CN215938113U - Medicine taking device and medicine distribution system - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a device and medicine delivery system get it filled, the device of getting it filled includes receiving mechanism and sets up the mechanism of picking up in one side of receiving mechanism, wherein, picks up the mechanism and includes: the guide plate extends upwards along the direction deviating from the receiving mechanism in an inclined way and can move back and forth; and a medicine taking part which is arranged at the front end of the guide plate and can move up and down and/or back and forth relative to the guide plate, wherein the medicine taking device is configured to: at the position of getting it filled, the portion of getting it filled stretches into in putting the medicine frame and upwards move with jack-up medicine at the in-process of getting it filled, can adjust the position of getting it filled through the removal of control guide board, can also adjust the position of getting it filled through the removal of control portion of getting it filled relative to the guide board on this basis further for the device of getting it filled can have bigger movement stroke. After the medicine is taken out, the guide plate and the medicine taking part can return to the initial position, so that the appearance of the medicine taking device is small, and the interference of the medicine taking device and other structures such as a medicine placing frame is avoided.

Description

Medicine taking device and medicine distribution system

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of medicine selling, in particular to a medicine taking device and a medicine distribution system.

Background

With the development and progress of science and technology, the medicine taking process becomes more automatic, and at present, the medicine taking process can be generally completed by a medicine taking device. For example, in a medicine vending machine application, or during a medicine taking process in a hospital or pharmacy, an automatic medicine taking device may be used to take out a medicine on a medicine rack. The existing automatic medicine taking device mostly adopts a mechanical arm and a clamp to take out the medicines on the medicine placing rack, and has larger size and more complex structure, so that the production cost of the medicine taking device is higher, and the sensitivity is poorer.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

A first object of the present disclosure is to provide a medicine dispensing device to solve at least the problems occurring in the related art.

It is a second object of the present disclosure to provide a drug delivery system that uses a drug delivery device provided by the present disclosure.

In order to achieve the above object, the present disclosure provides a medicine dispensing device including a receiving mechanism and a pickup mechanism provided at one side of the receiving mechanism, wherein the pickup mechanism includes:

the guide plate extends upwards along the direction deviating from the receiving mechanism in an inclined mode and can move back and forth; and

a medicine taking part which is arranged at the front end of the guide plate and can move up and down and/or back and forth relative to the guide plate,

the medication taking device is configured to: at the medicine taking position, the medicine taking part extends into the medicine placing rack and moves upwards to jack up the medicine.

Optionally, the picking mechanism comprises a support fixed to the receiving mechanism, the guide plate being movably connected to the support in an oblique direction.

Optionally, support piece sets up including parallel interval the first backup pad of guide board below, the top surface of first backup pad is provided with the first guide rail that extends from beginning to end, the bottom surface of guide board be provided with first guide rail sliding connection's first slider, the guide board with be provided with between the first backup pad and be used for the drive the gliding first drive assembly in guide board front and back.

Optionally, the rear end of the medicine taking part is rotatably connected to the guide plate, and the front end of the medicine taking part is made to swing up and down.

Optionally, a through hole is opened at a position close to the front end of the guide plate,

the medicine taking part comprises a main body section which is arranged below the guide plate in a back-and-forth moving way, a neck section which extends upwards from the main body section through the through hole, and a medicine taking section which is bent and extends forwards from the tail end of the neck section,

wherein the medicine taking part comprises:

a first extended state in which the medicine taking part moves forward along with the guide plate;

a second protruding state in which the medicine taking part moves forward relative to the guide plate;

a first reset state in which the medicine taking part moves backward with the guide plate; and

a second reset state in which the medicine dispensing portion moves backward relative to the guide plate.

Alternatively,

in the first extending state, the neck section is abutted against the rear side wall of the through hole and is pushed forwards by the rear side wall of the through hole;

in the second extended state, the main body segment moves forward and disengages the neck segment from the rear sidewall of the through-hole;

in the first reset state, the neck section is abutted against the front side wall of the through hole and is pushed backwards by the front side wall of the through hole; and

in the second reset state, the main body segment moves rearward and disengages the neck segment from the front sidewall of the through-hole.

Optionally, the dispensing section is configured to be able to project forwardly out of the guide plate in the second extended state and retract rearwardly inside the contour of the guide plate in the second reset state.

Optionally, the picking mechanism comprises a second support plate fixed to the receiving mechanism, the second support plate being disposed parallel and spaced below the guide plate, the main body segment being attached to the second support plate movably back and forth.

Optionally, the main body segment is further configured to be connected to the second support plate to move up and down; or

The rear end of the medicine taking section is rotatably connected to the neck section, and the front end of the medicine taking section swings up and down.

Optionally, a second guide rail extending forward and backward is arranged on the second support plate, a second slider slidably connected to the second guide rail is arranged on the medicine taking portion, and a second driving assembly for driving the medicine taking portion to slide forward and backward is arranged between the main body section and the second support plate.

Optionally, pick up the mechanism and still include stand in the curb plate of guide board both sides, two the curb plate with the guide board encloses into the guide slot that supplies the medicine landing.

Optionally, the receiving mechanism comprises a delivery platform disposed below the rear end of the guide plate, the delivery platform for delivering the received medicine to a discharge location.

Optionally, the conveying direction of the conveying platform is perpendicular to the front-back moving direction of the guide plate, and baffles are vertically arranged on two sides of the conveying platform.

Optionally, the receiving mechanism further includes a lifting plate vertically disposed at an end of the conveying platform in the conveying direction, and a third driving assembly for driving the lifting plate to move up and down, wherein the lifting plate is at least capable of being lowered to enable the top to be flush with the top of the conveying platform.

Optionally, the medicine taking device further comprises a moving mechanism for driving the receiving mechanism and the picking mechanism to move in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.

Optionally, the moving mechanism includes a first base movable horizontally and a second base movable vertically relative to the first base, and the receiving mechanism and the picking mechanism are fixed on the second base.

According to the second aspect of the present disclosure, a medicine dispensing system is further provided, which includes a medicine placing rack and the medicine taking device provided by the present disclosure, wherein the medicine placing rack is formed with a medicine taking channel for the medicine taking part to pass through upwards so as to jack up the medicine.

Optionally, put medicine frame including two boundary beams that the level set up and connect between two boundary beams and a plurality of medicine boards of putting that parallel interval set up, two boundary beams have different height so that put the slope of medicine board and set up, the lower extreme of putting the medicine board is provided with the backstop turn-ups that can backstop medicine, and wherein, the medicine is used for the overlap joint at least two adjacent put on the medicine board, and adjacent two put and form between the medicine board get it filled the passageway.

Optionally, a partition board is vertically connected to the drug placing board, and the partition board extends from the position of one edge beam to the position of the other edge beam.

Optionally, the medicine placing racks are multiple in number and are arranged at intervals in the vertical direction.

Through above-mentioned technical scheme, the mechanism of picking up of device of getting it filled in this embodiment of the disclosure includes guide plate and the portion of getting it filled that sets up at guide plate front end, and at the in-process of getting it filled, can adjust the position of getting it filled through the removal of control guide plate, can also adjust the position of getting it filled through the removal of control portion of getting it filled for guide plate on this basis for the device of getting it filled can have bigger movement stroke. And, after the completion of getting it filled, guide board and the portion of getting it filled all can return to initial position for the appearance of the device of getting it filled is less, avoids the device of getting it filled to take place to interfere with other structures such as putting the medicine frame in the motion process, has guaranteed the reliability of the process of getting it filled.

Additional features and advantages of the disclosure will be set forth in the detailed description which follows.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and together with the description serve to explain the disclosure without limiting the disclosure. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a drug delivery system provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a pick-up mechanism provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a picking mechanism provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure with a medicine dispensing portion omitted;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a pick-up mechanism provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure with a portion of the structure omitted;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a medicine taking part protruding from a guide plate according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a drug rack provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a partial schematic view of a drug rack provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a flowchart of a method for dispensing a drug provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.

Description of the reference numerals

110-receiving mechanism, 111-conveying platform, 112-baffle, 113-lifting plate, 120-picking mechanism, 121-guide plate, 121 a-through hole, 1211-first slide block, 122-medicine taking part, 1221-main body section, 1222-neck section, 1223-medicine taking section, 1224-second slide block, 123-first support plate, 1231-first guide rail, 124-second support plate, 1241-second guide rail, 125-side plate, 130-moving mechanism, 131-first base, 132-second base, 200-medicine placing rack, 210-side beam, 220-medicine placing plate, 220 a-medicine taking channel, 221-stopping flange and 230-partition plate.

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of specific embodiments of the present disclosure is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the present disclosure, are given by way of illustration and explanation only, not limitation.

In the present disclosure, unless otherwise stated, the terms of orientation such as "up" and "down" are defined according to the actual placement state and usage habit of the medicine dispensing device, and refer to the drawing direction of fig. 2; the "front and back" are defined according to the positions of the medicine rack and the medicine taking device, specifically, referring to fig. 1, the medicine taking device is front close to the medicine rack and back far from the medicine rack, in fig. 2, the outward direction of the drawing is front, and the inward direction of the drawing is back. The terms "inner and outer" are used in this disclosure to refer to the proper outline of the corresponding component parts, and the terms "first, second, etc. are used to distinguish one element from another, without order or importance. Moreover, when the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like reference numbers in different drawings identify the same or similar elements.

