Ball Patents (Class 401/209)
  • Patent number: 12225987
    Abstract: Jewelry apparatus have a front planar body and a back planar body hingedly attached to one another by a transverse hinge, a retractable member secured to one of the planar bodies, and a cam in the transverse hinge in operative engagement with the retractable member and incorporated to rotate when either the front planar body or the back planar body rotates to an open position, thereby pushing the retractable member into a protruding position. Each planar body has a central spine, a first leaf, and a second leaf opposite the first leaf that are each hingedly attached to the central spine by a hinge oriented in a lengthwise direction (perpendicular to the transverse hinge). The lengthwise hinges can be spring hinges that automatically bias the first leaf and second leaf into an elongate position after the front planar body is folded along the transverse hinge to an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventors: Barry Farber, Roland Krainz
  • Patent number: 12220038
    Abstract: A refillable packaging container for a roll-on material includes a body having a cup at its upper end, a spherical roller ball sitting within and retained by the cup, a refill container configured to contain a roll-on material, and a lid. A method of forming a packaging container includes inserting a refill container configured to contain a roll-on material into a body having a cup at its upper end, a first connection below the cup, and an opening at its lower end, wherein the cup retains a spherical roller ball and retaining the refill container with the body to form the packaging container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Tarcio Schwarz Borgo, Fabio de Andre Sant'ana
  • Patent number: 12201203
    Abstract: A dispenser includes a container designed to receive a cartridge with an open or partially open end, the cartridge featuring an internal cavity for storing a product and has open or partially open ends. Within the cavity, a movable platform engages the product to control its expulsion facilitated by a force exerting element that is inherently biased to move the platform. The dispenser also includes a roller at the container's end, which selectively restricts or permits product expulsion, allowing user control over the dispensing rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Mohamed Mory Diane
  • Patent number: 12156842
    Abstract: The present invention is a hand-held, battery operated facial massager. The facial massager includes a palm-sized base unit and one or more interchangeable heads. Each interchangeable head is designed to attach to the base unit, and is designed to provide a specific type of motion. The facial massager is adjustable for different facial areas and locations on a user's face and neck. The facial massager of the present invention can be manufactured and sold as a kit having one base unit, several interchangeable heads and a battery charger. The simple and compact design of the facial massager allows a user to perform a complete facial massage in the comfort of their home, instead of having to rely on costly and time-consuming professional appointments at a salon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Inventor: Yvette Gutierrez Hilty
  • Patent number: 12114754
    Abstract: Methods and devices including a skin or a lip and more particularly methods and devices that enhances absorption of fluid treatment media into tissue for cosmetic and therapeutic purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: John H. Shadduck
  • Patent number: 12104066
    Abstract: An aqueous peelable ink composition comprising at least one film-forming elastomeric polymer, at least one pigment, and water, wherein the film-forming elastomeric polymer is hydrogenated acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, and a method for preparing such an aqueous peelable ink composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventors: Carine Bethouart, Aurelie Basset
  • Patent number: 12030334
    Abstract: A free-ink writing instrument mat include a nib drying delay component to prevent drying out of the end of the nib of the writing instrument that is located in the writing ink tank thereof. The nib drying delay component is locally arranged around the end of the nib in a liquid tight manner and configured to locally retain ink therein so as to keep the nib end in contact with locally retained ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventors: Julien Lintermy, Carine Bethouart
  • Patent number: 12030339
    Abstract: A writing instrument configured to apply a writing material or liquid to a surface, comprising a socket, and a ball arranged in the socket, characterized by at least one first component which is arranged to come into contact with the ball, wherein the at least one first component comprises a first material having surface properties such that the friction coefficient between the ball and the at least one first component decreases when the force acting from the ball on the at least one first component increases at least within a certain range of forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventors: David Duffy, Bernadette Elliott-Bowman
  • Patent number: 11993099
