Medicine Packing Apparatus
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Provided is a medicine packing apparatus which is capable of packing of medicines so that relations between the medicines and production-history information pieces can be clearly understood even when the medicines prepared as one dose include medicines having different production-history information pieces while being of the same type. Control means (100) is capable of specifying production-history information pieces based on production histories of medicines delivered from medicine feeders (46). Thus, when medicines having different production-history information pieces while being of the same type are delivered from the medicine feeders (46), medicines to be packed as one dose are separately packed based on the different production-history information pieces. Thus, even when the medicines having different production-history information pieces (MC) are supplied owing to, for example, occurrence of medicine shortage in the medicine feeders (46), the medicines can be packed so that correspondences between the production-history information pieces and the medicines can be easily and accurately understood.
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37 Claims
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9. A medicine dispensing apparatus, comprising:
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a plurality of stockers, each of which stores a stock of medicines; a sheet feeder that feeds a packaging sheet; a medicine supplying device that supplies a dose of medicines to the packaging sheet; a medicine passageway through which medicines are provided from the stockers to the medicine supplying device; a medicine packing device that packs the dose of medicines into a package by sealing a portion of the packaging sheet; and a controller that controls the sheet feeder, the medicine supplying device and the medicine packing device; wherein when the dose of medicines contains a plurality of medicines that are a same kind but provided from different stockers, the medicine dispensing apparatus packs the medicines that are the same kind but provided from the different stockers into different packages. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A medicine dispensing apparatus, comprising:
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a stocker that stores a stock of medicines; a sheet feeder that feeds a packaging sheet; a medicine supplying device that supplies a dose of medicines to the packaging sheet; a medicine passageway through which medicines are provided from the stocker to the medicine supplying device; a medicine packing device that packs the dose of medicines into a package by sealing a portion of the packaging sheet; and a controller that controls the sheet feeder, the medicine supplying device and the medicine packing device; wherein when the stocker has become empty and is refilled with a new stock of medicines after the medicines have begun to be provided to the medicine supplying device from the stocker, the medicine dispensing apparatus packs the medicine provided to the medicine supplying device before the stocker has become empty and the medicine provided to the medicine supplying device after the stocker has been refilled into different packages. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A medicine dispensing apparatus, comprising:
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a sheet feeder that feeds a packaging sheet; a medicine supplying device that supplies a dose of medicines to the packaging sheet; a medicine packing device that packs the dose of medicines into a package by sealing a portion of the packaging sheet; and a controller that controls the sheet feeder, the medicine supplying device and the medicine packing device and that accesses to manufacture informations of the medicines; wherein when the dose of medicines contains a plurality of medicines that are a same kind but that have different manufacture informations, the medicine dispensing apparatus packs the medicines that are the same kind but that have the different manufacture informations into different packages. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A medicine dispensing apparatus, comprising:
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a sheet feeder that feeds a packaging sheet; a medicine supplying device that supplies a dose of medicines to the packaging sheet; a medicine packing device that packs the dose of medicines into a package by sealing a portion of the packaging sheet; a printer that prints manufacture informations on the packaging sheet; and a controller that controls the sheet feeder, the medicine supplying device, the medicine packing device and the printer and that accesses to manufacture informations of the medicines; wherein when the dose of medicines contains a plurality of medicines that are a same kind but that have different manufacture informations, the printer prints said different manufacture informations on the packaging sheet that forms a package for the dose of medicines. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31)
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32. A medicine dispensing apparatus, comprising:
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a stocker that stores a stock of medicines; a medicine supplying device that dispenses a dose of medicines; and a medicine passageway through which medicines are provided from the stocker to the medicine supplying device; a controller that controls the medicine supplying device and that accesses to manufacture informations of the medicines; wherein when the dose of medicines contains a plurality of medicines that are a same kind but that have different manufacture informations, the medicine dispensing apparatus separately dispenses the medicines that are the same kind but that have the different manufacture informations. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35)
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36. A method for dispensing a dose of medicines with a medicine dispensing apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining a first portion of said dose from a first stocker; obtaining a second portion of said dose from a second stocker, said second portion containing a same kind of medicine as said first portion but having different manufacturing information from said first portion; and dispensing each said portion of said dose into separate receptacles. - View Dependent Claims (37)
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