Patents by Inventor Günter Hochholzer
Günter Hochholzer 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).
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Patent number: 11772113Abstract: A valve block assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve block, an intake valve insert and/or an exhaust valve insert, and a valve receptacle assigned to the respective valve insert. The valve insert is inserted in a replaceable and sealing manner in the valve receptacle. The valve insert has a stop portion, a fastening portion distinct therefrom and a sealing portion distinct from both. The associated valve receptacle has stop, fastening, and sealing portions matching the equivalent portions of the valve insert. When the valve insert is installed correctly both the stop portions and the sealing portions bear on one another in a planar manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Günter Hochholzer, Markus Kurz
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Publication number: 20220401981Abstract: A valve block assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve block, an intake valve insert and/or an exhaust valve insert, and a valve receptacle assigned to the respective valve insert. The valve insert is inserted in a replaceable and sealing manner in the valve receptacle. The valve insert has a stop portion, a fastening portion distinct therefrom and a sealing portion distinct from both. The associated valve receptacle has stop, fastening, and sealing portions matching the equivalent portions of the valve insert. When the valve insert is installed correctly both the stop portions and the sealing portions bear on one another in a planar manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Günter Hochholzer, Markus Kurz
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Patent number: 11426749Abstract: A valve block assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve block, an intake valve insert and/or an exhaust valve insert, and a valve receptacle assigned to the respective valve insert. The valve insert is inserted in a replaceable and sealing manner in the valve receptacle. The valve insert has a stop portion, a fastening portion distinct therefrom and a sealing portion distinct from both. The associated valve receptacle has stop, fastening, and sealing portions matching the equivalent portions of the valve insert. When the valve insert is installed correctly both the stop portions and the sealing portions bear on one another in a planar manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Günter Hochholzer, Markus Kurz
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Patent number: 10526184Abstract: An exhaust valve assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve housing which forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an exhaust valve body disposed on the inlet in the valve chamber, and a safety valve body disposed on the outlet in the valve chamber. The exhaust valve body is biased toward an exhaust valve seat, counter to the flow direction of the liquid and the safety valve body is biased toward a safety valve seat in the flow direction of the liquid. The safety valve seat is integrally molded on the valve housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl, Günter Hochholzer, Bernhard Kämmerer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
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Publication number: 20180339893Abstract: An exhaust valve assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve housing which forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an exhaust valve body disposed on the inlet in the valve chamber, and a safety valve body disposed on the outlet in the valve chamber. The exhaust valve body is biased toward an exhaust valve seat, counter to the flow direction of the liquid and the safety valve body is biased toward a safety valve seat in the flow direction of the liquid. The safety valve seat is integrally molded on the valve housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl, Günter Hochholzer, Bernhard Kämmerer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
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Patent number: 10071896Abstract: An exhaust valve assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve housing which forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an exhaust valve body disposed on the inlet in the valve chamber, and a safety valve body disposed on the outlet in the valve chamber. The exhaust valve body is biased toward an exhaust valve seat, counter to the flow direction of the liquid and the safety valve body is biased toward a safety valve seat in the flow direction of the liquid. The safety valve seat is integrally molded on the valve housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl, Günter Hochholzer, Bernhard Kämmerer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
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Patent number: 9731953Abstract: A cylinder-and-piston assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids in which the stroke length of the piston of the cylinder-and-piston assembly is delimited by a stroke length stop when suctioning from the cylinder and is delimited by a readjustment stop when exhausting into the cylinder. The readjustment stop is disposed on the piston or on the cylinder housing and interacts with a fixed stop. The readjustment stop is accessible and adjustable by way of a removable seal. The seal is connected by way of ribs to a piston bearing. The readjustment stop is disposed below this removable seal. The seal has a molding and the piston bearing has a counter molding. Displacement of the seal in relation to the piston bearing moves the seal in the longitudinal direction, and by this movement, the seal is removed in a manner that preferably is not capable of re-assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Günter Hochholzer, Dieter Böhm, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
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Patent number: 9694376Abstract: A cylinder-and-piston assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids provides a cylinder attachable to a valve block assembly, a piston, displaceable in a sealed manner in the longitudinal direction within the cylinder, and a cylinder housing connected to the piston and externally encompassing the cylinder. The piston is displaceable in the cylinder and the stroke length of the piston in the cylinder is delimited by a fixed stop, which interacts with a stroke length stop on the cylinder housing. The cylinder housing has a longitudinal slot running in the longitudinal direction and on the external side thereof has a scale assigned to this longitudinal slot. The stroke length stop on the cylinder housing is adjustable in the longitudinal direction and is interlockable in the respective position.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Dieter Böhm, Günter Hochholzer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
