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Automated medication-dispensing cart

  • US 6,170,929 B1
  • Filed: 12/02/1998
  • Issued: 01/09/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automated medications-dispensing cart for use by a health care professional in dispensing medications to a plurality of patients, comprising:

  • a substantially closed portable cart housing, the cart housing including a flat top working surface for the nurse/health practitioner;

    a plurality of medication-containing bins;

    means for supporting the individual bins within the cart housing;

    means for moving the bins within the cart housing in a controlled manner, such that a bin can be stopped at a preselected position in the vicinity of the top front edge of the cart housing;

    means for opening a door assembly from a normally closed position and then returning it to its closed position, the door assembly being located at the preselected position, exposing a selected portion of the bin when it is in said preselected position; and

    an onboard microprocessor for controlling the movement of said moving means and said opening means, the microprocessor operating in response to a control signal from a computer source thereof, which is located external to the microprocessor.

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