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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Gojo Industries, Inc, Akron, OH (US);

Inventors:

Mark A Bullock, Wooster, OH (US);

Bradley L. Lightner, North Canton, OH (US);

Panagiotis Zosimadis, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

GOJO INDUSTRIES, INC, Akron, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 5/12 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47K 5/1217 (2013.01); A47K 5/1211 (2013.01); H02J 7/0052 (2013.01); H02J 7/345 (2013.01); A47K 5/1207 (2013.01); H02J 7/0063 (2013.01); H02J 2007/0067 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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