Patent ID: 8560117

Claim:
A system for dispensing medicament units, comprising: a dispensing apparatus having a set of slots, a slot of the set of slots configured to receive a medicament container; a medicament container configured to be inserted into the slot comprising: a housing, a chamber located within the housing configured to store a plurality of medicament units, an outlet defined in the housing to dispense a set of medicament units of the plurality of medicament units, a memory configured to store data, a motorless rotatable disk structure defining a groove configured to hold the set of medicament units, the motorless rotatable disk being located within the housing and positioned between the chamber and the outlet such that the groove carries the set of medicament units from the chamber to the outlet when the rotatable disk structure rotates, a drive mechanism for rotating the motorless rotatable disk structure, the drive mechanism being configured to be coupled to the dispensing apparatus such that the dispensing apparatus engages the drive mechanism to rotate the rotatable disk to dispense the set of medicament units; and control logic coupled to the memory of the medicament container and the dispensing apparatus, wherein the control logic is configured to transmit the data to the dispensing apparatus; wherein the dispensing apparatus receives the data transmitted from the control logic and determines the slot of the set of slots and selects the medicament container to actuate the drive mechanism to dispense the set of medicament units.