KR100543889B1 - Alarm system for drug dispensing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

 The present invention is to provide a guide alarm lamp so that the operator can easily find the location of the tablet cassette in the automatic tablet dispenser, when it is necessary to replenish the tablet in the tablet cassette or when an operation abnormality occurs in the tablet cassette. An alarm system for a tablet automatic dispenser.

If the tablet cassette cannot be visually identified from the outside, such as a sliding draw method having a structure which opens a casement mount and slides the inner slide mount to allow replacement of the tablet cassette, the tablet cassette is completely exhausted. If you seek to replenish your tablets will be inconvenient.

The present invention provides an automatic tablet dispensing device having an arrangement structure of tablet cassettes arranged in a hidden drawer, such as a sliding draw-out method, to alert an operator by installing an alarm lamp at a position that can lead to a tablet cassette to be replenished. By providing access to the tablet cassette along the ramp, it is possible to easily replenish tablets in the tablet cassette.

Automatic tablet distribution, Tablet, Pharmaceutical, Automatic tablet distribution, Tablet packaging

Description

Alarm system for drug dispensing apparatus

1 is a view seen in a plan view to show the structure of the mounting table of the automatic distribution packaging device having a conventional slide out system.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the case of the case of the case of the hinge mounting stand in the alarm device of the automatic tablet packaging device of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the alarm device of the present invention automatic tablet dispensing device, the case is opened, the slide mount is pulled out.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the alarm lamp configuration of the slide mounting table in the alarm device of the automatic tablet distribution device of the present invention.

5 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the alarm lamp showing the outer side alarm of the slide mounting in the alarm device of the automatic tablet distribution device of the present invention.

In the present invention, the automatic distribution packaging device for tablets, when it is necessary to replenish the tablets in the tablet cassette or when an abnormal operation occurs, automatic distribution of tablets to provide an induction alarm lamp so that the operator can easily find the location of the cassette An alarm system for a packaging device.

Tablet automatic dispensing packaging device is to enter the doctor or pharmacist's prescription in the hospital or pharmacy with a computer to automatically discharge and set the input tablets, and to collect and discharge the aggregated tablets for each dose As a plurality of tablet cassettes each containing various tablets are arranged on a mounting table, the tablet cassettes installed on the mounting table are intermittently controlled so that the prescribed tablets are discharged downward through each passage formed on the mounting table. In this case, the discharged tablets are collected in the hopper, and thus the tablets in the hopper are discharged to the lower side of the hopper so that they can be sealedly packed by the wrapping paper.

Such automatic distribution packaging device can be distributed and packaged using more tablets as many tablet cassettes are arranged as much as possible, and it is necessary to increase the area of the mounting table to install many tablet cassettes. Various tablet cassette arrangement structures have been proposed in consideration of space utilization of the pharmaceutical preparation room according to the installation area of the apparatus.

One of the tablet cassette array structures according to this object is a slide draw-out type tablet cassette array structure having a hinged mounting stand at the front as shown in FIG. 1.

According to this, a case for mounting the case 2 is arranged on the front side of the tablet cassette 1, the rear side is a slide mount (3) is arranged side by side on both sides of the tablet mounting structure is configured side by side, The plurality of tablet cassettes 1 provided have a structure capable of detachable replacement individually.

Each of these mounts has a structure which opens the casement mount 2 and slides out the inner slide mount 3 so that the tablet cassette 1 can be replaced.

In general, when the tablets of the tablet cassette in use are exhausted, it should be replaced with a preliminary tablet cassette prepared in advance or supplemented with tablets. Also, if the tablet cassette breaks down or malfunctions, check the tablet cassette.

At this time, as a conventional technology for informing the operator to take necessary measures, when a tablet cassette needs to be supplemented or checked, a warning lamp attached to the cassette itself lights up, or the position of the tablet cassette with a separate monitor is displayed. There is a way to tell.

However, in the automatic slide dispensing packaging device of the sliding drawer type with the opening mounting stand (2) installed on the front, the tablet cassettes mounted on the inner side of the slide mounting stand cannot be visually checked from the outside even when the warning lamp is turned on. Even if given the position of the skilled person is difficult to find the position easily.

