Countable kit

By designing a counting medicine box, the problems of dosage and inconvenience in carrying pills are solved, enabling quantitative dispensing and timely medication, making it suitable for middle-aged and elderly patients.

CN115381717BActive Publication Date: 2026-01-02SHAANXI XUELONG HIYMPT PHARMA CO LTD
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Application Number
CN202211075294.5
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Patents(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2021-02-19
Publication Date
2026-01-02
Estimated Expiration
2041-02-19

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Technical Problem

The measurement and carrying of pills in the current technology are inconvenient, especially traditional Chinese medicine, which is easy to fall and get contaminated. In addition, middle-aged and elderly patients have difficulty accurately counting and carrying multiple medicines when they go out.

Method used

A counting pillbox was designed, comprising a box body, a lid, a sleeve, and a drawer. It achieves quantitative dispensing of pills through a tilting structure and a sliding sleeve, and combines a prompt module for timed reminders and data verification to ensure that patients take their medication on time.

Benefits of technology

It enables quantitative dispensing of medicines, avoids contamination, ensures patients take their medications on time, and has a medication time recording function, making it suitable for the needs of middle-aged and elderly patients.

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Abstract

The application discloses a countable medicine box, which comprises a box body, a box cover movably arranged on the upper end of the box body, and a sleeve box rotatably sleeved on the outer sidewall of the box body. A plurality of medicine grooves with different depths are arranged in the sleeve box. A retention cavity for accumulating medicine is formed in the inside of the box cover. The bottom of the retention cavity is in an inclined shape. The medicine inlet is located at the high point of the inclination, so that the medicine inlet is located at the low point when the box body is inverted. A medicine leakage hole is formed in the low end position of the bottom of the retention cavity. A medicine guide hole in communication with the medicine leakage hole is formed in the sidewall of the box body. The lower section of the medicine guide hole and the medicine grooves with different depths form a metering channel for quantitatively taking medicine pills. The application can accurately meter the number of medicine pills, avoid repeated taking, and adapt to various medicines, thereby improving the convenience of use.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present application relates to the technical field of medical supplies, in particular to a countable medicine box. BACKGROUND

[0002] For some pill medicines, especially the medicines which need to take multiple pills at one time, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pill and Guipi Pill, the dosage taken by patients may be different due to different physical conditions. At present, the method for taking medicine from a medicine bottle is generally to pour out a large amount of medicine, then count the standard amount of medicine from the poured-out medicine and put the excess medicine back into the medicine bottle. This method is prone to cause the phenomenon of medicine falling and being contaminated. In addition, for some elderly patients, they may take different kinds of pill medicines in a day, which is inconvenient to carry and inconvenient to count when going out. Therefore, the present application provides a countable medicine box. SUMMARY

[0003] The present application aims to provide a countable medicine box to solve the problems in the background.

[0004] To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the present application provides the following technical scheme: a countable medicine box, comprising a box body, a box cover movably covering the upper end of the box body, a sleeve box rotatably sleeving the outer side wall of the box body, a plurality of medicine grooves with different depths distributed in the interior of the sleeve box, a retention cavity for accumulating medicine opened in the interior of the box cover, the retention cavity being in communication with the inner cavity of the box body through a medicine inlet, the bottom of the retention cavity being inclined, a medicine leakage hole being opened at the low end position of the bottom of the retention cavity, a medicine guide hole being opened in the side wall of the box body and being in communication with the medicine leakage hole, the lower end of the medicine guide hole being in movable communication with the medicine grooves, a sliding sleeve with an inclined upper side surface being slidably connected in the interior of the sleeve box, a medicine outlet hole being opened at the low end position of the sliding sleeve, the upper side surface of the sliding sleeve being movably attached to the bottom of the medicine grooves, a medicine extraction box for containing medicine to be taken being slidably connected in the interior of the sleeve box, the lower end of the medicine outlet hole being in communication with the interior of the medicine extraction box, and a prompt module being fixedly connected to the sleeve box.

[0005] Preferably, the medicine extraction box and the interior of the sleeve box are both provided with a touch switch.

[0006] Preferably, sliding blocks are fixedly connected to the two side walls of the sliding sleeve, the sliding blocks penetrating through the side walls of the sleeve box and extending to the outside, the sliding sleeve being arranged in a moving cavity opened in the interior of the sleeve box, and a top spring being fixedly connected to the lower side surface of the sliding sleeve to make the sliding sleeve rebound upward.

[0007] Preferably, the interior of the box body is divided into a plurality of medicine storage cavities by a partition, and a medicine guide plate with a knob is arranged above the medicine storage cavities.

