Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Yoshinori Kumano

Shoji Yuyama

Takafumi Imai

Naoki Koike

Mitsuhiro Mitani

Akira Maeda

Hiroyuki Yuyama

Katsunori Yoshina

Tasuku Minami

Masahito Miyashita

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

(Object) To enable, in an operation of supplying a medicine to a medicine cassette, in which it is typical that the medicine once put in a vial bottle is recovered to a medicine cassette (medicine receiving container), an operation of specifying the medicine cassette to which the medicine is to be supplied to be performed more accurately and more efficiently. (Solving Means) Information used for specifying the medicine is read by reading a prescription code (d) recorded as a bar code on a vial bottle (S) or is input as search information through an operation portion (S). As a result, a cassette shelf () (cassette code (d)) to which a medicine cassette () for receiving the medicine corresponding to the input information is mounted is specified (S, S), and a shelf lamp () provided to the specified cassette shelf () is brought into a predetermined notification display state (blinking state).

Medicine dispenser

A tablet storing/retrieving device which stores a plurality of kinds of medicines, and delivers as many tablets of such descriptions as designated by prescription data into a vial () and retrieves it. An imaging device () is provided for photographing the interior of the vial before a cap is applied to the vial () after tablets are dispensed into the vial (). Accordingly, a quick and easy auditing process is possible without removing the cap of a retrieved vial.

Tablet storage and take-out apparatus

A tablet filling instrumentfor dispensing tablets into a vialin accordance with prescription data and discharging the vialfilled with the tablets in one of a plurality of outletsdesignates at least one of the outletsto be a priority outletand discharges the vialfilled with the tablets in the priority outletwhen the tablets are to be dispensed in one of the outletsat a time-point within a predetermined time length from a present time-point.

Tablet filling instrument

A compact tablet storage and take-out apparatus capable of quickly discharging and filing tablets. The tablet storage and take-out apparatus includes: a cylindrical drum; a drum driving device; a plurality of tablet cassette mounting bases fitted to an outer surface of the drum; tablet cassettes which are detachably mounted on the tablet cassette mounting bases; and a guide passage for guiding discharged tablets inside the drum. Moreover, the apparatus includes a transfer robot provided inside the drum so as to be liftable and also rotatable. The transfer robot is operable to transfers a vial between a delivery position located outside an opening formed in an upper end or a lower end of the drum and a tablet filling position. The position of at least one of the drum and the transfer robot is controlled so that an opening of the vial held by the transfer robot agrees with an outlet of the guide passage.

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Toyonaka, Japan

Yoshinori Kumano