Therefore, in this case, most workers suffer from the inconvenience of having to check the slides by sliding the mounting stand one by one in order to find the tablet cassette 1 that needs to be supplemented or checked.

 In view of the above problems, the present invention provides an automatic tablet dispensing device having an arrangement structure of tablet cassettes arranged in a concealed form, such as a sliding draw method, which can lead to a tablet cassette requiring replenishment or inspection. The technical problem is to install a variety of alarm lamps according to the possible position, and to introduce a lighting method of the alarm lamp that allows the operator to easily find the position of the tablet cassette.

The present invention relates to a tablet cassette dispensing packaging device for arranging tablets for dispensing and dispensing the required tablets in a packaging device installed by discharging the required tablets from the cassette.

An alarm lamp is constructed at each mounting stage where the tablet cassette is arranged and at a position visually identifiable to the tablet cassette site.

Control means for determining whether or not to check the tablet cassette from the means for detecting whether the tablet cassette is consumed or malfunctioning and failure, and controls the operation of the alarm lamps along the path to guide the operator to the location of the tablet cassette to be inspected. Characterized in that comprises a.

Referring to the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings, the present invention having such a feature will be described as follows.

Casement mounts 10 and 11 in which tablet cassettes 40 are arranged in front of the apparatus, and slide mounts in which tablet cassettes 40 are arranged in left and right sides and arranged inside the case mounts 10 and 11 ( A tablet automatic dispensing and packaging device having a tablet cassette array structure having 20, 21, and 22,

Alarm lamps 10a, 11a, 20a, respectively, on the outer front portion of the tablet cassette 40 and the swinging mounts 10, 11, and on the front sides of the slide mounts 20, 21, 22 formed inside the swinging mount. 21a, 22a) and further comprises a control means for controlling the flashing of the alarm lamp configured in accordance with an open path to the tablet cassette 40 and the alarm lamp configured in the tablet cassette 40 site where the tablet was consumed or malfunctioned and failed. Characterized in that the configuration.

Embodiment of the present invention is applied to the automatic tablet packaging device having a tablet cassette array structure is configured side by side with the mounting rack (10, 11) and slide mounting (20, 21, 22) having one or more sliding pull-out method therein It is applied to the alarm system of the tablet cassette of the automatic distribution packaging device.

The alarm lamps 10a, 11a, 20a, 21a, and 22a are installed at the front of the swinging racks 10 and 11 and the front of the slide mounting racks 20, 21 and 22, respectively, so that the operator can easily check them. .

In addition, the front of the case mounting (10, 11) can display a message that the replenishment of the cassette needs to be displayed, it is possible to further configure the message board panel display panel (10b, 11b) to enable the alarm lamp to flash Can be.

Here, the installation position is changeable, but in the embodiment of the present invention, the installation positions of the message display panels 10b and 11b and the alarm lamps 20a, 21a and 22a are configured to be positioned on the horizontal line of the same height. When the door openings 10 and 11 are opened, the alarm lamps 20a, 21a, and 22a can be easily checked immediately at the position where the message display panels 10b and 11b are viewed.

In addition, each tablet cassette 40 is provided with an alarm lamp informing the necessity of checking the tablet cassette.

The alarm lamps at each position are controlled by the control means to flash and control the corresponding alarm lamp and message display panel according to the position of the tablet cassette 40 in which the necessity of the inspection is detected. Has a configuration that makes it easy to find.

Referring to the operation process of the present invention having such a feature in detail as follows.

If the control means detects that the tablet in the tablet cassette 40 is consumed above a predetermined reference value, or detects that a malfunction or malfunction has occurred, the control means recognizes the position of the tablet cassette 40, and according to the position The flashing action of the alarm lamp on the required path is displayed on the control and message display panels 10b and 11b to display the situation in figures or text.

As shown in Fig. 3, an operation example in which the tablet of the third tablet cassette at the uppermost right side of the slide mount 22 is consumed and needs to be replenished will be described.

