公开(公告)号：US11246997B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-15

申请号：US16140902

申请日：2018-09-25

Applicant: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED

Inventor： Michael Benedict ,  David Mathew Johnson ,  Scott E. Solberg ,  Jamie Kalb ,  Ravi Neelakantan ,  Jerome Unidad ,  David Charles Taylor ,  Frances Yan

IPC: B08B3/02 ,  A61M11/02 ,  A61F9/00 ,  A61M35/00

Abstract: A hand-held dispenser to dispense fluid includes a casing to fit into a hand of a user, a nozzle in the casing to dispense a mist, a fluid reservoir contained in the casing to hold a fluid to be turned into the mist, a filament extension atomizer contained in the casing to generate the mist, an air source contained in the casing to provide air flow to direct the mist to the nozzle, a motor contained in the casing to operate the filament extension atomizer, an actuator positioned on the casing to activate the dispenser, a control circuit contained in the casing to receive a signal from the actuator and to send a signal to the motor to cause the motor to actuate, and a power source contained in the casing to provide power to the motor upon receive a signal from the control circuit.