Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Toshitake Maruyama

Manabu Haraguchi

Koichi Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Yamazaki

Atsuo Inamura

Hideyuki Takahashi

Tetsuo Sakurai

Takashi Mori

Akinori Hatsuno

Masayoshi Ogura

Seiji Ebukuro

Yasuhiko Miyata

Akinorl Hatsuno

Masayuki Ootani

An object is to provide a medicine supply apparatus capable of reducing a time required for charging medicines without causing any trouble during counting of the medicines, the apparatus comprises: a discharge drum which discharges the medicines from a tablet case; a medicine detecting sensor which detects the medicines discharged from the tablet case, and a control device, and this control device controls a rotating motor for rotating the discharge drum to discharge the medicines from the tablet case, counts the discharged medicines based on a detecting operation of the medicine detecting sensor, and changes a discharge speed of the medicine by the discharge drum depending on a type of medicine in the tablet case.

Medicine supply apparatus and tablet case

An object of a medicine supply apparatus which fills medicine bottles with medicines from a plurality of tablet cases is to improve a medicine filling performance and remove restrictions on the apparatus, and the apparatus comprises: a plurality of tablet cases which contain the medicines and into which the medicines can be thrown from above; a case storage section in which the respective tablet cases are juxtaposed in one stage on a plane and whose top is openably closed; and a filling device which is disposed under this case storage section and which fills the medicine bottle with the medicine dropping from each tablet case.

Medicine supply apparatus

A control apparatus for vending machine free from necessity of replacing the main control program when a new function is to be supplemented to the sub-control units in the control apparatus or when an additional sub-control unit is to be added thereto, thus reducing the costs and labor. The apparatus comprising a main control unit operated by a main control program stored in a main control memory having vacant space, sub-control units controlled by the main control unit, the main control program includes data specifically set for each sub-control unit.

Control apparatus for vending machine

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Kumagaya, Japan

Toshitake Maruyama