Patent ID: 11857127
Assignee: NEWCO ENTERPRISES, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 1:
2. The dispensing station apparatus of claim 1, wherein the enclosed liquid path comprises a second section extending from the manifold to a second pump disposed above the reservoir, the second pump being controllably operable in a prolonged priming mode to create a partial vacuum condition within the second section to draw the liquid product therethrough from at least the manifold into the second pump, the second pump having an inactive standby mode to pinch the second section to hold the liquid product therein, and the second pump being controllably operable from the standby mode thereof in a momentary dispensing mode thereof multiple times shorter than the prolonged priming mode to dispense a discrete quantity of the liquid product while creating a partial vacuum condition in the second section sufficient to draw more of the liquid product from the manifold into the second section to replace the liquid product dispensed by the second pump;
a second elongate enclosed dispensing conduit extending from the second pump through a second dispensing spout attached to the housing, to a second dispensing outlet located external to the housing from which the discrete quantity of the liquid product is dispensed by the second pump to flow down along a second predetermined elongate open dispensing path externally of the second dispensing conduit and the second dispensing spout;
a second electrically powered control device connected in operative control of the second pump, comprising:
a second input operable activate the second pump to operate in the prolonged priming mode thereof to fill the second section of the enclosed liquid path and optionally all or part of the second enclosed dispensing conduit with the liquid product, and thereafter deactivate the second pump to the standby mode thereof;
a second touchless input device including a second circuit board, a second sensor having an on state to sense presence of a person's hand along a second predetermined elongate sensing region external to the second sensor when the second pump is in the standby mode thereof, and circuitry on the second circuit board automatically operable to immediately initiate operation of the second pump from the standby mode thereof in the momentary dispensing mode thereof responsive to the sensed presence of a hand in the second elongate sensing region, then automatically return the second pump to the standby mode thereof, or again initiate operation of the second pump in the momentary dispensing mode thereof responsive to the sensed presence of another hand in the second sensing region, the second circuit board being located in or on the second dispensing spout to position the second sensor in predetermined relation to the second dispensing conduit such that the second sensor faces down to position and orient the second elongate sensing region coincident with the second dispensing path such that the second sensor will sense the presence of a hand when in the second dispensing path, including when spaced a hand span or more below the second dispensing outlet within the second sensing region.