CN111361863A

CN111361863A - Medicine dispensing device and intelligent medicine chest

Info

Publication number: CN111361863A
Application number: CN202010292806.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李小磊; 孙耀; 吕大玮
Original assignee: Beijing Meibos Intelligent Technology Development Co ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Meibos Intelligent Technology Development Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-15
Filing date: 2020-04-15
Publication date: 2020-07-03

Abstract

The invention relates to a medicine distribution device and an intelligent medicine box, which comprise a medicine inlet side, a medicine outlet side and a first communication mechanism for communicating the medicine inlet side with the medicine outlet side, wherein the first communication mechanism can perform circular motion, a medicine inlet shielding mechanism positioned on the medicine inlet side and a medicine outlet shielding mechanism positioned on the medicine outlet side, and the circular motion is performed between a position a and a position b: the first communication mechanism is communicated on the medicine inlet side and is shielded by the medicine outlet shielding mechanism on the medicine outlet side; and the first communicating mechanism is communicated with the medicine outlet side and is simultaneously shielded by the medicine inlet shielding mechanism on the medicine inlet side, the first communicating mechanism comprises a medicine falling channel for communicating the medicine inlet side with the medicine outlet side and a control motor for driving the medicine falling channel to perform circular motion, and the size of the medicine falling channel can accommodate a specified number of medicines.

Description

Medicine dispensing device and intelligent medicine chest

Technical Field

The invention relates to a medicine dispensing device and an intelligent medicine box.

Background

The intelligent medicine box has a large market demand for chronic diseases, but the current domestic popular intelligent medicine box can not effectively meet the user demand, the distribution of medicines is realized by adopting a mode of more manual intervention, and the distribution of the medicines is uncontrollable to a certain extent, so that more or less tablets are distributed wrongly. On the other hand, the intelligence and the security of the existing intelligent medicine chest are not high enough.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to realize accurate distribution of medicines and improve the intelligence and safety of a medicine chest.

To achieve the above object, a first aspect of the present invention relates to a medication dispensing apparatus comprising:

the drug inlet side and the drug outlet side, an

A first communicating mechanism for communicating the drug inlet side and the drug outlet side, the first communicating mechanism being capable of circular motion, an

A medicine-feeding shielding mechanism located on the medicine-feeding side, an

A medicine discharging shielding mechanism positioned at the medicine discharging side,

the circular movement is carried out between a position a and a position b:

the first communication mechanism is communicated on the medicine inlet side and is shielded by the medicine outlet shielding mechanism on the medicine outlet side;

the first communicating mechanism is communicated at the medicine outlet side and is shielded by the medicine inlet shielding mechanism at the medicine inlet side,

the first communicating mechanism comprises a medicine falling channel for communicating the medicine inlet side and the medicine outlet side and a control motor for driving the medicine falling channel to perform circular motion,

the drop channel is sized to hold a designated number of portions of the medicament.

Preferably, first communication mechanism includes the tray that falls, has on the tray that falls the medicine passageway, the control motor rotates through the drive tray that falls and makes the medicine passageway that falls carry out circular motion.

Preferably, the medicine dropping plate comprises a plurality of superposed adjusting plates, a first medicine dropping opening used for forming the medicine dropping channel is formed in each adjusting plate, and the superposed first medicine dropping openings of the adjusting plates form the medicine dropping channel.

Preferably, the charge pan that falls still includes the charge head that falls, the adjustment disk on have a plurality of not equidimension first charge mouths that fall, fall overhead have with the adjustment disk on one of them first charge mouths that fall the second that corresponds of size with be used for sheltering from the bottom surface that shelters from other first charge mouths that fall, the charge head that falls superposes on the adjustment disk of top, the second falls charge mouths and first charge mouths that fall superposes and constitutes the passageway that falls.

Preferably, the medicine feeding shielding mechanism is connected with the adjusting mechanism, and the adjusting mechanism adjusts the position of the medicine feeding shielding mechanism to adapt to the height of the medicine falling plate.

Preferably, the adjusting mechanism is a rack adjusting mechanism arranged along the adjusting direction.