    Abstract: A ballpoint pen. In the ballpoint pen, an oil-based ballpoint pen ink composition has an ink viscosity with a range of 500 mPa·s to 15000 mPa·s inclusive at 20° C. and a shear rate of 500 sec?1. A ball has a ball diameter of 0.5 mm or less. A tip distal end portion includes a first swaged portion and a second swaged portion. The first swaged portion has an inclination angle with a range of 90 degrees to 100 degrees inclusive. The second swaged portion is provided closer to a distal end side of a ballpoint pen tip than the first swaged portion and has an inclination angle with a range of 110 degrees to 130 degrees inclusive. An angle of a bottom wall of a ball holding chamber is the same as the inclination angle of the second swaged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sanada, Hidenori Kudou, Takeshi Fujii
  • Patent number: 11975560
    Abstract: A ballpoint pen tip comprises: a ball having a diameter of 0.5 mm or less; and a tip body, wherein the tip body has a ball holding chamber, a rear hole, an ink flow hole, and an ink flow groove opening to the ball holding chamber, and not reaching the rear hole. A ratio of an ink consumption per 100 m of handwriting to a diameter of the ball is 200 mg/mm or more and 800 mg/mm or less, and when a front end of the ink flow groove is set as a start point and a position of 0.3 mm rearward from the front end of the ink flow hole is set as an end point, a volume of a first space in the ink flow hole and the ink flow groove from the start point to the end point is 0.02 mm3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Kajiwara, Naoto Masushige
  • Patent number: 11950679
    Abstract: A coupling seal of a container is provided. The coupling seal of a container includes a container with an interior reservoir. The interior reservoir is accessible via a rim about an aperture. The rim includes a number of protrusions. The protrusions are placed about the circumference of the rim so that a containment apparatus can mate with the rim. The containment apparatus includes a surface with a peripheral flange protruding therefrom. A number of arises are provided on the peripheral flange and are designed to mate with the protrusions of the rim. Rotation of the containment apparatus upon the rim causes the arises of the containment apparatus to mate with the protrusions of the rim, causing the container to seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Wise
  • Patent number: 11882914
    Abstract: A refillable bottle (10) is provided, comprising a lid (1) that can be connected to an applicator (2) and a storage portion (3) that can be connected to the applicator (2), in which the lid (1), the applicator (2) and the storage portion (3) are connected together using screw threads in the lid (1), the applicator (2) and the storage portion (3). An accompanying method for refilling a bottle (10) is also provided, comprising the following steps: disconnecting the storage portion (3) from the applicator (2) by means of a first unscrewing action, and connecting a refill (20) to the applicator (2), in which the force required to perform the first unscrewing action is greater than the force required to perform a second unscrewing action, the second unscrewing action being understood to be the action performed to disconnect the lid (1) from the applicator (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NATURA COSMÉTICOS S.A.
    Inventors: Márcio Miranda de Faria, Thiago Milano de Oliveira, Gideon Moreira Ferreira, Josué Ferreira
  • Patent number: 11654078
    Abstract: Disclosed is a beauty treatment device including: an upper portion; a lower portion; a handle formed on the lower portion; a hollow hole formed in the upper portion; a conductive holder configured in the hollow hole; and a beauty treatment water generator detachably attachable to the conductive holder, wherein at least a part of the beauty treatment water generator is configured as a conductor so that, when the beauty treatment water generator is inserted into the conductive holder and beauty treatment water flowing out of the beauty treatment water generator contacts human skin, micro-currents, which are generated in the beauty treatment device and flow through a beauty treatment water, can flow through human skin after passing through the conductive holder and the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventor: Sung Bok Shin
  • Patent number: 11322056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a luminous stick of emitting an image on the basis of the optical element, and may provide a three-dimensional image according to rotation of a light emitting body, and may perform various applications by displaying a text, an image, and a moving image. In addition, even when performing performance, since the luminous stick may be performed expressions in various by the luminous stick itself, the luminous stick may be performed the performance by a simple operation, and may be used in concert halls and theaters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventor: Je Phil Ahn
  • Patent number: 11291814
    Abstract: An apparatus for holding a roll-on medication applicator including a curved handle and a sleeve in which the applicator is held. The handle has upper and lower flanges supported by a web attached to the sleeve. The flanges are widened and thickened with undulations and curve over and merge at a free end of the handle. The sleeve has a closed end with an air hole and a side wall with a slit opening at an open end. The slit widens into a finger hole proximate the closed end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Ryan A. Swier
  • Patent number: 11054935
