CN113520066A - Medicine cabinet and medicine management method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a medicine cabinet and a medicine management method. The medicine cabinet comprises a cabinet body, a first medicine box and a control system; the first medicine box comprises a first box body, a first light barrier and a first photoelectric switch, the first box body is provided with a first storage cavity, the wall surface of the first storage cavity is provided with a first avoidance opening, the first light barrier is rotationally connected with the first box body, the first light barrier comprises a first contact part and a first contact part, and the first contact part extends into the first storage cavity from the first avoidance opening; the control system is electrically connected with the first photoelectric switch and is used for a user to input the information of the medicine. The drug management method comprises the following steps: inputting information of the medicine; putting the medicine into the vacant storage position until the medicine pushes the light barrier in the storage position; and recording the corresponding relation between each storage position and the information of the respectively stored medicines. The medicine cabinet and the medicine management method are beneficial to improving the medicine taking efficiency of a user.

Description

Medicine cabinet and medicine management method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of medicine storage, in particular to a medicine cabinet and a medicine management method.

Background

The medicine cabinet is usually used for storing medicines, and the existing medicine cabinets have many problems. For example, the medicine cabinet simply provides a storage space for medicines, and when a user searches for the medicines in the medicine cabinet, the user can only search for the medicines by memory or experience, so that the efficiency is low; in addition, the size of some medicine cabinets is large, and the arrangement flexibility of the medicine cabinets is influenced.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art. Therefore, the medicine cabinet provided by the invention can efficiently record and acquire the information and the position of the stored medicine, and is beneficial to improving the medicine taking efficiency of a user; and the medicine cabinet has compact structure and smaller volume.

The invention also provides a medicine management method.

A drug cabinet according to an embodiment of the first aspect of the invention, comprising: a cabinet body; at least one first medicine box is arranged inside the cabinet body, the first medicine box comprises a first box body, a first light barrier and a first photoelectric switch, the first box body is provided with a first storage cavity for containing medicines, the wall surface of the first storage cavity is provided with a first avoidance opening, the first light barrier is rotationally connected with the first box body and comprises a first contact part and a first shielding part, the first contact part extends into the first storage cavity from the first avoiding opening, and can be propped by the medicine put into the first storage cavity to rotate in the direction away from the first storage cavity, so that the first shielding part shields the light emitted by the first photoelectric switch, or the first shielding part releases the shielding of the light emitted by the first photoelectric switch; the control system is connected with the cabinet body, the control system is electrically connected with the first photoelectric switch, the control system judges whether the first storage cavity is provided with the medicine or not and acquires the position of the medicine through the output signal of the first photoelectric switch, the control system is used for a user to input the information of the medicine and correlates the information of the medicine with the position of the medicine, and the control system can record and output the information and the position of the medicine.

The medicine cabinet provided by the embodiment of the invention at least has the following beneficial effects: when the medicine is put into the medicine cabinet, the information of the medicine to be put into the medicine cabinet is firstly input into the control system, and then the medicine is put into a certain vacant first storage cavity until the medicine changes the output signal of the first photoelectric switch corresponding to the first storage cavity. And then the control system knows which first storage cavity the medicines are put into according to the first photoelectric switch with the changed signal, and establishes the corresponding relation between each first storage cavity and the information of the respectively stored medicines. When the medicine needs to be taken out, the specific position of the medicine which needs to be taken out can be found according to the corresponding relation recorded by the control system, so that the medicine can be taken out quickly. In addition, because first barn door rotates under the effect of holding of medicine, the output signal of photoelectric switch can be changed to first barn door rotation certain angle, for the mode of the whole translation of first barn door, the motion space that reserves for first barn door can be reduced to the pivoted mode, is favorable to making the structure of first medicine box compacter to make the whole compacter, the volume of medicine cabinet littleer. Therefore, the medicine cabinet provided by the invention can efficiently record and acquire the information and the position of the stored medicine, and is beneficial to improving the medicine taking efficiency of a user; the medicine cabinet has compact structure and smaller volume.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the first pill box further comprises a pill box indicator light for displaying a position of the pill box, the pill box indicator light being electrically connected to the control system; first light-emitting hole has been seted up at the top of first box body, first light-emitting hole supplies the light of medicine box pilot lamp jets out, control system can open or close the medicine box pilot lamp.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the first medicine box further includes a medicine indicator light, the medicine indicator light is used for displaying the position of a medicine, the first box body is provided with a second light-emitting hole, the second light-emitting hole is adjacent to the outlet of the first storage cavity, the number of the medicine indicator lights and the number of the second light-emitting holes are the same as the number of the first storage cavities, and each second light-emitting hole is used for emitting light of one medicine indicator light; the control system is connected with the medicine indicating lamp and can turn on or off the medicine indicating lamp.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the drug cabinet further comprises at least one second drug cassette disposed inside the cabinet body, the second drug cassette comprising: the second box body is provided with a second storage cavity, the wall surface of the second storage cavity is provided with a second avoidance opening, the wall surface of the second storage cavity comprises a supporting wall, the supporting wall is used for placing medicines, the supporting wall is obliquely arranged, and one end of the supporting wall is higher than the other end of the supporting wall; the second light blocking plate is connected with the second box body and comprises a second shielding part and a second contact part, and the second contact part penetrates through the second avoiding opening and extends into the second storage cavity; the second photoelectric switch is electrically connected with the control system; the second contact part can be abutted by the medicine placed in the second storage cavity and moves towards the direction far away from the second storage cavity, so that the second shielding part shields the light emitted by the second photoelectric switch, or the second shielding part releases the shielding of the light emitted by the second photoelectric switch; the control system can judge whether the second storage cavity is provided with the medicine or not and acquire the position of the medicine through the output signal of the second photoelectric switch.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the drug cabinet further comprises drawers and frames, the drawers being provided with at least one, and the frames being provided with at least one in each drawer; each frame comprises a plurality of unit installation areas which are communicated with each other, each first medicine box is installed in at least one unit installation area, each second medicine box is installed in the unit installation areas, and the number of the unit installation areas occupied by each second medicine box is larger than that of the unit installation areas occupied by each first medicine box.

