CN111407649A

CN111407649A - Bottle cap capable of reminding people to take medicine

Info

Publication number: CN111407649A
Application number: CN202010328234.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 程迪; 张举中; 刘艳菊; 王霞
Original assignee: Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine HUTCM
Current assignee: Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine HUTCM
Priority date: 2020-04-23
Filing date: 2020-04-23
Publication date: 2020-07-14

Abstract

The invention relates to a medicine taking reminding bottle cap, which can effectively solve the problem that the operation is inconvenient because a reminding device needs to be fixed on the wall of a bottle in the prior art, and the technical scheme is that the medicine taking reminding bottle cap comprises an inner cap, an outer cap, an elastic device and an indicator, wherein the outer cap is sleeved on the inner cap, the bottom of the inner cap is connected with an original medicine bottle cap of the medicine bottle or replaces the original medicine bottle cap and is directly in threaded connection with the medicine bottle, the outer cap is connected with the inner cap through the elastic device, the top or the side surface of the outer cap is connected with the indicator, and the indicator can change the display state through pressing.

Description

Bottle cap capable of reminding people to take medicine

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of medicine and food packaging, in particular to a medicine taking reminding bottle cap.

Background

Patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes usually need to take medicines many times a day to maintain health. The time of taking medicine is generally before or after breakfast, lunch or supper, and a common patient can remind himself to take medicine at this moment, but some patients, especially the old, often don't remember whether the patient has taken medicine at a certain time or not due to various reasons such as memory deterioration, and easily cause that the patient does not take medicine on time or repeatedly takes medicine in excessive amount, thereby affecting the body health of the patient and sometimes even endangering the life safety of the patient. Therefore, there is a need to develop a medicine-taking reminding device for reminding a patient that a medicine is taken or not taken at a certain time, so as to avoid forgetting to take the medicine or taking more medicines. The medicine taking reminding products in the current market are mainly of two types: one is a medicine box for reminding taking medicine, a plurality of small lattices are arranged in the medicine box, medicine which needs to be taken for a certain day or at a certain time is stored in each small lattice, and generally the medicine box is also provided with an alarm clock reminding function; the other type is mobile phone APP software which regularly reminds the patient to take medicine. However, the former method requires regular split charging of the drug, which is likely to cause secondary pollution and complicated operation; the latter is a pure software electronic product, is not necessarily connected with the medicine taking action, and is easy to forget to take or take more medicines due to other delays after reminding.

Patent "a pure mechanical reminding device of taking medicine" (application number 201210504634.1, application date 2012.11.29) has proposed a pure mechanical reminding device of taking medicine, and the device has just started the reminiscences at the in-process that the user unscrewed the bottle lid and covered the bottle lid back simultaneously, need not unnecessary additional action, only need see the index dish position on the medicine bottle and can confirm whether taken the medicine, but during the use, need fix the suggestion device on the bottle wall, it is inconvenient to operate. Based on the inspiration, the invention designs the purely mechanical bottle cap, the medicine taking reminding function can be realized only by fixedly connecting the bottle cap with the original bottle cap of the medicine bottle or replacing the original bottle cap, and the operation is simple and convenient.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above situation, in order to overcome the defects in the prior art, the present invention provides a medicine taking reminding bottle cap, which can effectively solve the problem that the operation is not convenient because the reminding device needs to be fixed on the bottle wall in the prior art.

The technical scheme includes that the indicator comprises an inner cover, an outer cover, an elastic device and an indicator, the outer cover is sleeved on the inner cover, the bottom of the inner cover is connected with an original bottle cap of a medicine bottle or replaces the original bottle cap and is directly connected with the medicine bottle in a threaded manner, the outer cover is connected with the inner cover through the elastic device, the top or the side of the outer cover is connected with the indicator, and the indicator can change a display state through pressing.

The medicine taking reminding device can realize the medicine taking reminding function only by fixedly connecting with the original bottle cap of the medicine bottle or replacing the original bottle cap, is simple and convenient to operate and high in practicability, and is an innovation on the medicine taking reminding device.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a front view of the structure of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a front view of another embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is an exploded view of the inner cap of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the outer cover of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of the indicator of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is an exploded view of another embodiment of the inner cap of the present invention.