[0008] Preferably, the lower bottom surface of the lower wall of the accumulation cavity is inclined, and the medicine inlet is located at the high point of the inclination.

[0009] Preferably, the medicine guide plate is inclined to one side, and the medicine outlet is formed at the low point of the inclination.

[0010] Preferably, the side wall of the medicine guide hole is provided with a clearance hole, a plug ball is connected to the clearance hole through a restoring spring, one side of the plug ball is connected with a guide rope, and the other end of the guide rope is connected with a button through the restoring spring, the side wall of the medicine guide hole and the button.

[0011] Preferably, the inner side wall of the box is provided with a plurality of first positioning contacts corresponding to the medicine grooves, and the outer side wall of the box body is provided with a first trigger point; the inner side wall of the box body is provided with a plurality of second positioning contacts corresponding to the medicine storage cavities, and the side wall of the medicine guide plate is provided with a second trigger point.

[0012] Preferably, the outer part of the box cover is sleeved with a hollow screw sleeve, and the lower end of the hollow screw sleeve is engagedly connected with the side wall of the box body.

[0013] A use method of the countable medicine box, comprising the following steps,

[0014] S1, filling different medicine pills into a plurality of medicine storage cavities;

[0015] S2, inputting the position of the medicine groove to be used each time the medicine in the different medicine storage cavities is taken, the time of taking the medicine for the first time, and the interval of taking the medicine into the prompting module;

[0016] S3, when the time of taking the medicine for the first time is reached, the prompting module emits a beeping sound to remind the patient to take the medicine;

[0017] S4, the patient rotates the box and the knob to select the medicine;

[0018] S5, the prompting module performs data verification, and emits different beeping sounds as reminders when the verification is successful or fails;

[0019] S6, the patient inverts the box body;

[0020] S7, the patient presses the button to restore the box body, and then pulls out the box to take the medicine;

[0021] S8, the prompting module resets the time interval timer.

[0022] Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the present application are:

[0023] The application reminds the user to take medicine by the timing of the prompting module, prevents the patient from forgetting to take medicine or repeatedly taking medicine, is beneficial to the patient to take medicine reasonably and in time, and ensures the health of the patient; and the movement of the box is used as a trigger process for detecting whether the medicine is taken, the alarm can be automatically eliminated, and the recording function of the medicine taking time is provided, meanwhile, the medicine box structure of the application can conveniently take multiple different medicines quantitatively and will not cause mutual pollution. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0024] Figure 1 It is an external appearance diagram of the application;

[0025] Figure 2 It is a cross-sectional schematic diagram of the application;

[0026] Figure 3 It is a cross-sectional schematic diagram of the sliding sleeve of the application;

[0027] Figure 4 It is an explosion schematic diagram of the application;

[0028] Figure 5 It is a cross-sectional top view I of the button of the application;

[0029] Figure 6 It is an external appearance diagram of the application with a knob;

[0030] Figure 7 It is a cross-sectional diagram of the application with multiple medicine storage cavities;

[0031] Figure 8 It is a structural schematic diagram of the medicine guide plate of the application;

[0032] Figure 9 It is a cross-sectional top view II of the button of the application.

[0033] In the figure: 1, box body, 2, box cover, 201, accumulation cavity, 202, medicine inlet, 203, medicine leakage hole, 3, box set, 4, medicine groove, 5, medicine guide hole, 6, sliding sleeve, 601, medicine outlet hole, 7, box drawing, 8, first positioning contact, 9, hollow screw sleeve, 10, prompting module, 11, first trigger point, 12, sliding block, 13, button, 14, top spring, 15, guide hole, 16, second positioning contact, 17, second trigger point, 18, guide rope, 19, positioning column, 20, positioning groove, 21, plug ball, 22, knob, 23, medicine guide plate, 24, medicine storage cavity, 25, medicine outlet groove, 26, recovery spring, 27, touch switch, 28, moving cavity, 29, accommodation hole. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0034] With reference to the drawings of the embodiments of the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative work fall within the scope of the present application.