    Abstract: A stylus is communicatively coupled to a touch-sensitive device. The stylus includes a contact sensor and a reporting unit. The stylus or touch-sensitive device includes a contact detection controller. The contact sensor measures one or more properties. The contact detection controller determines, based on measurements of the one or more properties from the contact sensor, whether the stylus is in contact with a surface. The reporting unit transmits an indication of whether the stylus is in contact with the surface to the touch-sensitive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Beechrock Limited
    Inventor: Owen Drumm
  • Patent number: 10688793
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing cartridge includes a housing body having a proximal end wall, a distal end wall, a fluid chamber, and a hollow throat portion. The fluid chamber is in fluid communication with the hollow throat portion, and the distal end wall provides a distal termination of the hollow throat portion. A fluid jetting chip is located on, and is attached to, the distal end wall. The hollow throat portion includes a fluid channel. The fluid channel has an interior wall that has a plurality of elongate protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: James D. Anderson, Jr., Michael A. Marra, III
  • Patent number: 10667985
    Abstract: A device for distributing, on a surface of a living body, a product containing an active component or forming a cosmetic product, the device comprising a housing and a cartridge, releasably coupled to the housing, wherein: the cartridge comprises an applicator element and a reservoir containing said product and having a movable or deformable wall part for reducing the volume of the reservoir, wherein at least one opening is provided between the reservoir and the applicator element for applying the product to the applicator element by reducing the volume of the reservoir; and the housing comprises at least one light source for radiating light through and/or alongside the cartridge and a drive for driving the movable and/or deformable wall part of the reservoir for reducing the volume of the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ID Lab
    Inventors: Stéphane Decaux, Géraldine Decaux, Jean Luc Thuliez, Etienne Crozier, Guillaume Heisel
  • Patent number: 10632519
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus for an USB interface metal casing. The manufacturing method for an USB interface metal casing includes: feeding a flat-shaped pipe blank to a lower mold (S100); closing a first upper mold and the lower mold, and performing pipe-expansion forming to a bottom of the pipe blank (S110); closing a second upper mold and the lower mold, and performing necking and chamfering to a top port of the pipe blank (S120); and closing a third upper mold and the lower mold, and modifying the pipe blank to obtain a final finished product of the USB interface metal casing (S130).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TATFOOK QUAINTFAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Wen, Zijian He
  • Patent number: 10603245
    Abstract: A solution bottle contains: a body and an applying head. The body includes a holder, a first sleeve, and a second sleeve. The holder has an accommodation chamber configured to accommodate a spray can, the first sleeve is secured on a top of the holder, and the second sleeve is connected with an inner wall of the first sleeve. The second sleeve has a connection hole arranged on a bottom thereof and fitting with the spray can, and the second sleeve has a receiving groove configured to house the applying head and communicating with the fitting hole. Thereby, the solution bottle is capable of massaging and applying the solution (such as medicine agent or cosmetics) on the user's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Inventor: Jui-Sheng Ho
  • Patent number: 10576774
    Abstract: A ballpoint pen is provided in which the width of the drawing line can be changed, wherein responsiveness can be improved when distinguishing between drawing thin lines and thick lines. A ballpoint pen 1 provided at the pen tip side with a first writing part having a writing ball 25, wherein the ballpoint pen 1 is characterized by being provided with a writing part at the pen tip side with which it is possible to write a thicker line than the line written with the first writing part, only the first writing part being used when the writing weight is 1 g and the writing angle is 90°, and the second writing part being used when the writing weight is 200 g, and the writing angle is 40-90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeo Fukumoto, Tooru Nakajima, Kazuhiko Furukawa, Yusuke Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Akagi
  • Patent number: 10405638
    Abstract: An applicator device includes a photo-active formulation assembly and a photo-dose assembly operably coupled to the photo-active formulation assembly. The photo-active formulation assembly includes one or a plurality of dispenser portions and one or more photo-activatable formulation reservoirs. The photo-active formulation assembly is operable to dispense a photo-activatable formulation from the one or more photo-activatable formulation reservoirs onto one or more regions of a biological surface. The photo-dose assembly includes at least one illuminator oriented to focus electromagnetic energy onto one or more focal regions of a biological surface. The focused electromagnetic energy is of a character and for a duration sufficient to photo-activate the photo-activatable formulation dispensed from the one or more photo-activatable formulation reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: John Streeter, Vincenzo Casasanta, III, Zane Bowman Allen Miller
