Pill container
CA 2098978 A1 · Owner: Cheng, Lung C. · Inventors: Cheng, Lung C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A pill container has a lower part with eight compartments and, an upper part that rotates on the lower part. The compartments are side-by-side in a circular arrangement, and each normally contains a daily allotment of pills. The upper part carries a door and a detent mechanism ensures that the door locates successively over each compartments. A button can be depressed to release a locking mechanism normally securing the door. A mechanical linkage simultaneously transforms axial displacement of the button into an indexing of anumbered plate relative to an indicator effectively counting the number of times the door has been opened to remove pills. This provides an indication of the number of …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 22, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 22, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 22, 2015.
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