PRINTED CIRCUIT ON-IN THE LIDDING FILM OF DRUG BLISTERS, AND NOT ONLY, MADE WITH CONDUCTIVE INK, TO DETECT THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE PRODUCT FROM THE BLISTER ITSELF

摘要

Medication adherence is essential to obtain the expected therapeutic result. The object of the invention is to use the most common type of container for drugs, the blister, as source of the data to verify the adhesion to the therapy. The invention uses the "lidding film" of the blister as a print media for a "printed circuit", designed to create switches corresponding at each cavity containing the product. The printed circuit is made with a conductive ink. This technology has a negligible effect on the cost of the blister itself, making it usable both for current use and as a tool for transferring information regarding the opening of each circuit as designed. When the lidding film is broken to allow the product to get out from the cavity that contains it, the circuit is thus "opened", and through its terminals allows a service device to detect the withdraw.