The purpose of the present invention is to provide a medicine packaging machine capable of reducing the burden on cleaning workers without increasing the number of components. At least some of a plurality of medicine feeder storage parts 5A-5C are configured to be displaceable so that one or more chutes (21, 23, 33) are exposed in an upper area 3B of a housing 3 until being cleaned or removed through an opening 3A in the housing from the outside of the housing 3.
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a device for measuring the dimensions of medicine that can easily and rapidly measure the dimensions of a tablet. The present invention comprises: a body part in which a mounting plate, a reference surface standing vertically with respect to the mounting plate, and a side surface provided so as to surround three sides of the mounting plate together with the reference surface are provided; a slide member that has a measurement surface facing the reference surface at an end and is movable in a slide direction perpendicular to the reference surface; a biasing member that biases the slide member towards the direction of the reference surface; and a measurement position information selection means that is provided in the body part and can select, via selection by an operator, measurement position information about a tablet mounted on the mounting plate. The slide member is characterized by including an opening and a transmission means that defines the distance between the reference surface and the measurement surface as dimension information about the tablet, and transmits the dimension information in association with the measurement position information selected by the measurement position information selection means.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
G01B 21/00 - Measuring arrangements or details thereof, where the measuring technique is not covered by the other groups of this subclass, unspecified or not relevant
The present invention provides a medicine packaging machine capable of reducing a workload of a worker when filling a container part with a medicine. The medicine packaging machine 1 comprises: a housing 3 having an opening section 3A; one or more medicine feeder storage parts 5A-5C; a packaging device 11; and a control unit 13. The present invention further comprises: a plurality of special medicine feeders 7 configured such that a container part 7A can be attached to and detached from a sequential discharge mechanism part 7B; and a plurality of general medicine feeders 9 in which a container part 9A and a sequential discharge mechanism part 9B are integrated. The plurality of general medicine feeders 9, which are disposed in the medicine feeder storage part 5A so as to face the opening section 3A in the housing 3, are configured to be able to directly fill the container part 9A with a plurality of medicines through the opening section 3A, which is provided in the front surface of an upper region 3B of the housing 3.
Provided is a medicine packaging apparatus that achieves improvements in operability and cleanability. A medicine packaging apparatus 1 comprises: an apparatus body 2; tablet cassettes 10; a tablet shelf 3 to which a plurality of tablet cassettes 10 are attached; an upper tablet collection mechanism 5 for dropping tablets discharged from the tablet cassette 10 downward; a lower tablet collection mechanism 6 for collecting the tablets dropped from the upper tablet collection mechanism 5 and dropping the tablets downward; and a packaging device 4 for packaging the tablets dropped from the lower tablet collection mechanism 6 into a packet of packaging paper 38. The tablet shelf 3 has a front shelf 8 located on the front side of the apparatus body 2 and a back shelf 9 located on the back side of the apparatus body 2. The tablet cassettes 10 can be attached to and detached from the front shelf 8 from the front side of the apparatus body 2, and attached to and detached from the back shelf 9 from the back side of the apparatus body 2.
The purpose of the invention is to provide a new drug conveyance/dispensation apparatus that reduces the time and effort required for replenishment, by making a large-capacity tablet cassette mountable. The present invention pertains to a drug conveyance/dispensation apparatus having: a conveyance unit capable of holding and conveying cassettes in which drugs are accommodated; first accommodation shelves capable of storing a plurality of cassettes in a manner in which the cassettes are attached to a cassette base, and capable of dispensing the drugs from the stored cassettes; a second accommodation shelf capable of storing a plurality of the cassettes; a packaging device for packaging the drugs dispensed from the first accommodation shelves; and a drug conveyance path linking the first accommodation shelves and the packaging device. The drug conveyance/dispensation apparatus is characterized in that at least two of the first accommodation shelves are arranged so as to be back-to-back with each other and is characterized by having: a housing unit which is positioned on the front side of the drug conveyance/dispensation apparatus as compared with the first accommodation shelves, and which can be drawn out toward the front side of the drug conveyance/dispensation apparatus; a large capacity cassette which is attachable to the housing unit and has a shape different from said cassettes; and a chute unit constituting a tablet dropping path from the housing unit to the drug conveyance path. The present invention is characterized in that: the drug conveyance path has an upper tablet-collecting mechanism for guiding and dropping the drugs to a position below of the first accommodation shelves, two conveyance conveyors arranged in parallel to each other at a lower part of the upper tablet-collecting mechanism, and a plurality of drug containers attached to the conveyance conveyors; the chute unit is connected to each of the two conveyance conveyors so as to be capable of dispensing the drugs contained in the large capacity cassette from the housing unit, and is controlled so that the drugs dispensed from the first accommodation shelves and the drugs dispensed from the housing unit can be put in the same drug container; and the packaging device is provided with two or more hoppers for respectively accommodating the drugs transported from the two conveyance conveyors in sections formed of packaging paper.
To provide a medicine conveying and dispensing device in which a plurality of dispensing devices are provided, and a packaging device is provided with hoppers corresponding to the respective dispensing devices. This medicine conveying and dispensing device has a conveyance unit capable of holding and conveying a cassette in which a medicine is contained, a plurality of first storage shelves capable of storing a plurality of the cassettes in a form of being attached to a cassette base and capable of dispensing the medicine from the stored cassettes, a second storage shelf capable of storing a plurality of the cassettes, a packaging device for packaging the medicine dispensed from the first storage shelf, and a medicine conveyance pathway connecting the first storage shelf and the packaging device, medicine conveying and dispensing device being characterized in that at least two first storage shelves are arranged back-to-back, and the medicine conveyance pathway has an upper tablet collection mechanism for guiding the medicine to a location below the first storage shelf and dropping the medicine, two conveyance conveyors arranged in parallel with each other at the lower part of the upper tablet collection mechanism, and a plurality of medicine containers attached to each of the conveyance conveyors, the packaging device being provided with two or more hoppers for depositing the respective medicines conveyed from the two conveyance conveyors onto a section formed on packaging paper.
A drug feeder capable of discharging tablets in a reduced time while preventing simultaneous discharge of multiple tablets is provided. The drug feeder includes an annular rotating body rotatable about a first axis of rotation; an inclined rotating body rotatable about a second axis of rotation inclined relative to the first axis of rotation, the inclined rotating body being disposed inside the annular rotating body; a sorting member and a regulating member that align solid drugs when the annular rotating body rotates, the drugs being carried to a top peripheral portion of the annular rotating body by rotation of the inclined rotating body; and drug drop detection means that detects the drugs carried to a drop discharge port by the annular rotating body and dropped. The sorting member is disposed to regulate a height for the drugs on the top peripheral portion of the annular rotating body. The regulating member regulates a lateral width of a drug conveying path on the top peripheral portion of the annular rotating body. The drug feeder further comprises a path extending member capable of being disposed along the top peripheral portion of the annular rotating body in a vicinity of the drop discharge port and on an outer peripheral side of the annular rotating body, thereby defining a side wall of the drug conveying path. The path extending member serves toextend the drug conveying path.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
The present invention is characterized by having a transportation unit (110) that can hold and transport a cassette (20) in which a medicine is accommodated, a first accommodation shelf (200) that can store a plurality of the cassettes (20) in a form of being attached to a cassette base (30) and that makes it possible to dispense medicine from a stored cassette (20), a second accommodation shelf (300) that can store a plurality of the cassettes (20), a packaging device (130) for packaging the medicine dispensed from the first accommodation shelf (200), and a medicine transportation pathway (210) that connects the first accommodation shelf (200) and the packaging device (130), the present invention furthermore being characterized in that the packaging device (130), the first accommodation shelf (200), and the second accommodation shelf (300) are arranged side by side in the stated order along the direction in which the transportation unit (110) can move.
Medicine sorting and return apparatus and their parts and
fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
medical handheld small rounding cart with casters; medical
equipment transport vehicle (cart); drug binding machine and
their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or
pharmacies; medicine management apparatus and their parts
and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
dispensing drug inspection apparatuses and their parts and
fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
medicine packaging apparatuses with manual medicine
dispenser, and their parts and fittings for use in
hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging
apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in
hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing
machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals,
clinics or pharmacies; medicine distributing apparatuses and
their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or
pharmacies; medicine dispensing management apparatuses with
medicine distributing shelves and their parts and fittings
for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine
dispensing apparatuses comprising medicine dispensing
machine, medicine distributing apparatuses, and medicine
dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing
shelves for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
automatic injection drug dispensing apparatuses and their
parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or
pharmacies; pharmaceutical apparatus and instruments, and
their parts and fittings; prescription table for use in
hospitals, clinics or pharmacies, and their parts and
fittings; medical apparatus and instruments, other than
walking aids, and crutches.
Medicine sorting and return apparatus and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medical handheld small rounding cart with casters; medical equipment transport vehicle (cart); drug binding machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine management apparatus and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; dispensing drug inspection apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging apparatuses with manual medicine dispenser, and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine distributing apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing apparatuses comprising medicine dispensing machine, medicine distributing apparatuses, and medicine dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; automatic injection drug dispensing apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; pharmaceutical apparatus and instruments, and their parts and fittings; prescription table for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies, and their parts and fittings; medical apparatus and instruments, other than walking aids, and crutches.
(1) Medicine sorting and return apparatus and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medical handheld small rounding cart with casters; medical equipment transport vehicle (cart); drug binding machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine management apparatus and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; dispensing drug inspection apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging apparatuses with manual medicine dispenser, and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine distributing apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing apparatuses comprising medicine dispensing machine, medicine distributing apparatuses, and medicine dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; automatic injection drug dispensing apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; pharmaceutical apparatus and instruments, and their parts and fittings; prescription table for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies, and their parts and fittings; medical apparatus and instruments, other than walking aids, and crutches.
A human burden required to collect remaining medicines from general-purpose medicine feeders is reduced. A medicine dispensing apparatus includes a plurality of medicine feeder storage portions configured to be drawn out of a housing. General-purpose medicine feeders each constituted by integrating a container portion and a successive discharge mechanism portion are mounted in the medicine feeder storage portions. A drawer shelf (drawer mechanism) is provided with a drawn state detecting portion and a remaining medicine collecting container detecting portion. Upon detecting that the medicine feeder storage portion is drawn out and a remaining medicine collecting container is mounted in the medicine feeder storage portion, remaining medicines are discharged from the applicable medicine feeders. Openings of the remaining medicine collecting container are partially exposed when the remaining medicine collecting container is mounted. Marks for alignment are provided. The drawer mechanism is provided with a positioning member.
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
A61J 1/05 - Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for collecting, storing or administering blood, plasma or medical fluids
A medicine dispensing apparatus gives a sense of stable operation of discharge of excessive medicines when used with general-purpose medicine feeders. A temporary reserving structure is provided at the lower end portion of a medicine guide structure configured to guide medicines discharged from a general-purpose medicine feeder of a non-cassette, fixed container portion type so as to fall down, the temporary reserving structure being operable to temporarily reserve the medicines and cause the medicines to collectively fall down. When it is detected that an excessive medicine has been discharged from the medicine feeder, packing operation is temporarily stopped and the temporary reserving structure is caused to reserve the medicines, and an operation to draw out medicine feeder mount portions is allowed, and thereafter resumption of the packing operation is allowed when it is detected that the medicine feeder mount portions are drawn out and pushed back.
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
A61J 1/03 - Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for pills or tablets
Provided is a packaging device that can perform conveyance without applying an excessive load to a packaging paper, while maintaining tension. This packaging device is for packaging a medicinal drug loaded via a loading hopper, the device supplying the medicinal drug to a double-folded packaging band via an opening section thereof and sealing the opening section to close the packaging band, wherein the device is characterized by including: a packaging band retention section onto which the packaging band is wrapped so as to be retained; a plurality of rollers onto which the packaging band, drawn from the packaging band retention section, is wrapped; a feed roller that repeatedly draws the packaging band in lengths corresponding to single-package portions; and a tension adjustment mechanism, disposed downstream of the packaging band retention section and upstream of the feed roller, for keeping the tension of the packaging band drawn by the feed roller constant. The device is also characterized in that: the tension adjustment mechanism comprises a mobile roller that is supported so that the axis of rotation thereof can move in a direction perpendicular to the axis of rotation, and a biasing member that pulls the mobile roller in toward a standard position with prescribed force; and the mobile roller moves upon sensing that tensile force equal to or greater than the prescribed force has been applied to the packaging band.
B65B 1/30 - Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality of the material fed or filled
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65B 51/10 - Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof
B65H 23/185 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally by controlling or regulating the web-advancing mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on the running web in unwinding mechanisms or in connection with unwinding operations motor-controlled
B65H 26/04 - Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms responsive to presence of irregularities in running webs for variation in tension
Provided is a packaging device capable of conveying packaging paper without applying an excessive load onto the packaging paper while maintaining tension. The present invention provides a packaging device for packaging a medicament fed from a feeding hopper, the packaging device supplying the medicament to a two-folded packaging band through an opening of the packaging band, and sealing the opening to close the packaging band, the packaging device characterized by comprising a longitudinal sealing unit that has a heating element extending in the width direction of the packaging band, and heats and fuses the packaging band, and a lateral sealing unit that has a heating element extending along the longitudinal direction of the packaging band, and heats and fuses the opening of the packaging band, wherein the feeding hopper is inserted into the opening of the packaging band on condition that the packaging band has reached a predetermined position, the packaging device comprising a gripping member for gripping, at the time of the insertion of the feeding hopper, the packaging band located at the predetermined position between the longitudinal sealing unit and the lateral sealing unit, the gripping member having an oscillating mechanism that enables the packaging band to move in a direction for counteracting an increase in tension of the packaging band that occurs when the feeding hopper is moved up and down.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65B 1/30 - Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality of the material fed or filled
B65B 51/26 - Devices specially adapted for producing transverse or longitudinal seams in webs or tubes
B65H 26/04 - Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms responsive to presence of irregularities in running webs for variation in tension
B65H 27/00 - Special constructions, e.g. surface features, of feed or guide rollers for webs
Provided is a packaging device having a structure that facilitates replacement of a perforation blade. The present invention provides a packaging device for packaging a medicament fed from a feeding hopper. The packaging device supplies the medicament to a two-folded packaging band through an opening of the packaging band and seals the opening to close the packaging band. The packaging device is characterized by comprising: a longitudinal sealing unit that has a heating element extending in the width direction of the packaging band, and heats and fuses the packaging band: a lateral sealing unit that has a heating element extending along the longitudinal direction of the packaging band, and heats and fuses the opening of the packaging band; a perforation blade provided on one side of the longitudinal sealing unit; a perforation blade holding unit that holds the perforation blade; a blade receiving unit opposed to the perforation blade; and a base unit fixed to a housing of the packaging device, wherein the base unit is provided with a slit extending in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the perforation blade is pressed by the longitudinal sealing unit, and the perforation blade holding unit is detachably held in the base unit by fitting into the slit.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65B 1/30 - Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality of the material fed or filled
B65B 61/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for perforating, scoring, or applying code or date marks on material prior to packaging
A medicine dispensing apparatus includes: a medicine guide structure mounted in a medicine feeder storage portion in which a large number of medicine feeders are mounted and which can be drawn out of a housing; a medicine collecting structure provided below the medicine guide structure; a packing device provided below the medicine collecting structure; and a temporary reserving structure mounted between the medicine guide structure and the medicine collecting structure. An electric motor is disposed in front of the temporary reserving structure to open and close the structure. A front-side portion of a lower end portion of an inner wall portion of the medicine guide structure, located above the electric motor, is located in rear of a front-side portion of an upper end portion of the structure.
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
B65B 5/10 - Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
A medicine feeder includes an outer rotary body, an inner inclined rotary body, a lateral width regulation mechanism operable to align solid medicine pieces that have been carried onto an annular upper end surface of the outer rotary body from the top of the inner inclined rotary body, and a fallen medicine detector that detects a fallen medicine piece discharged following alignment. A control portion determines that no medicine pieces are contained any more when a non-detection time interval reaches a final prescribed time interval while performing rotation controls. Before stopping discharge operation, vibrating rotation control for rotating the inner inclined rotary body while vibrating the inner inclined rotary body is performed in order to resolve stagnation of remaining medicine pieces. Further before that, the lateral width of a medicine transfer path on the annular upper end surface is increased stepwise in order to resolve congestion of medicine pieces.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
Powdered medicine packaging apparatuses; tablet packaging
apparatuses; medicine packaging apparatuses; medicine
wrapping apparatuses; tablet wrapping apparatuses;
supplements packaging apparatuses; machines for packaging
food; packaging machines; packing machines; packaging or
wrapping machines and apparatus; medicine filling machines
for medicine packaging containers; medicine processing
machines and apparatus; chemical processing machines and
apparatus. Medical handheld small rounding cart with casters; medical
equipment transport vehicle (cart); drug binding machine and
their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or
pharmacies; medicine management apparatus and their parts
and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
dispensing drug inspection apparatuses and their parts and
fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
medicine packaging apparatuses with manual medicine
dispenser, and their parts and fittings for use in
hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging
apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in
hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing
machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals,
clinics or pharmacies; medicine distributing apparatuses and
their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or
pharmacies; medicine dispensing management apparatuses with
medicine distributing shelves and their parts and fittings
for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine
dispensing apparatuses comprising medicine dispensing
machine, medicine distributing apparatuses, and medicine
dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing
shelves for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
automatic injection drug dispensing apparatuses and their
parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or
pharmacies; pharmaceutical apparatus and instruments, and
their parts and fittings; prescription table for use in
hospitals, clinics or pharmacies, and their parts and
fittings; medical apparatus and instruments, other than
walking aids, and crutches.
A medicine feeder capable of moderately recovering the height regulation function of a tablet height regulation mechanism in such a range that even fragile medicine pieces are not damaged and by a simple means. An alignment regulation mechanism includes a tablet height regulation mechanism including a plurality of suspended objects suspended over an annular upper end surface, and the tablet height regulation mechanism is configured to regulate heights of medicine pieces using the plurality of suspended objects. The plurality of suspended objects include at least one deformable suspended object that is deformed when a lower end portion of the deformable suspended object is pushed sideways and at least one non-deformable suspended object that is not deformed when a lower end portion of the non-deformable suspended object is pushed sideways with an upper end portion of the non-deformable suspended object being swingably supported.
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
G16H 20/13 - ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients delivered from dispensers
G16H 70/40 - ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage
G16H 40/67 - ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilitiesICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices for the operation of medical equipment or devices for remote operation
21.
TABLET DIVIDING APPARATUS, TABLET PORTION-PACKAGING MACHINE, AND TABLET DIVIDING METHOD
This tablet dividing apparatus can handle tablets with various shapes by aligning the center position of a tablet with a cutting part while using a simple structure. A tablet dividing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a retention part that is disposed midway along a falling path of a table and that is for retaining the tablet at a designated position; a cutting part equipped with a blade that is capable of cutting the tablet and that moves to and retreats from the falling path; and a center position determination means for aligning the center position of the tablet with an entry position of the cutting part. The tablet dividing apparatus is characterized in that: the retention part comprises a first movable member that is located above the entry position, that forms a lateral surface of the falling path, and that is capable of moving in a direction perpendicular to the falling path, and a second movable member that is located in such a manner as to narrow the falling path positioned at a location below the entry position and that is capable of moving in a direction that is parallel to but in reverse of the first movable member; and the center position determination means determines that the center position of the tablet has come into alignment with the designated position on condition that the first movable member and the second movable member, in the respective moving directions thereof, have come into alignment with each other.
(1) Powdered medicine packaging apparatuses; tablet packaging apparatuses; medicine packaging apparatuses; medicine wrapping apparatuses; tablet wrapping apparatuses; supplements packaging apparatuses; machines for packaging food; packaging machines; packing machines; packaging or wrapping machines and apparatus; medicine filling machines for medicine packaging containers; medicine processing machines and apparatus; chemical processing machines and apparatus.
(2) Medical handheld small rounding cart with casters; medical equipment transport vehicle (cart); drug binding machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine management apparatus and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; dispensing drug inspection apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging apparatuses with manual medicine dispenser, and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine distributing apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing apparatuses comprising medicine dispensing machine, medicine distributing apparatuses, and medicine dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; automatic injection drug dispensing apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; pharmaceutical apparatus and instruments, and their parts and fittings; prescription table for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies, and their parts and fittings; medical apparatus and instruments, other than walking aids, and crutches.
The rotor includes a core member rotating with a rotary shaft and a plurality of tablet receiving portions at an outer peripheral portion, and a body member including a fitting hole fitted to the core member. Retention mechanism is arranged in between the core member and the body member for determining a relative position between the core member and the body member and for retaining a fixed state between the core member and the body member. It is possible to use the rotor including various number of tablet receiving portions when the core member is a common part and the body member is replaceable. It is possible to avoid critical damage for members since a sphere as one or more engaging protrusion portions escape from one or more engaged hole portions and relative movement is caused between the core member and the body member, when the force applied to the core member exceeds a predetermined value.