A medication management method according to an embodiment of the second aspect of the invention, comprising the steps of: inputting information of a medicine to be put into the medicine cabinet; putting the medicine into an empty storage position until the medicine pushes a light barrier in the storage position to rotate so that the light barrier can shield the light emitted by the photoelectric switch or can release the shielding of the light emitted by the photoelectric switch; and recording the corresponding relation between each storage position and the information of the respectively stored medicines, and outputting the corresponding relation.

The drug management method provided by the embodiment of the invention has at least the following beneficial effects: by the method, the information of the medicines in each storage position in the medicine cabinet can be recorded and displayed, and the medicine taking efficiency of a user can be improved.

According to some embodiments of the invention, after placing at least one of the drugs into the drug cabinet, further comprising the steps of: inputting information of the medicine to be taken out, and recording the information of the medicine to be taken out as medicine taking information; selecting at least one medicine matched with the medicine taking information in the medicine cabinet as a target medicine; and taking the target medicines out of the medicine cabinet, and updating the corresponding relation between each storage position and the respectively stored medicines.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the method for managing the medicines further includes setting a medicine taking rule, after the medicine taking information is input, sorting storage positions where the medicines matching the medicine taking information are located according to the medicine taking rule, recording the storage positions as a medicine taking sequence, and taking out a plurality of the medicines according to the medicine taking sequence.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the method of drug management further comprises: arranging a plurality of medicine boxes in the medicine cabinet, wherein each medicine box is provided with a plurality of storage positions; a normally-off medicine box indicator lamp is arranged in each medicine box, and the medicine boxes for storing or taking out the medicines are shown by lighting the normally-off medicine box indicator lamps; or a normally-on medicine box indicator lamp is arranged in each medicine box, and the medicine boxes for storing or taking out the medicines are shown by turning off the normally-on medicine box indicator lamps.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the method of drug management further comprises: each storage position is correspondingly provided with a medicine indicating lamp; showing the storage location for storing or retrieving the medicine by illuminating a normally off medicine indicator light; alternatively, the storage location for storing or retrieving the medicine is shown by extinguishing a normally illuminated medicine indicator light.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The invention is further described with reference to the following figures and examples, in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a drug cabinet of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a drawer of the drug cabinet;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a drug storage module in a drawer;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of another combination of the drug storage module;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a frame of the drug storage module;

FIG. 6 is a top view of the frame of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of an unlocking rack in a drawer;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the engagement between the lock and the unlocking frame;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of a first pill box of the cabinet;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the first cartridge of FIG. 9 in an open position;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the first medicine cartridge;

fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of a first electronic control module of a first cartridge;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view of a third electronic control module;

FIG. 14 is a schematic view of the engagement between the latch and the hook;

FIG. 15 is a schematic view of a second pill case of the pill case;

FIG. 16 is a schematic view of the second cartridge of FIG. 15 in an open position;

FIG. 17 is a schematic view showing the internal structure of the second medicine cartridge;

fig. 18 is a schematic view of the second medicine box of fig. 17 with a medicine placed therein.

Reference numerals: 101-cabinet, 102-drawer, 103-control system, 201-first medicine box, 202-lock, 301-frame, 302-medicine storage module, 401-second medicine box, 501-accommodation space, 601-unit installation area, 701-unlocking frame, 702-unlocking groove, 801-lock core, 802-first linkage, 803-second linkage, 901-cover, 902-first box, 903-first photoelectric switch, 904-first light barrier, 905-first electric control module, 1001-medicine, 1002-lock catch, 1003-first light outlet, 1004-third electric control module, 1005-second light outlet, 1006-lock hook, 1007-shielding piece, 1101-first storage cavity, 1102-first avoiding opening, 1103-first contact part, 1104-first shielding part, 1201-medicine indicating lamp, 1301-third photoelectric switch, 1302-medicine box indicating lamp, 1501-second box body, 1502-second light shielding plate, 1503-second photoelectric switch, 1504-second electric control module, 1601-second avoiding opening, 1602-supporting wall, 1603-storage groove, 1701-second storage cavity, 1702-second contact part and 1703-second shielding part.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are illustrative only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship referred to in the description of the orientation, such as the upper, lower, front, rear, left, right, etc., is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, the meaning of a plurality is one or more, the meaning of a plurality is two or more, and the above, below, exceeding, etc. are understood as excluding the present numbers, and the above, below, within, etc. are understood as including the present numbers. If the first and second are described for the purpose of distinguishing technical features, they are not to be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated or implicitly indicating the precedence of the technical features indicated.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly limited, terms such as arrangement, installation, connection and the like should be understood in a broad sense, and those skilled in the art can reasonably determine the specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention in combination with the specific contents of the technical solutions.

