Medicine administering system including injection pen and companion device
First Claim
1. A system for administering a medicine to a patient, comprising:
- an injection pen device comprising;
a housing including a main body structured to include a chamber to encase a cartridge containing medicine upon loading of the cartridge in the chamber;
a dose setting and dispensing mechanism to set and dispense a particular dose of the medicine from the cartridge, the dose setting and dispensing mechanism including a dose knob, a shaft, and a plunger, wherein the dose knob is rotatable to cause the shaft to move to a position proportional to a set dose of the medicine, and wherein the dose knob is operable to move translationally to cause the shaft to drive the plunger to dispense the medicine from the cartridge;
a sensor to detect a dispensed dose, andan electronics unit in communication with the sensor unit, the electronics unit including a processor and a non-transitory memory to process the detected dispensed dose and time data associated with a dispensing event to generate dose data, a power source to provide electrical power to the electronics unit, and a transmitter; and
a mobile communication device including a software application program product stored in a memory of the mobile communication device and including instructions operable to cause the mobile communication device to process one or more of the dose data corresponding to one or more dispensing events to form a dose dispensing sequence such that the dispensing events of the dose dispensing sequence all occur in temporal proximity of one another that span less than a predetermined temporal threshold, and the last dispensing event in the dose dispensing sequence is identified as the injection event and one or more of the dispensing events other than the last dispensing events in the dose dispensing sequence are identified as the priming events regardless of relative sizes of the dispensing events,wherein the transmitter of the injection pen device is operable to wirelessly transmit the dose data to the mobile communication device.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for administering a medicament to a patient. In one aspect, a system includes an injection pen device in wireless communication with a mobile communication device. The injection pen device includes a housing including a chamber to encase a cartridge containing medicine, a dose setting and dispensing mechanism to set the mechanism to dispense a particular dose of the medicine from the loaded cartridge, a sensor unit to detect a dispensed dose based on positions and/or movements of the dose setting and dispensing mechanism, and an electronics unit in communication with the sensor unit to process the detected dispensed dose and time data associated with a dispensing event and to wirelessly transmit the dose data to a user'"'"'s device. The mobile communication device provides a software application to provide the user with health information using the processed dose data.
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31 Claims
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1. A system for administering a medicine to a patient, comprising:
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an injection pen device comprising; a housing including a main body structured to include a chamber to encase a cartridge containing medicine upon loading of the cartridge in the chamber; a dose setting and dispensing mechanism to set and dispense a particular dose of the medicine from the cartridge, the dose setting and dispensing mechanism including a dose knob, a shaft, and a plunger, wherein the dose knob is rotatable to cause the shaft to move to a position proportional to a set dose of the medicine, and wherein the dose knob is operable to move translationally to cause the shaft to drive the plunger to dispense the medicine from the cartridge; a sensor to detect a dispensed dose, and an electronics unit in communication with the sensor unit, the electronics unit including a processor and a non-transitory memory to process the detected dispensed dose and time data associated with a dispensing event to generate dose data, a power source to provide electrical power to the electronics unit, and a transmitter; and a mobile communication device including a software application program product stored in a memory of the mobile communication device and including instructions operable to cause the mobile communication device to process one or more of the dose data corresponding to one or more dispensing events to form a dose dispensing sequence such that the dispensing events of the dose dispensing sequence all occur in temporal proximity of one another that span less than a predetermined temporal threshold, and the last dispensing event in the dose dispensing sequence is identified as the injection event and one or more of the dispensing events other than the last dispensing events in the dose dispensing sequence are identified as the priming events regardless of relative sizes of the dispensing events, wherein the transmitter of the injection pen device is operable to wirelessly transmit the dose data to the mobile communication device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for administering a medicine to a patient, comprising:
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an injection pen device comprising; a housing including a main body structured to include a chamber to encase a cartridge containing medicine upon loading of the cartridge in the chamber; a dose setting and dispensing mechanism to set and dispense a particular dose of the medicine from the cartridge, the dose setting and dispensing mechanism including a dose knob, a shaft, and a plunger, wherein the plunger includes a screw component, wherein the dose knob is rotatable to cause the shaft to move to a position proportional to a set dose of the medicine, and wherein the dose knob is moveable to cause the shaft to drive the plunger to dispense the medicine from the cartridge; a sensor to detect a dispensed dose, wherein the sensor includes an encoder, a needle assembly to penetrate the skin of a user for dispensing the medicine, an injection sensor operable to detect a signal indicative of proximity between the needle assembly and the user, and an electronics unit in communication with the sensor unit, the electronics unit including a processor and a non-transitory memory to process the detected dispensed dose and time data associated with a dispensing event to generate dose data, a power source to provide electrical power to the electronics unit, and a transmitter; and a mobile communication device including a software application program product stored in a memory of the mobile communication device and including instructions operable to cause the mobile communication device to process the dose data associated with the medicine dispensed from the injection pen device, and process the detected signal indicative of proximity to assign the detected dispensed dose as an injection dose, wherein the transmitter of the injection pen device is operable to wirelessly transmit the dose data to the mobile communication device, and wherein the encoder is operable to detect a replacement of the cartridge based on detecting a retraction of the screw component in an opposing direction from a direction to dispense the dose. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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