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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1999
Junichi Miyabe, Susono, JP;
Kiyoshi Morimoto, Mishima, JP;
Yuji Iwase, Gotemba, JP;
Shigemitsu Miura, Susono, JP;
Eiji Hayakawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Kunio Ito, Shizuoka, JP;
Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A dividable tablet is not chipped, can be divided easily and accurately, has excellent impact resistance and rarely causes twining in the film-coating step, wherein a dividing line is formed along a center line on the upper surface of the tablet, ridgelines are each located on an inner side of the peripheral portion of the tablet to surround the dividing line in two areas defined by the dividing line on the upper surface of the tablet, the lower surface of the tablet gradually rises from the peripheral portion of the tablet toward the center portion thereof, and areas around the ridgelines are each formed by a convex surface.