Patents by Inventor Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER
Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER 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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Publication number: 20240150120Abstract: Grippers for a picking device for drug packages and methods for operating the picking device are provided. The gripper has a tray having an end portion with an arcuate front, the end portion forming a loading and unloading front. The gripper further includes a transport device arranged above the tray and configured for moving drug packages from a storage surface onto the tray, and at least one sensor arranged in the end portion of the tray and configured to determine a presence of a drug package in a detection area of the at least one sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Bernd NELLINGER, Stephan BROKONIER, Dietmar GROSS, Jochen DAUMEN
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Patent number: 11912502Abstract: Grippers for a picking device for drug packages and methods for operating the picking device are provided. The gripper has a tray having an end portion with an arcuate front, the end portion forming a loading and unloading front. The gripper further includes a transport device arranged above the tray and configured for moving drug packages from a storage surface onto the tray, and at least one sensor arranged in the end portion of the tray and configured to determine a presence of a drug package in a detection area of the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Bernd Nellinger, Stephan Brokonier, Dietmar Gross, Jochen Daumen
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Patent number: 11772878Abstract: A storage container for a storage and dispensing station for drugs is provided. The storage container includes a housing enclosing a receiving space, a circular-cylindrical section and a bottom area having a discharge opening. A singling device situated in the circular-cylindrical portion of the housing includes at least one duct and a restrainer completely situated within the housing enclosing the receiving space. The restrainer includes a fastening portion and a restraining portion. The restraining portion is kept above the discharge opening and the fastening portion works together with at least one fastening socket within the housing to fix the restrainer in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: CareFusion Germany 326 GmbHInventor: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger
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Publication number: 20230286687Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions. The systems can include a housing that encloses a receiving space having a bottom surface. A separation device may be provided and arranged on the bottom surface with at least one channel to receive at least one medicament portion. At least one channel may have an opening facing the receiving space and an opening facing the bottom surface. The opening facing the bottom surface may be associated with a contact area on the bottom surface, over which contact area the medicament portions may be guided upon a movement of separation device. At least one recess may be arranged in the bottom surface outside of the contact area to receive contamination particles present in the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Dietmar GROSS
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Patent number: 11697517Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions. The systems can include a housing that encloses a receiving space having a bottom surface. A separation device may be provided and arranged on the bottom surface with at least one channel to receive at least one medicament portion. At least one channel may have an opening facing the receiving space and an opening facing the bottom surface. The opening facing the bottom surface may be associated with a contact area on the bottom surface, over which contact area the medicament portions may be guided upon a movement of separation device. At least one recess may be arranged in the bottom surface outside of the contact area to receive contamination particles present in the container.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION GERMANY 326 GMBHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Dietmar Gross
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Patent number: 11577905Abstract: A storage and dispensing station for drugs is provided. The storage and dispensing station includes a receiving space for drug portions, the receiving space having a feed section with a base section and a dispensing opening, an ejection device for moving a drug portion through the dispensing opening, the ejection device having a slide which can be moved in the feed section towards the dispensing opening and a slide drive coupled to the slide for moving the slide, as well as a lock which can be moved in the feed section and which can be moved in the feed section such that when a drug portion is moved towards the dispensing opening, movement of drug portions in the feed section is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: BECTON DICKINSON ROWA GERMANY GMBHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Sebastian Josef Michael Illigen
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Publication number: 20220378663Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions. The systems can include a housing that encloses a receiving space having a bottom surface. A separation device may be provided and arranged on the bottom surface with at least one channel to receive at least one medicament portion. At least one channel may have an opening facing the receiving space and an opening facing the bottom surface. The opening facing the bottom surface may be associated with a contact area on the bottom surface, over which contact area the medicament portions may be guided upon a movement of separation device. At least one recess may be arranged in the bottom surface outside of the contact area to receive contamination particles present in the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Dietmar Gross