B65D 83/04 - Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
Provided is a drug feeder capable of preventing multiple simultaneous discharges while shortening the time until tablet discharge. The drug feeder comprises: an annular rotating body rotatable about a first axis of rotation; an inclined rotating body disposed inside the annular rotating body and rotatable about a second axis of rotation inclined from the first axis of rotation; a sorting member and a regulating member that align solid drugs, which are carried on the upper peripheral edge of the annular rotating body by the rotation of the inclined rotating body, when the annular rotating body rotates; and a drug drop detection means for detecting drugs that have been carried to a drop discharge port by the annular rotating body and have dropped, the sorting member being arranged so as to regulate the height for the drugs on the upper peripheral edge of the annular rotating body, and the regulating member regulating the lateral width of the drug conveying path on the upper peripheral edge of the annular rotating body, the drug feeder being characterized by having a path extending member that is arranged along the upper peripheral edge of the annular rotating body on the outer peripheral side of the annular rotating body close to the drop discharge port, thereby making it possible to form a side wall of the drug conveying path, the drug conveying path being extended by the path extending member.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
Drug binding machine and their parts and fittings for use in
hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging
apparatuses with manual medicine dispenser, and their parts
and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
medicine packaging apparatuses and their parts and fittings
for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies.
The present invention suppresses a forward collision of an accommodating container with a manual opening/closing shutter. The present invention also makes it possible to select the usage state of a placement-receiving member. In the present invention, an opening/closing detection mechanism 30 for detecting whether or not an opening/closing shutter 12 is accommodated in a casing 11 to a location where the front surface of a storage part 14 is fully released is built into a side-end section of the storage part 14 at a location near a shutter-accommodating part 13. If the accommodation of the opening/closing shutter 12 within the casing cannot be confirmed through detection by the opening/closing detection mechanism 30, an accommodating container 20 is prevented from being pushed out forward. Additionally, a horizontally plate-form placement-receiving member 50 that can be pulled out forward and pushed back in rearward is incorporated at a center position in the storage part 14. Longitudinal movement of the placement-receiving member 50 is suppressed at a position where the placement-receiving member 50 is drawn out forward, a position where the placement-receiving member 50 is pushed back in rearward, and an intermediate position between the aforementioned positions.
A tablet cassette includes a tablet container for containing tablets in a random manner and a rotor provided therein and having a plurality of tablet receiving portions, and allows tablets, which have fallen into the tablet receiving portions through axial rotation of the rotor, to successively fall down through a discharge port at the bottom portion of the tablet container. The rotor includes a circumferential expansion-contraction mechanism, a radial expansion-contraction mechanism, and a pressing member externally mounted on a rotary shaft that penetrates a bottom wall portion of the tablet container. The circumferential expansion-contraction mechanism allows the plurality of tablet receiving portions to be expanded and contracted in the circumferential direction in conjunction with each other. The radial expansion-contraction mechanism allows the tablet receiving portions to be individually expanded and contracted by individually moving a plurality of sliding members in the radial direction.
Provided is a medicine packaging device in which pill fall surfaces of an accumulation chute 32 and collection chute 33 in a lower pill collection mechanism can be easily and accurately cleaned. The accumulation chute 32 is drawn forward from a casing 11 while accompanying a hand medicine distribution device 80. An accumulation chute support member 32A is erected in a drawing mechanism 81 so that the accumulation chute 32 can be attached to and detached from an upper end part 32b of the accumulation chute support member 32A via a hanging tool 32d. When the accumulation chute 32 is pulled out, the collection chute 33 can move backward along a collection chute support member 33a, and the collection chute 33 can further be detached or attached by gripping a handle member 33c.
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
B65B 35/06 - Separating single articles from loose masses of articles
B65B 35/12 - Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by gravity
B65B 35/32 - Arranging and feeding articles in groups by gravity
B65B 39/00 - Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
Provided is a medicine packaging device in which pill fall surfaces of an accumulation chute 32 and collection chute 33 in a lower pill collection mechanism can be easily and accurately cleaned. The accumulation chute 32 is drawn forward from a casing 11 while accompanying a hand medicine distribution device 80. An accumulation chute support member 32A is erected in a drawing mechanism 81 so that the accumulation chute 32 can be attached to and detached from an upper end part 32b of the accumulation chute support member 32A via a hanging tool 32d. When the accumulation chute 32 is pulled out, the collection chute 33 can move backward along a collection chute support member 33a, and the collection chute 33 can further be detached or attached by gripping a handle member 33c.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Dispensing drug inspection apparatuses and their parts and
fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies;
medicine dispensing machine and their parts and fittings for
use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dosage
distributing apparatuses and their parts and fittings for
use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing
management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves
and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics
or pharmacies; medicine dispensing apparatuses comprising
medicine dispensing machine, medicine distributing
apparatuses, and medicine dispensing management apparatuses
with medicine distributing shelves for use in hospitals,
clinics or pharmacies.
A medicine feeder includes: an outer rotary body on the outer side to be rotated about a vertical line; an inner inclined rotary body on the inner side to be rotated about an inclined line; and a sorting mechanism and a regulating mechanism operable to align solid medicine pieces carried from the top of the inner inclined rotary body onto an annular upper end surface of the outer rotary body through rotation of the inner inclined rotary body. An upper surface inclined portion of the inner inclined rotary body includes delivery portions sloping downward toward the outer side even at an elevated position and push-up portions not sloping downward toward the outer side, the delivery portions and the push-up portions being formed alternately in the circumferential direction. The push-up portions include projecting portions. The projecting portions are extended to the inner peripheral side of the delivery portions.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
G07F 17/00 - Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articlesCoin-freed facilities or services
The present invention reduces the labor burden when recovering the remaining drug from a general-purpose medicine feeder. A medicine packaging machine 1 is equipped with a plurality of medicine feeder storage sections 20, 20, in such a state that same can be drawn out from a housing. General-purpose medicine feeders 52, 52, , obtained by integrating a container section and a sequential discharge mechanism section, are mounted on the medicine feeder storage sections 20. A drawn-out state detection member and a remaining medicine recovery container detection section (27) are attached to a drawer shelf 2 (drawing-out mechanism). When drawing-out of one of the medicine feeder storage sections 20 and mounting of a remaining drug recovery container 100 in the medicine feeder storage section 20 are detected, remaining medicine is discharged from a corresponding medicine feeder. When the remaining drug recovery container 100 is mounted, a part of an opening 102 thereof is exposed. Moreover, alignment marks (26, 105) are provided. Furthermore, the drawing-out mechanism is provided with a positioning member (128).
The present invention reduces the labor burden when recovering the remaining drug from a general-purpose medicine feeder. A medicine packaging machine 1 is equipped with a plurality of medicine feeder storage sections 20, 20, … in such a state that same can be drawn out from a housing. General-purpose medicine feeders 52, 52, …, obtained by integrating a container section and a sequential discharge mechanism section, are mounted on the medicine feeder storage sections 20. A drawn-out state detection member and a remaining medicine recovery container detection section (27) are attached to a drawer shelf 2 (drawing-out mechanism). When drawing-out of one of the medicine feeder storage sections 20 and mounting of a remaining drug recovery container 100 in the medicine feeder storage section 20 are detected, remaining medicine is discharged from a corresponding medicine feeder. When the remaining drug recovery container 100 is mounted, a part of an opening 102 thereof is exposed. Moreover, alignment marks (26, 105) are provided. Furthermore, the drawing-out mechanism is provided with a positioning member (128).
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Dispensing drug inspection apparatuses, namely, inspection machines for the physical inspection of pharmaceutical capsules and
tablets and their parts and fittings for pharmaceutical preparation in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing machine
and their parts and fittings for dispensing pre-determined dosages of medication in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine
dosage distributing apparatuses, namely, dosage dispensers for measuring, dispensing, and distributing medicine, and their parts
and fittings for distributing pre-determined dosages of medication in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing
management apparatuses, namely, mechanical devices for dispensing and management of preset portion of medicine, featuring
medicine distributing shelves and their parts and fittings for dispensing pre-determined dosages of medication in hospitals, clinics
or pharmacies; medicine dispensing apparatuses comprising medicine dispensing machines, medicine distributing apparatuses in
the nature of dosage dispensers for measuring, dispensing, and distributing medicine, and medicine dispensing management
apparatuses in the nature of mechanical devices for dispensing and management of preset portion of medicine featuring medicine
distributing shelves for dispensing pre-determined dosages of medication in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies
(1) Drug binding machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging apparatuses with manual medicine dispenser, and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
(1) Dispensing drug inspection apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing machine and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dosage distributing apparatuses and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine dispensing apparatuses comprising medicine dispensing machine, medicine distributing apparatuses, and medicine dispensing management apparatuses with medicine distributing shelves for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies.
Drug binding machines being wrapping machines for pharmaceuticals and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging machines featuring manual medicine dosage dispensers, and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies; medicine packaging machines and their parts and fittings for use in hospitals, clinics or pharmacies
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TABLET DIMENSION MEASURING PROGRAM AND TABLET DIMENSION MEASURING SYSTEM
Provided is a tablet dimension measuring program for quickly sharing the dimensions of a tablet while ensuring accuracy of the measurement method. The tablet dimension measuring program is a tablet dimension measuring program for capturing an image of a tablet by using: measuring means for measuring a dimension of the tablet; dimension display means for displaying the dimension of the tablet measured by the measuring means; and imaging means for capturing images that each include a numerical value of the dimension displayed by the dimension display means and a measurement position of the tablet, in which the imaging means is used to capture at least one dimension information image that includes the measurement position of the tablet and the numerical value of the dimension and a drug information image with which drug information of the tablet is identifiable.
The present invention improves a medicine packaging machine so that it is possible to confer a sufficient sense of safety in regard to excessive discharge of medicine, even if a subsequent general-purpose medicine feeder is installed. A temporary storage structure 97 that temporarily stores, collects, and drops medicine is provided to a lower end of a medicine guiding structure 90 that performs drop guidance of discharged medicine from a general-purpose medicine feeder 86, which is a non-cassette-type/container fixed-type feeder. Furthermore, when excessive discharge of medicine from the medicine feeder 86 is detected, a packaging operation is temporarily stopped and the temporary storage structure 97 is caused to maintain a storage state, while an extraction operation of medicine feeder installation parts 80, 80 is allowed, after which the packaging operation is allowed to resume when extraction and pushing-back of the medicine feeder installation parts 80, 80 are detected.
