MEDICINE FEEDING DEVICE

• US 20100269451A1
• Filed: 07/01/2010
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Inamura, Atsuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,689,524 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 53/131.400
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 5/103 for packaging pills or tablets
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 9/06 Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/62 in which the articles are stored in compartments in fixed receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0092 for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00

Abstract

There is provided a medicine feeding device which can apply uniform tension to wrapping paper wound in a roll state to wrap a medicine. The medicine feeding device comprises a tablet case which stores a medicine, and the wrapping paper wound in the roll state, wraps a medicine discharged from the tablet case in wrapping paper 72, and comprises a tension application mechanism 113 which applies predetermined tension to the continuously pulled-out wrapping paper. This tension application mechanism is constituted to freely move up-and-down, and to apply tension to the pulled-out wrapping paper by its own weight.

Claims

1. A medicine feeding device which comprises a tablet case for storing a medicine, wrapping paper wound in a roll state and a printer for printing on the wrapping paper by thermal transfer using an ink ribbon and which wraps the medicine discharged from the tablet case in the wrapping paper, the medicine feeding device comprising:

an ink ribbon mounting fixture which has a feeding side shaft and a winding side shaft arranged in a fixture main body in a positional relation corresponding to an ink ribbon feeding side bobbin and an ink ribbon winding side bobbin of the printer in a state of being opposite the printer, the feeding side of the ink ribbon being detachably attached to the feeding side shaft, the winding side of the ink ribbon being detachably attached to the winding side shaft.

2. The medicine feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the fixture main body is provided with a guide shaft on which the ink ribbon is hooked in a state where the feeding side of the ink ribbon is attached to the feeding side shaft and the winding side of the ink ribbon is attached to the winding side shaft.

3. The medicine feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the feeding side shaft and the winding side shaft are held by the fixture main body so as to be movable in a direction exiting from the feeding side and the winding side of the ink ribbon in a state of abutting on the ink ribbon feeding side bobbin and the ink ribbon winding side bobbin.

4. The medicine feeding device according to claim 2, wherein the feeding side shaft and the winding side shaft are held by the fixture main body so as to be movable in a direction exiting from the feeding side and the winding side of the ink ribbon in a state of abutting on the ink ribbon feeding side bobbin and the ink ribbon winding side bobbin.