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Patent number: 11472585Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions. The systems can include a housing that encloses a receiving space having a bottom surface. A separation device may be provided and arranged on the bottom surface with at least one channel to receive at least one medicament portion. At least one channel may have an opening facing the receiving space and an opening facing the bottom surface. The opening facing the bottom surface may be associated with a contact area on the bottom surface, over which contact area the medicament portions may be guided upon a movement of separation device. At least one recess may be arranged in the bottom surface outside of the contact area to receive contamination particles present in the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: CAREFUSION GERMANY 326 GMBHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Dietmar Gross
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Publication number: 20220315259Abstract: Storage and dispensing stations for a blister machine for separable small piece goods include a storage container having a housing and a separating device having a coupling device with a lower coupling portion and having a holding device with an actuation member. The storage container is releasably arranged on a dispensing station having a rotary drive having a hub seated on a shaft and having an opening member for interaction with the actuation member. The lower coupling portion, the hub, the actuation member, and the opening member are set relative to one another so that when arranging the storage container on the dispensing station prior to an effective interaction between the actuation members and the opening member, an effective interaction occurs between the lower coupling portion and the hub, and the hub is rotatable in the de-energized state. Methods of operating storage and dispensing stations are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Thomas JÜNGER
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Publication number: 20220212870Abstract: Grippers for a picking device for drug packages and methods for operating the picking device are provided. The gripper has a tray having an end portion with an arcuate front, the end portion forming a loading and unloading front. The gripper further includes a transport device arranged above the tray and configured for moving drug packages from a storage surface onto the tray, and at least one sensor arranged in the end portion of the tray and configured to determine a presence of a drug package in a detection area of the at least one sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Bernd NELLINGER, Stephan BROKONIER, Dietmar GROSS, Jochen DAUMEN
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Patent number: 11319150Abstract: Grippers for a picking device for drug packages and methods for operating the picking device are provided. The gripper has a tray table extending in a first and a second horizontal direction with an end portion with an arcuate front extending in the second direction, the end portion forming the loading and unloading front and wherein the tray table and the end portion define an upper bearing surface. The gripper further includes a transport device arranged above the tray table and movable in the first horizontal direction for moving drug packages from a horizontal storage surface onto the tray table, and at least one sensor coupled to a control device and arranged in the end portion below the bearing surface and capable of determining the presence of a drug package in its detection area.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: BECTON DICKINSON ROWA GERMANY GMBHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Bernd Nellinger, Stephan Brokonier, Dietmar Gross, Jochen Daumen
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Publication number: 20220125683Abstract: A storage container for a storage and dispensing station for a blister machine for separable small piece goods, such as drug portions and food supplement portions, and a storage and dispensing station are provided. The storage container includes a housing having an inside circular-cylindrical portion, a separating device arranged in the inside circular-cylindrical portion having a surface, as well as a retaining assembly. The separating device includes an electrically dischargeable discharging device, the discharging device having at least one discharging projection extending from the surface of the separating device as well as a discharging contactor coupled in an electrically dischargeable manner to the at least one discharging projection for electrically coupling the discharging device to an electrically dischargeable component of a dispensing station coupled to the storage container, the dispensing station having a drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventor: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER
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Publication number: 20210284430Abstract: A storage and dispensing station for drugs is provided. The storage and dispensing station includes a receiving space for drug portions, the receiving space having a feed section with a base section and a dispensing opening, an ejection device for moving a drug portion through the dispensing opening, the ejection device having a slide which can be moved in the feed section towards the dispensing opening and a slide drive coupled to the slide for moving the slide, as well as a lock which can be moved in the feed section and which can be moved in the feed section such that when a drug portion is moved towards the dispensing opening, movement of drug portions in the feed section is prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Sebastian Josef Michael ILLIGEN
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Patent number: 11094159Abstract: A storage container for a storage and delivery station for drugs is provided. The storage container includes a retainer for preventing a multiple drug portions from being delivered simultaneously. The storage container includes a housing that surrounds a receiving chamber and has a circular cylindrical section and a base surface, and a separating device disposed rotatably in the circular cylindrical section and having multiple projections and channels. Each projection has a surface, the uppermost points of the surface defining an upper receiver boundary plane. The storage container also includes a retainer with a fastening section and a retaining section, the retaining section preventing entry of the drug portions into a channel aligned with a delivery opening, and at least one cam for removing drug portions from the retaining section, the cam being movable above the upper receiver boundary plane over the retaining section.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: CAREFUSION GERMANY 326 GMBHInventor: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger
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Publication number: 20210237921Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions. The systems can include a housing that encloses a receiving space having a bottom surface. A separation device may be provided and arranged on the bottom surface with at least one channel to receive at least one medicament portion. At least one channel may have an opening facing the receiving space and an opening facing the bottom surface. The opening facing the bottom surface may be associated with a contact area on the bottom surface, over which contact area the medicament portions may be guided upon a movement of separation device. At least one recess may be arranged in the bottom surface outside of the contact area to receive contamination particles present in the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Dietmar GROSS
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Publication number: 20210229918Abstract: Grippers for a picking device for drug packages and methods for operating the picking device are provided. The gripper has a tray table extending in a first and a second horizontal direction with an end portion with an arcuate front extending in the second direction, the end portion forming the loading and unloading front and wherein the tray table and the end portion define an upper bearing surface. The gripper further includes a transport device arranged above the tray table and movable in the first horizontal direction for moving drug packages from a horizontal storage surface onto the tray table, and at least one sensor coupled to a control device and arranged in the end portion below the bearing surface and capable of determining the presence of a drug package in its detection area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Hardy SCHMIDT-ELLINGER, Bernd NELLINGER, Stephan BROKONIER, Dietmar GROSS, Jochen DAUMEN
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Patent number: 11040792Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions. The systems can include a housing that encloses a receiving space having a bottom surface. A separation device may be provided and arranged on the bottom surface with at least one channel to receive at least one medicament portion. At least one channel may have an opening facing the receiving space and an opening facing the bottom surface. The opening facing the bottom surface may be associated with a contact area on the bottom surface, over which contact area the medicament portions may be guided upon a movement of separation device. At least one recess may be arranged in the bottom surface outside of the contact area to receive contamination particles present in the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: CareFusion Germany 326 GmbHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Dietmar Gross
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Publication number: 20200242878Abstract: A storage container for a storage and delivery station for drugs is provided. The storage container includes a retainer for preventing a multiple drug portions from being delivered simultaneously. The storage container includes a housing that surrounds a receiving chamber and has a circular cylindrical section and a base surface, and a separating device disposed rotatably in the circular cylindrical section and having multiple projections and channels. Each projection has a surface, the uppermost points of the surface defining an upper receiver boundary plane. The storage container also includes a retainer with a fastening section and a retaining section, the retaining section preventing entry of the drug portions into a channel aligned with a delivery opening, and at least one cam for removing drug portions from the retaining section, the cam being movable above the upper receiver boundary plane over the retaining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventor: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger
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Patent number: 10672219Abstract: A storage container for a storage and delivery station for drugs is provided. The storage container includes a retainer for preventing a multiple drug portions from being delivered simultaneously. The storage container includes a housing that surrounds a receiving chamber and has a circular cylindrical section and a base surface, and a separating device disposed rotatably in the circular cylindrical section and having multiple projections and channels. Each projection has a surface, the uppermost points of the surface defining an upper receiver boundary plane. The storage container also includes a retainer with a fastening section and a retaining section, the retaining section preventing entry of the drug portions into a channel aligned with a delivery opening, and at least one cam for removing drug portions from the retaining section, the cam being movable above the upper receiver boundary plane over the retaining section.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: CAREFUSION GERMANY 326 GMBHInventor: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger
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Publication number: 20200165058Abstract: A storage container for a storage and dispensing station for drugs is provided. The storage container includes a housing enclosing a receiving space, a circular-cylindrical section and a bottom area having a discharge opening. A singling device situated in the circular-cylindrical portion of the housing includes at least one duct and a restrainer completely situated within the housing enclosing the receiving space. The restrainer includes a fastening portion and a restraining portion. The restraining portion is kept above the discharge opening and the fastening portion works together with at least one fastening socket within the housing to fix the restrainer in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventor: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger