Patents Assigned to OP-HYGIENE IP GmbH
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Patent number: 11974705Abstract: A piston pump for dispensing fluid from a reservoir, an improved vacuum relief arrangement in which a passageway for flow of air from the atmosphere into the reservoir is provided at least in part through a piston-forming element of the piston pump.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Andrew Jones, Heiner Ophardt, Zhenchun Shi
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Patent number: 11976953Abstract: A fluid dispenser having a pump mechanism that dispenses a dose of fluid when a movable pump member of the pump mechanism is moved between an extended position and a retracted position. A pump engagement body engages with the movable pump member for effecting movement of the movable pump member. A first cam surface and a second cam surface are connected to the pump engagement body, at least one of the first cam surface and the second cam surface comprising an adjustable cam surface whose location relative to the pump engagement body is selectively adjustable. A camming body engages with the first cam surface and the second cam surface to effect movement of the pump engagement body, and a dose adjustment mechanism allows the location of the adjustable cam surface relative to the pump engagement body to be selected.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: OP-HYGIENE IP GMBHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, John Garry
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Patent number: 11971132Abstract: A floor supported free standing dispenser assembly including a fluid dispenser coupled to an upper end of the dispenser assembly and a fall arrest bumper member which will engage with a floor to reduce damage from any impact with the floor should the stand or dispenser assembly be tipped over.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Hendrik Ophardt, Heiner Ophardt
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Patent number: 11957284Abstract: A fluid dispenser having a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of an external surface presented by a user's hand, and a pump mechanism that is configured to dispense fluid onto the user's hand when the pump mechanism is activated. It is determined whether the fluid has been dispensed onto the user's hand based, at least in part, on the temperature of the external surface presented by the user's hand.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventor: Heiner Ophardt
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Patent number: 11954997Abstract: A fluid dispenser with a fluid pump for dispensing fluid on movement of an actuator, and an air pump for delivering a stream of air through at least one sound generator on movement of the actuator. The sound generator produces at least two sounds as the actuator is moved from a first position to a second position, with each sound produced in a different time period during a cycle of operation, or differing from the other sound in respect of one or more detectable sound characteristics, such as duration, frequency, temporal alignment, amplitude, and/or timbre. The time period of each sound is a function of the relative location of the actuator between the first and second positions.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones
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Patent number: 11839338Abstract: A fluid dispenser with a pump mechanism that dispenses fluid when activated. A light sensor detects light in or around the fluid dispenser, and a controller controls a function of an electronic component of the fluid dispenser based on detection data received from the light sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GMBHInventors: Albrecht Lang, Adrian Senn, Michael Müller
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Patent number: 11759804Abstract: A foam dispenser with a pump mechanism that mixes a liquid with air to generate foam. The pump mechanism includes a first stage pump and a second stage pump. The first stage pump delivers the liquid and a first volume of the air through a first foam generator to generate a first foam. The second stage pump delivers the first foam and a second volume of the air through a second foam generator to generate a second foam.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: OP-HYGIENE IP GMBHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones
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Patent number: 11731146Abstract: A fluid dispensing system including a fluid dispenser that is operable in a stand-alone mode, and a housing that is configured to removably receive the fluid dispenser for operation of the fluid dispenser in a housed mode. When the fluid dispenser is placed on top of a horizontal support surface for operation of the fluid dispenser in the stand-alone mode, a pump mechanism of the fluid dispenser is manually activatable to dispense an allotment of fluid by manually depressing an activation member of the pump mechanism. When the fluid dispenser is received by the housing for operation of the fluid dispenser in the housed mode, the pump mechanism is activatable by activating an actuation mechanism of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GMBHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Padraig McDonagh
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Patent number: 11720775Abstract: A dispenser with a replaceable cartridge containing a product to be dispensed, and a housing configured to removably receive the cartridge. The cartridge has a surface that is marked with a first marking, and the housing has a surface that is marked with a second marking. The housing is configured so that, when the cartridge is received by the housing, the first marking and the second marking together form a machine readable code that is detectable from outside of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: OP-HYGIENE IP GMBHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, David Duncan, Hendrik Ophardt
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Patent number: 11702274Abstract: A method of storing a product that contains a volatile component within a fluid storage reservoir formed with enclosing walls having a permeability that permits limited passage of the volatile component from the storage reservoir to the atmosphere, preferably with the method increasing the shelf life of the product stored, and a fluid storage reservoir with a first container containing the fluid product to be dispensed including the volatile component and a second container containing a sacrifice material including the same volatile component with an intermediate transfer wall shared by both the first container and the second container for transfer of the volatile component between the first container and the second container. The product preferably is a surface cleaner or a hand sanitizer including 30 to 95% ethanol.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: OP-HYGIENE IP GmbHInventor: Heiner Ophardt
