Patents by Inventor Ralf Heiduczek

Ralf Heiduczek 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: 8075847
    Abstract: The invention relates to a detergent dispenser for dosing a quantity of solid detergent by dissolving some of the solid detergent in a liquid solvent, in particular in water, to form a detergent solution, and feeding the detergent solution to a detergent outlet. The dispenser comprises a housing (1) with a chassis (2) for wallmounting or the like and a solid detergent reservoir (3). The solid detergent reservoir (3) comprises a detergent compartment (4) holding the solid detergent, a solvent application compartment (7), a liquid solvent dispensing means (9), a solvent supply conduit (10) leading to the solvent dispensing means (9), a detergent solution collector means (11), and a solution conduit (12) connected to the detergent solution collector means (11) to carry away the detergent solution towards a detergent outlet. The invention is particularly convenient, because the solid detergent reservoir (3) is constructed as a modular unit easily separable from the housing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Günther Zettlitzer, Ralf Heiduczek
  • Publication number: 20080107576
    Abstract: The invention relates to a detergent dispenser for dosing a quantity of solid detergent by dissolving some of the solid detergent in a liquid solvent, in particular in water, to form a detergent solution, and feeding the detergent solution to a detergent outlet. The dispenser comprises a housing (1) with a chassis (2) for wallmounting or the like and a solid detergent reservoir (3). The solid detergent reservoir (3) comprises a detergent compartment (4) holding the solid detergent, a solvent application compartment (7), a liquid solvent dispensing means (9), a solvent supply conduit (10) leading to the solvent dispensing means (9), a detergent solution collector means (11), and a solution conduit (12) connected to the detergent solution collector means (11) to carry away the detergent solution towards a detergent outlet. The invention is particularly convenient, because the solid detergent reservoir (3) is constructed as a modular unit easily separable from the housing (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: ECOLAB INC.
    Inventors: Gunther Zettlitzer, Ralf Heiduczek
  • Publication number: 20050254978
    Abstract: A peristaltic pump (1) with a rotating squeeze roller carrier (12), a squeeze hose (14) partly looping around the squeeze rollers (13) and a curved contact wall (19) for the squeeze hose (14), the contact wall (19) being opposite to the effective surface of the squeeze rollers, whereby the contact wall (19) is movable by way of a setting lever (5) from a setting (FIG. 5), which enables fitting with the squeeze hose (14), to a work setting (FIG. 6), pressing the squeeze hose (14) against the squeeze rollers (13) and whereby the contact wall (19) forms a part of a pump housing cover (6) at which the setting lever (5) is positioned to be outwardly pivotable for displacement of the cover (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Wolfgang Huber, Klaus Rutz, Ralf Heiduczek
  • Patent number: 6659012
    Abstract: An ejection device for ejecting a plurality of submunitions (24a-d) having an adapter (10) including a control unit (12, 13, 14a-c, 15a-b, 16) and adapted for releasable fastening in an ejection barrel (2) of a discharger (1), and a submunitions cluster (20) including the submunitions and adapted for releasable connection, both mechanical and electrical, with the adapter. In the assembled condition of the device, the submunitions cluster is connected with the adapter, permitting submunitions to be ejected from the submunitions cluster. The control unit of the adapter controls the device to eject submunitions in one or more of a variety of ejection modes, such as sequentially one by one or at least in part simultaneously. The period between ejection of two consecutive submunitions may be adjustable. The ejection device may be integrated into a discharging unit including at least one discharger (1), such as a conventional discharging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Buck Neue Technologien GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Grassl, Ralf Heiduczek, Fritz Greindl, Martin Fegg
  • Patent number: 5653360
    Abstract: For emptying a film tube 15 containing a flowable substance, the front end f the tube is provided with a ring 17 the peripheral portion 19 of which exceeds the inner diameter of a cartridge 1 which receives the tube 15. The ring 17 has a conical sealing surface 20 which cooperates with a sealing edge 12 formed inside the cap 2. In operation, the cylindrical rear portion 7 of the cap 2 is slid onto a front portion 4 of the cartridge 1, whereby the ring 17 provided on the tube 15 has its sealing surface 20 centered and aligned in the radial and axial directions to ensure proper engagement between the sealing edge 12 and the sealing surface 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Thera Patent GmbH & Co. KG Gesellschaft fur Industrielle Schutzrechte
    Inventors: Gerd Brandhorst, Wolf-Dietrich Herold, Ralf Heiduczek
  • Patent number: 5501368
    Abstract: For emptying a film tube 15 containing a flowable substance, the front end f the tube is provided with a ring 17 the peripheral portion 19 of which exceeds the inner diameter of a cartridge 1 which receives the tube 15. The ring 17 has a conical sealing surface 20 which cooperates with a sealing edge 12 formed inside the cap 2. In operation, the cylindrical rear portion 7 of the cap 2 is slid onto a front portion 4 of the cartridge 1, whereby the ring 17 provided on the tube 15 has its sealing surface 20 centered and aligned in the radial and axial directions to ensure proper engagement between the sealing edge 12 and the sealing surface 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Thera Patent GmbH & Co. KG Gesellschaft Fur Industrielle Schutzrechte
    Inventors: Gerd Brandhorst, Wolf-Dietrich Herold, Ralf Heiduczek