Patent ID: 6616010
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: G06K,G07F

Abstract:
A medicine feeder apparatus comprising a plurality of cassettes each of which contains a different kind of medicine and a base portion on which the plurality of cassettes are mounted and which discharges the medicine in accordance with the prescription, the apparatus comprising:an identification means which is provided on each cassette, the identification means showing information on the medicine contained in the cassette; a read means which is provided on the base portion, the read means reading the identification means of the cassette during the cassette is mounted on the base portion; and a rock means which is provided on the base portion, the rock means preventing the cassette from being mounted, whereby if the information of the medicine read from the identification by the read means does not coincide with a previously stored information, the rock means is operated, while if coincide, the rock means is released.