Patent ID: 8185236
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A medicine discharge device of an automatic medicine packing machine, which is used to discharge a medicine, fed from a medicine cassette based on a medical prescription, into a medicine packing device, the medicine discharge device comprising: a medicine input unit installed under a medicine cassette mount, the medicine input unit being adapted to receive the medicine fed from the medicine cassette based on the medical prescription under control of a control unit and to discharge the medicine downward; a frame provided with a gate unit, the gate unit including a pair of gate members adapted to be opened or closed by a drive unit so as to control movement of the medicine discharged from the medicine input unit; a plate installed under the frame and having an accommodation portion to receive the medicine in a space surrounded by the frame and the pair of gate members and a recess to allow the medicine having passed through the gate members to be moved to a discharge passage; a vibrator to vibrate the plate; and a medicine transfer unit to discharge the medicine, having passed through the recess, into a hopper, so as to discharge the medicine into the medicine packing device.