Patent ID: 9038816
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: A61J,B65B,B65G

Abstract:
1. A medicine counting device comprising: a rotary container broadening radially in an upward direction and configured to rotate around an axis of the rotary container by a drive means, wherein a plurality of medicines are configured to be fed into a central portion of the rotary container; a guide member fixed with a predetermined gap on a top surface side of the rotary container, spirally extending from the central portion of the rotary container towards an outer circumference thereof, and configured to guide a medicine moved by a rotation of the rotary container from the central portion of the rotary container towards the outer circumference of the rotary container; a detector provided outside of the rotary container; and a regulator configured to feed a medicine having been moved to the outer circumference and being in contact with the guide member towards the detector, and to return a medicine having been moved to the outer circumference and not being in contact with the guide member to the central portion side of the rotary container by overpassing the guide member.