Patent ID: 7950202

Claim:
A medicine packing device, comprising: a tablet receiving part including a plurality of tablet receiving measures defined in a plurality of rows in forward and backward directions and in a plurality of columns in a transverse direction, each of the tablet receiving measures receiving tablets for one pack; a tablet dispensing part for removing tablets from a lower opening of the tablet receiving measure and dispensing the removed tablets one pack at a time; and a packing part for packing the tablets dispensed by the tablet dispensing part one pack at a time, wherein the tablet dispensing part comprises: an opening and closing mechanism disposed below the tablet receiving part to open and close the lower opening of the tablet receiving measure; a tablet dispensing member disposed below the opening and closing mechanism and including a plurality of tablet dispensing measures defined in a plurality of rows and in a plurality of columns to correspond to the tablet receiving measures, each of the dispensing measures receiving the tablets dropped from the lower opening of the tablet receiving measure opened by the opening and closing mechanism, the tablet dispensing member being movable in a column direction of the tablet dispensing measures; bottom plates provided at a lower opening of each of the tablet dispensing measures, the bottom plate including: a shaft part rotatably connected to the tablet dispensing member at a base end thereof, a leading end thereof being a free end; and an opening recess located on a lower surface near the rotating shaft from a halfway point between the rotating shaft and the free end, the bottom plate being pivotable about the shaft part between a closed position where the bottom place closes the lower opening of the tablet dispensing measure to hold the tablets in the tablet dispensing measure and an open position where the tablets are dropped to the packing part by opening the lower opening of the tablet dispensing measure; a fixed plate disposed below the tablet dispensing member, the fixed plate including: stepped portions at one leading end in the column direction of the medicine dispensing measures; and an opening protrusion disengagably fitted to the opening recess of the bottom plate, each of the stepped portions supporting the lower surface of the bottom plate to maintain the bottom plate in the closed position; and a drive device for moving the tablet dispensing member in the column direction of the tablet dispensing measure, wherein when the tablet dispensing measure reaches the corresponding stepped portion by a movement of the tablet dispensing member caused by the drive device, the opening protrusion of the fixed plate is fitted to the opening recess of the bottom plate and thus bottom plate pivots about the shaft part from the closed position to the open position.