Drug dispensing device
AssigneeInCare, LLC
InventorJean-Baptiste GUISSART
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for dispensing a plurality of drugs, the device comprising: for each drug dose (25) of the plurality of drugs, a drawer (30) configured to accommodate a single dose of any of the drugs of the plurality of drugs; a storage unit comprising cases (40), each case comprising at least one passage for holding drawers and, in each passage, drawers next to one another comprising all of the identical drug doses; a unit (60) for preparing pillboxes (50) that is configured to pull drawers out from the cases of the storage unit and place the pulled-out drawers in a pillbox associated with a patient's identifier, the pillbox comprising a passage for holding the drawers that have been placed therein.
Claims13
A device for dispensing a plurality of drugs, comprising:
- for each drug dose of said plurality of drugs, a drawer configured to accommodate a single dose of any of the drugs of said plurality of drugs;
- a storage unit comprising cases, each case comprising at least one passage for holding drawers and, in each passage, drawers next to one another all comprising identical drug doses;
- a unit for preparing pillboxes that is configured to pull drawers out from the cases of the storage unit and place the pulled-out drawers in a pillbox associated with a patient's identifier, the pillbox comprising a passage for holding the drawers that have been placed therein.
The device according to 1, wherein the preparation unit comprises a first drawer-holder for inserting a drawer at one end of a passage of a case and a second drawer-holder for pulling out a drawer including a drug dose that has been pushed to the end of this passage, and inserting this removed drawer into one end of a pillbox, the first drawer-holder being configured to pull out a drawer of the pillbox pushed to the other end of the pillbox.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.