CONTROL FOR PRODUCT DISPENSER ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE
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    发明公开
    CONTROL FOR PRODUCT DISPENSER ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE 审中-公开
    控制期产品供体能量存储装置

    公开(公告)号:EP3128886A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-15

    申请号:EP15719928.2

    申请日:2015-04-09

    IPC分类号: A47K5/12 H02J7/00

    摘要: An energy storage device, like for example a supercapacitor, is used to provide power to activate a motor for dispensing a dosed amount of hand care product. The energy storage device or supercapacitor is recharged from an energy supply source, e.g. batteries, integrated into the replaceable refill reservoir and/or mounted into the dispenser housing. A controller directs energy discharged from the energy supply source(s) at one of a plurality of discharge energy rates for recharging the energy storage device. Depending on the number of dispense events that occur with a given time interval, the controller may vary the rate at which the energy is discharged from the energy supply source(s) to recharge the energy storage device.

    CONTROL FOR PRODUCT DISPENSER ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:EP3539431A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-18

    申请号:EP19171796.6

    申请日:2015-04-09

    IPC分类号: A47K5/12 H02J7/00

    摘要: A product dispenser and a method of operating a product dispenser, comprising the steps of: providing a product dispenser having a dispenser housing, a readily replaceable product reservoir for storing associated product, a pump having an inlet fluidly connected to the product reservoir, the pump having outlet for dispensing associated product, a low-voltage motor operatively coupled to actuate the pump, an intermediate energy storage device operatively communicated to provide operating power to the motor, wherein the intermediate energy storage device is configured to store a sufficient amount of energy to activate the motor multiple times, a low power-density battery for recharging the intermediate energy storage device wherein the low power-density battery is integrated into the readily replaceable product reservoir, a controller having a charging circuit operatively connected to the low power-density battery and the intermediate energy storage device, wherein the controller includes an activation circuit operatively connected to activate the motor, and wherein the controller includes a counter circuit configured to count the number of times the activation circuit activates the motor; incrementing the counter circuit in response to activating the motor; recharging the intermediate energy storage device at a first recharge rate in response to activating the motor when the count in the counter circuit is below predetermine counter value; and, recharging the intermediate energy storage device at a substantially different second recharge rate in response to activating the motor when the count in the counter circuit has exceeded the predetermine counter value.