Bottle-cap medication reminder and overdose safeguard
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorRichard Bryan Sagar
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Abstract
A medicine-dispensing system has a medication reminder to assist the patient in following a drug regimen. In an example embodiment, a medication reminder comprises a timer programmable to a predetermined interval. A user-alert is responsive to the timer, reminding the user to take a dose of medicine at the predetermined interval. A sensor detects whether a dose of medicine has been taken and a dose-indication informs the user of the time since a last medication. The dose indication further informs the user as to whether to take a next medication dose. Time of the last dose is determined by the timer receiving a signal from the sensor. A communications interface enables programming of a parameter associated with administering a medication.
Claims7
A container comprising an interface part for enabling a user to be reminded of taking a dose of a substance in the container, the interface part comprising:
- a timer;
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- a user-alert generator coupled to the timer for generating an alert upon a predetermined time interval, the user-alert generator further comprises,
- a sensor to detect whether a closure has been removed from the container;
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- a dose-indication informing the user of the time since a last substance dose was taken, the dose-indication farther informing the user as to whether to take a next substance dose, the time of the last dose being determined by the timer receiving a signal from the sensor.
A medication reminder system, comprising:
- a timer programmable to a predetermined interval;
- a user-reminder responsive to the timer, for reminding the user to take a dose of medicine upon the predetermined interval having elapsed;
- a sensor to detect whether a dose of medicine has been taken, the sensor comprising a switch for detecting when a closure is removed from the medicine container;
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- a dose-indicator informing the user as to whether to take a next medication dose, the time of the last dose being determined by the timer receiving a signal from the sensor;
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- a communications interface enabling programming of a parameter associated with administering the medication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.