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：
US13853260
公开号：
US08880219B1
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 feed chute having a detector mechanism is operatively connected to the hopper for receiving pills therefrom. A microcontroller is also operatively connected to the hopper, the feed chute, and the detector mechanism. The microcontroller calculates the volume of each of the pills transiting the detector mechanism based on occluded electromagnetic signals detected by the detector mechanism and the time of transit of each pill relative thereto.
