Patents Assigned to Aptar Radolfzell GmbH
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Patent number: 10173815Abstract: A discharge head for a fluid container, including a discharge opening and a switching valve which closes and opens a fluid path between the fluid container and the discharge opening. The discharge head has an inner component fixedly connected to a fluid store and an outer component movable relative to the inner component and non-separably connected thereto. The outer component is moved relative to the inner component between a first relative closure position and a second relative open position. The switching valve is opened and closed by movement of the inner component relative to the outer component, is closed in the first position and open in the second position. The inner and outer components are locked in the first position by a child-resistant mechanism, and displacement of the outer component from the first position into the second position is prevented in a locking position of the mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Juergen Greiner-Perth, Pia Meinel, Guenter Nadler
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Patent number: 10150125Abstract: A metering dispenser for simultaneously or selectively discharging two media, including an outlet opening, a first reservoir for a first medium, a first metering-conveyor device for conveying the first medium from the first reservoir, a second reservoir for a second medium, a second metering-conveyor device for conveying the second medium from the second reservoir, a mixing chamber arranged upstream of the outlet opening and in which the first medium, conveyed by the first metering-conveyor device, and/or second medium, conveyed by the second metering-conveyor device, is stored temporarily, and an output-conveyor device for conveying the medium or media from the mixing chamber to the outlet opening. The first metering-conveyor device has the form of a metering-pump device with a variable-volume metering chamber, an inlet fluidically connected to the first reservoir and having an inlet valve, and an outlet fluidically connected to the mixing chamber and having an outlet valve.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Thomas Bruder, Tobias Baumann
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Patent number: 10137466Abstract: A discharge head for a dispenser including a securing element coupling the discharge head to the dispenser, a housing having an outlet opening, and a valve body. The valve body closes the outlet opening when the pressure of a medium in the discharge head is below a threshold value, and in a ready-for-use state the valve body releases the outlet opening when the pressure of the medium in the discharge head is above the threshold value. The valve body is mounted over a travel path for releasing and closing the outlet opening, and a locking handle moves in relation to the securing element in order to transfer the discharge head into a locked state in which the travel path of the valve body is reduced to zero, and/or in order to transfer the discharge head from the locked state into the ready-for-use state.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Thomas Bruder, Tobias Baumann
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Patent number: 10099229Abstract: Dispenser with a liquid storage unit, a dispensing head with a perforated plate component which has at least 25 dispensing openings in a dispensing opening region, with a pre-chamber connected upstream of the dispensing openings of the perforated plate component and from which the dispensing openings are supplied, and a connecting channel which connects the liquid storage unit to the pre-chamber. The perforated plate component is fastened on the dispensing head in an edge region and the dispensing opening region is pressed into a curved form by means of a curvature body which is arranged in the pre-chamber and acts with force upon the perforated plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Juergen Greiner-Perth, Matthias Wochele
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Patent number: 10086394Abstract: A discharge device having an actuating handle, a first pump system for conveying a first medium and a second pump system for conveying a second medium. The actuating handle can be moved between an initial position and an end position. The first pump system includes a first pump chamber and a first piston arranged in a displaceable manner in the first pump chamber. The second pump system includes a second pump chamber and a second piston arranged in a displaceable manner in the second pump chamber. The first piston and the second piston can be displaced via the actuating handle in the direction of actuation, and the actuating handle and the first piston are coupled to each other such that the actuating handle and the first piston can be displaced relative to each other in a direction of actuation via a free travel.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Thomas Bruder
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Patent number: 10065006Abstract: Dispenser for the discharge of pharmaceutical media having a liquid storage, a base body, an actuating handle that is manually displaced with respect to the base body for causing a discharge process of media from the liquid storage into an environment, and an electronic detection system for detecting discharge processes. A sensor is provided, which, subject to the displacement of a reference component mechanically coupled to the actuating handle such that during a discharge process the reference component is displaced with respect to the base body, generates an output signal. The sensor is configured for generating output signals of two distinguishable types as a function of the extent of the displacement, and is provided with an electronic calibration memory in which calibration data regarding discharge behavior of the dispenser are stored.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Michael Helmlinger
