Patent ID: 8541024

Claim:
A film-coated scored tablet comprising a tablet being coated with a film coating on a plain tablet having score lines, wherein the scored tablet has an upper surface and a lower surface whose peripheral shape is an oval shape, and a peripheral side surface, the upper surface and the lower surface are gradually elevated from the peripheral edge toward the center thereof, and a V-shaped groove as the score line is provided on each of the upper surface and the lower surface along the minor axis of the oval shape; an inner angle of the V shape of the V-shaped groove is from 50° to 90°; a path of the bottom of the V-shaped groove is elevated more on the center side than on the peripheral edge sides of each of the upper surface and the lower surface; a ratio of a depth d of the V-shaped groove in the center of each of the upper surface and the lower surface to a height h of the elevation of the surface (d/h) is from 0.4 to 0.9; and a ratio of a value obtained by doubling the depth d of the V-shaped groove (2d) in the center of each of the upper surface and the lower surface to a total thickness t of the scored tablet (2d/t) is from 0.2 to 0.4.