Patent ID: 9439834
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: A61J

Claim Text:
1. A medicine distributing system for automating manual medicine dispensation comprising: an input portion configured to allow input of individual medicine distribution information for an individual medicine distributing device provided at a medicine dispensing apparatus; a cassette placement portion for placement of a spare individual distributing cassette including a plurality of cells each having an opened top and an openable bottom wall to contain one or more medicines; a medicine container placement portion for placement of a medicine container containing a plurality of the medicines; a medicine transporting device configured to perform a transporting operation in which a medicine designated according to the individual medicine distribution information is taken out of the medicine container placed in the medicine container placement portion to put the medicine, which has been taken out, through the opened top into the cell of the spare individual distributing cassette placed in the cassette placement portion; a distribution control device configured to control the operation of the medicine transporting device based on the individual medicine distribution information; a carrier placement portion for placement of a medicine container carrier housing a plurality of medicine containers containing the medicines; and a medicine container transporting device configured to take out one of the plurality of medicine containers from the medicine container carrier placed in the carrier placement portion, wherein: the medicine transporting device comprises: the medicine distributing system further comprises: