Patent ID: 6115990
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A method for the automatic filling of pharmaceutical multichamber packages for clinical studies, the multichamber packages having a plurality of individual chambers arranged in one plane, which method comprises:conveying the products to be packaged from a storage container into a mobile feed duct having a free end;guiding the free end of the feed duct to an individual chamber of the package with a robot arm capable of moving parallel to the plane of the individual chambers;introducing the product to be packaged into the individual chamber with the control of the preceding steps being executed by a computer, with the robot arm having one or more free programmable axes of movement so that the products to be packaged may be conveyed and introduced in the plane to the predetermined individual chamber by a freely selectable program stored in the computer; andcomparing the received filling with the programmed standard by an electronic image processing unit.