Referring to fig. 1, the present disclosure provides a medicine dispensing device, which may be suitable for automatic medicine dispensing apparatuses or hospitals and other places requiring automatic medicine dispensing. The medicine taking device comprises a receiving mechanism 110 and a picking mechanism 120 arranged on one side of the receiving mechanism 110, wherein the picking mechanism 120 can be directly connected to the receiving mechanism 110 or indirectly connected to the receiving mechanism 110 through other structures. The receiving mechanism 110 is used for receiving the medicines picked up from the medicine placing rack 200, and the picking mechanism 120 is used for picking up the medicines from the medicine placing rack 200. When medicine taking is needed, the medicine taking device may be controlled to move to a position corresponding to a corresponding medicine in the medicine placing rack 200 (i.e., a medicine taking position described below) according to the medicine information, and then the corresponding medicine is picked up by the picking mechanism 120, and then the medicine falls to the receiving mechanism 110. The medication may then be delivered to the user through the predetermined outlet by controlling the dispensing device to move to a position suitable for the user to dispense the medication, such as to a transfer device suitable for cooperating with the dispensing device.

The picking mechanism 120 may include a guide plate 121 extending obliquely upward in a direction away from the receiving mechanism 110 and capable of moving back and forth, and a medicine dispensing part 122 disposed at a front end of the guide plate 121, that is, before medicine is dispensed, one end of the guide plate 121 close to the medicine is higher than one end thereof far away from the medicine. Here, the inclined guide plate 121 may be used to guide the medicine to the receiving mechanism 110, and the back-and-forth movement of the guide plate 121 may be back-and-forth movement in a horizontal direction, or back-and-forth movement along the inclined direction of the guide plate 121, in which case the guide plate 121 moves upward while moving forward, and moves downward while moving backward. When the medicine taking device moves to a position close to the medicine rack 200, the medicine taking part 122 may be brought close to the medicine to reach a proper medicine taking position by moving the guide plate 121 forward, for example, a position between the front end of the guide plate 121 and the medicine rack 200 may be recognized by a position sensor to determine whether the guide plate 121 moves in place.

Here, the medicine taking part 122 may be disposed at the front end of the guide plate 121 so as to be movable up and down relative to the guide plate 121, that is, after the guide plate 121 moves to a proper position, for example, when the medicine taking part 122 is located at the bottom of the medicine, the medicine may be lifted by controlling the medicine taking part 122 to move up, so that the medicine falls to the receiving mechanism 110.

Alternatively, the medicine taking part 122 may be arranged at the front end of the guide plate 121 movably back and forth, that is, after the guide plate 121 is moved to a proper position, the medicine taking part 122 may be further controlled to move forward to the bottom of the medicine, and then the medicine may be picked up and dropped to the receiving mechanism 110 by controlling the entire medicine taking device to move upward, or the medicine may be picked up by the aforementioned upward movement of the medicine taking part 122.

That is, the medicine taking part 122 of the embodiment of the present disclosure may move up and down or back and forth relative to the guide plate 121, or both move up and down and back and forth, so that in the medicine taking process, in addition to controlling the relative position with the medicine by the back and forth movement of the guide plate 121, the relative position with the medicine may be controlled by the medicine taking part 122 provided at the front end of the guide plate 121, on one hand, the stroke may be increased, and on the other hand, fine adjustment may be performed by the medicine taking part 122 after coarse adjustment of the position by the guide plate 121, and it is not necessary to make each step of movement of the medicine taking device control the movement of the entire device, which leads to cumbersome control. Here, the movement of medicine taking part 122 with respect to guide plate 121 may be the entire movement of medicine taking part 122 or may be a part of movement of medicine taking part 122, for example, in the embodiment in which medicine taking part 122 moves up and down as will be described later, medicine taking part 122 may perform a translational movement or may perform an inversion movement, and at least a part thereof can be ensured to have a displacement in the height direction.

Further, the medication taking device may be configured to: in the dispensing position, the dispensing portion 122 extends into the dispensing frame 200 and moves upward to eject the product. Here, according to the foregoing description, the upward movement of the medicine taking part 122 may be provided on the guide plate 121 by moving up and down as described above, or the entire picking mechanism 120 or the entire medicine taking device may move up and down, which is not particularly required by the embodiment of the present disclosure. Since the guide plate 121 is disposed to be inclined, the medicine can be slid down the inclined slope while being pushed up by the upward movement of the medicine taking part 122, and the receiving mechanism 110 is disposed at the bottom side of the inclined slope to receive the medicine.

Through the technical scheme, the picking mechanism 120 of the medicine taking device in the embodiment of the present disclosure includes the guide plate 121 and the medicine taking part 122 arranged at the front end of the guide plate 121, and in the medicine taking process, the medicine taking position can be adjusted by controlling the movement of the guide plate 121, and the medicine taking position can be further adjusted by controlling the movement of the medicine taking part 122 relative to the guide plate 121 on the basis, so that the medicine taking device can have a larger movement stroke. And, after the completion of getting it filled, guide plate 121 and portion of getting it filled 122 all can return to initial position for the appearance of the device of getting it filled is less, avoids the device of getting it filled to interfere with other structures such as putting medicine frame 200 in the motion process, has guaranteed the reliability of the process of getting it filled.

In the disclosed embodiment, the pickup mechanism 120 may include a support fixed to the receiving mechanism 110, to which the guide plate 121 is movably connected in an inclined direction. Here, the supporting member may be located at any position of the guide plate 121 that does not block the guide plate 121 from moving back and forth, and is not limited herein. The driving assembly for driving the guide plate 121 may include a driving part and a driven part, the driving part may be provided to the supporter, and the driven part may be provided to the guide plate 121.

Referring to fig. 2, the support member may include a first support plate 123 disposed below the guide plate 121 at a parallel interval, that is, the first support plate 123 has the same inclination angle and the same inclination direction as the guide plate 121, and when the guide plate 121 moves forward, the first support plate 123 may constitute a connection area between the guide plate 121 and the receiving mechanism 110 for guiding the medicine to fall onto the receiving mechanism 110. Referring to fig. 2 and 4, wherein, for convenience of understanding, the guide plate 121 and the first support plate 123 are omitted in fig. 4, a first guide rail 1231 extending back and forth is disposed on the top surface of the first support plate 123, a first slider 1211 slidably connected to the first guide rail 1231 is disposed on the bottom surface of the guide plate 121, and a first driving assembly (not shown) for driving the guide plate 121 to slide back and forth is disposed between the guide plate 121 and the first support plate 123, and the first driving assembly may be a linear guide motor, or may be an air cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder, or may also be a gear-rack structure controlled by a motor, or may also be an electromagnetic driving mode. Here, the guide rail and the slider may be in a dovetail-shaped fitting form to ensure that the movement process of the guide plate 121 is stable, thereby precisely controlling the positional relationship between the guide plate and the medicine.

In one embodiment, the rear end of the medicine taking part 122 is rotatably connected to the guide plate 121, and the front end of the medicine taking part 122 is swung up and down, thereby achieving the up and down movement of the medicine taking part 122 with respect to the guide plate 121. Specifically, the medicine taking part 122 may be connected to the guide plate 121 through a rotation shaft, and the rotation shaft may be connected to a motor to be controlled to swing up and down with respect to the guide plate 121. By the vertical swing of the medicine taking part 122, the medicine taking part 122 can lift the medicine, and by the way of the swing, the medicine can be more easily slid onto the receiving mechanism 110 along the inclined slope of the guide plate 121, and the medicine is prevented from being retained on the medicine taking part 122 or the guide plate 121.

Referring to fig. 3 to 5, in fig. 3, the medicine taking portion 122 is omitted for convenience of understanding, and in fig. 4, the guide plate 121 and the like are omitted. As can be seen from fig. 3, the guide plate 121 has a through hole 121a opened at a position near the front end. Referring again to fig. 4, the medicine taking part 122 may include a main body segment 1221 disposed under the guide plate 121 movably back and forth, a neck segment 1222 extending upward from the main body segment 1221 through the through hole 121a, and a medicine taking segment 1223 extending forward from a tip of the neck segment 1222, wherein the medicine taking part 122 has a first protruding state, a second protruding state, a first reset state, and a second reset state. In the first extended state, the medicine taking part 122 can move forward along with the guide plate 121, for example, a disconnectable connection relationship can be established between the guide plate 121 and the medicine taking part 122, such as a magnetic attraction effect generated by a butting contact or an electrified electromagnetism, which will be described later, and the two parts can be in a connection state at this stage, so as to generate linkage; in the second extended state, medicine taking part 122 may move forward relative to guide plate 121, that is, medicine taking part 122 may move forward alone without moving guide plate 121; in the first reset state, the medicine taking part 122 can move backwards along with the guide plate 121, and the specific principle is the same as that of the first extending state, and the movement process is opposite; in the second reset state, the medicine taking part 122 can move backward relative to the guide plate 121, and the specific principle is the same as that of the second protruding state, and the movement process is reversed. By the stepwise movement of the guide plate 121 and the medicine dispensing portion 122, the movement stroke of the medicine dispensing device can be increased.

Specifically, in the first extended state, the neck 1222 may abut against and be pushed forward by the rear sidewall of the through hole 121 a; a second extended state (i.e., the state shown in fig. 5), in which the body segment 1221 is moved forward and the neck segment 1222 is disengaged from the rear sidewall of the through-hole 121 a; in the first reset state, the neck 1222 can abut against the front sidewall of the through hole 121a and be pushed backward by the front sidewall of the through hole 121 a; and a second reset state, the body segment 1221 is moved rearward and disengages the neck segment 1222 from the front sidewall of the through-hole 121 a. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the front end of the medicine dispensing section 1223 may be disposed to protrude forward from the guide plate 121 at any position, and may be disposed to be aligned with the front end of the guide plate 121 at the maximum retracted position. Under the condition that the front end of the medicine taking section 1223 always protrudes forwards out of the guide plate 121, the medicine taking section 1223 can pick up the medicine in a first protruding state, namely the medicine taking section 1223 is driven to move forwards by the guide plate 121; under the condition that the front end of medicine taking section 1223 is at the initial position and the front end of guide plate 121 parallel and level, or under the aforesaid first state of protrusion still can not satisfy the condition that medicine taking section 1223 reaches suitable medicine taking position, can be so that medicine taking section 1223 continues to move forward to the second state of protrusion to in medicine's accurate pick up. In practical application, the specific extending state of the medicine taking part 122 which needs to be reached can be determined by identifying the position of the medicine according to the sensor, and the optimal medicine taking position can be reached by controlling the sectional movement of the medicine taking device. After the medicine taking is completed, the medicine taking part 122 may first return the guide plate 121 through the first reset state and synchronously bring the medicine taking part 122 to move backward, and then may go backward through the control main body section 1221 to further return the medicine taking part 122 to prevent the medicine taking device from interfering with other structures.

