Patent ID: 9002718
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: A61J,G07F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A medication managing apparatus, comprising: a medicine package storage portion comprising a plurality of blocks each storing a medicine package containing a single dose of medicine for a user; storing device storing in advance a plurality of medication times; medication time noticing device giving a notice, every time the medication time has come, that the medication time has come; a medicine package sensor sensing presence/absence of the medicine package in the block of the medicine package storage portion; a processing device configured to, when the medication time has come, determine by the medicine package sensor presence/absence of the medicine package in a prescribed block, to cause the storing device to store a time point of the determination and the presence/absence of the medicine package, and to output an instruction for the user in accordance with a detection result, the processing device being further configured to, when taking-out of the medicine package is sensed by the medicine package sensor at a time except for the medication time, cause the storing device to store a time point of the sensing and the taking-out, and to output a desired instruction to the user, wherein the medicine package storage portion comprising a medicine package case removably attached to a main body of the medication package storage portion, the medication managing apparatus comprises a medicine package case sensor sensing attachment and removal of the medicine package case to and from the main body, the processing device gives an instruction/notice to set the medicine package case if taking-out of the medicine package case is sensed at a time except for the medication time, and the processing device is configured to determine whether or not the medicine package case is set, detects whether there is a change in number of the medicine packages when the medicine package case is set, and gives an instruction/notice to take out the medicine package with designation of location of the medicine package if the number of the medicine packages increases.