Patent ID: 8739499

Claim:
A medicine dispensing device comprising: a medicine dispensing means configured to dispense a medicine according to a prescription; a medicine preparing means configured to receive a medicine, which is dispensed from the medicine dispensing means and then drops, and to dispense the same at a predetermined time; a packing means configured to pack a medicine dispensed from the medicine preparing means into a packing paper sheet; a packing paper sheet feeding means configured to feed a packing paper sheet to the packing means; and a printing means configured to print a predetermined information on a packing paper sheet fed from the packing paper sheet feeding means to the packing means, the printing means being disposed upstream of the packing means in a flow direction of the packing paper sheet fed by the packing paper sheet feeding means, wherein a length of a path, through which a packing paper sheet passes between the printing means and the packing means, is n times of a length of a packing paper sheet necessary for packing a medicine for one pack, wherein the medicine preparing means includes a plurality of sections configured to gather the medicine for one pack dispensed from the medicine dispensing means respectively and is configured to dispense the medicines gathered in the plurality of sections in a predetermined order, and wherein the printing means prints an information corresponding to a section A of the plurality of sections on the packing paper sheet at a time earlier by a time period necessary for dispensing a medicine for a section n from the medicine preparing means than a time for dispensing a medicine gathered in the section A.