  • Patent number: 10185409
    Abstract: A stylus includes a cylindrical shaped housing and a shell. The shell is rotatably connected to the housing. A cross-sectional area of the housing has a first dimension along a first axis and a second dimension along a second axis, the first axis perpendicular to the second axis. The first dimension is smaller than the second dimension. A cross-sectional area including both the shell and the housing has a third dimension along the first axis that is substantially the same as the first dimension while the shell is in a first position and substantially the same as the second dimension while the shell is in a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Eliyahu Barel
  • Patent number: 10051940
    Abstract: An application dispenser for at least one component, in particular for an adjustable dosing and/or mixing dispenser, includes a rotation element, in particular a ball for applying the at least one component, and a pump configured to load the at least one component with pressure and feed the at least one component under pressure onto the rotation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 10040312
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a roller ball marking instrument for use with paint, a method for assembling the roller ball marking instrument, and a system for delivering paint. The body of the marking instrument includes a reservoir for storing paint. The body is coupled to a fibrous roller ball via a retaining ring. The roller balls sits within a partially-enclosed cavity in the center of the retaining ring. A least part of the roller ball protrudes through an opening in the retaining ring. Paint in the reservoir moves first through an opening at one end of the body and then through an open center of the retaining ring. The paint is transferred to the roller ball. The roller ball rotates freely within the cavity of the retaining ring and transfers the paint to a writing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Crayola, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher P. Orem, Robert N. Amabile, Victor Bedoya, Jordan Howell, Roseld V. Laguatan, Jr., John D. McBride, Jr., Douglas Melville, Leena Vadaketh
  • Patent number: 9809722
    Abstract: The disclosure provides transitorially erasable ink compositions, including an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, a rubber dissolved in the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, a hydrophilic pigment, and a surfactant. The disclosure further provides methods of preparing transitorially erasable ink compositions and writing instruments comprising transitorially erasable ink compositions. The disclosed erasable ink compositions write well, have strong color and erase easily transitorially, and demonstrate color stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SANFORD, L.P.
    Inventors: Jiandong Zhu, Wing Sum Vincent Kwan
  • Patent number: 9707590
    Abstract: A set for dispensing and processing a light-curing material contained in a reservoir of an applicator includes a light source for curing the material dispensed from an outlet opening of the reservoir by the effect of pressure on the reservoir. The set further includes a modeling device having at least one of a smoothing surface and a working edge for processing the dispensed light-curing material. The light source can be fastened detachably or undetachably to the applicator or to the modeling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KDS Holding GmbH
    Inventor: Dinko Jurcevic
  • Patent number: 9682593
    Abstract: A writing instrument including: a body extending longitudinally along a central axis; a resilient element fixed to at least one portion of the body. The resilient element of the at least one portion of the body is in one piece and is made of at least partially amorphous metal alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd.
    Inventors: Michel Willemin, Nakis Karapatis, Jean-Claude Martin
  • Patent number: 9545813
    Abstract: A ballpoint pen wherein an outer member (50) covering the outer circumference of a holder (21) covers a section that reaches as far as a narrowed section (23) of the holder (21) and has an outer member tip end portion (51). An ink spreads between the writing ball (30) and the contact section of the writing surface and between the outer member tip end portion (51) and the contact section of the writing surface, in which the writing ball (30) and the outer member tip end portion (51) are in contact with the writing surface at the same time. The relative position of the outer member (50) and the holder (21) can be changed from a holder protruding position to a holder retracted position wherein the writing ball (30) and the tip section of the outer member (50) can be in contact with the writing surface at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeo Fukumoto, Seiichi Maruyama, Kazuhiko Furukawa
  • Patent number: 9290036
