Discharge head and liquid dispenser comprising a discharge head

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11938495-B2
Application number	US-202017606259-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 4, 2020
Priority date	May 6, 2019
Publication date	Mar 26, 2024
Grant date	Mar 26, 2024

Abstract

A discharge head for a liquid dispenser having a base and a push actuator. The discharge head has a pump device, which has a malleable pump chamber component open on both sides, fastened to the base and to the push actuator and encloses a pump chamber having a variable volume. The pump device has inlet and outlet valves. The discharge head has a ventilation opening and a ventilation valve. The ventilation valve on the base has a peripheral valve web raised via a surrounding cover wall of the base and the inside of which forms a peripheral valve surface. To ensure a reproducible behavior of the ventilation valve, a reinforcement structure is provided on the cover wall in the form of a peripheral reinforcement web, and/or the peripheral valve web is designed as part of a sleeve-like structure, which forms the peripheral valve web above the cover wall.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A discharge head for a liquid dispenser for dispensing pharmaceutical liquids or cosmetic liquids, the discharge head comprising:
a base and a push actuator which can be pressed down with respect to the base between an unactuated end position and an actuated end position in an actuation direction;
a liquid inlet for connection to a liquid store and a discharge opening for discharging liquid in an environment; and
a pump device which comprises a deformable pump chamber component which is open at both sides and which is secured to the base and to the push actuator and which surrounds a pump chamber being variable in terms of volume and which has an inlet valve and an outlet valve;
the outlet valve having a peripheral annular web which projects downward from an inner end wall of the push actuator in a direction of the base, the outlet valve having an outer side forming a circumferential valve face; and
a displacement structure at an inner side of the annular web, the displacement structure protruding downward from an inner end face of the push actuator, wherein the displacement structure has a receiving space which is open in a direction of the pump chamber and which is laterally closed by a surrounding wall;
the pump chamber having a maximum volume which is defined by an inner space of the pump chamber between the inlet valve and the outlet valve when the push actuator is arranged in the unactuated end position;
the receiving space having a receiving space volume which is formed by a part-volume of the pump chamber which is enclosed within the surrounding wall; and
a relationship between the receiving space volume and the maximum volume is between 1:50 and 1:10.

2. The discharge head as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the surrounding wall extends in a manner protruding over the annular web into the pump chamber.

3. The discharge head as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the displacement structure has a cross section orthogonally with respect to the actuation direction which is smaller than a clear cross section of the pump chamber component.

4. A discharge head for a liquid dispenser for dispensing pharmaceutical liquids or cosmetic liquids, the discharge head comprising:
a base and a push actuator which can be pressed down with respect to the base between an unactuated end position and an actuated end position in an actuation direction;
a liquid inlet for connection to a liquid store and a discharge opening for discharging liquid in an environment;
a pump device which comprises a deformable pump chamber component which is open at both sides and which is secured to the base and to the push actuator and which surrounds a pump chamber being variable in terms of volume and which has an inlet valve and an outlet valve;
at least one ventilation opening which extends through the base and which is associated with a ventilation valve;
the ventilation valve having a peripheral valve lip which is formed integrally on the deformable pump chamber component and which includes an outer side that abuts in a state pretensioned in an outward direction against an inner side of a peripheral valve web of the base; and
a protective lip which is also formed integrally on the deformable pump chamber component and which is arranged at the outer side of the valve lip in order to protect the valve lip prior to installation in the discharge head.

5. The discharge head as claimed in claim 4 , wherein:
the protective lip protrudes beyond the valve lip both radially and axially.

6. A discharge head for a liquid dispenser for dispensing pharmaceutical liquids or cosmetic liquids, the discharge head comprising:
a base and a push actuator which can be pressed down with respect to the base between an unactuated end position and an actuated end position in an actuation direction;
a liquid inlet for connection to a liquid store and a discharge opening for discharging liquid in an environment;
a pump device which comprises a deformable pump chamber component which is open at both sides and which is secured to the base and to the push actuator and which surrounds a pump chamber being variable in terms of volume and which has an inlet valve and an outlet valve;
at least one ventilation opening which extends through the base and which is associated with a ventilation valve;
the ventilation valve having a peripheral valve lip which is formed integrally on the deformable pump chamber component and which abuts in a state pretensioned in an outward direction against a peripheral valve web of the base;
a tilting member which protrudes radially over the peripheral valve lip and which is formed integrally on the pump chamber component; and
a switching face provided on the push actuator and which faces in a direction of the tilting member and which in the actuated end position acts with force on the tilting member and thereby lifts the valve lip of the ventilation valve from the valve web or facilitates pressure-related lifting of the valve lip from the valve web.

7. The liquid dispenser as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the cross section of the displacement structure is smaller than an inner diameter of a bellows region of the pump chamber component.

Assignees

• Aptar Radolfzell Gmbh

Inventors

• Baumann Tobias
• Bruder Thomas

Classifications

• B05B11/00442 Primary

  the means being actuated by the difference between the atmospheric pressure and the pressure inside the container · CPC title

• B05B11/1033 Primary

  the deformable wall, the inlet and outlet valve elements being integrally formed, e.g. moulded · CPC title

• B05B11/1035

  the pumping chamber being a bellow · CPC title

• B05B11/1046

  the pump chamber being arranged substantially coaxially to the neck of the container (B05B11/1049 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B05B11/0044 Primary

  compensating underpressure by ingress of atmospheric air into the container, i.e. with venting means (venting means for deformable containers B05B11/047) · CPC title