Patent ID: 8083078

Claim:
A vibration-assisted ejection cassette for aligning PTP-packaged or equivalently packaged drugs for storage and sequentially ejecting the drugs, comprising: outer plates which bound at least the sides of a drug accommodating space, a top of the space being open so as to facilitate replenishment of a drug and a front of the space being open so as to facilitate ejection of a drug; a top frame provided above the front of the space which prevents a drug at a head of a queue of drugs accommodated in the space from falling forward by interfering with a top end of the drug; an inner plate which is movably inserted to rest on an interior bottom of the drug accommodating space so as to be vibratably supported, a front end portion of a top face of the inner plate being formed as an ascending slope and a remaining portion of the inner plate being formed as a descending slope; and a vibrating member which vibrates the inner plate, wherein the front of the space has an opening for ejecting the drug at the head of the queue prevented from advancing by interference with the top frame by the top end of the drug and the open front is located substantially at an original position when the inner plate is vibrated.