MEDICINE DISPENSING SYSTEM AND MEDICINE DISPENSING DEVICE

• US 20120124938A1
• Filed: 02/01/2012
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yuyama Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yuyama Manufacturing Company Limited
• Inventors: Yasunaga, Itsuo, Asaoka, Chisei, Oike, Norifumi, Kaminishi, Kensuke, Kasuya, Masahiko, Takeda, Nakaji, Tsuda, Hiromichi, Taira, Shinya, Sugimoto, Tomohiro, Toyota, Naomichi, Morita, Yasumuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,387,343 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 53/52
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0069 Trays for holding or distributing medicines display trays A47F3/14; serving trays A47G23/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0084 for multiple medicaments
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 5/103 for packaging pills or tablets
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 61/025 for applying, e.g. printing, code or date marks on material prior to packaging
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/165 using xyz-picker or multi-dimensional article picking arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/1657 the picking arrangements using suction
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/54 about vertical axes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0092 for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

There is provided a medicine dispensing system configured such that a medicine dispensing device includes a sub unit having a function to dispense medicine that is connected to a medicine dispensing device that includes a main unit having a function of packing medicines. There is also provided a medicine dispensing device that can be appropriately integrated with such a medicine dispensing system. The medicine dispensing system includes, in some embodiments a main unit, a sub unit and a transfer device connecting the main unit and the sub unit. The medicine dispensing system transfers the medicine dispensed in the sub unit to the main unit by means of a transfer device and dispenses the medicine at a medicine packing part together with the medicine dispensed from a main storage part in the main unit.

Claims

1. A medicine dispensing device comprising:

a storage part configured to store and dispense a medicine; and

a packing means configured to pack the medicine dispensed from the storage part into a packing paper sheet,

wherein the packing means includes

a packing part configured to pack the medicine; and

a packing paper sheet conveying part configured to convey a packing paper sheet into which the medicine is packed by the packing part,

wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part is configured to convey the packing paper sheet along a predetermined conveyance path through contact with the packing paper sheet and includes a detecting means configured to operate through contact with the packing paper sheet passing through the conveyance path, and

wherein it is detected upon a condition of not operating of the detecting means during operation of the packing paper sheet conveying part whether paper transfer abnormality in the packing paper sheet occurs.

2. The medicine dispensing device of claim 1, wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part includes:

a receiving portion receiving and transferring the serial packing paper sheet formed by packing the medicine in the packing part;

a conveying portion upwardly conveying the packing paper sheet transferred from the receiving part; and

a bent portion connected to a distal end portion of the conveying portion,

wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part has a serial conveying path of the packing paper sheet from the receiving portion through the conveying portion to the bent portion, and

wherein the medicine packed in the packing means is allowed to be removed at a desired position by bending the bent portion.

3. The medicine dispensing device of claim 1, wherein the detecting means is situated upstream in a conveyance direction of the packing paper sheet in the packing paper sheet conveying part.

4. The medicine dispensing device of claim 2, wherein the detecting means is provided in the conveying portion.

5. The medicine dispensing device of claim 1, wherein the detecting means includes:

a roller rotatable through contact with the packing paper sheet passing through the conveyance path; and

a rotation detecting means configured to detect a rotation of the roller.

6. The medicine dispensing device of claim 5, wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part includes:

a receiving portion receiving and transferring the serial packing paper sheet formed by packing the medicine in the packing part;

a conveying portion upwardly conveying the packing paper sheet transferred from the receiving part; and

a bent portion connected to a distal end portion of the conveying portion,

wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part has a serial conveying path of the packing paper sheet from the receiving portion through the conveying portion to the bent portion, and

wherein the medicine packed in the packing means is allowed to be removed at a desired position by bending the bent portion.

7. The medicine dispensing device of claim 5, wherein the detecting means is situated upstream in a conveyance direction of the packing paper sheet in the packing paper sheet conveying part.

8. The medicine dispensing device of claim 6, wherein the detecting means is provided in the conveying portion.