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：
US13853230
公开号：
US09072652B1
申请日:
2013.03.29
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
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 receives pills from the hopper. The transport tube has a controllable aperture for facilitating or inhibiting delivery of pills to the transport tube. A microcontroller is also operatively connected to the hopper, the transport tube, and the input aperture. Optionally, a feed chute can be operatively connected between the hopper and the transport tube. The system can self-calibrate the mechanism for counting and dispensing pills by dynamically adjusting the input aperture based upon the stored information representative of the pulse width signal and the amplitude signal.
