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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
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 receives pills from the hopper. The transport tube has a controllable aperture for facilitating or inhibiting delivery of pills to the transport tube. A microcontroller is also operatively connected to the hopper, the transport tube, and the input aperture. Optionally, a feed chute can be operatively connected between the hopper and the transport tube. The system can self-calibrate the mechanism for counting and dispensing pills by dynamically adjusting the input aperture based upon the stored information representative of the pulse width signal and the amplitude signal.