Patents by Inventor Gerhard Brugger

Gerhard Brugger 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: 11813625
    Abstract: A dispenser for substances includes an outer shell with a deformable outer wall which encloses the deformable container arrangement and at least one balancing valve for balancing air, wherein an air filled intermediary gap is located between the outer wall and the container arrangement and the dispenser is configured to dispense substances after pressure loading the outer shell, wherein the container arrangement includes at least two containers and a common dispensing head are connected with each other pressure tight in at least one portion, and wherein at least one of the containers includes self-closing filling valves which are configured to be openable by pressure during filling the at least two containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Dual Dispensers GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 11786923
    Abstract: Disclosed is a metering pump comprising a housing that extends from an inlet region to an outlet and surrounds a piston which is urged into a starting position by a compression spring. In the metering pump the stop limiting the lifting stroke of the piston is formed by the lower end of the piston coming in contact with the inlet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Crystal International, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 11267011
    Abstract: In a dispenser for dispensing at least two liquid or pasty substances from receptacles to a dispenser head, constant delivery pumps are connected therebetween to compensate for viscosity variations and keep a given mixing ratio constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DUAL DISPENSERS GMBH
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 11246393
    Abstract: A dispensing container for viscous products features a cream pot having an inner cylinder defining a storage volume to store a viscous product; a cap closes the cream pot and has a dispensing outlet; a screw rod rotatably connects to the cream pot; a piston having an inner thread couples to the screw rod so rotation of the screw rod moves of the piston in the inner cylinder along a longitudinal axis of the screw rod to reduce the storage volume of the inner cylinder and dispense the product through the dispensing outlet; an indexing mechanism locks the screw rod in rotational positions with respect to the cream pot and has indexing spring elements located at the screw rod and indexing sections located at a bottom of the cream pot, the indexing spring elements interact with the indexing sections to lock the screw rod with respect to the cream pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: Emphasys Importadora Exportadora e Distribuidora Ltda.
    Inventors: Gerhard Brugger, Victor Esteve
  • Patent number: 11052416
    Abstract: A dosing dispenser for dosing of at least one material component respectively received in a receiving compartment. In a dosing dispenser for the discharge of material components that has a double-walled structure of the pump unit, a ventilation path is provided leading from the outer environment to the receiving compartment through the pump unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Publication number: 20210031224
    Abstract: In a dispenser for dispensing at least two liquid or pasty substances from receptacles to a dispenser head, constant delivery pumps are connected therebetween to compensate for viscosity variations and keep a given mixing ratio constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventor: Gerhard BRUGGER
  • Patent number: 10888889
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system having a dosing dispenser for dispensing pasty or viscous material with a housing, a cartridge displaceably accommodated therein and a walking piston accommodated in the cartridge that forms a unit ready for assembly with a shutter button to be arranged at a cartridge end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Publication number: 20200246818
    Abstract: A dispenser for substances includes an outer shell with a deformable outer wall which encloses the deformable container arrangement and at least one balancing valve for balancing air, wherein an air filled intermediary gap is located between the outer wall and the container arrangement and the dispenser is configured to dispense substances after pressure loading the outer shell, wherein the container arrangement includes at least two containers and a common dispensing head are connected with each other pressure tight in at least one portion, and wherein at least one of the containers includes self-closing filling valves which are configured to be openable by pressure during filling the at least two containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 10661290
    Abstract: A dispenser for substances includes an outer shell with a deformable outer wall which encloses the deformable container arrangement and also comprising at least one balancing valve for balancing air, wherein an air filled interspace is provided between the outer wall and the container arrangement and substances are dispensed once the outer shell has been subjected to pressure, and wherein the container arrangement has at least two containers for the separate storage of liquid for pasty substances. For long term storage of the substances in particular an outlet portion of the container arrangement has a diffusion seal made from metal which is pierced and opened by the dispensing head using points just before the dispenser is being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Publication number: 20200148462