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Patent number: 10035159Abstract: Fluid dispenser for the discharge of pharmaceutical or cosmetic fluids including a fluid reservoir in which fluid is stored prior to discharge, an outlet channel through which the fluid is dispensed to an environment, and a pump chamber which, starting from an initial state with maximum pump chamber volume, is volumetrically reduced by a manual pump activation. An inlet valve arrangement is provided between the fluid reservoir and the pump chamber, which opens in a pressure regulated manner when a negative pressure exists in the pump chamber with respect to the fluid reservoir, and an outlet valve arrangement is provided between the pump chamber and the discharge opening. The outlet valve arrangement includes a switching valve mechanically compelled to open in reaction to a displacement of an activation handle and independent of the fluid pressure in the pump chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Thomas Bruder, Tobias Baumann
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Patent number: 9919329Abstract: A dispenser system including a first dispenser module having a medium chamber fillable with medium, a first discharge head actuable for discharging medium from the medium chamber, a refilling opening, and a second dispenser module coupleable to the first dispenser module for refilling the latter. The second dispenser module has a storage container for medium, and a second discharge head. In the decoupled state of the dispenser modules, the second discharge head is actuable for discharging the medium out of the storage container and has a discharge opening. The second discharge head has a ventilation system for equalizing the pressure in the storage container when the medium is discharged. The dispenser system has an air pump system. In the coupled state of the dispenser modules, the air pump system is fluidly coupled to the ventilation system and conveys air via the ventilation system into the storage container.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Thomas Bruder
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Patent number: 9889978Abstract: A protective cap for a dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic liquids, wherein the dispenser has a liquid reservoir and an outlet opening through which the liquid can be dispensed into a surrounding atmosphere, and wherein the protective cap has at least one ventilation opening to allow communication between an interior and external surroundings. An irreversibly removable sealing element which covers the at least one ventilation opening is arranged on the protective cap, which sealing element closes the at least one ventilation opening in an airtight and germproof manner before a first use.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Matthias Wochele
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Patent number: 9878339Abstract: An applicator head for discharging a pasty medium from a container, including a metering chamber, a first housing part bounding the metering chamber in sections, with an actuating element, and a second housing part. The first housing part and the second housing part form a constructional unit connectable to a container storing the medium and closing the container. By actuating the actuating element, the medium is conveyed out of the container into the metering chamber and/or is discharged from the metering chamber. A sealing element of a plastically or elastically deformable plastic is provided, and is arranged such that the container is closable in a sealing manner by the constructional unit. The sealing element is manufactured as a common component with at least one further element of the applicator head.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Tobias Baumann
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Patent number: 9833356Abstract: Dispenser for dispensing pharmaceutical liquid having a housing, a liquid reservoir arranged within the housing, an exit opening through which liquid is discharged into a surrounding atmosphere, an outlet channel connecting the liquid reservoir to the exit opening and having an outlet valve, openable in a pressure-dependent manner or actuatable manually, arranged in the outlet channel. With the valve closed, the outlet channel is subdivided into a first portion upstream of the outlet valve and a second portion downstream of the outlet valve. The housing is of antibacterial design in the region of surfaces which are intended to come into contact with the liquid, wherein it is exclusively surfaces in the region of the second portion and/or of an outer surface of the housing which have this antibacterial design.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Matthias Wochele
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Patent number: 9815609Abstract: A dispenser for discharging a pharmaceutical or cosmetic medium having a discharge head with a discharge opening, a container for storing the medium prior to discharge, an elastically deformable outer container, and a dimensionally flexible inner container arranged in an interior of the outer container. A ventilation channel is provided, through which the interior of the outer container is connected to an environment for pressure compensation by compensating air. The ventilation channel is delimited in at least some regions by a self-adhesive label, or the ventilation channel has a self-adhesive label and has a gas-permeable surface portion. The gas-permeable surface portion is arranged in the ventilation channel or on one of the ends of the ventilation channel, such that the air passing through the ventilation channel also passes through the gas-permeable surface portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Matthias Wochele
