CN112076091A - Medicine box capable of reminding taking medicine - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a medicine taking reminding medicine box, which realizes medicine taking reminding of a user and ensures timely and safe medicine taking; the medicine storage is provided by the medicine bin, and the function of reminding the user to take the medicine on time can be provided by auditory and visual signals; further, the medicine box information and the user terminal and the like are subjected to interactive communication transmission by using a remote data transmission means, an additional medicine taking monitoring and management function is provided, and on the basis, the electrocardio monitoring device integrated on the medicine box can be combined to send the electrocardio monitoring data of the user in real time, so that a richer health management function is provided.

Description

Medicine box capable of reminding taking medicine

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent medical equipment of the Internet of things, in particular to a medicine box for reminding taking medicine.

Background

The chronic disease patients need full-course drug therapy, especially need home consolidation and maintenance therapy after discharge from hospital in the acute stage, the compliance of taking the drug during the period is very important for prognosis, and the relapse rate can be obviously reduced by taking the drug according to time and quantity. However, most patients in real life often forget or do not take the medicine on time, so that the curative effect is reduced and the condition of the patients is aggravated instead of being improved. In addition, cardiovascular diseases are the first chronic diseases, and the Chinese cardiovascular disease report 2018 indicates that the number of patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases in China is 2.9 hundred million, namely 1 patient suffers from cardiovascular diseases in every 5 adults. The cardiovascular events are basically characterized by the concealment, the abruptness and the rapid change, show the basic manifestations of high morbidity, high mortality, high disability rate, high recurrence rate and many complications, and become the first killer threatening the health of human beings. The disease can not be timely and effectively cured due to the vacuum monitoring of the majority of patients.

The existing medicine taking reminding medicine boxes have the function of timing reminding by keys, and the function of reminding a patient to take medicine by sound by pressing the buttons regularly is realized by using the buttons, the timing chip and the buzzer, but the medicine boxes are single in function, do not have the function of linking with a medicine taking management system of a background management terminal and a cloud server through a Bluetooth or honeycomb data technology, cannot record and analyze the medicine taking behaviors of a user, and cannot play the behavior training effect of the compliance of taking medicine.

Along with the advance of technique and user's demand, promoted the intelligent medicine box of taking the warning light, can also connect mobile terminal, applet terminal to and the server through bluetooth equipment. The intelligent medicine box system can ensure that a user is reminded to take medicine on time in time; in addition, after the server monitors and records the related medication parameters, a scientific medication evaluation report can be made for the user under certain conditions.

In addition, various single-lead electrocardio devices mainly adopt a contact type and a chest patch type at present, the portability of equipment can be basically realized or the equipment can be monitored at any time, and data obtained by part of equipment can mark abnormal heart rhythm data and upload the abnormal heart rhythm data in time.

However, due to the fact that the single intelligent medicine box or the electrocardio monitor has single function, the frequency of repeated use of a user is not high, the viscosity of the user is low, the user forgets to carry the device with the user, and finally the effect of reminding taking medicine or real-time electrocardio monitoring at any time and any place is difficult to achieve really.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, the invention provides the medicine taking reminding medicine box, which realizes the reminding of medicine taking of a user and ensures the timely and safe medicine taking; the medicine storage is provided by the medicine bin, and the function of reminding the user to take the medicine on time can be provided by auditory and visual signals; further, the medicine box information and the user terminal and the like are subjected to interactive communication transmission by using a remote data transmission means, an additional medicine taking monitoring and management function is provided, and on the basis, the electrocardio monitoring device integrated on the medicine box can be combined to send the electrocardio monitoring data of the user in real time, so that a richer health management function is provided.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention comprises the following steps:

a medicine box for reminding taking medicine comprises a medicine bin and a signal sensor for detecting and sending opening state information of the medicine bin.

Furthermore, the medicine box comprises a plurality of medicine bins.

Further, a plurality of medicine storehouse mutual independence sets up, or, a plurality of medicine storehouse integrated into one piece sets up.

Further, the medicine bin also comprises a medicine bin cover, and the signal sensor detects and sends the opening state information of the medicine bin cover.

Furthermore, the medicine storage box also comprises a plurality of independent indicator lamps which are in one-to-one correspondence with the medicine storage boxes.

