Medication Container Platform Elevates Packages for Tactile Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Patients with poor eyesight face difficulties in handling and administering medication packages due to their small size and inability to rely on visual cues, especially after eye procedures that affect vision, necessitating a system that allows identification and handling through touch and feel.
Innovation Solution
A container with a platform and storage area that elevates medication packages, providing distinct vertical positions for differentiation and accessibility, along with a cover for secure storage and tactile feedback, facilitating use by patients with impaired vision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If medication packages are made small for single-dose or multiple-dose storage, then storage efficiency and portability are improved, but handling and identification difficulty increases for patients with poor eyesight
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces vertical dimension by elevating the current medication package onto a platform structure within the container. This dimensional change creates tactile distinguishability between the elevated package and the container base, enabling patients with poor eyesight to identify and handle the medication through touch rather than vision.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple different medications are required simultaneously, then treatment effectiveness is improved, but sorting and handling complexity increases for patients with poor eyesight
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the container into distinct functional zones: an elevated platform area for current medication and a base storage area for other medications. This spatial segmentation allows patients to systematically organize and differentiate between multiple medications through tactile exploration of distinct regions, reducing sorting complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different spatial qualities to different medication types by elevating the current medication package on a platform while storing other medications on the base. This creates locally differentiated tactile characteristics, enabling patients to identify which medication to use based on its position rather than visual labels.
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AI summary
A container to hold medication packages. The container includes side walls and a bottom that extend around an interior space. The interior space has an opening that is opposite from the bottom. A platform extends upward from the bottom within the interior space. The platform includes a support configured to receive at least one of the medication packages. A storage area within the interior space extends between the platform, the side walls, and a floor. The storage area is configured to receive at least one of the medication packages. The floor of the storage area is positioned vertically below the support of the platform to enable the one or more medication packages positioned on the support to be elevated relative to the one or more medication packages positioned on the floor.