Patents by Inventor Dieter Böhm

Dieter Böhm 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: 20230390758
    Abstract: A pipetting device (1) for receiving and dispensing fluid volumes, comprising a housing (2) with a holding portion (3), which is constructed for holding the pipetting device (1) by means of an operator's hand, a support device (4), which is designed for supporting the pipetting device (1) on an operator's finger, the support device (4) being rotatable relative to the holding portion (3), preferably about a longitudinal axis (L) of the pipetting device (1). The invention further relates to a pipetting device (1) for receiving and dispensing fluid volumes, comprising a releasable positive connection between a first and a second component of the pipetting device (1). Because the support device is adjustable relative to the holding device into a plurality of different defined rotational positions the pipetting device can be used by either left-handed and right-handed operators or by operators with hands of different sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Tom GREIN, Markus KURZ, Dieter BÖHM, Kathrin FRIEDRICH, Antonio ROMAGUERA
  • Publication number: 20230001403
    Abstract: A pipetting device for taking up and dispensing fluid volumes has a displacement device with a displacement mechanism and a displacement housing. The pipetting device has an adjusting device for changing the stroke of the displacement mechanism. The stroke of the displacement mechanism can be adjusted, and the corresponding adjustment value can be displayed by an adjustment indicator. A coupling device, in a use state, couples the adjusting device to a volume indicator and decoupled the adjustment device from the adjustment indicator. In an adjustment state, the adjusting device is coupled to the adjustment indicator and is decoupled from the volume indicator. The adjustment indicator displays an adjustment value for the stroke of the displacement means. The adjustment indicator can be adjusted in an adjustment state, whereas it is fixed in a use state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz, Florian Metz, Dieter Böhm
  • Patent number: 10526184
    Abstract: An exhaust valve assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve housing which forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an exhaust valve body disposed on the inlet in the valve chamber, and a safety valve body disposed on the outlet in the valve chamber. The exhaust valve body is biased toward an exhaust valve seat, counter to the flow direction of the liquid and the safety valve body is biased toward a safety valve seat in the flow direction of the liquid. The safety valve seat is integrally molded on the valve housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl, Günter Hochholzer, Bernhard Kämmerer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
  • Publication number: 20180339893
    Abstract: An exhaust valve assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve housing which forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an exhaust valve body disposed on the inlet in the valve chamber, and a safety valve body disposed on the outlet in the valve chamber. The exhaust valve body is biased toward an exhaust valve seat, counter to the flow direction of the liquid and the safety valve body is biased toward a safety valve seat in the flow direction of the liquid. The safety valve seat is integrally molded on the valve housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl, Günter Hochholzer, Bernhard Kämmerer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
  • Patent number: 10071896
    Abstract: An exhaust valve assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve housing which forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an exhaust valve body disposed on the inlet in the valve chamber, and a safety valve body disposed on the outlet in the valve chamber. The exhaust valve body is biased toward an exhaust valve seat, counter to the flow direction of the liquid and the safety valve body is biased toward a safety valve seat in the flow direction of the liquid. The safety valve seat is integrally molded on the valve housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl, Günter Hochholzer, Bernhard Kämmerer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
  • Patent number: 9834425
    Abstract: An exhaust line assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has an outrigger-type mount, an exhaust line which is disposed and guided in the mount and which terminates in a tip, and a mounting lug which has a closure cap attached to the end thereof and which is fastened to the exhaust line assembly, the tip of the exhaust line being closable by way of the closure cap. The mounting lug at that end thereof which is fastened to the exhaust line assembly is articulated so as to be pivotable by a rotary joint which has a physically present axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl
  • Patent number: 9731953
