Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Takafumi Imai

Shoji Yuyama

Naoki Koike

Yoshinori Kumano

Mitsuhiro Mitani

Akira Maeda

Katsunori Yoshina

Masahito Miyashita

Kazunori Tsukamoto

Akira Taniguchi

Yoshinori Maeji

Takafumi Ikeda

Hiroyuki Yuyama

Tsuyoshi Kodama

Masayuki Okamoto

Hirokazu Chihara

Takashi Iwatani

Yoshihiko Ide

Hidenori Murakami

Shinichi Honda

Takuya Tsugui

Yasuyuki Takada

Minoru Tano

Fumitaka Hino

Kazuaki Matsumura

Jun Horii

Yasushi Okubo

Provided is a medicine dispensing device having a container stocking portion) for stocking a plurality of medicine containers, a medicine supplying part for supplying solid medicines, container taking means for taking the container from the container stocking portion, a medicine filling part for filling the medicine container with the solid medicines supplied from the medicine supplying part and container checking means. The medicine checking means has posture keeping means for keeping a constant posture of the medicine container and a measuring member which can approach to and move away from the medicine container. The container checking means can check a type of the medicine container by holding the medicine container with keeping the constant posture by using the posture keeping means and allowing the measuring member to approach to the medicine container from a remote position and make contact with the medicine container.

Medicine dispensing device

A medicine dispensing apparatus fills a vial having a polygonal cross-sectional shape with medicines to dispense the medicines. The apparatus contains a stocker, a first vial transporting unit, a vial orienting unit, a labeling unit, a second vial transporting unit, a medicine filling unit, and a vial discharging window. The stocker stores the vial. The first vial transporting unit transports the vial from the stocker to the labeling unit. The vial orienting unit adjusts an orientation of the vial. The labeling unit labels the vial. The second vial transporting unit transports the vial from the labeling unit to the medicine filling unit. The medicine filling unit fills the vial with the medicines. The second vial transporting unit further transports the vial from the medicine filling unit to the vial discharging window, where the vial is discharged through the vial discharging window.

Medicine dispensing 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 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

This invention aims at providing a medicine filling device which can supply the vial container in a smooth manner without getting caught in the vial supply means designed to supply the empty vial container, before filling the drug. The supply meanshas the structure that the vial container can pass in it and the vial container passage. The vial container passagehas the passage width goes on tapering from the region on the upper end side towards the region on the lower end side. The vial container passagealso has the inner wall surfaceand. The vial container passagehas the passage portionbeing steeper than the inclination of the inner wall surfaceand the taper ratio of the passage portionbeing smaller than the taper ratio of the passage width in the receiving portion. Therefore, the center of gravity of the vial container exceeds the border of the receiving portionand the passing portion, the posture of the vial container switches to the standing state.

Medicament filling machine

There is provided a device and method for arranging a vial, which can efficiently arrange a plurality of vials in the same arrangement place. A device for arranging a vial includes an arm memberfor sandwiching one vialand a carrying meansfor carrying the vialsandwiched by the arm memberto a vial arranging section. A layout of the vialsin the vial arranging sectioncan be set according to the number (n) of the vialscarried into the same vial arranging section. The carrying meanscan advance and retract the arm memberin at least two or more directions in the vial arranging section

Device and method for arranging vials

A medicine filling device for filling empty vials of different shapes and sizes with medicine without having to replace any members or having to perform any special operations is disclosed. More specifically, the medicine filling device is provided with a first transfer means to transfer an empty vial B stored within a stocker while the vial B is positioned on a side, a vial lifter (second transfer means) to hold the transferred vial B in an upright position and to move said vial B towards a medicine filling unit, and a vial orientation detection means to detect the orientation of the vial B which was removed from the stocker by the first transfer means. The first transfer means is provided with a reversal mechanism and the vial B is supplied to the vial lifter from the first transfer means while the bottom of the vial B faces a vial guiding means.

Medicine filling device

There is provided an improved vial lid fastening device capable of reliably completing lid fastening in a short time. The vial lid fastening devicehas a lid rotating device, a lid placing member, a transporting device, a first lid body reservoir, a vial lid holding and supplying device, and a vial discharging device. A lid bodyslides on an inclined flat surfaceto reach a terminal mechanism part, and a stepped sectionof the lid bodyengages a stepped section holder. The lid bodyis grasped by chuck clawsand is rotated as engaged to the terminal mechanism partof the stepped section holder. Then, one of rotation regulating protrusionsof the lid bodyis allowed to collide with a rotation preventing memberof the lid placing member. Thus, position determination in a rotation direction is performed with reference to the rotation regulating projectionsand such position is maintained fixedly. Thereafter, the lid bodyis mated with the vial bodyand then rotated by a chuck.

Vial lid fastening device and medicine accommodating and removing device

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Toyonaka, Japan

Takafumi Imai