Patents Assigned to Ing. Erich Pfeiffer Gmbh
  • Patent number: 7717299
    Abstract: An actuating device for a manually operable medium dispenser includes an energy store for storing an actuating energy necessary to actuate the medium dispenser and a control device for liberating the actuating energy. The control device is being configured for a liberation of the actuating energy when a minimum energy stored in the energy store is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: ING. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Greiner-Perth
  • Patent number: 7661557
    Abstract: A metering device with an applicator housing having an application orifice for medium discharge. A metering pump conveys medium from a medium store to the applicator. An electronic counting module having a stroke detection means operatively engageable with a relatively movable pump portion of the metering pump. A data processing processor evaluates signals from the stroke detection means, and an indicator unit indicates data produced by the data processing processor. A current source supplies the data processing processor with current. A module housing houses an electronic counting module. The external dimensions of the module housing are conformed to the internal dimensions of a reception space. The reception space is open on one side of the applicator housing, so that the module housing can be inserted completely into the reception space through the opening and be fastened therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventors: Goebel Volker, Joachim Koerner
  • Patent number: 7584903
    Abstract: A microdosing device includes a dosing chamber which at least temporarily receives a quantity of liquid, and to which at least one dispensing opening is assigned. A vibration unit is operatively connected to at least one boundary surface of the dosing chamber in order to cause this boundary surface to oscillate for the purpose of a dispensing operation. At least two admission channels spaced apart from one another are provided on the dosing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Koerner, Michael Helmlinger, Holger Schuerle
  • Patent number: 7571838
    Abstract: A dosing device includes a dosing casing in one or more parts and with which are associated a pumping unit and a manually operable actuating unit, in which the dosing casing includes at least one dosing opening. The dosing casing has a jacket enveloping the pumping unit and on which is integrally shaped at least one actuating member mounted in elastically pivotable manner between a rest position and an actuating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Wolter, Thomas Bruder, Volker Goebel, Karl-Heinz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 7367478
    Abstract: A dosing device for at least one medium includes a casing part connectable to a medium reservoir, having a pumping device located in the casing part and an applicator connected to the pumping device. The pumping device is provided with at least one inlet valve, as well as at least one outlet valve associated with the applicator and a stroke-movable pumping body. The casing part, applicator and all parts of the pumping device are provided coaxially to a pumping axis with plug connection sections. The casing part, applicator and the parts of the pumping device can be functionally assembled along the pumping axis to form the dosing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 7306116
    Abstract: A dosing device includes a body and an actuating element mounted in non-rotatable, liftable manner on the body. A counting device for the actuating strokes has a rotary counting ring forcibly coupled as a function of a lifting movement of the actuating element. A lock blocks the actuating element following a predetermined number of actuating strokes. The lock is associated with the counting ring in such a way that the latter can perform more than a complete revolution before the actuating element is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 7299949
    Abstract: A discharge device for manually producing a volume flow by a discharge stroke, having a medium reservoir for at least one medium, a discharge opening, a pumping device and a working area associated with the pumping device and which in the inoperative position has a detachable, positive connection to a holding area by means of a locking device is known. According to the invention the locking device in at least one plane orthogonal to a discharge stroke direction has an at least zonally or circumferentially corrugated and/or polygonal cross-section. Use for discharging a medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Greiner-Perth
  • Patent number: 7281644
    Abstract: A valve mechanism for a pressure chamber, particularly a pumping device, includes a tappet and a valve disk, in which the valve disk is attached to the tappet. The valve disk is provided on the tappet so as to be movable in relative manner between a starting and an end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Miro Cater
  • Patent number: 7223090
    Abstract: An all plastic metering pump having a bellows-type spring with a tubular valve which is integrally formed on it in a single piece in a discharge region toward a metering head, the tubular valve being designed as a discharge valve of the metering pump. In the method, the pump components, which have been manufactured in each case in a plurality of injection cycles, are assembled from the injection mold in a defined assembly sequence in time with the injection cycles, the number of assembly steps corresponding to the number of injection cycles for producing the various pump components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 7201296
