Medicine Dispensing and Packing Apparatus

• US 20140290190A1
• Filed: 10/06/2012
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Takazono Technology Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Takazono Technology Incorporated
• Inventors: Morikawa, Yasuyuki
• Application Number:
  US14/356,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20140290190A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 53/507
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 1/30 Devices or methods for controlling or determining the quantity or quality or the material fed or filled
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 2220/14 Adding more than one type of material or article to the same package
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 37/16 Separating measured quantities from supply in container-filling machines B65B1/30, B65B3/26
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 57/00 Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices registering wrapping or container-forming material fed from rolls B65B41/18
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 61/025 for applying, e.g. printing, code or date marks on material prior to packaging
• 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 13/025 wherein the volume is determined during delivery
• 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

A medicine dispensing and packing apparatus includes a powder supplying portion, a plurality of powder dividing portions, a dispensing and packing portion, a control portion, and an input portion. The input portion includes an input screen. In a case where a number of packets larger than a maximum number of divisions by which one powder dividing portion can divide powder and a dividing portion use instruction to perform dispensing and packing using the plurality of powder dividing portions are inputted to the control portion by a user'"'"'s operation on the input screen, the control portion makes allocations of the inputted number of packets to the powder dividing portions within a range not exceeding the maximum number of divisions, and controls the powder supplying portion, the plurality of powder dividing portions, and the dispensing and packing portion on a basis of the allocations.

Claims

1. A medicine dispensing and packing apparatus comprising:

a powder supplying portion that supplies powder;

a plurality of powder dividing portions that divide the powder supplied from the powder supplying portion, into a plurality of portions by a predetermined dose;

a dispensing and packing portion that dispenses and packs each dose of the powder divided by each of the plurality of powder dividing portions;

a control portion that controls the powder supplying portion, the plurality of powder dividing portions, and the dispensing and packing portion; and

an input portion through which prescription information is inputted to the control portion, wherein

the input portion includes an input screen to be operated by a user to input the prescription information, and

in a case where a number of packets larger than a maximum number of divisions by which one powder dividing portion can divide the powder and a dividing portion use instruction to dispense and pack the powder using the plurality of powder dividing portions are inputted as the prescription information to the control portion by operating the input screen, the control portion makes allocations of the inputted number of packets to the powder dividing portions within a range not exceeding the maximum number of divisions, and controls the powder supplying portion, the plurality of powder dividing portions, and the dispensing and packing portion on a basis of the allocations.

2. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

a number-of-packet input portion for enabling the user to input the number of packets is displayed on the input screen,

in a case where the number of packets larger than the maximum number of divisions is inputted by operating the number-of-packet input portion, a dividing portion use instruction input portion for enabling the user to input the dividing portion use instruction is displayed in an operable state on the input screen, and

in a case where the dividing portion use instruction is inputted by operating the dividing portion use instruction input portion, the control portion consecutively uses the plurality of powder dividing portions to dispense and pack the powder, on the basis of the allocations.

3. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

in a case where the number of packets and the dividing portion use instruction are inputted, a dividing portion order input portion for enabling the user to give an instruction on an order of use of the plurality of powder dividing portions is displayed in an operable state on the input screen, and

the control portion uses the plurality of powder dividing portions one after another to dispense and pack the powder, on the basis of the order on which the instruction is given by operating the dividing portion order input portion.

4. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of allocation display portions for displaying the numbers of packets respectively allocated to the powder dividing portions are displayed on the input screen so as to respectively correspond to the powder dividing portions.

5. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of allocation display portions for displaying the numbers of packets respectively allocated to the powder dividing portions are displayed on the input screen so as to respectively correspond to the powder dividing portions.

6. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the numbers of packets respectively displayed in the allocation display portions are integers.

7. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the numbers of packets respectively displayed in the allocation display portions are equal numbers.

8. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the numbers of packets respectively displayed in the allocation display portions are integers.

9. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the numbers of packets respectively displayed in the allocation display portions are equal numbers.

10. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

in a case where the number of packets and the dividing portion use instruction are inputted, a dividing portion order input portion for enabling the user to give an instruction on an order of use of the plurality of powder dividing portions is displayed in an operable state on the input screen, and

the control portion uses the plurality of powder dividing portions one after another to dispense and pack the powder, on the basis of the order on which the instruction is given by operating the dividing portion order input portion.

11. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a plurality of allocation display portions for displaying the numbers of packets respectively allocated to the powder dividing portions are displayed on the input screen so as to respectively correspond to the powder dividing portions.

12. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of allocation display portions for displaying the numbers of packets respectively allocated to the powder dividing portions are displayed on the input screen so as to respectively correspond to the powder dividing portions.

13. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the numbers of packets respectively displayed in the allocation display portions are integers.

14. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the numbers of packets respectively displayed in the allocation display portions are equal numbers.

15. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the numbers of packets respectively displayed in the allocation display portions are integers.

16. The medicine dispensing and packing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the numbers of packets respectively displayed in the allocation display portions are equal numbers.