Nebulizer device
AssigneeLainomedical, S.L.
InventorsGonzalo Jabat Rico, Francesc Paris Huguet
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a device for nebulizing a liquid composition and to methods for disinfecting an internal channel of the nebulizer device. The device includes a channel connecting a liquid composition inlet, a mesh and a liquid composition outlet. The mesh divides the channel into an input channel portion and into an output channel portion. The channel is at least partially optically transparent to bacterial disinfecting electromagnetic radiation. The device includes a first emitter configured to illuminate the input portion of the channel with the bacterial disinfecting electromagnetic radiation and a second emitter configured to illuminate the output portion of the channel with the bacterial disinfecting electromagnetic radiation.
Claims14
A nebulizer device for nebulizing a liquid composition, the nebulizing device comprising:
- a channel connecting a liquid composition inlet for receiving a liquid composition, a mesh configured to be vibrated by a mesh actuator for nebulizing the liquid composition, and a liquid composition outlet for expelling a nebulized liquid composition;
- wherein the mesh divides the channel into an input portion of the channel and into an output portion of the channel, the channel being defined at least in part by a first material that is at least partially optically transparent to disinfecting electromagnetic radiation;
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- first and second emitters that each is configured to emit disinfecting electromagnetic radiation, the first emitter arranged at a first side of the mesh and configured to illuminate the input portion of the channel with the disinfecting electromagnetic radiation, the second emitter arranged at a second side of the mesh opposite the first side and configured to illuminate the output portion of the channel with the disinfecting electromagnetic radiation;
- the nebulizer device is powered by a rechargeable battery and includes electronic circuitry that is configured to activate the first and second emitters during a charging of the rechargeable battery.
A method for disinfecting the channel of a nebulizer device for nebulizing a liquid composition, the nebulizer device comprising:
- a channel connecting a liquid composition inlet for receiving a liquid composition, a mesh configured to be vibrated by a mesh actuator for nebulizing the liquid composition, and a liquid composition outlet for expelling a nebulized liquid composition;
- wherein the mesh divides the channel into an input portion of the channel and into an output portion of the channel, the channel being defined at least in part by a first material that is at least partially optically transparent to disinfecting electromagnetic radiation;
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- first and second emitters that each is configured to emit disinfecting electromagnetic radiation, the first emitter arranged at a first side of the mesh and configured to illuminate the input portion of the channel with the disinfecting electromagnetic radiation, the second emitter arranged at a second side of the mesh opposite the first side and configured to illuminate the output portion of the channel with the disinfecting electromagnetic radiation;
- and the method comprising:
- illuminating the input portion of the channel with the disinfecting electromagnetic radiation from the first emitter, and illuminating an output portion of the channel with the disinfecting electromagnetic radiation from the second emitter,
- wherein charging a battery of the nebulizer device triggers the illuminating by the first and second emitters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.