In the description of the present invention, reference to the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an illustrative embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The invention provides a medicine cabinet. Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in some embodiments, a drug cabinet includes a cabinet body 101, a first drug cassette 201, and a control system 103. The first medicine box 201 is arranged inside the cabinet body 101, the control system 103 is connected with the cabinet body 101, and the control system 103 is used for receiving a signal of the first photoelectric switch 903 and allowing a user to input information of the medicine 1001. Referring to fig. 1, the control system 103 may be provided as a computer, and the control system 103 includes a display screen for displaying information. In some embodiments, the control system 103 further comprises a keyboard through which a user may make inputs; or, the control system 103 does not set a keyboard, and the user inputs information directly through the screen (in the case of a touch screen); alternatively, the control system 103 may be provided with a code scanning camera, and the user may scan a barcode (or two-dimensional code) of the medicine 1001 before placing the medicine 1001 in the camera, so as to input the information of the medicine 1001. The information of the drug 1001 may include manufacturer, expiration date, ingredients, volume, etc.

Referring to fig. 9 to 11, in the medicine cabinet, at least one first medicine box 201 is provided, and the first medicine box 201 includes a first box 902, a first light barrier 904, and a first photoelectric switch 903. The first box 902 has a first storage cavity 1101 for accommodating the medicine 1001, a first escape opening 1102 is formed in a wall surface of the first storage cavity 1101, and a first light barrier 904 is rotatably connected with the first box 902. The first light barrier 904 includes a first contact portion 1103 and a first blocking portion 1104, and the first blocking portion 1104 protrudes from the first avoidance port 1102 into the first storage chamber 1101. The first contact portion 1103 can be pressed by the medicine 1001 put in the first storage chamber 1101 and rotated in a direction away from the first storage chamber 1101, so that the first shielding portion 1104 shields the light of the first photoelectric switch 903 or the first shielding portion 1104 releases the shielding of the light of the first photoelectric switch 903.

When the light emitted from the emitting end of the first photoelectric switch 903 is shielded by the first shielding portion 1104, the receiving end of the first photoelectric switch 903 cannot receive the light from the emitting end, and the output signal of the first photoelectric switch 903 changes. The position of the first shielding portion 1104 can be known according to the change of the output signal of the first photoelectric switch 903, so that whether the medicine 1001 is placed in the first storage chamber 1101 or not can be known. The specific circuit principle of the optoelectronic switch belongs to the known technology, and is not specifically described here. In the arrangement shown in fig. 9 and 11, specifically, when the medicine 1001 is not placed, the first photoelectric switch 903 is shielded by the first light barrier 904, and when the medicine 1001 is placed, the first photoelectric switch 903 is shielded. In other embodiments, the first photoelectric switch 903 may be shielded by the first light barrier 904 when the medicine 1001 is placed, and the first photoelectric switch 903 may not be shielded when the medicine 1001 is not placed. Counting can be achieved as long as the output signal of the first photoelectric switch 903 is different (for example, a change in high and low levels) between the two states of the medicine 1001 and the medicine 1001.

The control system 103 is electrically connected with the first photoelectric switches 903, and the control system 103 receives output signals of all the first photoelectric switches 903 in the medicine cabinet. The control system 103 can determine whether a medicine 1001 is placed in a certain first storage chamber 1101 and obtain the position of the medicine 1001 according to the output signal of the first photoelectric switch 903. As to how to determine whether the medicine is placed in the first storage chamber 1101, the above description has been given, and how to obtain the position of the medicine 1001 is described in detail here.

Each first medicine box 201 comprises a first electric control module 905, the first electric control module 905 comprises a plurality of first photoelectric switches 903, and each first photoelectric switch 903 corresponds to a first light barrier 904 and a first storage cavity 1101 respectively. The output signal of each first photoelectric switch 903 is transmitted to the control system 103 through a different path (for example, by designing a different interface and a different circuit branch). Therefore, each of the first optoelectronic switches 903 corresponds to a signal transmission path, and each of the first optoelectronic switches 903 can be labeled as 1#, 2#, 3# and so on by the control system 103 according to the signal source. The user then sets the relationship between these virtual addresses and the specific location of the first storage chamber 1101 in the control system. For example, the first photoelectric switch 903 labeled as # 1 corresponds to the first photoelectric switch 903 at the front left corner of the first medicine cassette 201 in the leftmost row in the uppermost drawer. When the output signal of # 1 is changed, the medicine is placed in the first storage chamber 1101 corresponding to # 1, and the position of the first storage chamber 1101 corresponding to # 1 is known, so that the specific position of the medicine 1001 (i.e. which first medicine box 201 the medicine 1001 is in and which first storage chamber 1101 of the first medicine box 201 the medicine is in) can be known. The control system 103 may correlate (establish a correlation on data) the information and location of the drug 1001, and the control system 103 may also output the information and location of the drug 1001, such as by display on a display screen, by voice notification to the user, and the like.

