EP1214924A2 - Dispositif de support pour enveloppe de type plaquette alvéolée destinée à recevoir des médicaments sous forme de comprimés ou dragées - Google Patents

Dispositif de support pour enveloppe de type plaquette alvéolée destinée à recevoir des médicaments sous forme de comprimés ou dragées Download PDF

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EP1214924A2
EP1214924A2 EP01129091A EP01129091A EP1214924A2 EP 1214924 A2 EP1214924 A2 EP 1214924A2 EP 01129091 A EP01129091 A EP 01129091A EP 01129091 A EP01129091 A EP 01129091A EP 1214924 A2 EP1214924 A2 EP 1214924A2
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Wilhelm Fleschner
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/04—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
    • A61J7/0409—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers
    • A61J7/0481—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers with timers working on a schedule basis
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J1/00—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes
    • A61J1/03—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for pills or tablets
    • A61J1/035—Blister-type containers

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  • the invention relates to a receiving device for a pharmaceutical container in the form a blister pack for drug doses in tablet and coated tablets with the further features of the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such a receiving device is known for example from DE 40 01 645 C2, which has an actuator with an actuator that over the Surface of the drug container and against this is movable to the under medication doses lying in the actuating element from the medicament container push out.
  • the actuator cooperating device for querying or detecting the position of the Actuator provided in the event of their actuation.
  • signal generation and signal processing means With the facility for Questions or capturing are linked to signal generation and signal processing means, which can generate position signals and associated time signals which are stored or can be displayed.
  • the with the actuator at State of the art cooperating device for querying or recording The position of the actuating element above the blister pack is in the prior art relatively complicated because they are designed in the manner of a joint Mounting area of the actuator is integrated.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a recording device with the features of the preamble of claim 1 such that it is easier to manufacture, robust, has only a small height and is easily adaptable to the conditions of a blister.
  • This object is achieved by the characterizing features of claim 1, advantageous further developments result from subclaims 2 to 29.
  • it is considered to be the essence of the invention to provide the device with only one movement contact which is connected to the actuating element and can be brought with it via the position of the drug dose to be squeezed out.
  • This movement contact acts as a contact bridge and bridges a fixed contact pair during the squeezing process, which is arranged in the area of each drug dose to be squeezed out.
  • An advantage of the device according to the invention is, in particular, that the articulated fastening of the actuating device does not have to be equipped with a complicated pressure or linear position transmitter.
  • the actuating device consists exclusively of a pivotable arm and an attached finger-like element, which is either provided with the movement contact or itself acts as a movement contact.
  • the fixed contact pair which is bridged during the squeezing process by the manual contact to be moved, must be arranged in the area of each squeezable drug dose. This can take place either in that, for example, two fixed contact spring elements protrude into the area of the push-through recess, which is penetrated by the actuating element during the push-through process.
  • the two fixed contact elements are bridged by the movement contact, which triggers a signal that can be evaluated with regard to the location and time of the expression.
  • the contact pair together with the Printed conductors are arranged on a printed circuit board.
  • the contact pairs can be in in this case, contact areas that merge into corresponding conductor tracks.
  • the Movement contact touches the contact surfaces during the push-through process and thus releases the corresponding signal.
  • the fixed contacts can be connected that one of the two cooperating fixed contacts of a contact pair is connected to a busbar, the second contact of the contact pair is over a separate line connected to the input of an electronic chip, the can register the electrical bridging of the two contacts.
  • the order the contact pairs in the form of flat conductor elements on the conductor board is particularly easy to manufacture, robust and therefore not very susceptible to faults, which is important for those in Question cradles is very significant.
  • the recesses of the printed circuit board reach through or at least intervene in these.
  • This measure will the position of the blister in a particularly advantageous manner in relation to the associated blister Contact pairs are particularly well fixed, so that the printed circuit board has a multiple function is to be measured, namely position of the blister, carrier for the contacts, Carrier for the conductor tracks and, if necessary, carrier for the attached Electronics and display elements.
  • a case bottom which under the section provided with the recesses the circuit board is arranged, is designed in the manner of a hinged cover, can a blister be inserted into the circuit board from below, then the Grip recesses in the circuit board around the tablet wells of the blister.
  • a Such arrangement is not only easy to use, but it is also by the Insert the blister from below into the conductor level, a very flat design Receiving device in the area of the blister reached.
  • hinged lid is provided with a closure element that only after or can be unlocked by operating two separate handles, is a safeguard for this created that unauthorized persons, especially children, do not remove the pharmaceutical packaging can see the exception device.
  • the fixed contacts are on both sides of the drug doses on the opposite side Printed circuit board arranged.
  • a relatively large-area movement contact can be in Apply the contact closing position to the printed circuit board essentially flat, which ensures a high level of contact security.
  • the movement contact is ring-shaped, the is in each rotational position Movement contact or the actuator securely bridging the ensured two fixed contacts.
  • the actuator is finger-like and the movement contact engages around the upper area of the actuating element facing away from the projecting part, it is ensured that contact is only made if the respective Drug dose is really pressed through the perforable film. This automatically prevents incorrect contacts.
  • Claims 13 and 14 relate to advantageous designs of the printed circuit board or their arrangement and placement in housing elements.
  • Claim 15 represents one long lifespan of the battery of the cradle safely used
