Fluid Dispenser Outlet Counter for Accessible Dose Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fluid dispensers with counting devices often have poorly integrated or prominently positioned counting mechanisms, which can compromise the device's functionality and maintenance accessibility.
Innovation Solution
A fluid dispenser design where the counting device is integrated into the outlet section, allowing for easy access and replacement, with a sensor system that detects actuation movements without contact and provides secure reset functionality, ensuring accurate fluid quantity tracking and user authorization for resets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If the counting device is integrated into the outlet section, then the integration and appearance are improved, but the maintenance accessibility and replacement difficulty worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The outlet section is designed as a detachable module that can be separated from the main dispenser housing. This segmentation allows the counting device integrated within the outlet section to be easily accessed and replaced by simply detaching the outlet section, without requiring disassembly of the entire dispenser or complex internal components.
2Ease of operation
If the counting device is provided on the overhanging outlet section, then the visibility and accessibility are improved, but the structural integrity and integration worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The counting device is nested within the outlet section housing, which itself is integrated into the dispenser structure. This nested arrangement allows the counting device to be positioned in a prominent, accessible location on the overhanging outlet section while maintaining structural integrity through the housing that contains and protects the counting mechanism.
3Ease of repair
If the outlet section is made detachable for maintenance, then the ease of repair is improved, but the device complexity and potential leakage risks worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The outlet section with integrated counting device is extracted as a separate, self-contained module from the main dispenser housing. This extraction allows the outlet section to be easily removed for maintenance and replacement while the main housing remains intact. The connection mechanism is designed to be simple and reliable, minimizing complexity while enabling easy detachment and reattachment without compromising structural integrity or creating leakage risks.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution ensures a well-integrated and functional counting mechanism that is easily maintainable, preventing unauthorized resets and providing accurate fluid quantity tracking, while allowing the device to maintain its basic structure and usability.
Implementation Method 1
The sensor can be designed particularly favorably as a reed contact and the marking means can be designed as a magnetic element provided on the actuating mechanism. When the magnetic element moves relative to the sensor, the magnetic field changes in the area of the sensor, which the sensor detects as a reed contact.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a fluid dispenser with a pumping mechanism that can be actuated by an actuating mechanism, which is arranged in a dispenser housing, and an outlet section that protrudes from the dispenser housing, with a counting device coupled to the actuating mechanism recording the actions of the pumping mechanism. The invention is based on the object of providing a fluid dispenser which has good functionality and has a counting device which detects actions of a pump mechanism of the fluid dispenser and which is integrated as well as possible into the dispenser. The object is achieved according to the invention with an aforementioned fluid dispenser, which is characterized in that the counting device is provided on the cantilevered outlet section.