Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Baxter International Inc.

Hiroyasu Shimizu

Manabu Haraguchi

Atuo Inamura

Atsuo Inamura

Hitoshi Ishiwatari

Joseph Blechl

James R Kurtz

Panos Hadjimitsos

Drug dispensing apparatus

A drug dispenser, having a drug case storing drugs and a dispensing mechanism mounted to a lower portion of the drug case. The dispensing mechanism includes an arrange body. The arrange body has a drug passageway for arranged vertically said drugs and a surface guiding the drug to the drug passageway. The dispensing mechanism includes a fixed plate provided under the arrange body. The fixed plate has a drug drop opening connected to the drug passageway. The fixed plate has a separator free to pass into an intermediate of the drug passageway. The dispensing mechanism includes a swing mechanism swinging said arrange body between a first position in which the separator closes the drug passageway and a second position in which the separator opens the drug passageway. The dispensing mechanism includes a drive means for the swing mechanism. The drug storing in the drug case is aligned in the drug passageway. The separator stops the drug in the first position and enables the drug to pass into the drug drop opening one by one in the second position. The swing mechanism arranges, separates and discharges the drug, so that the drug dispenser can have a vertically elongated shape and be downsized. A drug packer receiving corresponding drug dispensers can reduce the height and increase the availability.

Drug dispenser

The drug packing apparatus, provided with: a drug storing section in the upper portion of its casing; a packing machine in its lower portion, for making drug packs; a multiplicity of elongate tablet cases which extend upwardly and are in planar arrangement to one another; a transfer mechanism for collectively transferring into a pack a predetermined number of drugs extracted from a selected drug cases and sealing the pack; and a transport means for delivering the packs out of the drug packing apparatus.

Drug packing apparatus

A drug dispensing apparatus includes a drug dispensing unit and a control unit. The apparatus dispenses an individual drug dose or doses to a common collection area from one or more drug dispensing cartridges for packaging. The drug dispensing unit of the apparatus is internally provided with a plurality of shelves, each arranged one upon another. A plurality of drug dispensing cartridges are removably disposed side by side on each of the shelves. Each drug dispensing cartridge accommodates a plurality of individual identical drug doses. Each dosage is discharged from the cartridge, one at a time, through rotation of rotary members in compliance with input information from the control unit.

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Gunma, Japan

Hiroyasu Shimizu