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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
May. 08, 2015
Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd., Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Hirokazu Amano, Toyonaka, JP;
Akitomi Kohama, Toyonaka, JP;
Masatoshi Warashina, Toyonaka, JP;
Junichi Iwaya, Toyonaka, JP;
Hiromichi Tsuda, Toyonaka, JP;
Takashi Ueno, Toyonaka, JP;
Hidenori Tsuji, Toyonaka, JP;
Keigo Nakamura, Toyonaka, JP;
Mei Zhang, Toyonaka, JP;
YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to automatically identify a direction, a posture and characteristics such as a shape, a size, a type and an expiration date of a medicine and store the medicine with ensuring a high degree of freedom. A medicine supplying apparatusincludes an identifying part and a storing part. A storing area is defined at the time of storing the medicine according to a size of a medicine contained in characteristics of the medicine identified by the identifying part. The medicine is stored in the storing part in a state that identification information of the medicine is associated with the storing area. Further, the medicine supplying apparatus has a determination processing part which can determine whether or not the medicine is a target to be treated based on the characteristics of the medicine identified by the identifying part.