Patents by Inventor Valentin LECOMTE

Valentin LECOMTE 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: 11292707
    Abstract: An appliance for making a drink individually. The appliance includes a plurality of containers. Each container includes a vessel and a head screwed onto the vessel. A base defines a plurality of housings each receiving a container, and being provided with a housing outlet and a pressurizing inlet connected with a drain valve and a pressurizing valve of the container, respectively. A funnel is mounted under the housing outlets. Structure transfers by pressurization, into the funnel, ingredients contained in the containers housed in the housings. The vessel and the head of at least one container include polarizing surfaces of the vessel and of the head, respectively, configured to form, together, a container polarizing surface that can cooperate with a housing polarizing surface to ensure a predetermined positioning of the container with respect to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: KUANTOM
    Inventors: Valentin Lecomte, Geoffrey Martins
  • Patent number: 11109708
    Abstract: A machine for making an individual drink. The machine includes a pressure source, a store defining a plurality of housings, a plurality of removable containers each immobilized, in a service position, in a respective housing. Each container includes a receptacle containing an ingredient, and an upstream emptying valve allowing the ingredient to be caused to exit to the outside of the receptacle by an increased pressure generated inside the receptacle by the pressure source. The machine includes a chamber to receive the ingredients extracted from the containers, via the upstream emptying one-way valves, because of the increased pressure, so as to make the drink. The machine includes a control module able to command the increased pressures in the containers as a function of a desired composition for the drink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: KUANTOM
    Inventors: Valentin Lecomte, Geoffrey Martins
  • Publication number: 20210093119
    Abstract: An appliance for making a drink individually. The appliance includes a storage rack defining a plurality of housings configured to each receive a container containing an ingredient of the drink, and being provided with a housing outlet. The appliance includes a funnel including an outlet orifice. The appliance includes structure for transferring, into the funnel, through the housing outlets of the housings, ingredients contained in the containers. The appliance includes an emulsifier including an emulsifier shaft that is movable between positions in which it closes and leaves free the outlet orifice of the funnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Valentin LECOMTE, Geoffrey MARTINS
  • Publication number: 20210094812
    Abstract: An appliance for making a drink individually. The appliance includes a plurality of containers. Each container includes a vessel and a head screwed onto the vessel. A base defines a plurality of housings each receiving a container, and being provided with a housing outlet and a pressurizing inlet connected with a drain valve and a pressurizing valve of the container, respectively. A funnel is mounted under the housing outlets. Structure transfers by pressurization, into the funnel, ingredients contained in the containers housed in the housings. The vessel and the head of at least one container include polarizing surfaces of the vessel and of the head, respectively, configured to form, together, a container polarizing surface that can cooperate with a housing polarizing surface to ensure a predetermined positioning of the container with respect to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Valentin LECOMTE, Geoffrey MARTINS
  • Publication number: 20190053658
    Abstract: Apparatus, for making an individual drink, with a pressure source, a store defining a plurality of housings, a plurality of removable containers each immobilized, in a service position, in a respective housing. Each container including a receptacle containing an ingredient, and an upstream emptying valve allowing the ingredient to leave towards the outside via an overpressure generated inside the receptacle by the pressure source. A chamber receives the ingredients extracted from the containers, via the upstream emptying valves, under the effect of the overpressure, so as to make the drink. A control module commands the overpressures in the containers as a function of a desired composition for the drink. Each housing includes a draining coupling via which the ingredient of the container immobilized in the housing can be extracted from the container. The draining coupling opening, in the downstream direction, directly into a funnel defined by the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Valentin LECOMTE, Geoffrey MARTINS