The using mode of the medicine cabinet mainly comprises medicine placing and medicine taking. When a medicine 1001 is put into the medicine cabinet, information of the medicine 1001 to be put into the medicine cabinet is input into the control system 103, and then the medicine 1001 is put into one of the vacant first storage cavities 1101 until the medicine 1001 changes an output signal of the first photoelectric switch 903 corresponding to the first storage cavity 1101. The control system 103 then knows which first storage chamber 1101 the medicine 1001 is put into according to the first photoelectric switch 903 of which the signal changes, and establishes a corresponding relationship between each first storage chamber 1101 and the information of the medicine 1001 stored in each first storage chamber. When the medicine 1001 needs to be taken out, the specific position of the medicine 1001 to be taken out can be found according to the corresponding relation recorded by the control system 103, so that the medicine is taken out quickly.

In addition, because the first light barrier 904 rotates under the supporting action of the medicine 1001, the output signal of the photoelectric switch can be changed by rotating the first light barrier 904 by a certain angle, and compared with the mode that the first light barrier 904 is integrally translated, the movement space reserved for the first light barrier 904 can be reduced by the rotating mode, so that the structure of the first medicine box 201 is more compact, and the medicine cabinet is integrally more compact and smaller in size.

Therefore, the medicine cabinet provided by the invention can efficiently record and acquire the information and the position of the medicine 1001 stored in the medicine cabinet, and is beneficial to improving the medicine taking efficiency of a user; the medicine cabinet has compact structure and smaller volume. In addition, the first photoelectric switch 903 and the first light barrier 904 are arranged to detect whether the medicine 1001 is in each first storage chamber 1101, and the medicine cabinet can detect and calculate the total number of medicines in the medicine cabinet.

Referring to fig. 1 to 6, the medicine cabinet includes a drawer 102 and a medicine storage module 302, and the medicine storage module 302 includes a frame 301. In the medicine cabinet, at least one drawer 102 is arranged, the drawer 102 is slidably connected with the cabinet body 101, the frame 301 is installed in the drawer 102, the first medicine box 201 is installed in the frame 301, and the frame 301 is detachably connected with the drawer 102. Each drawer 102 is provided with a plurality of frames 301, and each frame 301 is provided with a plurality of first medicine boxes 201, so that the total number of medicines 1001 stored in the medicine cabinet can be increased. Further, the frame 301 may constrain the position of the first cartridge 201 so as to receive the first cartridge 201 into the drawer 102; meanwhile, the frame 301 can prevent the difficulty of searching for the specific medicine 1001 from increasing due to a large change in the position of the first medicine box 201 in the process of pulling out and pushing back the drawer 102. Specifically, in some embodiments, the bottom of the frame 301 is provided with positioning holes, and the drawer 102 includes positioning pillars (neither the positioning holes nor the positioning pillars are specifically shown), which are disposed on the bottom wall of the inner cavity of the drawer 102. The positioning column penetrates through the positioning hole, and the hole wall of the positioning hole can be abutted against the positioning column to block the frame 301 from moving transversely, so that the position stability of the frame 301 is ensured, and the position stability of the first medicine box 201 in the drawer 102 is also ensured.

Referring to fig. 4, in some embodiments, the cabinet further comprises at least one second medicine box 401, i.e. the at least one medicine storage module 302 comprises the second medicine box 401. Referring to fig. 15 to 18, the second medicine box 401 includes a second electric control module 1504, a second case 1501 and a second light blocking plate 1502. The second electronic control module 1504 includes a second opto-electronic switch 1503. The second box 1501 has a second storage chamber 1701, a second escape opening 1601 is opened on a wall surface of the second storage chamber 1701, the wall surface of the second storage chamber 1701 includes a support wall 1602, the support wall 1602 is used for placing the medicine 1001, the support wall 1602 is disposed in an inclined manner, and one end of the support wall 1602 is higher than the other end of the support wall 1602. The second light blocking plate 1502 is connected to the second container 1501, the second light blocking plate 1502 includes a second shielding portion 1703 and a second contact portion 1702, and the second contact portion 1702 passes through the first escape opening 1102 and extends into the second storage cavity 1701. The second contact portion 1702 can be held by the medicine 1001 placed in the second storage chamber 1701 and move in a direction away from the second storage chamber 1701, so that the second shielding portion 1703 shields the light emitted by the second photoelectric switch 1503, or the second shielding portion 1703 releases the shielding of the light emitted by the second photoelectric switch 1503. The support wall 1602 is curved to form a storage groove 1603, the medicine 1001 can be placed in the storage groove 1603, and the wall surface of the storage groove 1603 has a certain restriction effect on the movement of the medicine 1001, so that the position stability of the medicine 1001 is improved.

