US 12,144,972 B2
System for monitoring the dispensing of an administrable substance, protecting element and dispensing device
Joerg Heisiep, Ingelheim am Rhein (DE); and Andree Jung, Ingelheim am Rhein (DE)
Assigned to BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH, Ingelheim am Rhein (DE)
Appl. No. 17/268,101
Filed by Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 16, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/071993
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/035585, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18189322 (EP), filed on Aug. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0275753 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 5/315 (2006.01); A61M 5/32 (2006.01); G09B 9/00 (2006.01); G09B 23/28 (2006.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G16H 20/17 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01)
CPC A61M 5/31566 (2013.01) [A61M 5/3202 (2013.01); G09B 9/00 (2013.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G16H 20/17 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); A61M 2205/3375 (2013.01); G09B 23/285 (2013.01)] 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. System for monitoring an actual or simulated preparation, performing, and/or post-processing of a dispensing-referred to below as dispensing process—of an administrable, substance, having:
a dispensing device for dispensing the substance, wherein the dispensing device has at least one sound generator, which is designed to generate in the dispensing process at least one sound event in an acoustic signal, the sound event being specific to a property or change in state of the dispensing device, and
a detection device for checking the acoustic signal for the at least one sound event in order to enable detection of the property or change in state of the dispensing device,
wherein said at least one sound generator comprises at least two different sound generators which are designed so that, in different phases of the dispensing process which follow one another in time, a first sound event and a second different sound event are generated.