Patents Assigned to Aptar Radolfzell GmbH
  • Patent number: 11938495
    Abstract: A discharge head for a liquid dispenser having a base and a push actuator. The discharge head has a pump device, which has a malleable pump chamber component open on both sides, fastened to the base and to the push actuator and encloses a pump chamber having a variable volume. The pump device has inlet and outlet valves. The discharge head has a ventilation opening and a ventilation valve. The ventilation valve on the base has a peripheral valve web raised via a surrounding cover wall of the base and the inside of which forms a peripheral valve surface. To ensure a reproducible behavior of the ventilation valve, a reinforcement structure is provided on the cover wall in the form of a peripheral reinforcement web, and/or the peripheral valve web is designed as part of a sleeve-like structure, which forms the peripheral valve web above the cover wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Baumann, Thomas Bruder
  • Patent number: 11884458
    Abstract: A liquid dispenser is for the delivery of pharmaceutical liquids, including a droplet dispenser, the liquid reservoir thereof being formed by a squeezable bottle body. Two measures secure the liquid dispenser, namely the provision of a cover body, an application of force on the squeezable bottle body being able to be prevented thereby, as well as a cap with a rotatable locking ring. The removal of the cap and the transfer of the cover body into a use position requires the deformation of an annular partial element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Volker Heinzle, Julian Trinkner
  • Patent number: 11844723
    Abstract: A dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical liquids in the form of individual drops, having a liquid store, a pump device with a pump chamber with a variable volume, and a dispensing opening. The dispenser additionally has a membrane part which delimits the pump chamber on one side and which changes the volume of the pump chamber by moving and/or deforming. The dispenser has a housing, within which the pump device is provided, and an actuation button movable relative to the housing between a non-actuated starting position and an actuated end position to move or deform the membrane part and to decrease the size of the pump chamber to discharge the liquid. The membrane part is secured to the housing and to the actuation button. The pump chamber achieves a high degree of compression and a toggle switch is used as the actuation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Greiner-Perth, Gerald Krampen
  • Patent number: 11833295
    Abstract: A discharge head for the nasal application of pharmaceutical liquid from a pressure reservoir which has an outlet valve with a valve connector, to which force can be applied counter to a spring force in order to open the outlet valve. The discharge head has a nasal applicator which extends outward from an actuating surface and at the end of which a discharge opening is provided. The discharge opening is connected in a fluid-communicating manner to a hollow tube through an applicator channel of the nasal applicator, for connection to the pressure reservoir. The nasal applicator has an inner component connected integrally to the actuating surface and an outer component separate from the inner component and attached to the inner component in a surrounding manner. The discharge opening is provided in the outer component, and the outer component and the inner component together bound the applicator channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Greiner-Perth, Felix Schmid
  • Patent number: 11766688
    Abstract: A set including a pump dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical or cosmetic liquids and an external evaluation unit, which is designed to be exchangeable so that, after the pump dispenser has been emptied, the evaluation unit can be attached to a new pump dispenser. The evaluation unit can be attached to the discharging head of the pump dispenser such that the evaluation unit detects an actuation button and can be partially displaced with same. The evaluation unit can alternatively have a receiving container which is open on at least one side and into which the pump dispenser can be inserted and the force application of which is detected on actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Dominic Alexander Graham, Matthew Meredith Jones, Joachim Körner, William Goeffrey Arthur Marsh
  • Patent number: 11759797
    Abstract: A liquid dispenser having a liquid reservoir and a discharge head secured thereto, an outlet valve with a pressure chamber and an opposite valve chamber. The liquid reservoir and the valve chamber are each connected at least in phases to a surrounding atmosphere by a ventilation channel. The two channels provided for this purpose, the reservoir ventilation channel and the valve ventilation channel, are separate channels with separate inlets on an outer face of the discharge head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Jürgen Greiner-Perth
  • Patent number: 11661244
    Abstract: Cream dispenser for topically dispensing liquid onto the skin of a user including a liquid store, a discharge head that has a discharge opening and a hinged lid to protect the discharge opening. The dispenser has a multi-part design of the discharge head in order to limit, in a haptically satisfactory way, the movability of a release button of the discharge head and a special relative arrangement of the locking edges on the discharge head and on the hinged lid opposite a joint of the hinged lid in order to prevent the sharp-edged locking edges from coming into contact with the skin while cream is being discharged onto the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Bruder, Michael Hoer, Francis Moreau
  • Patent number: 11618618
    Abstract: A vented protective cap for a liquid dispenser, and a venting insert, in particular for such a protective cap. The protective cap has a cap wall which surrounds a cap interior. The cap wall has a venting aperture which is spanned by a flexible sheet-like structure. A boundary region of the sheet-like structure is fixed in an encircling manner to a boundary of the venting aperture. The sheet-like structure consists of at least two layers which bear directly against one another but, at least in a central region of the sheet-like structure, are not connected fixedly to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Greiner-Perth, Andi Herz
  • Patent number: 11583879
    Abstract: A dispenser for applying liquid, having a housing with an applicator opening and a liquid reservoir. The dispenser has a ventilation duct by which an ambient atmosphere is connected to the liquid reservoir so that, after the application of liquid, an inflow of air from the atmosphere is permitted into the liquid reservoir. The dispenser is provided with a detection installation which for detecting an application procedure detects air flowing in through the ventilation duct. The dispenser has a protective cap covering the applicator opening on the housing. The dispenser in the ventilation duct has a switch valve operable by activating a push-button on the external side of the housing. The protective cap acts on the push-button when placed on the housing or when the protective cap is being placed thereon to open the switch valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Frank Keppner
