Patent ID: 8827112
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: A61J,B65B,B65D,B65G,G07F

Abstract:
1. A medicine feeding device, comprising: a first rotor that is configured to rotate around a first axis; a second rotor in annular shape that is configured to rotate around a second axis extending in a direction different from that of the first axis; a partition wall extending from an inner circumference of the second rotor toward an outer circumference of the first rotor, wherein a medicine fed to the first rotor is transferred by rotation of the first rotor to a transfer part of the second rotor, and transferred medicine is transported to a downstream side in a rotating direction by rotation of the second rotor; a medicine discharging port provided outside in a radial direction of the second rotor; a medicine guiding section that is configured to guide a medicine on the second rotor to the medicine discharging port, the medicine guiding section comprising: a height regulator provided between the transfer part of the second rotor and the medicine discharging port and positioned so as to have a gap that is roughly same as a height of a medicine from an upper surface of the second rotor, and a width regulator provided between the medicine guiding section of the second rotor and the height regulator, and disposed outside in a radial direction of the second rotor from an inner circumference of the second rotor with a predetermined gap, and is configured to regulate a transport width of a medicine in a space between an inner circumference of this second rotor and the width regulator, wherein a transport width of the second rotor is adjustable by the width regulator, wherein the width regulator and an outer guide of the medicine guiding section are integrally provided for allowing a transport width of the second rotor and a space between each of guides of the medicine guiding section to be simultaneously adjustable, and wherein: a regulated height between the height regulator and the second rotor is adjustable, a first medicine detector to detect a medicine passing through the height regulator and a second medicine detector to detect a medicine passing through the medicine guiding section are provided, and the medicine feeding device has a configuration that the height regulator is gradually raised; the height regulator is stopped when a passage of a medicine is detected by the first medicine detector; an outer guide of the medicine guiding section and the width regulator are gradually moved in a radially outward direction of the second rotor; and an outer guide of the medicine guiding section and the width regulator are stopped when a passage of a medicine is detected by the second medicine detector.