FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSING DEVICE

• US 20100078447A1
• Filed: 12/04/2009
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aptar France S.A.S (AptarGroup Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Valois SAS (AptarGroup Incorporated)
• Inventors: Bruna, Pascal, SAUZADE, Jean-Denis
• Application Number:
  US12/630,878
• Publication Number:
  US 20100078447A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/23
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/008 Electronic counters
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/009 using medicine packages with incorporated spraying means, e.g. aerosol cans pocket atomiser of the injector type A61M11/08
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/08 Inhaling devices inserted into the nose
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/0294 Piezoelectric materials
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 13/008 taps comprising counting- and recording means counting devices, counting of objects in general G06M

Abstract

A fluid dispenser device including a fluid dispenser member (10) such as a pump or a valve, and a dispenser head (20) provided with a dispensing orifice, said fluid dispenser device being characterized in that said device is provided with dispensing detector means (30, 31) for detecting dispensing of a dose of fluid, said detector means (30, 31) being adapted to deliver a signal for informing the user that a dose of fluid has indeed been dispensed by said pump, said detector means comprising a detector (30) for detecting the fluid going from said dispenser member to said dispenser orifice.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A fluid dispenser device including a fluid dispenser member (10) such as a pump or a valve, and a dispenser head (20) provided with a dispensing orifice, said fluid dispenser device being provided with dispensing detector means (30, 31) for detecting dispensing of a dose of fluid, said detector means (30, 31) being adapted to deliver a signal for informing the user that a dose of fluid has indeed been dispensed by said pump, said detector means comprising a detector (30) for detecting the fluid going from said dispenser member to said dispenser orifice, said fluid dispenser device being characterized in that said detector (30) comprises an optical fiber (30).

21. A device according to claim 20, in which the dispenser member (10) is connected to the dispensing orifice (40) via an expulsion channel (50), said detector means (30, 31) being provided in said expulsion channel (50).

22. A device according to claim 20, in which said optical fiber (30) is associated with a deformable membrane (31) which deforms when fluid passes through it, such deformation generating stress in the optical fiber (30).

23. A device according to claim 22, in which said deformable membrane (31) is disposed around a portion of said expulsion channel (50).

24. A device according to claim 22, in which said optical fiber (30) co-operates with said deformable membrane (31) in a casing (45) secured to the dispenser head (20).

25. A device according to claim 20, in which said optical fiber (30) is made of plastic or of glass.