JP2000102594A - Medicament storage - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To store and manage the medicaments in safety in the home. SOLUTION: In a medicament storage capable of cooling the inside 12 of a medicament storage body 11 by the cooling means 25, 27, 29, and controlling a temperature at a specific value by a temperature control means, a heating means 31 is mounted on the medicament storage body 11, and the temperature inside of the storage is controlled within a range of a proper temperature for medicaments by the operation of these heating means 31 and cooling means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a medicine storage for storing medicines.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the medical society has developed remarkably, and there are many kinds of medicines prescribed from hospitals. In addition, due to the revision of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, pharmacists explain the contents of prescription drugs to patients,
There is an obligation to instruct the patient on the correct dose after being convinced. Under these circumstances, proper handling and management of pharmaceuticals has become a problem. Usually, when preserving prescribed medicines, OTC medicines (household medicines) purchased at pharmacies and drug stores, refrigerated storage is often preferred. In recent years, in home care patients, which have been rapidly increasing, prescriptions of prescription infusion preparations for one to two weeks are also customary, and such medicines must be kept refrigerated in order to maintain quality and efficacy.

[0003]

However, in home refrigerators, the controlled temperature distribution in the refrigerator is large, medicines may freeze accidentally, and there is a risk of accidental ingestion due to mixing with other foods. At present, preservation of pharmaceuticals is prohibited for the following reasons.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and to provide a medicine storage which can safely store prescription medicines at hospitals or OTC medicines purchased at pharmacies and drug stores in ordinary households. It is in.

[0005]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
The inside of the medicine storage main body is cooled by the cooling means, and in the medicine storage controlled at a predetermined temperature by the temperature control means, a heating means is installed in the medicine storage main body, and by the operation of the heating means and the cooling means, It is characterized in that the temperature in the refrigerator is controlled within the optimum temperature range of the medicine.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the medicine storage, the inside of the medicine storage main body is cooled by cooling means and the temperature is controlled to a predetermined temperature by temperature control means. A cooling means is buried, a heating means is buried inside the refrigerator than the cooling means, and the temperature in the refrigerator is controlled to an optimum temperature range of the medicine by operating the heating means and the cooling means. It is.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect, the door for opening the inside of the storage to the outside is provided with:
A locking mechanism is provided.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the alarm generating device according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein an alarm is issued when the temperature in the refrigerator is out of an optimum temperature range of the medicine. It is characterized by having.

The first aspect of the invention has the following operation.

[0010] The temperature in the refrigerator is controlled to an optimum temperature range of the medicine by operating the heating means and the cooling means. That is, since the inside of the refrigerator is kept at a certain temperature or higher, even when the ambient temperature of the medicine storage lowers below freezing, the temperature in the refrigerator can be set to be equal to or higher than the lower limit of the optimal temperature range of the medicine.
Freezing of C medicines can be prevented.

The second aspect of the present invention has the following operation.

This chemical storage is of a so-called direct cooling type, in which cooling means such as a refrigerant pipe is buried in the storage wall of the main body of the chemical storage, and heating means such as a heater is buried inside the storage. Therefore, the operation of the heating means and the cooling means makes it possible to appropriately and almost uniformly control the temperature in the refrigerator within the optimum temperature range of the medicine.

The third aspect of the invention has the following operation.

Since the locking mechanism is installed on the door of the medicine storage, it is possible to prevent children and the like from inadvertently opening the door, and prevent children and the like from accidentally ingesting the OTC medicine.

The invention described in claim 4 has the following operation.

[0016] When the temperature in the refrigerator is out of the optimum temperature range of the medicine, the alarm generator issues an alarm, so that the use of the OTC medicine stored at a temperature outside the optimum temperature range of the medicine can be avoided, Safety can be improved.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a medicine storage according to the present invention. Drug storage 10 shown in FIG.
Is a refrigerator for OTC medicines,
Is provided with a plurality (for example, three) of shelves 13 inside the refrigerator (inside the refrigerator 12). The shelf plate 13 is detachably supported by a pair of shelf receiving side plates 15 and a shelf receiving back plate 17. The medicine storage main body 11 is provided with a door 20 which can be opened and closed freely. A compressor and a condenser (not shown) are installed at the lower rear part of the main body 11 of the chemical storage, and the three storage walls 23 on both side walls and the back wall of the main body 11 of the chemical storage are formed in a meandering shape forming an evaporator. Refrigerant pipes (cooling means) 25, 2
7, 29 are buried. This refrigerant pipe 25, 2
The compressors 7 and 29 and the compressor and the condenser (not shown) are respectively connected by refrigerant pipes to form a refrigeration cycle.

This chemical storage is provided with refrigerant pipes 25, 27,
This is a direct-cooling type chemical storage in which the refrigerant is evaporated at 29 and the interior 12 is directly cooled through the storage wall 23.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, electric heaters (heating means) 31 are arranged in parallel in the respective storage walls 23 so as to be located inside the storages than the respective refrigerant pipes 25, 27, 29. It is buried meandering.

On the other hand, a temperature sensor 26 as temperature control means is disposed in the inside 12 of the medicine storage main body 11. When the temperature of the inside of the refrigerator 12 is detected by the temperature sensor 26 and the inside temperature of the refrigerator reaches the lower limit set temperature due to the cooling operation, the operation of the compressor (not shown) is stopped, and the temperature of the refrigerator is reversed and increased. When the upper limit temperature is reached,
The compressor operates and the internal temperature is controlled within a predetermined range.

When the inside of the refrigerator 12 is overcooled, the electric heater 31 is immediately energized, and the electric heater 31 is turned on.
The heat of the electric heater 31 is radiated to the interior 12 by the heating of the interior 12, and the interior 12 is prevented from being overcooled. In this case, the internal temperature is the optimal temperature range of the OTC drug (for example, 2 to 8 ° C).
Is controlled.

This medicine storage is of a so-called direct cooling type, and refrigerant pipes 25 and 2 are mounted on the storage wall 23 of the medicine storage main body 11.
7 and 29 are buried, and the inside of
An electric heater 31 is embedded on the side in parallel with the cooling means.

Accordingly, since the cooling or heating is uniformly performed over the entire area of the storage wall 23 during both cooling and heating, the operation of the heating means and the cooling means reduces the temperature in the storage to the optimum temperature range of the OTC drug (for example, 2 to 2). 8 ° C.).

A locking mechanism 21 is provided on the upper surface of the medicine storage main body 11, and the above-mentioned door 20 is configured to be lockable. The door 20 has a built-in key and a locking mechanism 2.
Inadvertent opening of the door 20 is prevented by inserting a key into a keyhole (not shown) and locking the key.

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the following effects are obtained.

Unlike a general home refrigerator, the storage wall 2
3 by heating of the electric heater 31 embedded in
2 is maintained at a certain temperature (2 ° C.) or higher and is configured to be able to be maintained in a temperature range (2 to 8 ° C.) suitable for storing the OTC drug, so that the drug can be stored in the refrigerator 12 at an appropriate temperature. Therefore, even when the ambient temperature of the medicine storage 10 drops below freezing, freezing of the OTC medicine can be prevented reliably.

Since the refrigerant pipes 25, 27 and 29 and the electric heater 31 are buried in the storage wall 23 in parallel, the size of the chemical storage can be reduced, so that even in a home where the installation space is small. , Its installation becomes easier.

Since the locking mechanism 21 having the keyhole is installed on the upper surface of the medicine storage main body 11, it is possible to prevent a child or the like from inadvertently opening the inside of the storage 12 to the outside. Can be reliably prevented from being swallowed.

The present invention has been described based on one embodiment, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the refrigerant pipe (cooling means) 25,
Instead of the heaters 27 and 29 and the electric heater 31, a thermoelectric conversion element (Peltier element) as cooling and heating means may be provided. This Peltier element cools the interior 12 when the temperature of the interior 12 becomes equal to or higher than the upper limit of a temperature range (for example, 2 to 8 ° C.) suitable for storing pharmaceuticals, and the temperature of the interior 12 becomes equal to or lower than the lower limit of the temperature range. When it becomes, the inside 12 is heated and the inside 1
2 is always maintained in the above temperature range.

In the interior 12 of the embodiment, for example, a temperature sensor 33 different from the temperature sensor 26 is installed.
The temperature of the interior 12 detected by the temperature sensor 33 is:
When the temperature exceeds a temperature range suitable for a medicine, a light or a sound may be generated by the alarm generator. In this case, when the medicine is stored in the refrigerator 12 at a temperature outside the temperature range suitable for the medicine, the alarm device issues an alarm, so that the user can refrain from using such medicine. Safety can be improved.

The locking mechanism 21 of the above embodiment may be a simple locking mechanism that prevents the door or the like from being opened even by mischief of an infant or the like.

[0033]

As described above, according to the medicine storage of the present invention, the temperature in the storage is controlled to the optimum temperature range of the medicine by the operation of the heating means and the cooling means. That is,
Since the inside of the refrigerator is kept at a certain temperature or higher, even if the ambient temperature of the drug storage falls below freezing, the temperature in the refrigerator can be set to the lower limit of the optimal temperature range for pharmaceuticals, and freezing of OTC pharmaceuticals can be achieved. Can be prevented, and the medicine can be safely stored and managed at home.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a medicine storage according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a shelf receiving side plate.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Medicine storage 12 Inside 13 Shelf 20 Door 21 Locking mechanism 23 Storage wall 25, 27, 29 Refrigerant pipe (cooling means) 31 Electric heater (heating means)

Claims (4)

[Claims] In a medicine storage, wherein the inside of the medicine storage main body is cooled by a cooling means and controlled to a predetermined temperature by a temperature control means, a heating means is installed in the medicine storage main body, and the heating means and A medicine storage, wherein the temperature in the storage is controlled to an optimum temperature range of the medicine by operating the cooling means. 2. In a medicine storage, wherein the inside of the medicine storage main body is cooled by a cooling means and controlled to a predetermined temperature by a temperature control means, the cooling means is embedded in a storage wall of the medicine storage main body. A medicine storage, wherein a heating means is buried inside the storage rather than the cooling means, and the temperature of the storage is controlled to an optimum temperature range of the medicine by operating the heating means and the cooling means. 3. A lock mechanism is installed on a door that opens the inside of the storage to the outside.
Chemical storage as described. 4. The medicine according to claim 1, further comprising an alarm generator for issuing an alarm when the temperature in the refrigerator is out of an optimum temperature range of the medicine. Storehouse.