Preferably, the rack adjusting mechanism comprises an adjusting rack, an adjusting slider and a holding surface, the tooth surface of the rack and the holding surface are located on the same side and are parallel, the adjusting slider is arranged between the adjusting rack and the holding surface, the holding surface holds the tooth part on the adjusting slider on the tooth surface of the adjusting rack, the adjusting slider comprises a fixing part for fixing the medicine feeding shielding mechanism and an adjusting part for adjusting the position, the adjusting part comprises one or more elastic arms, the elastic arms are provided with tooth parts matched with the rack, and the tooth parts form pressure on the rack through the elastic arms.

Preferably, the medicine inlet shielding mechanism is provided with a medicine inlet shielding surface for shielding the medicine inlet side opening of the medicine falling channel at the position b.

Preferably, the medicine feeding shielding mechanism is also provided with a shovel edge used for shoveling and lifting the medicine at the medicine feeding side opening of the medicine feeding channel when the medicine feeding channel passes through.

Preferably, the medicine discharging shielding mechanism has a medicine discharging shielding surface for shielding the medicine discharging side opening of the medicine dropping passage at the position a.

Preferably, the medicine discharging shielding mechanism is also provided with a medicine discharging port, and when the medicine discharging port is at the position b, the opening at the medicine discharging side of the medicine falling channel is communicated with the second medicine discharging port.

Preferably, the medicine pot is provided, the bottom of the medicine pot is open, and the medicine inlet side is arranged in the medicine pot.

Preferably, the medicinal cupping has a cylindrical inner wall, first intercommunication mechanism advance the medicine side still possess central cylinder portion and encircle to connect in the eaves portion of central cylinder portion week side, the opening that the passageway of falling medicine entered the medicine side is arranged the eaves portion on, the circumference profile and the laminating of medicinal cupping inner wall of eaves portion, the inner wall of medicinal cupping, the side and the eaves portion of central cylinder portion constitute the annular groove of falling medicine that is used for placing the medicine, the passageway of falling medicine is in the annular groove of falling medicine of opening that advances the medicine side.

Preferably, the head of the central cylindrical portion is a ball head.

Preferably, the annular chute is of a width to accommodate a single dose of medicament.

Preferably, the medicine feeding shielding mechanism, the medicine discharging shielding mechanism and the first communication mechanism are arranged in the medicine tank.

Preferably, including the base plate, have the medicinal cupping mounted position on the base plate, be provided with the third mouth that falls that is used for falling the medicine on the medicinal cupping mounted position, install on the medicinal cupping mounted position bottom the medicinal cupping, the medicine that goes out the medicine side can fall from the third mouth that falls.

Preferably, the side of the medicine tank is provided with a plurality of rotary buckles, the base plate is provided with a rotary buckle groove matched with the rotary buckles, and the medicine tank and the base plate are fixed by rotating the rotary buckles and the rotary buckle groove to the right position

Preferably, the cylinder body is further provided with a touch surface, the base plate is provided with a micro switch, when the turnbuckle and the turnbuckle groove rotate to the position, the touch surface just touches the micro switch, and the micro switch is used for controlling the step motor to be electrified.

Preferably, the plurality of turnbuckles include a first turnbuckle for fool-proofing and the rest of second turnbuckles.

Preferably, the rotary buckle and the rotary buckle groove are provided with a positioning convex part and a positioning concave part which are matched with each other, and when the rotary buckle and the rotary buckle groove rotate to the position, the positioning convex part and the positioning concave part are matched with each other to realize positioning.

Another aspect of the invention relates to a smart medicine box comprising the medicine dispensing device described above.

Preferably, a hopper is included for collecting the medicament falling from each medicament dispensing device.

Preferably, a sensing counter is arranged on the funnel outlet.

Preferably, the device comprises a camera, a key, a processor and a storage device, wherein the processor is configured to process a module stored in the storage device, and the module comprises:

the camera control module sends a control signal to the camera according to the shooting instruction, controls the camera to shoot the face image and the medicine bar code,

an acquisition module for acquiring the face image shot by the camera,

an input device for inputting a user password, the dosage, the quantity and the administration time of the medicine,

a user management module for setting the collected face recognition image as the face recognition image of the user according to the user management instruction,

a pattern recognition module for recognizing human face from the collected human face recognition image and the human face recognition image of the user according to the recognition instruction, generating medicine information according to the photographed medicine bar code image,

the medicine management module is used for establishing a corresponding relation between medicine information and the position of the motor, establishing the configuration of the control motor according to the input medicine dosage, rotating the control motor corresponding to each dosage of configured medicine to drive the medicine falling channel to rotate through the position a to the position b once, generating reminding time according to the input medicine taking time, increasing the count of the corresponding medicine according to the input medicine quantity, reducing the corresponding count of the corresponding medicine according to the dosage of the falling medicine,

preferably, the mobile terminal further comprises a transceiving component, the module further comprises a communication module, the motor control module receives the key signal after the medicine taking time of the communication module is over a certain time, and the communication module controls the transceiving component to send a reminding message to the mobile terminal.

