US 11,903,905 B2
Medication delivery apparatus
Donald Spencer Waugh, Hamilton (CA); Wesley van Ooyen, Burlington (CA); Samuel Campbell, Kitchener (CA); Dylan Horvath, Toronto (CA); Charlie Man, Toronto (CA); Art De Guzman, Toronto (CA); Gerald van Wyngaarden, Toronto (CA); and Borys Chylinski, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to AceAge Inc., Burlington (CA)
Filed by AceAge Inc., Burlington (CA)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/932,723.
Application 16/932,723 is a continuation of application No. 16/671,412, filed on Nov. 1, 2019, granted, now 10,751,257.
Application 16/671,412 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/079,907, filed on Mar. 24, 2016, granted, now 10,503,875, issued on Dec. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/157,858, filed on May 6, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0375851 A1, Dec. 3, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61J 7/00 (2006.01); A61J 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 7/0084 (2013.01) [A61J 7/0427 (2015.05); A61J 2200/30 (2013.01); A61J 2205/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assembly for delivering medication comprising
a cartridge container containing a strip of linked medication-containing pouches, and
a delivery unit enclosure,
the cartridge container being external to the delivery unit enclosure and engaged therewith to enable delivery of the medication-containing pouches from the cartridge container through the delivery unit enclosure to a user access zone, the cartridge container being complementary in shape to the delivery unit enclosure at an interface therebetween, the delivery unit enclosure containing
an advance mechanism operable to engage and to advance pouches of the strip successively out of the cartridge container and to a separation station,
an inspection mechanism to inspect indicia on the pouches,
a separation mechanism at the separation station for separating the pouch at the leading end of the strip from the adjacent pouch, and
an exit route from the delivery unit enclosure for routing the separated pouch to the user access zone.