Patent ID: 6364517
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
A drug dispenser comprising:a plurality of feeders each storing one kind of drug therein, wherein said plurality of feeders are capable of dispensing drugs according to prescriptions; a display device; and a control means comprising: a detector means for detecting a current stock number for each of said plurality of feeders, wherein the current stock number is a number of drugs remaining in a respective one of said plurality of feeders; a memory means for storing a predetermined minimum number of drugs for each of said plurality of feeders; a means for displaying on said display device, separately for particular feeders of said plurality of feeders in which the current stock number is smaller than the respective predetermined minimum number of drugs, identification numbers or codes of said particular feeders, the current stock numbers, the predetermined minimum numbers of drugs, and names or codes of drugs to be supplied into said particular feeders, and identification numbers or codes of shelves in which the drugs to be supplied into said particular feeders are stored; and a means for renewing the current stock number for each of said plurality of feeders supplied with drugs by adding a number inputted as a number of drugs supplied into a particular one of said plurality of feeders to the current stock number of the particular one of said plurality of feeders.