    Abstract: A dispensing container for viscous products comprising: a cream pot having an inner cylinder that defines a storage volume configured to store a viscous product; a cap configured to close the cream pot and having a dispensing outlet; a screw rod rotatably connected to the cream pot; a piston having an inner thread and being coupled to the screw rod such that rotation of the screw rod leads to movement of the piston in the inner cylinder along a longitudinal axis of the screw rod to reduce the storage volume of the inner cylinder and to dispense the product through the dispensing outlet; wherein an indexing mechanism is provided that is configured to lock the screw rod in a plurality of rotational positions with respect to the cream pot, wherein the indexing mechanism comprises indexing spring elements located at the screw rod and indexing sections located at a bottom of the cream pot, wherein the indexing spring elements of the screw rod are configured to interact with the indexing sections of the cream pot i
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Gerhard BRUGGER, Victor ESTEVE
  • Patent number: 10583450
    Abstract: In a dispenser for dosing of at least one component received in a receiving compartment, a valve device, forming an inlet valve and an outlet valve associated with an outlet opening, is formed of at least two valve elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Publication number: 20190358658
    Abstract: A dosing dispenser for dosing of at least one material component respectively received in a receiving compartment. In a dosing dispenser for the discharge of material components that has a double-walled structure of the pump unit, a ventilation path is provided leading from the outer environment to the receiving compartment through the pump unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Publication number: 20190321842
    Abstract: In a dispenser for dosing of at least one component received in a receiving compartment, a valve device, forming an inlet valve and an outlet valve associated with an outlet opening, is formed of at least two valve elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Publication number: 20190314840
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system having a dosing dispenser for dispensing pasty or viscous material with a housing, a cartridge displaceably accommodated therein and a walking piston accommodated in the cartridge that forms a unit ready for assembly with a shutter button to be arranged at a cartridge end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 10380124
    Abstract: A method of searching a plurality of data sets with a search query may include receiving the search query, where the search query may include one or more tokens. The method may also include accessing the plurality of data sets, and calculating maximum possible search scores for each of the plurality of data sets. The method may additionally include identifying a subset of the plurality of data sets for which the corresponding maximum possible search scores exceed a threshold score. The method may further include calculating search scores for the subset of the plurality of data sets, and providing the a result list based on the search scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Gage, Timothy Eager, Qian Jiang, Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 10262061
    Abstract: A method of classifying individual documents in a document collection according to a hierarchy may include selecting an object from the hierarchy, generating one or more variants for the object, and for each of the one or more variants, determining a frequency threshold based at least in part on how frequently the one or more variants occurs in the document collection. The method may also include selecting a first document in the document collection, where the first document includes one or more objects that match at least one of the one or more variants. The method may additionally include determining that the number of the one or more objects exceeds the frequency threshold and classifying the first document with the object in the hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gerhard Brugger, John Eric Baum, Filippo Ferdinando Paolo Beghelli, Charles Wilson
  • Patent number: 10051940
    Abstract: An application dispenser for at least one component, in particular for an adjustable dosing and/or mixing dispenser, includes a rotation element, in particular a ball for applying the at least one component, and a pump configured to load the at least one component with pressure and feed the at least one component under pressure onto the rotation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 10046348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a metering dispenser for putting out pasty or viscous material, comprising a dispenser housing, a cartridge arranged therein, an applicator and a pump unit. The metering dispenser according to the invention is provided with an actuating device which is formed by a push button, wherein the pump unit is activated by pushing the push button into the housing in order to put out the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Publication number: 20180101532
    Abstract: A method of searching a plurality of data sets with a search query may include receiving the search query, where the search query may include one or more tokens. The method may also include accessing the plurality of data sets, and calculating maximum possible search scores for each of the plurality of data sets. The method may additionally include identifying a subset of the plurality of data sets for which the corresponding maximum possible search scores exceed a threshold score. The method may further include calculating search scores for the subset of the plurality of data sets, and providing the a result list based on the search scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Gage, Timothy Eager, Qian Jiang, Gerhard Brugger
  • Publication number: 20170341097
    Abstract: Disclosed is a metering pump comprising a housing that extends from an inlet region to an outlet and surrounds a piston which is urged into a starting position by a compression spring. In the metering pump the stop limiting the lifting stroke of the piston is formed by the lower end of the piston coming in contact with the inlet portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Crystal International Inc.
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger