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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2002
Shoji Yuyama, Toyonaka, JP;
Nakaji Takeda, Toyonaka, JP;
Yasuhiro Shigeyama, Toyonaka, JP;
Chisei Asaoka, Toyonaka, JP;
Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a medicine feed unit which can reliably feed a predetermined number of medicine sticks without requiring a work for aligning the medicine sticks. The medicine feed unit is equipped with a medicine housing container for housing a plurality of medicine sticks each obtained by packaging a medicine in a cylindrical bag sealed at both end portions and a medicine feeding section , to which the medicine housing container is removably attached and which feeds the medicine sticks one by one. The medicine feeding section includes conveyance means having a passage , on which the medicine stick can be conveyed in a longitudinal direction thereof, a medicine feeding container having an inclined surface for moving the medicine stick conveyed by the conveyance means diagonally downward toward a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, a rotor , which is disposed in the medicine feeding container so that rotation thereof can be driven and conveys the medicine stick moved along the inclined surface while holding them in a holding depressed portion formed in an outer periphery.