Preferably, the module further comprises a reminding module, and the reminding module controls the loudspeaker to play reminding sound according to reminding time and quality guarantee period.

Preferably, the medicine taking box is further included for emergency medicine taking.

Preferably, still include drawer mechanism, drawer mechanism include complex drawer and drawer box, drawer box set up in the bottom of intelligent medical kit.

The structure of the medicine distribution device can realize accurate distribution of the medicine, and the intelligent medicine box adopting the medicine distribution device is more intelligent and safer.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an external structure schematic diagram of an intelligent medicine box.

Fig. 2 is an internal structure schematic diagram of the intelligent medicine chest.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a single unit dispensing mechanism.

Fig. 4 is a schematic view of the installation of the canister and the base plate.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the second turnbuckle.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a substrate.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view taken along the plane a-a of fig. 3.

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a touch surface activated micro switch.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view of part I of fig. 1.

Fig. 10 is a schematic position diagram of the adjustment mechanism.

Fig. 11 is a schematic view of an exploded structure of the medication dispensing apparatus.

Fig. 12 is a bottom structure diagram of the medicine dispensing package.

Fig. 13 is a sectional view taken along the plane B-B of fig. 12.

Fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of the adjusting slider.

Fig. 15 is a schematic structural view of the regulating member.

Fig. 16 is a schematic view of the position of the receptacle on the adjustment member.

Fig. 17 is an outer side structure diagram of the medicine feeding shielding mechanism.

Fig. 18 is a schematic view of the inner side structure of the medicine feeding blocking mechanism.

Figure 19 is an assembly schematic of the drop tray.

Fig. 20 is a schematic structural view of the medicine dropping head.

Fig. 21 is a bottom structure diagram of the medicine dropping head.

Fig. 22 is a schematic structural view of the adjustment disk.

Fig. 23 is a schematic view of the state after the medicine enters the medicine storage cavity.

Figure 24 is a schematic view of the medication dispensing apparatus in operation.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be further described with reference to the following examples and the accompanying drawings.

The "drug" in the present embodiment includes, but is not limited to, capsules, tablets, pills, granules, liquid preparations with package, gas preparations, semi-solid preparations, and various shaped drug preparations.

This embodiment is through providing a different medicine dispensing device in intelligent medical kit to realize the accurate distribution of medicine, and improve the security and the intelligent of intelligent medical kit. As shown in fig. 2, a plurality of rows of medicine dispensing devices 21 shown in fig. 2 are provided in the housing 10 of the intelligent medicine boxes in a grouped manner. The medicine falls from the medicine dispensing device 21 and is collected by the hopper and sent to the medicine outlet 13 of the housing 10 so as to be taken by the user.

The medication dispensing apparatus comprises: a medicine inlet side and a medicine outlet side, and a first communicating mechanism for communicating the medicine inlet side and the medicine outlet side, the first communicating mechanism can perform circular motion, a medicine inlet shielding mechanism positioned at the medicine inlet side, and a medicine outlet shielding mechanism positioned at the medicine outlet side,

the circular movement is carried out between a position a and a position b:

the first communicating mechanism comprises a medicine falling channel 30 and a control motor, wherein the medicine falling channel 30 is used for communicating the medicine inlet side and the medicine outlet side, the control motor drives the medicine falling channel 30 to perform circular motion, and the size of the medicine falling channel 30 can contain the specified number of medicines.

The size of the medicine dropping channel is preferably capable of accommodating one medicine, as shown in fig. 24, when the medicine dispensing device with the structure is used for dropping the medicine, the control motor firstly rotates the medicine dropping channel to the position a, the single medicine drops into and stays in the medicine dropping channel and cannot directly drop out of the second medicine dropping port, and the medicine dropping of the single medicine is completed until the medicine dropping channel rotates to the position b.

