Lever operated fluid dispenser with rotary potentiometer

US10464091B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OP-HYGIENE IP GMBH · CH

Inventors

• Heiner Ophardt · Vineland, CA
• Harald Poepke · Wettenberg, DE
• Rainer Duske · Voerde, DE
• Sascha Korthauer · Rheinberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 2016
• Grant date: Nov 5, 2019
• Expiry date: May 25, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01F3/00
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A dispensing apparatus in which product is dispensed by moving, preferably by manually applied forces from a user, an actuation mechanism, preferably a lever, from a first position to a second position and in which a potentiometer sensor, preferably a rotary potentiometer sensor, senses the relative movement of the actuation mechanism with time and permits the amount of fluid dispensed to be accurately calculated.