Patents Assigned to Sulzer Mixpac AG
  • Patent number: 8833577
    Abstract: A childproof closure for a dispensing apparatus (5) having first bayonet fastening means (20), wherein the closure (40, 50, 80, 100) has second bayonet fastening means (21). One of the two bayonet fastening means (20, 21) has bayonet lugs (30, 32) which can be introduced into corresponding socket elements (25, 27) of the other bayonet fastening means (20, 21). Both bayonet fastening means (20, 21) moreover have coding elements (13, 23, 35, 38) for a preset alignment of the closure (40, 50, 80, 100) and of the dispensing apparatus (5). The closure (40, 50, 80, 100) has a closure element (40, 50) having first engagement elements (43, 70) and a securing cap (80, 100) which at least partly covers the closure element (40, 50) and has second engagement elements (75, 130). The securing cap (80, 100) and the closure element (40, 50) are connected cohesively strongly, but rotatably with respect to one another, by means of shape-matched elements (58, 60, 90, 120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Sasan Habibi-Naini
  • Patent number: 8820581
    Abstract: A dispensing device for a multi component cartridge includes a housing in which a reception element for receiving a cartridge end of the multicomponent cartridge is arranged. The cartridge end is located at the inlet side of a first and second storage container filled with a filling mass and respectively sealed in a fluid tight manner at the cartridge end by a respective piston. A plunger arrangement and a drive arrangement for moving the plunger arrangement are arranged in the housing. A movement of the plunger arrangement in a dispensing direction can be carried out by the drive arrangement for dispensing the filling mass from the storage containers of the multicomponent cartridge. The reception element has an axis of rotation which is substantially arranged in parallel to the dispensing direction. The cartridge end pushed into the reception element can be transferred from an assembly position into a dispensing position by a rotation about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Enrico Baldelli
  • Patent number: 8753006
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a static mixer in an injection molding process includes the steps: injecting a polymer melt containing a foaming agent into a passage at an injection point at an injection pressure of less than 500 bar; filling the passage with the polymer melt containing a foaming agent; at least partial foaming of the melt containing a foaming agent in the passage, with the ratio of flow path length to height amounting to at least 10. The installation body is made up at least partly of foamed plastic and has a ratio of longitudinal dimension to diameter larger than 1 and a ratio of longitudinal dimension to wall thickness of at least 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Sasan Habibi-Naimi
  • Patent number: 8746508
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for mixing and dispensing multi-component masses including a multi-component cartridge or syringe having a plurality of chambers, a mixer element having a longitudinal axis and a mixer housing placed over the mixer element. The outer surface of the mixer element and the inner wall of the mixer housing have a cooperating guide element which only allows a displacement of the mixer housing at the mixer element along the longitudinal axis of the mixer element. The mixer housing is axially displaceably connected to the multi-component cartridge. The mixer housing and the mixer element are displaceable against one another in an axial direction in the closed and dispensing positions. A rotary element, the mixer housing and the multi-component cartridge have a cooperating interaction element in which the rotary element rotates such that an axial relative movement results between the mixer housing and the multi-component cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Andreas Staub
  • Publication number: 20140124508
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cartridge for at least two flowable components. The invention starts from a cartridge having at least two storage containers into which pistons can be inserted for dispensing components. So that the pistons cannot slip out of the storage containers again after the insertion, peripheral beads are provided at inner walls of the storage containers. To make possible cartridges which can be manufactured inexpensively and which can nevertheless be reliably sealed, it is proposed in accordance with the invention that the first inner wall has a first connection section and the second inner wall has a second connection section in which they do not have a bead. A connection web which connects the two storage containers is in this respect arranged between the first and second connection sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Ralf Seifer, Manfred Obrist
  • Publication number: 20140117046
    Abstract: A cartridge is provided having at least one reception chamber (2), which extends in the longitudinal direction, for a medium to be dispensed, having an end face (4) and a cartridge wall (3) which bound the reception chamber (2) and which are injection molded in one piece, with the end face (4) having an outlet for the medium, and with the cartridge wall (3) having a first film (6) at its inner side bounding the reception chamber (2) which extends over the total cartridge wall (3) and is non-releasably connected to the cartridge wall (3). A method of manufacturing such a cartridge as well as a multicomponent cartridge are furthermore provided by the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Josef Ettlin
  • Publication number: 20140091094
    Abstract: A set of multicomponent cartridges is proposed having at least two multicomponent cartridges (2), with each multicomponent cartridge (2) including at least one first and one second reception chamber (3, 4) for components to be dispensed, with each reception chamber (3, 4) having a substantially cylindrical design and extending in a longitudinal direction (A), with the reception chambers (3, 4) being arranged parallel to one another and having the same extent (L) in the longitudinal direction (A), with each multicomponent cartridge (2) being manufactured in one piece so that their reception chambers (3, 4) are non-releasably connected to one another, and wherein the first reception chamber (3) of each multicomponent cartridge (2) of the set (2) has the same outer diameter (D1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Sasan Habibi-Naini, Markus Scheuber
  • Patent number: 8672188
    Abstract: The intermediate piece connects a static mixer to a dispensing cartridge or to a dispensing device for a plurality of components and contains two separate passages for separate components from the dispensing device. The inlet opening of one passage includes an element for aligning the passage in a matching position to the dispensing device and the inlet openings of the two passages are of different cross-sectional shape to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: André Von Rotz, Enrico Baldelli
  • Patent number: 8668399
    Abstract: A device for applying a coating includes a multi-component cartridge, a static mixing nozzle in fluid communication with the cartridge, and at least one paint applicator selected from the group including a roller, a brush, and an angled spray tip, in fluid communication with the nozzle. A method includes applying a coating to a surface with the above-described device. Another method includes applying a non-skid coating to a surface with the above-described device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Richard Parks, Heather Parks
  • Patent number: 8657141
    Abstract: The cartridge includes a storage chamber for the reception of one or more filler materials and a neck which contains a discharge passage for each filler material. A shock absorbing element extends about the neck and is connected at one end to the neck. A closure cap is connected to the shock absorbing element or cartridge by a hinge to selectively open and close the discharge passage(s). When in the closure position over the discharge passage(s), the closure cap is recessed within and spaced from the shock absorbing element to avoid being loosened by an impact force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Sasan Habibi-Naini
  • Patent number: 8651731
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dynamic mixer for viscose components in particular for the mixing of dental compositions, with a rotor (30) and a housing (2), which has front inlet openings (12, 13) for the components and at least one rear outlet opening (20) and the inner space of which includes a pre-chamber (17) and a main chamber (22), with the pre-chamber (17) opening into the main chamber (22) in a distal, tapering transition section (16). For the precise regulation of the concentration of the components to be mixed of the supplied components even with temporary concentration fluctuations of the same and in order to achieve a high degree of homogenization, it is proposed that the dynamic mixer (1) has at least one individual channel (23a-d) as a passage from the pre-chamber (17) into the main chamber (22), with the width of the individual channel (23a-d) extending over a part of the periphery of the transition section (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Torsten Wintergerste, Hubert Holdener, Percy Leue
  • Patent number: 8646662
    Abstract: An apparatus for the injection of a fluid filler material includes a static mixer (1), with the static mixer including a housing (2) which includes a first hollow space (47), with at least one mixer element (3) being arranged in the first hollow space. The housing (2) has an outlet element (45). The outlet element (45) has a second hollow space (48), with the second hollow space (48) being connected to the first hollow space (47) such that the fluid filler material can be conducted from the first hollow space (47) into the second hollow space (48). A tubular element (60) is held in the second hollow space (48).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Sasan Habibi-Naini, Florian Hüsler
  • Patent number: 8640922
    Abstract: A multicomponent cartridge includes a first storage chamber for a first component and a second storage chamber for a second component. The first storage chamber is separate from, and arranged next to, the second storage chamber. A first piston is movably received in the first storage chamber. A second piston is movably received in the second storage chamber. Each of the first or second storage chambers has a respective filling end and a respective discharge end. The storage chambers are connected to one another at at least the discharge end. The storage chambers have inner walls with the discharge end opening into a discharge element in an opening aperture. A venting element is upstream of the corresponding opening aperture at at least one of the inner walls, with the venting element extending over a maximum of one third of a longitudinal dimension of the storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Paul Jutzi
  • Publication number: 20130336083
    Abstract: A dynamic mixer for a plurality of fluid components contains a housing and a rotor element which is rotatably arranged in the housing, with the housing having an inlet opening for at least one respective component and having at least one outlet opening. A ring-shaped intermediate space is provided between the rotor element and the housing in which a mixing element connected to the rotor element is arranged. The mixing element has a vane element which is formed as a directing element for conveying the components from the inlet opening to the outlet opening. The vane element is a directing element and has a directing surface which has a concave curvature with respect to the outlet opening and is further remote from the outlet opening at the onflow side than at the outflow side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SULZER MIXPAC AG
    Inventors: Volker Linne, Andreas Hiemer, Florian Husler
  • Publication number: 20130329517
    Abstract: A dynamic mixer (1, 100) for a plurality of fluid components contains a housing (2, 102) and a rotor element (3, 103) which is rotatably arranged in the housing, with the housing having an inlet opening (12, 13, 112, 113) for at least one respective component and having at least one outlet opening (20, 120). A ring-shaped intermediate space (15, 115) is provided between the rotor element and the housing in which a mixing element (7, 107) connected to the rotor element (3, 103) is arranged. The housing includes a first antechamber (21, 121) and a main chamber (22, 122). A second antechamber (17, 117) is provided which is arranged downstream of the first antechamber (21, 121) so that the first antechamber (21, 121) can be flowed through by the components before the components enter into the second antechamber (17, 117).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Volker Linne, Andreas Hiemer, Florian Husler
  • Patent number: 8567620
    Abstract: A container includes a storage chamber for the reception of a filler material and a neck which contains a discharge passage for dispensing the filler material. The neck is surrounded by a shock absorbing element that has a first end connected to the neck, a jacket circumferentially spaced about the neck to form an intermediate space and a second end also spaced from the neck. The shock absorbing element ensures that the neck remains intact on an impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Josef Ettlin, Sasan Habibi-Naini
  • Patent number: D693394
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Volker Linne, Andreas Hiemer, David Tobler
  • Patent number: D701168
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Andreas Hiemer
  • Patent number: D704798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventors: Alexander Ehm, Eduardo Manuel Duarte Rodrigues, Valentin Huber
  • Patent number: D705829
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sulzer Mixpac AG
    Inventor: Hans Peter Aeberhard