Patent ID: 7686184
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A medicine dispensing device comprising a device body having a front face, and a medicine conveyance member that conveys medicines arranged in a plurality of lines in the device body one by one, wherein the medicine conveyance member includes a medicine holding member movable in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction; the medicine holding member including a support member, a frontward-rearward moving member that is supported by the support member and that reciprocatingly moves in a frontward-rearward direction normal to the front face of the device body, a clamping member including a pair of clamp pieces that are supported by the frontward-rearward moving member to pivot between a vertical position and a horizontal position and that are capable of clamping one of said medicines; a first spacing defined in the device body on a front side of medicines aligned and disposed within the device body, the clamping member being movable within the first spacing when the clamping member is in the vertical position; and a second spacing defined in the device body below the medicines disposed within the device body, the clamping member being rotatable between the horizontal position and the vertical position within the second spacing.