Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Mitsuhiro Mitani

Naoki Koike

Masao Fukada

Shoji Yuyama

Hiroyuki Yuyama

Akira Maeda

Takafumi Imai

Yoshinori Kumano

Takanori Yorozu

A tablet cassette () includes a tablet container () storing a tablet and a rotor () rotatably accommodated in the tablet container. The rotor () has a tablet guide path () for guiding the tablet of the tablet container () to a tablet discharge hole () of the tablet container () and an adjusting part () capable of adjusting dimensions of the tablet guide path (). A tablet guide path adjusting device () includes: an adjusting member () that engages the adjusting part (); an operation amount detection part () that detects an operation amount of the adjusting member (); and a notification part () that notifies a user of adjustment support information necessary for the user to adjust the adjusting part () with the adjusting member () based on the operation amount detected by the operation amount detection part ().

Tablet guide path adjustment device for tablet cassette

Provided is a tablet guiding path adjusting apparatus that adjusts a tablet guiding path adjusting mechanism in the tablet cassette, comprising a rotor rotatably equipped within a cassette body and having a tablet guiding path for receiving at least one of tablets received within the cassette body and guiding to a discharging orifice of the cassette body; a partition member for entering the tablet guiding path and being located between a tablet at the lowest part and a tablet at the upper side thereof; and tablet guiding paths adjusting mechanisms configured to adjust at least either dimension of the depth and width of the tablet guiding path to the rotor; wherein the tablet guiding path adjusting apparatus engages with engaging parts of the tablet guiding path adjusting mechanisms to operate the tablet guiding path adjusting mechanism, and adjusts a dimension of the tablet guiding path in accordance with the shape or size of tablets received within the cassette body.

Tablet guide path-adjusting device of tablet cassette

An object of the present invention is to allow a medicine dispensing cassette to be easily disassembled. The medicine dispensing cassette according to the embodiments of the present invention may include a main member, a first sub-member, a second sub-member and a third sub-member. The main member further includes an engagement release member so that when said engagement release member is moved to a first position (F), the engagement between the main member and the first sub-member is released, making it possible to separate the first sub-member from the main member. In the same manner, when the engagement release member is moved to a second position (S), the engagement between the main member and the second sub-member is released, making it possible to separate the second sub-member from the main member. The third sub-member can be removed from the main member independently from an operation of the engagement release member.

Medicine dispensing cassette

This drug-supplying device is provided with: a rotator that discharges drugs towards the outer diameter by being rotated; a drug shape-specifying unit for specifying the shape of the drug; and a control unit that rotates the rotator at a rotational speed specified, on the basis of a speed table that correlates drug shape to rotator rotational speed, by the shape that has been specified by a drug-detecting unit.

Medicine-supplying device and medicine-counting device

[Object] To achieve a compact construction while making it possible to dispense a medicine certainly one by one. [Solution] A medicine dispensing unit for dispensing a medicine retained is disposed. The medicine dispensing unit comprises a first rotator having a circular face rotatably disposed at a slant state to a horizontal plane; a second rotator having a ring face rotatably disposed over the horizontal plane at an outer peripheral side of the first rotator; and a guide member having a guide face, the guide face being disposed above the circular face of the first rotator while extending radially with respect to the circular face, being positioned at a downstream side in a rotational direction of the first rotator towards a periphery in a radial direction, and being capable of contacting with the medicine placed on the first rotator due to rotation of the first rotator.

Medicine cassette

A medicine feeding apparatus includes a cylindrical body, a first rotating body, and a second rotating body. The first rotating bodyis disposed on the inner side of the cylindrical body, and together with the cylindrical body, constitutes a medicine storage sectioncapable of storing medicine. The first rotating bodycan reciprocate in the axial direction of the cylindrical body, and can rotate about a first rotary axis. The second rotating bodyis disposed on the outer circumference of an opening of the cylindrical body, and can rotate about a second rotary axis. This configuration has a function of smoothly performing automatic dispensing depending on the remaining amount of stored medicine while storing a large amount of medicine.

