Dose and Time Controlled Electronic Insulin Pen: Bilensulin

Abstract

In this study, an electronic insulin pen was designed for diabetic patients dependent on insulin use in orderto prevent wrong timing and wrong dosage caused from old age, vision or mental illness. During design, thepatients’ necessities such as easy-to-use, have been considered. The insulin pen that can be used electronically forroutine dose injections, and that is called as Bilensulin, was designed to be able to used manually in the emergency.It is aimed that the patient can set the dose easily by using the fairly simple menu of the device. Additionally, thedevice was designed as reusable by changing the insulin cartridge. Because the tube chamber was designed to besuitable for all types of insulin, it can be used by changing cartridge without using different pen. Dose accuracy wastested by performing insulin dose measurements on a sensitive balance, and dose of Bilensulin was compared withthe three types of insulin pens. The patent has been applied for this designed electronic insulin pen. The mechanismof change of cartridge has been put into the foreground in terms of ease of use and constituted the sub-structure ofthe patent application. Currently, the studies on the device are continuing.