Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Carbone Industrie

Morimoto-pharma Co., Ltd.

Unitec Co., Ltd.

Pharma-tech Co., Ltd.

Yasutaro Wada

Shuji Morimoto

Takashi Ohtsuki

Takeichiro Sogo

A powder filling apparatus that can prevent a screw portion of an auger screw from contacting an inner surface of a metering portion at a funnel lower end portion. The powder filling apparatus includes a funnel that contains powder, and a circular-cylindrical metering portion provided at a lower end portion of the funnel, an auger screw arranged vertically, and a support device that supports the auger screw rotatably. The auger screw has a lower end provided with a screw portion that is arranged within the metering portion. The funnel is suspended from the support device and supported thereto and the metering portion has a center axis made substantially coincident with an axis of rotation of the auger screw.

Powder filling device

Apparatus for filling powder

An apparatus for detecting the presence of a foreign matter on each solid drug item by scanning the surface of the solid drug item with a television camera and for generating a pulse signal when the level of a scanning signal thereof exceeds a predetermined value includes a shift register for temporarily storing, for each address, the pulse signal per scan line of the camera and for outputting the signal sequentially for each address during the next succeeding scan; an OR gate for receiving both an address output from the shift register and the next succeeding address output; an AND gate for receiving both an output from the OR gate and an output at the address corresponding to the address output at the next succeeding scan line; a counter for counting pulse signals fed thereto from the AND gate; and an output circuit for generating a detection signal indicative of the detection of foreign matter when the count of the counter is greater than a predetermined value, whereby a pulse signal bridging between the neighboring addresses and also between the adjoining scan lines can be output by the counter so that foreign matter of a length and width corresponding to the output thereof can be detected.

Apparatus for inspecting solid drugs and a method therefor

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Suita, Japan

Yasutaro Wada