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Timestamp: 2013-05-19 17:30:33
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Patent US6349999 - Medicine supply apparatus - Google PatenteSuche Bilder Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive Mehr » Erweiterte Patentsuche | Webprotokoll | Anmelden Erweiterte Patentsuche PatenteA medicine supply apparatus which improves the storage efficiency of a tablet case to a case storage part and further improves the refilling operation property of the tablet case with medicine. In the medicine supply apparatus, a plurality of types of tablet cases different in medicine containing capacity...http://www.google.de/patents/US6349999?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6349999 - Medicine supply apparatus Ver�ffentlichungsnummerUS6349999 B1PublikationstypErteilung Anmeldenummer09/555,077 Ver�ffentlichungsdatum26. Febr. 2002Eingetragen21. Sept. 1999 Priorit�tsdatum29. Sept. 1998Auch ver�ffentlicht unterWO2000018647A1 ErfinderHideyuki TakahashiToshihiko OtaUrspr�nglich Bevollm�chtigterSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. US-Klassifikation312/209312/292312/321.5Internationale KlassifikationA61J7/00G07F11/42B65B1/30 UnternehmensklassifikationG07F17/0092G07F11/42A61J7/0084 Europ�ische KlassifikationG07F 17/00PG07F 11/42A61J 7/00F1ReferenzenPatentzitate (6) Referenziert von (7)Externe LinksUSPTO USPTO-Zuordnung EspacenetMedicine supply apparatusUS 6349999 B1 Zusammenfassung A medicine supply apparatus which improves the storage efficiency of a tablet case to a case storage part and further improves the refilling operation property of the tablet case with medicine. In the medicine supply apparatus, a plurality of types of tablet cases different in medicine containing capacity and a plurality of types of tablet case storage parts are provided, a plurality of tablet cases of any one type out of the plurality of types of tablet cases can be stored in the tablet case storage part, the plurality of types of tablet case storage parts substantially have the same size, and at least two or more of the plurality of types of tablet case storage parts are combined and formed.
a plurality of types of tablet cases different in medicine containing capacity; a plurality of types of tablet case storage parts, each part being able to store a plurality of tablet cases of any one type out of said plurality of types of tablet cases, wherein said plurality of types of tablet case storage parts are the same in size, and at least two or more of the plurality of types of tablet case storage parts are combined and formed; and a packing machine below said plurality of types of tablet case storage parts with a discharge path for the medicine from each of said storage parts to said packing machine. 2. A medicine supply apparatus comprising:
at least two types of large-capacity and small-capacity tablet cases for containing medicine; an inner side case storage part for storing a plurality of tablet cases; a front side case storage part, movably disposed on the front side of the inner side case storage part, for containing the plurality of tablet cases, said front side case storage part storing a plurality of only said large-capacity tablet cases; and a packing machine below said storage parts with a discharge path for the medicine from the storage parts including a path when said movable front side case storage part faces said inner side case storage part. 3. The medicine supply apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said inner side case storage part stores a plurality of tablet cases of only one type out of said small-capacity tablet case and the large-capacity tablet case.
TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a medicine supply apparatus which supplies medicine contained in a tablet case to a container (phial, bag), and the like by the quantity designated by a prescription in a hospital, and the like.
Moreover, in recent years, there has been a demand for enhancement of space efficiency even in hospitals or pharmacies, and it is urgently necessary to enlarge the capacity without enlarging the installation space of the medicine supply apparatus. On the other hand, the above-described publication is designed so that a supplementary stand can additionally be installed.
However, since the increase of storage amount is limited even in such constitution, it has been demanded to efficiently store tablet cases in a case storage part for storing the tablet cases.
Moreover, in order to increase the number of stored tablet cases, a plurality of case storage parts for storing the tablet cases are vertically extended, and constituted back and forth. In this case, the front side case storage part is set to be movable so that the tablet case can be stored/delivered into/from the inner side case storage part, but the front side case storage part has to be moved every time the tablet case of the inner side case storage part is refilled with the medicine. Therefore, in a situation in which the inner side case storage part is frequently refilled with the medicine, there is a problem that the operation remarkably becomes intricate.
The present invention has been developed to solve such conventional technical problem, and provides a medicine supply apparatus which improves the storage efficiency of tablet cases to a case storage part and further improves the refilling operation property of the tablet case with the medicine.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The medicine supply apparatus of the present invention comprises a plurality of types of tablet cases different in medicine containing capacity and a plurality of types of tablet case storage parts, a plurality of tablet cases of any one type out of the plurality of types of tablet cases can be stored in the tablet case storage part, the plurality of types of tablet case storage parts substantially have the same size, and at least two or more of the plurality of types of tablet case storage parts are combined and formed.