Fig. 7 is an exploded view of another embodiment of the indicator of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a side-mounted schematic view of an indicator according to the present invention.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view showing the assembly of the inner and outer caps according to the present invention (left: pressed state; right: rebounded state).

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a state transition process of the indicator of FIG. 5 according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram illustrating a state transition process of the indicator of FIG. 7 according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

The following describes embodiments of the present invention in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1-11, the invention comprises an inner cap, an outer cap, an elastic device and an indicator, wherein the outer cap 2 is sleeved on the inner cap 1, the bottom of the inner cap 1 is connected with an original bottle cap of a medicine bottle or replaces the original bottle cap and is directly connected with the medicine bottle in a threaded manner, the outer cap 2 is connected with the inner cap 1 through the elastic device, the top or the side of the outer cap 2 is connected with the indicator 3, and the indicator 3 can change the display state through pressing.

In order to ensure the using effect, the outer wall of the inner cap 1 is provided with external threads 11, the upper end part of the inner cap is provided with ratchet teeth 12, and the bottom of the inner cap 1 is provided with a blind hole 13 (shown in fig. 3).

The blind hole 13 is internally provided with internal threads to replace the original bottle cap and directly screwed with the bottle mouth of the medicine bottle (as shown in figure 3).

The blind hole 13 is internally provided with an extrusion ring 14, a gland 15 and a bolt 16 from top to bottom in sequence, the gland 15 is provided with a through hole, the bolt 16 and the through hole are in one-to-one correspondence and are inserted into the through hole, wherein the extrusion ring 14 is an elastic body (such as environment-friendly rubber and the like), and the bolt is screwed, so that the extrusion ring slides towards the center under the extrusion of the blind hole and the gland, thereby being capable of tightly holding the bottle cap of the medicine bottle.

An inward contraction edge 21 for preventing the inner cover from being separated is processed at the bottom of the outer cover 2, and an internal thread 22 and a pawl 23 (shown in figure 4) which are matched with the internal cover external thread 11 and the ratchet wheel teeth 12 are sequentially processed upwards; the outer cover wraps the inner cover, the outer cover and the inner cover are connected through an elastic device (such as a spring), when the outer cover is pressed and unscrewed, the internal thread at the lower end of the outer cover is matched with the external thread on the inner cover to be locked and connected, and the inner cover is driven to be unscrewed, so that the medicine bottle is opened; when the outer cover is unscrewed without being pressed down, the ratchet teeth and the pawls do not act, the outer cover idles, the inner cover is static, and the medicine bottle cannot be opened; when the outer cap is screwed, the pawl is matched with the ratchet wheel teeth to drive the inner cap to be screwed, so that the bottle cap is screwed, and in the process, if the inner cap and the outer cap are in a pressing locking state initially, the outer cap can automatically rebound under the action of the elastic device when being screwed (as shown in fig. 9).

The elastic device is a spring or a rubber strip.

The indicator 3 comprises a pushing rod 31, an outer sleeve 32, a rotating rod 33 and a spring cover 34, the pushing rod 31 is a hollow straight pipe, a sliding block is arranged on the pipe wall, a tooth-shaped groove is processed at the upper end part, a straight sliding groove and a rotating sliding groove are arranged in the outer sleeve 32, an external thread fixedly screwed with an internal thread on the outer cover 2 is processed at the lower end of the cylinder wall, a through hole or a locally used transparent material is arranged at the upper end of the cylinder wall, the medicine taking time mark of the rotating rod 33 can be displayed, the upper part of the rotating rod 33 is a regular polyhedron, each surface is marked with different medicine taking time marks, such as characters of 'morning, noon, evening', 'morning, evening', or '1, 2, 3', or different colors (red, yellow, blue, and the like), patterns and the like, a raised rotating sliding block is arranged at the middle part, a cylindrical rod is inserted into, the disc cover body is fixedly connected with the outer sleeve 32 (such as screwed connection), and the other end of the spring is pressed on the rotating rod (as shown in fig. 5); when the outer cover is pressed, the pushing rod is pushed upwards along the straight sliding groove of the outer sleeve until the rotating slide block of the rotating rod is pushed away from the rotating sliding groove of the outer sleeve, and the rotating slide block of the rotating rod rotates for a certain angle along the tooth-shaped groove of the pushing rod; when the outer cover is bounced, the spring of the spring cover pushes the rotating rod and the pushing rod to move downwards until the rotating slider of the rotating rod contacts with the rotating chute in the outer sleeve and continues to rotate for a certain angle in the same direction, so that the change of the medicine taking time state is completed (as shown in fig. 10).