Further, get medicine section 1223 and set up to be able to bulge guide plate 121 forward in the second state of stretching out to ensure that get medicine section 1223 can play the effect of picking up the medicine, it can be understood that, get medicine section 1223's size sets up and puts medicine rack 200's the breach that is used for picking up the medicine and match, and guide plate 121 can provide suitable get medicine position for getting medicine section 1223, and provide sufficient bearing space for the requirement of taking off, but is not suitable for stretching to the medicine below and getting it filled. And, get it filled section 1223 can be inside the profile line of guide plate 121 is retracted to the back at the second reset state, in short, at the second reset state, the foremost of getting it filled section 1223 can not be located the foremost of guide plate 121, and the two can be the parallel and level, like this, neither can lead to getting it filled section 1223 and other structures to interfere in getting it filled device removal process, also can make the anterior removal of getting it filled section 1223 can be for stretching into the effective stroke of medicine below.

In the disclosed embodiment, referring to fig. 2, the picking mechanism 120 may include a second support plate 124 fixed to the receiving mechanism 110, the second support plate 124 being disposed under the guide plate 121 in parallel spaced, and the main body segment 1221 being attached to the second support plate 124 movably back and forth. The second support plate 124 may provide a suitable mounting position for the main body segment 1221, and a stroke of the main body segment 1221, which is movable back and forth, is defined by the dimension of the through hole 121a in the back and forth direction and a stroke of the guide plate 121, which is movable back and forth, that is, the stroke of the main body segment 1221 may be the sum of the two.

In addition, main part section 1221 still configures to and can connects on second backup pad 124 with reciprocating, so that portion 122 of getting it filled can have the function of independent oscilaltion, in the in-process of getting it filled, can pick up the medicine through the oscilaltion of the section 1223 of getting it filled, whole picking mechanism 120 has been saved and has set up the process that whole device of getting it filled up the up-and-down motion and get it filled, avoid complex operation nature, and, through the action repeatedly of this kind of relatively less part of portion 122 of getting it filled, after it reaches its life cycle, also be convenient for the change of part. Alternatively, in another embodiment, the rear end of the medicine taking section 1223 may be rotatably connected to the neck section 1222, and the front end of the medicine taking section 1223 may swing up and down, the rotatable connection of the medicine taking section 1223 may be the same as the rotatable connection of the medicine taking part 122 and the guide plate 121, and the same effect is produced, referring to fig. 2 and 4, the second driving assembly may also be a motor to drive the gear to rotate, and convert the rotation of the gear into linear motion through the rack.

Referring to fig. 2 and 4, a second guide rail 1241 extending back and forth may be disposed on the second support plate 124, a second slider 1224 slidably coupled to the second guide rail 1241 may be disposed on the medicine taking portion 122, and a second driving assembly for driving the medicine taking portion 122 to slide back and forth may be disposed between the main body segment 1221 and the second support plate 124, and may be the same as the first driving assembly described above. Here, the second guide rail 1241 and the second slider 1224 may also be of a dovetail structure to ensure movement stability. When the main body segment 1221 is required to further have the function of ascending and descending, a vertically extending vertical guide rail may be provided on the second support plate 124, and a slider matched with the vertical guide rail may also be provided at the end of the second guide rail 1241, that is, the second guide rail 1241 may be provided on the vertical guide rail so as to be movable up and down, so that the independent up-and-down movement of the medicine taking part 122 may be realized through the vertical guide rail, and the independent front-and-back movement of the medicine taking part 122 may be realized through the second guide rail 1241. In other embodiments, the second guiding rail 1241 and the second slider 1224 may be configured to engage without an up-down limit, i.e., the dovetail-shaped engagement may be changed to a square engagement, so that the up-down movement of the main body segment 1221 may be guided by a sliding shaft extending through the second slider 1224. However, the manner in which the medicine taking driving portion 122 can move up and down and back and forth in the embodiments of the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and is only exemplary, and other possible embodiments are within the scope of the present disclosure.