    Abstract: A cylinder-and-piston assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids in which the stroke length of the piston of the cylinder-and-piston assembly is delimited by a stroke length stop when suctioning from the cylinder and is delimited by a readjustment stop when exhausting into the cylinder. The readjustment stop is disposed on the piston or on the cylinder housing and interacts with a fixed stop. The readjustment stop is accessible and adjustable by way of a removable seal. The seal is connected by way of ribs to a piston bearing. The readjustment stop is disposed below this removable seal. The seal has a molding and the piston bearing has a counter molding. Displacement of the seal in relation to the piston bearing moves the seal in the longitudinal direction, and by this movement, the seal is removed in a manner that preferably is not capable of re-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Günter Hochholzer, Dieter Böhm, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
  • Patent number: 9694376
    Abstract: A cylinder-and-piston assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids provides a cylinder attachable to a valve block assembly, a piston, displaceable in a sealed manner in the longitudinal direction within the cylinder, and a cylinder housing connected to the piston and externally encompassing the cylinder. The piston is displaceable in the cylinder and the stroke length of the piston in the cylinder is delimited by a fixed stop, which interacts with a stroke length stop on the cylinder housing. The cylinder housing has a longitudinal slot running in the longitudinal direction and on the external side thereof has a scale assigned to this longitudinal slot. The stroke length stop on the cylinder housing is adjustable in the longitudinal direction and is interlockable in the respective position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Günter Hochholzer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
  • Publication number: 20160264391
    Abstract: A cylinder-and-piston assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids in which the stroke length of the piston of the cylinder-and-piston assembly is delimited by a stroke length stop when suctioning from the cylinder and is delimited by a readjustment stop when exhausting into the cylinder. The readjustment stop is disposed on the piston or on the cylinder housing and interacts with a fixed stop. The readjustment stop is accessible and adjustable by way of a removable seal. The seal is connected by way of ribs to a piston bearing. The readjustment stop is disposed below this removable seal. The seal has a molding and the piston bearing has a counter molding. Displacement of the seal in relation to the piston bearing moves the seal in the longitudinal direction, and by this movement, the seal is removed in a manner that preferably is not capable of re-assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Günter Hochholzer, Dieter Böhm, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
  • Publication number: 20160214848
    Abstract: An exhaust valve assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve housing which forms a valve chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an exhaust valve body disposed on the inlet in the valve chamber, and a safety valve body disposed on the outlet in the valve chamber. The exhaust valve body is biased toward an exhaust valve seat, counter to the flow direction of the liquid and the safety valve body is biased toward a safety valve seat in the flow direction of the liquid. The safety valve seat is integrally molded on the valve housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl, Günter Hochholzer, Bernhard Kämmerer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
  • Publication number: 20160214847
    Abstract: An exhaust line assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has an outrigger-type mount, an exhaust line which is disposed and guided in the mount and which terminates in a tip, and a mounting lug which has a closure cap attached to the end thereof and which is fastened to the exhaust line assembly, the tip of the exhaust line being closable by way of the closure cap. The mounting lug at that end thereof which is fastened to the exhaust line assembly is articulated so as to be pivotable by a rotary joint which has a physically present axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Michael Ertl
  • Publication number: 20160214127
    Abstract: A cylinder-and-piston assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids provides a cylinder attachable to a valve block assembly, a piston, displaceable in a sealed manner in the longitudinal direction within the cylinder, and a cylinder housing connected to the piston and externally encompassing the cylinder. The piston is displaceable in the cylinder and the stroke length of the piston in the cylinder is delimited by a fixed stop, which interacts with a stroke length stop on the cylinder housing. The cylinder housing has a longitudinal slot running in the longitudinal direction and on the external side thereof has a scale assigned to this longitudinal slot. The stroke length stop on the cylinder housing is adjustable in the longitudinal direction and is interlockable in the respective position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Günter Hochholzer, Ottmar Kneucker, Markus Kurz
  • Patent number: 8652418