The present invention improves a medicine packaging machine so that it is possible to confer a sufficient sense of safety in regard to excessive discharge of medicine, even if a subsequent general-purpose medicine feeder is installed. A temporary storage structure 97 that temporarily stores, collects, and drops medicine is provided to a lower end of a medicine guiding structure 90 that performs drop guidance of discharged medicine from a general-purpose medicine feeder 86, which is a non-cassette-type/container fixed-type feeder. Furthermore, when excessive discharge of medicine from the medicine feeder 86 is detected, a packaging operation is temporarily stopped and the temporary storage structure 97 is caused to maintain a storage state, while an extraction operation of medicine feeder installation parts 80, 80 is allowed, after which the packaging operation is allowed to resume when extraction and pushing-back of the medicine feeder installation parts 80, 80 are detected.
The present invention makes maintenance work for an electric motor 51 of a primary storage structure 60 of this medicine dividing/packaging machine easier. This medicine dividing/packaging machine comprises: a medicine guiding structure 20 that has multiple medicine feeders 13 mounted thereon and is provided on a medicine feeder storage part 12A capable of being drawn from a casing; a medicine collection structure 30 provided below the medicine guiding structure 20; a packaging device 40 provided below the medicine collection structure 30; and a primary storage structure 60 provided between the medicine guiding structure 20 and the medicine collection structure 30. In front of the primary storage structure 60, an electric motor 51 responsible for opening/closing of the mechanism 60 is disposed. An anterior part 22 of the lower end part of the inner wall of the medicine guiding structure 20 above the electric motor 51 is positioned behind an anterior part 21 of the upper end part of the medicine guiding structure 20. A support shaft of an opening/closing member of the primary storage structure 60 with the electric motor 51 is also used for power transmission to activate a rear link mechanism, and a primary storage structure 60 with no electric motor is thereby interlocked.
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
B65B 1/30 - Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality of the material fed or filled
The present invention makes maintenance work for an electric motor 51 of a primary storage structure 60 of this medicine dividing/packaging machine easier. This medicine dividing/packaging machine comprises: a medicine guiding structure 20 that has multiple medicine feeders 13 mounted thereon and is provided on a medicine feeder storage part 12A capable of being drawn from a casing; a medicine collection structure 30 provided below the medicine guiding structure 20; a packaging device 40 provided below the medicine collection structure 30; and a primary storage structure 60 provided between the medicine guiding structure 20 and the medicine collection structure 30. In front of the primary storage structure 60, an electric motor 51 responsible for opening/closing of the mechanism 60 is disposed. An anterior part 22 of the lower end part of the inner wall of the medicine guiding structure 20 above the electric motor 51 is positioned behind an anterior part 21 of the upper end part of the medicine guiding structure 20. A support shaft of an opening/closing member of the primary storage structure 60 with the electric motor 51 is also used for power transmission to activate a rear link mechanism, and a primary storage structure 60 with no electric motor is thereby interlocked.
A drug feeder is provided which, even when a small amount of remaining drug is retained, can reduce or eliminate the factors resulting in retention of the drug. The drug feeder 10 is provided with an outside rotator 20, an inside inclined rotator 30, a width regulating mechanism 70 which aligns a solid drug carried from above the inside inclined rotator 30 onto the annular top end surface 23 of the outside rotator 20; and a drug dropping detecting means 56 which detects dropping of the drug discharged after alignment. While performing rotation control, a control unit 80 determines that the contained drug is gone when the undetected time interval has reached a final defined time interval. Before stopping the discharge operation, vibration rotation control is performed for rotating while vibrating the inside inclined rotator 30 in order to eliminate retention of any residual drug. Furthermore, in order to eliminate congestion of the drug before that, the width regulating mechanism 70 is controlled and the width of the drug conveyance path at the annular top end surface 23 is increased in stages.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
A drug feeder is provided which, even when a small amount of remaining drug is retained, can reduce or eliminate the factors resulting in retention of the drug. The drug feeder 10 is provided with an outside rotator 20, an inside inclined rotator 30, a width regulating mechanism 70 which aligns a solid drug carried from above the inside inclined rotator 30 onto the annular top end surface 23 of the outside rotator 20; and a drug dropping detecting means 56 which detects dropping of the drug discharged after alignment. While performing rotation control, a control unit 80 determines that the contained drug is gone when the undetected time interval has reached a final defined time interval. Before stopping the discharge operation, vibration rotation control is performed for rotating while vibrating the inside inclined rotator 30 in order to eliminate retention of any residual drug. Furthermore, in order to eliminate congestion of the drug before that, the width regulating mechanism 70 is controlled and the width of the drug conveyance path at the annular top end surface 23 is increased in stages.
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
A tablet dispensing apparatus that allows the inside of tablet collecting mechanisms at the relevant locations to be cleaned altogether even if tablet feeders of a multiple tablet-compatible type are provided in a multilevel arrangement. A plurality of tablet feeder storage portions are vertically arranged in line and incorporated into a medicine storage portion of a tablet dispensing apparatus to be individually drawn out forward, and a common upper tablet collecting portion is provided on one of the two sides of the tablet feeder storage portions to be also drawn out forward. Consequently, it is possible to clean the inside of the upper tablet collecting mechanism at the relevant location altogether, even if the tablet feeders are provided in a multilevel arrangement.
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
B65B 35/10 - Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles
The purpose of the present invention, as concerns remaining drug recovery in which a remaining drug that remains and is not ejected during a dividing/packaging process is recovered based on the previous dispensing instruction, is to make it possible to carry out remaining dose recovery without difficulty even if the dividing/packaging process is, based on the following dispensing instruction, commenced prior to remaining drug recovery of the medicine dispensed previously, and even if remaining drug recovery is, based on the following dispensing instruction, carried out during the dividing/packaging process. A remaining drug recovery instruction receiving part 91B receives a remaining drug recovery instruction which instructs that the remaining drug not be released in a drawn-out-to-the-front state of a plurality of all-purpose medicine feeders 52. An ejection operation executing part 91D executes, according to the remaining drug recovery instruction, a medicine ejection operation in the corresponding all-purpose medicine feeder 52 when a drawn-out state detection part 46 detects that a drawer shelf is drawn out to the front.
The present invention provides a drug feeder capable of adequately recovering a height regulation function of a tablet height regulation mechanism within a range not breaking even a fragile drug and in a simple manner. In this invention, the alignment regulation mechanism includes a tablet height regulation mechanism 1600 that has a plurality of suspending articles suspending above an annular upper end surface and regulates, by the plurality of suspending articles, the height dimension relative to the height of a tablet. The plurality of suspending articles includes one or more deformable suspending articles 1612, 1632 that deform when the lower end parts thereof are laterally pushed, and one or more non-deformable suspending articles 1623 that do not deform even when the lower end parts thereof are laterally pushed, with the upper end parts thereof swingably supported.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
The present invention provides a drug feeder capable of adequately recovering a height regulation function of a tablet height regulation mechanism within a range not breaking even a fragile drug and in a simple manner. In this invention, the alignment regulation mechanism includes a tablet height regulation mechanism 1600 that has a plurality of suspending articles suspending above an annular upper end surface and regulates, by the plurality of suspending articles, the height dimension relative to the height of a tablet. The plurality of suspending articles includes one or more deformable suspending articles 1612, 1632 that deform when the lower end parts thereof are laterally pushed, and one or more non-deformable suspending articles 1623 that do not deform even when the lower end parts thereof are laterally pushed, with the upper end parts thereof swingably supported.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
The objective of the present invention is to make the advancing/retreating distance of an opening drive mechanism of a medicine accommodating device larger than that using an eccentric cam of the same scale. A pushing-out mechanism 70 which pushes back a correspondingly arranged accommodating container 20 to cause the same to advance is configured from a first cam mechanism 71 to 74 which performs transmission only midway through each drive cycle of a drive unit 50, and a link mechanism 75 to 85 which performs mutual conversion transmission between rotational movement of a follower 73 of the first cam mechanism and advancing/retreating movement of a frontmost joint 83. Further, a locking mechanism 60 for preventing the accommodating container 20 being pulled out forward is configured from a second cam mechanism 61 to 67 which performs transmission only midway through each drive cycle of the drive unit 50 and which begins said transfer earlier than the beginning of the transmission of the first cam mechanism 71 to 74. Furthermore, the drive unit 50 which drives the pushing-out mechanism 70 and the locking mechanism 60 is additionally provided with a worm gear 52+53, with an electric motor 51 turned sideways. Further, a gear 54 which meshes therewith, a driver 71 of the first cam mechanism, and a driver 61 of the second cam mechanism are fitted to the same rotary transmission shaft.
In the present invention, a rotor 40 includes: a core member 60 rotating together with a rotation shaft; and a main body member 70 having a plurality of tablet-accommodating chambers 72 in the outer periphery and having a fitting hole 71 that is fitted into the core member 60. Between the core member 60 and the main body member 70, maintenance mechanisms (65, 75) that define a relative position between the core member 60 and the main body member 70 and that maintain a fixed state of the core member 60 and the main body member 70 are provided. Replacing the main body member 70 while using the core member 60 as a shared member allows for using a rotor including different numbers of tablet-accommodating chambers. When a force of a prescribed level or greater is applied to the core member 60, a ball body 66 as an engagement protrusion is released from an engagement pore 75 to cause relative movement between the core member 60 and the main body member 70; thus, serious breakage of members can be avoided.
The rotor 40 includes a core member 60 rotating with a rotary shaft and a plurality of tablet receiving portions 72 at an outer peripheral portion, and a body member 70 including a fitting hole 71 fitted to the core member 60. Retention mechanism (65, 75) is arranged in between the core member 60 and the body member 70 for determining a relative position between the core member 60 and the body member 70 and for retaining a fixed state between the core member 60 and the body member 70. It is possible to use the rotor including various number of tablet receiving portions when the core member 60 is a common part and the body member 70 is replaceable. It is possible to avoid critical damage for members since a sphere 66 as one or more engaging protrusion portions escape from one or more engaged hole portions 75 and relative movement is caused between the core member 60 and the body member 70, when the force applied to the core member 60 exceeds a predetermined value.
A tablet cassette 30 is obtained by having: a tablet container 70 that is provided with a tablet accommodation space 74 accommodating tablets 5, and a discharge opening 81 discharging the tablets 5; and a rotor 60 that rotates around the axis of a rotational shaft 66, and in which a plurality of tablet storage chambers 63 storing one tablet 5 each and allowing the same to pass through the discharge opening 81 are arranged along the rotation direction at a circumferential edge section 62, wherein a brush 55 in which a plurality of flexible, fine bristles 56 are gathered is positioned above the discharge opening 81, and is made to come into contact with one or more tablets 5 that have moved thereto on an upper surface 62A of the circumferential edge section 62. The plurality of bristles 56 are of a length and hardness that can temporarily retain one or more tablets 5.
The present invention provides: a horizontal drug packing device capable of varying the horizontal width of individually-packaged packages to a variety of types in a state where a positional relationship among a vertical seal formation part, a pill drop hopper, and a horizontal seal formation part is fixed; and a drug packaging device incorporating the same. The present invention is a drug packing device 100 having: a packing paper transport unit; a packing paper transport control unit 200; a packing paper vertical seal formation part 107 which seals packing paper B vertically; a drug hopper 10 provided in a manner allowing advancing and retracting of a top end into and out of the packing paper B which has been opened; and a packing paper horizontal seal formation part 109 which is provided downstream of the drug hopper 10 in a packing paper transport direction and which seals a top end of the packing paper B horizontally, wherein the packing paper transport control unit 200 controls operation of the packing paper transport unit to create individual packages having a width 2W/n by transporting the packing paper B by 2W/n (n being an integer of greater than or equal to 2) at a time, where when W is the maximum seal width, of the top end of the packing paper B, resulting from the packing paper horizontal seal formation part 109, 2W is the distance between the packing paper vertical seal formation part 107 and a rear end section of the packing paper horizontal seal formation part109.
B65B 1/30 - Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality of the material fed or filled
B65B 57/00 - Automatic control, checking, warning or safety devices
B65B 9/093 - Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it in a web folded and sealed transversely to form pockets which are subsequently filled and then closed by sealing the web having intermittent motion
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65B 51/10 - Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof
54.
POWDERED MEDICINE SUPPLY DEVICE AND POWDERED MEDICINE PACKAGING DEVICE
The present invention provides a technology that can efficiently supply powdered medicine. This powdered medicine supply device comprises: a plurality of powdered medicine storage containers that releasably store powdered medicine; a container mounting unit that has the plurality of powdered medicine storage containers transferrably mounted thereto such that the storage containers follow an annular path, said container mounting unit capable of stopping at least one of the plurality of powdered medicine storage containers at a prescribed powdered medicine release position provided on the path; and a release action unit that is provided in the vicinity of the powdered medicine release position, acts on a powdered medicine storage container positioned at the powdered medicine release position, and releases powdered medicine from the powdered medicine storage container. The powdered medicine release position is characterized by being above a distribution disc that rotates to evenly distribute powdered medicine supplied on to the disc.
The present invention improves a PTP cassette such that a width expansion/contraction mechanism is not obstructing or interfering when storing and arranging PTP packaging materials etc. in a drug storage space. The present invention comprises: an arrangement storage section 50 provided with a front panel, a left-side panel 51, and a right-side panel 61, in order to form a drug storage space capable of holding PTP packaging materials 5 etc., which are PTP packaging materials or equivalent sheet-shaped packaging materials for storing drugs in segments in a sheet, each of the PTP packaging materials 5 being laid down and stacked vertically so as to be arranged and stored; a sequential discharge mechanism 40 that defines the bottom surface of the drug storage space, forward feeds the lowermost of the PTP packaging materials 5, etc., and discharges the same from a discharge port located below the front panel; a width expansion/contraction mechanism 70 that can expand and contract the gap between the left-side panel 51 and the right-side panel 61; a front panel raising/lowering mechanism that raises and lowers the front panel; and a width following mechanism 70 that positions the front panel raising/lowering mechanism in the middle of the left-side panel 51 and the right side panel 61.
B65H 1/04 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
The present invention causes a mounted state to be continued accompanying mounting of a PTP cassette to a base. A rearward engagement part 26 of a base 20 and a discharge mechanism rearward engagement part 46 of a PTP cassette 30 are placed in an engaged state when pressed together from a separated state and then pushed in, through use of a push latch device, etc., the engaged state is continued even after pushing in is discontinued, and the rearward engagement part 26 and the discharge mechanism rearward engagement part 46 are disengaged when pushed in again in the engaged state.
Provided are a tablet discharging device capable of discharging tablets one by one from a group of multiple tablets by using a simple configuration, and a medicine packaging machine incorporated with the tablet discharging device. The present invention has: a circular flat plate having a substantially level surface and being rotatable with tables placed on an upper surface thereof; a non-rotating cylindrical frame body disposed above the circular flat plate so as to surround the outer periphery of the circular flat plate with a small gap from the circular flat plate and having an open bottom; a tablet collective accommodation part formed on the inner side of the cylindrical frame body and collectively accommodating tablets thrown therein; multiple continuous compartments formed on the inner side of the cylindrical frame body, having an entrance, an exit, and a regulating body, and allowing the tablets discharged from the tablet collective accommodation part to be sequentially conveyed at intervals, with the directions of the tablets being regulated by rotation of the circular flat plate and the regulating body; an exit part provided on the cylindrical frame body and through which the tablets being separately conveyed in a raw are discharged from the last compartment; and an overlapped-tablet separating opening part disposed at a lower part of the regulating body and widening along the traveling direction of the tablets.
Provided are a powdered medicine supply device that has a powdered medicine release mechanism inside a medicine accommodation part and has a simple structure, and a powdered medicine packaging device. The powdered medicine supply device comprises: a cylindrical medicine accommodation part body that has a plurality of first penetration holes concentrically formed on a bottom surface thereof and accommodates powdered medicine therein; a bottom lid part that is provided at a lower part of the medicine accommodation part body and has a plurality of second penetration holes concentrically formed at positions not coincident with the first penetration holes of the bottom surface of the medicine accommodation part body in a circumferential direction thereof; a rotation body that is provided between the bottom surface of the medicine accommodation part body and an upper surface of the bottom lid part, has a plurality of third penetration holes concentrically formed thereon, and is formed so that the third penetration holes sequentially face the second penetration holes one by one as the rotation body rotates; and a driving part that rotationally drives the rotation body. As the rotation body rotates, powdered medicine inside the medicine accommodation part body is accommodated in the third penetration holes via the first penetration holes. As the rotation body further rotates, the powdered medicine accommodated in the third penetration holes is released downward via the second penetration holes.
A tablet cassette that facilitates adjustment of the widths of tablet containing spaces includes a tablet container for containing tablets in a random manner, and a rotor provided in the tablet container and having a plurality of tablet receiving portions. Tablets having fallen down into the tablet receiving portions because of rotation of the rotor are allowed to consecutively fall down through a discharge port in a bottom wall portion of the tablet container. The rotor includes a circumferential expansion-contraction mechanism and a radial expansion-contraction mechanism externally mounted on an inserted portion of a rotary shaft that penetrates the bottom wall portion of the tablet container. The circumferential expansion-contraction mechanism can expand and contract the plurality of tablet receiving portions in the circumferential direction in conjunction with each other. The radial expansion-contraction mechanism can individually expand and contract the tablet receiving portions in the radial direction.
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
B65D 83/04 - Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
The present invention provides an individually packaged tablet reclassification machine that is small and inexpensive, and can be introduced in a small-scale hospital or pharmacy where introduction has conventionally been difficult. This individually packaged tablet reclassification machine comprises: a tablet dispensing device capable of separating and dispensing a plurality of tablets one at a time; and a tablet conveyance unit that conveys the tablets dispensed from the tablet dispensing device. The tablet dispensing device is capable of dispensing a plurality of types of the tablets. The individually packaged tablet reclassification machine further comprises a tablet classification device that includes: a tablet image acquisition unit provided in the tablet conveyance unit and downstream in a conveyance direction from the tablet dispensing device; a tablet type determination unit that determines a tablet type on the basis of an image acquired by the tablet image acquisition unit; a tablet sorting unit that sorts the tablets on the basis of results of the table type determination unit; and a table storage unit that stores the tablets sorted by the table sorting unit.
The present invention simplifies the structure of tablet cassettes having an expanding/contracting tablet accommodating portion. This tablet cassette 10 comprises a tablet container 20 which randomly accommodates tablets, and, within the tablet container 20, a rotor 40 which has a plurality of tablet accommodating portions 67. By axially rotating the rotor 40, the tablets that have fallen into the tablet accommodating portions 67 are successively dropped from a discharge opening 28 in the bottom portion of the tablet container 20. The rotor 40 has a circumferentially expanding/contracting mechanism 59, a radially expanding/contracting mechanism 90, and a pressing member 47 which are externally mounted on a rotation shaft 41 passing through the bottom wall portion 25 of the tablet container 20. The circumferentially expanding/contracting mechanism 59 can expand and contract multiple tablet accommodating portions 67 in the circumferential direction in a coordinated manner. The radially expanding/contracting mechanism 90 can expand and contract the tablet accommodating portions 67 individually by moving a plurality of sliding members 94 individually in the radial direction. When the pressing member 47 is pressed against the sliding members 94, the pressing member 47 interferes with a protrusion 95 on each sliding member 94 and prevents radial movement of the sliding member 94.
The present invention simplifies the structure of tablet cassettes having an expanding/contracting tablet accommodating portion. This tablet cassette 10 comprises a tablet container 20 which randomly accommodates tablets, and, within the tablet container 20, a rotor 40 which has a plurality of tablet accommodating portions 67. By axially rotating the rotor 40, the tablets that have fallen into the tablet accommodating portions 67 are successively dropped from a discharge opening 28 in the bottom portion of the tablet container 20. The rotor 40 has a circumferentially expanding/contracting mechanism 59, a radially expanding/contracting mechanism 90, and a pressing member 47 which are externally mounted on a rotation shaft 41 passing through the bottom wall portion 25 of the tablet container 20. The circumferentially expanding/contracting mechanism 59 can expand and contract multiple tablet accommodating portions 67 in the circumferential direction in a coordinated manner. The radially expanding/contracting mechanism 90 can expand and contract the tablet accommodating portions 67 individually by moving a plurality of sliding members 94 individually in the radial direction. When the pressing member 47 is pressed against the sliding members 94, the pressing member 47 interferes with a protrusion 95 on each sliding member 94 and prevents radial movement of the sliding member 94.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
A61J 7/00 - Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoonsPill counting devicesArrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
Provided is a tablet cassette in which it is possible to change the dimensions of a tablet accommodating chamber of a rotor without using a complicated mechanism and without replacing the entire rotor. The rotor 40 is provided with rotor body 42 which rotates along with a rotating shaft 41, and a plurality of fixing sections 44 to which a plurality of tablet accommodating members 50 each having a housing accommodating chamber 54 are fixed on the outer peripheral portion of the rotor body 42. The plurality of tablet accommodating members 50 and the plurality of fixing sections 44 are connected together by a connection structure (46, 47, 52, 53) that detachably connects the plurality of tablet accommodating members 50 to the corresponding plurality of fixing sections 44.
