US 12,245,991 B2
Partitioning component for a feeding bottle
Wiecher Ferdinand Kamping, Esch (NL); Narasimha Shastri, Eindhoven (NL); Luc Berntsen, Eindhoven (NL); Christoph Dobrusskin, Nuenen (NL); and Daan Hendrik Gosenshuis, Waalre (NL)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/909,469
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Mar. 10, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/055967
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/180751, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20163037 (EP), filed on Mar. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0115317 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. A61J 9/04 (2006.01); A61J 11/00 (2006.01); A61J 11/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 9/04 (2013.01) [A61J 11/0015 (2013.01); A61J 11/045 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A feeding bottle, comprising: a teat component, and a container component, which together define a bottle volume extending longitudinally between a base end of the container component, and a top end of the teat component, the bottle volume having a longitudinal axis extending from the base end to the top end, and a diametric dimension extending orthogonal to the longitudinal axis; and a partitioning component for fluidly dividing the bottle volume into two longitudinal sections, wherein the two longitudinal sections comprise a teat section extending from the top end of the feeding bottle to the partitioning component and a container section extending from the partitioning component toward the base end of the feeding bottle, wherein the partitioning component comprises a fluid passageway arrangement comprising a plurality of openings for permitting flow of fluid across the partitioning component, wherein the fluid passageway arrangement is arranged such that when the partitioning component is in place in the feeding bottle for dividing the bottle volume, the fluid passageway arrangement is located on one diametric side of the bottle volume, or the teat section of the bottle volume, and wherein a remainder of the partitioning component provides no fluid communication between the container component and the teat component, wherein the fluid passageway arrangement is configured to permit simultaneous flow of both liquid and air in different respective directions across the partitioning component, and wherein the fluid passageway arrangement is arranged such that, when the partitioning component is in place in the feeding bottle for dividing the bottle volume, the plurality of openings of the fluid passageway arrangement extend, either alone or in combination, to multiple heights along a direction of the longitudinal axis of the bottle volume, and wherein the partitioning component includes at least two substantially parallel surfaces at different heights including a first surface at a lowermost height and a second surface at an uppermost height, and at least one first opening is provided in the first surface and at least one second opening is provided in the second surface, and the at least one first opening and the at least one second opening have approximately the same size and wherein the partitioning component has a main component and a single extruded component a first boundary of one of the plurality of openings is arranged to be at a first height along the direction of the longitudinal axis in the main component, and a second boundary of at least a second one of the plurality of openings is arranged to be at a second, greater height in the single extruded component.