    Abstract: A roller ball pen for use with metallic inks, and a method for assembling the roller ball pen for use with metallic inks, is described herein. The pen body includes a housing that encloses a reservoir, a collet, a feed rod, and a tip. The feed rod transfers ink from the reservoir to a roller ball tip at a tapered end of the pen housing. In embodiments, the feed rod is embedded at a threshold distance inside the reservoir to provide an increased surface area for transfer of a metallic ink suspension. In further embodiments, a method of assembling the roller ball pen includes saturation of the reservoir with a metallic ink based on inserting a particular injection needle at a particular depth inside the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: CRAYOLA LLC
    Inventors: Linda J. Smith, Luis Rodrigo Pineiro
  • Patent number: 9266379
    Abstract: A thermochromic writing instrument contains a thermochromic ink, wherein a writing body is accommodated in a barrel movably in a longitudinal direction, an operation portion is provided on the outer surface of the barrel, a pen tip of the writing body is constituted so as to be projectable/retractable from/into a front-end hole of the barrel by operating the operation portion, the thermochromic ink is contained in the inside of the writing body, the pen tip capable of ejecting the thermochromic ink is provided at the front end of the writing tool, and a friction portion capable of thermally changing the color of the handwriting of the thermochromic ink by the frictional heat generated when the handwriting is rubbed with the friction portion is provided on the outer surface of the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignees: THE PILOT INK CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Imamura, Nobuo Sekine, Masashi Ando
  • Patent number: 9233574
    Abstract: A thermochromic writing instrument contains a thermochromic ink, wherein a writing body is accommodated in a barrel movably in a longitudinal direction, an operation portion is provided on the outer surface of the barrel, a pen tip of the writing body is constituted so as to be projectable/retractable from/into a front-end hole of the barrel by operating the operation portion, the thermochromic ink is contained in the inside of the writing body, the pen tip capable of ejecting the thermochromic ink is provided at the front end of the writing tool, and a friction portion capable of thermally changing the color of the handwriting of the thermochromic ink by the frictional heat generated when the handwriting is rubbed with the friction portion is provided on the outer surface of the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignees: THE PILOT INK CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Imamura, Nobuo Sekine, Masashi Ando
  • Publication number: 20150093176
    Abstract: Provided are an ink composition for an aqueous ink ball point pen, which contains modified polyvinyl alcohol and at least one selected from boric acid and salts thereof, and an aqueous ink ball point pen charged with the ink composition, wherein the boric acid and the salts thereof are preferably at least one selected from boric acid, alkali metal salts of boric acid and ammonium salts of boric acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusuke KOBAYASHI, Noriko SAKANE, Tomoyuki AKAKI
  • Publication number: 20150071698
    Abstract: An object is to make an ink composition for a ballpoint pen, ensuring that the width of writing line is thin, even slight unevenness or feathering does not occur at the boundary between the writing line and a paper sheet, ink-depleted writing line that is writing line in a state of ink being lacked near the central part of writing line is prevented, and the writing line is clear. The ink viscosity is set to 200,000 mPa·s or more at a shear rate of 0.019 s?1 and 5,000 mPa·s or less at a shear rate of 10,000 s?1 and the storage modulus at an angular frequency of 0.019 rad/sec is set to 10 Pa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Aya Otsubo, Yoshitaka Morimoto, Yuichi Kobayashi, Natsumi Koide
  • Patent number: 8956066
    Abstract: Exemplary applicator devices for applying topical oils to an individual are disclosed. Some embodiments of an exemplary applicator device may include a topical oil container and a roller-ball applicator coupled to the container. The roller-ball applicator may include a roller-ball housing, a roller-ball within the housing, the roller-ball being freely rotatable within the housing, and a retention cap configured to retain the roller-ball within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Young Living Essential Oils, LC
    Inventors: D. Gary Young, Son Q. Le, Marc Schreuder, Cole Woolley
  • Publication number: 20150023720
    Abstract: Provided are: an oil-based ink composition for a ball-point pen having a favorable feeling of writing, the favorable deepness of a written trace, favorable light resistance, favorable ink stability over time, and favorable pigment dispersibility; and an oil-based ball-point pen refill using the oil-based ink composition. An oil-based ink composition for a ball-point pen comprising at least a dye, a pigment, and an organic solvent, wherein the dye is at least one salt-forming dye selected from the group consisting of salt-forming dyes of alkylbenzene sulfonic acids and xanthene-based basic dyes, salt-forming dyes of alkylbenzene sulfonic acids and triarylmethane-based basic dyes, and salt-forming dyes of alkylbenzene sulfonic acids and azomethine-based basic dyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Fujii
  • Patent number: 8899863