  • Switching device may comprise an electromechanical switching element which electronic signal generation and processing means switches off as soon as the Actuating device is transferred to a parking position.
  • Park position means that the the actuator forming arm with the actuator in one Recess of a housing is inserted and locked there.
  • parking position means that the actuator forming arm with the actuator in one Recess of a housing is inserted and locked there.
  • To transfer the device into a Stand-by mode can also serve a motion sensor, which is electronic Turns off components of the device when the actuator has a specified period is not moved. It is also possible to have one Use motion sensor that the electronics of the recording device off or switches back if the device as a whole is not moved.
  • the claims 19 - 29 relate to the design, arrangement and function of a closure element and other security devices, the z. B. can serve as a child lock.
  • a closure element can be provided which closes the push-through recesses of the housing lying above the drug doses.
  • This closure element can, for example, be transferred from an open position to a closed position and vice versa by the actuating device, for example by a pivoting or a sliding movement of the actuating device.
  • the actuating element of the actuating device acts in the parking position in the parking position a wedge surface, which causes a sliding or rotary movement of the closure element, which then closes the push-through recess. It is possible that the actuating element passes through a recess of the closure element in the closed position, whereby the closure element is securely fixed in its closed position.
  • Other locking or locking elements for the closure element are of course conceivable. If the closure element can only be moved into its open position during a predefinable time window, it is ensured that an accommodating device lying around unobserved cannot be opened outside the time window by unauthorized persons.
  • the closure element is advantageously as a flat, under the surface of the Housing arranged, with in the open position with the push-through openings aligned openings formed slide.
  • the receiving device 1 is used for a medicament container in the form of a Blister pack 2, in which drug doses in the form of tablets 3 are contained.
  • the Receiving device 1 comprises an actuating device 4 with a Actuating element 5, which is finger-like and on a pivoting and slidable arm 6 of the actuator 4 is attached.
  • the Actuator 5 can over the surface of the blister pack 2 and against it be moved to the drug dose then lying under the actuating element in the form of a tablet 3 from the blister pack 2.
  • the blister pack 2 is arranged in a housing 7, which consists of an upper part and a lower part consists.
  • a section of the lower part 9 is designed as a hinged cover 10, which is articulated is attached to the lower part 9.
  • the housing 7 is a cooperating with the actuator 4 Device for querying and / or detecting the position of the actuating element 5 the actuating device 4 in the event of its actuation, with the device are electronic signal generation and processing means for generating, Submit, save and / or display the corresponding position of the Actuating element of the actuating device characterizing position signals and assigned time signals.
  • the device for querying and / or detecting the position of the Actuating element 5 has one connected to the actuating element 5 Movement contact 11, which together with the actuating element on the Position of the tablet 3 to be squeezed out and at Squeezing process, d. H. when immersed in the housing 7, a pair of contacts 12 bridges that in the range of each squeezable drug dose or Tablet 3 is arranged.
  • Each pair of contacts 12 has at least two individual contacts, preferably in the form of contact surfaces 13, which together with the to Signal generation and signal processing means carrying conductor tracks 14 on a Printed circuit board 15 are arranged.
  • the circuit board is in the plane of the Drug doses or tablets arranged and provided with recesses for The arrangement of the tablets 3 of the blister pack 2 fit.
  • the blister pack can be from placed below with their tablets 3 in the recesses 16 of the printed circuit board 15 become.
  • the hinged lid 10 can be opened so that the underside of the PCB circuit board exposed. After closing the hinged lid 10 is the blister pack held securely by the recesses 16 of the printed circuit board and in their target position fixed.
  • the hinged lid 10 is with a closure element 17, not shown provided, since after or by actuating two separate handles 18, 19 can be unlocked, for example in the form of push buttons on the housing 7. This is a safeguard against unauthorized removal and exchange of tablets created.
  • the contact surfaces 13 forming the fixed contacts are located on both sides of the tablets 3 opposite, the movement contact 11 acts in the contact closed position Printed circuit board 15 and thus the contact surfaces 13 essentially flat.
  • the Movement contact 11 is annular and encompasses this in a known manner finger-shaped actuating element 5 in the protruding from the Area facing away from the actuator. This allows the protruding of the Actuator take over the push-out function, the upper fastening end the actuating element is used to make contact, whereby a double function of Actuator is guaranteed.
  • the protruding 20 of the actuating element 5 can be made of elastic, deformable Material.
  • the printed circuit board 15 can be on both sides be provided with conductor tracks, d. H. the conductor tracks 14 of a first row of tablets For example, on the side 21, the conductor tracks 14 of another Row of tablets can, for example, on the rear side 22 of the printed circuit board 15 be arranged.
  • the printed circuit board 15 also carries the signal processing means 23, which are shown in FIG are only hinted at.
  • the signal processing means include, among others acoustic and optical elements also memory 24, a display 25 and others necessary electronic components to the memory or memory function of the To get the cradle.
  • the electronic components of the receiving device switch on again.
  • the device can store other withdrawal events and the like.
  • the switching device 26 can also be a motion sensor that the switches off electronic components of the signal processing means when the Actuator is not moved for a predetermined period.
  • FIG. 8 shows a closure member 30 through which the Tablets 3 push-through recesses 31 of the upper part 8 of the housing 7 are lockable.
  • the closure element 30 is a flat, under the upper part 8 of the Housing 7 arranged, with in the open position with the push-through recesses aligned openings slider 32 which by a spring 33 in Open position is spring-loaded.
  • the closed position shown is taken in that the actuator 5 when inserted into the Parking position shown slides on an inclined surface 34 of the slide gate 32 and this moves against the force of the spring 33 to the left so that the tablets of are largely inaccessible above.

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EP01129091A 2000-12-07 2001-12-07 Dispositif de support pour enveloppe de type plaquette alvéolée destinée à recevoir des médicaments sous forme de comprimés ou dragées Withdrawn EP1214924A3 (fr)

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