Patents by Inventor Frank Horstmann

Frank Horstmann 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).

  • Patent number: 11554367
    Abstract: A pipette for use with a pipette tip includes a housing, a pin on the bottom end of the housing holding a pipette tip having first means for form-fit connection and a second means for form-fit connection which can be shoved onto the pin, constricting the pin, and/or expanding the tip before form-fit connection with the pin, a drive apparatus, at least one locking sleeve arranged concentric to the pin which is guided toward the pin in the housing, wherein the locking sleeve has a locked position having a pin in the inside constricted by shoving on a pipette tip, and/or is bordered on the outside by a tip shoved onto the pin, preventing a release from the pin, and the locking sleeve is upwardly displaceable out of the locked position so that the pin, and/or the tip is released, and the tip is removable from the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventors: Martin Seippel, Matthias Kunsch, Burkhardt Reichmuth, Tobias David, Frank Horstmann, Jens Wilmer, Marc Wilth
  • Publication number: 20200215528
    Abstract: A pipette for use with a pipette tip includes a housing, a pin on the bottom end of the housing holding a pipette tip having first means for form-fit connection and a second means for form-fit connection which can be shoved onto the pin, constricting the pin, and/or expanding the tip before form-fit connection with the pin, a drive apparatus, at least one locking sleeve arranged concentric to the pin which is guided toward the pin in the housing, wherein the locking sleeve has a locked position having a pin in the inside constricted by shoving on a pipette tip, and/or is bordered on the outside by a tip shoved onto the pin, preventing a release from the pin, and the locking sleeve is upwardly displaceable out of the locked position so that the pin, and/or the tip is released, and the tip is removable from the pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Eppendorf AG
    Inventors: Martin Seippel, Matthias Kunsch, Burkhardt Reichmuth, Tobias David, Frank Horstmann, Jens Wilmer, Marc Wilth
  • Patent number: 10654042
    Abstract: A device for pipette tips having a refill pack, a plate having holes, pipette tips, a shell below the plate, an inner lid above the plate which has a base and side walls and a latch; a holder having a bottom; an outer lid having a base and side walls; a pivotal connection for the lid and holder; a support projecting from a side wall engaging the bottom of a lid side wall; a second latch having a support which latches with the first latch; an unlocking button having an actuator on the outside of the second lid side wall and a pressing element on the inside of the second lid side wall which may be pressed against the outside of the first lid side wall to deform the first lid side wall and undo the latching between the first and second latches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventors: Hanna Rethwisch, Frank Horstmann, Matthias Haak
  • Publication number: 20190275528
    Abstract: A device for pipette tips having a refill pack, a plate having holes, pipette tips, a shell below the plate, an inner lid above the plate which has a base and side walls and a latch; a holder having a bottom; an outer lid having a base and side walls; a pivotal connection for the lid and holder; a support projecting from a side wall engaging the bottom of a lid side wall; a second latch having a support which latches with the first latch; an unlocking button having an actuator on the outside of the second lid side wall and a pressing element on the inside of the second lid side wall which may be pressed against the outside of the first lid side wall to deform the first lid side wall and undo the latching between the first and second latches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Eppendorf AG
    Inventors: Hanna Rethwisch, Frank Horstmann, Matthias Haak
  • Patent number: 9433944
    Abstract: A device for providing pipette tips includes a plate-shaped carrier with a base surface, holes in the carrier perpendicular to the base surface, at least one vertically running cut-out in the outer sides of two opposing narrow sides of the carrier to accommodate two vertical guide ribs at a distance from each other, pipette tips in the holes, a bottom part with sidewalls that extend upwards from a standing surface, said sidewalls surrounding a rectangular seat for the carrier with the inserted pipette tips, wherein two opposing first sidewalls project further upward from the standing surface than to opposing second sidewalls, a supporting mechanism on the inner sides of at least two opposing sidewalls to support the carrier in a horizontal alignment at the bottom edges of narrow sides, and two vertical guide ribs engaging in the at least one cut-out when the carrier is placed on the supporting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: EPPENDORF AG
    Inventors: Michael Blumentritt, Frank Horstmann, Juergen Boeckmann
  • Patent number: 9150333
    Abstract: Device for providing pipette tips including a refill pack which includes a perforated plate with a plurality of holes, pipette tips inserted into the holes, a container covering the pipette tips at the bottom with a stiffness of up to 300 N/mm and a removable cover, covering the pipette tips from the top and a holder with a receiver for inserting the refill pack, a laterally protruding upper bearing edge being present between the refill pack and holder for supporting the refill pack when said refill pack is inserted into the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventors: Jochen Beese, Detlef Schwarzwald, Daniel Voss, Frank Horstmann
  • Publication number: 20120328489
    Abstract: Device for providing pipette tips comprising a refill pack which comprises a perforated plate with a plurality of holes, pipette tips inserted into the holes, a container covering the pipette tips at the bottom with a stiffness of up to 300 N/mm and a removable cover, covering the pipette tips from the top and a holder with a receiver for inserting the refill pack, means being present between the refill pack and holder for supporting the refill pack when said refill pack is inserted into the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: EPPENDORF AG
    Inventors: Jochen Beese, Detlef Schwarzwald, Daniel Voss, Frank Horstmann
  • Patent number: 6341507
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laundry treatment apparatus like washing machines, laundry dryers or a washer-dryers with a rotatably mounted drum (6) with an at least approximately horizontal axle and with a drive motor (10) structured as a synchronous motor (10) energized by permanent magnets arranged on the drum (6) shaft, the stator (16) of the motor (10) being provided with a winding (18) which is energized by a converter. In order to optimize the motor in such machines in respect of energy consumption, noise development and costs it is proposed to design the winding (18) as a single pole winding, whereby the number of stator poles (27) and of the magnet poles (23) is different, and to utilize a frequency converter (104) as the converter the output voltage of which being set such the continuous currents are generated in all winding strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Miele & Cie. GmbH. & Co.
    Inventors: Peter Rode, Frank Horstmann, Helmut Scheibner
  • Patent number: D782619
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventor: Frank Horstmann
  • Patent number: D805651
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventor: Frank Horstmann