Method and device for medicine use monitoring

摘要

A device for monitoring the use of medicament from a medicament dispenser in the form of a dispenser overlay, in particular an inhaler, comprising a sensor for measuring the medicament release from the dispenser. As the drug release sensor (2), a piezoelectric transducer (2) is used and the piezoelectric transducer (2) is associated with a microprocessor. The cap comprises a drug release sensor actuator movably associated with the piezoelectric transducer (2), the piezoelectric transducer (2) being positioned in the cap such that by means of the actuator (1) of the drug release sensor (1), a force is applied to the drug dispenser. pressure on the cap as a kinetic force is transmitted from the activator (1) of the drug release sensor (2) directly to the piezoelectric transducer (2) which measures the transmitted kinetic force.