Patents by Inventor Martin Seippel

Martin Seippel 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: 10260034
    Abstract: A culture flask comprising a culture chamber in a flask body comprising an even bottom wall with a growth surface on the top side, an even cover wall at a section from the bottom wall, and side walls that bridge the distance between the margins of the bottom wall and cover wall, an opening that is in adjacent regions of a side wall and the even cover wall at a distance from the bottom wall, and a hollow cylindrical flask neck that is connected to the margin of the opening and is aligned at a sharp angle to the growth surface so that the serological pipette, a scraper, a cannula or another elongated device for adding or removing material can be placed on the rear corners of the growth surface from the outside through the flask neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventor: Martin Seippel
  • Patent number: 9776771
    Abstract: A screw cap lidded container for laboratory use includes a container body defining a chamber, a tubular section of the container body that is connected at the rear to the chamber and has a container opening in the front and an external thread on the outer periphery of the tubular section. There is a circumferential first sealing surface on the tubular section and at least one first projection, which projects from the container body at a peripheral position of the tubular section, and a screw cap having an internal thread on the inner periphery that can be screwed onto the external thread with thread play, a second sealing surface on the screw cap can be brought into sealing contact with the first sealing surface, and at least one second projection, which projects at a peripheral position of the screw cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventor: Martin Seippel
  • Patent number: 9708576
    Abstract: A culture flask comprising a culture chamber in a flask body comprising an even bottom wall with a growth surface on the top side, an even cover wall at a section from the bottom wall, and side walls that bridge the distance between the margins of the bottom wall and cover wall, an opening that is in adjacent regions of a side wall and the even cover wall at a distance from the bottom wall, and a hollow cylindrical flask neck that is connected to the margin of the opening and is aligned at a sharp angle to the growth surface so that the serological pipette, a scraper, a cannula or another elongated device for adding or removing material can be placed on the rear corners of the growth surface from the outside through the flask neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: EPPENDORF AG
    Inventor: Martin Seippel
  • Publication number: 20170191012
    Abstract: A culture flask comprising a culture chamber in a flask body comprising an even bottom wall with a growth surface on the top side, an even cover wall at a section from the bottom wall, and side walls that bridge the distance between the margins of the bottom wall and cover wall, an opening that is in adjacent regions of a side wall and the even cover wall at a distance from the bottom wall, and a hollow cylindrical flask neck that is connected to the margin of the opening and is aligned at a sharp angle to the growth surface so that the serological pipette, a scraper, a cannula or another elongated device for adding or removing material can be placed on the rear corners of the growth surface from the outside through the flask neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Eppendorf AG
    Inventor: Martin SEIPPEL
  • Publication number: 20160001931
    Abstract: A screw cap lidded container for laboratory use includes a container body defining a chamber, a tubular section of the container body that is connected at the rear to the chamber and has a container opening in the front and an external thread on the outer periphery of the tubular section. There is a circumferential first sealing surface on the tubular section and at least one first projection, which projects from the container body at a peripheral position of the tubular section, and a screw cap having an internal thread on the inner periphery that can be screwed onto the external thread with thread play, a second sealing surface on the screw cap can be brought into sealing contact with the first sealing surface, and at least one second projection, which projects at a peripheral position of the screw cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventor: Martin Seippel
  • Patent number: 8916114
    Abstract: A microtitration plate, having a frame made of a plastic which has a plate with a multiplicity of holes, and a multiplicity of receptacles made of the same plastic which are fixedly connected to the plate at the holes by directly molding them thereto, have a receiving portion protruding from the underside of the plate, and are accessible from the upper surface of the plate through apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventor: Martin Seippel
  • Publication number: 20140206078
    Abstract: A culture flask comprising a culture chamber in a flask body comprising an even bottom wall with a growth surface on the top side, an even cover wall at a section from the bottom wall, and side walls that bridge the distance between the margins of the bottom wall and cover wall, an opening that is in adjacent regions of a side wall and the even cover wall at a distance from the bottom wall, and a hollow cylindrical flask neck that is connected to the margin of the opening and is aligned at a sharp angle to the growth surface so that the serological pipette, a scraper, a cannula or another elongated device for adding or removing material can be placed on the rear corners of the growth surface from the outside through the flask neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: EPPENDORF AG