[0035] Please refer to Figures 1-9 :

[0036] The present application provides a technical solution: a countable medicine box, comprising a box body 1, specifically, the upper end of the box body 1 is movably covered with a box cover 2, as shown in Figure 4 , the box cover 2 is fixedly connected with a positioning column 19, the box body 1 is provided with a positioning groove 20, when the box cover 2 covers the box body 1, the positioning column 19 is inserted into the positioning groove 20, thereby positioning the box cover 2, and the outer part of the box cover 2 is sleeved with a hollow screw sleeve 9, the lower end of the hollow screw sleeve 9 is engagedly connected with the side wall of the box body 1, thereby fixing the box cover 2 on the box body 1, a box sleeve 3 is rotatably sleeved on the outer side wall of the box body 1, a plurality of medicine grooves 4 with different depths are distributed in the box sleeve 3, the medicine grooves 4 are used for accommodating the medicine to be taken, and the medicine grooves 4 with different depths are used for taking different amounts of medicine (for spherical pill-shaped medicine), the inside of the box cover 2 is provided with a retention cavity 201 for accumulating medicine, the retention cavity 201 is communicated with the inner cavity of the box body 1 through a medicine inlet 202, the bottom of the retention cavity 201 is inclined, a medicine leakage hole 203 is formed in the low end of the bottom of the retention cavity 201, and a medicine guide hole 5 is formed in the side wall of the box body 1 and communicated with the medicine leakage hole 203, as shown in Figure 2 and 7 , the medicine guide hole 5 is provided with an inclined guide hole 15 on the side close to the inside of the box body 1, when the medicine grooves 4 at the corresponding positions are filled with medicine, the falling medicine will fall back into the box body 1 from the guide hole 15;

[0037] After the positioning column 19 is inserted into the positioning groove 20, the box cover 2 is positioned, and when the box cover 2 covers the box body 1, the medicine leakage hole 203 and the medicine guide hole 5 are always in alignment, as shown in Figure 2The lower section of the medicine guiding hole 5 and the medicine grooves 4 of different depths form a metering channel for taking out the medicine pills in a metered manner. The lower end of the medicine guiding hole 5 is in active communication with the medicine grooves 4. The inside of the box 3 is slidably connected with a sliding sleeve 6 with an inclined upper side. The sliding sleeve 6 is arranged in a moving cavity 28 formed in the inside of the box 3. The lower end of the sliding sleeve 6 is provided with a medicine outlet hole 601. The upper side of the sliding sleeve 6 is in active attachment with the bottom of the medicine groove 4. The sliding sleeve 6 is in an inclined manner in cooperation with the moving cavity 28 to guide the medicine in the medicine groove 4 to the inside of the medicine outlet hole 601. The inside of the box 3 is slidably connected with a box 7 for receiving the medicine to be taken. The lower end of the medicine outlet hole 601 is in communication with the inside of the box 7. The box 3 is fixedly connected with a prompt module 10. In order to remind the user to take medicine on time, the inside of the prompt module 10 is provided with an electronic timer, a buzzer and a battery. The electronic timer, the buzzer and the battery are electrically connected. The surface of the prompt module 10 has a button for setting the time interval of taking medicine, reminding the buzzer, etc. For example, the time interval of taking medicine is 8 hours. The buzzer works to remind the patient to take medicine.

[0038] One of the purposes of taking medicine on time is to maintain the concentration of the medicine in the human body. The most important parameter is the time interval, not the specific time point. Many times, the medicine is not taken according to the corresponding time point. For example, the medicine is taken one hour later due to some reasons. The next best time for taking medicine is another interval of 8 hours, not still according to the established time between them. In order to automatically count the time interval, the inside of the box 7 and the box 3 are both provided with a touch switch 27. When the box 7 is pulled out once, the touch switch 27 can be triggered, which can represent that the medicine is taken at this time. The touch switch 27 is electrically connected with the prompt module 10, which can clear the previous medicine taking time counting and re-enter the next counting. If the taking time exceeds the expected time again, the prompt module 10 does not need to be adjusted additionally, which can implement the reminding of the medicine taking time, which is very convenient.

[0039] Specifically, in order to realize the medicine taking, sliding blocks 12 are fixedly connected on the two side walls of the sliding sleeve 6. The sliding blocks 12 penetrate through the side walls of the box 3 and extend to the outside. Top springs 14 are fixedly connected on the lower side of the sliding sleeve 6 for rebounding the sliding sleeve 6 upward. When the sliding blocks 12 are slid downward, the sliding sleeve 6 is pulled down, so that the top surface of the sliding sleeve 6 is separated from the bottom surface of the medicine groove 4. The medicine pills fall from the moving cavity 28 to the lower point, enter the medicine outlet hole 601 and then reach the box 7. The user can take the medicine by pulling out the box 7.

