Vacuum operated medicine dispenser
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    发明授权
    Vacuum operated medicine dispenser 失效
    真空操作药剂

    公开(公告)号:US5405048A

    公开(公告)日:1995-04-11

    申请号:US162810

    申请日:1993-12-06

    摘要: A vacuum operated system for individually dispensing items of oral solid medicine from bulk storage to a user, where the medicine is dispensed under computer control, and the quantity and type of medicine is selected in advance by the user. The invention includes medicine dispensing equipment and a computer that provides a user interface. A plurality of storage containers arranged in a rotatable carousel or a rectilinear array may contain various pharmaceutical articles, or various types, dosages, ages, and lot numbers of medicines. The storage containers may be easily refilled by inserting modular refill cartridges into the storage containers. After a user enters certain data into the computer, the invention aligns a universal vacuum probe with the storage container that contains the desired items. The universal vacuum probe is lowered to the desired storage container and engaged with a container probe that is exclusive to that storage container. After a vacuum source creates suction within the universal vacuum probe and the container probe, the universal vacuum probe and the container probe are operated to individually extract items from the storage container. In one embodiment, the extracted items are dispensed into a cup for retrieval by a user. In another embodiment, one or more items are packaged separately in an envelope, which is stored in a portable envelope-organizing tote along with other envelopes containing items requested by that user.

    摘要翻译: 一种真空操作系统,用于将大量存储的口服固体药物单独分配给用户,其中药物在计算机控制下分配,并且药物的数量和类型由用户预先选择。 本发明包括药物分配设备和提供用户界面的计算机。 布置在可旋转的转盘或直线阵列中的多个存储容器可以包含各种药品,或各种类型的剂量,年龄和批号的药物。 通过将模块化的再填充盒插入存储容器中,可容易地重新填充储存容器。 在用户将某些数据输入到计算机中之后,本发明使通用真空探针与包含所需物品的存储容器对齐。 通用真空探头降低到所需的储存容器,并与专用于该储存容器的容器探针接合。 在真空源在通用真空探针和容器探针中产生吸力之后,操作通用真空探针和容器探针以从存储容器中单独提取物品。 在一个实施例中,将提取的物品分配到杯中以供用户检索。 在另一个实施例中,将一个或多个项目单独地封装在信封中,该信封被存储在便携式信封 - 组织手提箱中以及包含该用户所请求的商品的其它信封。