Patent ID: 8281553

Claim:
An automated medicine storage and medicine introduction/discharge management system comprising: a main body in which a plurality of receiving shelves is arranged, the main body having a door to enable user access; a medicine introduction/discharge unit installed in one side region of the main body to introduce or discharge a medicine product into or out of the main body; a robot transfer unit installed in the main body to transfer the medicine product, introduced via the medicine introduction/discharge unit, to each receiving shelf of the main body, or to discharge the medicine product received in the receiving shelf; a control unit to control operations of the main body, the medicine introduction/discharge unit, and the robot transfer unit; wherein the robot transfer unit includes: main guide rails installed at inner ceiling and bottom surfaces of the main body respectively; a vertical post inserted into the main guide rails to perform a horizontal sliding motion; and a robot arm installed to the vertical post so as to move to each receiving shelf within the main body via vertical and horizontal movements and rotation thereof; and wherein the robot arm includes: a grip device having a pair of parallel grippers to be moved together in a front and rear (X-axis) direction, a distance (Y-axis width) between facing inner surfaces of which is adjustable to grip the medicine product; a bottom transfer device having a conveyor belt to transfer the medicine product released from the grippers and other medicine products in the front and rear (X-axis) direction; and a rotating device installed beneath the bottom transfer device to rotate the bottom transfer device.