[0040] In order to meet the requirements of carrying different medicine pills and taking them in a metered manner, the inside of the box body 1 is divided into a plurality of medicine storage cavities 24 by a partition. The medicine guiding plate 23 with a rotary knob 22 is arranged above the medicine storage cavities 24. Since the rotary knob 22 occupies the center position, in order to better pour the medicine after inversion, aFigure 7 The lower bottom surface of the lower wall of the accumulation cavity 201 is inclined, and the medicine inlet 202 is located at the high point of the inclination, which is the low point after the box is inverted, facilitating the movement of the pills;

[0041] The medicine guide plate 23 is inclined to one side, and the low point is provided with a medicine outlet slot 25. The rotation of the knob 22 drives the rotation of the medicine guide plate 23, so that the medicine outlet slot 25 is aligned with the medicine storage cavity 24 from which the medicine is to be taken. After the box body 1 is inverted by 180 degrees, it is turned over again, and the medicine can be taken quantitatively through the medicine slots 4 of different depths.

[0042] Since the medicine outlet slot 25 exposes a certain medicine storage cavity 24, in order to avoid the shaking during carrying, causing the pills to enter the medicine guide hole 5 and leading to confusion in the next taking, the sidewall of the medicine guide hole 5 is provided with a clearance hole 29, and the clearance hole 29 is connected with a plug ball 21 through a restoring spring 26. One side of the plug ball 21 is connected with a guide rope 18, and the other end of the guide rope 18 is connected with the button 13 through the sidewall of the medicine guide hole 5 and the restoring spring 26. In the normal state, the plug ball 21 is stretched into the medicine guide hole 5 under the action of the restoring spring 26 (as shown in Figure 9 ), at this time the pills will not fall into the medicine guide hole 5. When taking medicine is needed, the box body 1 can be turned over by pressing the button 13 with the thumb, at this time the plug ball 21 will be pulled into the clearance hole 29 under the action of the guide rope 18 (as shown in Figure 5 ), and the pills will not be blocked, so the medicine can be taken normally.

[0043] In order to improve the intelligence of the medicine box, the recognition and reminding functions are provided. The inner sidewall of the box body 1 is provided with a plurality of first positioning contacts 8 corresponding to the medicine slots 4, and the outer sidewall of the box body 1 is provided with a first trigger point 11. The first positioning contacts 8 are electrically connected with the prompt module 10. Each first positioning contact 8 corresponds to a medicine slot 4, and one first trigger point 11 is arranged. When the first trigger point 11 contacts a certain first positioning contact 8, it represents that the medicine slot 4 is aligned with the medicine guide hole 5 at this time, and the first positioning contact 8 can be triggered to transmit a signal to the prompt module 10, indicating that a certain medicine slot 4 is used for quantitative taking at this time. The prompt module 10 can store the data of the amount to be taken, such as 5 pills should be taken at a certain time. If a medicine slot 4 with a capacity of 3 pills is used at this time, the prompt module 10 will give a buzzer alarm.

[0044] Similarly, different medicines can be assisted in identification and reminding. The inner sidewall of the box body 1 is provided with a plurality of second positioning contacts 16 corresponding to the medicine storage cavities 24, and the sidewall of the medicine guide plate 23 is provided with a second trigger point 17. The second positioning contacts 16 are electrically connected with the prompt module 10 (which can be connected in the form of an electric brush). When a certain second positioning contact 16 contacts the second trigger point 17, it represents that the medicine to be taken at this time is the pills in the corresponding medicine storage cavity 24.

[0045] The data of how long the pills in each medicine storage cavity 24 are spaced, and which medicine slot 4 is used to take medicine, can be input into the prompting module 10 in advance. When taking medicine, if the triggered corresponding position of the rotating sleeve box 3 and the knob 22 does not correspond to the pre-stored information (the prompting module 10 can be delayed for 5s to avoid false alarms), the prompting module 10 will issue a beeping sound to remind the user. In order to facilitate observation during use, corresponding scales are provided on the knob 22, the box body 2, the sleeve box 3 and the box body 1 to facilitate observation of whether the rotation is selected.

[0046] A usage method of a countable medicine box, specifically comprising the following steps,

[0047] S1, loosen the hollow screw sleeve 9, and remove the box cover 2 to fill different pills into the plurality of medicine storage cavities 24;

[0048] S2, input the data of the position of the medicine slot 4 to be used for taking medicine each time, the time for taking medicine for the first time, and the specific data of the interval between taking medicine into the prompting module 10 through the button;

[0049] S3, when the time for taking medicine for the first time is reached, the prompting module 10 issues a beeping sound to remind the user to take medicine;

[0050] S4, the user rotates the sleeve box 3 and the knob 22 to select medicine;

[0051] S5, the prompting module 10 performs data verification after a delay of 5s, and issues a short beep-beep-beep sound to remind the user if the verification is successful (a green light can also be emitted), and issues a long beep-beep-beep sound to remind the user if the verification fails (a red light can also be emitted);

