Patents by Inventor Carolin Schlueter

Carolin Schlueter 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).

  • Method and apparatus for assessing the gentleness of brushes
    Patent number: 8161792
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for assessing the abrasiveness of a brush is provided. The method includes providing a destructible article, providing a brush, such as for example a toothbrush, brushing the destructible article with the toothbrush, examining the destructible article after brushing with the toothbrush and determining the abrasive quality of the toothbrush as a function of the appearance of the destructible article. The apparatus for determining the abrasiveness of a toothbrush includes a holder for retaining a toothbrush having a head and a neck, a support for holding a destructible article, a mechanism for moving the head of the toothbrush against the destructible article in a brushing fashion, and a biasing member for applying a selected brushing force between the head of the toothbrush and the destructible article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Carolin Schlueter, Joachim Wilhelm
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING THE GENTLENESS OF BRUSHES
    Publication number: 20110232361
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for assessing the abrasiveness of a brush is provided. The method includes providing a destructible article, providing a brush, such as for example a toothbrush, brushing the destructible article with the toothbrush, examining the destructible article after brushing with the toothbrush and determining the abrasive quality of the toothbrush as a function of the appearance of the destructible article. The apparatus for determining the abrasiveness of a toothbrush includes a holder for retaining a toothbrush having a head and a neck, a support for holding a destructible article, a mechanism for moving the head of the toothbrush against the destructible article in a brushing fashion, and a biasing member for applying a selected brushing force between the head of the toothbrush and the destructible article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Carolin Schlueter, Joachim Wilhelm
  • Cleaning element for a toothbrush or the like
    Patent number: D688875
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Tschol, Carolin Schlüter, Uwe Tretrop, Siegfried Kurt Martin Hustedt