    Inventor: Martin Seippel
  • Patent number: 8728415
    Abstract: A microtitration plate for use for automated polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is provided. The microtitration plate includes a frame which has a plate with a multiplicity of holes molded of a polypropylene or a polycarbonate. The microtitration plate further includes a multiplicity of receptacles made of the same polypropylene or polycarbonate. The receptacles are fixedly connected to the plate at the holes by fusing the same polypropylene or polycarbonate thereby directly molding the receptacles to the plate Each receptacle has a receiving portion protruding from the underside of the plate, and is accessible from the upper surface of the plate through apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventor: Martin Seippel
  • Publication number: 20120164038
    Abstract: A lidded container comprising a tubular container which at the bottom has a container base, at the top a container opening and below the container opening a sealing region on the internal wall, a lid which has a lid base and a plug protruding from the inside of the lid base, insertable through the container opening into a sealed position in the sealing region, a strap hinge connecting the container parts, lid and container, integrally together in a pivotable manner and a holding device having at least two engagement means, one being an axial engagement means fixedly connected to the container or lid, the other engagement means being configured on the longitudinal side of the strap hinge and the engagement means being able to be brought into engagement by pivoting the lid into the holding position, which is accompanied by a resilient compensation movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: EPPENDORF AG
    Inventors: Juergen LOEHN, Martin SEIPPEL
  • Publication number: 20120129250
    Abstract: A microtitration plate, having a frame made of a plastic which has a plate with a multiplicity of holes, and a multiplicity of receptacles made of the same plastic which are fixedly connected to the plate at the holes by directly molding them thereto, have a receiving portion protruding from the underside of the plate, and are accessible from the upper surface of the plate through apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventor: Martin SEIPPEL
  • Publication number: 20110286897
    Abstract: Microtiter plate made of plastic, having a plurality of wells in a plate which has at least one break line that divides the plate into various segments. The break line includes a joint line which is formed by molding together various segments of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: EPPENDORF AG
    Inventors: Thomas Uschkureit, Christian Ziegmann, Hanna Rethwisch, Carsten Koch, Matthias Haak, Martin Seippel, Rainer Juergen Schulz
  • Patent number: 7767440
    Abstract: Cover of a hybridization chamber with a peripheral frame with filling and ventilation holes extending from the upper face to the lower face of the frame, a peripheral shoulder outside the filling and ventilation holes on the lower face of the frame, a cover wall arranged within the frame, flush with its lower face and downwardly offset relative to its upper face and which substantially consists of at least one resilient plastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventors: Martin Seippel, Sandrine Hamels, Christopher VanHuffel
  • Publication number: 20090191618
    Abstract: A reaction chamber (1) for real-time PCR configured for containing a PCR solution (3), said chamber having a capture molecule (4) immobilized on the chamber inner surface, said surface being configured to be in intermittent contact with the PCR solution (3), and a window (7) permitting detection of a signal from said inner surface by a reader (6) located outside the chamber, and wherein the immobilized capture molecule (4) is not labeled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: José Remacle, Isabelle Alexandre, Heinz Koehn, Martin Seippel
  • Publication number: 20090186401
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a simple and effective lid being part of a device having multiwells for performing simultaneous amplifications by PCR and detections of multiple target molecules on unlabeled capture molecules immobilized on the lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: José Remacle, Isabelle Alexandre, Martin Seippel, Sven Buelow
  • Publication number: 20050118708
    Abstract: Cover of a hybridization chamber with a peripheral frame with filling and ventilation holes extending from the upper face to the lower face of the frame, a peripheral shoulder outside the filling and ventilation holes on the lower face of the frame, a cover wall arranged within the frame, flush with its lower face and downwardly offset relative to its upper face and which substantially consists of at least one resilient plastics material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Martin Seippel, Sandrine Hamels, Christopher VanHuffel
  • Publication number: 20030180192
    Abstract: A microtitration plate, having a frame made of a plastic which has a plate with a multiplicity of holes, and a multiplicity of receptacles made of the same plastic which are fixedly connected to the plate at the holes by directly molding them thereto, have a receiving portion protruding from the underside of the plate, and are accessible from the upper surface of the plate through apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventor: Martin Seippel