Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
221003000 | Audible | 14 |
20080210701 | Medicinal Organizer - A medicinal organizer having a base and a plurality of containers. The base includes an alert system and a hanging arrangement. The plurality of containers is configured to be placed on the hanging arrangement. Each container is configured with at least one access opening disposed on a bottom section of each container allowing for the retrieval of medicinal item held within each respective container. Methods of using a medicinal organizer are also provided. | 09-04-2008 |
20080283540 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING SOLID PHARMACEUTICAL ARTICLES - An apparatus for dispensing pharmaceutical articles includes a housing assembly and an adjustment system. The housing assembly includes a first inlet wall and a second inlet wall that is moveable relative to the first inlet wall. The housing assembly defines a hopper chamber that houses pharmaceutical articles, and a dispensing channel fluidly connected to the hopper chamber. The dispensing channel has an inlet and an outlet and defines a flow path. The inlet is defined at least in part by the first and second inlet walls. The adjustment system is operable to adjust the position of the second inlet wall relative to the first inlet wall to adjust the size of the inlet to singulate the pharmaceutical articles passing through the inlet. The adjustment system includes an input mechanism and an operator feedback mechanism. The input mechanism is selectively operable by an operator to selectively move the second inlet wall relative to the first inlet wall. The operator feedback mechanism provides tactile and/or audible feedback to the operator responsive to operation of the input mechanism by the operator to indicate prescribed increments of movement of the second inlet wall relative to the first inlet wall. | 11-20-2008 |
20090108014 | Theft resistant product merchandiser - A product merchandiser stores a plurality of products, dispenses products one at a time and produces a sound when a product is dispensed. The product merchandiser may include a housing, a track, a door and a structure that produces sound. The housing has a proximal opening. The track may be disposed within the housing and directs products towards the proximal opening of the housing. The door is disposed near the proximal opening of the housing. The door pivotally connects to the housing and is movable from a first position to at least a second position. When the door is in its first position, a product is held at least partially within the housing. When the door is in its second position, a product is removable from the housing. The sound-producing structure produces a sound when the door is moved between its first position and its second position. | 04-30-2009 |
20090145918 | Merchandise dispenser with coil actuation - A theft-deterring merchandise dispensing apparatus has a chassis configured to provide limited access to an interior space housing merchandise in a secure manner. A knob is secured to a front panel of the chassis. The knob is secured to one end of an elongate wire coil, the knob and coil rotational about a common axis. An elongate cantilevered rod is mounted on a rear panel of the chassis and extensive therefrom within the coil, the rod terminating at a free end in proximity to the front panel. Units of merchandise are slidingly secured on the rod and positioned between windings of the coil so that rotation of the coil by the knob moves the packages along the rod to exit proximate the front panel. A noise-maker creates a noise when the knob is rotated to alert store personnel that products are being dispensed. | 06-11-2009 |
20090200327 | Dispensing apparatus - A dispensing apparatus having a housing adapted to receive material to be dispensed, such as medication; a signal mechanism; and a closure for mounting the signal mechanism on the housing so as to be operable to provide a signal in a first position and a second position in which the closure is removed from the housing to provide access to the material to be dispensed therewithin. | 08-13-2009 |
20100025417 | DISPENSING DEVICE - The invention pertains to a time-controlled dispensing device comprising at least a tray and a cover, which may be lockable, for example via snap fitting, for consecutive dispensing of doses of medicaments. The device comprises a desired number of storage compartments and/or cartridges, for example disposable cartridges, each containing a predetermined dose of one or several medicaments. The tray is fitted with a transporting means for displacing the tray to a position where a desired compartment and/or cartridge will be in the only dispensing position suitable for removal of the dose, as a response to a signal from a timing means. The timing means is connected to a reminder and/or an alarming means, directed to the person using the device and a person at a distance, respectively. By way of the alarming means, removal of doses is indicated, for example through the manipulation of a lever or a hatch, and a signal may be sent for example via GSM or via the internet. | 02-04-2010 |
20120024883 | SMALL ANIMAL TREAT DISPENSER - A treat dispenser for a pet animal enclosure, the treat dispenser allowing a user to selectively release a treat into the enclosure without having to open the enclosure. The treat dispenser may include a top with an opening into which a user may place a treat for the pet animal. The treat dispenser may include a user actuated mechanism to release a treat into a tube extending from the top to a bottom, the bottom including an opening to deliver the treat to the pet animal within the enclosure. | 02-02-2012 |
