Patent ID: 8219243

Claim:
An automated store arrangement for storing and dispensing medicaments, having: a plurality of storage areas that each can receive a number of medicament packs and/or cartridges, wherein at least one storage area can receive a number of medicament packs and at least one storage area can receive cartridges, the cartridges each being able to contain a multiplicity of medicament portions and having an integrated discharge device for discharging individual medicament portions, at least one operating device for storing and retrieving medicament packs and cartridges on and from the storage areas, a dispensing device for producing medicament packs that each contain a number of medicament portions, the dispensing device having at least one cartridge receptacle, to which the operating device can in each case feed a cartridge and from which the operating device can remove the cartridge, a release device, which can activate the discharge device of the cartridge contained in a cartridge receptacle in such a way that medicament portions emerge in a predetermined number, and a packing device, which can in each case receive a number of emerging medicament portions and pack them in the medicament pack to be produced, and a control device which is coupled to the operating device and to the release device and the packing device and controls them in such a way that medicament portions of at least one predetermined kind are packed in a respectively predetermined number and sequence in the medicament pack to be produced.