Fluid dispenser

• US 9,694,199 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2014
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aptar France S.A.S (AptarGroup Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Aptar France S.A.S (AptarGroup Incorporated)
• Inventors: Duquet, Frederic, Martins-Reis, Sandra, Roullet, Florence, Moreau, Francis
• Primary Examiner(s): MEDWAY, SCOTT J
• Application Number:
  US14/295,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20140296772A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: 600310, 606 2, 606 20, 607 96, 604 20
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/055 Piston or plunger for supplying the liquid to the applicator
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/056 Reciprocating pumps, i.e. with variable volume chamber wherein pressure and vacuum are alternately generated
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/205 Radiation, e.g. UV, infrared
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 34/04 Appliances specially adapted for applying liquid, e.g. using roller or ball
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/065 for measuring contact or contact pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0626 Monitoring, verifying, controlling systems and methods
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/063 comprising light transmitting means, e.g. optical fibres
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0644 Handheld applicators
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0651 Diodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0652 Arrays of diodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0662 Visible light
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0663 Coloured light
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2005/0668 Apparatus adapted for operation in a moist environment, e.g. bath or shower
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/0616 Skin treatment other than tanning
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/0038 Inner container disposed in an outer shell or outer casing
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/028 Pistons separating the content remaining in the container from the atmospheric air to compensate underpressure inside the container
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 11/1032 actuated without substantial movement of the nozzle in the direction of the pressure stroke B05B11/103 takes precedence

Abstract

A fluid dispenser including a body (6) receiving a dispenser member (3) connected to a reservoir (1) and to a fluid dispenser orifice (73), an actuator member (4) for actuating the dispenser member (3) and a module (5) comprising at least one source of radiation (51), such as a LED, the body (6) having a module housing (65) wherein the module (5) is received. The dispenser also includes a dispenser and diffuser head (7) mounted on the body (6) and forming an application wall (74) into which the fluid dispenser orifice (73) opens out for applying the fluid coming from the dispenser orifice (73) onto the skin. The module (5) is integral with the dispenser and diffuser head (7), thus forming together an integral unit (U) which is received on and within the body (6).

Claims

1. A fluid dispenser comprising:

a body receiving;

a fluid dispenser member connected to a fluid reservoir and to a fluid dispenser orifice;

an actuator member for actuating the dispenser member;

a module comprising at least one source of radiation, the module received within a portion of the body that defines a module housing;

a dispenser and diffuser head mounted on the body and forming an application wall into which the fluid dispenser orifice opens out for applying the fluid coming from the dispenser orifice onto the skin,

wherein the module is integral with the dispenser and diffuser head, thus forming a single unit construction,

wherein the body has a horizontal cross-section of oblong shape where the dispenser member, the actuator member and the module housing with the module are arranged, the dispenser member being advantageously arranged between the actuator member and the module housing, the actuator member being arranged at a part of the body having a greatest radius of curvature.

2. The dispenser according to claim 1, further comprising as casing containing the fluid reservoir and wherein the single unit construction is received in a removable manner on the casing.

4. The dispenser according to claim 1, presenting the general shape of a pen, with the dispenser and diffuser head arranged at the top of the body.

5. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the source of radiation emits red light at about 660 nm.

6. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the source of radiation emits light through the application wall, the application wall being made out of a material that is transparent and/or translucent to the light emitted by the source of radiation, the source emitting light through said material towards the skin.

7. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the dispenser orifice opens out to the application wall with a direction that is substantially parallel to the direction of the light emitted by the source of radiation.

8. The dispenser according to claim 1, further including power supply means for powering the source of radiation, which means are activated only when the application wall is in contact with the skin.

9. The dispenser according to claim 7, wherein the application wall is configured to deflect to operate a switch so as to trigger the activation of the power supply means for powering the source of radiation.

11. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the module further includes electronic circuitry, power supply means, activator means for activating the power supply means, and a timer.

12. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the reservoir is in the form of a removable and replaceable cartridge that is arranged in a casing that is connected, in removable manner, to the body.

13. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the module and the dispenser and diffuser head form the single unit construction configured to permit assembly of the single unit construction with the body by inserting the module of the single unit construction into the module housing while the module remains as the single unit construction with the dispenser and diffuser head, and wherein a projecting portion of the dispenser and diffuser head is within the body.

14. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a projecting portion of the dispenser and diffuser head defines a conduit that fluidly couples with the fluid dispenser member within the body.

15. The dispenser according to claim 1,

wherein the dispenser and diffuser head comprises a flange portion,

wherein a projecting portion is formed within the flange portion, and

wherein both the dispenser and diffuser head and the projecting portion are coupled to body.

16. The dispenser according to claim 15, wherein the flange matches a profile of a distal end of the body.

17. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the dispenser and diffuser head comprises a transmission pin that penetrates into the module, the transmission pin being configured to serve as a conducting or transmitting guide.

18. The dispenser according to claim 1,

wherein, the dispenser and diffuser head comprises a projecting portion, and

wherein the projecting portion of the dispenser and diffuser head is within the body.

19. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the module, the dispenser and diffuser head, and the body form a single unit construction.

3. A fluid dispenser comprising:

a body receiving;

a fluid dispenser member connected to a fluid reservoir and to a fluid dispenser orifice;

an actuator member for actuating the dispenser member;

a module comprising at least one source of radiation, the module received within a portion of the body that defines a module housing;

a dispenser and diffuser head mounted on the body and forming an application wall into which the fluid dispenser orifice opens out for applying the fluid coming from the dispenser orifice onto the skin,

wherein the module is integral with the dispenser and diffuser head, thus forming a single unit construction,

wherein a portion of the dispenser and diffuser head defines a source housing, and the module housing communicates with the source housing so that the source of radiation extends into the source housing of the dispenser and diffuser head.

10. A fluid dispenser comprising:

a body receiving;

a fluid dispenser member connected to a fluid reservoir and to a fluid dispenser orifice;

an actuator member for actuating the dispenser member;

a module comprising at least one source of radiation, the module received within a portion of the body that defines a module housing;

a dispenser and diffuser head mounted on the body and forming an application wall into which the fluid dispenser orifice opens out for applying the fluid coming from the dispenser orifice onto the skin,

wherein the module is integral with the dispenser and diffuser head, thus forming a single unit construction,

wherein the actuator member is movable in an actuation direction that is substantially perpendicular to a direction for dispensing the fluid through the dispenser orifice.