20120152972 | PORTABLE, PERSONAL MEDICATION DISPENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A portable, medication dispensing device which dispenses prepackaged pill strands of medication from a secure, storage compartment through a mechanism which physically limits the quantity dispensed per a pre-programmed protocol. The device has a detachable storage component which can be filled by trained clinical or pharmacy staff, which can be locked. The device has a dispensing mechanism, which employs a user-powered, hub to advance a pill strand of pre-packaged medications, when appropriate. This advancing hub is secured from advancing inappropriately by a locking mechanism where a sturdy piston is moved into and out of recesses in the rounded surface of the hub. The device also contains standard electronic components, including a power source, central processing unit (CPU), visual and auditory outputs, and communications ports. | 06-21-2012 |
20120298685 | Gumball machine with lights and sound - A gumball machine includes a gumball container that contains a plurality of gumballs, and a neck portion coupled to the gumball container. The gumball machine has an elongated transparent housing having an upper end coupled to the neck portion, and a base coupled to the lower end of the elongated housing. A speaker is positioned inside the base and is electrically coupled to a switch, a plurality of lighting elements are arranged inside the transparent housing and electrically coupled to the switch, and a power supply is housed inside the base and electrically coupled to the switch, the speaker and the lighting elements. When an actuator is actuated, the actuator turns on the switch to cause the lighting elements to flash, the speaker to broadcast sound and/or music, and a gumball to be dispensed from the gumball container. | 11-29-2012 |
20130032607 | Article dispensing apparatus - An article dispensing apparatus has a housing defining a first chamber and a second chamber that are divided by a dividing wall, a lid covering the second chamber and a cover covering the first chamber, with the first chamber holding a plurality of articles, and an opening provided in the dividing wall to allow an article to pass through to the second chamber. A figure is retained inside the second chamber, the figure having a pair of arms that are normally positioned adjacent the opening in the dividing wall to receive an article that is transferred from the first chamber via the opening in the dividing wall. An actuator is coupled to the figure to push the figure upwardly through the lid so that the figure, and the article held in the arms of the figure, are delivered outside the housing. | 02-07-2013 |
20140284348 | MEDICINE PACKET DISPENSING DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC REMINDER FUNCTION - A medicine packet dispensing device with an automatic reminder function comprises a box having a medicine discharge hole; a control device arranged in the box; and a medicine discharge module arranged in the box. The control device includes a processor used to set at least one medication time; at least one reminder unit controlled by the control device to emit an alert according to the medication time; and a plurality of medicine discharge operating interfaces used to input an instruction to the processor to enable the processor to generate a medicine discharge signal to the medicine discharge module. The medicine discharge module has medicine packet accommodation spaces for accommodating medicine packets and sends one medicine packet to the medicine discharge hole according to the medicine discharge signal. The present invention reminds the user to take medicine at designated times and allows the user to change the medication times. | 09-25-2014 |
20150048103 | Prophylactic Kit Apparatus - A prophylactic kit apparatus configured to be used with only a single patient includes a plurality of sealed modules and a housing configured to contain those sealed modules such that only one of the plurality of sealed modules can be removed from the housing at a time. Each of the plurality of sealed modules contains at least one prophylactic agent to be used in service of the patient. These sealed modules are to be used in a particular order and the housing is further configured to facilitate the removal of the sealed modules in only that particular order. | 02-19-2015 |
20150129602 | MEDICATION ADHERENCE AND CONTAINER SYSTEM FOR UNDER AND OVERDOSE SAFEGUARD - A medication adherence and container system for informing a patient when it is time to and not to take medication; for storing medicine information sheets with the medicine containers; and holding the medicine containers in arranged clusters, having containers and caps which interact between each other as switches with the electrical circuits provided. The electrical circuits have a timing device which can be set for a predetermined elapsed time and provides a continuous signal, such as a colored light, during the running of said predetermined time to indicate “not to take medication” and then provides a different signal, such as a different colored light, when the predetermined time has lapsed to indicate “take medication” and continues that signal until being reset upon breaking the electrical circuit between cap and container and restarting the timing device on closing the circuit between cap and container for measuring another predetermined elapsed time. | 05-14-2015 |
20160136056 | MEDICATION ALARM, DISPENSER AND RECORDS ARCHIVE SYSTEM AND APPARATUS - A medication alarm, dispenser and records archive system and apparatus for providing interactive alert and informational functions in conjunction with a partitioned medication receptacle. Such an interactive medication receptacle system comprises an interactive electronic section slidably disposed on a pill storage section. The storage section includes a plurality of discrete compartments, each labeled with a day of the week. The electronic section includes an electronic touch screen with its front surface, a USB receptacle on its top side, and a processing housing that extends internally across the entire width of the top of electronic section and includes the primary operative computer components of the interactive medication receptacle system. The entire internal area of the electronic section below the processing housing is substantially hollow, thereby enabling it to slide over and encase the storage section. | 05-19-2016 |