Further, the device also comprises a shell; the shell is including holding the shell main part of placing the medicine storehouse and can close the shell upper cover that covers the medicine storehouse.

Furthermore, the shell also comprises an electrocardio detection sensor arranged on the outer surface of the shell main body.

Further, the drying agent storage box also comprises a drying agent storage box arranged on the inner surface of the upper cover of the shell.

Further, still include the buzzer of setting on the shell main part and correspond the lamp area of buzzer.

Further, the medicine bin is made of transparent or semitransparent materials.

The invention also relates to a medicine taking reminding medicine box which comprises a plurality of medicine cabins and a control device, wherein the medicine cabins are mutually separated;

the medicine bin comprises a signal sensor for detecting and transmitting the opening state information of the medicine bin;

the control device is connected with the signal sensor through a data transmission channel.

Furthermore, the control device comprises a wireless communication circuit which establishes bidirectional communication connection with the user terminal and a clock circuit which generates a time node corresponding to the opening state information of the matched medicine bin.

Further, the electrocardio detection device also comprises an electrocardio detection sensor arranged on the outer surface of the shell main body; the electrocardio detection sensor is connected with the control device through a data transmission channel.

Further, the lamp strip also comprises a buzzer and a lamp strip corresponding to the buzzer; the buzzer and the lamp strip corresponding to the buzzer are connected with the control device through a data transmission channel.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

the medicine taking reminding medicine box can store various different medicines in a classified mode, and the opening states of medicine bins storing different medicines are recorded through the signal sensor, so that the taking states of the medicines are deduced; the required visual prompt information can be provided for each medicine bin and the medicines stored in the medicine bin through a plurality of independent indicator lamps respectively corresponding to the medicine bins. On the other hand, the invention provides a medicine taking reminding medicine box with bidirectional communication connection capability and a medicine taking reminding system established based on the medicine box, and information such as the opening state of a medicine bin and the like is sent to a user terminal through a wireless communication circuit for further data processing; the electrocardio monitoring sensor can be further integrated on the medicine box, the electrocardio monitoring information is sent to the user terminal by utilizing the bidirectional communication connection capacity of the medicine box, and the portable electrocardio monitoring function which can be used at any time is realized.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a first embodiment of a medicine taking reminding medicine box of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic front view of a medicine box for reminding taking medicine according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic rear view of a medicine box for reminding taking medicine according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a medicine taking reminding system of the present invention.

Description of the figure numbering: 1-a medicine bin, 11-a medicine bin cover, 12-a signal sensor, 13-an independent indicator light, 2-a shell, 21-a shell main body, 22-a shell upper cover, 3-an electrocardio detection sensor, 4-a drying agent bin, 5-a buzzer and 6-a lamp belt.

Detailed Description

For a clearer understanding of the contents of the present invention, reference will be made to the accompanying drawings and examples.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view showing a first embodiment of the medicine box for reminding taking medicine of the present invention, which includes a plurality of medicine bins 1 (typically 4 as shown in fig. 1), and the medicine bins 1 are separated from each other so that the stored medicines are not mixed up, and a plurality of medicine bins 1 can be formed by adding partitions in an integral structure as shown in fig. 1, or a plurality of independently arranged medicine bins 1 can be selected to be combined; each medicine bin 1 is provided with an independent medicine bin cover 11, so that a sealed space can be formed inside the medicine bin 1 when the medicine bin 1 is closed, meanwhile, the medicine bin 1 is also provided with a signal sensor 12 corresponding to the medicine bin cover 11, for example, a hall sensor, a contact type electric sensor or a rotating shaft sensor and the like can be selected, so that the opening and closing state information of the medicine bin cover 11 can be identified and generated, the medicine taking type (corresponding to the medicine stored in the opened medicine bin 1) can be deduced through the opening and closing of the medicine bin cover 11, and the information with accurate medicine taking time can be further generated by combining a clock circuit with a time recording function; each medicine bin 1 is also provided with an independent indicator light 13 corresponding to the medicine bin, the independent indicator light 13 can display visual indicator signals related to the corresponding medicine bin 1 according to needs, for example, the independent indicator light is linked with the signal sensor 12, the opening and closing states of the medicine bin cover 11 are prompted through the indicator light, the independent indicator light can also be linked with other control circuits to realize the function of prompting to take specific medicines at fixed time, the independent indicator light 13 is not limited to providing a certain specific indicator information, and the prompting of various different information can be realized through combining different colors, different flashing frequencies and other methods of the indicator light.

