Patent ID: 7637079

Claim:
An arrangement for filling packaging units with a plurality of medicaments, that correspond to the weekly requirements of a plurality of different patients who take these medicaments in an ordered sequence according to date and time of day corresponding to a patient-related medical prescription, in which the packaging units have receiving compartments for medicament administration units arranged in a matrix configuration of lines and columns, which medicaments are prescribed to each be taken within time spans of the respective patient identified by the arrangement of the compartments within the matrix, the arrangement including; a) a plurality of delivery stations individually associated with the packaging units at which a line-by-line filling of all or only a proportion of selected compartments automatically takes place; b) a longitudinal transporting device to transport the packaging units in a predetermined direction sequentially to the delivery station of the plurality of delivery stations associated individually with the various medicaments; c) transverse conveying devices individually associated with the medicaments to effect the feed of the medicament administration units to the delivery stations; d) a matching of the longitudinal transporting device and the transverse conveying devices to one another as regards transporting stroke and conveying capacity so that a sequential line-by-line filling of the receiving compartments can be achieved per transporting stroke of the packaging units in the column direction of the receiving compartment arrangement, and per conveying stroke of the transverse conveying devices in the line direction of the receiving compartment arrangement, the said filling taking place in each case in synchronized stoppage phases of the longitudinal transporting and transverse conveying cycles; and e) an electronic to control the delivery stations within the context of the medical prescription-oriented filling of the packaging units with medicaments, the electronic control unit structured to generate control signals from input information signals that contain information about the patients and about the contents of the packaging units which signals are continuously passed to the control unit in a sequence unambiguously associated with the patient and synchronized with the forward feed movements of the packaging units, wherein the administration units are delivered to the respective delivery stations by means of blister strips unwound from a storage roll.