Dose calculating dispenser using a body weight scale on a medicine dropper

• US 20090264815A1
• Filed: 06/11/2009
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1989
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jr., Jack Raymond Grogan
• Original Assignee: Jr., Jack Raymond Grogan
• Inventors: Grogan, Jack Raymond JR.
• Application Number:
  US12/456,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20090264815A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/78
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/00 Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes capsules or the like for oral use A61J3/07; specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments A61B50/30; containers for radioactive substances G21F5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0046 Cups, bottles or bags
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0053 Syringes, pipettes or oral dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3125 specific display means, e.g. to indicate dose setting
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6063 Optical identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3129 Syringe barrels A61M5/3205 and A61M5/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31525 Dosing burettes, pipettes B01L3/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31533 Dosing mechanisms, i.e. setting a dose administrating mechanisms A61M5/31565
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/0272 Dropper bottles
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 1/08 Adjusting, correcting or compensating means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 19/00 Calibrated capacity measures for fluids or fluent solid material, e.g. measuring cups

Abstract

A dose dispensing device such as a medicine dropper is improved by putting a dosing scale such as a body weight scale directly on the dose dispensing device. This improved device is used to simultaneously calculate and measure an exact dose of liquid medication, based on the body weight of the patient.

Claims

1. A dose calculating dispenser for measuring a liquid medication, consisting of a dispenser consisting of a medicine dropper, oral syringe, or cup, and at least one scale visible upon said dispenser, said scale using only conventional measuring units that are already used to measure characteristics related to body size consisting of pounds, kilograms, inches, centimeters, months, years, square meters, or square feet, said characteristics related to body size consisting of weight, length, BSA (body surface area), or age, the measuring units of the scale consisting of at least 2 discrete numerical points in a series, such that a change in body size related characteristic corresponds to a change in liquid medication volume, the numerical points directly representing the measuring units consisting of pounds, kilograms, inches, centimeters, months, years, square meters, or square feet, the scale generally positioned such that as the dispenser is filled to a specific numerical point, the dispenser calculates and contains a dose of liquid medication for a patient having that characteristic related to body size.