  • Patent number: 11433188
    Abstract: An inhalation device having a reservoir for storing liquid before being discharged, and a discharge head for dispensing the liquid in droplet mist. The discharge head has a nozzle arrangement for generating the droplet mist and housing on which a discharge channel is provided for use as a respiration piece or for attachment of a separate respiration piece. A main axis of extent of the discharge channel encloses an angle of >0° with a central dispensing direction. In alignment with the central dispensing direction of the nozzle arrangement, either an aperture is provided in the housing through which aperture the droplet mist emerges from the discharge head if it is not sucked into the discharge channel by respiration of the user, or a liquid buffer is provided for receiving the droplet mist if it is not sucked into the discharge channel by respiration of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Jürgen Greiner-Perth
  • Patent number: 11425983
    Abstract: A liquid dispenser for cosmetic liquids having a liquid reservoir and an applicator. An outlet channel connects the reservoir to the applicator, the outlet channel being formed either valveless or with an outlet valve. The liquid dispenser has a pressure generating device which pressurizes liquid in the reservoir for conveyance through the outlet channel to the applicator. The pressure generating device has an air pumping device which feeds and an actuating pressure chamber. The actuating pressure chamber adjoins, and is separated from, the reservoir by a displaceable wall so that an overpressure in the actuating pressure chamber leads to an overpressure in the reservoir. The air pumping device has manual actuator, allowing air to be pumped into the actuating pressure chamber by the actuator, so that the overpressure in the actuating pressure chamber and in the reservoir rises sufficiently to convey liquid from the reservoir to the applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Bruder
  • Patent number: 11400474
    Abstract: Liquid dispenser having a liquid store and a discharge device fitted thereto and having a discharge opening. The discharge device has a pump device with a pump chamber variable in terms of volume and connected at an input side in a communicating manner to the liquid store and at an output side in a communicating manner to the discharge opening. The pump device conveys liquid from the liquid store to the discharge opening. The discharge device has a ventilation channel, by which an incoming air flow is enabled for pressure compensation between the liquid store and a surrounding atmosphere. The ventilation channel has a ventilation valve openable by manual actuation of the pump device and closed when the pump device is not actuated. Further, the ventilation channel has a capillary channel portion through which the incoming air flow reaches the liquid store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Heinzle
  • Patent number: 11390435
    Abstract: Liquid dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical liquid having a discharge head and a cap, the cap body of which has a ventilation opening. The dispenser includes an injection-moulded pull-off portion which, in the delivery state, covers the ventilation opening and is connected to the cap body by a substance-to-substance bond. The pull-off portion, together with a tamper-evident portion, which, with the dispenser in the delivery state, prevents removal of the cap body, is part of a common segment which is detachable from the cap body of the cap. Alternatively, the ventilation opening is provided with a filter membrane for filtering the air which flows through it, and the cap body includes two part-bodies which together form a receiving space for the filter membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Greiner-Perth, Gerald Krampen, Timo Jung, Andi Herz
  • Patent number: 11345077
    Abstract: A method for producing a containing system for a liquid dispenser having a dimensionally stable outer container and a collapsible inner container, in the form of a pouch, arranged within the outer container. The method includes starting from the outer container, at least one layer of a pouch material being applied to an inner wall of the outer container. For this purpose, the pouch material is applied in the form of a liquid or powder to the inner wall, where, after solidifying or fusing, it forms a ply of a wall, of the inner container. The ply detaches from the inner wall of the outer container when the inner container collapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Baumann, Frédéric Duquet, Ulrich Maibach
  • Patent number: 11311895
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser having an accumulator and a discharge head. The discharge head is secured to a base unit of the dispenser, which base unit includes a fluid accumulator. The discharge head has a housing displaceable relative to the base unit for actuating the dispenser. The discharge head has an inlet through which fluid travels from the fluid accumulator into the discharge head, and a discharge opening through which the fluid is delivered into the atmosphere. A swirling chamber having an inlet channel is provided between the fluid inlet and the discharge opening so that inflowing fluid is provided with a swirl which forms a spray stream when exiting the discharge opening. The swirling chamber is switched between a first and a second configuration by changing the geometry of its walls and/or the inlet channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL, GMBH
    Inventor: Tobias Baumann
  • Patent number: 11213843
    Abstract: A discharge head for a liquid dispenser having a coupling device fastening to an outlet connector of a liquid store, a liquid inlet, and a discharge opening. The discharge head has a pump device conveying liquid from the liquid inlet to the discharge opening, and a ventilation channel. The discharge head has an end surface by which the liquid store is substantially closed off at the distal end of the outlet connector and which is extended through by the liquid inlet. The end surface and the coupling device are formed as part of a common main component. The end surface has a ventilation aperture which is part of the ventilation channel and through which air flows into the liquid store in an inflow direction. The ventilation aperture has a minimum clear cross section of at most 3·10?2 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Tobias Baumann
  • Patent number: D939950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Line Huchet
  • Patent number: D943733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventors: Matthieu Cavatorta, Line Huchet, Matthieu Walter
  • Patent number: D1006212
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Helmlinger
  • Patent number: D1023782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Karl Tempfli