Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.

Taizo Isshiki

Hideyuki Morii

Akiji Tanaka

Masaharu Oono

Keisuke Kita

Michimori Nakano

A removal head with improved performance in terms of reading pharmaceutical information. The removal head of the present invention comprises a movement path component, a first braking component, and a sensor. The movement path component moves a substantially cylindrical pharmaceutical container that has an identification label and that has been taken out of a pharmaceutical container holding cassette that holds pharmaceutical containers. The first braking component is provided to the end of the movement path component, and stops the pharmaceutical container that has moved along the movement path component at a specific location. The sensor reads the identification label of the pharmaceutical container whose movement has been stopped at a specific location by the braking component. The movement path component has a movement face that moves along the movement path of the pharmaceutical container, and the movement face has a contact component that comes into contact with the pharmaceutical container.

Pharmaceutical dispensing unit, pharmaceutical dispensing apparatus equipped with same, and method for controlling pharmaceutical dispensing apparatus

This medicine issuing device is a container identifying device for identifying tubular medicine containers () provided with identifying marks () on their external circumference, said medicine issuing device comprising: an operation component () that takes the medicine containers () out of a cassette (); a movement path component () that moves the medicine containers () taken out by the operation component () to an identification position (); a container rotation component () that rotates the medicine containers () that were moved to a specific identification position by the movement path component (), around an outer peripheral face; and an identifying mark reader () that reads the identifying marks () of the medicine containers () rotated by the container rotation component ().

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Ehime, Japan

Taizo Isshiki