Medicine cart

• US 20090045152A1
• Filed: 10/07/2005
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yuyama Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yuyama Manufacturing Company Limited
• Inventors: Tomonaga, Masaaki, Yuyama, Shoji
• Granted Patent: US 8,069,993 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 211/74
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2031/006 Medication carts
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 12/001 Trolleys for transport of medicaments, food, linen, nursing supplies carts specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis A61B50/13; hand carts B62B3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/42 the articles being delivered by motor-driven means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0092 for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00

Abstract

A medicine cart (1) having excellent workability in filling and returning a medicine, comprising an upwardly opening cassette (10) storing a plurality of medicines (15a, 15b, 15c) arranged in a row in an upright state and a pressing member (47) pressing the rearmost medicine (15c) in the cassette (10) forward. An insert guide part (51) is formed at the pressing side end part of the pressing member (47) so that the medicine (15) can be inserted between the pressing member (47) and the rearmost medicine (15c).

Claims

1. A medicine cart comprising:

a cassette that stores a plurality of medicines arranged in a row in an upright state and that opens upward; and

a pressing member that presses forward a rearmost medicine in the cassette, wherein, at a pressing side end part of the pressing member, an insert guide part is provided so that the medicine can be inserted between the pressing member and the rearmost medicine.

4. The medicine cart according to any of claims 1 to 3,

wherein, in the cassette, a coming-out preventing member is provided which covers an upper portion of a head part or shoulder part of the medicine at a second position from a forefront.

2. The medicine cart according to clam 1,

wherein the insert guide part has a surface formed in a shape of a circular arc as viewed from a direction in which the medicine is inserted, the circular arc shaped surface having a radius of curvature that is larger than a radius of the medicine.

3. The medicine cart according to clam 1 or 2

wherein the insert guide part is formed by notching the pressing member.