Patent ID: 8295977
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A medicine recovery method for a medicine dispensing device, the medicine dispensing device including: a plurality of container mounting portions, each including a display portion and having a medicine receiving container mounted thereto; means for filling a dispensing container with a medicine from the medicine receiving container to the dispensing container in an amount corresponding to contents of a prescription; and means for storing dispensing history information including prescription identification information corresponding to the medicine transferred from the medicine receiving containers to the dispensing container, the medicine recovery method recovering the medicine received in the dispensing container and returning the medicine to the medicine receiving container, the medicine recovery method comprising: reading medicine specifying information from medicine prescription information recorded on the dispensing container; specifying the container mounting portion to which the medicine receiving container for receiving the medicine received in the dispensing container is mounted based on the medicine specifying information and the dispensing history information; bringing the display portion provided in the specified container mounting portion into a notification display state; and recovering the medicine received in the dispensing container to the medicine receiving container mounted to the specified container mounting portion.