Provided is a powdered medicine division and packaging device capable of using a simple configuration to accurately measure the weight of a powdered medicine to be divided and packaged, without the need to weigh the powdered medicine beforehand, and without increasing costs. A powdered medicine division and packaging device 100 has: a powdered medicine accommodation vessel 61 having a discharge means 62; a rotatable apportioning disc 20, to the upper surface of which powdered medicine from the powdered medicine accommodation vessel 61 is supplied; a rotational drive part 30; a weighing part 10 that measures the total weight of the apportioning disc 20, the rotational drive part 30, and the powdered medicine supplied to the apportioning disc 20; a controller 140 that, when the discharge means 62 is discharging the powdered medicine, controls the operation of the discharge means 62 on the basis of a weight measurement result from the weighing part 10 so that the supplied weight of the powdered medicine supplied to the apportioning disc 20 from the powdered medicine accommodation vessel 61 is one prescribed dose; a raking part 50 that ejects the powdered medicine from the apportioning disc 20 one package portion at a time; and a packaging device 70 that packages the ejected powdered medicine.
Provided is a tablet releasing device having a simple structure and capable of releasing tablets one by one from a group of a plurality of tablets. Also provided is a drug packaging machine incorporating the tablet releasing device. This tablet releasing device has: a flat plate having a substantially horizontal surface and capable of rotating with tablets placed on the upper surface thereof; an outer circumferential-side guide body provided on the outer circumferential side of the upper surface of the flat pate; an inner circumferential-side guide body provided inward of the outer circumferential-side guide body on the upper surface of the flat plate; a tablet conveyance unit that is constituted from the flat plate, the outer circumferential-side guide body, and the inner circumferential-side guide body, and conveys tablets by rotating the flat plate; and a regulating body that is provided on the tablet conveyance unit to protrude from the outer circumferential-side guide body and/or the inner circumferential-side guide body, and is brought into contact with the tablets to regulate at least one of the amount, intervals, and orientation of tablets.
This invention achieves a drug feeder that can efficiently feed drugs even when the rotation of an inner inclined rotating body is reduced. A drug feeder 100 comprises: an outer rotating body 200 on the outside, rotating about a vertical line; an inner inclined rotating body 300 on the inside, rotating about an inclined line; and a sorting mechanism 600 and a regulating mechanism 700 that align the solid drugs carried onto the annular top end surface 230 of the outer rotating body 200 from the top of the inner inclined rotating body 300 by the rotation of same. On the top inclined portion 330 of the inner inclined rotating body 300, delivery portions 340 that are lowered toward the outside even in a raised position and push-up portions 350 in which there is no such outward lowering are alternately formed in the circumferential direction. A protrusion 360 is formed on each of the push-up portions 350. The protrusion 360 is extended to the inner peripheral side of the delivery portion 340, and a promoting means 321 is formed on the top surface 320.
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
This invention achieves a drug feeder that can efficiently feed drugs even when the rotation of an inner inclined rotating body is reduced. A drug feeder 100 comprises: an outer rotating body 200 on the outside, rotating about a vertical line; an inner inclined rotating body 300 on the inside, rotating about an inclined line; and a sorting mechanism 600 and a regulating mechanism 700 that align the solid drugs carried onto the annular top end surface 230 of the outer rotating body 200 from the top of the inner inclined rotating body 300 by the rotation of same. On the top inclined portion 330 of the inner inclined rotating body 300, delivery portions 340 that are lowered toward the outside even in a raised position and push-up portions 350 in which there is no such outward lowering are alternately formed in the circumferential direction. A protrusion 360 is formed on each of the push-up portions 350. The protrusion 360 is extended to the inner peripheral side of the delivery portion 340, and a promoting means 321 is formed on the top surface 320.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
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POWDER MEDICINE CONTAINING VESSEL AND POWDER MEDICINE MEASURING DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC POWDER-MEDICINE SINGLE-DOSE PACKAGING MACHINE
To provide a powder medicine containing vessel, a powder medicine measuring device, and an automatic powder-medicine single-dose packaging machine that can discharge powder medicine, and more particularly, trace powder medicine or mixed powder medicine in a uniform flow after measurement. A powder medicine containing vessel 50 including: a chamber body 51 that contains powder medicine; a powder medicine transfer unit 12 provided inside the chamber body 51, the powder medicine transfer unit 12 transferring powder medicine; and a powder medicine discharge port 65 provided on the bottom surface of the chamber body 51, the powder medicine discharge port 65 being adjacent to the powder medicine transfer unit 12, the powder medicine transfer unit 12 including: a rotating shaft 58; and a spiral part 57 formed on the circumferential surface of the rotating shaft 58, wherein the spiral part 58 is not formed in a portion of the rotating shaft 58 that corresponds to the powder medicine discharge port 65.
The present invention implements, by a simple means, a tablet splitting device capable of precisely splitting a tablet, reducing the generation of dust, and separating and removing tablet dust from cut pieces of the tablet. A cutting mechanism 40 for cutting a tablet 4 discharged from a tablet cassette 23 and guided to a cutting position 41 by a tablet introduction mechanism 30 into upper and lower pieces is equipped with: a movable blade 43 that moves forward and backward with respect to the cutting position 41; a fixed blade 42 facing the movable blade; a lower forward/backward moving member 44 that moves forward and backward with respect to the lower side of the cutting position 41; and an upper forward/backward moving member that moves forward and backward with respect to the upper side of the cutting position 41. A cut piece discharge mechanism 60 for guiding cut tablet pieces 5 dropped from the cutting position 41 to a discharge position 65 causes a disk 62 having a plurality of vertical holes 63 for receiving the cut tablet pieces 5 to rotate to move the cut tablet pieces 5 laterally, and ensures that a gap G that allows tablet dust 6 to pass therethrough and does not allow the cut tablet pieces 5 to pass therethrough is located between the vertical holes 63 of the cut piece discharge mechanism 60 and recesses 71, 72 of a tablet dust collection member 70.
The objective of the invention is to develop a tablet packaging machine such that even if a tablet feeder of a type capable of handling various tablets is provided with a multi-level configuration, the tablet collection mechanism interior at the relevant locations can be cleaned in the same pass. A plurality of tablet feeder housing units 20A through 20C are arranged vertically over each other and mounted in a drug storage section 13 of a tablet packaging machine 10 in such a manner that each can be individually drawn out forward, and a shared upper tablet collection unit 30 is provided on one of the two sides of the tablet feeder housing units 20A through 20C in such a manner that the shared upper tablet collection unit can be drawn out forward. In this manner, even if the tablet feeder 52 is provided with a multi-level configuration, the upper tablet collection mechanism 30 interior at the relevant locations can be cleaned in the same pass.
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B65B 1/30 - Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality of the material fed or filled
The objective of the invention is to develop a tablet packaging machine such that even if a tablet feeder of a type capable of handling various tablets is provided with a multi-level configuration, the tablet collection mechanism interior at the relevant locations can be cleaned in the same pass. A plurality of tablet feeder housing units 20A through 20C are arranged vertically over each other and mounted in a drug storage section 13 of a tablet packaging machine 10 in such a manner that each can be individually drawn out forward, and a shared upper tablet collection unit 30 is provided on one of the two sides of the tablet feeder housing units 20A through 20C in such a manner that the shared upper tablet collection unit can be drawn out forward. In this manner, even if the tablet feeder 52 is provided with a multi-level configuration, the upper tablet collection mechanism 30 interior at the relevant locations can be cleaned in the same pass.
A tablet cassette that inhibits rotation of a rotor when the tablet cassette is not mounted. A plurality of engaged portions are provided, about the axial line of a rotary shaft at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction on an annular inner surface region of a bottom wall portion located a predetermined distance away from the rotary shaft. A sliding shaft is disposed in the rotary shaft, slidable in the axial direction, such that the sliding shaft rotates together with the rotary shaft. The rotary shaft is displaced toward a rotor body when the rotary shaft is coupled to a drive shaft and the rotary shaft is displaced toward a bottom wall portion when the rotary shaft is not coupled to the drive shaft. Two or more engaging portions are provided on arm portions provided on the sliding shaft and engage with some of a plurality of engaged portions.
Provided is a tablet dimension measuring program that quickly shares the dimensions of a tablet while ensuring the accuracy of the measurement method. A tablet dimension measuring program that images the tablet using a measuring means for measuring the dimensions of a tablet, a dimension display means for displaying the dimensions of the tablet measured by the measuring means, and an imaging means for capturing an image including the dimension numerical values displayed by the dimension display means and the measurement position of the tablet, wherein the tablet dimension measuring program is characterized in that the imaging means captures a dimension information image including the measurement position and the dimension numerical values of at least one tablet and a drug information image capable of distinguishing the drug information of the tablet.
A tablet crusher 10 is provided with: a main body portion 40 equipped internally with a rotary drive source 49; a mixer unit 30 including a rotary cutter 33; and a cup-shaped tablet accommodating container 20 mounted on the mixer unit 30. The mixer unit 30 and the tablet accommodating container 20 are mounted detachably in such a way that the rotary cutter 33 of the mixer unit 30 can rotate inside the tablet accommodating container 20. The tablet crusher is provided with a safety means (50, 46) for allowing the rotary drive source 49 to drive only if the tablet accommodating container 20 is fully mounted on the mixer unit 30, and an accommodating portion of the mixer unit 30 is fully mounted on the main body portion 40.
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B02C 18/16 - Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragmentsMincing machines or similar apparatus using worms or the like with rotating knives Details
The present invention realizes a medicinal powder weighing system that contributes to reduction of burden or shortening of hours involved in manual weighing of medicinal powder while minimizing an increase in installation space and costs. With respect to a system that is provided with an information processing device 20+31, a screen display 33, a first information reader 36, a weighing device 37, and an output device 38, and that, upon selection, as a dispensing subject, of a first medicinal powder by manual weighing, causes corresponding dispensing direction information 34 to be displayed on the screen display 33 on the basis of first dispensing information 23 for the purpose of performing dispensing of medicinal powder from a first medicinal powder container (50) to a conveyance container (70) by manual weighing, a metering device 40 is additionally provided, the metering device being equipped with a second information reader 43 and metering units 44, 45. Upon selection as a dispensing subject, of a second medicinal powder that can be automatically metered, corresponding dispensing direction information 34 is caused to be displayed on the screen display 33 on the basis of second dispensing information 24 and at the same time, the metering device 40 is caused to operate in accordance with reading by the second information reader 43.
