Patents by Inventor Thomas HERMANS

Thomas HERMANS 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).

  • MIXING DEVICE WITH CIRCULATION ZONE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD
    Publication number: 20240075435
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mixing device including a chamber defining a circulation zone, the circulation zone including at least one base liquid and a mixing fluid, the mixing fluid being less paramagnetic than the base liquid, the mixing fluid including and/or consisting of at least one first fluid, the mixing device including at least one magnetic element which generates a magnetic field in the circulation zone so that the mixing fluid flows into the base liquid, the chamber including at least one first injection point of the first fluid into the circulation zone, the first injection point opening into the base liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Vincent Pascal MARICHEZ, Thomas HERMANS, Caroline Julie THEBAULT, Lucas Jean Daniel GIACCHETTI
  • Device and method for circulating liquids
    Patent number: 11434882
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device including at least one circulating zone and at least one fluid including at least one more-paramagnetic liquid and at least one less-paramagnetic liquid forming a liquid-liquid interphase, the device including at least one element generating, in the circulating zone, a magnetic field, wherein the less-paramagnetic liquid is surrounded by the more-paramagnetic liquid in the circulating zone or wherein the more-paramagnetic liquid is surrounded by the less-paramagnetic liquid in the circulating zone. Also disclosed is a method including circulating at least one less-paramagnetic liquid inside one or more circulating zones of a device including at least one circulating zone and at least one more-paramagnetic liquid in the circulating zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS, AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH COLLEGE GREEN
    Inventors: Thomas Hermans, John Michael David Coey, Peter Dunne, Bernard Doudin
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CIRCULATING LIQUIDS
    Publication number: 20210332815
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device including at least one circulating zone and at least one fluid including at least one more-paramagnetic liquid and at least one less-paramagnetic liquid forming a liquid-liquid interphase, the device including at least one element generating, in the circulating zone, a magnetic field, wherein the less-paramagnetic liquid is surrounded by the more-paramagnetic liquid in the circulating zone or wherein the more-paramagnetic liquid is surrounded by the less-paramagnetic liquid in the circulating zone. Also disclosed is a method including circulating at least one less-paramagnetic liquid inside one or more circulating zones of a device including at least one circulating zone and at least one more-paramagnetic liquid in the circulating zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas HERMANS, John Michael David COEY, Peter DUNNE, Bernard DOUDIN