a discrete seal and a fiducial/eye mark in the at least one material. The method includes providing a detection device; providing a unit operation mechanism; and performing an operation on the material(s) in registration with the discrete seal. The task performed in registration with the discrete seal is based upon the location of the eye mark that was simultaneously formed with the discrete seal. A method of making flexible containers using cutting to form the outer periphery of the packages is described herein. Also described herein are flexible containers and container blanks made by such a method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Joseph Craig Lester, Michael Paul Hausfeld, Mark Mason Hargett, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Benjamin Jacob Clare
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Patent number: 11111036Abstract: Methods of making flexible containers that include structural support frames, including methods for sealing such containers.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Joseph Craig Lester, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Tadayoshi Ishihara
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Patent number: 11091306Abstract: Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers with easily variable sizing. Line ups of flexible containers have similar sizes, shapes, and constructions, but hold differing amounts of fluent product at unexpected fill heights.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Tadayoshi Ishihara, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Richard Matthew Giachetto, Gavin John Broad, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Lee Mathew Arent, Jun You, Charles John Berg, Jr.
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Patent number: 10836528Abstract: In methods of making disposable, flexible containers for fluent products, methods of sealing the flexible containers when such containers include expansion materials, are disclosed. The methods include forming a partially completed container blank that has layers of flexible materials. The layered structure includes a first space for a fluent product, and a second space for an expansion material. The methods of sealing the flexible containers include adding an expansion material into the second space and pressing parts of at least some of the layers together to close off the second space.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Joseph Craig Lester, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Jun You, Mark Levandoski
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Publication number: 20200254751Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for applying a transfer material onto one or more surfaces of an article are disclosed, including apparatuses and methods of transfer printing on and/or decorating three-dimensional articles, as well as the articles printed and/or decorated thereby. The apparatuses and methods may include providing a deposition device, such as a printing device; providing a transfer component; depositing a material onto a portion of the transfer component with the deposition device; modifying the portion of the transfer component with the transfer material thereon to conform the transfer component to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional article; and transferring the transfer material onto the one or more surfaces of the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Robert Paul Cassoni, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Matthew Richard Allen, Mark Mason Hargett, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Christopher Gerald Donner, Jason Matthew Orndorff, Todd Michael Yeagle, Philip Andrew Sawin
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Publication number: 20200254803Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for applying a transfer material onto one or more surfaces of an article are disclosed, including apparatuses and methods of transfer printing on and/or decorating three-dimensional articles, as well as the articles printed and/or decorated thereby. The apparatuses and methods may include providing a deposition device, such as a printing device; providing a transfer component; depositing a material onto a portion of the transfer component with the deposition device; modifying the portion of the transfer component with the transfer material thereon to conform the transfer component to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional article; and transferring the transfer material onto the one or more surfaces of the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Robert Paul Cassoni, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Matthew Richard Allen, Mark Mason Hargett, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Christopher Gerald Donner, Jason Matthew Orndorff, Todd Michael Yeagle
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Publication number: 20200254792Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for applying a transfer material onto one or more surfaces of an article are disclosed, including apparatuses and methods of transfer printing on and/or decorating three-dimensional articles, as well as the articles printed and/or decorated thereby. The apparatuses and methods may include providing a deposition device, such as a printing device; providing a transfer component; depositing a material onto a portion of the transfer component with the deposition device; modifying the portion of the transfer component with the transfer material thereon to conform the transfer component to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional article; and transferring the transfer material onto the one or more surfaces of the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Robert Paul Cassoni, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Matthew Richard Allen, Mark Mason Hargett, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Christopher Gerald Donner, Jason Matthew Orndorff, Todd Michael Yeagle
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Publication number: 20200254752Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for applying a transfer material onto one or more surfaces of an article are disclosed, including apparatuses and methods of transfer printing on and/or decorating three-dimensional articles, as well as the articles printed and/or decorated thereby. The apparatuses and methods may include providing a deposition device, such as a printing device; providing a transfer component; depositing a material onto a portion of the transfer component with the deposition device; modifying the portion of the transfer component with the transfer material thereon to conform the transfer component to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional article; and transferring the transfer material onto the one or more surfaces of the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Marc Richard Bourgeois, Matthew Richard Allen, Mark Mason Hargett, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Philip Andrew Sawin
