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).

  • Valvular conduit
    Patent number: 10299636
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Direct Isopropanol Fuel Cell
    Publication number: 20190148755
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Volker Loos, Gregor Hoogers, Albrecht Lang
  • Liquid Hand Cleaner Foam Dispensing as Spray and Liquid Stream
    Publication number: 20190142228
    Abstract: Operating a hand cleaner dispenser for dispensing a cleaning liquid from a reservoir onto a person's hands in a cycle of operation wherein, during a first time interval during the cycle dispensing the liquid onto the hand as a spray, and during a second time interval during the cycle dispensing the liquid onto the hand as a liquid stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Fluid Storage Reservoir
    Publication number: 20190135534
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventor: Heiner Ophardt
  • Fluid dispenser with time of flight proximity sensor
    Patent number: 10278550
    Abstract: A hand cleaning fluid dispenser for dispensing fluid onto a user's hand includes a time of flight sensor to determine a distance of a hand of a user below an outlet of the dispenser from which the dispenser when activated dispenses the fluid and a controller to activate the dispenser to dispense the fluid from the outlet when the hand is sensed to be within a predetermined range of distances below the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Albrecht Lang
  • Piston pump arrangement automatically disabling in absence of inlet liquid
    Patent number: 10267305
    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: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi, Valery Ten
  • Removable Bottle Support Ledge for Fluid Dispenser
    Publication number: 20190110646
    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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, John Garry, Padraig McDonagh
  • Levitation fluid dispenser
    Patent number: 10244901
    Abstract: A hand cleaner fluid dispenser, including a reservoir for containing hand cleaner fluid to be dispensed; a dispenser outlet for discharge of the hand cleaner fluid from the reservoir; and a discharge mechanism operable to discharge a drop of the hand cleaner fluid from the dispenser outlet when activated. A levitator device is incorporated into the hand cleaner fluid dispenser, and is operable to levitate the drop of hand cleaner fluid at a position where the drop is accessible to be taken by a user's hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Albrecht Lang, Siegfried Steltenkamp, David Duncan, Valery Ten
  • Superimposed QR code for dispenser and replaceable reservoir
    Patent number: 10242301
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, David Duncan, Hendrik Ophardt
  • Liquid hand cleaner foam dispensing as spray and liquid stream
    Patent number: 10238241
    Abstract: Operating a hand cleaner dispenser for dispensing a cleaning liquid from a reservoir onto a person's hands in a cycle of operation wherein, during a first time interval during the cycle dispensing the liquid onto the hand as a spray, and during a second time interval during the cycle dispensing the liquid onto the hand as a liquid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: op-hygiene ip gmbh
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Cartridge for Pump Assembly Carrying Rasp
    Publication number: 20190075978
    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: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Direct isopropanol fuel cell
    Patent number: 10230120
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Volker Loos, Gregor Hoogers, Albrecht Lang
  • Air Assisted Severance of Fluid Stream
    Publication number: 20190070622
    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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi
  • Interactive Display Device
    Publication number: 20190069730
    Abstract: The invention provides a bathroom fixture in the form of an electronic mirror with a touchlessly operated fluid dispenser. The device provides visual cues to assist in the touchless operation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, David Duncan, Hendrik Ophardt
  • Pump for Under Counter Dispensing System
    Publication number: 20190054485
    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: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Valery Ten
  • Cover lift mechanism for fluid dispenser
    Patent number: 10182685
    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: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, John Garry, Padraig McDonagh
  • Interactive display device
    Patent number: 10178928
    Abstract: The invention provides a bathroom fixture in the form of an electronic mirror with a touchlessly operated fluid dispenser. The device provides visual cues to assist in the touchless operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, David Duncan, Hendrik Ophardt
  • Displacement pump
    Patent number: 10174754
    Abstract: A valve assembly with a valve member coaxially received within a valve casing and interacts with the casing to provide a one-way inlet valve at one end of the valve casing and a one-way outlet valve at the other end of the casing with an annular compartment therebetween adapted to be coupled to a variable volume compartment and thereby together provide a simplified construction for valving components of a fluid pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun (Tony) Shi
  • Cover Arrangement for Fluid Dispenser
    Publication number: 20180360275
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser having a housing and a cover removably coupled to the housing with the cover having a right cover side wall and a left cover side wall secured together spaced laterally from each other and in which the cover side walls are resilient and deflectable laterally away from each other for disengagement of the cover from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, John Gerard Garry, Padraic Grady
  • Cartridge for pump assembly carrying rasp
    Patent number: 10154763
    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: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: OP-Hygiene IP GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, Andrew Jones, Zhenchun Shi