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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
May. 16, 2000
Hideyuki Takahashi, Gunma, JP;
Hitoshi Ishiwatari, Gunma, JP;
Manabu Haraguchi, Gunma, JP;
Toshihiko Ota, Gunma, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
A solid preparation filling apparatus for filling solid preparations such as tablets into a container and avoiding mixture with any other preparation. Each type of solid preparation is to be ejected from its respective tablet case, and the upper end inlet of a holding cell is associated with the discharge port of a hopper that receives the ejected solid preparation from the tablet case by rotating and moving the holding cells to adjust their positions so that the solid preparation falling from a tablet case is accommodated in a predetermined holding cell. When filling the solid preparation in a container, the holding cell is rotated and moved so that its outlet is matched with a chute and the holding cell shutter is opened. The holding cell and the shutter constitute a holding unit, and a plurality of holding units are mounted on the rotating plate which rotates under the hopper.