Patents by Inventor Björn Larsson

Björn Larsson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20160302627
    Abstract: A dispenser for interfolded napkins, having an upper portion and a lower portion, a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction is disclosed. The dispenser includes a container having a bottom wall extending in a horizontal plane and being arranged at the lower portion of the dispenser, and side walls having upper edges and lower edges and extending from the bottom wall in a vertical direction perpendicular thereto; a dispensing opening arranged at the upper portion of the dispenser opposite to the bottom wall; a weight arranged between the side walls so as to form a stack-supported lid of the dispenser that is movable between an upper position adjacent to the dispensing opening, and a lower position adjacent to the bottom wall; and a weight control means interconnecting the weight and the container, and extending inside the container between a container connection arranged at the lower portion of the dispenser and a weight connection arranged at the upper portion of the dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Björn LARSSON, Sofia HODOSSY, Martin STENBERG, Viktor BERGLIN, Mårten RITTFELDT, Susanne CARLSTEDT
  • Publication number: 20160302628
    Abstract: A dispenser herein includes a container having a bottom wall extending in a horizontal plane, and side walls extending from said bottom wall in a vertical direction perpendicular thereto and defining a dispensing opening opposite to said bottom wall is disclosed. The side walls surround a rectangular supporting surface for supporting a stack of interfolded napkins. The dispenser further includes a cover defining a dispensing mouth and having at least an upper position, such that a space for containing a stack of interfolded napkins is defined between said supporting surface and said cover in said upper position. The container is divided along a horizontal plane being parallel with said horizontal plane of said bottom wall so as to define a bottom portion including said bottom wall, and a wall portion including at least a part of said side walls, said bottom portion being releasably attached to said wall portion by a magnetic lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Björn LARSSON, Sofia HODOSSY, Martin STENBERG, Viktor BERGLIN, Mårten RITTFELDT, Susanne CARLSTEDT
  • Publication number: 20160120377
    Abstract: A of web material for hygiene products includes at least one folded continuous web material, and a first connector and a second connector, adapted for interconnection of the first end surface of the stack to a second end surface of another, similar stack. The first connector includes a first connection surface consisting of a first material, and the second connector includes a second connection surface consisting of a second material; said first and second materials having properties that, upon bringing said first and second surfaces into contact with each other, the surfaces attach to each other by surface adhesion so that the surfaces are repeatedly removable from and reattachable to each other while leaving the surfaces substantially unaltered, whereby a connection between a first/second connector of the stack and a second/first connector of a similar stack is accomplished.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Björn LARSSON, Inger ANDERSSON, Gunnel ELGLUND
  • Publication number: 20160113448
    Abstract: An inventive dispenser for storing and dispensing hygiene products is disclosed. The dispenser includes, in a closed state, a rear wall, two opposite side walls, a front wall, and an upper wall. The dispenser further includes a dispensing opening and an openable cover that may be opened for refill of the dispenser. At least one wall of the dispenser includes a support structure made at least mainly of plastic material. An outer thin metal sheet is laminated to an exterior surface of the support structure, and the surface of the metal sheet includes a curved surface in at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Björn LARSSON, Peter ORGNA
  • Publication number: 20160088982
    Abstract: A dispenser is provided with a reservoir for a stack of sheets of web material and including a housing. The dispenser includes a lid being adapted to face upwardly during use of the dispenser. The dispenser includes a first biasing arrangement for biasing the stack of sheets of web material towards the lid and a dispensing opening therein. A cassette includes the reservoir and is arranged to be moved to a position at least partially outside the housing. The cassette is provided with a refill opening for sheets of web material, the refill opening being accessible when the cassette is in the position at least partially outside the housing. Further, a method of refilling a dispenser with a stack of sheets of web material is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Björn LARSSON, Jesper NORSHAMMAR, Anders GRAHM
  • Publication number: 20150313425
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a sheet of web material from a stack of folded web material comprises: a housing arranged to be positioned along a vertical direction, a dispensing arrangement including a dispensing opening for the web material in the housing, and a web material storage section inside the housing arranged to hold and support the stack of folded web material. The web material storage section comprises, seen along the vertical direction, an upper end portion and opposite thereto a lower end portion. The web material storage section comprises a displaceable portion. The displaceable portion comprises the lower end portion. The lower end portion, seen along the vertical direction, is arranged substantially underneath the upper end portion when the displaceable portion is arranged in a dispensing position. In a tilted loading position the lower end portion is positioned beside and below the upper end portion, seen along the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Lars THORÉN, Per MÖLLER, Björn LARSSON
  • Publication number: 20150282680
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing at least one webfrom a stack of web material is disclosed. The dispenser includes a housing arranged to hold a stack of web material. A web path extends in an interior of the housing in a first direction in a first portion of the housing and in a second direction in a second portion of the housing. The housing includes an access opening providing access to the interior of the housing. The web path is accessible along a third direction, in both the first and second portions of the housing, via the access opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Björn Larsson, Gunnel Elglund, Per Möller, Lars Thorén, David Sahlin
  • Publication number: 20150216377
    Abstract: A dispenser for a roll of web material, such as a center feed roll includes: a body having a first end wall provided with a dispensing opening for dispensing a leading end of the web material at the center of the roll, a second end wall opposite to the first end wall, and a sidewall connecting to the first and second end wall. The dispenser also includes a stabilizing device that is insertable into the roll to prevent the roll from collapsing towards its center. The stabilizing device includes a plurality of protrusions protruding from at least one of the first or second end wall towards the other of the first or second end wall, and the protrusions are disposed closer to the sidewall than to a center axis of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Björn Larsson, Inger Andersson
  • Patent number: 9004313
    Abstract: A stack of hygiene sheet products including first and second webs that are interfolded with each other. The stack includes a top panel of the first web and a top panel of the second web, wherein the top panel of the first web overlays the top panel of the second web but has been cut away so that the top panel of the second web is revealed by the top panel of the first web. An adherence layer is placed on the top panel of the first web and the top panel of the second web and is exposed at the top of the stack so that it can adhere to an adjacent stack so that when the last sheets of the adjacent stack are pulled through a dispenser opening of a dispenser, the first and second sheets are pulled securely through with it as a result of the direct adherence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Anders Andersson, Björn Larsson
  • Patent number: 8877313
    Abstract: A stack of interfolded hygiene products (100), including a first web (1) divided into individual hygiene products by means of lines of weakness (12); a second web (2) divided into individual hygiene products by means of lines of weakness (22); the first web and the second web being interfolded with one another in a nested configuration, wherein the lines of weakness of the first web and the lines of weakness of the second web are offset with respect to one another along the webs; the first web and the second web are joined to one another at a leading portion (4) and/or at a trailing portion (4?) of the webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventor: Björn Larsson
  • Publication number: 20140291186
    Abstract: A stack of hygiene sheet products including first and second webs that are interfolded with each other. The stack includes a top panel of the first web and a top panel of the second web, wherein the top panel of the first web overlays the top panel of the second web but has been cut away so that the top panel of the second web is revealed by the top panel of the first web. An adherence layer is placed on the top panel of the first web and the top panel of the second web and is exposed at the top of the stack so that it can adhere to an adjacent stack so that when the last sheets of the adjacent stack are pulled through a dispenser opening of a dispenser, the first and second sheets are pulled securely through with it as a result of the direct adherence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Anders Andersson, Björn Larsson
  • Publication number: 20140209624
    Abstract: A dispenser and a stack combination. The stack is a stack of interfolded webs wherein the lines of weakness of one web are offset from the lines of weakness of another web in a longitudinal direction, and the stack including at least two webs, the webs including: a first web (1) divided into individual hygiene products by means of lines of weakness (12); and a second web (2) divided into individual hygiene products by means of lines of weakness (22); the first web and the second web being interfolded with one another so as to form a nested configuration, wherein the first web and the second web are joined, at a joint, to one another at a leading portion (4) and/or at a trailing portion (4?) of the web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventor: Björn Larsson
  • Publication number: 20140203133
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a washroom product, the dispenser including an outer casing hingeably or detachably attached to a back portion. The dispenser includes a compartment between the outer casing and the back portion for housing the washroom product to be dispensed. The dispenser further includes a dispensing opening and the dispenser includes inner locking means positioned inside the compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Mikael Andersson, Yassaman Mortazavi, Björn Larsson, Mats Lind, Marcus Kullman, Lars-Olov Ahlgren
  • Publication number: 20140134376
    Abstract: A stack of interfolded hygiene products (100), including a first web (1) divided into individual hygiene products by means of lines of weakness (12); a second web (2) divided into individual hygiene products by means of lines of weakness (22); the first web and the second web being interfolded with one another in a nested configuration, wherein the lines of weakness of the first web and the lines of weakness of the second web are offset with respect to one another along the webs; the first web and the second web are joined to one another at a leading portion (4) and/or at a trailing portion (4?) of the webs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventor: Björn Larsson
  • Publication number: 20130292402
    Abstract: A system including a dry absorbent tissue paper sheet dispenser having a dispensing opening through which dry tissue paper sheets can be withdrawn and a moist sheet dispenser having a dispensing opening through which moist sheets can be withdrawn, wherein one of the dry tissue paper dispenser and the moist sheet dispenser is configured to sit atop the other so that the dispensing openings face in opposing directions in a combined configuration, and wherein the dry and moist sheet dispensers have cooperating interfacing surfaces when they are in the combined configuration that resist movement of the moist sheet dispenser with respect to the dry tissue paper dispenser in a first direction perpendicular to a sheet withdrawal direction of the dry tissue paper dispenser and the moist dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Jan Caspar Sudworth, Marcel Schmidt, Ali Bagherzadeh, Monica Eva-Li Saarväli, Wencke Agneta Thorén, Björn Larsson, Andrew Wong, Ralph Bremenkamp, Eleanor Derix, Julia Polinna
  • Publication number: 20130099924
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing flexible sheet material includes a roll of material, the roll of material having a core. One end portion of the flexible sheet material is adhered to the core by a pickup glue. The dispenser includes a sensor for sensing the pickup glue of the roll of material and a control unit for triggering at least one action of the dispenser in response to the detection of the pickup glue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Björn Larsson, Robert Kling
  • Publication number: 20120148996
    Abstract: A method for facilitating the identification of suitable object-wiping material and dispenser (10) therefor. The method includes the steps of: providing a questionnaire (50) with a plurality of questions (52, 54, 56), at least one (52, 56) of the plurality of questions relating to user requirements of the object-wiping material and at least a further (54) of the plurality of questions relating to the work situation of the user; providing for each question an exhaustive list of possible answers from which the user is to select at least one, and depending on the selected answers, providing a recommendation (58) of the type of object-wiping material and dispenser most suited to that user's needs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Stefan Henricson, Karin Öjersjö, Anders Hellqvist, Giovanni Benedetti, Malin Andersson, Björn Larsson
  • Publication number: 20120104016
    Abstract: A wiping material system including a plurality of dispensers (10) of different shapes and/or sizes, the dispensers each having at least a first (12) and a second component (14) which are visible to a user. To assist in recognizing the fact that the dispensers of different sizes are all dispensers, the first component (12) is of a colour distinct from the second component (14) and the colour of the first component and the colour of the second component are identical for all dispensers (10) of the plurality of dispensers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Giovanni Benedetti, Malin Andersson, Björn Larsson
  • Publication number: 20120032565
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing tissue paper. The dispenser includes a housing defining a volume for receiving both a center-feed tissue paper roll and a tissue paper stack, a first dispensing opening situated in the housing for dispensing tissue paper from a center-feed tissue paper roll, and a second dispensing opening situated in the housing for dispensing tissue paper sheets from a tissue paper stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Cecilia Stööp, Björn Larsson
  • Patent number: 7825672
    Abstract: Methods to determine an instantaneous resistance value of an electric circuit and a measurement system to determine an instantaneous resistance value of an electric circuit are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments of the method measure an in-situ instantaneous voltage of the circuit and an in-situ instantaneous current of the circuit and calculate the instantaneous resistance. Optional temperature measurement can be included in the method and the calculated instantaneous resistance related to the measured temperature. The method can be applied to phase angle fired loads and to zero-cross (time proportioned) loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignees: MRL Industries, Inc., Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Kevin B. Peck, Noel Johnson, Björn Å. Larsson, Pontus K. H. Nilsson