When the medicine box shown in the figure 1 is used, different medicines can be respectively placed in different medicine cabins 1 for storage, the medicine cabin 1 where the medicine to be taken is located is only opened during medicine taking, the problem of medicine confusion cannot occur, and meanwhile, the medicine taking process information can be recorded through the corresponding signal sensor 12.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view showing a medicine box for reminding taking medicine according to a second embodiment of the present invention, which further includes a housing 2 covering the entire structure of the medicine bin 1 on the basis of the structure of the first embodiment, and particularly, the structure shown in fig. 2 with a housing main body 21 and a housing upper cover 22 capable of being closed and covered can be closed to further preserve the medicine stored in the medicine bin 1 when the medicine is not needed, and is more convenient to carry; the extra space provided by the housing 2 can be used for further accommodating other components, such as a desiccant chamber 4 arranged on the inner surface of the housing upper cover 22, a buzzer 5 arranged on the housing main body 21, and a light strip 6 corresponding to the buzzer 5, wherein the desiccant chamber 4 can accommodate a proper amount of desiccant to prevent the medicine in the medicine chamber 1 from being wetted, and the buzzer 5 and the light strip 6 corresponding to the buzzer 5 can provide audible and visual indication information as required; an electrocardio monitoring sensor is arranged at a proper position of the outer surface of the shell 2 (for example, the back surface of the shell 2 shown in fig. 3), so that a user can conveniently and naturally hold and contact with a sensor contact position to monitor electrocardio information, and particularly, the electrocardio monitoring sensor can adopt a single lead to respectively acquire left and right hand information through two finger belly sensor electrode plates, thereby realizing better information acquisition quality.

In order to further expand the functions of the medicine taking reminding medicine box, on the basis of the above embodiments, the medicine box of the present invention may further comprise a control device with a plurality of different functions, preferably, the control device comprises a wireless communication circuit, a clock circuit, and may further comprise a storage circuit and at least one function key. The wireless communication circuit can be in bidirectional communication connection with a user terminal (for example, a personal terminal such as a mobile phone provided with special software or a networking communication function, or a server terminal and other equipment having corresponding software and an information receiving function), preferably adopts circuits such as Bluetooth, WiFi or cellular network signals to realize real-time communication connection, and sends opening and closing state information (medicine taking information) of the medicine bin cover 11 acquired by the signal sensor 12 and electrocardio monitoring information acquired by the electrocardio monitoring sensor to the user terminal, and can also receive data contents such as an operation instruction, data information and a software upgrading packet sent by the user terminal to expand the use function of the medicine box; the clock circuit needs to provide an accurate timing function, and can be used for generating instruction information for prompting medication and also can be used for generating medication information with medication time; the storage circuit can be used for storing various information generated in the use of the medicine box and various instructions required by the control of the medicine box, such as the medicine taking time of a certain medicine, and when the information calling requirement exists, the storage circuit can call the relevant information and send the information to the user terminal through the wireless communication circuit; the function key is used for expanding the use function of the medicine box, a user can operate the key in various different combination modes to realize various required functions, particularly can combine the buzzer 5 and the lamp strip 6 corresponding to the buzzer 5 to realize the operation process with the hearing and visual prompting effects, for example, single short press, long press trigger and multiple trigger within a certain time interval of the key, and provide corresponding different buzzer 5 sound effects and lamp strip 6 display effects for different trigger operations. Of course, the medicine taking reminding medicine box can be provided with a power supply module, such as a rechargeable battery, a replaceable battery or a photovoltaic battery, and the like, according to the needs, so as to provide a power supply required by the work for the internal components of the medicine box.