The medicine dispensing device of this embodiment includes a medicine tank 500 having a cylindrical main body, as shown in fig. 11, the medicine tank 500 includes a cylindrical body formed by splicing left and

right half cylinders

511 and 512, and a tank cover 513 covering an opening at an upper portion of the cylindrical body, and a medicine inlet shielding mechanism, a medicine falling tray, and a medicine outlet shielding mechanism are disposed in the medicine tank from top to bottom. The medicine is stored on the medicine dropping plate in the medicine re-feeding tank, and the medicine in the medicine tank enters from the medicine inlet side of the medicine dropping plate, rotates through the medicine dropping plate and drops out from the medicine outlet side.

The medicine falling plate is provided with the medicine falling channel 30, and the control motor drives the medicine falling plate to rotate so that the medicine falling channel 30 performs circular motion. In some embodiments, the powder falling plate is composed of the powder falling head 400 and the adjustment plate 100 which are arranged in a stacked manner in the central axis direction. By stacking different numbers of adjustment discs 100, the length of the dropping channels 30 in the dropping discs can be adjusted to accommodate different lengths of medicament. On this basis, the adjusting disk on have the first medicine mouth 101 that falls of a plurality of not equidimensions along week side edge, the first 400 edge of falling have on with the adjusting disk 100 on one of them first medicine mouth 403 that falls that the size corresponds and be used for sheltering from the bottom surface that shelters from other first medicine mouths that fall, the first 400 superposes 100 on the adjusting disk of top that falls, the second medicine mouth 403 that falls constitutes with the first medicine mouth 101 superpose that falls fall the medicine passageway 30 that falls. During stacking, the second medicine falling port 403 and the corresponding first medicine falling port 101 vertically penetrate to form the medicine falling channel 30 adaptive to the size of the medicine, and the shielding bottom surface shields other first medicine falling ports 101, so that the size of the medicine falling channel 30 is selected.

In some embodiments, the medicine dropping head 400 further includes a central cylindrical portion 405 on the medicine feeding side, the brim 402 surrounds the central cylindrical portion 405, the periphery of the brim 402 is matched with the inner wall of the medicine tank, the side of the central cylindrical portion 405 and the brim 402 form an annular medicine dropping groove 407, and the annular medicine dropping groove 407 preferably has a width capable of accommodating only a single medicine, so that the medicines can be arranged along the annular medicine dropping groove 407 in one part, and the medicines can orderly fall into the medicine dropping channel 30. The head of central cylinder portion is a bulb 401 by cambered surface formation, and bulb 401's effect is in the annular medicine groove 407 that falls that leads to the outside with falling medicine, and the bulb can reduce the damage to the medicine simultaneously for the medicine can not take place damage, disappearance scheduling problem.

The medicine inlet shielding mechanism shields the medicine inlet side opening of the medicine falling channel and the medicine outlet shielding mechanism shields the medicine outlet side opening of the medicine falling channel, at least parts of the time are staggered, and therefore the medicine outlet side opening is shielded or reversed when the medicine inlet side opening of the medicine falling channel is opened. It shelters from mechanism and goes out medicine and shelters from the mechanism and pass through the position cooperation and make the medicine get into the medicine passageway and fall from the medicine passageway and be cut apart into two parts of discontinuity, can guarantee like this that all only fall the medicine of monodispersion at every turn, avoids because the passageway is continuous and makes the problem that the medicine falls in succession.

In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 11, the medicine-feeding shielding mechanism 200 is disposed on the brim 402 of the medicine-dropping head 400, as shown in fig. 17 and 18, the medicine-feeding shielding mechanism 200 has a first inclined surface 201 and a second inclined surface 202 opposite to each other in the circumferential direction, and a medicine-feeding shielding surface 203 for shielding the medicine-feeding side opening of the medicine-dropping channel 30, wherein the lower portion of the first inclined surface 201 intersects with the medicine-feeding shielding surface 203 to form a first flange 204, the lower portion of the second inclined surface 202 intersects with the medicine-feeding shielding surface 203 to form a second flange 26, and the upper portions of the first inclined surface 201 and the second inclined surface 202 intersect to form an ridge 205 for distributing medicine. It shelters from the mechanism setting to advance medicine and is in eaves portion 402 on, first shovel limit 204 is met to the direction of rotation, and part medicine slides to the annular in the medicine groove 407 that falls by first inclined plane 201 and the second inclined plane 202 of both sides after allocating by stupefied 205, and the opening that falls medicine passageway 30 and advance the medicine side when rotating through first shovel limit 204, the outer medicine of medicine passageway 30 import is shoveled to first shovel limit 204, and the import is sheltered from by advancing medicine and sheltering from face 203 afterwards.