In this case, the control means includes an alarm lamp configured at the bottom of the tablet cassette 40, an alarm lamp 22a configured at the slide mount 22 on which the tablet cassette 40 is located, and the slide mount 22 shown in FIG. Flashing the alarm lamp (11a) installed on the bottom of the right casement mounting stand 11 located in front of the).

In addition, it displays a tablet supplement message on the message display panel (11b) installed on the upper end of the case mounting stand 11 and flashes the message.

In this way, the alarm lamp of the refining cassette 40, the alarm lamps 22a, 11a and the message display panel 11b of the sliding mount and the swinging mount are blinking, but the operator is exposed to the outside of the automatic tablet packaging device. Only the flashing state of the alarm lamp 11a and the message display panel 11b of the case mounting stand 11 can be confirmed initially.

Therefore, the operator reliably recognizes the position of the message and alarm lamp 11a displayed on the message display panel 11b, opens the right casement mount 11 without touching the left casement mount 10, and opens the alarm lamp of the slide drawer inside. Will be checked.

When the worker opens the right casement mounting stand 11, the operator sees the alarm lamp 22a on the upper right side of the slide take-out stand 22 blinking.

Then, the worker withdraws the slide drawer 22 and finds that the alarm lamp is turned on among the tablet cassettes mounted on the left and right sides, and separates the uppermost third tablet cassette 40 to replenish the tablets.

If the tablet cassette 40 to be checked is located on the slide mount 21 in the center, at this time, the alarm lamps 10a and 10b of the right and left casement mounts 10 and 11 will blink. .

Therefore, in this case, open both the right and left swinging mounts (10) and (11), check the flashing state of the alarm lamp (21a) of the slide mount (21) in the center, and then draw out the slide mount (21) The cassette 40 will have to be found.

In this case, when the alarm lamps 10a and 11a installed on the bay mounts 10 and 11 do not blink and only the message display panels 10b and 11b blink, the tablet cassette 40 mounted in the bay mounts 10 and 11 is turned off. It will be indicated that the tablet supplement.

 In this case, if the tablet lamp 40 is checked in the transparent window of the swinging mounts 10 and 11 and an alarm lamp is placed in any of the tablet cassettes, the tablets to be refilled without refining the cassettes 40 need not be opened. Open the transparent window that is installed in the door type on the front of the casement mounting stand (10, 11) is located and will replenish the tablet to the tablet cassette (40).

That is, when an alarm is required for the tablet cassette 40 located in the casement mounting stand 10 or 11 as described above, the alarm lamps 10a and 11a are kept in the off state without operating, thereby causing the operator to generate an alarm. If you can easily check the alarm state of the tablet cassette 40 located in the case opening (10, 11).

On the other hand, as shown in Figure 2, it is possible to install a transparent door window 30 to the outside of the slide mounting base (20, 22) of the outside of the slide mounting base (20, 21, 22).

At this time, the alarm lamp (20b, 22b) can be installed in the main body of the upper side of the transparent door window 30 to the outside, the alarm lamp (20b, 22b) is configured to protrude to the outside, to be identified from the front It is desirable to.

Therefore, when the tablet cassette 40 to be inspected is generated among the tablet cassettes 40 arranged on both outer surfaces of the slide mounts 20 and 22, the control means operates the alarm lamps by the same operation as described above. In addition, the alarm lamps 20b and 22b flash together.

Alternatively, the alarm lamps 20b and 22b flashed and the corresponding message display panels 10b and 11b flashed on both outer sides of the slide mounting tables 20 and 21 are displayed and blinked without blinking all the alarm lamps.

Accordingly, the operator checks the tablet cassette 40 through the door window 30 and checks the tablet cassette 40 without opening the case holders 10 and 11 and pulling out the slide mounts 20 and 22. Tablets may be replenished.

Figure 4 is another embodiment of the present invention, the alarm lamp is configured to identify both sides of the slide mounting.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, since the tablet cassette 40 is installed on each of the left and right sides of the slide mount 20, 21, 22, the operator should check both sides when the alarm lamp flashes.