[0052] S6, the user inverts the box body 1, at this time, the pills in the corresponding position of the medicine storage cavity 24 will enter the accumulation cavity 201 through the low point of the medicine inlet 202 after being inverted;

[0053] S7, hold the button 13 to restore the box body 1 to an upright position, at this time, the medicine leakage hole 203 becomes a low point, so that the pills leak out from the medicine leakage hole 203, fill the corresponding medicine slot 4 through the medicine guide hole 5, and the excess pills will be discharged from the guide opening 15 and return to the original medicine storage cavity 24 along the medicine guide plate 23; then pull out the drawer 7 to take medicine;

[0054] S8, at this time, the prompting module 10 resets the time interval, for example, if the first medicine is not taken according to the predetermined time, this form can eliminate the delay, and the next time the fixed interval will still remind the user to take medicine.

[0055] Note that when the verification fails again to rotate the sleeve 3 or knob 22, all the steps S5 are repeated; in addition, the use of the touch switch 27 can also be used for multiple cumulative dispensing, for example, if the single dispensing quantity is large, the combination of using two certain medicine grooves 4 or multiple medicine grooves 4 is needed, and the number of times of opening the touch switch 27 can be used as counting, so as to realize more kinds of combination of dispensing quantity.

[0056] Although embodiments of the present application have been shown and described, it is to be understood that various modifications, substitutions, replacements and changes can be made to these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the present application, and the scope of the present application is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A counting medicine box, comprising a box body (1), wherein a lid (2) is movably covered at the upper end of the box body (1), and a sleeve box (3) is rotatably fitted onto the outer side wall of the box body (1), characterized in that: The inner part of the box (3) has multiple medicine troughs (4) of different depths. The inner part of the box cover (2) has a storage cavity (201) for accumulating medicine. The storage cavity (201) is connected to the inner cavity of the box body (1) through the medicine inlet (202). The bottom of the storage cavity (201) is inclined, and the medicine inlet (202) is located at the high point of the inclination so that the medicine inlet (202) is located at the low point when the box body (1) is inverted. A medicine leakage hole (203) is opened at the bottom of the storage cavity (201). A medicine guide hole (5) communicating with the medicine leakage hole (203) is opened on one side wall of the box body (1). The lower end of the medicine hole (5) is movably connected to the medicine trough (4). The box cover (2) is fixedly connected with a positioning post (19), and the box body (1) is opened with a positioning groove (20). After the positioning post (19) is inserted into the positioning groove (20), it ensures that the leakage hole (203) and the medicine guide hole (5) are always aligned. The lower section of the medicine guide hole (5) and multiple medicine troughs (4) of different depths form a metering channel for quantitative dispensing of pills. The medicine guide hole (5) is provided with an inclined guide opening (15) on the side close to the inside of the box body (1). When the pills in the metering channel are full, the falling pills will fall back into the box body (1) from the guide opening (15). The inner side of the sleeve (3) is slidably connected to a sliding sleeve (6) with an inclined upper side. A medicine outlet hole (601) is opened at the lower end of the sliding sleeve (6). The upper side of the sliding sleeve (6) is movably attached to the bottom of the medicine trough (4). The inner side of the sleeve (3) is slidably connected to a drawer (7) for holding the medicine to be taken. The lower end of the medicine outlet hole (601) is connected to the interior of the drawer (7).

2. A counting medicine box according to claim 1, characterized in that: The sliding sleeve (6) has a slider (12) fixedly connected to both side walls. The slider (12) passes through the side wall of the sleeve (3) and extends to the outside. The sliding sleeve (6) is set in the movable cavity (28) opened inside the sleeve (3). A top spring (14) is fixedly connected to the lower side of the sliding sleeve (6) to make the sliding sleeve (6) spring back upward.

3. A counting medicine box according to claim 1, characterized in that: The interior of the box (1) is divided into multiple medicine storage chambers (24) by partitions, and a medicine guide plate (23) with a knob (22) is provided above the medicine storage chamber (24).

4. A counting medicine box according to claim 3, characterized in that: The drug guide plate (23) is tilted to one side, and a drug outlet groove (25) is opened at the lowest point.

5. A counting medicine box according to claim 1, characterized in that: The side wall of the drug delivery hole (5) has a clearance hole (29). A blocking ball (21) is connected to the clearance hole (29) through a restoring spring (26). A guide rope (18) is connected to one side of the blocking ball (21), and the other end of the guide rope (18) passes through the restoring spring (26), the side wall of the drug delivery hole (5), and is connected to the button (13). When there is no external force, the blocking ball (21) is in the drug delivery hole (5).

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