    Abstract: A roll-on applicator device (11) for distributing a viscous medium on a surface, that has a fitment (14) and a distributor ball (13) placed in the fitment (14) and partially projecting from one end of the fitment, wherein the fitment (14) has a base element (16) and a retaining element (15) that are detachably connected to each other by connection means (25), wherein the base element (16) is provided with support means (21) for supporting the distributor ball (13) and with a tubular member (17) for the connection to a container (12) and wherein the retaining element (15) is designed such that it rotatably retains the distributor ball (13) in the fitment (14). The invention further relates to a roll-on dispenser (10) for dispensing a viscous medium with a container (12) for the viscous medium and such a roll-on applicator device (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hoffmann Neopac AG
    Inventors: Andreas Geiger, Simon Böhlen
  • Patent number: 8894312
    Abstract: A package for a composition, the package comprising a container having a base comprising a base face for standing the package on a planar surface, and a cap removably connected to and covering a dispensing end of the container opposite to the base. The cap has an end face which is inclined to the base face, and the container and cap are shaped to permit the package, independent of the amount of the consumer composition contained within the container, selectively to be stood on the base face in an upright orientation on the planar surface or on the end face in an inverted orientation on the planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Kiat-Cheong Toh, Jonas Damon, Daniel Antonio Pacis-Sanchez, Allison Stacey Conner
  • Patent number: 8894313
    Abstract: A package for a consumer care composition. The package comprises a container containing a consumer care composition, the container having a base for standing the package on a surface, a body portion above the base, a neck portion above the body portion, and a dispensing head above the neck portion. The body portion is aligned along a first axis and the neck portion is aligned along a second axis which is inclined to the first axis so that the dispensing head is directed upwardly and laterally towards a front of the container. The neck portion and the dispensing head have an exterior periphery which is not equal to that of the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Kiat-Cheong Toh, Jonas Damon, Daniel Antonio Pacis-Sanchez, Allison Stacey Conner
  • Patent number: 8851778
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a content-reservoir/product applicator assembly that comprises a refill associated to a housing that supports an applicator for applying a product, the assembly being associable, in a detachable and interchangeable manner to a storage package, the storage package storing the assembly. The refill contains cosmetic products and comprises a case; a neck; a housing; and an applicator. The applicator is a substantially spherical, continuous rotary surface and is associated to the housing. The housing is associable to the housing by thermal welding. The refill is made from a squeezable flexible material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Natura Cosmeticos S.A.
    Inventors: Alfredo Rossi Neto, Renato Wakimoto
  • Publication number: 20140270900
    Abstract: A roller ball pen for use with metallic inks, and a method for assembling the roller ball pen for use with metallic inks, is described herein. The pen body includes a housing that encloses a reservoir, a collet, a feed rod, and a tip. The feed rod transfers ink from the reservoir to a roller ball tip at a tapered end of the pen housing. In embodiments, the feed rod is embedded at a threshold distance inside the reservoir to provide an increased surface area for transfer of a metallic ink suspension. In further embodiments, a method of assembling the roller ball pen includes saturation of the reservoir with a metallic ink based on inserting a particular injection needle at a particular depth inside the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Crayola LLC
    Inventors: Linda J. Smith, Luis Rodrigo Pineiro
  • Patent number: 8764333
    Abstract: A water based ink composition for a ballpoint pen containing ?-carrageenan in addition to a dye, water and a water-soluble organic solvent. When used in the ball point pen, the ink composition satisfies an ink drooling prevention and a drying resistance which are mutually incompatible functions and is excellent in writing performance regardless of containing a dye as a coloring agent. The ink composition (c) is used, for example, by accommodating a refill (12) whose ink accommodating tube (18) is filled with the ink composition and which is further loaded with an ink backflow-preventing member (20) in the ballpoint pen (10) whose writing edge is retracted and extruded from a front end opening of a barrel (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Asami
  • Publication number: 20140140752
    Abstract: A problem to be solved is to provide a writing implement at low cost that prevents flow of air into an ink tank and prevents writing failure while allowing for productivity. A writing implement refill 10 comprises: an ink tank 20 composed of films 21 storing ink; a joint 30 connected to a tip of the ink tank 20; and a writing tip 40 connected to a tip of the joint 30. An inner circumferential surface of the tip of the ink tank 20 covers an outer circumferential surface of a rear end of the joint 30. A covering member 50 of a ring shape covers from outside an area where the tip of the ink tank 20 covers the outer circumferential surface of the rear end of the joint 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Seiichi Maruyama, Takeo Fukumoto, Kazuhiko Furukawa