Referring to fig. 5, the picking mechanism 120 further includes side plates 125 standing on both sides of the guide plate 121, the two side plates 125 and the guide plate 121 enclose a guide slot for sliding down the medicine, and after the medicine is picked up by the medicine taking portion 122, the guide slot can guide the medicine to smoothly drop to the receiving mechanism 110, so as to avoid the medicine from dropping from both sides.

Referring to fig. 1, the receiving mechanism 110 may include a transfer platform 111 disposed below the rear end of the guide plate 121, the transfer platform 111 for transferring the received medicine to the depilling position. After the medicine falls to the transfer platform 111, a sensor may be provided on the receiving mechanism 110 to identify the medicine, and after the medicine is identified, the medicine may be transferred by controlling the movement of the transfer platform 11. Here, the driving platform 111 may comprise a belt wound around two shafts, which may be controlled by a motor to drive the belt in motion. It should be noted that the unloading position may be a medicine taking device disposed below the end of the conveying platform 111, such as in a vending machine, and the unloading position may be a medicine taking port disposed below the end of the conveying platform 111, from which a user may take a medicine.

In particular, referring to fig. 1, the conveying direction of the conveying platform 111 is perpendicular to the back-and-forth movement direction of the guide plate 121, that is, the medicine taking direction is different from the conveying direction, and this arrangement can make the medicine taking device compact in arrangement and save occupied space. Baffles 112 may be vertically disposed on both sides of the conveying platform 111 to prevent the medicine from falling off or falling off during the conveying process or when the medicine falls from the guide plate 121 to the conveying platform 110.

Further, the receiving mechanism 110 further includes a lifting plate 113 vertically disposed at an end of the conveying platform 111 in the conveying direction, and a third driving assembly for driving the lifting plate 113 to move up and down, wherein the lifting plate 113 can be at least lowered to make the top flush with the top of the conveying platform 111, and the third driving assembly may be a mechanism in which a motor is engaged with a rack and pinion, or may be a linear guide, which is not limited herein. During the drug delivery process or the drug taking process, the lifting plate 113 keeps rising to function as the same drug stopper as the baffle 112, and when the drug is delivered to the end of the delivery platform 111, the lifting plate 113 can be lowered to a position not higher than the surface of the delivery platform 111 to ensure that the drug is delivered to the corresponding drug discharge position smoothly, such as to the drug taking port smoothly.

In order to make the medicine taking device accessible to the respective medicine, the medicine taking device may further comprise a moving mechanism 130 for driving the receiving mechanism 110 and the picking mechanism 120 to move in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction. Specifically, the movement of the receiving mechanism 110 and the picking mechanism 120 in the vertical direction may be driven by the fourth driving assembly, and the movement of the receiving mechanism 110 and the picking mechanism 120 in the horizontal direction may be driven by the fifth driving assembly. The fourth driving component and the fifth driving component can be basically in the forms of linear slide rails or air cylinders.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1, the moving mechanism 130 may include a first base 131 horizontally movable and a second base 132 vertically movable with respect to the first base 131, and the receiving mechanism 110 and the picking mechanism 120 are fixed on the second base 132. The horizontal movement of the first base 131 may simultaneously bring the second base 132 and the receiving mechanism 110 and the picking mechanism 120 mounted thereon into horizontal movement, and the second base 132 may vertically move with respect to the first base 131. In other embodiments, the receiving mechanism 110 and the picking mechanism 120 may also be mounted on the first base 131, and the first base 131 may be horizontally movably mounted on the second base 132.

According to the second aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided a medicine dispensing system, which includes a medicine placing rack 200 and the medicine taking device, wherein the medicine placing rack 200 is formed with a medicine taking passage 220a through which the medicine taking part 122 passes upward to be able to jack up the medicine, in other words, a part of the bottom of the medicine is exposed through the medicine taking passage 220a, and the medicine taking part 122 can reach below the exposed area and jack up the medicine to drop the medicine. Referring to fig. 1, the medicine taking part 122 of the medicine taking device can extend into the bottom of the medicine rack 200 in the direction of the arrow between the picking mechanism 120 and the medicine rack 200 to perform the medicine taking operation. The dispensing system has all the advantages of the medicine taking device, and the details are not repeated.

