Storage container for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions
AssigneeCarefusion Germany 326 GmbH
InventorsHardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Dietmar Gross
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Abstract
Storage and dispensing devices are provided, which include a housing, a rotor disposed in the housing, a dispensing opening disposed in a bottom surface of the housing and configured to receive an individual medicament portion when a first channel of the rotor is aligned with the dispensing opening, and a recess disposed in the bottom surface of the housing and at least partially surrounding an axis of the rotor. Additional storage and dispensing devices are also provided.
Claims18
A storage and dispensing device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a rotor disposed in the housing;
- a dispensing opening disposed in a bottom surface of the housing and configured to receive an individual medicament portion when a first channel of the rotor is aligned with the dispensing opening;
- and
- a recess disposed in the bottom surface of the housing and at least partially surrounding an axis of the rotor,
- wherein the bottom surface comprises a protrusion at least partially surrounding the axis of the rotor, the protrusion configured to prevent contamination particles from reaching the axis of the rotor.
A storage and dispensing device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a rotor disposed in the housing;
- a dispensing opening disposed in a bottom surface of the housing and configured to receive an individual medicament portion when a first channel of the rotor is aligned with the dispensing opening;
- a recess disposed in the bottom surface of the housing;
- at least one cleaning agent disposed on the rotor and configured to move contamination particles to the recess when the rotor turns;
- and
- a gap between a bottom of the rotor and the bottom surface,
- wherein the bottom surface comprises a protrusion at least partially surrounding an axis of the rotor, the protrusion configured to prevent contamination particles from reaching the axis of the rotor.
A storage and dispensing device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a rotor disposed in the housing;
- a dispensing opening disposed in a bottom surface of the housing and configured to receive an individual medicament portion when a first channel of the rotor is aligned with the dispensing opening;
- a recess disposed in the bottom surface of the housing;
- and one of:
- a stop element comprising an elastic arm configured to engage with a toothed profile formed in an axis of the rotor and to avoid an unintended rotation of the rotor;
- and
- a vibration device mechanically coupled to a contact area adjacent to the bottom surface, the vibration device configured to expose the housing to a vibration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.