A tablet cartridge is provided in which the tablet storage space is more easily adjustable in the width direction. This tablet cassette is provided with a tablet container 20 which randomly stores tablets, and a rotor 40 which has multiple tablet storage units 67 therein. By rotating the rotor 40, the tablets that have fallen into the tablet storage units 67 are successively dropped out of a discharge port 28 in the bottom wall section of the tablet container 20. The rotor 40 has a circumferential direction expanding/contracting mechanism 11 and a radial direction expanding/contracting mechanism 90 which are externally mounted on an insertion portion, located in a tablet storage space 22, of a rotation shaft 41 passing through the bottom wall section 25 of the tablet container 20. The circumferential direction expanding/contracting mechanism 11 can link and circumferentially expand and contract multiple tablet storage units 67. The radial direction expanding/contracting mechanism 90 can radially expand and contract the tablet storage units 67 individually.
The present invention achieves a medicine packaging machine which can be installed near a wall and in which a manual medicine dispensing device and a lower medicine collection mechanism can be cleaned separately even when arranged front to back. When placing a stand part 40 in a middle stage of a housing 11, a first pull-out member 41 is interposed so that the stand part 40 can be pulled out in the forward direction from the housing 11, and when arranging a manual medicine dispensing device 30 and the lower medicine collecting mechanism 20 front to back of the stand part 40, a second pull-out member is interposed so that the lower medicine collecting mechanism 20 can advance and retreat forward and rearward from the stand part 40. When the lower medicine collecting mechanism 20 is divided into a portion 21 corresponding to the manual medicine dispensing device, a portion 22 behind the portion 21 and corresponding to a medicine storage, and a merging section 23 below the portion 21 and the portion 22, the portion 21 corresponding to the manual medicine dispensing device and the portion 22 corresponding to a medicine storage are enabled to advance and retreat rearward. Therefore, work can be done on the manual medicine dispensing device 30 and the lower medicine collecting mechanism 20 from a position in front of the housing 11, and can be done by increasing the distance between the manual medicine dispensing device 30 and the lower medicine collecting mechanism 20.
A double rotation type drug feeder having an easily cleanable, simple structure is provided. The drug feeder includes a rotatable annular first rotator 20 that has a mount surface 23 on which drugs are placed and that is rotatable about a first rotation axis, a second rotator 30 that is disposed at a fixed position on an inner side of the first rotator 20 while being rotatable about a second rotation axis, inclined with respect to the first rotation axis, the second rotator 30 transporting the drugs onto the mount surface 23, restricting members 71 and 72 that align the drugs disposed on the mount surface 23, and multiple support members 40 that support the first rotator 20 and the second rotator 30 mounted thereon from below the first rotator 20 and the second rotator 30. The multiple support members 40 include a driving member 55 that drives the first rotator 20 and the second rotator 30 to rotate.
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Provided is a drug dispensing apparatus which is capable of transferring and depositing drugs separately and which facilitates maintenance of a transfer deposit device. A transfer mechanism 13 includes a storage portion 16 that has a discharge mechanism for downwardly discharging one or more stored drugs according to an instruction, and horizontally and vertically moves the storage portion 16. A depositing mechanism 15 has a hopper moving mechanism 29 that moves a hopper mechanism 27 between a first position for receiving drugs from the storage portion 16 and a second position for discharging the discharge drugs to a delivery tray 9. The transfer mechanism 13 and the depositing mechanism 15 are supported by first and second slide mechanisms 12, 14, respectively, so as to be horizontally slidable. The first and second slide mechanisms 12, 14 enable the storage portion 16 and the depositing mechanism 15 to be pulled more horizontally forward than a tray delivery device 10 during inspection.
Provided is a tablet cassette in which a means for inhibiting a rotor from rotating when the tablet cassette is not mounted is simplified so as to suppress cost increase. A plurality of to-be-engaged parts 61 are provided continuously in the circumferential direction with predetermined intervals therebetween in an annular inner surface region of a bottom wall, the bottom wall being centered on the axis of a hollow rotation shaft 23 and being spaced apart by a predetermined distance from the rotation shaft. A sliding shaft 70 is also provided, the sliding shaft rotating together with the rotation shaft 23, and being disposed to be slidable in the axial direction inside the rotation shaft 23 so as to displace to a rotor body 22A side when the rotation shaft 23 is connected to a drive shaft 33 and so as to displace to a bottom wall 21B side when the rotation shaft 23 is not connected to the drive shaft 33. At least two engaging parts 71, which engage with some of the plurality of to-be-engaged parts 61, are provided to an arm 72 that is provided to the sliding shaft 70.
Provided is a tablet cassette in which a means for inhibiting a rotor from rotating when the tablet cassette is not mounted is simplified so as to suppress cost increase. A plurality of to-be-engaged parts 61 are provided continuously in the circumferential direction with predetermined intervals therebetween in an annular inner surface region of a bottom wall, the bottom wall being centered on the axis of a hollow rotation shaft 23 and being spaced apart by a predetermined distance from the rotation shaft. A sliding shaft 70 is also provided, the sliding shaft rotating together with the rotation shaft 23, and being disposed to be slidable in the axial direction inside the rotation shaft 23 so as to displace to a rotor body 22A side when the rotation shaft 23 is connected to a drive shaft 33 and so as to displace to a bottom wall 21B side when the rotation shaft 23 is not connected to the drive shaft 33. At least two engaging parts 71, which engage with some of the plurality of to-be-engaged parts 61, are provided to an arm 72 that is provided to the sliding shaft 70.
b. A tablet is temporarily held in the temporary holding area and when a long narrow blade insertion slit 43 in the large-diameter turntable 40 reaches the temporary holding area, a tablet cutting blade of a tablet cutting mechanism is reciprocated with respect to the temporary holding area and a blade insertion notch (62, 63) to split the tablet.
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A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
The present invention provides a medication dispensing and packaging machine that enables a wide display member to be mounted to the front end of a medication feeder storage while maintaining a drawer function of the medication feeder storage. The present invention enables an adjacent pair among medication feeder storages 13A-13H to be drawn together from a medication storage 11, and is provided with an operation display member 50 that is large and covers the front surfaces of the pair of adjacent medication feeder storages 13C and 13D. The operation display member 50 is provided with, in addition to an operation section 51 and a device operation state display section 52, a cassette group display section 54 and a cassette position display section 53 indicating correspondence of a medication cassette 15 to a mounting position. Individual cassette display sections 55 are further provided in each of which the medication stock state is displayed in a circular or dosage-form simulation pattern graph display 56.
In order to achieve a dual rotation drug feeder that has a simple structure and is easy to clean, this drug feeder 10 is provided with an annular first rotating body 20 which has a placement surface 23 for placing a drug and which can rotate about a first rotation axis, a second rotating body 30 which is provided in a set position inside that of the first rotating body 20 in a state capable of rotating about a second rotation axis inclined from the first rotation axis and which conveys a drug on the placement surface 23, regulating members 71, 72 which arrange the drug on the placement surface 23, and multiple support members 40 which, by the first rotating body 20 and the second rotating body 30 being placed thereupon, support the first rotating body 20 and the second rotating body 30 from below. The multiple support members 40 include a drive member 55 which rotationally drives the first rotating body 20 and the second rotating body 30.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
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In order to achieve a dual rotation drug feeder that has a simple structure and is easy to clean, this drug feeder 10 is provided with an annular first rotating body 20 which has a placement surface 23 for placing a drug and which can rotate about a first rotation axis, a second rotating body 30 which is provided in a set position inside that of the first rotating body 20 in a state capable of rotating about a second rotation axis inclined from the first rotation axis and which conveys a drug on the placement surface 23, regulating members 71, 72 which arrange the drug on the placement surface 23, and multiple support members 40 which, by the first rotating body 20 and the second rotating body 30 being placed thereupon, support the first rotating body 20 and the second rotating body 30 from below. The multiple support members 40 include a drive member 55 which rotationally drives the first rotating body 20 and the second rotating body 30.
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A tablet dividing device is provided which can be compactly mounted in a tablet cassette mounting area of a drug dividing and packaging machine, so has excellent practicality, etc. A rotation transmission shaft (40) is provided which passes vertically through a box body (31). By placing the box body (31) on a base unit (13) of a tablet feeder mounted in a drug dividing and packaging machine, the lower end (43) of the rotation transmission shaft (40) is linked to the base unit (13) so as to be capable of transmitting rotation and a tablet guide mechanism (60) is linked to a cut tablet piece receiving unit (15) of the base unit (13). Furthermore, through rotation of a rotor (21), the tablet cassette (20) dispenses randomly contained tablets by dropping one at a time; by placing the tablet cassette (20) on the box body (31), the upper end (41) of the rotation transmission shaft (40) is linked to the rotor (21) so as to be capable of transmitting rotation and the tablet guide mechanism (60) is linked to a tablet dispensing unit (23) of the tablet cassette (20).
A tablet splitting apparatus includes a guide, a catcher, and a splitting mechanism. The splitting mechanism comprises a pair of blades and a pair of blade shifters. The guide, the catcher, and the splitting mechanism are accommodated in a housing. The housing includes an opening and a support. The support and the guide each include a sliding portion. The guide disposed at the supporting position is slid along the sliding portion of the support so as to be detachable from the supporting position through the opening. The blades and the blade shifters each comprise a sliding portion. The blades and the blade shifters are in a slidable contact with each other at the sliding portions. The blades attached to the respective predetermined positions of the blade shifters are slid along the sliding portions of the blade shifters so as to be detachable from the blade shifters through the opening.
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Through the present invention, an alignment mechanism or the like is improved so that the spacing of successive supplying of tablets in a disk-rotation-type drug feeder and a tablet dividing device is optimized so as to be not too sparse and not too dense. A turntable is divided into an internal peripheral side (50) and an external peripheral side (40), the angular speed of a large-diameter turntable 40 is made greater than the angular speed of a small-diameter turntable 50, and a tablet transfer path 32 of a straightening guide 30 is configured so as to be helical from an internal-peripheral-side end part 32a to an external-peripheral-side end part 32b, whereby the spacing of successive supplying of tablets is optimized. Furthermore, a tablet contacting part (64) of a tablet holding mechanism is caused to advance and retreat to a temporary holding site 62 in front of the external-peripheral-side end part 32b, and when a tablet is temporarily held at the temporary holding site (62) and a narrow blade insertion gap 43 in the large-diameter turntable 40 arrives at the temporary holding site (62), a tablet cutting blade of a tablet cutting mechanism is caused to advance and retreat in the temporary holding site (62, 63) and a tablet is divided, cutting wastage produced at this time is dropped from the blade insertion gap 43 or small holes 42 and separated from the divided tablet, and the divided tablet is dropped from a discharge port 61.
A61J 3/00 - Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
The present invention realizes a tablet cassette for a tablet feeder with which the number of support members of a fall preventing member can be reduced while inheriting the endless belt characteristic of preventing a double drop of tablets, by gently pushing the tablets from an outer peripheral side toward an inner peripheral side above a discharge port. This tablet cassette for a tablet feeder is provided with a support structure (21, 23, 25) which allows a readily deformable disk-shaped rotating member 22 (fall preventing member) to rotate about a center of rotation. When the support member 21 is mounted outside a tablet container 12 with a peripheral edge portion 22a of the rotating member 22 inserted into a through-hole 12a formed in a location that is higher than a separating wall 31 of a rotor 30 and that is above a discharge port 14 in a peripheral wall portion 13a of the tablet container 12, tablets protruding upwards out of a tablet accommodating portion 15, from among tablet accommodating portions 15 ... 15, that has approached the discharge port 14 by means of the axial rotation of the rotor 30, come into contact with the rotating member 22 and are prevented from falling into the discharge port 14.
The present invention independently inhibits rotation of an axial-fitting-type rotary shaft during non-mounting to a base. A tablet cassette 40 is provided with: an oscillation fulcrum 53 for supporting an oscillating member 70 in a slit 52 formed in a bottomed hole 17a of a hollow rotary shaft 17; a locked part 60 for encircling the rotary shaft 17, the locked part 60 being provided to a bottom plate part 12 of a container lower part 13 and being separated from the hollow rotary shaft 17; an oscillating member 70 in which a passive part 71 and a locking part 72 are divided on both sides of the oscillation fulcrum 53; and an urging member 80 for causing the locking part 72 to face the locked part 60 and causing a passive end part 71 to advance into the bottomed hole. In a free state of detachment from a base 20, a locking end part 72 comes in contact with the locked part 60 and is locked, and when a drive shaft 24 is mounted to the base 20 and fitted in the bottomed hole 17a, the passive part 71 is pushed out from the bottomed hole 17a and the locking part 72 withdraws from the locked part 60.
According to the present invention, the number of writing tool switching mechanisms required is fewer than the number of holding parts of writing tools for coloring in a writing tool holding mechanism even when only one writing tool for coloring is moved back and forth. A dispensing belt line drawing device 10 has a holding mechanism 30 for holding a plurality of writing tools 60 and a switching mechanism 20 for advancing any one of the writing tools 60 to a line drawing position, and is characterized in that: the holding mechanism 30 holds the writing tools 60 such that a rotation body 33, which is provided with a plurality of holding parts 34 each supporting the writing tools 60, can undergo a rotational movement and that the writing tools 60 are movable back and forth; the rotation body 33 cyclically moves the holding parts 34 by the rotational movement in a state where the holding parts 34 are each biased toward the retraction side; and the switching mechanism 20 has rotational driving mechanisms 23-25 that are engaged with the holding mechanism 30 and that rotate the rotation body 33, and straight-advance driving mechanisms 26-28 for advancing, to the line drawing position, any of the holding parts 34 that have arrived at an engagement position 11 by the rotational movement.
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B65B 61/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for perforating, scoring, or applying code or date marks on material prior to packaging
The purpose of the present invention is to enable distribution of drugs not only in a fixed distribution pattern but also in another distribution pattern, reduce the number of transfers of the drugs in the process of dispensing the drugs and more smoothly and reliably release the drugs from compartments. Each line 44 of a multi-line conveyor 40 is provided with a drive mechanism (45 + 46) to allow the conveyors 44 to independently move in a vertical plane according to a set program and to selectively perform a line-by-line movement mode or a row-by-row movement mode. A common drug collecting mechanism for all the lines is provided to receive drugs dispensed from the lines 44 of the multi-line conveyor 40. This eliminates the need for a single-line conveyor. Compartments comprise a front divided body and a back divided body which can be divided in the direction of movement of the conveyors 44 and can be joined. The divided bodies are divided at a drug dispensing position and joined before arriving at a drug receiving position.
A tablet cassette is conveniently available for irregularly shaped or halved tablets as with regularly shaped tablets. The tablet cassette includes a fall prevention mechanism configured to prevent extra tablets from falling down into an outlet port. The fall prevention mechanism has a round belt disposed upwardly of the outlet port and at a position higher than partition portions. The fall prevention mechanism is configured to prevent extra tablets from falling such that the extra tablets locating on or above or protruding from one of the tablet receiving portions, which comes closest to the outlet port by rotation of the rotor, are pushed toward the rotor by a repulsive force generated by deformation of the round belt as caused when the extra tablets abut on the round belt.
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G07F 11/62 - Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles in which the articles are stored in compartments in fixed receptacles
The present invention achieves a tablet cartridge that can be used commonly for different tablets having somewhat different shapes. The tablet cartridge is provided with: a tablet container 40 formed with a tablet accommodating space 42, 47 for randomly accommodating tablets and a tablet discharge port 43; a first rotor 50 which has tablet accommodating units 51 for tablet passing arranged in a row in a peripheral edge part thereof and which is provided at an inner bottom part of the tablet accommodating space 42, 47; and a rotation shaft 62 for transmitting shaft rotation drive to the first rotor 50. In addition, the tablet cartridge is also provided with a second rotor 70 which has through holes 71 for tablet passing formed in a peripheral edge part thereof. The number of the through holes 71 of the second rotor 70 is set to be smaller than the number of the tablet accommodating units 51 of the first rotor 50. The tablet accommodating space 42, 47 is partitioned vertically by the second rotor 70 into a lower accommodating space 42 and an upper accommodating space 47. The shaft rotation drive is transmitted also to the second rotor 70 by the rotation shaft 62. Both of the first rotor 50 and the second rotor 70 are inclined (θ) and the discharge port 43 is aligned with a raised position of the tablet accommodating units 51 of the first rotor 50.
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Provided is a small drug feeder that includes a container that can restrict the width or height of drugs so that the feeder can handle a wide range of drugs having various different shapes or sizes and be easily adjusted so as to be adapted to individual drugs. A width restricting member that increases or decreases a width of a space over a peripheral portion is disposed so as to face a discharging mechanism that discharges drugs to the outside of a container at speed higher than that of the peripheral portion. An interval between the width restricting member and the discharging mechanism is changed in accordance with a width of a target of measurement held in a measurement chamber. The height of drugs placed on the peripheral portion is restricted by a height restricting member in accordance with the height of the target of measurement.
B65D 83/04 - Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
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The present invention realizes a measuring and dividing type powdered medicine supply device which can divide quickly and accurately into very small aliquots, by using an opening/closing type hopper, a powdered medicine which is discharged little by little from a powdered medicine cassette. An opening/closing valve 61 is set in a closed state and a first support member 71 which is subjected to weight measurement is caused to support a measuring hopper 60. Then, while a powdered medicine ejecting part 20 is being caused to discharge the powdered medicine, weight measurement is performed by a weight measuring member 74. When completion of the discharge of the powdered medicine by one aliquot is detected on the basis of the weight measurement result, the powdered medicine ejecting part 20 is caused to stop discharging the powdered medicine and a second support member 72 is caused to support the measuring hopper 60 by means of a support member switching function of a raising/lowering mechanism 73. Then, the opening/closing valve 61 is set in an open state and a beater 81 is caused to beat the measuring hopper 60. The opening/closing valve 61 and an opening/closing valve driving device 62 are detachably installed. A beating mechanism 80 is not subjected to weight measurement.
Through the present invention, a drug dispensing machine 10 is realized having a wide range of selection when supplying powdered medicine. When a plurality of powdered medicine supply devices are provided upstream from a packaging device 20, a rotary-distribution-type first powdered medicine supply device 30 and a weighing-apportionment-type second powdered medicine supply device 40 are provided in a row arrangement, and a charging hopper guide mechanism 51 is provided for directing powdered medicine from the second powdered medicine supply device 40 to a charging hopper 22 of the packaging device 20. A powdered medicine feeder guide mechanism 52 for directing powdered medicine from the second powdered medicine supply device 40 to a powdered medicine feeder 31 of the first powdered medicine supply device 30, an annular receiving member guide mechanism for directing powdered medicine from the second powdered medicine supply device 40 to a rotary annular receiving member 32 of the first powdered medicine supply device 30, and an alternative choosing means for causing only one of either of the guide mechanisms to function are also provided.
A medicine dispensing system capable of reliably managing the lot of medicines and the expiration period of medicines is provided. A dispensation data preparation section includes a lot change determination section and a data changing section. The lot change determination section determines, based on lot information, whether or not the lot of the medicines to be used may be changed while medicine dispensing apparatuses are in operation. The dispensation data preparation section is provided with an expiration period determination section to determine with reference to the unpacking date, rather than the dispensation date, whether or not medicines are effective for use. This reliably prevents medicines that were taken out of the medicine packing container from being provided to patients after a number of days have passed.
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B65B 61/26 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for marking or coding completed packages
G06Q 10/06 - Resources, workflows, human or project managementEnterprise or organisation planningEnterprise or organisation modelling
G06Q 10/08 - Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distributionInventory or stock management
Provided is an automatic drug delivery apparatus whereby delivery of a drug from a drug accommodating part to a delivery part can be reliably managed. An automatic drug delivery apparatus (1) delivers a drug (7) from a drug accommodating part (15) in which the drug (7) is accommodated to a delivery part (70), and is provided with: a storage part (31) having a storage part body (33) for storing a drug supplied from the drug accommodating part, and an opening/closing part (35) for discharging the drug stored in the storage part body to the delivery part, the opening/closing part (35) being provided to a bottom part of the storage part body so as to be able to open and close; a sensing part (37) for sensing displacement in the vertical direction, the sensing part (37) being connected to the storage part; a movement mechanism (20) for moving the storage part and the sensing part in integral fashion in the vertical direction; and a management part (81) for managing delivery of the drug to the delivery part on the basis of the displacement sensed by the sensing part.
