Patent ID: 6612461
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: A61J,G07F

Abstract:
Device for storing and for reminding/recording the intake of drugs, arranged in a drug packaging, which is designed as individual packaging segments, which form individual pockets, holding individual drug dosages (tablets, pills, powder dosages, liquid dosages), and which are made of foil and lie in succession in the longitudinal direction and are sealed with a foil that can be punched through, whereby the drug packaging is guided in the device and can be transported by means of a feed in the device, whereby the device (1) exhibits guide elements, configured along the line of a guide track (6) which is arranged within the device and preferably runs adjacent a periphery thereof, and there are drive elements, by means of which the drug packaging (2) can be fed incrementally to a removal-ejecting mechanism (5), in which a drug dosage can be ejected through a removal window (7) at essentially right angles to the guide track (6) by means of an ejecting element, and whereby the device comprises electronic switching means for reminding the intake and for recording when a drug dosage is removed, characterized in that the drive elements are designed as a star-shaped wheel (8), whose teeth, pointing radially outwards, mesh with the packaging segments (4), forming the individual pockets.