Patent ID: 8985388
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: A61J,G07F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A portable medical container configured to recover there-inside one or more pills remaining in a conveying means after completion of a dispensing cycle, the medical container comprising: an enclosure means including a cap, a base, and one or more side walls extended between the cap and the base, the enclosure means configured to define a substantially enclosed inner chamber of a portable size; a storage compartment inside the inner chamber, the storage compartment configured to receive a bulk supply of pills, the storage compartment having a discharge port configured to controllably discharge one or more pills stored therein, and a recovery inlet configured to receive one or more recovered pills and deposit the received one or more recovered pills back into the storage compartment; a dispensing means, the dispensing means having an inlet and configured to receive one or more pills transported to the inlet and dispense the one or more pills received from the inlet for a user to access; a conveying means inside the inner chamber, the conveying means configured to receive pills discharged from the discharge port of the storage compartment, transport at least a subset of the pills received from the discharge port to the inlet of the dispensing means for dispensing through the dispensing means so as to complete a dispensing cycle, the conveying means further configured to have an outlet for discharging one or more pills remaining therein after the completion of the dispensing cycle; and a pill recovery means inside the inner chamber, the recovery means configured to receive, from the outlet of the conveying means, the one or more pills remaining in the conveying means after the completion of the dispensing cycle, and transport and deposit the received one or more remaining pills back to the storage compartment through the recovery inlet of the storage compartment.