Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system – Time duration or rate
Patent
1997-03-05
1998-10-20
Barlow, Jr., John E.
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system
Time duration or rate
36447911, 36447912, 36447914, 221 2, 221 3, 221 15, 368 10, 34030915, A47B 6702, G08B 100, G06F 114
Patent
active
058262172
ABSTRACT:
A new Programmable Medicine Dispenser and Storage Device for allowing for user or physician programming of a medication administration schedule, alerting the user, by means of an audible alarm, of a scheduled medication administration time, opening a corresponding medication compartment upon user acknowledgment of the alarm and instructing the user on the proper method of taking the medication. The inventive device includes a real time clock for generating real time signals, a keypad for setting each medication administration time, an acknowledgment key for generating an acknowledgment signal, a programmable controller for activating the alarm in response to the medication administration schedule when each medication administration time is the same as the real time signal and for processing the acknowledgment signal, and at least one medication compartment having a lower compartment and a lid hingedly and latchedly attached thereto, each medication compartment further having an unlatching mechanism for unlatching the lid from the lower compartment when each medication administration time corresponds to the real time signal and in response to the acknowledgment signal, the unlatching mechanism being connected to the programmable controller.
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Barlow Jr. John E.
Bui Bryan
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