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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2022
Takuya Morinaga, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Fujie, Kanagawa, JP;
Wataru Nozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuya Morinaga, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Fujie, Kanagawa, JP;
Wataru Nozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medication support apparatus includes a storage, a medicine delivery part, an extraction device, a transfer device, a pack information reader, and processing circuitry. The storage stores a medicine pack with first medication-related information. The medicine pack is arranged at a specific position in the delivery part. The extraction device extracts the medicine pack from the storage. The transfer device transfers the medicine pack extracted from the storage to the specific position in the delivery part. The pack information reader reads the first medication-related information before the transfer device transfers the medicine pack extracted from the storage to the specific position in the delivery part. The processing circuitry manages second medication-related information of the medicine pack, and compares the first medication-related information read by the pack information reader with the second medication-related information to determine whether medication-related information matches between the first medication-related information and the second medication-related information.