AUTOMATICALLY PROGRAMMABLE DISPENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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1. A pill dispensing system comprising:
- at least one container including a pill chamber having an opening;
a media attached to the container, the media including machine-readable data;
a mechanism for removing pills from the pill chamber through the opening;
a computer adapted to store the data and direct the mechanism to dispense pills from the pill chamber based on the data; and
an interface configured to transmit the data from the media to the computer
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Abstract
A pill dispensing apparatus to select medication from one or more pill chambers, including a dispensing mechanism, a controller and a computer. Each pill chamber includes media containing dosage and other information regarding the medication in the pill chamber and, optionally, personal medical data. A sensor reads the stored information and provides it to the computer and controller, causing the dispensing mechanism to dispense pills from the respective pill chambers based on the stored information.
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28 Claims
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1. A pill dispensing system comprising:
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at least one container including a pill chamber having an opening;
a media attached to the container, the media including machine-readable data;
a mechanism for removing pills from the pill chamber through the opening;
a computer adapted to store the data and direct the mechanism to dispense pills from the pill chamber based on the data; and
an interface configured to transmit the data from the media to the computer - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A container for use with a programmable pill dispenser having a dispensing mechanism, a computer and an interface, the container comprising:
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a chamber adapted to contain loose, randomly-oriented pills;
at least one chamber opening, sized to accept the pills and adapted to allow the dispensing mechanism to remove a pre-determined number of the pills from the chamber; and
a media that is readable by or through the interface, the media containing dosage information for the pills. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method comprising:
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loading pills into a chamber, the chamber being part of a container;
providing dosage information for the pills via machine-readable media that is affixed to the container. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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