VISUAL INDICATOR AND FLUID DISPENSER

• US 20120191051A1
• Filed: 08/20/2010
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Preciflex Sa (HYT SA)
• Original Assignee: Preciflex Sa (HYT SA)
• Inventors: Vouillamoz, Lucien
• Application Number:
  US13/391,387
• Publication Number:
  US 20120191051A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/264
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14248 of the skin patch type
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1452 pressurised by means of pistons
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 23/02 by gauge glasses or other apparatus involving a window or transparent tube for directly observing the level to be measured or the level of a liquid column in free communication with the main body of the liquid
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 1/265 Clockwork systems working therewith winding up electrical or mechanical clocks G04C1/006; electrical clockwork installations G04C13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G04C 17/00 Indicating the time optically by electric means G04C19/00 takes precedence; by mechanical means G04B19/00, G04B19/20
• CPC Class Codes: G12B 11/00 Indicating elements; Illumination thereof

Abstract

A visual indicator display device includes a bracelet, a transparent capillary chamber, and a displacement member. The transparent capillary chamber is matched to an indicia and has a primary length and a width less than the primary length. The displacement member is functionally disposed at one end of the capillary chamber and is responsive to a measureable input for moving a fluid contained therein a defined amount.

Claims

1. A visual indicator display device comprising:

a bracelet adapted to be worn around an appendage of a living organism;

a transparent capillary chamber for containing at least one fluid, the capillary chamber matched to an indicia for measuring such fluid, the chamber having a primary length and a width less than the primary length;

a displacement member functionally disposed at one end of the capillary chamber which is responsive to a measureable input for moving the fluid contained therein a defined amount.

2. The visual indicator of claim 1 wherein the primary length is a circumferential length.

3. The visual indicator of claim 1 wherein the width is a radial width.

4. The visual indicator of claim 1, wherein the primary length is a spline length.

5. The visual indicator of claim 1, wherein the bracelet is the capillary chamber and the capillary chamber is flexible.

6. The visual display of claim 1, wherein the at least one fluid is a fluid selected from a group of fluids consisting of a drug, an oil, and a perfume.

7. The visual display of claim 6, wherein the indicator indicates an amount of such fluid administered to a living organism.

8. The visual display of claim 7, wherein the dispensed fluid is dispensed onto an absorptive pad held adjacent the skin of the living organism.

9. The visual display of claim 7, wherein the dispensed fluid is dispensed onto an absorptive pad held against a housing to which the display is attached, near the skin of the living organism.

10. The visual indicator of claim 7, wherein the dispensed fluid is a dispensed via a catheter into the body of the living organism.

11. The visual display of claim 1 wherein the displacement member is a piston located at the first end of the capillary chamber, the piston having a rear face and a front driving face to advance the fluids in the capillary chamber in a first direction.

12. The visual display of claim 11 further comprising a first flexible reservoir containing first fluid located between the front face of the piston and the first end of the capillary chamber, where the reservoir is responsive to the piston to move the fluid in the capillary chamber.