Patents Assigned to SCHOTT PHARMA AG & CO. KGAA
  • Publication number: 20240131815
    Abstract: Disclosed are films and a packaging for gas or vapor decontaminable packaging applications and a method for creating a sterile packaging using the same. These films are particularly useful for sterile storage and transport of objects for medical, pharmaceutical or cosmetic uses, in particular of sterile pharmaceutical primary packaging means, like vials, ampules, syringes, or cartridges. Said film comprises at least a layer of a selectively permeable non-woven, a layer of a punctured film, and an adhesive which can be activated by energy transmission. Optionally it comprises further film layers. The method for creating a sterile packaging comprises the step of hermetically closing the packaging by activating the adhesive thereby making the non-woven impermeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT PHARMA AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Patrick Wolf, Gregor Fritz Deutschle, Volker Rupertus
  • Patent number: 11964135
    Abstract: A receptacle includes an elongate barrel section defining a barrel length between an axial position pA and an axial position pB; side walls each having an inner surface bordering an interior; a layer of a lubricant located on the inner surface; and a charge present in the interior and sealing a cross section of the interior between the inner surfaces of the side walls. An axial position p+ is the axial position closest to pB at which the charge contacts the layer or the inner surfaces and an axial position p? is the axial position closest to pA at which the charge contacts the layer or the inner surfaces. The distance between pB and p+ divided by the distance between p+ and pA is in a range from 0 to 2 and a mean thickness of the layer between pA and p. is at least 10 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Raymond Moser, Stephanie Mangold
  • Patent number: 11938090
    Abstract: A substrate includes a first surface area; and a second surface area with a second roughness value. In a height profile of the substrate along a cutting line crossing the first surface area and the second surface area, a height of the substrate along a first section of the height profile is larger than the height of the substrate along a second section of the height profile. In the height profile an absolute value of a height difference between a point of maximum height or an averaged height, respectively, of the second section and a point of minimal height or an averaged height, respectively, of the first section defines a depth value. A ratio of the depth value and the second roughness value is between 2 and 35. A marking element extends across the first surface area and the second surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Oliver Sohr, Stephan Corvers, Christoph Brüning
  • Patent number: 11912008
    Abstract: Disclosed are films and a packaging for gas or vapor decontaminable packaging applications and a method for creating a sterile packaging using the same. These films are particularly useful for sterile storage and transport of objects for medical, pharmaceutical or cosmetic uses, in particular of sterile pharmaceutical primary packaging means, like vials, ampules, syringes, or cartridges. Said film comprises at least a layer of a selectively permeable non-woven, a layer of a punctured film, and an adhesive which can be activated by energy transmission. Optionally it comprises further film layers. The method for creating a sterile packaging comprises the step of hermetically closing the packaging by activating the adhesive thereby making the non-woven impermeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT PHARMA AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Patrick Wolf, Gregor Fritz Deutschle, Volker Rupertus
  • Patent number: 11896809
    Abstract: A receptacle includes: an elongate barrel section with an axial position p determined along an axis, the elongate barrel section extending from an axial position pA to an axial position pB; a side wall extending over the elongate barrel section and having an inner surface bordering an interior with a diameter; and a layer of a lubricant located on at least a part of the inner surface, a portion of the axis extends from a first axial position p1 to a second axial position p2; a mean thickness of the layer is determined in the portion; a position pm is the midpoint between p1 and p2; TA is a mean thickness of the layer for a section from p1 to pm; TB is a mean thickness of the layer for a section from pm to p2; a ratio TA:TB is in a range from 5:1 to 1:5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Stephanie Mangold, Raymond Moser
  • Publication number: 20240009078
    Abstract: A glass container is characterized by a longitudinal axis (Ltube) that passes through a center of a glass bottom of the glass container. For any cut surface of the glass container that is obtainable by cutting the glass container in a plane that includes the longitudinal axis Ltube, a minimum thickness (smin) and a maximum thickness (smax) of the glass bottom determined at any position having a distance d1/4 or less to the longitudinal axis Ltube and a thickness (sd1/4) is the thickness of the glass bottom determined at a position having the distance d1/4 to the longitudinal axis Ltube, the distance to the longitudinal axis Ltube in each case being determined in a direction that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis Ltube and thicknesses smin, smax and sd1/4 being determined in a direction that is parallel to longitudinal axis Ltube, with smax/smin being less than 1.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Alexander Humbertjean, Tobias Wetzel, Hanspeter Kummer, Fatih Mutlu
  • Publication number: 20240009080