The indicator 3 comprises a base 35, a pawl 36, a ratchet wheel rotating disc 37 and an upper end cover 38, wherein the base 35 is connected with the outer cover 2 (such as threaded connection and the like), the ratchet wheel rotating disc 37 and the pawl 36 are installed in the base 35, an elastic device (such as a spring, a rubber strip and the like) is arranged between the pawl 36 and the inside of the base 35, one end of the elastic device is connected with the base 35, the other end of the elastic device is connected with the pawl 36, the pawl 36 can automatically reset downwards, the pawl 36 (which can be mutually used as a stopping pawl) drives the ratchet wheel rotating disc to rotate in a single direction through up-and-down reciprocating motion, the ratchet wheel rotating disc 37 comprises a polyhedron, a ratchet wheel and a rotating shaft, a supporting groove capable of containing the rotating shaft is formed in the base 35, and each surface of the polyhedron can be marked with different medicine taking time marks, such as characters of' early, middle, late, Patterns, etc.; the upper end cover 38 is connected with the upper end of the base 35 (such as threaded connection and the like), a hole is formed right above the polyhedron or a transparent material is adopted on the upper end cover 38, and the current state of the ratchet wheel turntable can be displayed (as shown in fig. 7); when the outer cover is pressed, the lower end of the pawl moves upwards along the sliding groove of the mounting base to push the ratchet wheel turntable to rotate for a certain angle; when the outer cover is bounced, the ratchet wheel automatically moves downwards along the sliding groove of the mounting base under the action of an elastic device (such as a rubber strip or a spring) so as to drive the ratchet wheel rotating disc to continuously rotate for a certain angle towards the same direction. This completes the change of the medication time status (as shown in fig. 11).

The lateral surface of the outer cover 2 is provided with an axial sliding groove for installing the base 35, the installing base 35 is a hollow cube, the height of the axial sliding groove is the distance from the upper end cover 38 to the supporting groove, the ratchet wheel rotating disc 37 and the pawl 36 are sequentially installed in the installing base 35 and are sealed with the upper end cover 38, when the outer cover 2 is pressed down and bounced, the pawl 36 can move up and down along the axial sliding groove on the edge of the outer cover 2, so that the ratchet wheel is driven to rotate directionally, the change of the medicine taking time state is realized, other types of indicators (such as the indicator shown in fig. 5) can also be installed on the lateral surface of the outer cover, the repeated description is omitted, the height of the medicine taking reminding bottle cap can be effectively reduced, the structure of the bottle cap is more compact, and.

The using condition of the invention is that when the outer cover is pressed down and unscrewed, the outer cover can lock the inner cover in a mechanical way and drive the inner cover to unscrew, thereby opening the medicine bottle; when the outer cover is not pressed down and screwed off, the outer cover idles, and the inner cover keeps static; when the outer cover is screwed, the inner cover can be driven to screw without pressing the outer cover, so that the medicine bottle is sealed. Compared with the traditional spinning bottle cap, the process has the advantage that the pressing and locking functions of the outer cap and the inner cap are increased when the bottle cap is unscrewed. The indicator can display different medicine taking time marks, and converts pressing and rebounding actions of the outer cover in the screwing-out and screwing-in processes into directional rotation actions, so that the display state is changed.

