Medicament System with Collateral Feedback Device

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Solution Overview

Problem

Self-administration of medical treatments, such as injections, can be intimidating and anxiety-provoking, especially for individuals with little experience, leading to errors and inefficiencies in medicament delivery.

Innovation Solution

A medicament system that includes a medicament device and a collateral device, equipped with sensors, transmitters, and feedback mechanisms, providing visual, auditory, and somatic stimuli to guide users through proper administration techniques, enhancing user confidence and accuracy through multi-sensory learning.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a medicament device is used for self-administration, then treatment delivery is achieved, but user anxiety and error rate increase due to lack of experience and device complexity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of medicament deliveryVSAvoiduser confidence in self-administration

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where a collateral device receives information from the medicament device during administration and provides real-time guidance signals to the user. This feedback loop helps users understand device status and proper operation, reducing anxiety and errors while maintaining treatment accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The collateral device acts as an intermediary between the medicament device and the user. It translates device status information into user-friendly guidance signals, mediating the interaction and making the complex device operation more understandable and less intimidating for inexperienced users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If traditional medicament devices are used, then medicament delivery is achieved, but training and error reduction are limited due to lack of real-time guidance

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveerror reduction in self-administrationVSAvoidreal-time usage feedback to user

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system captures information about medicament device usage through the collateral device and provides real-time feedback to the user in the form of guidance signals. This prevents errors by informing users of proper technique during the actual administration process, not just before or after.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical or purely visual training aids with an electronic information system. The collateral device uses sensors, processors, and output components to detect, analyze, and communicate usage information, substituting mechanical feedback mechanisms with electronic ones for more precise and informative guidance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Ease of operation

If a medicament system with sensors and feedback mechanisms is implemented, then user guidance and accuracy improve, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser guidance during administrationVSAvoidsystem structure with multiple components

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into two separate devices: the medicament device for actual treatment delivery and the collateral device for information processing and user guidance. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, reducing the perceived complexity for the user while maintaining comprehensive functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The collateral device serves multiple functions: receiving information from the medicament device, processing usage data, generating guidance signals, and providing real-time feedback to the user. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate components into a single integrated unit, reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10795973B2Medicament training device and system

Publication Date: 2020.10.06 NOBLE INT INC

AI summary

In one embodiment, a medicament system configured to communicate information about a medicament device or about a use of a medicament device, or a combination thereof, to a user, is provided. The medicament system may include a medicament device including a housing, and a collateral device, wherein the collateral device may include an information detecting and/or receiving component configured to receive information from the medicament device and/or a sending component configured to send information to the medicament device, and optionally at least one of: a) a signal output component; b) a microprocessor; c) a storage medium component; and d) a power source, and wherein the medicament device may be configured to generate information detectable by the collateral device, or transmit information to the collateral device, wherein the collateral device may be configured to detect and/or receive information about the medicament device from the medicament device and provide information about the medicament device and/or a feedback about a use of the medicament device to a user of the system. The medicament device may further include a transmitter configured to communicate information and/or signals from the medicament device to the collateral device and/or a remote device, and/or receive information and/or signals from a collateral device and/or a remote device.