Medicine supply apparatus

• US 6,471,088 B1
• Filed: 05/23/2000
• Issued: 10/29/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Seya, Hiroshi, Uema, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Bollinger, David H.
• Application Number:
  US09/555,074
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 221/2, 221/9, 221/13, 221/197, 221/287
• US Class Current: 221/4
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/42 the articles being delivered by motor-driven means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/44 in which magazines the articles are stored in bulk
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0092 for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/02 Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus alarms or warning devices indicating the interruption of flow to be metered G07F15/10

Abstract

There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which can easily and securely prevent a disadvantage that a medicine is wrongly supplied. The medicine supply apparatus comprises a plurality of tablet cases stored in a main body case storage part, each tablet case including a container for containing medicines, and a discharge drum for discharging the medicines one by one from the container, each tablet case is provided with a memory in which identification data for identifying the tablet case is written, and a main body is provided with a controller for identifying the tablet case based on the identification data in the memory of each tablet case, and executing the drive control of the discharge drum of each tablet case.

Claims

1. A medicine supply apparatus comprising a plurality of tablet cases stored in a main body case storage part, each tablet case including a container for containing a medicine, and a discharge drum for discharging the medicine from the container,

each tablet case being provided with a memory in which identification data for identifying the tablet case is written, said apparatus further comprising a controller for identifying the tablet case based on the identification data in the memory of said each tablet case, and executing the drive control of the discharge drum of said each tablet case.

2. A medicine supply apparatus comprising a plurality of tablet cases stored in a main body case storage part, each tablet case including a container for containing a medicine, and a discharge drum for discharging the medicine from the container,

each tablet case being provided with a memory in which address data concerning the position to store the tablet case in said case storage part is written, said apparatus comprising a controller for judging based on the address data in the memory of said each tablet case whether the tablet case is stored in a wrong position or not, and executing a predetermined alarm operation when the tablet case is inserted into the wrong position.