The height of the medicine dropping plate can be changed due to the fact that the adjusting plates 100 with different numbers are stacked, and in order to adapt to the change of the height of the medicine dropping plate, the medicine feeding shielding mechanism 200 is matched with the height of the medicine dropping plate by adjusting the height of the medicine feeding shielding mechanism 200 through the adjusting mechanism 300. In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 11, the adjusting mechanism 300 is disposed on one side of the medicine container, a sliding groove 350 having a sliding direction in the same direction as the central axis is disposed on one side of the medicine container, as shown in fig. 13, a rack 310 and a holding surface 331 are disposed in the sliding groove 350 along the sliding direction, an adjusting slider 320 is disposed between the adjusting rack 310 and the holding surface 331, the holding surface 331 holds the adjusting slider 320 on the adjusting rack 310, the adjusting slider 320 includes a fixing portion 321 for fixing the medicine-feeding shielding mechanism and an adjusting portion for adjusting the position, the adjusting portion includes two elastic arms 325, the elastic arms 325 have tooth portions 324 engaged with the rack, the tooth portions 324 form a pressure on the rack 310 through the elastic arms 325, the fixing portion 321 in this embodiment is located at a lower position of the entire adjusting slider and is connected to the elastic arms 325 through a connecting portion 323, the connecting portion 323 should have a certain rigidity as a rigid support of the elastic arm 325 and the fixing portion 321. When the fixing part is adjusted, the adjusting slider 320 is pushed to slide on the rack 310, and after the fixing part is adjusted to the position, the tooth part 324 is kept meshed with the rack 310 through the elastic arm 325, so that the medicine feeding shielding mechanism 200 is fixed. In order to facilitate the pushing of the adjusting slider 320, the adjusting slider is provided with a pushing block 340, and the sliding groove is provided with an opening 332 for facilitating the movement of the pushing block.

Be provided with a medicine below that falls and shelter from the mechanism, the batch pan that falls is in play medicine shelter from rotating in the mechanism, as shown in fig. 11, play medicine shelter from the mechanism go up the part constitute position b department be used for sheltering from the second medicine mouth 515 that falls medicine passageway 30 play medicine side open-ended medicine and shelter from face 514 and be used for giving medicine to the next round of competitions, play medicine shelter from the mechanism can be with the structure of barrel integration, shelter from the center of mechanism at a medicine and reserve the through-hole that allows control motor and drive mechanism and fall the batch pan and be connected.

