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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2003
Koichi Kobayashi, Osaka-fu, JP;
Koichi Kobayashi, Osaka-fu, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
The present invention intends to let the medicine fall regularly, by eliminating the static electricity charged on the medicine in the medicine case. A medicine case comprising a medicine case portion for containing medicine in the upper part and a mechanism unit in the lower part, the mechanism unit having a inflow passage where inflows medicine in the medicine case section and a guide face for guiding medicine into this inflow passage, an alignment body rotated or shaken by a driving unit and a fixing plate having a partition interposed in the way between a medicine chute passage communicating with the inflow passage and the inflow passage, wherein a self-dischargeable cloth having an area opposed at least to the slide area due to the shake, or, rotation of the alignment body is arranged, outside this medicine case, prevents this alignment body, the medicine and the portion of the medicine case section susceptible to be charged by mutual rubbing from being charged, and in case they are charged, they discharge and, therefore a failed discharge where the medicine is not discharged can be prevented as far as possible.