Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Hong-fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

King-Lung Huang

Chao-Wen Shih

Kuo-Ming Lai

Szu-Hai Huang

Lap-Shun Hui

Yi-Che Chen

Yu-Chu Huang

Jeng-Che Chen

Tui-Chien Wu

Pao-Heng Shen

Pei-Yi Chan

Yu-Ting Wang

Chia-Fu Chen

Pang-Yen Jao

An automatic medicine retrieving device includes a medicine tray, a medicine box, and a driving mechanism. The medicine tray includes a bearing plate defining an exit port and a medicine separating member rotatably positioned on the bearing plate. The medicine separating member has medicine separating areas and a positioning area. Medications in the form of pills are positioned on the bearing plate and received in the medicine separating areas. The medicine box is opposite to the exit port. The driving mechanism drives the medicine separating member to rotate from being opposite to the exit port, bringing the medicine separating area to a position opposite to the exit port. A pill in the medicine separating area then passes through the exit port to fall into an accepting mechanism.

Automatic medicine retrieving device

A pill grasping method comprises rotating a grasping arm with a nozzle to a predetermined initial position driven by a driving mechanism, rotating a number of pill storage cases to position one of the pill storage cases with a set number of pills to a predetermined grasping pill position driven by an actuating mechanism, rotating the grasping arm to enter into the corresponding pill storage case, starting a pump to generate a vacuum in the nozzle for sucking a pill, and determining if an actual pressure value in a pipe connecting the nozzle to the pump is less than a predetermined pressure value. The grasping arm is rotated to the predetermined initial position when the actual pressure value is less than the predetermined pressure value.

Automatic pill grasping apparatus and method

An automatic pill grasping apparatus includes an enclosure, a control chip, a pill grasping mechanism, and a pill storage mechanism. The enclosure includes a base. The pill grasping mechanism includes a grasping arm, a nozzle, and a driving mechanism. The nozzle being is engaged with the grasping arm, and the driving mechanism is attached to the base. The pill storage mechanism includes a plurality of pill storage cases for storing pills and an actuating mechanism attached to the base. The control chip is configured to control the actuating mechanism to rotate the plurality of pill storage cases in a first plane substantially parallel to the base and control the driving mechanism to rotate the grasping arm in a second plane perpendicular to the first plane, for rotating the nozzle to stretch into the one of the plurality of pill storage cases to pick a pill.

Automatic pill grasping apparatus

A flatbed scanner includes a transparent window and an optical ruler close to the transparent window along a scanning direction. The optical ruler has at least one oblique line arranged thereon. The flatbed scanner includes a scanner head having a scanning width larger than the width of the transparent window for capturing an image of the optical ruler while the scanner head is being progressively moved by a step motor. The flatbed scanner further includes a processing unit for calculating a jag width of a captured oblique line in the captured image and a controlling unit for controlling the step motor to adjust the speed of movement of the scanner head according to the jag width of the captured oblique line.

Flatbed scanner and method for controlling same

A multi-function printer and a method for calibrating the multi-function printer is disclosed The calibrating method for a printer comprises printing a calibration pattern on a medium by the printer; obtaining a scanned image of the calibration pattern on the medium printed by the printer; comparing the scanned image against the calibration pattern; detecting defects of the scanned image; and if the defects exceed an pre-determined value, adjusting print settings of the printer according to the defects of the scanned image.

Multi-function printer and calibrating method for multi-function printer

A scanner unit of a multifunction printer (MFP) increases the speed of the movement of the scanner head, lowers the scanning resolution and uses only a single scanning channel during the scanning of a blank area, and decreases the speed of the movement of the scanner head, increases the scanning resolution and uses the three scanning channels of RGB during the scanning of a graphic area.

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Taipei, Taiwan

King-Lung Huang