MEDICAMENT TRAINING DEVICE AND SYSTEM

• US 20150170545A1
• Filed: 10/03/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Noble International, Inc. (AptarGroup Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Promising Ground LLC
• Inventors: Baker, Jeff, van der Pol, Paul, Baker, Craig, Bunker, Mark, Freytag, Seth, Marulanda, Karina, Siemer, Francis Michael, Palyo, Matthew, Shuang, Hou Shi, Chung, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 9,767,708 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/285 for injections, endoscopy, bronchoscopy, sigmoidscopy, insertion of contraceptive devices or enemas

Abstract

In one embodiment, a medicament system configured to communicate information about a medicament device or about a use of a medicament device, or a combination thereof, to a user, is provided. The medicament system may include a medicament device including a housing, and a collateral device, wherein the collateral device may include an information detecting and/or receiving component configured to receive information from the medicament device and/or a sending component configured to send information to the medicament device, and optionally at least one of: a) a signal output component; b) a microprocessor; c) a storage medium component; and d) a power source, and wherein the medicament device may be configured to generate information detectable by the collateral device, or transmit information to the collateral device, wherein the collateral device may be configured to detect and/or receive information about the medicament device from the medicament device and provide information about the medicament device and/or a feedback about a use of the medicament device to a user of the system. The medicament device may further include a transmitter configured to communicate information and/or signals from the medicament device to the collateral device and/or a remote device, and/or receive information and/or signals from a collateral device and/or a remote device.

Claims

1. A medicament system configured to communicate information about a medicament device or about a use of a medicament device, or a combination thereof, to a user, said medicament system comprising:

a medicament device comprising a housing;

a collateral device, said collateral device comprises an information sending, detecting and/or receiving component configured to receive information from the medicament device and/or send information to the medicament device, and optionally at least one of;

a) a signal output component;

b) a microprocessor;

c) a storage medium component; and

d) a power source

wherein the medicament device is configured to generate information detectable by or transmit information to the collateral device and wherein said collateral device is configured to detect and/or receive information about the medicament device from the medicament device and and/or send information to the medicament device, and provide information about the medicament device and/or a feedback about a use of the medicament device to a user of the system.

2. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein said signal output component is configured to output an audio, a visual, a tactile, a gustatory, or an olfactory signal, or a combination thereof, to the user.

3. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the collateral device comprises a Smartphone.

4. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the collateral device comprises the power source.

5. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the detecting component detects movement of the medicament device or components thereof.

6. The medicament system of claim 5, wherein the detecting component comprises a camera and/or a motion sensor.

7. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the receiving component is configured to receive a signal from the medicament device, said signal provides information about the medicament device, a medicament associated with the device, and/or a use of the medicament device.

8. The medicament system of claim 7, wherein the receiving component comprises a microphone and/or a vibration sensor, and the signal received from the medicament device is an audible signal and/or a vibration, wherein said microphone is configured to receive the audible signal from the medicament device, a vibration from the medicament device, and/or a mechanical sound produced by a mechanism comprising one or more mechanical components associated with the housing of the medicament device during use of the medicament device.

9. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the detecting component comprises a vibration sensor, said vibration sensor detects a vibration of the medicament device or a component thereof.

10. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the medicament device is a medicament training device, a medicament delivery device, or a combination thereof.

11. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the medicament device communicatingly connects to the collateral device via a wired or a wireless connection, wherein said connection provides a communication of power and/or information between the medicament device and the collateral device.

12. The medicament system of claim 11, wherein the wireless connection comprises a Bluetooth®

and/or an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology.

13. The medicament system of claim 12, wherein the RFID technology comprises an RFID transponder and an RFID reader.

14. The medicament system of claim 13, wherein the RFID transponder is associated with the collateral device and the RFID reader is associated with the medicament device, said medicament device comprising the power source, wherein the RFID reader of the medicament device powers the collateral device by way of the RFID transponder.

15. The medicament system of claim 13, wherein the RFID transponder is associated with the medicament device and the RFID reader is associated with the collateral device, said collateral device comprising the power source, wherein the RFID reader of the collateral device powers the medicament device by way of the RFID transponder.

16. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein one of the medicament device or the collateral device further comprises a unique identification component, said unique identification component comprising information about a medicament, the medicament device, use of the medicament device, or information about the collateral device, and the other of the medicament device or the collateral device further comprises a unique identification reader, said unique identification reader being configured to read information on the unique identification component.

17. The medicament system of claim 16, wherein the unique identification component is a bar code and the unique identification reader is a bar code reader.

18. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the collateral device comprises pre-programmed information about a medicament device.

19. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the collateral device is configured to download or receive information from a database, the Internet, and/or another device, said information comprises information about a medicament, a medicament device including instructions for use, contraindication of medicaments, information about a user, medicament dosage information, storage information, prescribing physician information, pharmacy information, manufacturer information, warning information, recall information, environmental data, geographical information, time zone information, MET (meteorological) data, storage information, supply chain information, transit data, and/or temperature data.

20. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the collateral device comprises the signal output component, the microprocessor, the storage medium component and the power source.

21. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the signal output component comprises a speaker, a display, a light, a vibration component, a smell-emitting component, or a temperature-changing component, or a combination thereof.

25. The medicament system of claim 1, wherein the system may provide instructions for using the medicament device in a sequence of steps, and wherein the microprocessor is configured to control a provision of the instructions for using the medicament device to the user in the sequence of steps and/or to provide an instruction to the user based on information detected and/or received by the information detecting and/or receiving component of the collateral device.

26. The medicament system of claim 1, further comprising a sensor, wherein the sensor is associated with the medicament device, said sensor being configured to detect a condition of the medicament device, wherein information about the condition detected is communicated to the collateral device and/or to the user.

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