Patents Assigned to GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH
  • Patent number: 8097281
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Stefan Heim, Martina Birgit Schmid, Christoph Walter Theurer
  • Patent number: 8069524
    Abstract: A brush head, in particular a toothbrush, with a base carrier (1) formed from a soft elastic material in which connecting elements comprising separate support rings (2) separated from one another and bearing a plurality of bristle tufts (4) are embedded, each of the rings having a bristle tuft threaded through. Preferably the bristle tuft can move axially in the support ring and is supported resiliently by the soft elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans Kraemer
  • Patent number: 8060972
    Abstract: A toothbrush which comprises a handle comprising at least three longitudinally elongate flexible spines arranged at the apexes of a polygon, the space between the spines containing an elastomer material which links the spines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Christoph Geiberger, Klaus Reinbold
  • Patent number: 8006868
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Christoph Geiberger, Hans Kraemer
  • Patent number: 7877832
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Reinbold
  • Patent number: 7854036
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Matthias Georgi
  • Patent number: 7788756
    Abstract: A brush part for an electric toothbrush in which tufts of bristles are arranged in polygons, and in which the tufts of bristles lean, either around the polygons or inwardly and outwardly, so that the tuft alignments converge and preferably cross.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Kraemer
  • Publication number: 20100183709
    Abstract: The present invention relates to therapeutic formulations based on pumpkin products, in particular to encapsulated formulations for oral administration. A product of the invention comprises a hard gelatin capsule which encloses a unit dose of a formulation which comprises at least 50% by weight of one or more pumpkin product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE CONSUMER HEALTHCARE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Rustenbeck, Martina Schmid, Christoph Theurer, Stephan Wurtz
  • Patent number: 7757333
    Abstract: A toothbrush head comprising a mid section, a tip section resiliently flexibly connected to the tip end of the mid section, and at least two side sections each resiliently flexibly connected to the mid- or tip- section at respective points on widthways opposite sides of the mid- or tip- section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Massimo Battaglia
  • Patent number: 7744360
    Abstract: A process for making a toothbrush head comprising widthways adjacent sections, the process comprising the stages of first making the head in an injection moulding process with the sections relatively spaced apart from each other in a widthways direction, then secondly moving the sections of the so formed head relatively spaced closer to each other in a widthways direction. An apparatus for performing the process is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Winfried Ebner, Hans Kraemer, Berthold Meyer, Andreas Walgenbach
  • Publication number: 20100143501
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a therapeutic composition comprising at least one clay, at least one disintegrant, at least one lubricant and at least one binding agent, particularly wherein the at least one clay is kaolin, and in particular to a palatable clay composition in the form of a tablet, and to a process for the preparation of the therapeutic composition
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE CONSUMER HEALTHCARE GMBH & CO KG
    Inventors: Stefanie Christian, Michael Harkenthal, Ulrich Thomas Schobert
  • Patent number: 7691309
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for making toothbrushes, in particular an injection moulding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Winfried Ebner, Wolf-Dieter Mueller
  • Publication number: 20090313779
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE CONSUMER HEALTHCARE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Hans Kraemer
  • Patent number: 7549186
    Abstract: A toothbrush head comprising three widthways adjacent sections in which the tip end of the middle section is enlarged into a bristle-carrying tip pad, there is an intermediate bristle-carrying pad between the tip pad and the base end of the head, with narrow link regions between the pads and the intermediate pad and the handle. The sections are connected to the toothbrush handle by flexible necks. The bristle distribution of a multi-section toothbrush head is thereby optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Christoph Geiberger
  • Patent number: 7546658
    Abstract: A toothbrush head having elastomeric oral hygiene parts in the form of elastomeric strips aligned non-perpendicular to the length direction of the head. Preferably adjacent pairs of strips are linked to form a strip of ā€œVā€ cross section. Preferably the head comprises flexibly linked segments and is flexibly linked to the toothbrush handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Koeth, Wolf-Dieter Mueller, Klaus Reinbold, Thomas Clos, Andreas Lanvers, Christoph Geiberger
  • Patent number: 7526828
    Abstract: A toothbrush with a cleaning zone on which tooth-cleaning elements are arranged, which are pressed against the teeth during cleaning with a cleaning force, and with a deformable element by which the cleaning zone is can be adapted to the shape of the tooth surface by the cleaning force, where the deformable element has at least a first flexible wing facing towards the cleaning zone and a second such wing facing away from the cleaning zone, and also at least one guide element, and where the first and second wings are held together moveably by the guide element. In order to provide an improved toothbrush which cleans the teeth more effectively and at the same time more gently, it is provided according to the invention that the wings form a wedge, by being connected together at one end and distanced from each other at the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: Leif Kniese
  • Patent number: D578768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christoph Geiberger
  • Patent number: D582681
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Geiberger, Klaus Reinbold
  • Patent number: D590597
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christoph Geiberger
  • Patent number: D623415
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christoph Geiberger