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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2018
Shibaura Mechatronics Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Noritsugu Tanio, Yokohama, JP;
Jumpei Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Norihito Mafune, Yokohama, JP;
Junsuke Komito, Yokohama, JP;
SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION, Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A tablet printing apparatus and a tablet manufacturing method are provided which are capable of distinguishing and collecting a preceding tablet and a following tablet from each other when two or more tablets in contact with each other are carried. A tablet printing apparatus includes a carrying devicecarrying tablets Tb, a sensordetecting the tablet Tb being carried by the carrying device, a printing unitperforming, when the status changes from the status in which the sensorthe tablet Tb is not detected to the status in which the tablet Tb is detected, printing on the tablet Tb that has changed the status, and a collecting unit R distinguishing and collecting, when the time length at which the sensoris detecting the tablet Tb is longer than the predetermined setting value because two or more tablets Tb in contact with each other are carried, the preceding tablet Tb and the following tablet Tb following thereto among two or more tablets Tb.