Prashanth Balasubramanian,Joseph H. Boyer,James Boyer,Mark Jones,Christopher Mayes,George Plesko,Edwin T. V. Quigley,Joseph Scott,Joseph Sienko,James Worthington,Alban Yee
申请号：
US13853236
公开号：
US08849450B1
申请日:
2013.03.29
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
A self-contained pill dispenser is disclosed. A housing is provided and a hopper for containing a plurality of pills is supported by the housing. A transport tube is operatively connected to the hopper for receiving pills therefrom, the transport tube having an input aperture. A microcontroller is electrically connected to the hopper, the transport tube, and the input aperture. A mechanism accepts a desired number of pills to be delivered by the transport tube by an operator. The microcontroller is adapted to determine whether the actual average number of pills delivered by the transport tube is equal to the desired number of pills specified by the operator. If the actual average number of pills is greater than the desired number, the microcontroller decreases the opening of the input aperture. A mechanism connected to the inlet aperture controls opening and closing operations thereof, pursuant to instructions transmitted by the microcontroller.