Medicine cassette and medicine feeding apparatus

A tablet feeder comprises a device body, a plurality of tablet cassettes disposed on one face of the device bodyin a vertical direction, each tablet cassette accommodating a plurality of tablets by kind, and a plurality of chutes disposed on one face of the device bodyin a vertical direction and shifted in a horizontal direction, the chutes temporarily storing the tablets dispensed from the tablet cassette and having the dispensing portion at the downward portion thereof, the dispensing portion being capable of dispensing the tablets to a bottomed cylindrical tablet container.

Tablet feeder and pharmacy system

The medicament dispensing machine enables to use vials having various sizes and shapes without changing a part in the machine or without performing a special operation. The medicament dispensing machine contains a discharging unit that receives a vial filled with a medicament from a medicament filling means and discharges out of a vial discharging window. The discharging unit contains a vial gripping means having a pair of gripping arms that grip a vial, a body of gripping means having the vial gripping means, a moving means that moves the vial gripping means from the medicament filling means to the vial discharging window, and an orientation changing mechanism that changes the orientation of the body of gripping means. With a coordination of the movement of the body of gripping means toward the vial discharging window, the orientation changing mechanism makes the gripping arms orient to the vial discharging window.

Medicament dispensing machine

A tablet division feeder includes a moving unit to move a tablet T, a fixing blade located in a movement path of the tablet T, and a support plate extending from the fixing blade such that divided tablets Ton the fixing blade are transferred and kept onto the support plate. The fixing blade divides the tablet T into upper and lower divided tablets as the tablet T is moved in such a manner that the lower divided tablet Tis discharged and the upper divided tablet Tis transferred from the fixing blade to the support plate by the moving unit and kept on the support plate. The upper divided tablet Tis discharged from the support plate as the upper divided tablet Tis further moved by the moving unit in such a manner that the upper divided tablet Tis discharged from the moving unit.

Tablet feeder

A medicine feeding device is configured by providing a first rotor that rotates around a first shaft, a second rotor that rotates around a second shaft, a partition wall extending from the second rotor towards the first rotor, a medicine discharge port provided on the outside of the second rotor, a medicine guide section located in the downstream of a movement section in the medicine transport direction, and a height regulator disposed between the movement section and medicine guide section. In addition, the width regulator that is disposed between the medicine guide section and the height regulator is further provided. Also, a medicine counting device is further provided with a medicine detection means for detecting the medicine that is supplied from the medicine discharge port, and a counting means (central control unit) for counting the medicines based on the detection performed by the medicine detection means.

Medicine feeding device and a medicine counting device using the medicine feeding device

A tablet dispenser includes a device body and a plurality of tablet cassettes disposed on one face of the device body. Each tablet cassette is capable of accommodating a plurality of types of tablets and of dispensing the tablets contained therein in a lateral direction. A plurality of chutes are in communication with the plurality of tablet cassettes. Each chute is disposed on the one face of the device body, adjacent to a corresponding tablet cassette. Each chute retains tablets dispensed from the corresponding tablet cassette and dispenses the tablets in a downward direction into a container.

Tablet dispenser

A medicine counting device including a rotary container broadening radially in an upward direction and configured to rotate around an axis of the rotary container; a guide member fixed with a predetermined gap on a top surface side of the rotary container, spirally extending from the central portion towards an outer circumference of the rotary container, and configured to guide a medicine moved by a rotation of the rotary container from the central portion towards the outer circumference of the rotary container. The medicine counting device further includes a detector provided outside of the rotary container and a regulator configured to feed a medicine having been moved to the outer circumference and being in contact with the guide member towards the detector but returns the medicines which are not being in contact with the guide member to the central portion side of the rotary container by overpassing the guide member.

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Toyonaka, Japan

Mitsuhiro Mitani