The control system 103 can also receive the output signal of the second photoelectric switch 1503 and accordingly know the position of the medicine 1001 (here, which second medicine box 401 the medicine 1001 is in and which storage tank 1603 of the second medicine box 401 the medicine 1001 is in). The principle of the second medicine cartridge 401 is substantially the same as that of the first medicine cartridge 201 in the detection of whether the medicine 1001 is placed and in the determination of the position of the medicine 1001, and the description is not repeated here. The second medicine cassette 401 is used for storing large-capacity medicines 1001, and the medicine bottles are large in volume. The main differences between the second cartridge 401 and the first cartridge 201 include that the medicines 1001 are placed in the second cartridge 401 in an inclined manner, so that the height of the space occupied by the medicines 1001 is small when the medicines 1001 are stored in the second cartridge 401, and the height of the second cartridge 401 does not need to be set too high due to the large volume of the medicines 1001, so that the placement of the second cartridge 401 in the drawer 102 is facilitated, and the same height as the first cartridge 201 is facilitated, so that the arrangement of different cartridges is facilitated.

In some embodiments, each frame 301 includes a plurality of interconnected unit mounting areas 601, each first medicine box 201 is mounted on at least one unit mounting area 601, each second medicine box 401 is mounted on a plurality of unit mounting areas 601, and the number of unit mounting areas 601 occupied by each second medicine box 401 is greater than the number of unit mounting areas 601 occupied by each first medicine box 201. Specifically, referring to fig. 5 to 6, the frame 301 is C-shaped, the center of the frame 301 has an accommodating space 501, the accommodating space 501 is used for accommodating the first medicine box 201 or the second medicine box 401, and the accommodating space 501 includes a plurality of unit installation regions 601. The frame 301 can mount cartridges of different specifications, and the relative number and relative position between the first cartridge 201 and the second cartridge 401 can be set in various ways according to the total number of the unit mounting areas 601 in the frame 301 and the number of the unit mounting areas 601 occupied by cartridges of different specifications. This arrangement is advantageous for improving the flexibility of the combination of the cartridges.

The length of the first cartridge 201 is the same as the length of the unit installation section 601 in the arrangement direction of the unit installation sections 601, and the ratio of the length of the second cartridge 401 to the length of the first cartridge 201 may be set to an integer not less than 2. That is, the length of the second cartridge 401 is n times the length of the first cartridge 201, and n is an integer not less than 2. For example, referring to fig. 6, if the length of the unit installation region 601 is L, the length of the first medicine cartridge 201 is L, and the length of the second medicine cartridge 401 is 2L. As shown in fig. 4, the length of the second medicine box 401 is set to be 2 times that of the first medicine box 201, the number of the unit installation regions 601 is 8, and fig. 4 shows one arrangement manner, in which the first medicine box 201 and the second medicine box 401 are arranged in the arrangement manner of "1-2-1-1-1-1-1" (in the arrangement manner, "1" refers to the first medicine box 201, and "2" refers to the second medicine box 401). Alternatively, the first cartridge 201 and the second cartridge 401 may be arranged in other ways, such as "1-1-2-1-1-1-1". If two second medicine boxes 401 are disposed in the medicine storage module 302, the arrangement may be "1-2-2-1-1-1", "1-2-1-2-1-1", and the like, which are not examples. When the ratio of the lengths of the second medicine box 401 to the first medicine box 201 and the number of the unit installation areas 601 are changed, different combination modes can be set according to the same combination principle, which is not exemplified here.

In addition, the drug storage module 302 may further include a third drug cassette (not shown) having the same length as the first drug cassette 201 (i.e., the third drug cassette also occupies one unit installation area 601), but the number of storage positions (corresponding to the first storage chamber 1101 of the first drug cassette 201) for storing the drugs 1001 in the third drug cassette is different from that of the first drug cassette 201, and the storage position of the third drug cassette has a different space size from that of the first drug cassette 201, so as to place different volumes of the drugs 1001 (in this case, the drugs 1001 are placed upright).

Referring to fig. 9 to 11, in some embodiments, the first medicine box 201 further includes a cover 901, the cover 901 is rotatably connected to the first box 902, and the cover 901 can rotate relative to the first box 902 to close or expose the first storage cavity 1101. The cover 901 protects the medicine 1001 in the first medicine cartridge 201. In some embodiments, the first medicine box 201 further includes a latch 1002, the latch 1002 is rotatably connected to the first box 902, the cover 901 further includes a hook 1006, and the latch 1002 can hook with an end of the hook 1006 to prevent the cover 901 from being opened. The hook 1006 and the latch 1002 are arranged to enable the first medicine box 201 to be in a stable closing state, so that the protection effect on the medicine 1001 is improved.