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Publication number: 20160264391Abstract: A cylinder-and-piston assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids in which the stroke length of the piston of the cylinder-and-piston assembly is delimited by a stroke length stop when suctioning from the cylinder and is delimited by a readjustment stop when exhausting into the cylinder. The readjustment stop is disposed on the piston or on the cylinder housing and interacts with a fixed stop. The readjustment stop is accessible and adjustable by way of a removable seal. The seal is connected by way of ribs to a piston bearing. The readjustment stop is disposed below this removable seal. The seal has a molding and the piston bearing has a counter molding. Displacement of the seal in relation to the piston bearing moves the seal in the longitudinal direction, and by this movement, the seal is removed in a manner that preferably is not capable of re-assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Günter Hochholzer, Dieter Böhm, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
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Publication number: 20160214848Abstract: An exhaust valve assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve housing which forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an exhaust valve body disposed on the inlet in the valve chamber, and a safety valve body disposed on the outlet in the valve chamber. The exhaust valve body is biased toward an exhaust valve seat, counter to the flow direction of the liquid and the safety valve body is biased toward a safety valve seat in the flow direction of the liquid. The safety valve seat is integrally molded on the valve housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl, Günter Hochholzer, Bernhard Kämmerer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
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Publication number: 20160214127Abstract: A cylinder-and-piston assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids provides a cylinder attachable to a valve block assembly, a piston, displaceable in a sealed manner in the longitudinal direction within the cylinder, and a cylinder housing connected to the piston and externally encompassing the cylinder. The piston is displaceable in the cylinder and the stroke length of the piston in the cylinder is delimited by a fixed stop, which interacts with a stroke length stop on the cylinder housing. The cylinder housing has a longitudinal slot running in the longitudinal direction and on the external side thereof has a scale assigned to this longitudinal slot. The stroke length stop on the cylinder housing is adjustable in the longitudinal direction and is interlockable in the respective position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Dieter Böhm, Günter Hochholzer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
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Publication number: 20160214846Abstract: A valve block assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve block, an intake valve insert and/or an exhaust valve insert, and a valve receptacle assigned to the respective valve insert. The valve insert is inserted in a replaceable and sealing manner in the valve receptacle. The valve insert has a stop portion, a fastening portion distinct therefrom and a sealing portion distinct from both. The associated valve receptacle has stop, fastening, and sealing portions matching the equivalent portions of the valve insert. When the valve insert is installed correctly both the stop portions and the sealing portions bear on one another in a planar manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Günter Hochholzer, Markus Kurz
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Patent number: 9364827Abstract: A piston-operated pipette with a drive unit with a piston drive and a displacement unit mounted on the drive unit, the displacement unit being dismountable from the drive unit, the drive unit having an actuating drive for the piston drive and a receiving section for the displacement unit. The displacement unit has a fastening section which fits the receiving section of the drive unit, there being a first detachable mechanical connection between the actuating drive and the piston drive and there being a second detachable mechanical connection between the receiving section of the drive unit and the fastening section of the displacement unit. The second detachable mechanical connection is made as a magnetic connection. A mechanical arrangement for breaking the magnetic connection is provided between the receiving section and the fastening section, the magnetic connection being releasable by actuating the arrangement for breaking the magnetic connection.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Steffen Gehrig, Günter Hochholzer, Burkard Schaub
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Publication number: 20140137672Abstract: A piston-operated pipette with a drive unit with a piston drive and a displacement unit mounted on the drive unit, the displacement unit being dismountable from the drive unit, the drive unit having an actuating drive for the piston drive and a receiving section for the displacement unit. The displacement unit has a fastening section which fits the receiving section of the drive unit, there being a first detachable mechanical connection between the actuating drive and the piston drive and there being a second detachable mechanical connection between the receiving section of the drive unit and the fastening section of the displacement unit. The second detachable mechanical connection is made as a magnetic connection. A mechanical arrangement for breaking the magnetic connection is provided between the receiving section and the fastening section, the magnetic connection being releasable by actuating the arrangement for breaking the magnetic connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Steffen Gehrig, Günter Hochholzer, Burkard Schaub