The invention has the outstanding advantages that the state of the indicator can be automatically changed once (for example, the indicator has three states of 'early, middle and late', and can be changed in a circulating way in sequence) after the bottle cap is screwed off and the medicine is taken every time by a patient, so that whether the patient takes the medicine at a certain moment or not is reminded.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a warning bottle lid of taking medicine, including the inner cup, the enclosing cover, resilient means and indicator, a serial communication port, enclosing cover (2) suit is on inner cup (1), the bottom and the former dress bottle lid of medicine bottle of inner cup (1) are connected, or replace former dress bottle lid, direct and medicine bottle threaded connection, be connected through resilient means between enclosing cover (2) and inner cup (1), enclosing cover (2) top or side are connected with indicator (3), indicator (3) are through pressing the changeable display state.

2. The medicine taking reminding bottle cap according to claim 1, wherein the outer wall of the inner cap (1) is provided with external threads (11), the upper end of the inner cap is provided with ratchet teeth (12), and the bottom of the inner cap (1) is provided with a blind hole (13).

3. The medicine taking reminding bottle cap according to claim 2, wherein an internal thread is arranged in the blind hole (13) to replace an original bottle cap and directly screw with the bottle mouth of a medicine bottle.

4. The medicine taking reminding bottle cap according to claim 2, wherein the blind hole (13) is provided with a pressing ring (14), a pressing cover (15) and a bolt (16) in sequence from top to bottom, the pressing cover (15) is provided with a through hole, the bolt (16) and the through hole are in one-to-one correspondence and inserted into the through hole, and the pressing ring (14) is an elastic body.

5. The medicine taking reminding bottle cap according to claim 1, wherein an inward contraction edge (21) for preventing the inner cap from being separated is formed at the bottom of the outer cap (2), and an internal thread (22) and a pawl (23) which are matched with the external thread (11) of the inner cap and the ratchet teeth (12) are sequentially formed upward.

6. The medicine taking reminding bottle cap as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elastic means is a spring or a rubber strip.

7. The medicine taking reminding bottle cap according to claim 1, wherein the indicator (3) comprises a pushing rod (31), an outer sleeve (32), a rotating rod (33) and a spring cap (34), the pushing rod (31) is a hollow straight tube, a sliding block is arranged on the tube wall, a tooth-shaped groove is processed at the upper end part, a straight sliding groove and a rotating sliding groove are arranged in the outer sleeve (32), an external thread fixedly screwed with an internal thread on the outer cap (2) is processed at the lower end of the tube wall, a through hole or a transparent material is arranged at the upper end of the tube wall, the medicine taking time mark of the rotating rod (33) can be displayed, the upper part of the rotating rod (33) is a regular polyhedron, each surface is marked with different medicine taking time marks, a convex rotating sliding block is arranged at the middle part, the lower part is a cylindrical rod and is inserted into the pushing rod (31), and the spring cap, the disc cover body is fixedly connected with an outer sleeve (32), and the other end of the spring is pressed on the rotating rod.

8. The medicine taking reminding bottle cap according to claim 1, wherein the indicator (3) comprises a base (35), a pawl (36), a ratchet wheel (37) and an upper end cap (38), the base (35) is connected with the outer cap (2), the ratchet wheel (37) and the pawl (36) are arranged in the base (35), and set up the spring between pawl (36) and base (35), elastic one end is connected with base (35), the other end is connected with pawl (36), ratchet carousel (37) comprises polyhedron, ratchet and pivot, be provided with the supporting groove that can place the pivot in base (35), mark different time marks of taking medicine on every face of polyhedron, upper end cover (38) are connected with base (35) upper end, trompil or adopt transparent material directly over the polyhedron on upper end cover (38), can show the current state of ratchet carousel.

9. The medicine taking reminding bottle cap according to claim 8, wherein the outer cap (2) is provided with an axial sliding groove on the side for installing the base (35), the installing base (35) is a hollow cube, and the height of the axial sliding groove is the distance from the upper end cap (38) to the supporting groove.