On the basis of the control device, the medicine taking reminding medicine box can be combined with equipment such as a user terminal to form a medicine taking reminding system. A typical system configuration is shown in fig. 4, and includes a medicine box, a user terminal (mobile phone), an intermediate server (dedicated gateway connection device, or using the user terminal as an intermediate server), and a management terminal. The medicine box and the user terminal are in bidirectional wireless communication connection, so that the information of the medicine box can be uploaded to the user terminal in real time, the operation control and data input of the medicine box can be realized through the user terminal, for example, the types of stored medicines in the medicine bin 1 are modified, the medicine use reminding is added, and the like, and the corresponding prompt information can be provided by linking an independent indicator lamp 13, a buzzer 5 and a lamp strip 6 arranged on the medicine box in the operation process; the user terminal can record the medication information of the user through receiving the opening and closing state information (medication information) of the medicine bin cover 11 sent by the medicine box, prompt the user according to the need, and give a warning when detecting wrong medication information (the medication information which is not matched with the recorded type and time of taking medicine); the electrocardio monitoring information is received and analyzed, the real-time physiological state of the user can be obtained, when a suspected abnormal condition is detected, a prompt is sent in time, when a suspected dangerous condition is detected, the prompt is sent, and meanwhile, the emergency contact person is automatically contacted according to the setting of the user, so that a perfect electrocardio monitoring system is formed. The management terminal can be a combination of the medicine box management terminal and the electrocardio monitoring terminal, can also be a terminal with two functions of medicine box management and electrocardio monitoring, provides more accurate and detailed health management suggestions by receiving and analyzing and processing the medicine box information and the electrocardio monitoring information, and can also be used for assisting a doctor to guide the medicine application and other extension functions.

The following description will take a medicine taking reminding system composed of the medicine taking reminding box of the present invention and a mobile phone installed with special software as a user terminal as an example, and further describe typical operation methods and functions of the medicine box and system related to the present invention.

1. Bind the user, bind medicine box and user terminal through wireless interactive mode such as bluetooth and realize the mutual-direction interaction of information, specifically can include:

a user terminal program sends a binding instruction; the medicine box receives the binding instruction, and the independent indicator light or the lamp strip flickers once; the function keys of the medicine box are operated within 20 seconds of countdown to finish binding; if no operation is executed before the countdown is finished, the binding fails.

2. And adding a medication reminder, and after the binding is successful, sending the medication reminder to the medicine box by the user through the user terminal, wherein the medication reminder specifically comprises the medication type, time and dosage.

3. The required medicine is added through the user terminal, and the following method can be adopted: scanning the bar code of the medicine box to identify the medicine; after part of medicine names are manually input, the system quickly searches for the medicines; the medicines are quickly selected from historical medicines. When the user sends the medicine adding reminding instruction at the user terminal successfully, the independent indicator light corresponding to the medicine bin is turned on to send a prompt.

4. And deleting the medication reminding, wherein the user sends a medication reminding deleting instruction at the user terminal, after the medication reminding instruction is deleted successfully, the independent indicator light corresponding to the medicine bin is lightened to give a prompt, and the preferred indication mode (color, flashing mode and the like) of the independent indicator light corresponding to the deletion is different from the indication mode corresponding to the addition.

5. And modifying the medication reminding, wherein a user sends a modification reminding instruction at a user terminal, the modification reminding instruction is substantially a continuous sending deleting instruction and a new adding instruction, and after the modification is successful, an independent indicator lamp corresponding to the medicine bin is turned on to send a prompt.

6. The medicine box is taken medicine and reminded, after reaching the predetermined time of taking medicine, medicine box lamp area sends pilot light, and medicine box buzzer sends out the prompt tone simultaneously, and preferred user terminal still can send the warning message to the user, and triple warning supervises the user to take the medicine on time. The following reminding logic can be specifically adopted:

(1) when the medicine taking time is reached, reminding for the first time;

(2) after ten minutes, if the correct opening of the medicine bin cover is not detected, a second reminding is carried out;

(3) after the second reminding for 10 minutes, if the correct opening of the medicine bin cover is not detected, carrying out third reminding;

(4) during the first reminding period, the second reminding period and the third reminding period, the reminding can be ignored by manually operating the function keys of the medicine box, and the sound and light signals are turned off;

(5) and opening and closing the medicine bin cover corresponding to the medicine box in the reminding period, and taking the record, so that subsequent reminding is not performed.

7. The medicine box records and uploads the recorded information of the states of the taken state and the non-taken state.

(1) When the first reminding is started and is delayed for 30 minutes, the operation of closing the medicine box is considered to be taken.

A. In the medicine taking time, the medicine box corresponding to the medicine bin is turned on to light green, and the medicine bin is turned off after the medicine box is turned off.

B. In the medicine taking time, the medicine box is turned on and the corresponding medicine cabin is lighted green, and when the medicine box is not turned off, the medicine cabin is lighted for 2 minutes at most.

