Patent ID: 8395396

Claim:
A sanitary dispenser, comprising: a housing from which a sanitary product can be dispensed and defining a housing interior; a capacitive sensor disposed in said housing; a dispensing unit for dispensing the sanitary product to be dispensed and disposed in said housing, said dispensing unit having an electric motor activated in a contactless manner by said capacitive sensor from outside said housing; and a sensor capacitance of said capacitive sensor formed by a planar electrode disposed in said housing interior, and at least one of a surface of a part of a body or of an object disposed outside said housing; said capacitive sensor having an oscillating circuit and said planar electrode is part of said oscillating circuit, said oscillating circuit further having a comparator with an output and inputs and a diode connected between one of said inputs of said comparator and said output, said diode assisting in charging and discharging of said capacitive sensor.