Patent ID: 9073692
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: A61J,A61M,B65G,G07F

Abstract:
1. A medicine issuing device, comprising: a cassette in which are loaded a plurality of tubular medicine containers provided with identifying marks on the outer peripheral face of the tubular medicine containers; an operation component configured to take the medicine containers out of the cassette; a movement path component configured to move the medicine containers taken out by the operation component to a specific identification position; a container rotation component configured to rotate the medicine containers around the outer peripheral face until the reading of the identifying marks on the medicine containers is complete at the identification position; and an identifying mark reader configured to read the identifying marks on the medicine containers rotated by the container rotation component; wherein the movement path component has a downward slope that causes the tubular medicine containers to roll under their own weight; and wherein the container rotation component has: