Patents by Inventor Volker Umbeer

Volker Umbeer 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).

  • Patent number: 9527656
    Abstract: A touchless dispenser is provided for a pressurized container including a valve member. The dispenser comprises a housing mountable to the container. An electrically controlled valve in the housing includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet maintains the valve member in an open position incident to the housing being mounted on the container. A nozzle extends between the valve outlet and a discharge orifice. A sensor senses a user's hand proximate the discharge orifice. A control in the housing is operatively coupled to the sensor and the electrically controlled valve. The control controls operation of the electrically controlled valve to dispense a select dosage of product from the container responsive to the sensor sensing presence of a user's hand proximate the discharge orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Seaquistperfect Dispensing L.L.C.
    Inventors: Peter J. Walters, Craig A. Braun, Jörg Kohlne, Volker Umbeer
  • Patent number: 8109414
    Abstract: A discharge device for media has a housing (10), an operating member (88) manually movable relative to the housing (10) and which, for performing a discharge can be transferred from an unoperated starting position in the direction of an operating direction (1a) into an operated end position and with a locking member (52), which is displaceable relative to the housing (10) between a locked position where it prevents the displacement of the operating member (88) into the end position and a release position in which it permits the displacement of the operating member (88) into the end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventors: Miro Cater, Joachim Koerner, Volker Umbeer, Karl-Heinz Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20110024449
    Abstract: A touchless dispenser is provided for a pressurized container including a valve member. The dispenser comprises a housing mountable to the container. An electrically controlled valve in the housing includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet maintains the valve member in an open position incident to the housing being mounted on the container. A nozzle extends between the valve outlet and a discharge orifice. A sensor senses a user's hand proximate the discharge orifice. A control in the housing is operatively coupled to the sensor and the electrically controlled valve. The control controls operation of the electrically controlled valve to dispense a select dosage of product from the container responsive to the sensor sensing presence of a user's hand proximate the discharge orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Peter J. Walters, Craig A. Braun, Jörg Kohlne, Volker Umbeer
  • Publication number: 20100084433
    Abstract: A discharge device for media has a housing (10), an operating member (88) manually movable relative to the housing (10) and which, for performing a discharge can be transferred from an unoperated starting position in the direction of an operating direction (1a) into an operated end position and with a locking member (52), which is displaceable relative to the housing (10) between a locked position where it prevents the displacement of the operating member (88) into the end position and a release position in which it permits the displacement of the operating member (88) into the end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Miro Cater, Joachim Koerner, Volker Umbeer, Karl-Heinz Fuchs