Patents by Inventor Heiner Ophardt

Heiner Ophardt 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).

  • Piston pump arrangement automatically disabling in absence of inlet liquid
    Patent number: 10584697
    Abstract: A piston pump arrangement that disables operation of the pump in the absence of an inlet liquid and also to a piston pump arrangement useful to discharge liquids from at least two sources and to disable discharge of all of the liquids when supply of liquid from at least one source is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: OP-HYGIENE IP GMBH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi, Valery Ten
  • Dispenser Servicing in a Multiple Washroom Facility
    Publication number: 20200057998
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Rudolpho Gian-Franco Gugliotta
  • Pump for under counter dispensing system
    Patent number: 10549294
    Abstract: A piston pump with a piston chamber-forming body and a piston-forming element relatively coaxially reciprocally movable to dispense liquid and air from a discharge outlet, which the discharge outlet is fixed relative to the piston chamber-forming body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Valery Ten
  • Removable bottle support ledge for fluid dispenser
    Patent number: 10542850
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser having a housing with a cover coupled to the housing for movement between a closed position and an open position and a lifting member coupled to the housing between the housing and the cover whereby movement of the lifting member as guided by the housing moves the cover between the open position and the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, John Garry, Padraig McDonagh
  • Dispenser with contaminant sensor
    Patent number: 10524621
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser including a contaminant sensor and methods of use of such a fluid dispenser to monitor contaminants either alone or in an array of similar dispensers within a facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventor: Heiner Ophardt
  • Dispenser servicing in a multiple washroom facility
    Patent number: 10496961
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: OP Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Rudolpho Gian-Franco Gugliotta
  • Co-Extruded Multi-Layer Tube for Use in Forming Flexible Bags
    Publication number: 20190358939
    Abstract: A multilayer film including a barrier layer, a sealing layer, and an alcohol barrier layer. The alcohol barrier layer includes cyclic olefin copolymer and is positioned between the barrier layer and the sealing layer. The multilayer film can be used to form a pouch for containing an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Ali Mirbach, Patrick Geurts
  • Lever operated fluid dispenser with rotary potentiometer
    Patent number: 10464091
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus in which product is dispensed by moving, preferably by manually applied forces from a user, an actuation mechanism, preferably a lever, from a first position to a second position and in which a potentiometer sensor, preferably a rotary potentiometer sensor, senses the relative movement of the actuation mechanism with time and permits the amount of fluid dispensed to be accurately calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Harald Poepke, Rainer Duske, Sascha Korthauer
  • Air assisted severance of fluid stream
    Patent number: 10464090
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dispensing flowable fluids by dispensing the flowable fluid through a passageway leading to a discharge outlet in one stroke of a piston pump and, in a second opposite stroke of the piston pump, discharging air into the passageway to displace the fluid from the passageway through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene iP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Method Providing Superimposed QR Code for Dispenser and Replaceable Reservoir
    Publication number: 20190318213
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, David Duncan, Hendrik Ophardt
  • Dual Pump Hand Cleaner Foam Dispenser
    Publication number: 20190314833
    Abstract: A hand cleaner foam dispenser with a first pump arrangement that discharges a first liquid and first air from the atmosphere through a first foam inducing member into a mixing chamber and a second pump arrangement that discharges a second liquid into the mixing chamber, and in which there is a simultaneous discharge of the first liquid, first air and the second liquid from the mixing chamber through an outlet foam inducing member to produce a foamed product delivered onto a person's hand. Preferably, the second pump arrangement may discharge not only the second liquid, but also second air drawn from the atmosphere and discharge the second liquid and the second air through a second foam inducing member into the mixing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Fluid Pump With Whistle
    Publication number: 20190311587
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones
  • Three piece pump
    Patent number: 10434532
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved pump assembly incorporating a liquid pump and an air pump and which pump includes a flexible annular diaphragm member coaxially about a piston-forming element forming a component with the liquid pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Cartridge for pump assembly carrying rasp
    Patent number: 10433681
    Abstract: A pump assembly for generating and dispensing of particles of a solid material with or without dispensing of a fluid. The pump assembly preferably includes a fluid pump which in a cycle of operation draws the fluid through a fluid inlet and dispenses the fluid out a fluid outlet. The pump assembly carries a block of the solid material coalesced together and a rasp member, which during the cycle of operation, moves relative the rasp in engagement with the block whereby the rasp member disengages particles of the solid material from the block which particles drop under gravity downwardly adjacent the fluid outlet, for example, onto a user's hand as in the case that the fluid is a hand cleaning fluid and the solid is a solid soap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Two Stage Foam Pump and Method of Producing Foam
    Publication number: 20190299228
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones
  • Parallel hand hygiene compliance system
    Patent number: 10424184
    Abstract: In combination a group compliance system for monitoring hand-hygiene compliance of a plurality of persons using a plurality of hand cleaning fluid dispensers in facilities together with a personal compliance system for monitoring hand-hygiene compliance of an individual person of the dispensers within the facilities, however, with the individual person having control as to the extent that any data regarding their identity and hygiene events are disclosed to others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventor: Heiner Ophardt
  • Dual pump hand cleaner foam dispenser
    Patent number: 10421085
    Abstract: A hand cleaner foam dispenser with a first pump arrangement that discharges a first liquid and first air from the atmosphere through a first foam inducing member into a mixing chamber and a second pump arrangement that discharges a second liquid into the mixing chamber, and in which there is a simultaneous discharge of the first liquid, first air and the second liquid from the mixing chamber through an outlet foam inducing member to produce a foamed product delivered onto a person's hand. Preferably, the second pump arrangement may discharge not only the second liquid, but also second air drawn from the atmosphere and discharge the second liquid and the second air through a second foam inducing member into the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: OP Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Non-Removable Container Enclosure
    Publication number: 20190270561
    Abstract: An improved threaded coupling arrangement for non-removably securing an outer collar member onto an inner tubular member against removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Reservoir with removable mobile dispenser
    Patent number: 10368701
    Abstract: A replaceable cartridge for a liquid master dispenser is disclosed. The replaceable cartridge includes a reservoir for containing liquid to be dispensed from the liquid master dispenser; and a personal dispenser removably coupled to the reservoir. The personal dispenser includes a receptacle for containing liquid to be dispensed from the personal dispenser; and an outlet port for discharge of the liquid from the receptacle. The personal dispenser is configured for selectively discharging the liquid contained in the receptacle from the outlet port, after the personal dispenser is removed from the reservoir. The reservoir has a cavity sized for removably receiving the personal dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, David R. Duncan
  • Piston Pump Arrangement Automatically Disabling in Absence of Inlet Liquid
    Publication number: 20190195218
    Abstract: A piston pump arrangement that disables operation of the pump in the absence of an inlet liquid and also to a piston pump arrangement useful to discharge liquids from at least two sources and to disable discharge of all of the liquids when supply of liquid from at least one source is empty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi, Valery Ten