    Abstract: A pipette for a pipette system comprising a pipette and a syringe. The pipette housing has a longitudinal axis. A syringe to be handled with the pipette is insertable with its fastening portion and plunger head into the pipette housing and is removable or discardable from said pipette housing in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the pipette housing, i.e., axially. The syringe has as cylinder and a plunger with a plunger head which projects out of the end of the cylinder even when the plunger has been completely inserted into the cylinder. A pipette housing comprises an axially accessible plunger gripping device for the plunger head of the syringe. An actuating device for the plunger gripping device is mounted on the plunger displacing device and is axially displaceable with said adjusting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Brand GmbH + Co KG
    Inventors: Renate Rempt, Dieter Böhm, Steffen Gehrig, Ottmar Kneucker
  • Patent number: 8597593
    Abstract: A bottle top dispenser for handling liquids having a piston-cylinder arrangement in an outside housing. At least one actuating button (49) that can be pressed downwards is arranged on the upper side of the outside housing. The outside housing (2) can be provided with ventilation openings (48) that can be hidden beneath the actuating button (49). The bottle arrangement is also characterized by a specific arrangement of a sensor system (65) in relation to a measuring strip (64) on a piston rod (28). The path measuring signal can be evaluated by means of a magnetoresistive sensor system, especially such a system based on the AMR effect. The arrangement of the measuring strip (64) in relation to the longitudinal central axis of the piston rod (28) is of considerable importance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Brand GmbH + Co KG
    Inventors: Dieter Boehm, Wolfgang Ettig, Peter Mahler, Juergen Schraut, Roland Wohner
  • Patent number: 8230975
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for feeding lubricating oil to an internal combustion engine. This device comprises a lubricating oil pump and an oil pressure regulating apparatus. The lubricating oil pump is designed as a reciprocating piston valve pump and the oil pressure regulating apparatus is designed as a multistage oil pressure regulating apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Franz Lukas, Volker Verhees, Dieter Böhm
  • Publication number: 20120183453
    Abstract: A bottle top dispenser for handling liquids having a piston-cylinder arrangement in an outside housing. At least one actuating button (49) that can be pressed downwards is arranged on the upper side of the outside housing. The outside housing (2) can be provided with ventilation openings (48) that can be hidden beneath the actuating button (49). The bottle arrangement is also characterized by a specific arrangement of a sensor system (65) in relation to a measuring strip (64) on a piston rod (28). The path measuring signal can be evaluated by means of a magnetoresistive sensor system, especially such a system based on the AMR effect. The arrangement of the measuring strip (64) in relation to the longitudinal central axis of the piston rod (28) is of considerable importance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter BOEHM, Wolfgang ETTIG, Peter MAHLER, Juergen SCHRAUT, Roland WOHNER
  • Patent number: 8142738
    Abstract: A bottle top dispenser for handling liquids having a piston-cylinder arrangement in an outside housing. At least one actuating button (49) that can be pressed downwards is arranged on the upper side of the outside housing. The outside housing (2) can be provided with ventilation openings (48) that can be hidden beneath the actuating button (49). The bottle arrangement is also characterized by a specific arrangement of a sensor system (65) in relation to a measuring strip (64) on a piston rod (28). The path measuring signal can be evaluated by means of a magnetoresistive sensor system, especially such a system based on the AMR effect. The arrangement of the measuring strip (64) in relation to the longitudinal central axis of the piston rod (28) is of considerable importance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Brand GmbH + Co KG
    Inventors: Dieter Boehm, Wolfgang Ettig, Peter Mahler, Juergen Schraut, Roland Wohner
  • Publication number: 20120003129
    Abstract: A pipette for a pipette system comprising a pipette and a syringe. The pipette housing has a longitudinal axis. A syringe to be handled with the pipette is insertable with its fastening portion and plunger head into the pipette housing and is removable or discardable from said pipette housing in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the pipette housing, i.e., axially. The syringe has as cylinder and a plunger with a plunger head which projects out of the end of the cylinder even when the plunger has been completely inserted into the cylinder. A pipette housing comprises an axially accessible plunger gripping device for the plunger head of the syringe. An actuating device for the plunger gripping device is mounted on the plunger displacing device and is axially displaceable with said adjusting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Renate REMPT, Dieter BÖHM, Steffen GEHRIG, Ottmar KNEUCKER
  • Patent number: D794815
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventor: Dieter Böhm
  • Patent number: D799717
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Böhm, Ursula Hummel