Moreover, the medicine supply apparatus of the present invention comprises at least two types of large-capacity and small-capacity tablet cases for containing medicine, an inner side case storage part for storing a plurality of tablet cases, and a front side case storage part, movably disposed on the front side of the inner side case storage part, for containing the plurality of tablet cases, and the front side case storage part stores a plurality of only the large-capacity tablet cases.
Furthermore, in the above-described medicine supply apparatus of the present invention, the inner side case storage part contains a plurality of tablet cases of only one type out of small-capacity tablet case and large-capacity tablet case.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the medicine supply apparatus of the present invention when one door unit is open,
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described hereinafter in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a medicine supply apparatus 1 of the present invention when one door unit 2 is open, FIG. 2 is a partially perspective side view of the medicine supply apparatus 1 when the other door unit 2 is open, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the internal structure of the medicine supply apparatus 1 of the present invention, FIG. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal side view of the medicine supply apparatus 1 showing a shelf part 26, FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a tablet case 3, and FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of the tablet case 3 with a large capacity (L).
A large-capacity (L) tablet case 3 for containing medicine with a relatively high use frequency, and a small-capacity (S) tablet case 4 for containing medicine with a relatively low use frequency are prepared as the tablet case, the capacity of the tablet case 3 is set to 500 cc in the embodiment, and the capacity of the tablet case 4 is set to 250 cc. Moreover, since the structure of the tablet case 3 is different from that of the tablet case 4 only in the vertical dimension of a container 51 described later (the tablet case 4 is small), the tablet case 3 will be described hereinafter.
Moreover, by disposing the motor 61, and the like on the side of the tablet case 3, the shelf 26 of the main body side case storage part 8 can be thinned, so that the simplification of the structure on the case storage part side and the increase of the number of the tablet cases 3 (or 4) to be stored are realized. Furthermore, since the container 51 and drive table 52 are constituted as separate bodies, and attachable/detachable to each other, in case of the failure of the drive table 52, the maintenance property is improved, and the cost during the exchange can be reduced.
Next, FIGS. 9 and 10 show the total capacity when the tablet cases 3, 4 are stored in the respective case storage parts 8, 33, 33, 41. Additionally, since the main body side case storage part 8 and extension side case storage part 41 substantially have the same size, and two door side case storage parts 33 are substantially the same in size as these case storage parts 8, 41, two door side case storage parts 33 form one case storage part in the present invention. Moreover, the door side case storage parts 33 can store 70 tablet cases 3 (laterally 10 cases at maximum, vertically 8 cases at maximum; FIG. 7), and 90 tablet cases 4 (laterally 10 cases at maximum, vertically 10 cases at maximum; see FIG. 8) substantially without any gap, and the main body side case storage part 8 and the extension side case storage part 41 can store 140 tablet cases 3 (70�2), and 180 tablet cases 4 (90�2) substantially without any gap, respectively. Additionally, FIG. 8 shows the left half of the main body side case storage part 8, and corresponds to one door side case storage part 33.
Therefore, it is preferable in view of the capacity efficiency to store either one of the tablet case 3 or the tablet case 4 in one case storage part.
Additionally, the controller 76 may instruct the display circuit 83 to perform this display. Thereby, since the operator grasps the decrease of the residual amount before the medicines are used up, and can perform the refilling while supplying other medicines, as compared with the system in which the dispensing operation is stopped after using up the medicines to perform the refilling, the operation efficiency is remarkably enhanced.
POSSIBILITY OF INDUSTRIAL UTILIZATION As described above in detail, according to the present invention, there are provided a plurality of types of tablet cases different in medicine containing capacity and a plurality of types of tablet case storage parts in which a plurality of tablet cases of any one type out of the plurality of types of tablet cases can be stored, the plurality of types of tablet case storage parts substantially have the same size, and at least two or more of the plurality of types of tablet case storage parts are combined and formed. Therefore, the plurality of types of tablet cases different in containing capacity are properly used in accordance with the medicine use situation, and the respective tablet cases can efficiently be stored in the respective case storage parts so that the capacity efficiency can be improved.
Moreover, according to the present invention, in the medicine supply apparatus comprising at least two types of large-capacity and small-capacity tablet cases for containing medicine, an inner side case storage part for storing a plurality of tablet cases and a front side case storage part, movably disposed on the front side of the inner side case storage part, for storing the plurality of tablet cases, the front side case storage part stores a plurality of only the large-capacity tablet cases. Therefore, the large-capacity tablet case for containing the medicine with a large use amount is stored in the front side case storage part in which the refilling operation is facilitated, and the medicine refilling operability is remarkably enhanced.
Furthermore, according to the present invention, in addition to the above-described characteristic, since the inner side case storage part stores a plurality of tablet cases of only one type out of small-capacity tablet case and large-capacity tablet case, as compared with the case in which the large-capacity tablet case and small-capacity tablet case different in dimension from each other are stored in a mixed manner, the ineffective capacity generated in the case storage part is reduced, and as a result the medicine containing ability can be enhanced.
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