(2) The first reminding is started, and the later reminding is continued for 30 minutes, the medicine box is not closed, and the operation is regarded that the reminding is not taken.

8. And (4) personal reminding: when the time for the user to set the carry-on prompt is reached, the system judges whether the user terminal is connected with the medicine box, if the user terminal is in the connection state, the medicine box and the user terminal do not remind the user (carry-on prompt); if the connection state is not established, the medicine box and the user terminal trigger reminding (carry-on prompt);

(1) adding a personal reminder;

(2) deleting the carry-on reminder;

(3) modifying the carry-on reminder, namely deleting the reminder and then adding the reminder again;

(4) the arrival reminding is that the double reminding is realized by the lamp strip and the buzzer warning tone, so that the trouble that the user forgets to carry the alarm is solved;

(5) the portable reminding is ignored, the function keys are manually operated during the reminding, the portable reminding is ignored, and the sound and the light are turned off.

9. Medicine box for searching

(1) A user terminal clicks to search the medicine box;

(2) and (4) suspending searching:

A. during the countdown of the medicine box is searched, the function key of the medicine box is manually operated, the medicine box is considered to be found, and the sound and the light are turned off;

B. during the countdown of the searched medicine box, no function key of the medicine box is manually operated, the countdown is finished, the medicine box is not found, and the sound and the light are turned off.

10. Converting the residual dose, and reminding the follow-up diagnosis: the medicine box and the user terminal calculate the medicine residual quantity in the medicine box according to the medicine taking information of the user and send a medicine supplementing prompt to the user in advance. The expected days to be taken can be calculated as follows:

when A is a plurality of medicine bins, B is a plurality of medicine bins, C is a plurality of total medicine taking grains (a plurality of times per day) per day, and E is taken once every few days (2 every other day, 3 every two days);

the expected number of days (per day) to be taken is A bin B/C;

the number of days (every E days) is expected to be (a bin B/C particles) Ex.

The user terminal can be not limited to a single device of the user itself in actual use, but also can be expanded to a related guardian of the user, such as relatives, doctors and the like, and simultaneously connects a plurality of user terminals and receives the information sent by the medicine boxes, so that the user monitoring level can be improved and emergencies can be effectively dealt with.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (14)

1. A medicine box for reminding taking medicine is characterized by comprising a medicine bin and a signal sensor for detecting and sending opening state information of the medicine bin.

2. The kit of claim 1, wherein the kit comprises a plurality of cartridges.

3. The kit of claim 2, wherein the plurality of cartridges are independent of each other or are integrally formed.

4. The kit of claim 1, wherein the cartridge further comprises a cartridge cover, and wherein the signal sensor detects and transmits information regarding the opening of the cartridge cover.

5. The kit of claim 2, further comprising a plurality of individual indicator lights in one-to-one correspondence with the cartridges.

6. The kit of claim 1, further comprising a housing; the shell is including holding the shell main part of placing the medicine storehouse and can close the shell upper cover that covers the medicine storehouse.

7. The kit of claim 6, further comprising an electrocardiographic detection sensor disposed on an exterior surface of the housing body.

8. The kit of claim 6, further comprising a desiccant reservoir disposed on an interior surface of the housing upper cover.

9. The kit of claim 6, further comprising a buzzer disposed on the housing body and a light strip corresponding to the buzzer.

10. A kit according to any one of claims 1 to 9 wherein the cartridge is of transparent or translucent material.

11. A medicine box for reminding taking medicine is characterized by comprising a plurality of medicine bins and a control device which are mutually separated;

the medicine bin comprises a signal sensor for detecting and transmitting the opening state information of the medicine bin;

the control device is connected with the signal sensor through a data transmission channel.

12. The kit of claim 11, wherein the control means comprises a wireless communication circuit for establishing a two-way communication link with the user terminal and a clock circuit for generating a time node corresponding to the information matching the opening status of the cartridge.

13. The kit of claim 11, further comprising an electrocardiographic detection sensor disposed on an outer surface of the housing body; the electrocardio detection sensor is connected with the control device through a data transmission channel.

14. The kit of claim 11, further comprising a buzzer and a light strip corresponding to the buzzer; the buzzer and the lamp strip corresponding to the buzzer are connected with the control device through a data transmission channel.

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