US 12,250,942 B2
Electric device for dispensing volatile substances
Sergio Luque Vera, Barcelona (ES); Joaquin Llorente Alonso, Barcelona (ES); and Ruben Garcia Fabregas, Barcelona (ES)
Assigned to ZOBELE HOLDING S.P.A., (IT)
Appl. No. 15/737,858
Filed by ZOBELE HOLDING S.P.A., Trento (IT)
PCT Filed Jun. 27, 2016, PCT No. PCT/EP2016/064835
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 19, 2017,
PCT Pub. No. WO2016/207433, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 29, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. ES201530921 (ES), filed on Jun. 26, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2019/0000064 A1, Jan. 3, 2019
Int. Cl. A01M 1/20 (2006.01); A61L 9/012 (2006.01); A61L 9/03 (2006.01)
CPC A01M 1/2077 (2013.01) [A61L 9/012 (2013.01); A61L 9/03 (2013.01); A61L 2209/135 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric dispensing device, the electric device comprising:
a casing comprising a first electric switch and a second electric switch;
a heater arranged in the casing;
a controller configured to control operation of the heater in accordance with a heating program selected from at least two heating programs; and
the controller is adapted to select for execution a first heating program of the at least two heating programs in response to activation of the first electric switch by at least one protrusion of a first container containing a first volatile substance when the first container is detachably coupled with the casing, and to select for execution a second heating program of the at least two heating programs in response to activation of the second electric switch by a second protrusion of a second container containing a second volatile substance when the second container is detachably coupled with the casing,
wherein the casing detachably couples to either the first container or the second container at any given time,
wherein the at least one protrusion of the first container activates the first electric switch but does not activate the second electric switch when the first container is detachably coupled with the casing,
wherein the second protrusion of the second container is different from the at least one protrusion of the first container, and activates the second electric switch but does not activate the first electric switch when the second container is detachably coupled with the casing,
wherein a first heating program from the at least two heating programs controls temperature and timing of the heater for the first volatile substance, and a second heating program from the at least two heating programs controls temperature and timing of the heater for the second volatile substance, and
wherein the first and second volatile substances are different.