WO1996019178A1 - Medicine dosage device - Google Patents

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WO1996019178A1
WO1996019178A1 PCT/SE1995/001512 SE9501512W WO9619178A1 WO 1996019178 A1 WO1996019178 A1 WO 1996019178A1 SE 9501512 W SE9501512 W SE 9501512W WO 9619178 A1 WO9619178 A1 WO 9619178A1
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compartments
medicine
lid
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Ingemar HÄGERBRO
Mats Eriksson
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Telelarm Care Ab
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Priority to JP8519719A priority Critical patent/JPH10502852A/en
Priority to EP95941961A priority patent/EP0799014A1/en
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/04—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
    • A61J7/0409—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers
    • A61J7/0481—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers working on a schedule basis
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/0076—Medicament distribution means
    • A61J7/0084—Medicament distribution means for multiple medicaments
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J2205/00—General identification or selection means
    • A61J2205/70—Audible labels, e.g. for pre-recorded info or messages
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/04—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
    • A61J7/0409—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers
    • A61J7/0427—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers with direct interaction with a dispensing or delivery system
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/04—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
    • A61J7/0409—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers
    • A61J7/0427—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers with direct interaction with a dispensing or delivery system
    • A61J7/0436—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers with direct interaction with a dispensing or delivery system resulting from removing a drug from, or opening, a container

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a device for dosage of medicine.
  • German patent DE 3204770 from 1982- 02-11 is German patent DE 3204770 from 1982- 02-11.
  • the aim with the present invention is to produce a device which on one hand reminds the patient that it is time to take his/her medicine and on the other hand prevents the patient from taking the wrong amount or the wrong medicine.
  • the invention is characterized in that the medicine is put in a cassette with compartments in a cylindrical box where the cassette is movable concentrically round the centre of the box.
  • the lid is provided with a hole which, when this is in a position over a compartment, makes this compartment accessible. None of the other compartments are then accessible.
  • the feeding of the cassette is controlled by a timer and this timer also produces sound- and/or light signals at preprogrammed points of time.
  • Nursery staff/chemist's staff or members of the family suitably "load” the medicine in the compartments and program the timer/alarm.
  • the cassette can be loaded at for instance a chemist's and by nursery staff be put into the dosage device. This procedure is established but today a device is lacking which prevents that the distributed and portioned medicine is taken at the wrong time or not at all.
  • the lid be movable and the cassette be fixed in relation to the bottom part.
  • the cassette can then also be an integrated part of the bottom part.
  • the actuation is arranged by means of a motor (1) .
  • the lid is turned in a way that the alarm signal from the clock (2) starts the motor which via a gear actuates the cassette (3) .
  • the turn is stopped in a new position when the opening in the lid (4) is in position over the next compartment (5) .
  • This function is controlled by a sensor with belonging electronics, the program control device (6) .
  • the lid of the box (7) can not be turned manually.
  • the device can be arranged with a spring pulling the lid until a new compartment is accessible instead of the above mentioned motor.
  • the alarm of the clock can be turned off by means of a button or either by turning the box upside down, which occurs when the box is emptied of its contents.
  • the alarm can be arranged in way that turning off/receipt need not be done.

Abstract

The aim with the device is to remind persons who take medicine to take this at the right point of time and to prevent that medicine is taken at the wrong point of time and/or in wrong amount. This has been solved by the medicine being put in a cassette with compartments placed along the periphery in a cylindrical box, where the lid is movable round the centre of the box, or where the cassette is movable in relation to the lid. The lid is equipped with a hole which, when it is in position over a compartment, makes this accessible. None of the other compartments are then accessible. The feeding/transport of the lid or the cassette is controlled by a timer with alarm.