The medicine rack 200 may be configured to have an inclined placement surface, and a lower end of the placement surface may stop the medicine to prevent the medicine from being separated from the medicine rack 200 due to gravity. When the medicines are arranged on the placing surface along the inclined direction, the medicines at the bottom can slide downwards by gravity after being taken away, so that the medicines at the top can be prepared for the next medicine taking process. According to some embodiments, referring to fig. 6 and 7, the medicine rack 200 includes two side beams 210 horizontally disposed and a plurality of medicine placing plates 220 connected between the two side beams 210 and disposed in parallel at intervals, the two side beams 210 have different heights so that the medicine placing plates 220 are disposed obliquely, and the lower ends of the medicine placing plates 220 are provided with stopping flanges 221 capable of stopping medicines, wherein the medicines are used for overlapping at least two adjacent medicine placing plates 220, and the medicine taking channel 220a is formed between the two adjacent medicine placing plates 220. Every two adjacent medicine boards 220 can be provided with a plurality of medicines of the same kind between, and a plurality of medicines can be along the extending direction setting of putting medicine board 220, and when the medicine that is located the lower extreme was taken out, the medicine of top can be automatic along the slope direction landing downwards of putting medicine board 220 and support in backstop turn-ups 221 department to the next medicine of getting is convenient for. When taking medicine, the medicine taking part 122 may extend into the space between two adjacent medicine placing plates 220, and then lift upward to take out the medicine. It can be understood that the width of the medicine taking part 122 is not greater than the interval between the two medicine placing plates 220 to ensure that the medicine can be taken out smoothly from the medicine taking part 122, and the interval between the two medicine placing plates 220 is not greater than the width of the medicine to prevent the medicine from falling off from the interval.

Further, referring to fig. 7, a partition 230 is vertically connected to the drug-containing plate 220, and the partition 230 extends from the position of one of the side beams 210 to the position of the other side beam 210. The partition 230 can separate the same kind of medicine, avoid medicine mixing to cause medicine taking errors, and provide a guide for downward sliding of the medicine. Here, the thickness of the partition 230 may be set to be greater than the thickness of the medicine or to be at least greater than half the thickness of the medicine to further avoid adjacent medicines from being mixed up.

Referring to fig. 6, the medicine rack 200 may be plural in number and arranged at intervals in a vertical direction. When medicines are taken, the medicine taking device can be controlled to move along the horizontal direction or the vertical direction according to the position of the needed medicines so as to reach the corresponding position of the medicine placing rack 200 and take the medicines out of the medicine placing rack 200.

According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided a medicine dispensing method for dispensing a medicine by using the medicine dispensing system, wherein the medicine is placed on the medicine placing rack 200 and above the medicine taking channel 220a, and referring to fig. 8, the method includes: in step 101, the medicine taking device is moved to the medicine taking position of the medicine placing rack 200, such as by the moving mechanism 130 described above, and more specifically, the moving position of the medicine taking device can be controlled by the controller according to the information of the required medicine identified by the controller; in step 102, the guide plate 121 is controlled to move forward and move the medicine taking part 122 into the medicine taking channel 220a, where the moving manner of the heat exchange medicine taking part 122 of the guide plate 121 is described above and is not repeated here, and it should be noted that, according to the above, the specific moving position and moving manner of the medicine taking part 122 can be controlled according to actual requirements; and in step 103, controlling medicine taking part 122 to move upwards and jack up the corresponding medicine, so that the medicine falls down on receiving mechanism 110, as described above, the upward movement of medicine taking part 122 may be a single movement of itself, for example, an upward translation or an upward swinging effect may be achieved, or the upward movement of medicine taking part 122 may be a movement of the whole medicine taking device, which is not limited in this disclosure.

The preferred embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, however, the present disclosure is not limited to the specific details of the above embodiments, and various simple modifications may be made to the technical solution of the present disclosure within the technical idea of the present disclosure, and these simple modifications all belong to the protection scope of the present disclosure.

It should be noted that, in the foregoing embodiments, various features described in the above embodiments may be combined in any suitable manner, and in order to avoid unnecessary repetition, various combinations that are possible in the present disclosure are not described again.

In addition, any combination of various embodiments of the present disclosure may be made, and the same should be considered as the disclosure of the present disclosure, as long as it does not depart from the spirit of the present disclosure.

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1. A drug delivery device comprising a receiving mechanism (110) and a pick-up mechanism (120) disposed on one side of the receiving mechanism (110), wherein the pick-up mechanism (120) comprises:

a guide plate (121) extending obliquely upward in a direction away from the receiving mechanism (110) and being movable forward and backward; and

a medicine taking part (122) which is provided at the front end of the guide plate (121) and can move up and down and/or back and forth relative to the guide plate (121),

the medication taking device is configured to: in the medicine taking position, the medicine taking part (122) extends into the medicine placing rack (200) and moves upwards to jack up the medicine.

2. A tapping device according to claim 1, wherein the pick-up means (120) comprises a support fixed to the receiving means (110), the guide plate (121) being movably connected to the support in an inclined direction.

3. The medicine taking device according to claim 2, wherein the supporting member comprises a first supporting plate (123) arranged below the guiding plate (121) in parallel and at intervals, a first guide rail (1231) extending back and forth is arranged on the top surface of the first supporting plate (123), a first slider (1211) connected with the first guide rail (1231) in a sliding manner is arranged on the bottom surface of the guiding plate (121), and a first driving assembly for driving the guiding plate (121) to slide back and forth is arranged between the guiding plate (121) and the first supporting plate (123).

4. The drug taking device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the rear end of the drug taking part (122) is rotatably connected to the guide plate (121) and the front end of the drug taking part (122) is caused to swing up and down.

