Piezoelectrically operated dispenser for dispensing liquid and/or volatile substances and method

A piezoelectrically operated dispenser for dispensing liquid and/or volatile substances, comprising:

• a housing configured as a hollow body and having a cavity in its interior defining a housing interior and a housing outlet opening formed therein;
• a container in which a substance to be dispensed and/or volatilized is received, said container having a neck as an outlet opening configured in a manner of a pipe socket and/or in a manner of a bottle neck, by means of said neck said container is detachably connectable to said housing, said housing and said container being disposed above one another in an assembled state such that said housing, viewed in a vertical axis direction, is disposed above said container;
• a piezoelectrically operated atomizer system, wherein by means of said piezoelectrically operated atomizer system the substance is taken from said container and is atomized, said piezoelectrically operated atomizer system having an electrically actuable piezo element and a wick, by means of said wick the substance received in said container is feedable to said electrically actuatable piezo element, wherein, in the assembled state of said container, said wick projects with a first section into the substance received in said container and projects with an opposite free wick end out of said neck of said container;
• said housing having a housing bottom wall on its underside in relation to the vertical axis direction, said housing bottom wall having a mounting dome extending upwards in the vertical axis direction and inwards into said housing interior and a mounting opening formed therein on a housing bottom wall side which is accessible from a housing exterior, said mounting opening in said housing interior merges into a wick opening at an end of said mounting dome, which is adjoined, with respect to the vertical axis direction, outwardly and/or upwardly, by said electrically actuable piezo element and also by said housing outlet opening, via which the substance to be discharged escapes from said housing into an environment;
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• said mounting dome configured to receive said neck of said container and having a holding device, said neck being introduced into said mounting dome via said mounting opening, at least partially, and said mounting dome holding said neck releasably in said mounting dome by means of said holding device such that said wick extends with said free wick end in the assembled state of said container into and/or through said wick opening and adjoins said electrically actuable piezo element.