  • Patent number: 8714856
    Abstract: Provided are a ballpoint pen tip which can, even if ink having properties which assures that the amount of supply of the ink to the pen tip by shear of a writing ball is sufficient is adopted, prevent partially faint written traces from occurring and provide smooth writing, a ballpoint pen refill, a ballpoint pen, and a method of manufacturing a ballpoint pen tip. A triangular pyramid-shaped recess (42) gradually tapered toward an ink guide hole (36) is provided in the bottom of a ball housing (31), and troughs (44) formed in the recess (42) are utilized as ink reservoirs and ink paths. Because the troughs (44) have sufficient length, width, and depth, the amount of containment of the ink and the amount of supply of the ink are increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited
    Inventor: Yoshihide Ishii
  • Patent number: 8678691
    Abstract: A writing implement. A tubular outer shell (11) is provided outside a grip member (10), an inner shell (12) made of a soft material is provided entirely inside the outer shell (11), and the inner shell (12) is covered with the moderately hard outer shell (11). Thus, while the inner shell (12) inside can allow the user to feel the fit, the outer shell (11) outside prevents the inner shell (12) from getting damaged or worn even if the inner shell (12) is soft, so as to fully secure durability of the grip member (10). Since a thin part (11A) of the outer shell (11) is sufficiently thin on a swell (13), the excellent fit can be given to the user even if the outer shell (11) is formed of a hard elastic material to fully secure the durability of the grip member (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kiritake, Nobuaki Shimane, Kengo Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 8651762
    Abstract: It is an aim to provide a tip unit for a liquid applicator and a liquid applicator that make written (applied) lines to change in thickness and give excellent durability. A tip unit used for a liquid applicator includes a ball house having an opening at its distal end and an introduction channel for application liquid in communication with the ball house, wherein the ball house holds therein at least two balls having a leading ball and an adjacent ball next to the leading ball, the balls being serially lined in an axial direction of the tip unit, the leading ball being partly exposed outside from the opening, and the leading ball being softer than the adjacent ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sakura Color Products Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Nakatani, Sakiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140037362
    Abstract: The disclosure is generally related to an irreversible thermochromic ink composition and, more particularly, to an irreversible thermochromic ink composition comprising a carrier and thermochromic capsules, the thermochromic capsules comprising a shell and a core, the core comprising an eradicable dye capable of becoming substantially colorless and/or of changing color from a first colored state to a second colored state when exposed to an eradicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: SANFORD, L.P.
    Inventor: Wing Sum V. Kwan
  • Publication number: 20140030428
    Abstract: A glue dispensing device includes a glue tube and a ball. The glue tube includes a taped glue outflow end. The glue outflow end defines a round opening. The ball is movably received in the glue tube, a diameter of the ball is greater than a diameter of the round opening. The ball closes the round opening when not being pressed, and opens the round opening when being pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: CHIEN-CHUN WANG
  • Patent number: 8616797
    Abstract: In order to provide a thermosensitive decolorable ink composition which can readily be decolored with simple heating by rubbing and the like without using a microcapsule and is not developed again in color even after stored at very low temperature (?50° C. or lower) and which is excellent in stability with passage of time and has a vivid hue intensity, the above thermosensitive decolorable ink composition is provided with a constitution in which it contains as a colorant, color developing particles comprising at least a leuco dye, a developer and a crystalline substance and in which it further contains a decolorant comprising an amorphous resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshimi Kamitani, Hiroyuki Okuyama
  • Patent number: 8591133
    Abstract: An automatic switch for a power circuit of a bottle container is provided. The bottle container includes a bottle body, a cover and an electronic unit for allowing an accommodating unit to be assembled between the bottle body and the cover. A liquid is received in the bottle body. A ball is disposed in a mouth at a front end of the cover, and the ball is capable of opening/closing the mouth by means of an elastic body. The elastic body has a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. The first conductive portion is brought into electrical contact with a positive electrode (or negative electrode) of a power source of the electronic unit. The second conductive portion is located above the negative electrode (or positive electrode) of the power source of the electronic unit by a distance when the elastic body is not pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Inventor: Jui-Sheng Ho