US 11,723,842 B2
Systems and methods for medication dispenser
Christopher Matthew Haueter, Shiloh, IL (US); and Alexandru Sima, Buchare (RO)
Assigned to Blueberry Pill Dispenser Public Benefit LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Blueberry Pill Dispenser Public Benefit LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/491,498.
Prior Publication US 2023/0097910 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 1/08 (2006.01); A61J 7/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B65G 1/04 (2006.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01)
CPC A61J 7/0076 (2013.01) [B65G 1/045 (2013.01); B65G 1/08 (2013.01); B65G 1/1371 (2013.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); A61J 2200/70 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0233 (2013.01); B65G 2203/044 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pill dispenser system comprising:
a hopper assembly comprising a plurality of compartments enabling storage of pills in each compartment, wherein each compartment is loadable with pills from a loading opening on top of the compartment, wherein the compartment comprises a dispensing opening on the bottom of the compartment;
a disc below the hopper assembly, enclosing the dispensing openings of the hopper assembly, wherein the disc has openings corresponding to the dispensing openings of the hopper assembly, wherein rotating the disc and the hopper assembly in a first direction keeps the compartments enclosed and rotating the hopper assembly in a second direction creates a plurality of apertures through the hopper dispensing openings and the corresponding disc openings; and
a thin film below the disc, and having a single thin film opening, wherein the thin film surface covers the plurality of the apertures created by the rotation in the second direction, but for one of the apertures above the single thin film opening, the one aperture comprising a dispensing aperture,
wherein the hopper assembly is configured to rotate with the disc in the first direction, indexing a compartment above the dispensing opening of the thin film,
wherein the hopper assembly is configured to rotate in the second direction opposite the first direction, wherein the disc remains stationary, gradually increasing the size of the dispensing aperture, dispensing a pill from the compartment above the dispensing aperture.