A plurality of canisters may be fixed together on the same base plate 600, one way of fixing is by a snap-on fixing as shown in fig. 4, and rotation of the canisters is secured in place by providing a fool-proof structure and a micro switch. The medicine tank is close to and has a plurality of spinner on the week side of bottom, be provided with medicine tank mounted position on the base plate 600, be provided with the third medicine mouth 605 that falls that is used for falling the medicine on the medicine tank mounted position, the medicine tank bottom is installed on medicine tank mounted position, the medicine that goes out the medicine side can fall from third medicine mouth 605 that falls, be provided with the flange 606 around barrel bottom week side on mounted position, have on the flange 606 with spiral knot complex spiral catching groove soon, medicine tank 500 realizes fixedly with the rotatory arrival position of catching groove through revolving the knot with revolving with base plate 600. As shown in fig. 4 and 5, the plurality of screws are located on the periphery of the bottom of the medicine container 500, in this embodiment, the screws further include a first screw 502 for fool-proofing and the remaining second screws 501, the length of the first screw 502 is longer than that of the other second screws 501, so as to ensure that the installation angle of the medicine container 500 can be fixed, thereby realizing the fool-proofing of the medicine container 500, and the shape of the first screw 502 can be different from that of the second screws 501. Correspondingly, a spiral buckle groove matched with the spiral buckle is formed in the base plate 600, the spiral buckle groove comprises a first spiral buckle groove 602 and a second spiral buckle groove 601 matched with the first spiral buckle 502 and the second spiral buckle 501, as shown in fig. 4, the structure of the spiral buckle groove comprises a vertical entrance part and a horizontal rotary channel. The installation method can be seen in fig. 4, the turnbuckle is inserted into the inlet of the corresponding turnbuckle slot along the direction of the dotted line in the figure, and is rotated to the bottom by the turning channel, at this time, the second dropping hole in the medicine tank 500 is located above the third dropping hole 605 on the base plate 600, and the rotation is completed. Further, in order to increase the positioning effect between the canister 500 and the base plate 600 when the canister is rotated in place, as shown in fig. 9, the rotation buckle and the rotation buckle slot in this embodiment have a positioning convex portion 504 and a positioning concave portion 604 which are matched, and when the rotation buckle and the rotation buckle slot are rotated to the position, the positioning convex portion 504 and the positioning concave portion 604 are matched to realize the positioning. The medicine tank 500 is provided with a touch surface 503 (shown in fig. 8), the base plate 600 is provided with a micro switch 603 (shown in fig. 7), when the micro switch is touched, the motor is electrified, and when the turnbuckle and the turnbuckle groove rotate to the position, the touch surface 503 just touches the micro switch 603. Referring to fig. 3, the bottom of the canister 500 is provided with a displacement space 505, during the rotation to the position, the micro switch 603 gradually approaches the touch surface 503 in the displacement space 505, when the canister rotates to the position, the touch surface 503 touches the micro switch 603, the micro switch 603 is pressed, and the motor is controlled to be powered on.

As shown in fig. 3, the control motor 801 is fixed below the substrate, and an output shaft of the control motor 801 passes through the substrate 600 and is connected to the tablet dropping tray through a rotating shaft 800, so as to drive the tablet dropping channel 30 to perform the circular motion. The control motor can adopt a stepping motor, and the stepping motor can be controlled by a driving circuit, an integrated circuit or a singlechip through programming software. In the invention, different medicines are stored in different medicine tanks, and the quantity of various medicines taken by a user per meal is different, so different configurations are required for different stepper motor works. Because the mode of giving medicine to of intelligence medical kit is that the control motor drives the position that medicine passageway 30 rotated and communicate with the medicinal cupping earlier, and a medicine falls into medicine passageway 30, and control motor continues to drive medicine passageway 30 rotation to the position that communicates with the second medicine mouth of giving medicine to fall at this in-process, and the medicine falls from the second medicine mouth of giving medicine to. Therefore, the number of the rotating circles of the motor is adjusted, so that the number of the falling medicines can be adjusted by adjusting the number of times that the medicine falling channel 30 passes through the two positions in sequence, further, different medicine tanks are configured with different numbers of the rotating circles, the distribution of the medicines is realized, and the design of the circuit and the control programming of the control motor can be designed and adjusted according to the prior art.

As shown in fig. 3, each row of the drug dispensing device has an intermediate funnel 22 that receives and collects the falling drug. As shown in fig. 2, a collecting hopper 23 is further provided below each intermediate hopper, and the medicines at the outlets of the hoppers are collected to the outlet 13 of the intelligent medicine chest. A sensing counter can be arranged at the outlet of the collecting funnel for counting.

In some embodiments, the intelligent medicine box may also be controlled through face recognition, and in this embodiment, the following devices need to be further provided in the intelligent medicine box:

a camera for shooting the face image and the information code of the medicine,

an input device 11 for inputting information about the medicine, such as dosage of each medicine, administration time, total amount of medicine added to the medicine tank, name of medicine, shelf life, etc., a user password, etc., may be a touch screen, a keyboard, etc.

The loudspeaker is used for playing prompt tones for prompting medicine taking.

And the transceiving component is used for transceiving information.

A key 14 for transmitting an activation signal.

A processor and a storage device, the processor configured to process the following modules stored in the storage device:

a camera control module for controlling the camera to shoot the face recognition image,

comprises an acquisition module for acquiring a face recognition image shot by a camera,

a user management module for setting the collected face recognition image as the face recognition image of the user,

a pattern recognition module for carrying out face recognition on the collected face recognition image and the face recognition image of the user,

the medicine management module is used for establishing a corresponding relation between medicines and motor positions, storing the dosage, the quantity, the medicine taking time and the quality guarantee period of the medicines, establishing the configuration of a control motor according to the medicine dosage, driving the medicine falling channel 30 to rotate through the position a to the position b once by rotating the control motor corresponding to each part of the medicine configured in dosage, generating reminding time according to the medicine taking time, adding a count according to the quantity,

and the motor control module receives a key signal of the key after the face recognition is passed, and controls each control motor to work according to the configuration after receiving the key signal.