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Patent number: 11677090Abstract: A direct isopropanol fuel cell adapted for use in ambient conditions and utilizing as fuel isopropanol and water preferably with isopropanol at relatively high concentrations representing 30% to 90% isopropanol.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Volker Loos, Gregor Hoogers, Albrecht Lang
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Patent number: 11669808Abstract: A method of managing a plurality of washrooms in a facility for servicing by service personnel and, more particularly, for establishing servicing operations which provide for service of at least selected of the dispensers before their consumable product supply falls below a pre-selected refill value.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Rudolpho Gian-Franco Gugliotta
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Patent number: 11622656Abstract: A fluid dispenser having a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of an external surface presented by a user's hand, and a pump mechanism that is configured to dispense fluid onto the user's hand when the pump mechanism is activated. It is determined whether the fluid has been dispensed onto the user's hand based, at least in part, on the temperature of the external surface presented by the user's hand.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventor: Heiner Ophardt
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Patent number: 11389035Abstract: A fluid dispenser with a pump mechanism that dispenses fluid when activated. A light sensor detects light in or around the fluid dispenser, and a controller controls a function of an electronic component of the fluid dispenser based on detection data received from the light sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Albrecht Lang, Adrian Senn, Michael Müller
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Patent number: 11366055Abstract: A method of spectroscopically assessing the chemical composition of a bubble while the bubble constrains a gas within the interior of the bubble by passing light passing through the bubble and comparing properties of the light before and after the light has passed through the bubble. The bubble is located, preferably compressed between a first plate and a second plate providing a compressed bubble with relatively flat first polar end wall portion adjacent the first plate in a relatively flat second polar end wall portion adjacent a second plate and directing the light to pass through the bubble via the first and second polar end wall portions.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventor: Heiner Ophardt
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Patent number: 11350796Abstract: A method of determining the volume of fluid contained in a collapsible bottle, the collapsible bottle containing a fluid to be dispensed from a fluid dispenser. The fluid dispenser has a distance measuring sensor, and the collapsible bottle is coupled to the fluid dispenser so that a preselected surface of the collapsible bottle is positioned in a measurement path of the sensor. The fluid dispenser is activated to dispense an allotment of the fluid from the collapsible bottle, the collapsible bottle collapsing in a predictable manner as the fluid is dispensed from the collapsible bottle. The sensor is used to measure a distance between the sensor and the preselected surface of the collapsible bottle, the distance changing predictably as the collapsible bottle collapses. The volume of the fluid contained in the collapsible bottle is determined based on the distance between the sensor and the preselected surface of the collapsible bottle.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Cuneyt Tezcan, Dusan Stan
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Patent number: 11354628Abstract: A method of managing a plurality of washrooms in a facility for servicing by service personnel and, more particularly, for establishing servicing operations which provide for service of at least selected of the dispensers before their consumable product supply falls below a pre-selected refill value.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Rudolpho Gian-Franco Gugliotta
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Patent number: 11347984Abstract: A dispenser with a replaceable cartridge containing a product to be dispensed, and a housing configured to removably receive the cartridge. The cartridge has a surface that is marked with a first marking, and the housing has a surface that is marked with a second marking. The housing is configured so that, when the cartridge is received by the housing, the first marking and the second marking together form a machine readable code that is detectable from outside of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, David Duncan, Hendrik Ophardt
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Patent number: RE49597Abstract: A valvular conduit, preferably a Tesla valvular conduit, in which a plug member is coaxially received within a bore in a sleeve member and in which passageways are defined between the plug member and the sleeve member within interior walls configured to permit mixing of fluid flowing through the passageways in at least one direction, preferably, the relatively free passage of fluid through the passageways upstream but increased the resistance to downstream flow of the fluid through each passageway.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
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Patent number: RE49833Abstract: An improved foam piston pump in which a multiple of air pumps are disposed coaxially about a piston member and spaced axially along the piston member, preferably coaxially with a liquid pump for discharging air and liquid as foam. Each air pump is preferably provided by a modular piston within a modular casing assembly such that arrangements with one, two or more identical air pumps can be assembled from a plurality of the same modular components.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbHInventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones