Patents by Inventor Brian Chun-Keet Kwok

Brian Chun-Keet Kwok 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).

  • Reach-in wipes with enhanced dispensibility
    Patent number: 6971542
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stack of wipes for use in a reach-in wipes dispenser having a dispensing opening, and related method. The stack includes a plurality of wipes stacked upon each other. Each wipe is separably joined to an adjacent wipe to form a joint therebetween. For at least 50% of the wipes in the stack of wipes, dispensing a top wipe from the stack of wipes causes an adjacent following wipe to at least partially be drawn upwards towards and/or through the dispensing opening, and the top wipe completely separates automatically from the following wipe at the joint before the following wipe completely passes through the dispensing opening, and when the top wipe completely separates automatically from the following wipe the following wipe falls back towards the stack of wipes and is positioned within the dispenser and below the dispensing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan John Vogel, Kenneth Bradley Close, Brian Chun-Keet Kwok, Yung Hsiang Huang
  • REACH-IN WIPES WITH ENHANCED DISPENSIBILITY
    Publication number: 20040115393
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stack of wipes for use in a reach-in wipes dispenser having a dispensing opening, and related method. The stack includes a plurality of wipes stacked upon each other. Each wipe is separably joined to an adjacent wipe to form a joint therebetween. For at least 50% of the wipes in the stack of wipes, dispensing a top wipe from the stack of wipes causes an adjacent following wipe to at least partially be drawn upwards towards and/or through the dispensing opening, and the top wipe completely separates automatically from the following wipe at the joint before the following wipe completely passes through the dispensing opening, and when the top wipe completely separates automatically from the following wipe the following wipe falls back towards the stack of wipes and is positioned within the dispenser and below the dispensing opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Nathan John Vogel, Kenneth Bradley Close, Brian Chun-Keet Kwok, Yung Hsiang Huang