Patent ID: 6766920
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
A medicine feed unit equipped with a medicine housing container for housing a plurality of medicine sticks each prepared by packaging a medicine in a cylindrical bag sealed at both end portions, and a medicine feeding section to which the medicine housing container is removably attached and which feeds the medicine sticks one by one, whereinthe medicine feeding section comprises: conveyance means having a passage which allows the medicine stick to be conveyed only in a longitudinal direction thereof; a medicine feeding container having an inclined surface acting to move the medicine stick conveyed by the conveyance means in a diagonally downward direction which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the medicine stick; and a rotor which is disposed in the medicine feeding container so as to be drivable into rotation, and which conveys the medicine stick moved along the inclined surface while holding the medicine stick in a holding depressed portion formed in an outer periphery thereof.