However, in another embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 4, the respective alarm lamps 20c, 20d, 21c, 21d, 22c, so as to be shown for the left and the right in front of the slide mounts 20, 21, 22, respectively. 22d), the operator only needs to look at the tablet cassette 40 is arranged in the position of the corresponding alarm lamp.

In addition, the alarm sound generating means by configuring the buzzer to control the alarm lamp with the alarm sound, it is possible to provide a more reliable alarm device.

On the other hand, Figure 5 shows an example in which the installation position of the alarm lamp for the replenishment supplement alarm of the outer tablet cassette 40 of the slide mount (20, 21).

In this embodiment, the alarm lamps 10c and 11c for tablet replenishment alarms on the outer side of the slide mounts 20 and 22 are installed to protrude from the side surfaces of the swing mounts 10 and 11.

The reason why the alarm lamps 10c and 11c are installed to protrude from the side surfaces of the bay mounts 10 and 11 is to install the alarm lamps 10c and 11c closer to the front side so that they can be easily identified from the front side.

The present invention is not limited to the presently disclosed embodiments, and is applicable to various tablet cassette arrangements, and in particular, to a tablet cassette arrangement in which a tablet cassette is not exposed to the outside, such as a slide extraction method. It is possible.

 Applying the present invention as described above, the operator can find a tablet cassette to be easily replenished by following the alarm lamp, it is easy to replenish the tablet or to cope with malfunction or failure, especially the time to find the tablet cassette significantly It can be shortened.

Especially in large pharmacies or hospitals with a large number of tablet automatic dispensing and packaging devices, higher work efficiency can be expected.

Claims (9)

delete delete Casement mounts 10 and 11 in which the tablet cassettes 40 are arranged, and slide mounts 20, 21 and 22, which are arranged inside the case mounts 10 and 11 and in which the tablet cassettes 40 are arranged, In the automatic tablet packaging device having a tablet cassette arrangement structure is installed more than one, Alarm lamps 10a, 11a, and 20a on the outer front portions of the tablet cassette 40 and the swinging mounts 10 and 11, respectively, and on the front sides of the slide mounts 20, 21 and 22, which are arranged inside the swinging mounts. , 21a, 22a, and further comprising a control means for controlling the operation of the alarm lamp configured in accordance with the open path to the tablet cassette (40).  4. The alarm lamps (20a, 21a, 22a) of the slide mounts (20, 21, 22a) according to claim 3, for identifying the position of the tablet cassette arranged on both sides of the slide mounts (20, 21, 22). And an alarm lamp (20c, 20d, 21c, 21d, 22c, 22d) for identifying the left tablet cassette array and the right tablet cassette array. 4. The refill supplement message display panels (10b, 11b) according to claim 3, further comprising a refill supplement message display panels (10b, 11b) installed at the front of the case (10, 11). Alarm display device of the automatic distribution packaging device, characterized in that the message display and flashing control in accordance with the position of the tablet cassette subject to replenishment. The tablet cassette arranging unit according to any one of claims 3 to 5, wherein the outer side of the slide mounting units 20 and 22 formed at both edges of the automatic tablet packaging device communicates with the corresponding side tablet cassette arrangement of the slide mounting units 20 and 22. The door window 30 is installed, and the warning lamps 20b and 22b for protruding the purification cassette to supplement the purification of the corresponding side of the purification cassette array of the slide mounting units 20 and 22 are installed so as to be distinguishable. Alarm device of the automatic tablet packaging device characterized in that. The alarm device of the automatic tablet packaging device according to claim 6, wherein the alarm lamps (20b, 22b) are installed so as to protrude toward outer sides of the case (10, 11). The alarm device of the automatic tablet packaging device according to claim 4, wherein the control means controls the alarm lamp to turn on or blink in a predetermined pattern. The method according to claim 5, wherein the control means for the automatic distribution packaging device, characterized in that the alarm lamp (10a, 11a) to maintain the off state when the control target of the alarm cassette is located on the opening mounting base (10,11). Alarm device.

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