Dispenser and evaluation unit therefor
AssigneeAptar Radolfzell GmbH
InventorsMichael HELMLINGER, Jörg KOHNLE
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Abstract
A dispenser for pharmaceutical or cosmetic media including a housing, a media reservoir and a discharge opening for delivering medium from the media reservoir to the surrounding atmosphere. The dispenser further includes an electronic evaluation unit for detecting use of the dispenser, and the electronic evaluation unit is configured for detachable attachment to the dispenser housing and has a contact side. A magnetic or magnetizable holding surface is provided on an outer side of the dispenser housing, and the contact side of the evaluation unit is magnetic or magnetizable such that the evaluation unit is magnetically fastenable on the housing.
Claims28
A dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical or cosmetic media, comprising:
- a housing;
- a media reservoir;
- a discharge opening, wherein medium from the media reservoir is deliverable through the discharge opening into a surrounding atmosphere;
- an electronic evaluation unit for detecting use of the dispenser,
- the electronic evaluation unit being configured for detachable attachment to the housing of the dispenser, the electronic evaluation unit comprising a contact side;
- and
- a magnetic or magnetizable holding surface provided on an outer side of the housing;
- wherein the contact side of the electronic evaluation unit is magnetic or magnetizable such that the electronic evaluation unit is magnetically fastenable on the housing.
A dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical or cosmetic media, comprising:
- a housing;
- a media reservoir;
- a discharge opening, wherein medium from the media reservoir is deliverable into a surrounding atmosphere through the discharge opening;
- and
- an electronic evaluation unit for detecting use of the dispenser,
- the electronic evaluation unit being designed for detachable attachment to the housing of the dispenser,
- the evaluation unit having at least two elastically deflectable holding arms engaging around the housing and clamping the evaluation unit against the housing.
A dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical or cosmetic media, comprising:
- a housing;
- and
- an electronic evaluation unit for detecting use of the dispenser, the electronic evaluation unit being configured for detachable attachment to the housing,
- the electronic evaluation unit having a contact side, the contact side, in an attached state of the evaluation unit, facing in a direction of the housing, and
- the evaluation unit has on the contact side two mutually parallel contact ribs for bearing against the housing.
An electronic evaluation unit for a dispenser having a housing, the evaluation unit being configured for
- detachable attachment to the dispenser, the evaluation unit comprising:
- at least one sensor;
- and
- one of more of the following:
- a contact side configured to be magnetic or magnetizable such that the evaluation unit is magnetically fastenable on the dispenser housing;
- and/or
- at least two elastically deflectable holding arms engageable, in use, around the dispenser housing to clamp the evaluation unit against the dispenser housing.
A dispenser for discharging pharmaceutical or cosmetic media, comprising:
- a housing;
- a media reservoir;
- a discharge opening, wherein medium from the media reservoir is deliverable through the discharge opening into a surrounding atmosphere;
- an electronic evaluation unit for detecting use of the dispenser and configured for detachable attachment to the housing of the dispenser, the electronic evaluation unit comprising a contact side, the contact side being magnetic or magnetizable;
- and
- a magnetic or magnetizable holding surface disposed on an outer side of the housing, the magnetic or magnetizable holding surface being covered by, or integrated into, an inscribed label, the inscribed label comprising one of:
- a product designation or a product description;
- or instructions for attachment of the electronic evaluation unit to the dispenser, the contact side of the electronic evaluation unit being magnetically fastenable to the magnetic or magnetizable holding surface of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.