Referring to fig. 7 and 8, the medicine cabinet further includes an unlocking frame 701, a lock 202, a first linkage 802, and a second linkage 803. The unlocking frame 701 is disposed at the bottom of the inner cavity of the drawer 102, the unlocking frame 701 is provided with an unlocking groove 702, and one end of the lock catch 1002, which is far away from the cover 901, penetrates out of the frame 301 and penetrates through the unlocking groove 702. The lock 202 is mounted on the side of the drawer 102, the lock 202 includes a lock cylinder 801, and the lock cylinder 801 can rotate after a key is inserted into the lock cylinder 801. One end of the first linkage piece 802 is connected with the lock core 801, and the first linkage piece 802 can rotate together with the lock core 801; the other end of the first linkage member 802 abuts against the second linkage member 803, the other end of the second linkage member 803 abuts against the unlocking frame 701, and the middle part of the second linkage member 803 is rotatably connected with the drawer 102. The rotation of the lock core 801 rotates the second link member 803, thereby pushing the unlocking frame 701 to move (for example, the direction of fig. 7 is to push the unlocking frame 701 to move to the left), and the walls of the unlocking slot 702 thus push the lock catch 1002 to rotate. The medicine cabinet further includes a spring (not specifically shown) for return, and the extension and retraction direction of the spring may correspond to the moving direction of the unlocking frame 701, for example, the spring extends in the left-right direction. One end of the spring is connected with the drawer 102, the other end of the spring is connected with the unlocking frame 701, and after the key rotates to reset the second linkage member 803, the unlocking frame 701 is not abutted by the second linkage member 803 any more, and the unlocking frame 701 resets under the elastic force of the spring (more specifically, the spring may be set as an extension spring). The unlocking rack 701 is provided with a plurality of unlocking slots 702, and each unlocking slot 702 is provided with a different lock catch 1002, so that all medicine boxes in the same drawer 102 can be unlocked (or locked) at the same time by moving the unlocking rack 701. Keys may be kept by specific persons to ensure strict administration of the medication 1001. In addition, the control system 103 may be configured to be usable only when a password is input (or a fingerprint is required to be unlocked), so that the taking and placing of the medicine 1001 may be strictly controlled.

Referring to fig. 9 and 10, the first cartridge 201 includes a first electronic control module 905 and a third electronic control module 1004. Referring to fig. 12 and 13, the first photoelectric switch 903 is disposed in the first electronic control module 905, the first electronic control module 905 further includes a medicine indicator 1201, and the medicine indicator 1201 may be disposed as a patch LED. The third electronic control module 1004 includes a cartridge indicator light 1302. Referring to fig. 10, the first box 902 is provided with a first light hole 1003 and a second light hole 1005, the first light hole 1003 is located at the top of the first box 902, the second light hole 1005 is adjacent to the outlet of the first storage cavity 1101 (i.e. the hole through which the upper portion of the medicine 1001 passes in fig. 10), and the number of the medicine indicator 1201, the number of the second light holes 1005 and the number of the first storage cavity 1101 are the same. The first light-emitting holes 1003 are used for emitting light of the medicine box indicating lamps 1302, and each second light-emitting hole 1005 is used for emitting light of one medicine indicating lamp 1201. The drug indicator 1201 and the drug box indicator 1302 are controlled by the control system 103 to be switched on and off, the drug indicator 1201 is used for displaying the position of a drug, the drug box indicator 1302 is used for displaying the position of a drug box, and the drug indicator 1201 and the drug box indicator 1302 are used for prompting the operation of a user.

Referring to fig. 10 and 13, the third electronic control module 1004 further includes a third photoelectric switch 1301, and the cover 901 further includes a shielding member 1007. When the cover 901 is closed, the shielding member 1007 shields the light of the third photoelectric switch 1301, and when the cover 901 is opened, the shielding member 1007 releases the blocking of the light of the third photoelectric switch 1301. The third photoelectric switch 1301 is electrically connected to the control system 103, and the current state of the cover 901 can be determined according to an output signal of the third photoelectric switch 1301, so as to manage the first medicine box 201 in the medicine cabinet. Referring to fig. 15 and 16, the second medicine box 401 may also include components such as a latch 1002, a cover 901, a medicine indicator 1201, a medicine indicator 1302, and a third photoelectric switch 1301, and the functions of the components in the second medicine box 401 are the same as those of the components in the first medicine box 201, and a description thereof will not be repeated. The second cartridge 401 and the first cartridge 201 have substantially the same function except for the difference in the angle at which the medicine 1001 is placed.

The invention also provides a medicine management method. In the following description of the method, the "storage position" refers to a position where one medicine 1001 is stored, and specifically may be the first storage chamber 1101 of the first medicine box 201, and may also be the storage groove 1603 of the second medicine box 401. Hereinafter, the medicine box may be the first medicine box 201, the second medicine box 401, or other medicine boxes which are matched with the photoelectric switch by using the rotating light barrier.

The drug management method comprises the following steps: inputting information of a medicine 1001 to be put in the medicine cabinet (for convenience of the following description, this information is referred to as medicine storage information); putting the medicine 1001 into an empty storage position until the medicine 1001 pushes a light barrier in the storage position to rotate, so that the light barrier shields the light of the photoelectric switch, or the shielding of the light of the photoelectric switch is released; the correspondence between each storage location and the information of the stored medicine 1001 is recorded, and the correspondence is output.

By the method, the information of the medicines 1001 in each storage position in the medicine cabinet can be recorded and displayed, and a user can be guided to take the medicines, so that the medicine taking efficiency is improved.

