Patent ID: 7868741
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: A61J

Abstract:
1. A medication managing apparatus, comprising: a medicine package case; and a main body unit removably storing the medicine package case, and managing medication-related information including a medication instruction time, to give, at said medication instruction time, an instruction/notice of medication, wherein said medicine package case includes a plurality of blocks divided by walls and arranged in parallel with each other, each storing a medicine package containing a medicine to be taken by a user, and an openable/closable cover covering said plurality of blocks to allow the medicine package to be stored and taken out, wherein said main body unit includes a medicine package sensor sensing the medicine package in each said block, and a medicine package case sensor sensing attachment/removal of said medicine package case to/from said main body unit, wherein said medication managing apparatus comprises openings provided at opposing walls of said each block and formed at positions facing each other such that the medicine package stored in the block is sandwiched therebetween, and wherein said medicine package sensor is disposed corresponding to each said opening at the opposing walls of each said block, to sense a medicine package based on that the medicine package stored in the block blocks a gap between a pair of openings.