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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2013
Innovation Associates, Inc., Johnson City, NY (US);
Prashanth Balasubramanian, Vestal, NY (US);
Joseph H. Boyer, Johnson City, NY (US);
James Boyer, Endicott, NY (US);
Mark Jones, New Milford, PA (US);
Christopher Mayes, Vestal, NY (US);
George Plesko, Chadds Ford, PA (US);
Edwin T. V. Quigley, Endicott, NY (US);
Joseph Scott, Vestal, NY (US);
Joseph Sienko, Apalachin, NY (US);
James Worthington, Binghamton, NY (US);
Alban Yee, Astoria, NY (US);
Innovation Associates, Inc., Johnson City, NY (US);
Abstract
A self-contained pill dispenser is disclosed. A housing is provided and a hopper for containing a plurality of pills is supported by the housing. A transport tube is operatively connected to the hopper for receiving pills therefrom, the transport tube having an input aperture. A microcontroller is electrically connected to the hopper, the transport tube, and the input aperture. A mechanism accepts a desired number of pills to be delivered by the transport tube by an operator. The microcontroller is adapted to determine whether the actual average number of pills delivered by the transport tube is equal to the desired number of pills specified by the operator. If the actual average number of pills is greater than the desired number, the microcontroller decreases the opening of the input aperture. A mechanism connected to the inlet aperture controls opening and closing operations thereof, pursuant to instructions transmitted by the microcontroller.