    Abstract: 1. A dosing device with a pump device. 2.1. A dosing device with a pump device and with an operating handle which is provided for the pump device is known. 2.2. According to the invention, the operating handle (20, 20a, 20b) is produced as a separate component and fixed to the pump device. 2.3. Applicable for pharmaceutical agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Lothar Graf
  • Patent number: 7182226
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dosing device that comprises a medium reservoir (S) and a pump device for dosing and dispensing a medium stored in said medium reservoir. The pump device is associated with a pump chamber, and with at least one inlet and one outlet valve. According to the invention, the inlet valve is configured as a sliding valve (10, 12) which, in its closed position, can be displaced by a dosing stroke that defines a dosing volume for the pump chamber (17). The invention further relates to the use of said dosing device for dispensing pharmaceutical active substances, especially for nasal administration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Pierre Mbonyumuhire
  • Patent number: 7104469
    Abstract: A discharge device for at least one medium having a medium reservoir, a medium pump and an applicator in which a filler is provided for medium guidance and which has an outlet area for a medium discharge fitted to a slender end area remote from the medium reservoir is known. According to the invention at least two outlets are provided at the outlet area. Use for medium dosing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Merk, Gerald Krampen, Stefan Ritsche
  • Patent number: 7066359
    Abstract: A dispenser for flowable media is provided, which operates in user-independent manner with respect to the pressure buildup and dosage quantity. On pressing on an operating head (35) a piston rod (29) is forced into a pump cylinder. As the pump chamber (52) is sealed by means of a delivery valve (51), which operates in path-dependent manner as a slide valve, under the action of a spring (42) pressing on the piston collar (43), a pressure builds up in the pump chamber (52), which is released following a predetermined length of travel on opening the delivery valve. A relatively constant pressure can be obtained over the entire discharge phase through the pretension of spring (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Greiner-Perth
  • Patent number: 6997357
    Abstract: A discharge device for at least one medium has at least two media reservoir sections positioned rigidly relative to one another and which pass into one another in their interior through a step shoulder. The reservoir sections are formed by two separate hollow bodies that are superimposed over a portion of their length and are tightly interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 6986444
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a fluid-tight, but non-releasable or only under a large force releasable connection between the delivery device of a dispenser and the medium reservoir of the dispenser. For the discharge of a fluid, preferably liquid medium, which can in particular contain a pharmaceutical substance, such a dispenser has at least two parts, firstly a medium container for storing the medium and secondly a delivery device fastenable to the medium container. For fastening together the medium container and the delivery device, fastening portions are formed on both parts. In the fastening portion there is a gap between the medium container and the delivery device. An elastically deformable ring fastener, preferably as a layer on the outside of the delivery device, is provided and its wall thickness, prior to installation, is larger than the gap dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 6886556
    Abstract: The problem of the invention is to so develop known dispensers, that it is possible to very precisely determine the actual discharged medium volume. A dispenser according to the invention has a media path, which leads from a medium storage container to a discharge opening. A delivery device for delivering medium is located in said media path. The media reservoir stores a medium, particularly a fluid, which preferably incorporates at least one pharmaceutical substance. A media discharge can be brought about by means of an operating means. According to the invention, on the dispenser is provided an electronic detecting device for detecting a quantity representing the amount of medium discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 6877672
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a method and a dispenser in which, compared with known dispensers, the fluid path design is simplified. The dispenser has a medium reservoir (19) containing a medium to be discharge during one discharge stroke of the dispenser (11). For this purpose a feed fluid flows through the medium reservoir and discharges the medium through a reservoir discharge opening. For producing a discharge stroke, the dispenser has an actuator (25), whose actuation at least indirectly leads to an impact spike (29) penetrating from the outside into the medium reservoir (19), so as to produce a connection between a pump (40) for a feed fluid and the medium reservoir. As a result of the pressure of the feed fluid flowing into the medium reservoir, at a point in the medium reservoir (19) differing from the entry point of the impact spike (29), an opening is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander Stihl
  • Patent number: D581788
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Van Well
  • Patent number: D584631
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Van Well
  • Patent number: D596940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Eigenstetter