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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1999
Hideyuki Takahashi, Gunma-ken, JP;
Manabu Haraguchi, Gunma-ken, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention has a purpose to provide a drug dispensing apparatus realizing an effective large-scale operation for a limited installation space. The drug dispensing apparatus, in an outline, has a main body of which top has a constitution of a case containing unit attached to the main body, a plurality of tablet cases attached to the space between the front surface of the case containing unit attached to the main body and the inside of the case containing unit attached to the main body and storing respective drugs, a shoot of the main body, attached to the back of the case containing unit attached to the main body and in which the drug discharged from respective tablet cases drops, a hopper installed in the main body corresponding to the bottom of the shoot of the main body, a door unit closing the front opening of the case containing unit attached to the main body in openable condition, a case containing unit near the door installed in the door unit, a plurality of tablet cases attached to the inside of the case containing unit attached to the door and respectively contains drugs, and a shoot attached to the door, attached to the door unit, in which the drug discharged from respective tablet cases inside the case containing unit drops, and the shoot attached to the door corresponds to the top of the hopper under the condition that the door unit has closed the case containing unit attached to the main body.