SMART MEDICINE BOTTLE CAP

BOUCHON DE FLACON A MEDICAMENT INTELLIGENT

English Abstract

The invention provides a special functional medicine bottle cap. It can
actively sound to remind patient to take their medicine in time. It consists
of
an electronic control center, a cap position controlled switch and normal
bottle cap base. A multi-shifts switch is shown on the top of the cap.
Moving one of the shifts on the mufti-shifts switch, a user can easily set the
number of times the alarm is to sound in one day. Only unscrewed the cap
from medicine bottle can stop the reminding sound.

Claims

The Embodiment of the Invention In Which An Exclusive Property Or
Privileges is Claimed are Defined As Follows

1. A sort of medicine bottle cap that comprises:
(a) Control center (b) Cap position switch (c) Bottle cap base
2. The Control center recited in claim 1 includes: an oscillate circuit, a
frequency
division circuit, a multi-shift switch, a battery and buzzer
3. The Control center recited in claim 1 can use embedded battery or solar
battery.
4. The Control center recited in claim 1 can have a time displayer and time
setting
buttons.
5. The oscillate circuit recited in claim 2 can use typical digital watch IC.
6. The multi-shifts switch recited in claim 2 can be of membrane switch, slide
switch, rocker switch, dial rotating switch, knob rotating switch, and multi-
pointer
slide switch.
7. The cap position controlled switch recited in claim 1 can be a stop button
located
on the bottle cap base.

Description

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Smart Medicine Bottle Cap
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Many people need to take medicine, but they tend to forget to take their
medication on
time. Not taking medication on time can dramatically reduce the effectiveness
of
medicine and have bad effect on patient's health. There are many prior patents
to
medicine bottle or its parts. One patent that is relevant to be mentioned here
is Canadian
Patent 1316151, which use fixed markers to indicate dosage time, but it can
not actively
remind people to take their medication on time. The Smart Medicine Bottle Cap
solves
this problem. It can sound to remind user to take their medicine on time
according to the
dosage times described on prescription. It is very easy to set the Smart
Medicine Bottle
Cap to alarm 4, 3, 2 or 1 times each day.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The Smart Medicine Bottle Cap consists of a control center (1), a cap position
controlled
switch (2) and a bottle cap base (3).
The control center ( 1 ) comprises of an oscillate circuit (4), a frequency
division circuit
(5), a dosage time setting switch (6), a buzzer ('~ and a battery (8). The
oscillate circuit
(4) could be any kind of oscillate circuit or a digital watch IC which can
output one pulse
per hour. The frequency division circuit (5) is a universal frequency division
circuit. The
frequency division circuit (5} could be set by dosage time setting switch (6)
to divided
input pulse by 6,8,12 and 24. The dosage time setting switch (6) is a standard
four-shift
switch. Each shift is labeled with a number. Each number indicates the number
of times
the alarm is to sound in one day. The control center (1) works like this: The
hourly output
pulses from oscillate circuit (4) axe been sent to the frequency division
circuit (5). The
frequency division circuit (5) divides input pulse by 6, 8, 12 and 24
controlled by the
dosage times setting switch (6}. After the frequency division circuit (5),
these hourly
pulses become 4, 3, 2 and 1 pulse per 24 hours. The output of the frequency
division
circuit triggers buzzer (7) to make sound reminder every 6, 8, 12 or 24 hours
as
controlled by the dosage times setting switch (6). In case all shifts of the
dosage time
switch are at OFF position, the frequency division circuit (5) has no output
and the buzzer
(7) should never make sound.
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The cap position controlled switch (2) contains a spring contactor (9) and a
fixed
contactor (10). When the Smart Medicine Bottle Cap screwed on bottle, the
spring
contactor (9) and fixed contactor (10) should contact and turn on the control
center (1):
the oscillate circuit (4) start work and output hourly pulses, the frequency
circuit (5) start
to calculate pulses number, after the frequency division circuit (5) get
enough pulses, it
trigger buzzer (7) to make sound. When the Smart Cap has been screwed off from
the
bottle, the spring contactor (9) and the fixed contactor {10) disconnect. The
control center
should be turned off and alarmed stopped. After the user eaten their medicine
and
screwed the cap onto bottle, the control center (1) should turn on again:
Oscillate circuit
(4) begin to send out hourly pulse, frequency division circuit (5) start count
pulses
number until next time to trigger buzzer.
EXAMPLE OF USE:
When the patient first starts to use the bottle of medicine that has smart
medicine cap, he
or she should turn one of the shifts on dosage times setting switch (6) to ON
position
according to the dosage frequency described in the prescription. For example,
if a
medicine needs to be taken 3 times per day, the shift that is labeled with
number 3 should
be put at ON position. After the shift is switched on, the buzzer will sound
each 8 hours
to remind the user to take medicine. Once the alarm starts to sound it can be
turned off
only when the user detaches or unscrews the cap from the bottle. In this way,
the
medicine user should never forget to take their medicine on time.
When medication container is not in use, the buzzer should never sound by
switch all the
shifts on the dosage times setting switch (6) to OFF position. If the medicine
is not in use
for longer time, user also can take away battery (8) to make the battery last
long time.
BRIEF DESCTIPTION OF THE PICTURES:
Fig. 1 is the top view of the smart medicine bottle cap
Fig. 2 is block diagram of the control center and its connection with cap
position
controlled switch
Fig. 3 is the view of the smart bottle cap A section
Fig. 4 is the view of the smart bottle cap B section
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Representative Drawing