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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2010
Meriete Horst, Eindhoven, NL;
Georgio Mosis, Eindhoven, NL;
Ronald Leo Christiaan Koymans, Eindhoven, NL;
Meriete Horst, Eindhoven, NL;
Georgio Mosis, Eindhoven, NL;
Ronald Leo Christiaan Koymans, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A medication dispenser comprises a body with an opening, an advancing device, a reader, an output device and a processor connected to the advancing device, the reader and the output device. The body is closable and lockable and is arranged to receive a medication container comprising multiple individual sealed medication chambers, each medication chamber including a data tag relating to the medication chamber. The opening in the body is for a medication chamber and the advancing device is arranged to advance a medication chamber through the opening. The reader is arranged to read a data tag on a medication chamber and the processor is arranged to control the advancing device and the output device, according to a data tag on a medication chamber.