Patents by Inventor Uwe Karla

Uwe Karla 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: 9505544
    Abstract: For safe storage and simple and safe administration of tablets T by a user, a cartridge 900 is provided that can be inserted into a medicament dispenser 1 for solid medicament portions T and that is designed with a reservoir for receiving the medicament portions T, and a medicament dispenser 1 for this cartridge 900 is also provided. According to the invention, the cartridge 900 comprises a singulation device 910 that is designed to dispense defined medicament portions T and that comprises a movable mechanism 940 for separating a defined medicament portion T from the reservoir and for dispensing it from the medicament dispenser 1, wherein the singulation device 910 is designed to produce an operative connection to an actuating device 14, 220, 224, 226; 15, 210; 230 in the medicament dispenser 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Sabine Leifeld, Tom Reinhold, Sven Filler, Uwe Karla, Peter Weber, Nina Voege, Nat Jarvis, Benjamin Holch, James Whittaker
  • Patent number: 9248949
    Abstract: For safe storage and simple and safe administration of tablets T by a user, a cartridge 900 is provided that can be inserted into a medicament dispenser 1 for solid medicament portions T and that is designed with a reservoir for receiving the medicament portions T, and a medicament dispenser 1 containing this cartridge 900 is also provided. According to the invention, the cartridge 900 comprises a transport safety mechanism for preventing movement of the medicament portions T during storage and transport of the cartridge 900 . This transport safety mechanism is in particular a tolerance compensation plug 970 that sits with a frictional fit in the reservoir and that is movable in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Sabine Leifeld, Tom Reinhold, Sven Filler, Uwe Karla
  • Publication number: 20130048663
    Abstract: To ensure reliable administration of medicines present in the form of wafers, to allow the medicines to be easily removed from a dispenser 1, to allow the latter to be easily refilled, and to make it possible to verify, in a manner free of manipulation, a predefined sequence of the wafer pockets 20 in the wafer pocket stack, the invention proposes a dispenser 1 and also a wafer pocket booklet 100 that can be inserted into the dispenser 1 and fixed releasably therein. The wafers are packed in wafer pockets 20. The dispenser 1 according to the invention contains a stack of at least two wafer pockets 20, which each contain a wafer, wherein each wafer pocket 20 has a wafer portion 21, which contains the wafer, and at least one residual portion 24, which remains in the dispenser 1 when the wafer portion 21 is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Kathrin Reichardt, Sven Filler, Kirsten Gollin, Uwe Karla
  • Publication number: 20130026175
    Abstract: In order to ensure reliable consumption of medicines present in the form of wafers, to allow the medicines to be easily removed from a dispenser 1 and to allow the latter to be easily refilled with medicines, the dispenser 1 and a wafer pocket booklet 100 which can be introduced into the dispenser 1 are proposed. The wafers are packed in wafer pockets 20, and the dispenser 1 according to the invention contains the wafer pockets 20. For this purpose, the dispenser 1 comprises a supply space 9, at least one holding element 19 and at least one dispensing opening 5 for one wafer pocket 20 in each case, wherein the wafer pocket 20 can be dispensed from the dispenser 1 in a dispensing direction A. In an inventive fashion, the at least one wafer pocket 20 has in each case a wafer region 21 containing the wafer and in each case at least one residual region 24 of the at least one wafer pocket 20, said residual region 24 remaining in the dispenser 1 when the wafer region 21 is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Kathrin Reichardt, Kirsten Gollin, Sven Filler, Uwe Karla
  • Publication number: 20120055948
    Abstract: For safe storage and simple and safe administration of tablets T by a user, a cartridge 900 is provided that can be inserted into a medicament dispenser 1 for solid medicament portions T and that is designed with a reservoir for receiving the medicament portions T, and a medicament dispenser 1 for this cartridge 900 is also provided. According to the invention, the cartridge 900 comprises a singulation device 910 that is designed to dispense defined medicament portions T and that comprises a movable mechanism 940 for separating a defined medicament portion T from the reservoir and for dispensing it from the medicament dispenser 1, wherein the singulation device 910 is designed to produce an operative connection to an actuating device 14, 220, 224, 226; 15, 210; 230 in the medicament dispenser 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2009
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: BAYER SCHERING PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sabine Leifeld, Tom Reinhold, Sven Filler, Uwe Karla, Peter Weber, Nina Voege, Nat Jarvis, Benjamin Holch, James Whittaker
  • Publication number: 20120048771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for storage and provision of medicament wafers 2 serving preferably for contraception or hormone replacement therapy, said device comprising a stack 1 of medicament pockets 4 for the storage and provision of the medicament wafers 2, wherein first medicament pocket areas 10 have openings 8 aligned with one another, and at least one connecting element 9 that is guided through the openings 8 and that connects the medicament pockets 4 to one another and arranges them movably relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: BAYER PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Kathrin Reichardt, Sven Filler, Uwe Karla
  • Publication number: 20110284568
    Abstract: For safe storage and simple and safe administration of tablets T by a user, a cartridge 900 is provided that can be inserted into a medicament dispenser 1 for solid medicament portions T and that is designed with a reservoir for receiving the medicament portions T, and a medicament dispenser 1 containing this cartridge 900 is also provided. According to the invention, the cartridge 900 comprises a transport safety mechanism for preventing movement of the medicament portions T during storage and transport of the cartridge 900. This transport safety mechanism is in particular a tolerance compensation plug 970 that sits with a frictional fit in the reservoir and that is movable in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2009
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: BAYER SCHERING PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sabine Leifeld, Tom Reinhold, Sven Filler, Uwe Karla