Patent ID: 9245093
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: A61J,G07F,G16H

Claim Text:
1. An automatic pill dispensing apparatus for dispensing pills to a patent according to a prescription schedule comprising: a housing comprising an upwardly facing housing cover with a linear array of upwardly facing cartridge doors disposed under the housing cover, an information input/output display and a dispense button; a plurality of rotatable circular cartridges mounted on a centrally positioned, horizontally disposed primary shaft located inside the housing, each cartridge comprising a plurality of individual pill compartments, each cartridge having a plurality of fill positions wherein each pill compartment is selectively positionable beneath a fill opening defined by a cartridge door, and a plurality of dispense positions in which each pill compartment is selectively positionable and open at each dispense position; a pivoted dispense bar for closing each open pill compartment when the cartridge is in one of the dispense positions; a sweeping wire; a driver comprising a motor, at least one engageable clutch and complementary gears for rotating a cartridge to a successive dispense position; a control unit comprising wherein, upon depression of the dispense button, the dispense bar pivots down which opens the pill compartment and the sweeping wire moves downward through the pill compartment and dislodges a pill into a dispense tray allowing patient access to the pill.