Medicine supply device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9626822-B2
Application number	US-201113638201-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2011
Priority date	Apr 2, 2010
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

A preparation task for medicine, which must be manually prepared in advance, is efficiently performed without error. A medicine supply device includes: a medicine supply means having a plurality of medicine receiving portions, the medicine supply means being configured to receive a medicine per a dosing time and appropriately discharge the received medicine; a display means including a plurality of display portions, the display portions being provided in association with the medicine receiving portions respectively; and a display control means configured to allow the display portion of the medicine receiving portion, which receives a corresponding medicine among the medicine receiving portions, to operate based on a prescription data. The display portion of the display means is configured to display a number corresponding to the dosing time of each medicine included in the prescription data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A medicine supply device, comprising:
a manual medicine supply section having a plurality of medicine receiving portions, the manual medicine supply section being compartmentalized to define the plurality of medicine receiving portions, the medicine receiving portions being configured to receive at least one medicine per a dosing time and discharge the received medicine;
a display including a plurality of display portions and disposed in the manual medicine supply section, the display portions being positioned in adjacent to the medicine receiving portions, respectively, and configured to display a number of a medicine on the corresponding medicine receiving portion in form of a numeral; and
a display controller configured to allow the display portion of the medicine receiving portion, which receives a corresponding medicine among the medicine receiving portions, to operate based on prescription data,
wherein the display controller is configured to allow the display portion to display a number of the medicine, which is received in the medicine receiving portion corresponding to the dosing time of each medicine included in the prescription data, as a numeral, and
wherein a bottom of each medicine receiving portion is configured to be opened to discharge the received medicine.

2. A medicine supply device, comprising:
a manual medicine supply section having a plurality of medicine receiving portions, the manual medicine supply section being compartmentalized to define the plurality of medicine receiving portions, the medicine receiving portions being configured to randomly receive at least one medicine and discharge the received medicine;
a display disposed in the manual medicine supply section and including:
a plurality of first display portions, the first display portions being positioned adjacent to the medicine receiving portions, respectively; and
a second display portion provided in the manual medicine supply section and configured to display a number of a medicine on the corresponding medicine receiving portion in form of a numeral; and

a display controller configured to allow the first display portion of the medicine receiving portion among the medicine receiving portions, in which a corresponding medicine is received, and the second display portion to operate based on prescription data,
wherein the display controller is configured to allow the second display portion to display the number of the medicine of the medicine receiving portion, in which the corresponding medicine is received, as a numeral, and
wherein a bottom of each medicine receiving portion is configured to be opened to discharge the received medicine.

Assignees

• Yuyama Hiroyuki
• Amano Hirokazu
• Yuyama Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yuyama Hiroyuki
• Amano Hirokazu

Classifications

• G07F11/00 Primary

  Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles · CPC title

• G07F17/0092 Primary

  for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles (medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00) · CPC title

• G06F19/3462

  Physics · mapped topic

• A61J7/04 Primary

  Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers · CPC title

• G16H10/60

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title