Description

TITLE OF THE INVENTION: MEDICINE DOSAGE DEVICE
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a device for dosage of medicine.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
For senile persons and/or persons with impaired memory functions there are today no means which efficiently controls the taking of medicine. The patient forgets to take his/her medicine or forgets that he/she has taken his/her medicine and takes double dose or none at all. Today is normally used a medicine box "Dosett", which consists of a number of compartments which the patient opens himself/herself. This will not work for the patients who have strongly impaired memory capacity.
Today nursing staff or members of the family of above all old and senile persons are forced to visit the patients only to portion out medicine.
Known devices which are closest comparable with the present invention is German patent DE 3204770 from 1982- 02-11.
This device is lacking automatic feeding and does not prevent that the medicine is taken from more than one dosage compartment and there is therefore a big risk that it will not work satisfactorily for the types of patients in question. THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
The aim with the present invention is to produce a device which on one hand reminds the patient that it is time to take his/her medicine and on the other hand prevents the patient from taking the wrong amount or the wrong medicine.
THE SOLUTION
The invention is characterized in that the medicine is put in a cassette with compartments in a cylindrical box where the cassette is movable concentrically round the centre of the box. The lid is provided with a hole which, when this is in a position over a compartment, makes this compartment accessible. None of the other compartments are then accessible. The feeding of the cassette is controlled by a timer and this timer also produces sound- and/or light signals at preprogrammed points of time.
Nursery staff/chemist's staff or members of the family suitably "load" the medicine in the compartments and program the timer/alarm.
The cassette can be loaded at for instance a chemist's and by nursery staff be put into the dosage device. This procedure is established but today a device is lacking which prevents that the distributed and portioned medicine is taken at the wrong time or not at all.
As an alternative solution can, instead of the cassette, the lid be movable and the cassette be fixed in relation to the bottom part. The cassette can then also be an integrated part of the bottom part. DRAWINGS WITH EXPLANATION
In the drawn figure example below (Figure 1 and 2) the actuation is arranged by means of a motor (1) . At programmable points of time the lid is turned in a way that the alarm signal from the clock (2) starts the motor which via a gear actuates the cassette (3) . The turn is stopped in a new position when the opening in the lid (4) is in position over the next compartment (5) . This function is controlled by a sensor with belonging electronics, the program control device (6) . The lid of the box (7) can not be turned manually.
Alternatively the device can be arranged with a spring pulling the lid until a new compartment is accessible instead of the above mentioned motor. The alarm of the clock can be turned off by means of a button or either by turning the box upside down, which occurs when the box is emptied of its contents. Alternatively the alarm can be arranged in way that turning off/receipt need not be done.

Claims

PATENT CLAIMS
1. Medicine dosage device in the form of a box including a cassette with a number of after each other in turn accessible compartments, each one intended for the medicine dose which is intended to be taken on one and the same occasion, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that it also includes a clock with alarm, a feeding device which can be activated by the clock and one with the clock cooperating program control device and at which the program control device can be programmed to, at certain points of time, make the contents of a certain compartment in the box accessible and which also prevents access to the contents in the other compartments.
2. Medicine dosage device according to patent claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that it has the form of a cylinder with a cassette with compartments, which is movable in relation to one with an opening for feeding out equipped lid, and at which the compartments are arranged along the own outer periphery, whereas the clock and the program control device are arranged in its centre and at which the movements of the lid is controlled by the program control device.
3. Medicine dosage device according to patent claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that it has the form of a cylinder equipped with a movable lid having an opening for feeding out, and at which the compartments are arranged along the own outer periphery, whereas the clock and the program control device are arranged in its centre and at which the movements of the lid is controlled by the program control device.
4. Medicine dosage device according to patent claims 1-3 , c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that its compartments are manufactured as a (disposable) cassette which can be combined with other parts.
5. Medicine dosage device according to any of the patent claims 1-3 , c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that its clock is equipped with a turn off device for the own alarm, which can be activated either by the latest fed compartment being emptied, or by the box being turned upside down.
6. Medicine dosage device according to any of the patent claims 1-4, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the application field is extended to all types of contents in the compartments which need to be dosed, i.e. not only medicine.
PCT/SE1995/001512 1994-12-21 1995-12-14 Medicine dosage device WO1996019178A1 (en)

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JP8519719A JPH10502852A (en) 1994-12-21 1995-12-14 Pharmaceutical dosing device
EP95941961A EP0799014A1 (en) 1994-12-21 1995-12-14 Medicine dosage device

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SE9404442A SE504042C2 (en) 1994-12-21 1994-12-21 Medication device with program controlled feeding
SE9404442-7 1994-12-21

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WO1984002269A1 (en) * 1982-12-14 1984-06-21 Bfi Sales Pty Ltd Dispensing device
WO1991005535A1 (en) * 1989-10-20 1991-05-02 Rudolf Loidl Device for keeping and distributing medicines at a chosen moment

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WO1997043999A1 (en) * 1996-05-22 1997-11-27 Frederik Olesen Method for dosing medicine, apparatus for automatic dosing of medicine and use of the method
WO2006084310A1 (en) * 2005-02-08 2006-08-17 Lubarian Pty Ltd Medication dispensing system
WO2012070995A1 (en) * 2010-11-26 2012-05-31 Mats Eriksson Medicine dispensing device with locking interaction between hatch and dividing wall
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