Patent ID: 8961480
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A device for dispensing drops into an eye of a user from a vial having a dispensing tip, the device comprising: a main housing, having a first opening that is sized and adapted to surround the user's eye and a second opening that is sized and adapted to receive the dispensing tip, directing the dispensing tip toward the first opening, the housing further having an interior facing the first opening; a switch, arranged in the main housing; and an LED, arranged on the interior of the main housing and directed toward the first opening, the LED in electrical communication with the switch such that activation of the switch causes the LED to illuminate; the switch is a pressure switch arranged relative to the second opening such that reception of the dispensing tip activates the switch and removal of the dispensing tip deactivates the switch; a gravity switch arranged in electrical communication with the pressure switch and the LED such that the LED is illuminated only when the dispensing tip is in the second opening and the vial is inverted.