Patents by Inventor Minne Jorritsma
Minne Jorritsma has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11059616Abstract: An apparatus and method for packaging individual medication doses in blister bags includes a plurality of storage and dispensing stations, at least one guide and collection arrangement for picking up the medication doses and passing them on, or conducting them, to a packaging station, the packaging station forming a strand of connected blister bags from packaging material. Also included is a labeling and printing station for applying data to the packaging material, an optical detection device that optically detects characteristics of the individual blister bags of the strand, an evaluation device that compares the characteristics detected for an individual blister bag with reference characteristics, and a storage station that stores the strand of the blister bags in an ordered manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: CAREFUSION GERMANY 326 GMBHInventors: Christoph Hellenbrand, Minne Jorritsma
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Publication number: 20190077533Abstract: An apparatus and method for packaging individual medication doses in blister bags includes a plurality of storage and dispensing stations, at least one guide and collection arrangement for picking up the medication doses and passing them on, or conducting them, to a packaging station, the packaging station forming a strand of connected blister bags from packaging material. Also included is a labeling and printing station for applying data to the packaging material, an optical detection device that optically detects characteristics of the individual blister bags of the strand, an evaluation device that compares the characteristics detected for an individual blister bag with reference characteristics, and a storage station that stores the strand of the blister bags in an ordered manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Christoph HELLENBRAND, Minne JORRITSMA
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Patent number: 10155603Abstract: An apparatus and method for packaging individual medication doses in blister bags includes a plurality of storage and dispensing stations, at least one guide and collection arrangement for picking up the medication doses and passing them on, or conducting them, to a packaging station, the packaging station forming a strand of connected blister bags from packaging material. Also included is a labeling and printing station for applying data to the packaging material, an optical detection device that optically detects characteristics of the individual blister bags of the strand, an evaluation device that compares the characteristics detected for an individual blister bag with reference characteristics, and a storage station that stores the strand of the blister bags in an ordered manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: CareFusion Germany 326 GmbHInventors: Christoph Hellenbrand, Minne Jorritsma
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Patent number: 9914554Abstract: An apparatus for packaging dosed quantities of medicines and method for operating such apparatus. The apparatus includes multiple dosing stations for dispensing solid drug portions, and multiple collectors for collecting dosed quantities of solid drug portions and for forwarding the dosed quantities of solid drug portions to a packaging station. Each dosing station has an outlet and each collector has a unique collector identifier. A conveyor includes multiple mounting elements arranged in a chain, wherein each collector is detachably mounted to one of the mounting elements and moved by the conveyor along the dosing stations, so that the collector can receive the solid drug portions dispensed at the outlets of the dosing stations. A controller controls the operation of the dosing stations, the conveyor and the packaging station. Input means (80, 81) are coupled to the control means (19) for inputting the collecting means identifier.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: BD SWITZERLAND SÀRLInventors: Eddy R. Lokkers, John Van De Koot, Arie Van Wijngaarden, Sjoerd Boomsma, Stephan Ganter, Minne Jorritsma
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Publication number: 20160304228Abstract: An apparatus and method for packaging individual medication doses in blister bags includes a plurality of storage and dispensing stations, at least one guide and collection arrangement for picking up the medication doses and passing them on, or conducting them, to a packaging station, the packaging station forming a strand of connected blister bags from packaging material. Also included is a labeling and printing station for applying data to the packaging material, an optical detection device that optically detects characteristics of the individual blister bags of the strand, an evaluation device that compares the characteristics detected for an individual blister bag with reference characteristics, and a storage station that stores the strand of the blister bags in an ordered manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Christoph Hellenbrand, Minne JORRITSMA
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Publication number: 20150251789Abstract: An apparatus for packaging dosed quantities of medicines and method for operating such apparatus. The apparatus includes multiple dosing stations for dispensing solid drug portions, and multiple collectors for collecting dosed quantities of solid drug portions and for forwarding the dosed quantities of solid drug portions to a packaging station. Each dosing station has an outlet and each collector has a unique collector identifier. A conveyor includes multiple mounting elements arranged in a chain, wherein each collector is detachably mounted to one of the mounting elements and moved by the conveyor along the dosing stations, so that the collector can receive the solid drug portions dispensed at the outlets of the dosing stations. A controller controls the operation of the dosing stations, the conveyor and the packaging station. Input means (80, 81) are coupled to the control means (19) for inputting the collecting means identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Eddy R. Lokkers, John Van De Koot, Arie Van Wijngaarden, Sjoerd Boomsma, Stephan Ganter, Minne Jorritsma
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Patent number: 8085395Abstract: What is disclosed is an inspection device and a method wherein interconnected, substantially flat bags are provided, in which bags objects are present which are set vibrating, after which one or more images of the objects in the bag are recorded. The vibration is exerted on the objects in the plane of the interconnected bags, whilst a squeezing force effected by means of a pulling force on the bags is exerted on the vibrating objects. The combination of said vibration and said squeezing force on the objects, such as tablets, leads to a quiet and reliable inspection device.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: HD Medi B.V.Inventor: Minne Jorritsma
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Patent number: 7796799Abstract: An inspection device for loose objects, for example tablets that may or may not be packaged, including a conveying mechanism for conveying the objects to at least one inspection area. The inspection device includes a mechanical impulse mechanism for moving the objects apart prior to or during transport to the at least one inspection area. This leads in particular to an improved automatic verification of the number, the shape, the color and the size of the tablets, as a result of which fewer errors will occur in the eventual administration of medicines to persons, or patients.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: HD Medi B.V.Inventor: Minne Jorritsma
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Publication number: 20100045976Abstract: What is disclosed is an inspection device and a method wherein interconnected, substantially flat bags are provided, in which bags objects are present which are set vibrating, after which one or more images of the objects in the bag are recorded. The vibration is exerted on the objects in the plane of the interconnected bags, whilst a squeezing force effected by means of a pulling force on the bags is exerted on the vibrating objects. The combination of said vibration and said squeezing force on the objects, such as tablets, leads to a quiet and reliable inspection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: HD Medi B.V.Inventor: Minne Jorritsma
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Publication number: 20100043356Abstract: Methods and devices are disclosed wherein, following the introduction of a series or string of interconnected bags (2), a number of bags belonging together are automatically deposited in trays (3) in zigzag fashion, physically separated from each other, or automatically wound onto reels (12). Readable information is printed on the bags, which information indicates that the bags belong together, because their contents, usually medicinal tablets, are intended for the same entity. Said entity may for example be persons or animals in a particular department or on a particular floor level of a home for the elderly, a nursing home, a hospital. Said entity may also be a single person or a group of patients who regularly need specific medicines, frequently in exactly the prescribed order and at exact points in time. The medicines in the distributed trays or on the reels can thus be made available to the patients in an individualised manner and in the correct order.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2008Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: DIJKSTRA VEREENIGDE BEDRIJVEN B.V.Inventor: Minne Jorritsma
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Publication number: 20060213816Abstract: An inspection device for loose objects, for example tablets that may or may not be packaged, including a conveying mechanism for conveying the objects to at least one inspection area. The inspection device includes a mechanical impulse mechanism for moving the objects apart prior to or during transport to the at least one inspection area. This leads in particular to an improved automatic verification of the number, the shape, the color and the size of the tablets, as a result of which fewer errors will occur in the eventual administration of medicines to persons, or patients.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2003Publication date: September 28, 2006Applicant: DIJKSTRA VEREENIGDE BEDRIJVEN B.V.Inventor: Minne Jorritsma