Smart 1touch
Assignee1Touch Holdings, Inc.
InventorsJim Warner, Judith Grupp, Roger LaFlamme
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Abstract
An apparatus and method of using a device for dispensing fluid comprising a flexible and collapsible container, a fluid dispenser pump connected to the flexible and collapsible fluid container configured to draw fluid from the flexible and collapsible fluid container into the fluid dispenser pump and to dispense fluid through a fluid delivery channel to an exit port upon actuation of the pump. The dispenser pump having an actuator comprising a dose delivery button, and a sensor located in the apparatus and configured to actuate the dispenser pump upon physical contact of the dose delivery button by a user.
Claims4
An apparatus for dispensing fluid dispensed comprising:
- a flexible and collapsible fluid container;
- a fluid dispenser pump connected to the flexible and collapsible fluid container configured to draw fluid from the flexible and collapsible fluid container into the fluid dispenser pump and to dispense fluid through a fluid delivery channel to an exit port upon actuation of the pump, the dispenser pump having an actuator comprising a dose delivery button;
- a sensor located in the apparatus and configured to actuate the dispenser pump upon physical contact of the dose delivery button by a user.
A method of dispensing fluid dispensed from an apparatus comprising:
- providing a flexible and collapsible fluid container, a fluid dispenser pump connected to the flexible and collapsible fluid container configured to draw fluid from the flexible and collapsible fluid container into the fluid dispenser pump and to dispense fluid through a fluid delivery channel to an exit port upon actuation of the pump, the dispenser pump having an actuator comprising a dose delivery button, and including a sensor located in the apparatus and configured to actuate the fluid dispenser pump upon physical contact of the dose delivery button by a user;
- contacting, by the user, the dose delivery button;
- signaling the sensor to actuate the fluid dispensing pump;
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- dispensing the fluid from the flexible and collapsible fluid container through the exit port.
A fluid dispensing device comprising:
- a generally cylindrical base unit having a generally flat and continuous bottom surface, a top surface having a raised circumferential wall, and a center area;
- a flexible dosing dome configured to sit inside the center area of said base unit to form a pump chamber;
- said bottom surface of said base unit having a fluid inlet opening to said pump chamber to permit the flow of fluid there-through, said base also defining a fluid delivery channel between said pump chamber and a fluid delivery outlet opening on an outside surface of said base unit;
- a combination dial and button having the shape of a cylinder with a closed top and open bottom, a bottom portion of said combination dial and button configured to sit inside a channel defined by said base unit top surface and said flexible dome, said button including a Graphical User Interface in communication with a sensor to adjust by a user an amount of a dose of fluid to be dispensed;
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- said sensor located in the device and further configured to actuate the pump chamber upon physical contact of the dose delivery button by the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.