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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2004
Koichi Kobayashi, Ota, JP;
Takashi Mori, Ota, JP;
Koichi Kobayashi, Ota, JP;
Takashi Mori, Ota, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Sanyo Electric Biomedical Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Abstract
An object of the invention is to provide a medicine feeding apparatus in which it is possible to prevent a medicine from being broken by well absorbing and reducing a kinetic energy at a time of discharging the medicine even in the case that a downsizing and a densification are promoted for making a discharge speed of the medicine higher, and it is possible to efficiently guide the medicine to an outlet portion of a hopper. Further, the medicine feeding apparatus is provided with a main body, a plurality of tablet cases receiving medicines, a chute received in the main body and through which the medicine discharged from the tablet case comes down, a hopper received in the main body, provided in correspondence to a lower side of the chute and collecting the medicines, and a filling apparatus received in the main body and filling the medicines collected by the hopper in a drug packing paper or a container. The hopper has a curtain for preventing the medicine passing through the chute from jumping up or rotating in the hopper caused by drop and absorbing a kinetic energy.