Kabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho

Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Hirohisa Shimizu

Shoji Yuyama

Naoki Koike

Hiroyuki Yuyama

Nobuyuki Shimizu, Legal Representative

A medicine packing apparatus having a memory () that stores shelf numbers of the respective shelf sections the respective kinds of medicines housed in medicine containers. A control unit () allows the memory () to store the corresponding relationship between the kind of a medicine housed in the medicine container and the shelf number upon attaching the medicine container to the shelf sections. The control unit () erases the corresponding relationship from the memory () when the medicine container is detached from the shelf. Thus, it is possible to carry out the operations of attaching, detaching and exchanging medicine containers during a medicine packing operation.

Medicine packing apparatus

A device which can reduce the workload on operators during replenishment and stocktaking of drugs stored in a drug dispenser. The drug dispenser has a memory for storing data on the initial number of drugs in each of the drug feeders, a processor for calculating the number of drugs currently remaining in each drug feeder by subtracting the number of drugs discharged from each feeder from the initial number of drugs in each drug feeder, and a display for displaying the name of drugs if the number of drugs currently remaining in any drug feeder is smaller than a predetermined value. With this arrangement, an operator can easily see which drug feeders are short of drugs without directly checking the respective feeders by removing them from shelves. The workload on operators for drug replenishment is thus reduced.

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Toyonaka, Japan

Hirohisa Shimizu