System for pill and capsule counting and dispensing

Details System for pill and capsule counting and dispensing System for pill and capsule counting and dispensing

1996-05-06

1997-06-10

Wambach, Margaret Rose

Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c

Applications

Counting animate or inanimate entities

377 6, G06M 700

Patent

active

056384173

ABSTRACT:
There is provided a method for counting and dispensing pills, tablets, and capsules which depends on a simple vibrating, sloped, concave-shaped (e.g., V-shaped) trough, having a number of descending steps. The vibration of the trough is controlled and adjusted by a microprocessor. The vibration of the trough is patterned to provide a greater vibratory amplitude at its dispensing end than at its intake end. The difference at each end of the trough in vibratory amplitude is achieved by elastomeric supports that are differently spring dampened. The microprocessor electronically adjusts the input vibration to the trough, such that the flow of materials is adjusted for different types of materials (i.e., tablets of different shapes and/or sizes). This causes the tablets to align accurately within the trough, and sequentially pass a pill detector mechanism in single file. This ensures that the device can handle an extremely varied range of tablet or capsule sizes and shapes.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5473703 (1995-12-01), Smith

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