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Publication number: 20200254802Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for applying a transfer material onto one or more surfaces of an article are disclosed, including apparatuses and methods of transfer printing on and/or decorating three-dimensional articles, as well as the articles printed and/or decorated thereby. The apparatuses and methods may include providing a deposition device, such as a printing device; providing a transfer component; depositing a material onto a portion of the transfer component with the deposition device; modifying the portion of the transfer component with the transfer material thereon to conform the transfer component to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the three-dimensional article; and transferring the transfer material onto the one or more surfaces of the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Robert Paul Cassoni, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Matthew Richard Allen, Mark Mason Hargett, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Christopher Gerald Donner, Jason Matthew Orndorff, Todd Michael Yeagle, Philip Andrew Sawin
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Patent number: 10640247Abstract: Methods of opening and adding expansion materials to containers made from flexible materials. The methods involve forming a partially completed container blank that may have four layers of flexible materials. The partially completed container blank may be opened by separating a portion of the first layer from a portion of the second layer by bending portions of the second, third, and fourth layers toward a first direction; and dosing the partially completed container blank, by adding an expansion material out of a dispenser and into a space disposed between a portion of the first layer and a portion of the second layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Marc Richard Bourgeois, Jun You, Kunie Kolb, Joseph Craig Lester, Benjamin Jacob Clare
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Publication number: 20190352033Abstract: A method for performing a task in registration with a discrete seal in at least one material is described herein. The method involves simultaneously forming a discrete seal and a fiducial/eye mark in the at least one material. The method includes providing a detection device; providing a unit operation mechanism; and performing an operation on the material(s) in registration with the discrete seal. The task performed in registration with the discrete seal is based upon the location of the eye mark that was simultaneously formed with the discrete seal. A method of making flexible containers using cutting to form the outer periphery of the packages is described herein. Also described herein are flexible containers and container blanks made by such a method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Joseph Craig Lester, Michael Paul Hausfeld, Mark Mason Hargett, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Benjamin Jacob Clare
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Publication number: 20190352068Abstract: A container blank having an article handling feature for handling the container blank as well as the flexible packages made therefrom during manufacture, and method of making flexible packages using such a feature are described herein. Also described herein is an array of flexible packages containing a common article handling feature provided by such a method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2018Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Benjamin Jacob Clare, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Joseph Craig Lester, Lee Mathew Arent, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Richard Matthew Giachetto
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Patent number: 10131457Abstract: A method of expanding a structural support volume of a flexible container can include dispensing a cryogenic fluid into at least one structural support volume and sealing the at least one structural support volume such that it has a closed volume prior to complete conversion of the cryogenic fluid into a gas and expansion of the structural support volume to a pressurized state. The flexible container includes a product volume and at least a portion of the structural support volume extends into the product volume when the structural support volume is expanded.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Marc Richard Bourgeois, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Joseph Craig Lester, Tadayoshi Ishihara, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Jun You, Donald Joseph Cox
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Patent number: 10131468Abstract: A method of forming a flexible container can include folding a web or sheet to define one or more gussets in one or more regions of the flexible container. The gusset can be a continuous gusset or can be an interrupted gusset, having a seal disposed in the gusset.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Tadayoshi Ishihara, Joseph Craig Lester, Marc Richard Bourgeois, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Scott Kendyl Stanley, Lee Mathew Arent, Jun You, Andrew Paul Rapach, Charles John Berg, Jr., Kory Adam Gunnerson
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Publication number: 20180312283Abstract: Methods of opening and adding expansion materials to containers made from flexible materials. The methods involve forming a partially completed container blank that may have four layers of flexible materials. The partially completed container blank may be opened by separating a portion of the first layer from a portion of the second layer by bending portions of the second, third, and fourth layers toward a first direction; and dosing the partially completed container blank, by adding an expansion material out of a dispenser and into a space disposed between a portion of the first layer and a portion of the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Marc Richard BOURGEOIS, Jun YOU, Kunie KOLB, Joseph Craig LESTER, Benjamin Jacob CLARE