US 11,918,158 B2
Product dispenser holder with compliance module
Nicholas Joseph Steinmetz, St Paul, MN (US); Jeffrey Rospierski, Alden, NY (US); Sarah E. Johnson, St Paul, MN (US); and Viktor Slobodyan, Burnsville, MN (US)
Assigned to Ecolab USA Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed by Ecolab USA Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/182,810.
Application 18/182,810 is a continuation of application No. 17/648,248, filed on Jan. 18, 2022, granted, now 11,602,248.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/139,634, filed on Jan. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0210318 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A47K 5/12 (2006.01); B05B 12/00 (2018.01); B05B 15/62 (2018.01)
CPC A47K 5/1217 (2013.01) [A47K 5/1205 (2013.01); B05B 12/004 (2013.01); B05B 15/62 (2018.02); A47K 2005/1218 (2013.01); A47K 2201/00 (2013.01); A47K 2201/02 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor module for a product dispenser holder, the sensor module comprising:
processing circuitry configured to detect a dispense event upon receipt of a dispenser actuation signal, and to generate dispense event data corresponding to the dispense event;
an actuation sensor that generates the dispenser actuation signal; and
an actuation button comprising:
a main body portion;
at least one cap portion extending upwardly from a top side of the main body portion and sized to extend through at least one aperture in a base of a dispenser holder body of the product dispenser holder; and
an actuation tab extending from the main body portion configured such that when an actuation force is applied to a pump of a product dispenser held by the dispenser holder body, the pump is actuated to dispense a dosage amount of a product from a product reservoir of the product dispenser and when the actuation force is applied to the pump, a substantially downward force is applied to the at least one cap portion of the actuation button, causing the actuation tab to rotate substantially downwardly and actuate the actuation sensor to generate the dispenser actuation signal.