Multi-Size Dosing Aid Recesses for Precise Globule Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dosing aids for small, round pharmaceutical or homeopathic active ingredient carriers, such as globules, tablets, and capsules, are difficult to handle due to their size and shape, leading to inaccurate dosing and potential loss of potency or quality during handling.
Innovation Solution
A dosing aid with a planar or cylindrical design featuring recesses or openings tailored to securely hold a predetermined number of carriers, ensuring they do not roll or tilt, and allowing easy removal and transfer without contamination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple separate dosing aids are used for different drug carrier sizes, then dosing precision for different carriers is improved, but device complexity and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The dosing aid is designed with a single device that can accommodate multiple drug carrier sizes (size 0, 1, 2, 3) through a universal receiving section with multiple recesses of different dimensions. Each recess is sized to accept specific drug carrier sizes, allowing one device to perform multiple dosing functions that previously required separate devices for each carrier size.
Solution Approach 2:
The receiving section is segmented into multiple recesses (first, second, third, and fourth recesses) with progressively smaller dimensions. Each recess is specifically sized to accept drug carriers of corresponding sizes, creating a segmented structure that accommodates different carrier dimensions within a single unified device.
2Device complexity
If a single dosing aid accommodates multiple drug carrier sizes, then device simplicity is improved, but dosing precision for different carriers may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
Each recess within the receiving section has locally optimized dimensions tailored to specific drug carrier sizes. The first recess accommodates size 0 carriers, the second recess for size 1, the third for size 2, and the fourth for size 3, with each recess having specific width and depth measurements that ensure precise fitting and dosing for its designated carrier size.
3Reliability
If recesses have through-openings with small cross-sections, then drug carrier retention is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The recesses are designed with predetermined dimensions and geometries that are established during manufacturing to pre-establish proper drug carrier retention. The opening cross-sections and depths are calculated in advance to ensure that drug carriers of specific sizes are retained appropriately without requiring complex adjustment mechanisms during use.
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AI summary
The present invention is a dosing aid (1) for predetermined pharmaceutical and homeopathic drug carriers with a round cross-section. The dosing aid (1) is a planar element with a top and a bottom and has an elongated extent. It has a receiving section (4) with a predetermined number of recesses (5) having a round opening cross-section (6) on the top side. The recesses (5) are selected from the group comprising recesses (5) with through-openings having an opening cross-section (6) on the top side of the receiving section (4) that is smaller than or equal to the cross-section of the drug carriers.The group also includes recesses (5) with an opening cross-section (6) on the underside of the receiving section (4) that is smaller than or equal to the cross-section of the predetermined pharmaceutical and homeopathic drug carriers, and passage openings with a constriction that is smaller than the cross-section of the drug carriers, and recesses (5) closed on the underside with a depth that is smaller than the diameter of the drug carriers with a round cross-section. The receiving section (4) transitions into a stem section (3).A dosing aid (100) according to the invention has a cylindrical body (100) with a top (101) and a bottom (102), wherein a funnel-shaped recess extends from the top towards the bottom (102) and has a funnel base (103). The funnel-shaped recess has a rim (104) on the top (101), and a predetermined number of recesses (105) with a round opening cross-section (6) are located in the funnel base (103) on the top surface of the funnel base (103). A channel (108) extends from the funnel base along its wall to the top (101) of the cylindrical body (100), opening outwards through the rim (104).