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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2000
Jin S. Kim, Taegu, KR;
Other;
Abstract
An automatic tablet dispenser comprising a tablet dropping unit having a drum communicating with a plurality of release holes which open to a plurality of tablet cassettes storing therein and releasing therefrom a measured quantity of tablets, wherein each of the tablet cassettes comprises a medicine case having a cylindrical opening through a lower portion thereof, a cylindrical rotor having an upper surface and a vertically formed outer periphery along which is formed a plurality of guide teeth having insert openings alternately formed among the guide teeth, a male gear disposed below the medicine case and rotatably engaged to the cylindrical rotor so that the cylindrical rotor can be rotated in correspondence to the male gear, and a vertically raised protrusion formed on the central surface portion of the upper surface of the rotor so as to smoothly agitate the tablets received in the medicine case and prevent the tablets from tangling together with the waved guide while allowing the tablets to be evenly loaded into the each insert opening when the rotor is rotated by the male gear.
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