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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
May. 08, 2015
Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd., Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Akitomi Kohama, Toyonaka, JP;
Yasuhiro Shigeyama, Toyonaka, JP;
Hiromichi Tsuda, Toyonaka, JP;
Takashi Ueno, Toyonaka, JP;
Hidenori Tsuji, Toyonaka, JP;
Mei Zhang, Toyonaka, JP;
YUYAMA MGF. CO., LTD., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A medicine sorting apparatus includes a receiving part, an identifying part and a storing part. The storing part includes a plurality of storing trays arranged in multiple stages. A storing area for each of returned medicines is defined at the time of storing each of the returned medicines according to a size of each of the returned medicines identified by the identifying part. Each of the returned medicines is stored in the storing tray in a state that the storing area for each of the returned medicines is associated with identification information of each of the returned medicines so that each of the returned medicines can be taken from the storing tray by a scalar type robot.