Patents by Inventor Sabine SCHWEPPE

Sabine SCHWEPPE 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: 20230054392
    Abstract: A method for operating a cleaning device includes selecting a cleaning activity to be performed by the cleaning device via a communications interface of the cleaning device or of an external terminal, implementing at least one device setting or application of the cleaning device for performing the cleaning activity, and performing the cleaning activity with the implemented device setting and/or device application. An instruction for steps to be chronologically implemented by the user, which contain a device setting and/or device application, is transmitted to the user as a function of the selected cleaning activity. A control and evaluation unit monitors the actual implementation of the device setting and/or device application corresponding to the step to be currently implemented, and transmits a note to the user when the device setting and/or device application actually implemented deviates from a predefined reference for the device setting and/or device application to be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus BELL, David ERKEK, Hermann Josef HORNUNG, Roman ORTMANN, Dennis SCHULZ, Sabine SCHWEPPE
  • Patent number: 11375870
    Abstract: A wet cleaning device, in particular a wet wiping device, has a cleaning roller which is rotatable about a roller axis and has a cleaning lining. In order to create a wet cleaning device in which the regeneration effect is optimized, in particular while using a minimum of liquid, the wet cleaning device has a decelerating element to assist the removal of liquid and/or of dirt from the cleaning roller, which element has an impact edge directed radially outwards with respect to the roller axis and is arranged between fibers of the cleaning lining during a regeneration operation in such a way that the free ends of the mechanically unloaded fibers project outwards in the radial direction beyond the impact edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Pia Hahn, Michael Blum, Jochen Jentsch, Sabine Schweppe
  • Patent number: 10820771
    Abstract: A cleaning roller for a cleaning appliance, in particular a wiping roller for a wet cleaning appliance, or a cleaning appliance having such a cleaning roller processes an area to be cleaned. The cleaning roller has a roller core that can rotate about a longitudinal axis and has a bearing for a drive shaft and a roller cover surrounding the roller core in the circumferential direction. The roller core, based on a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, has several spring elements formed beside one another in the circumferential direction of the cleaning roller, each of which extends from the bearing to the roller cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Blum, Sabine Schweppe
  • Publication number: 20200305675
    Abstract: A wet cleaning device, in particular a wet wiping device, has a cleaning roller which is rotatable about a roller axis and has a cleaning lining. In order to create a wet cleaning device in which the regeneration effect is optimized, in particular while using a minimum of liquid, the wet cleaning device has a decelerating element to assist the removal of liquid and/or of dirt from the cleaning roller, which element has an impact edge directed radially outwards with respect to the roller axis and is arranged between fibers of the cleaning lining during a regeneration operation in such a way that the free ends of the mechanically unloaded fibers project outwards in the radial direction beyond the impact edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Pia HAHN, Michael BLUM, Jochen JENTSCH, Sabine SCHWEPPE
  • Publication number: 20180249877
    Abstract: A cleaning roller for a cleaning appliance, in particular a wiping roller for a wet cleaning appliance, or a cleaning appliance having such a cleaning roller processes an area to be cleaned. The cleaning roller has a roller core that can rotate about a longitudinal axis and has a bearing for a drive shaft and a roller cover surrounding the roller core in the circumferential direction. The roller core, based on a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, has several spring elements formed beside one another in the circumferential direction of the cleaning roller, each of which extends from the bearing to the roller cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Michael BLUM, Sabine SCHWEPPE