Bottle cap medication timer

• US 7,907,477 B2
• Filed: 02/29/2008
• Issued: 03/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Scott Puzia
• Original Assignee: Scott Puzia
• Inventors: Puzia, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Miska; Vit W
• Application Number:
  US12/039,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20090052283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• Field of Search: 368/10, 368107-109, 368/110, 368/185, 368/187, 368/188, 221/2, 221/3, 221/15, 215/228, 215/230
• US Class Current: 368/10
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0472 of the count-down type, i.e. counting down a predetermined interval after each reset
• CPC Class Codes: G04F 1/005 using electronic timing, e.g. counting means pulse time delay arrangements H03K5/13; modifications of electronic switches for introducing a time delay before switching H03K17/28
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 13/026 acting at a number of different times

Abstract

A disposable electronic timer in the form of a disk having a liquid crystal or similar display, adapted to be glued to a medication bottle cap. A lower major surface of the timer has an adhesive layer with a cover that can be peeled off to expose the adhesive so that the timer can be secured to the bottle cap. The upper major surface of the timer contains the timer display and a control button that in one mode starts the timer so that an alarm within the timer sounds after a preset time interval, and in another mode sets or resets the timer to a different preset time interval. Operating power is supplied by a battery within the timer.

Claims

1. A disposable variable interval electronic timer for facilitating the dosing of medication comprising:

a disk adapted to be affixed to a medication bottle cap, said disk having upper and lower major surfaces and comprising a timer having (i) a timer circuit, (ii) a timer display adjacent the upper major surface of the disk, and (iii) means for supplying electrical power to said circuit and display;

an adhesive layer on the lower major surface of the disk, said layer having a cover that can be peeled off to expose the adhesive layer so that the timer can be secured to the bottle cap; and

a control button operatively associated with said circuit that (i) in a start-stop mode starts the timer when the control button is pressed for less than a first predetermined number of seconds so that an alarm within the timer sounds after a preset time interval, and (ii) in an interval setting mode sets the timer to a different preset time interval when the control button is pressed for at least a second predetermined number of seconds to cause a preset hourly interval number to display and begin to increment up one hour at a time, held until the desired preset time interval is displayed, and then released to set the number then displayed as the new hourly interval.

2. The timer according to claim 1, wherein said disk includes start-stop and reset buttons for operating the timer in a stopwatch mode, with the time elapsed from the last time the start-stop button was used to start the timer being continuously displayed.