Medication timing device
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1. A portable medicament regime control device, comprising:
- a housing having an upper face,display means associated with said upper face having a plurality of individual displays arranged in a first row of side-by-side displays each adapted to selectively display individual and different alphabetic letters and a second row of side-by-side displays aligned with the individual displays of the first row and each adapted to selectively display individual numerals therein, andpreprogrammed electronic circuit means within said housing and operatively connected to said display means for controlling interchangeable and selected messages conveyed by at least one combination of an alphabetic letter in a display in said first row and a numeral in an aligned display in said second row, including a message corresponding to the number of units of medication indicated by a displayed numeral of selected ones of different medicaments indicated by a displayed alphabetic letter aligned with a displayed numeral in accordance with an established medicament regime.
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Abstract
A medication regime control device employs a plurality of liquid crystal displays controlled by a preprogrammed electronic circuit to display to a patient the number of doses of selected identified medications to be consumed at the time of display and any special instructions with respect thereto. The device acts as a watch and personal identifier between displays of the need to take medication.
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1. A portable medicament regime control device, comprising:
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a housing having an upper face, display means associated with said upper face having a plurality of individual displays arranged in a first row of side-by-side displays each adapted to selectively display individual and different alphabetic letters and a second row of side-by-side displays aligned with the individual displays of the first row and each adapted to selectively display individual numerals therein, and preprogrammed electronic circuit means within said housing and operatively connected to said display means for controlling interchangeable and selected messages conveyed by at least one combination of an alphabetic letter in a display in said first row and a numeral in an aligned display in said second row, including a message corresponding to the number of units of medication indicated by a displayed numeral of selected ones of different medicaments indicated by a displayed alphabetic letter aligned with a displayed numeral in accordance with an established medicament regime. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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9. A medicament regime control device, comprising:
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a housing having an upper face, display means associated with said upper face having a plurality of individual displays arranged in a first row and a second row of displays, each adapted to selectively display individual numerals therein, preprogrammed electronic circuit means within said housing and operatively connected to said display means for controlling interchangeable and selected messages conveyed by a numeral in at least one of said displays in said first and second row, including a message conveying the number of units of medication indicated by a displayed numeral of selected ones of differing medicaments conveyed by an aligned indicia, and means for providing individual distinguished indicia on said upper face one adjacent each of said individual displays corresponding to individual medicaments to be taken by a patient in accordance with an established medicament regime. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A medicament regime control device, comprising:
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a housing having an upper face, display means associated with said upper face having a plurality of individual displays arranged in a first row of displays arranged in a first row of side-by-side displays each adapted to selectively display individual numerals therein and in a second row of side-by-side displays each adapted to selectively display individual symbols, preprogrammed electronic circuit means within said housing and operatively connected to said display means for controlling interchangeable and selected different message conveyed by a numeral in a display in said first row and a combination of symbols in displays in said second row, including a message corresponding to a number of units of medication indicated by a displayed numeral of selected ones of different medicaments conveyed by an aligned indicia, and means for providing individual distinguished indicia on said upper face one adjacent each of said individual displays in said first row corresponding to individual medicaments to be taken by a patient in accordance with an established medicament regime. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
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