5. The device for taking medicine according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the guide plate (121) is provided with a through hole (121a) at a position near the front end,

the medicine taking part (122) comprises a main body section (1221) which is arranged below the guide plate (121) in a way of moving back and forth, a neck section (1222) which extends upwards from the main body section (1221) and through the through hole (121a), and a medicine taking section (1223) which bends and extends forwards from the tail end of the neck section (1222),

wherein the medicine taking unit (122) has:

a first protruding state in which the medicine taking part (122) moves forward along with the guide plate (121);

a second protruding state in which the medicine taking part (122) moves forward relative to the guide plate (121);

a first reset state in which the medicine taking part (122) moves backward with the guide plate (121); and

a second reset state in which the medicine taking part (122) is moved backward relative to the guide plate (121).

6. The medication dispensing apparatus of claim 5,

in the first protruding state, the neck section (1222) abuts against the rear side wall of the through hole (121a) and is pushed forward by the rear side wall of the through hole (121 a);

in the second extended state, the main body segment (1221) moves forward and disengages the neck segment (1222) from the rear sidewall of the through-hole (121 a);

in the first reset state, the neck section (1222) is abutted against the front side wall of the through hole (121a) and is pushed backwards by the front side wall of the through hole (121 a); and

in the second reset state, the body segment (1221) moves rearward and disengages the neck segment (1222) from a front sidewall of the through-hole (121 a).

7. A tapping device according to claim 5, wherein the tapping section (1223) is arranged to be able to project forwards out of the guide plate (121) in the second extended state and to be retracted backwards inside the contour of the guide plate (121) in the second reset state.

8. The tapping device according to claim 5, wherein the pick-up mechanism (120) comprises a second support plate (124) fixed to the receiving mechanism (110), the second support plate (124) being arranged parallel spaced below the guide plate (121), the body section (1221) being attached to the second support plate (124) in a back-and-forth movable manner.

9. The drug delivery device of claim 8, wherein the main body segment (1221) is further configured to be connected to the second support plate (124) to move up and down; or

The rear end of the medicine taking section (1223) is rotatably connected to the neck section (1222), and the front end of the medicine taking section (1223) swings up and down.

10. The medicine taking device according to claim 8, wherein a second guide rail (1241) extending back and forth is provided on the second support plate (124), a second slider (1224) slidably connected to the second guide rail (1241) is provided on the medicine taking portion (122), and a second driving assembly for driving the medicine taking portion (122) to slide back and forth is provided between the main body section (1221) and the second support plate (124).

11. The medicine taking device according to claim 1, wherein the picking mechanism (120) further comprises side plates (125) standing on two sides of the guide plate (121), and the two side plates (125) and the guide plate (121) enclose a guide groove for medicine to slide down.

12. The device according to claim 1, wherein the receiving mechanism (110) comprises a transfer platform (111) arranged below the rear end of the guide plate (121), the transfer platform (111) being configured to transfer the received drug to a discharge position.

13. The device for taking out medicine according to claim 12, wherein the conveying direction of the conveying platform (111) is perpendicular to the front-back movement direction of the guide plate (121), and baffles (112) are vertically arranged on two sides of the conveying platform (111).

14. The device according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the receiving mechanism (110) further comprises a lifting plate (113) vertically disposed at an end of the conveying platform (111) in the conveying direction, and a third driving assembly for driving the lifting plate (113) to move up and down, wherein the lifting plate (113) is at least capable of being lowered to have a top flush with the top of the conveying platform (111).

15. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a moving mechanism (130) for driving the receiving mechanism (110) and the picking mechanism (120) to move in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction.

16. The drug delivery device of claim 15 wherein the movement mechanism (130) comprises a first base (131) that is horizontally movable and a second base (132) that is vertically movable relative to the first base (131), the receiving mechanism (110) and the picking mechanism (120) being secured to the second base (132).

17. A drug delivery system comprising a drug rack (200) and a drug delivery device according to any of claims 1 to 16, wherein the drug rack (200) is formed with a drug access passage (220a) through which the drug delivery portion (122) passes upwardly to enable ejection of a drug.

18. The drug delivery system of claim 17, wherein the drug rack (200) comprises two side beams (210) horizontally arranged and a plurality of drug containing plates (220) connected between the two side beams (210) and arranged in parallel at intervals, the two side beams (210) have different heights so that the drug containing plates (220) are arranged obliquely, and the lower ends of the drug containing plates (220) are provided with stopping flanges (221) capable of stopping drugs, wherein the drugs are used for overlapping at least two adjacent drug containing plates (220), and the drug taking channel (220a) is formed between the two adjacent drug containing plates (220).

19. The drug delivery system of claim 18 wherein a divider (230) is attached vertically to the drug plate (220), the divider (230) extending from the location of one of the side beams (210) to the location of the other side beam (210).

20. The drug delivery system of any of claims 17-19 wherein the drug racks (200) are plural in number and are spaced apart in a vertical direction.

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