Invention Application
- Patent Title: PILL REMOVAL DETECTION FROM PILL PACKAGE
- Patent Title (中): 从药丸包中取出药丸检测
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Application No.: US14933049Application Date: 2015-11-05
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Publication No.: US20160132661A1Publication Date: 2016-05-12
- Inventor: Mandar Shirish Dixit , Mona Sharma , Himanshu Mishra
- Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
- Priority: IN5598/CHE/2014 20141106
- Main IPC: G06F19/00
- IPC: G06F19/00 ; A61J7/04 ; B65B61/20 ; A61J1/03

Abstract:
Technologies are generally provided for a pill dispensing device to track removal of a pill from a pill package. The device may include circuits printed/embedded on a composite sheet configured to be locally or completely flexible/stretchable with a multitude of slits corresponding to locations of pill containing cavities of the pill package. Composite sheet may include embedded rigid sections and be flexible near the slits. Additionally, top and/or bottom plates may further provide structural rigidity to achieve desired flexible behavior of the composite sheet. Electronic circuits printed/embedded on or in the composite sheet may detect removal of a pill from the pill package through the slits. Slits may include electrical contacts configured to switch a circuit corresponding to each slit between an active and an inactive state. Upon removal of the pill, the contacts may separate or touch each other, opening or closing the circuit corresponding to the expanded slit.
Public/Granted literature
- US10185811B2 Pill removal detection from pill package Public/Granted day:2019-01-22
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