Before establishing the corresponding relationship and after inputting the medicine storage information, different methods can be specifically used. For example, a drug storage rule may be preset, such as different drawers 102 holding different types of drugs 1001, drugs 1001 ordered by manufacturer initials, drugs 1001 ordered by production date, etc.; according to the medicine storage information and the medicine storage rule, the control system 103 calculates and designates a storage location (in the case of placing one medicine at a time), and after the user sees the guidance of the storage location on the display of the control system 103, the user places the medicine 1001 according to the designated storage location. It should be noted that, if the user places the medicine 1001 at the wrong position when storing the medicine 1001, the output signal of the photoelectric switch corresponding to the storage position pre-designated by the control system 103 will not change, and at this time, the control system 103 may determine that the user is operating incorrectly, and the control system 103 sends out a prompt or warning to remind the user to operate again until the medicine 1001 is placed correctly.

Alternatively, the user directly and randomly places the medicine 1001 in an empty storage position, the control system 103 determines where the medicine 1001 is placed by detecting the signal changes of all the first photoelectric switches 903, and then the information of the medicine 1001 is associated with the storage position. Relatively speaking, the former method is more beneficial to improving the regularity of the placement of the drugs 1001, and the latter method is more flexible in use.

The method of medication management further comprises the step of taking a medication that is required after at least one medication 1001 is placed in the medication cabinet. The user can search for the drug according to the corresponding relationship between each storage location and the information of the stored drug 1001, or can select the target drug by performing information matching through the control system 103. For example, the step of taking the drug comprises: a user inputs information of a medicine 1001 to be taken out into the control system 103, and the information of the medicine 1001 to be taken out is recorded as medicine taking information; the control system 103 selects at least one medicine 1001 matched with the medicine taking information as a target medicine through operation and screening; the user takes at least one target drug out of the drug cabinet according to the position of the target drug informed by the control system 103, and then the control system 103 updates the corresponding relationship between each storage position and the information of the drug 1001 stored in the storage position. Because the corresponding relationship between the storage location and the medicine 1001 is established when the medicine 1001 is placed, the location of the medicine 1001 to be taken can be quickly obtained by matching the medicine taking information with the information of the medicine 1001 in the medicine cabinet when the medicine is taken.

In some cases, there are multiple to-be-taken drugs 1001 meeting the same condition, and one or more of them can be taken randomly by the user. In some embodiments, a medicine taking rule may be preset, after the medicine taking information is input, the storage locations where the medicines 1001 matching the medicine taking information are located are sorted according to the medicine taking rule and recorded as a medicine taking sequence, and a plurality of medicines 1001 are taken out according to the medicine taking sequence. For example, the storage locations corresponding to the to-be-taken medicines 1001 may be sorted according to the validity periods of the medicines 1001, so that the user can preferentially take out the medicines 1001 near the validity periods, so as to prevent the medicines 1001 from being expired and invalid. The above-mentioned dispensing sequence does not necessarily need to be displayed or informed to the user directly, and the control system 103 can directly specify the storage location for the user to dispense the medicine according to the dispensing sequence.

In order to facilitate prompt of a user to which position a medicine 1001 is placed or to which position the medicine 1001 is taken out, the medicine cartridge is provided with a medicine cartridge indicator lamp 1302 and a medicine indicator lamp 1201. Some methods of using the two indicator lights are described below.

For example, all the medicine box indicator lamps 1302 and the medicine indicator lamps 1201 are kept in a non-lighting state (i.e., normally off) at ordinary times, when taking or placing medicine, the medicine indicator lamp 1201 corresponding to the storage position where the target medicine is located or the storage position where the medicine is to be placed is turned on, and the medicine box indicator lamp 1302 corresponding to the storage position where the target medicine is located or the storage position where the medicine is to be placed is also turned on. The user can quickly find the target storage position according to the lighted lamp. Whereas the number of drawers 102 per se is small relative to the number of cartridges, the drawer 102 corresponding to the target storage location may be shown directly on the display screen of the control system 103. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the medicine indicator 1201 and the medicine box indicator 1302 may be turned on constantly, and the lamp corresponding to the target storage location is turned off when the medicine is taken or put, so that the target storage location can be distinguished as well.

After the medicine 1001 is taken out or the medicine 1001 is put in, the states of the medicine box indicator lamp 1302 and the medicine indicator lamp 1201 corresponding to the storage position can be switched to prompt the user that the medicine 1001 is correctly placed or the medicine 1001 is taken out, and the switching can be controlled by the control system 103 according to the signal change of the photoelectric switch, so that the state of which lamp is changed.

In addition, the state of the medicine box indicator lamp 1302 may not be switched according to whether the medicine 1001 is placed at the target position, and the state of the medicine box indicator lamp 1302 may be switched according to the opening and closing state of the cover 901, so as to prompt the user whether to correctly close the cover 901. In this manner, the control system 103 controls the on/off of the medicine box indicator lamp 1302 according to the output signal of the third photoelectric switch 1301.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various changes can be made within the knowledge of those skilled in the art without departing from the gist of the present invention. Furthermore, the embodiments of the present invention and the features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

Claims (10)

1. The drug cabinet is used for storing medicines and is characterized by comprising:

a cabinet body;

at least one first medicine box is arranged inside the cabinet body, the first medicine box comprises a first box body, a first light barrier and a first photoelectric switch, the first box body is provided with a first storage cavity for containing medicines, the wall surface of the first storage cavity is provided with a first avoidance opening, the first light barrier is rotationally connected with the first box body and comprises a first contact part and a first shielding part, the first contact part extends into the first storage cavity from the first avoiding opening, and can be propped by the medicine put into the first storage cavity to rotate in the direction away from the first storage cavity, so that the first shielding part shields the light emitted by the first photoelectric switch, or the first shielding part releases the shielding of the light emitted by the first photoelectric switch;

control system, with the cabinet body coupling, control system with first photoelectric switch electricity is connected, control system can pass through first photoelectric switch's output signal judges whether first storage chamber has placed the medicine with acquire the position of medicine, control system supplies the user to input the information of medicine will the information of medicine with the position of medicine is correlated with each other, just control system can take notes and output the information and the position of medicine.

2. The drug cabinet of claim 1, wherein the first drug cassette further comprises a drug cassette indicator light for displaying a position of the first drug cassette, the drug cassette indicator light being electrically connected to the control system; first light-emitting hole has been seted up at the top of first box body, first light-emitting hole supplies the light of medicine box pilot lamp jets out, control system can open or close the medicine box pilot lamp.

3. The drug cabinet of claim 1, wherein the first drug box further comprises a drug indicator light, the drug indicator light is used for indicating the position of the drug, the first box body is provided with a second light outlet, the second light outlet is arranged adjacent to the outlet of the first storage cavity, the number of the drug indicator lights and the number of the second light outlet are the same as the number of the first storage cavity, and each second light outlet is used for emitting light of one drug indicator light; the control system is connected with the medicine indicating lamp and can turn on or off the medicine indicating lamp.

4. The cabinet of claim 1, further comprising at least one second pill box disposed within the interior of the cabinet body, the second pill box comprising:

the second box body is provided with a second storage cavity, the wall surface of the second storage cavity is provided with a second avoidance opening, the wall surface of the second storage cavity comprises a supporting wall, the supporting wall is used for placing medicines, the supporting wall is obliquely arranged, and one end of the supporting wall is higher than the other end of the supporting wall;

the second light blocking plate is rotatably connected with the second box body and comprises a second shielding part and a second contact part, and the second contact part penetrates through the second avoiding opening and extends into the second storage cavity;

the second contact part can be abutted by the medicine placed into the second storage cavity and moves towards the direction far away from the second storage cavity, so that the second shielding part shields the light emitted by the second photoelectric switch, or the second shielding part releases the shielding of the light emitted by the second photoelectric switch; the control system can judge whether the second storage cavity is provided with the medicine or not and acquire the position of the medicine through the output signal of the second photoelectric switch.

5. A cabinet according to claim 4, further comprising drawers and frames, the drawers being provided with at least one, and the frames being provided with at least one in each drawer; each frame comprises a plurality of unit installation areas which are communicated with each other, each first medicine box is installed in at least one unit installation area, each second medicine box is installed in the unit installation areas, and the number of the unit installation areas occupied by each second medicine box is larger than that of the unit installation areas occupied by each first medicine box.

6. The drug management method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

inputting information of a medicine to be put into the medicine cabinet;

putting the medicine into an empty storage position until the medicine pushes a light barrier in the storage position to rotate so that the light barrier can shield the light emitted by the photoelectric switch or can release the shielding of the light emitted by the photoelectric switch;

and recording the corresponding relation between each storage position and the information of the respectively stored medicines, and outputting the corresponding relation.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the steps of, after placing at least one of the drugs in the drug cabinet:

inputting information of the medicine to be taken out, and recording the information of the medicine to be taken out as medicine taking information;

selecting at least one medicine matched with the medicine taking information in the medicine cabinet as a target medicine;

and taking the target medicines out of the medicine cabinet, and updating the corresponding relation between each storage position and the information of the respectively stored medicines.

8. The method of drug management of claim 7, further comprising: setting a medicine taking rule, after the medicine taking information is input, sequencing storage positions where the medicines matched with the medicine taking information are located according to the medicine taking rule, recording the storage positions as a medicine taking sequence, and taking out a plurality of medicines according to the medicine taking sequence.

9. The method of drug management of claim 7, further comprising: arranging a plurality of medicine boxes in the medicine cabinet, wherein each medicine box is provided with a plurality of storage positions; a normally-off medicine box indicator lamp is arranged in each medicine box, and the medicine boxes for storing or taking out the medicines are shown by lighting the normally-off medicine box indicator lamps; or a normally-on medicine box indicator lamp is arranged in each medicine box, and the medicine boxes for storing or taking out the medicines are shown by turning off the normally-on medicine box indicator lamps.

10. The method of drug management of claim 7, further comprising: each storage position is correspondingly provided with a medicine indicating lamp;

showing the storage location for storing or retrieving the medicine by illuminating a normally off medicine indicator light; alternatively, the storage location for storing or retrieving the medicine is shown by extinguishing a normally illuminated medicine indicator light.

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