Patents Assigned to MAPA GmbH
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Patent number: 9987197Abstract: A teat with a base and a hollow and flexible mouthpiece protruding from it with a palate contact area, characterized in that the mouthpiece has a planar thinning area fully or partially extending over the palate contact area, in which the mouthpiece has a smaller wall thickness than in its adjacent areas.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: MAPA GMBHInventor: Eckhard Itzek
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Publication number: 20170258687Abstract: A teat, in particular for infants and small children, having a hollow nipple with at least one through-hole for liquid nutrition, which is connected at the bottom to a substantially annular-disc-shaped nipple flange, which serves to be fastened to the mouth of a vessel by means of a fastening ring with an annular-disc-shaped ring flange overlapping the nipple flange for pressing the bottom side of the nipple flange flat against the front-side edge of the mouth and at least one recess extending in the radial direction of the nipple flange on the top side of the nipple flange so that a ring flange of a fastening ring pressing against the top side of the nipple flange is spaced from the top side of the floor of the recess during the fastening of the teat on the mouth of a vessel, and the nipple flange is sufficiently flexible at least in the area of the recess so that the floor arches up and air from outside flows back into the vessel under the arched floor of the recess in the radial direction when the teat isType: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: MAPA GmbHInventor: Eckhard ITZEK
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Publication number: 20170112720Abstract: A bottle teat consisting of a soft elastic material for a drinking bottle, in particular for infants and small children, having: a teat flange, a hollow teat sleeve that projects upward from the teat flange and is connected at its bottom end to the teat flange, a hollow suction part that is connected at its bottom end to the top end of the hollow teat sleeve and projects upward therefrom, a dome-shaped palate-contacting region on a side of the mouthpiece facing the palate, at least one drinking hole in the palate-contacting region that extends from the outside to the inside of the mouthpiece, wherein: an elevated surface that bulges to the outside is on the outside of the palate-contacting region, and the at least one drinking hole is arranged in the elevated surface so that the suction part with the elevated surface can be pressed in a sealing manner against an inwardly bulging sealing surface on the inside of the cap bottom of a cap to cover the bottle teat.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: MAPA GmbHInventors: Uwe Wagenknecht, Bodo Warden, Sarah-Dimple Dass
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Patent number: 9522769Abstract: Push-pull closure for a drink container comprising a body element which comprises a through-opening and a fastening device, with which it may be sealingly and releasably connected to an opening of the drink container, a mouthpiece which may be axially displaceably inserted into the through-opening of the body element and which comprises at least one locking portion which may engage behind the through-opening of the body element, and a locking element which may be releasably attached to the inner face of the body element facing the drink container, the locking element being arranged so that the locking portion of the mouthpiece may not adopt a position in which it does not engage behind the through-opening of the body element, when the mouthpiece is inserted into the through-opening and the locking element is attached to the inner face of the body element.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: MAPA GMBHInventors: Eckhard Itzek, Bjoern Frederik Seidler, Ralf Holschumacher
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Publication number: 20160235229Abstract: A drinking container including a drinking vessel having an interior and vessel neck with a vessel opening, a drinking lid which has a bottom wall, at least one through-channel with an opening to the interior and an opening to the surroundings, a valve seat and holding devices for releasably holding the drinking lid on the drinking vessel, a valve element that is held on the valve seat and consists of soft elastic material and has a plate-shaped main body that blocks the through-channel, the main body having a passage which is open when the main body is in an undeformed state, and a clamping device with at least one clamping surface that is perpendicular to the plate-shaped main body and exerts a clamping force on the outer edge of the plate-shaped main body which closes the passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: MAPA GmbhInventor: Jürgen Löhn
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Publication number: 20160199262Abstract: A bottle teat, in particular for infants and small children, having a suction part with at least one drinking slit, and a teat flange connected to the bottom end of the suction part for fastening to the front edge of a mouth of a container, wherein the drinking slit is cut by a laser beam in the suction part, and is opened a small gap when the bottle teat is in an unstressed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: MAPA GmbHInventor: Eckhard Itzek
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Publication number: 20150296892Abstract: A nursing pad for placement on the breast of a woman with, for the purpose of fitting to the shape of a breast, a thin-walled, flexible pad body with a circumferential outer edge, an inner surface for placement on the breast and an outer surface, wherein a rising for the purpose of pushing in a nipple protrudes from the inner surface of the pad body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventor: Elke LADIGES
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Patent number: 9120604Abstract: A drinking container with a drinking vessel, a drinking cap and a threaded ring. The drinking vessel has an inner space, a circular vessel opening, an opening edge surrounding the vessel opening and an external thread next to the vessel opening. The drinking cap has a bottom wall, a ring flange surrounding the bottom wall for abutment on the opening edge of the drinking vessel, a drinking element protruding outwards from the bottom wall and a valve for sealing and opening a passage from the inner space to the outside of the mouthpiece, which is openable for drinking and otherwise closable. A ventilation channel is present in the bottom side of the ring flange or in the top side of the opening edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventor: Jürgen Löhn
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Patent number: 9102447Abstract: The invention is directed to a push-pull closure for a drink container including a mouthpiece holder. The container includes a pin, which projects into the through-opening of the mouthpiece holder; several bars, parallel to the pin and arranged around the pin, which are connected to the mouthpiece holder and to the pin; a mouthpiece that is axially displaceable and sealing with respect to the mouthpiece on the outer circumference and accommodating the pin in the further through-opening; at least one circumferential seal element, which blocks and unblocks the passage of liquid through the further through-opening in an closing/opening position of the mouthpiece in the mouthpiece holder; and several ribs of a soft elastic material, axially extending on the circumference of the mouthpiece at the bottom, wherein the mouthpiece may be inserted into the mouthpiece holder, and the bars can engage free spaces and the ribs engage recesses between the bars.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: MAPA GMBHInventors: Reiner Pils, Uwe Wagenknecht, Thorsten Hastedt
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Patent number: 9044534Abstract: A breast milk pump that is easier to disassemble for cleaning and is easier to reassemble. It includes a housing, a cup-like displacement chamber a connection channel and a milk collection container releasably attached. A suction bell is connected to an inlet of the connection channel. It further includes a cup-like membrane element and a coupling element and a lever with rotatable mounting.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventors: Siska Behrens, Reinhold Jäger-Waldau
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Publication number: 20150142054Abstract: A teat with a base and a hollow and flexible mouthpiece protruding from it with a palate contact area, characterized in that the mouthpiece has a planar thinning area fully or partially extending over the palate contact area, in which the mouthpiece has a smaller wall thickness than in its adjacent areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventor: Eckhard Itzek
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Publication number: 20150069065Abstract: A drinking container with a drinking vessel, a drinking cap and a threaded ring. The drinking vessel has an inner space, a circular vessel opening, an opening edge surrounding the vessel opening and an external thread next to the vessel opening. the drinking cap has a bottom wall, a ring flange surrounding the bottom wall for abutment on the opening edge of the drinking vessel, a drinking element protruding outwards from the bottom wall and a sealing means for sealing and opening a passage from the inner space to the outside of the mouthpiece, which is openable for drinking and otherwise closable. A ventilation channel is present in the bottom side of the ring flange or in the top side of the opening edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: MAPA GMBHInventor: Jürgen Löhn
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Patent number: 8734386Abstract: A breast milk pump having an electric motor, a pump driven by the motor, a suction cup, an electrically activated first three-way valve in a suction line, an electrically activated second three-way valve in a pressure line, an electronic control system, which sets the electric motor into an operating mode or an idle mode depending on an activation of a switch; in the operating mode, it operates the electric motor and the electrically activated first and second three-way valves in cycles, which comprise a suction phase, in which the electric motor is switched on, the inlet of the pump is connected to the suction cup via the first three-way valve and a floater valve, the pump outlet is connected via the second three-way valve.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventor: Reinhold Jäger-Waldau
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Patent number: 8708174Abstract: A bottle teat comprising: A nipple sleeve having a hollow nipple and a through-hole connected at the bottom to a hollow nipple sleeve which is connected at the bottom to a nipple flange that is connected to the nipple sleeve to be fastened to a bottle by a fastening ring which serves at the bottom with an annular disc-shaped ring flange overlapping the nipple flange, A contact area projecting downward or upward from the nipple flange, or from the nipple sleeve above the nipple flange outward into the area for placing a ring flange, and A lip valve that is opened when the nipple flange is not fastened to a bottle arranged in a deforming area next to the contact area so that the deformation of the nipple flange that arises from pressing the fastening ring against the contact area closes the valve.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventor: Eckhard Itzek
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Publication number: 20140088495Abstract: A breast milk pump that is easier to disassemble for cleaning and is easier to reassemble. It includes a housing, a cup-like displacement chamber a connection channel and a milk collection container releasably attached. A suction bell is connected to an inlet of the connection channel. It further includes a cup-like membrane element and a coupling element and a lever with rotatable mounting.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: MAPA GmbHInventors: Siska Behrens, Reinhold Jäger-Waldau
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Publication number: 20140069888Abstract: A baby bottle sleeve comprising a cylindrical sleeve made of an elastomer material for holding a baby bottle having a top opening for a top end region of a baby bottle extending out of the sleeve, and a cutout extending downward from the edge of the top opening that can be opened for inserting and removing a baby bottle, and at least one closable and openable closing means that, in a closed state, fixes the cutout in a closed position and releases the cutout in an open state so that it can be opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: MAPA GmbHInventors: Bodo Warden, Sarah-Dimple Dass
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Patent number: D719268Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventors: Andreas Recht, Uwe Wagenknecht, Eckhard Itzek, Ralf Holschumacher, Bodo Warden, Sara Rebecca Kröncke
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Patent number: D731301Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: MAPA GMBHInventors: Andreas Recht, Uwe Wagenknecht, Eckhard Itzek, Ralf Holschumacher, Bodo Warden, Sara Rebecca Kröncke
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Patent number: D739032Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: MAPA GmbHInventors: Andreas Recht, Uwe Wagenknecht, Eckhard Itzek, Ralf Holschumacher, Bodo Warden, Sara Rebecca Kr•ncke
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Patent number: D766420Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Mapa GmbHInventor: Reinhold Jaeger-Waldau