INTELLIGENT FIRST AID KIT

• US 20130112590A1
• Filed: 11/05/2010
• Published: 05/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Save-Dummy S.L.
• Original Assignee: Save-Dummy S.L.
• Inventors: Santiago Fontaina, Jose Maria
• Granted Patent: US 8,978,980 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/570
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 17/00 First-aid kits
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/03 for pills or tablets containers for pills or tablets with special dispensing means therefor B65D83/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0084 for multiple medicaments
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

Intelligent first-aid kit (1) includes of a fixed first-aid kit of the conventional first-aid kits for storing the most important drugs which it is important to have for emergencies or chronic illnesses. A parallelepipedal is container divided into several elongated compartments (2), preferably with a rectangular cross section and a vertical orientation, which includes a drawer (3), an input reader (5.1), an output reader (5.2), a slot (4) for the insertion of an electronic health card, a keypad (6), a screen (7) and a control module (8).

Claims

1. An intelligent first aid kit comprising a fixed first aid kit for storing boxes of drugs labeled with bar codes for identification of the drugs, wherein drug input-output flow is vertical from the top towards the bottom, the first aid kit comprising:

a parallelepiped container divided into a plurality of elongated compartments with a vertical orientation, having a receiving drawer for drug collection, an output bar code reader in a lower side for automatically identifying the drug when the box passes in front of the bar cod reader, a slot for inserting an electronic card, a keypad, a display and a control module, wherein the first aid kit is equipped in an upper side with an input bar code reader for automatically identifying any drug introduced through an upper part of the first aid kit, and wherein the control module is configured for;

automatically registering an exact drug content of the first aid kit at all times by controlling all inputs and outputs of the drugs with information provided by the input bar code reader and the output bar code reader; and

recording the drug content of the first aid kit in a microchip of the electronic card inserted in the slot.

2. The intelligent first aid kit according to claim 1, wherein the boxes of drugs are labeled with bar codes containing information with an expiration date of the drug, wherein the control module is further configured for:

automatically registering, through the readings of the input bar code reader, the expiration date of the drugs stored in the first aid kit; and

recording the expiration date of the drugs stored in the first aid kit in the microchip of the electronic card inserted in the slot.

3. The intelligent first aid kit according to claim 1, wherein the control module is remotely accessible ‘

through wireless networks or a support of any other type.

4. (canceled)