Time-Controlled Pill with Dissolving Filler for Drug Interaction Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional approaches to medication delivery do not effectively manage time gaps between multiple medications, leading to potential drug interactions and adverse side effects.
Innovation Solution
A method that determines a dissolving pattern specific to a patient, incorporating a medication dissolving rate and a filler dissolving rate to create a time gap between medications, ensuring they are taken at appropriate intervals to prevent interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If medications are taken according to conventional frequency instructions without time gap control, then patient compliance is simplified, but drug interactions and adverse side effects occur
Solution Approach 1:
The pill is segmented into multiple functional layers: an outer medication layer that dissolves first, an inner medication layer that dissolves later, and a time-gap filler layer in between. This segmentation ensures that the first medication is released before the second medication, creating a controlled time gap that prevents drug interactions while maintaining simple patient compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
The time-gap filler acts as an intermediary substance between the first and second medications. This filler material occupies space and time in the digestive tract, ensuring that the first medication dissolves and is metabolized before the second medication is released, thereby preventing harmful drug interactions.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a time gap is created between medications using conventional methods, then drug interactions are prevented, but pill complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pill employs a nested structure where the inner medication layer is enclosed within the outer medication layer, with the time-gap filler layer positioned between them. This nested arrangement allows multiple medications to be contained in a single pill while maintaining distinct dissolution timing, preventing adverse side effects without excessive complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes parameter changes in dissolution rates by selecting specific materials for the outer medication layer, inner medication layer, and time-gap filler layer. Each layer is designed with different dissolution characteristics, allowing the outer layer to dissolve faster than the inner layer, thereby creating a controlled time gap that prevents drug interactions.
3Measurement precision
If personalized dissolving patterns are determined for each patient, then medication timing precision is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary determination of the patient's dissolving pattern through trial tests before finalizing the pill formulation. This preliminary action allows the system to calculate the specific dissolution rates for the outer medication layer, inner medication layer, and time-gap filler layer based on the patient's individual characteristics, improving timing precision while managing manufacturing complexity through standardized formulation processes.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively prevents drug interactions by ensuring a sufficient time gap between medication releases, thereby reducing the risk of adverse effects and improving treatment efficacy.
Implementation Method 1
determining a dissolving pattern for the patient. The dissolving pattern includes a medication dissolving rate for a first medication prescribed to the patient and a filler dissolving rate for a filler selected so that the time gap is elapsed prior to a second medication being provided
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AI summary
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system provide medications to a patient with a time gap. The method includes determining a dissolving pattern for the patient. The dissolving pattern includes a medication dissolving rate for a first medication prescribed to the patient and a filler dissolving rate for a filler selected so that the time gap is elapsed prior to a second medication being provided after the first medication. The medication dissolving rate and the filler dissolving rate are specific to the patient. The method includes determining dimensions of the first medication to correspond to a dosage of the prescribed first medication and dimensions of the filler to correspond to the time gap. The method includes providing a pill including at least the first medication and the filler, the first medication surrounding the filler such that the first medication is dissolved prior to the filler being dissolved.