Patents Assigned to GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH and Co. KG
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Patent number: 10631623Abstract: A toothbrush head having a bristle surface with tufts of bristles extending therefrom comprising: first tufts of a mixture of co-extruded bristles and unitary bristles located adjacent to the distal end of the bristle surface; second tufts comprising a mixture of co-extruded bristles and unitary bristles located adjacent to the proximal end of the bristle surface; third tufts comprising tapered bristles located adjacent to the widthways opposite sides of the bristle surface; and fourth tufts comprising a mixture of co-extruded bristles and tapered bristles longer than the co-extruded bristles located as a cluster of fourth tufts widthways between the third tufts and longitudinally between the first and second tufts.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH and Co. KGInventor: Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 9826822Abstract: A manual toothbrush having oral hygiene elements arranged in polygons with an oral hygiene element at each apex, and having plural polygons nested within each other. The oral hygiene elements may be bristles, which may be of two different types, or elastomer elements and may contain tooth-polishing additive. The toothbrush head surface may be flat or may have its region distal from the handle angled up.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Christoph Geiberger, Wolf-Dieter Mueller
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Patent number: 9655435Abstract: A toothbrush head with bristles comprising tapered and non-tapered bristles, in which the non-tapered bristles extend to two different lengths from the face, being a first greater length LN1 and a second shorter length LN2. In a preferred embodiment non-tapered bristles are combined with tapered bristles in tufts which are inclined in opposite directions away from and towards the grip handle.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co., KGInventors: Hans Kraemer, Claudia Dahlkoetter
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Patent number: 9119695Abstract: A replaceable head part for an electric powered toothbrush comprising an elongate sleeve including a flexible portion, and containing a longitudinal drive shaft rotatable in oscillatory rotary motion. The drive shaft has a spherical bearing part received in a cavity in the sleeve. The head part incorporates a transmission system to convert the rotation of the head drive shaft into rotation of the bristle carrier comprising an eccentric pin extending from the head drive shaft to move the bristle carrier in oscillatory rotary motion, and having a spherical pin bearing part received in a receiving cavity in the bristle carrier.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Klaus Reinbold
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Patent number: 9044500Abstract: An oral care composition is described for use in the treatment or alleviation of the symptoms of dry mouth comprising polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) or a derivative thereof, an anionic mucoadhesive polymer and an orally acceptable carrier or excipient.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignees: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KG, Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Gertrud Kawa, Shireen Uppal, David Urquhart
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Publication number: 20130340189Abstract: A toothbrush wherein longitudinally between its neck region and the grip handle is a an undulating region of transverse limbs integrally linked by folds with troughs between the limbs, the troughs containing a thermoplastic elastomer material bonded to the plastic material of said limbs with a ShoreA hardness of 60-70. Specific structures and dimensions of limbs and folds are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co.KGInventor: Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 8539632Abstract: A toothbrush with a cleaning zone with bristles, and with a deformable element by which the cleaning zone can be adapted to the shape of the tooth surface by the cleaning force, where the deformable element comprises flexible wings tapering in a wedge shape toward the cleaning zone and with guide elements between them, at least one of the wings and/or guide element is made of a compressible elastic material.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2007Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KGInventor: Hans Kraemer
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Publication number: 20130180063Abstract: A replaceable head part for an electric powered toothbrush comprising an elongate sleeve including a flexible portion, and containing a longitudinal drive shaft rotatable in oscillatory rotary motion. The drive shaft has a spherical bearing part received in a cavity in the sleeve. The head part incorporates a transmission system to convert the rotation of the head drive shaft into rotation of the bristle carrier comprising an eccentric pin extending from the head drive shaft to move the bristle carrier in oscillatory rotary motion, and having a spherical pin bearing part received in a receiving cavity in the bristle carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Klaus Reinbold
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Patent number: 8220102Abstract: A toothbrush head comprising a flexible bristle carrier such as an elastomer or gel pad or flexibly linked segments, on which bristles are mounted, with a support which supports the carrier at its base near the handle and at the opposite tip part, leaving the carrier unsupported thereby in a region longitudinally between these parts, the carrier being flexible such that it can deform under the forces of toothbrushing so that both its longitudinal and widthways sections become distorted. Preferably the support is also flexible.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Clos, Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 8099819Abstract: A toothbrush head in which the fixed ends of the bristles are embedded in a mass of a polyurethane gel material incorporated in the head. Typical nylon materials as used for toothbrush bristles are found to bind with polyurethane gels so that advantageously holders for the bristles need not be used. A moulding process is also provided for making the toothbrush head.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2004Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KGInventor: Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 8097281Abstract: The present invention relates to dosage forms for oral administration of therapeutic formulations, adapted to provide immediate and/or sustained-release of therapeutic substances, particularly for oral administration of vitamins. There is provided a dosage form for oral administration of a vitamin, comprising: a liquid phase containing a vitamin, e.g. Vitamin C in a relatively fast release form and a solid phase suspended in the liquid phase and containing a vitamin e.g. Vitamin C in a relatively slow release form.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KGInventors: Stefan Heim, Martina Birgit Schmid, Christoph Walter Theurer
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Patent number: 8006868Abstract: A valve actuator for a valved container containing a pressurized fluid, the actuator comprising a mounting to attach the actuator to the container, and characterized by a post-expansion chamber in communication with the outlet of the actuator in which residual fluid remaining in the outlet after use can expand, and a separate suction chamber in communication with the outlet conduit via a suction opening to suck residual fluid back toward the expansion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KGInventors: Christoph Geiberger, Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: 7877832Abstract: An electrically powered toothbrush comprising a handle which contains an electric motor and power supply, a head part connected to the handle to be driven in motion by the electric motor by a transmission means between the motor and the oral head part. The head part is flexibly and resiliently connected to the handle such that the head part can move resiliently under pressure of the oral hygiene part against a tooth surface. The motor is moveably mounted within the handle and the assembly of motor and transmission means is pivotally connected to the handle at a pivot point between the brush head and the motor. Suitably the handle is in two parts with a flexible connection between the parts.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Klaus Reinbold
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Patent number: 7854036Abstract: A toothbrush head having an undulating surface with at least one more displaced part and at least one less displaced part and with bristles having a triangular cross section extending from a more displaced part of the bristle face.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2004Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Matthias Georgi
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Patent number: D623415Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Christoph Geiberger
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Patent number: D657567Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Christoph Geiberger
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Patent number: D767899Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: D828039Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Marcus James Blachford, Alex Brian, Hans Kraemer, Thomas Alan Peach, Klaus Reinbold, Andrew Gordon Wallace
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Patent number: D830701Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Hans Kraemer
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Patent number: D690114Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Christoph Geiberger