Patent ID: 8757346

Claim:
A medicine filling device comprising: a vial container moving from the upward direction to downward direction in the device; a vial container passage having a taper in the direction of the passage width from a region in the upper side to a region in the lower side; a receiving portion receiving the vial container; a receiving passage formed in the lower direction of the receiving portion, where the vial container passes from the receiving portion; a supply portion formed at the lower side of the receiving passage, which discharges the vial container from the receiving passage to a subsequent process; a port formed in the supply portion by facing in the downward direction for supplying the vial container, wherein the width of the vial container passage is greater than a width of the port, and a tapering ratio of the receiving passage is smaller than a tapering ratio of the receiving portion; and a pair of passage structures facing the opposite direction of each other, wherein: the vial container passage is formed between the pair of passage structures, the pair of passage structures have the receiving portions, the receiving passages have different inclinations from the receiving portion, and the supply portions have different inclinations from the receiving passage.