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical container includes an inner surface and an outer surface. At least part of the inner surface is coated with a coating to form a coated inner surface. On the coated inner surface the container, based on negative mode Time-of-Flight-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) data, has a relative lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-incubated Multivariate Curve Resolution (MCR) score ratio of lipid factor1 of less than 0.67.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Matthias Bicker, Christoph Brüning, Anne Spende, Flor Toledo Rodríguez, Michaela Klause, Uwe Rothhaar, Tanja Woywod, Eveline Rudigier-Voigt, Jovana Djordjevic-Reiss, Sylvia Biedenbender, Harmut Bauch
  • Publication number: 20240009079
    Abstract: A glass container includes a body region with a first end and a second end, the body region having an outer diameter (d1) and a glass thickness (s1), the body region being characterized by a longitudinal axis (Ltube) that passes through a center of the first and second end. When the glass container is standing on a support surface, h2 is the distance between the support surface up to the second end of the body region. The following condition is fulfilled: (A×X)/B=C. A is an axial load necessary to break the glass container to obtain fragments, X is a normalized area in cm2 defined as h2×d1×?+d12/4×?, B is a number of fragments of the glass container, and C is a fracture ratio. C is 40 N×cm2 or more and B is 30 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Andreas Langsdorf, Florian Maurer, Lucia Dessoy, Ina Syndikus, Alexander Humbertjean, Tobias Wetzel, Fatih Mutlu
  • Publication number: 20240010543
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a glass container from a glass tube in a glass processing machine includes the steps of: I) heating the glass tube at a defined position between a first portion and a second portion to a temperature above a glass transition temperature of the glass tube while the glass tube is rotating around its longitudinal axis Ltube and pulling apart the first portion and the second portion thereby separating the first portion from the second portion and forming a closed bottom at one end of the first portion; and II) moving a mold matrix of the glass processing machine towards the closed bottom and bringing the mold matrix into contact with the closed bottom. While bringing the mold matrix into contact with the closed bottom, a distance Ym between the mold matrix and a first clamping chuck of the glass processing machine is decreased stepwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Alexander Humbertjean, Tobias Wetzel, Fatih Mutlu
  • Publication number: 20230390157
    Abstract: A glass container for pharmaceutical compositions includes a hollow cylindrical body having at least one open end. At least a part of a surface of the glass container includes a coating. The coating has a crystallization temperature range and a melting temperature range determined using differential scanning calorimetry at a temperature change rate of 10° C./min. The crystallization temperature range and the melting temperature range overlap at a temperature of from ?75° C. to ?100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicants: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA, SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Heiz, Claudia Santini, Sebastian Brechler, Stephanie Mangold, Ugljesa Babic
  • Patent number: 11833334
    Abstract: A glass syringe barrel is provided that has an at least partially conically shaped upper portion and a longitudinal axis. The glass syringe barrel has a top end through which a liquid can be ejected and a bottom end into which a plunger stopper can be pushed. The glass syringe barrel includes, in a direction from the top end to the bottom end, a cone, a shoulder region, and a body region. The shoulder region has and outer contour that has a concave and substantially circular arc-shaped area ci with an outer radius r1. The outer contour of the glass syringe barrel in the shoulder region is defined by a certain value for r1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT PHARMA AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Roman Oberhansli, Ivo Andreoli, Martha Strassmann, Andreas Langsdorf, Peter Thomas
  • Patent number: 11806716
    Abstract: A glass container is provided that includes a tube, a circular bottom, and a longitudinal axis. A curved glass heel extends from an outer end the bottom to the first end of the tube. The two-dimensional distance h(x,y) between a contact plane and the outer surface. The two-dimensional distance is measured in a direction parallel to the axis. The slope magnitude of the outer surface at the given position x,y is given by ?{square root over ((dh/dx)2+(dh/dy)2)}. The 75% quantile of values that have been determined for the term ?{square root over ((dh/dx)2+(dh/dy)2)}×d1/h(xy)delta for all given positions x,y within a circular area having a radius of 0.4×d2/2 and that correspond to the centre is less than 4100 ?m/mm. The adjacent positions x,y increase stepwise by 200 ?m, and h(x,y)delta=h(x,y)max?h(x,y)min, h(x,y)max is a maximum value for h(x,y) and h(x,y)min is a minimum value for h(x,y) being determined in that circular area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: SCHOTT PHARMA AG & CO. KGAA, SCHOTT PHARMA SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Robert Frost, Doris Moseler, Günter Weidmann, Roman Huhn, Jens Ulrich Thomas, Alexander Humbertjean, Frank-Thomas Lentes, Andreas Langsdorf
  • Publication number: 20230346642
    Abstract: A method for producing a container includes identifying a location at a body, with the body at this location having a stress parameter which has a value less than or equal to a threshold value. The identifying includes deriving the threshold value from a simulation result of a simulation based on a finite element method of the stress parameter for a surface area and/or a volume area of the body with or without a marking element present, the identifying also includes obtaining a mean value by the simulation for the stress parameter for at least a part of at least one of the surface area or the volume area of the body. The threshold value is a sum of the mean value and 1000 % or less of an absolute value of the mean value. A marking element is provided which allows identification of the container at the identified location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Oliver Sohr, Bernhard Hunzinger, Florian Maurer, Peter Thomas
  • Patent number: 11801348
    Abstract: A glass syringe barrel is provided that has an at least partially conically shaped upper portion and a longitudinal axis. The glass syringe barrel has a top end through which a liquid can be ejected and a bottom end into which a plunger stopper can be pushed. The glass syringe barrel includes, in a direction from the top end to the bottom end, a cone, a shoulder region, and a body region. The shoulder region has and outer contour that has a concave and substantially circular arc-shaped area c1 with an outer radius r1. The outer contour of the glass syringe barrel in the shoulder region is defined by a certain minimum value the radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: SCHOTT PHARMA AG & CO. KGAA, SCHOTT PHARMA SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Roman Oberhänsli, Ivo Andreoli, Martha Strassmann, Andreas Langsdorf, Peter Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230310271
    Abstract: A method of forming a glass vial includes: locally heating one end of a glass tube; removing the locally heated end of the glass tube to form the glass vial having a closed base; and further forming the base of the glass vial, the further forming including generating a purge gas flow within the formed glass vial with the aid of a purge gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Robert Frost, Uwe Rothhaar, Florence Buscke, Bernhard Hladik
  • Patent number: 11746034
    Abstract: A hot forming device for producing glass containers from a glass tube is provided. The device includes a machine frame, a turntable, a plurality of holding chucks, and a direct drive motor. The turntable is mounted on the machine frame. The holding chucks are arranged on the turntable. The turntable is connected to the machine frame directly by the direct drive without a transmission. The direct drive has a stator arranged in an upper region of the machine frame and a rotor on the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA, SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Diego Studerus, Oliver Fruhner, Andreas Groh
  • Patent number: 11701471
    Abstract: A liquid preparation for application to an inner side of a hollow body to produce a sliding layer on a packaging for pharmaceuticals or cosmetic products comprises the following constituents: a reactive silicone system for forming a silicone network of the sliding layer, a catalyst for catalyzing the cross-linking reaction of the reactive silicone system, at least one unreactive silicone oil, and at least one diluent. The diluent comprises a silicon-containing compound and a content of the at least one diluent in the preparation amounts to more than 45 percent by weight and less than 95 percent by weight in the preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Stephanie Mangold, Tamara Sweeck
  • Publication number: 20230201464
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical container for drug delivery includes a barrel configured to slidably receive a stopper, the stopper having a proximal end suitable for contacting a plunger rod and a distal end suitable for contacting a pharmaceutical composition, the stopper having a circumferential surface partially contacting an inner surface of the barrel, a surface roughness of the inner surface of the barrel declines from the stopper's start position to its end position by at least 3% of at least one of Ra roughness or Rms roughness, the inner surface of the barrel having a surface roughness Ra of less than 100 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Elmar Horsch, Tanja Woywod
  • Patent number: 11634352
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping a workpiece made of glass using minimum lubrication is provided. The apparatus includes device for heating the workpiece, a shaping station with at least one forming tool for shaping the workpiece, and at least one spray nozzle for applying an oil as a lubricant onto the surface of the forming tool. The forming tool exhibits heat dissipation such that the temperature on the contact surface of the forming tool during the shaping process is kept below 300° C. The amount of oil dispensed by the spray nozzle per forming step and application instance is less than 0.1 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT PHARMA AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Alexander Glacki, Robert Kruse, Doris Moseler, Michael Waschbüsch, Jörg Witte, Robert Frost
  • Patent number: 11633542
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical container for drug delivery includes a barrel configured to slidably receive a stopper. The stopper has a proximal end suitable for contacting a plunger rod and a distal end suitable for contacting a pharmaceutical composition. The stopper has a circumferential surface partially contacting an inner surface of the barrel. A surface roughness of the inner surface of the barrel declines from the stopper's start position to its end position by at least 3% of at least one of Ra roughness or Rms roughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Elmar Horsch, Tanja Woywod