And the communication module is used for controlling the transceiving component to send or receive the reminding information.

And the reminding module controls the loudspeaker to play reminding sound according to the reminding time and the quality guarantee period.

And the communication module controls the transceiver component to send a reminding message to the mobile terminal when the motor control module receives the key signal after the medicine taking time passes a certain time.

The method mainly comprises the following modes:

and (4) logging in by the user. The face image is shot through the camera and the password input by the input device is used as the password and the face image of the user.

And (4) inputting and adding medicines. Can unblock the input and the addition of medicine after face identification, scan the bar code on the medicine box through the camera, establish corresponding relation with the medicinal cupping of corresponding position as the label of medicine. The dosage, the quantity, the medicine taking time and the quality guarantee period of the medicines are input through the input equipment, the configuration of the control motor is established according to the medicine dosage, the control motor corresponding to each part of the medicine configured in the dosage rotates to drive the medicine falling channel 30 to rotate through the position a to the position b once, the reminding time is generated according to the medicine taking time, and the counting is added according to the quantity.

And (6) discharging the medicine. After the face recognition, the user presses the button for taking the medicine, the motor is controlled to work according to the configuration, and the medicines with corresponding quantity fall down and are conveyed to the outlet through the funnel.

And (5) monitoring the time. When reminding time, the reminding is played through the loudspeaker, if a user does not take medicine within a certain time, the communication module sends a reminding message to the mobile terminal through the transceiver module, and the reminding message can be directly sent point to point or can be sent through the server in a transfer mode. When the shelf life is up, the reminding is played through a loudspeaker, or a reminding message is sent to the mobile terminal through the transceiver module. When the medicine taking amount is less than one week, the device automatically prompts the supplement.

In some embodiments, the housing 10 may further include a drug-taking cassette 12 for emergency drug-taking, wherein the emergency drug-taking cassette 12 should be independent of the canister.

Meanwhile, the shell 10 may further be provided with a drawer mechanism 15, the drawer mechanism includes a drawer and a drawer box, and the drawer box is disposed at the bottom of the intelligent medicine box so that a user can store other articles.

The embodiments of the present invention are merely illustrative, and not restrictive, of the scope of the claims, and other substantially equivalent alternatives may occur to those skilled in the art and are within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A medication dispensing apparatus, comprising:

the drug inlet side and the drug outlet side, an

A medicine-feeding shielding mechanism located on the medicine-feeding side, an

the circular movement is carried out between a position a and a position b:

2. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 1 wherein said first communicating means comprises a dispensing plate having said dispensing channel formed therein, said dispensing channel being caused to undergo said circular motion by a control motor which drives said dispensing plate to rotate.

3. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 2 wherein said dispensing disc includes a plurality of stacked disks, said disks having first dispensing openings therein for defining said dispensing passage, said disks being stacked such that said first dispensing openings define said dispensing passage.

4. The medication dispensing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the dispensing tray further comprises a dispensing head, the regulating tray has a plurality of first dispensing openings with different sizes, the dispensing head has a second dispensing opening corresponding to one of the first dispensing openings on the regulating tray and a shielding bottom surface for shielding the other first dispensing openings, the dispensing head is stacked on the regulating tray at the top, and the second dispensing opening and the first dispensing opening are stacked to form the dispensing passage.

5. A medication dispensing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said medication intake shield mechanism is connected to an adjustment mechanism, said adjustment mechanism adjusting the position of said medication intake shield mechanism to accommodate the height of said drop tray.

6. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 5 wherein said adjustment mechanism is a rack adjustment mechanism disposed in an adjustment direction.

7. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 6 wherein said rack adjustment mechanism comprises an adjustment rack, an adjustment slider and a retaining surface, the tooth surface of said rack and said retaining surface being on the same side and parallel, said adjustment slider being disposed between said adjustment rack and said retaining surface, said retaining surface retaining teeth on said adjustment slider on said tooth surface of said adjustment rack, said adjustment slider comprising a fixed portion for securing said medication intake shielding mechanism and an adjustment portion for adjusting the position, said adjustment portion comprising one or more resilient arms having teeth thereon for engaging said rack, said teeth forming pressure against said rack via said resilient arms.

8. A medication dispensing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the medication intake blocking mechanism has a medication intake blocking surface for blocking the medication intake side opening of the medication dropping channel at position b.

9. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 8 wherein the medication intake shroud further comprises a scooping edge for scooping up and down the medication at the medication intake side opening of the medication intake passage as the medication intake passage passes therethrough.

10. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 1 wherein the medication discharge shield mechanism has a medication discharge shield surface for shielding the medication discharge side opening of the medication discharge channel at position a.

11. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 10 wherein the medication outlet shutter mechanism further comprises a medication outlet, and wherein in said position b, the opening on the medication outlet side of the medication outlet channel is in communication with the second medication outlet.

12. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 1 including a canister having an open bottom with said intake side within said canister.

13. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 12 wherein said canister has a cylindrical inner wall, said first communicating means further having a central cylindrical portion on a medication intake side and a brim portion circumferentially attached to a peripheral side of said central cylindrical portion, said brim portion having a peripheral contour conforming to said inner wall of said canister, said sides of said central cylindrical portion and said brim portion defining an annular chute for holding medication, said chute opening on said medication intake side being in said annular chute.

14. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 13 wherein the head portion of the central cylindrical portion is a bulbous head.

15. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 13 wherein the annular drop chute is of a width to receive a single dose of medication.

16. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 12 wherein said medication inlet shutter mechanism, said medication outlet shutter mechanism and said first communication mechanism are disposed in a canister.

17. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 16 including a base plate having a canister mounting location, a third drop opening for dropping medication being provided in the canister mounting location, the canister bottom being mounted in the canister mounting location, the medication on the discharge side being allowed to drop through the third drop opening.

18. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 17 wherein the canister has a plurality of tabs on a side thereof and the base has a tab slot for engaging the tabs, the canister and base being secured in place by rotation of the tabs and tab slots.

19. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 18 wherein said barrel further comprises a touch surface, said base plate having a micro switch, said touch surface just touching said micro switch when said knob and said knob slot are rotated into position, said micro switch for controlling said stepper motor to be energized.

20. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 18 wherein said plurality of knobs includes a first knob for fool-proofing and a remaining second knob.

21. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 20, wherein said turn-on and turn-on slots have mating alignment protrusions and alignment recesses, and wherein said alignment protrusions and said alignment recesses mate to achieve alignment when said turn-on and turn-on slots are rotated into position.

22. A smart kit characterised by comprising a medicament dispensing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 21.

23. A kit according to claim 22, comprising a hopper for collecting the falling medicament from each medicament dispensing device.

24. A smart medicine kit as claimed in claim 23, characterised in that a sensory counter is provided on the outlet of the hopper.

25. A smart medicine kit as recited in claim 22, including a camera, buttons, a processor and a storage device, the processor being configured to process modules stored in the storage device, the modules including:

an acquisition module for acquiring the face image shot by the camera,

the medicine management module is used for establishing a corresponding relation between medicine information and a motor position, establishing the configuration of a control motor according to the input medicine dosage, enabling the control motor corresponding to each dosage of configured medicine to rotate so as to drive the medicine falling channel to rotate through the position a to the position b once, generating reminding time according to the input medicine taking time, increasing the count of the corresponding medicine according to the input medicine quantity, and reducing the corresponding count of the corresponding medicine according to the dosage of the falling medicine.

26. A kit as claimed in claim 25, further comprising a transceiver module, said module further comprising a communication module for controlling the transceiver module to send a reminder message to the mobile terminal when the button signal is received by the motor control module after a certain time has elapsed since the medication time of the communication module.

27. A smart medicine box as recited in claim 25, further comprising a speaker, wherein the modules further comprise a reminder module, wherein the reminder module controls the speaker to play a reminder tone based on the reminder time and the expiration date.

28. A kit as claimed in claim 22, further comprising a pill box for emergency pill taking.

29. A smart medicine chest as recited in claim 22, further comprising a drawer mechanism, said drawer mechanism including cooperating drawer and drawer chest, said drawer chest disposed at the bottom of the smart medicine chest.