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Patent number: 9718072Abstract: A dispenser system including a storage container a medium, having an outlet valve, a dispenser module having a medium chamber, a pumping device that is actuated to discharge medium from the medium chamber and having an inlet valve, and an actuating device. The medium chamber is a sealed chamber having a variable volume, and the dispenser module is coupled to the storage container to fill the medium chamber. During filling, the inlet valve and the outlet valve are opened such that the medium chamber communicates with the storage container. The actuating device has a magnet and a magnetic or magnetizable element interacting therewith for a volume change of the medium chamber. The actuating device causes a volume of the medium chamber to be enlarged to produce a differential pressure between the medium chamber and the storage container to convey medium out of the storage container into the medium chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Thomas Bruder
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Patent number: 9700907Abstract: A discharging device for liquids. The invention relates to a discharging device for liquids, more particularly for pharmaceutical liquids, comprising a delivery device (10), a liquid storage receptical (20) communicating with an input (10a) of the delivery device for storage of the liquid (30), and a discharge orifice (12) which communicates with an outlet (10b) of said delivery device, and the liquid storage receptical (20) is at least in part in the form of a dimensionally flexible liquid-containing bag (20) and the liquid storage receptical (20) is disposed in a buffer chamber of constant volume (42).Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Juergen Greiner-Perth, Matthias Wochele, Peter Stadelhofer
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Patent number: 9676525Abstract: A protective cap for a dispenser for discharging liquids, wherein the dispenser has a liquid reservoir and an outlet opening through which the liquid is discharged into a surrounding atmosphere. The protective cap has an inner cap and an outer cap, the inner cap having a ventilation opening for communication between an interior of the protective cap and an external environment. Before use, the outer cap is mounted on the inner cap in a first position with the inner cap and the outer cap in sealing contact with each other and the ventilation opening is separated in an airtight and germproof manner from the environment, and the outer cap is movable relative to the inner cap from the first position to a second position in which the inner and outer caps are out of sealing contact with each other and the ventilation opening communicates with the environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Juergen Greiner-Perth, Gerald Krampen, Andi Herz, Sai Shankar, Antonio O. Mallare
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Patent number: 9669974Abstract: The invention relates to a protective cap for a dispenser, and to a dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical and/or cosmetical liquids, wherein the dispenser has a liquid reservoir and an outlet opening through which the liquid can be discharged into a surrounding atmosphere. The protective cap comprises an outer cap and an inner element inserted therein, wherein either at least one ventilation channel, which can be closed by means of a shut-off element and provides communication between an interior of the protective cap and an external environment, is formed between the outer cap and the inner element, or the inner element closes a ventilation opening of the outer cap.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Matthias Wochele, Antonio O. Mallare, Sai Shankar
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Patent number: 9629438Abstract: A pen-type cosmetic dispenser for discharging a cosmetic medium, including an elongate housing extending in a main direction of extent, a discharge opening at an end face of the housing, a liquid reservoir arranged inside the housing, and a pumping device arranged inside the housing, which pumping device can be actuated by an actuating handle arranged on a lateral surface of the housing. The pumping device has a pump chamber, which is connected to the liquid reservoir on an inlet side and to the discharge opening on an outlet side. The pump chamber is delimited at least in sections by a wall which is flexible in shape, wherein the exterior surface of the wall forms the actuating handle.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Thomas Bruder
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Patent number: 9492830Abstract: A perforated plate produced as a plastics component by injection moulding, there being provided for this purpose a mould with two mould halves which together define a cavity filled with plastics material during injection moulding, wherein the first mould half has a planar abutment surface directed towards the cavity, and the second mould half has a multiplicity of elevations rising up over a base surface, wherein, in the closed state of the mould, distal contact regions at the distal ends of the elevations butt against the abutment surface, and therefore keep the dispensing openings free of plastics material when the plastics material is being injected.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Gerald Krampen
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Patent number: 9475074Abstract: A discharging device for discharging liquids includes an outer housing encompassing an inner chamber, a liquid storage receptacle, a discharge orifice, a delivery device for delivering liquid from the storage receptacle to the discharge orifice, a cap that covers the discharge orifice when present on the outer housing in a safety position, and a manual actuator adapted to actuate the delivery device and which is movable relative to the outer housing between a neutral relative position and an actuated relative position. The cap and the manual actuator cooperate so that displacement of the manual actuator is mechanically blocked when the cap is in its safety position. A locking element that is movable in relation to the outer housing is constrainedly coupled with the movement of the manual actuator and extends in the actuated position through a hole in the outer housing to a region that the cap blocks when mounted in its safety position.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventors: Judith Auerbach, Thomas Eberhard, Wilfried Graf
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Patent number: D812485Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Karl Tempfli