JP2010046511A - Medicine feeder - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicine feeder with improved usability by eliminating the need for a complicated and fine adjustment in attaching a door panel, and automatically performing horizontal and vertical fine adjustment of the door panel when pulling out/pushing in a drawer. <P>SOLUTION: This medicine feeder includes a body 2 and the drawer 5 attached to the body 2 so as to be pulled and pushed. The door panel 11 is attached to the front face of the drawer 5 movably with respect to the drawer body and finely adjusted onto an appropriate position by pulling out/pushing in the drawer 5. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention is a drug supply device that supplies a medicine stored in a tablet case to a packaging bag in a hospital, a dispensing pharmacy, or the like in a packaging bag in an amount specified by a prescription, particularly attached to a main body so that it can be pulled out. The present invention relates to a device including a drawer and a plurality of tablet cases that are detachably attached to the drawer and store a medicine.

  Conventionally, in hospitals and dispensing pharmacies, as shown in Cited Document 1, for example, a medicine prescribed by a doctor is provided to a patient using a medicine supply device (referred to as a tablet packaging machine in Reference 1). Yes. In this method, the types and quantities of medicines (tablets, capsules, etc.) described in the prescription are discharged one by one from the discharge drum (referred to as an alignment board in the literature 1) one by one, passed through the chute by the hopper All the operations from the collection and the extraction of the tablets to be packaged with the wrapping paper to the packaging were automated.

On the other hand, as shown in the cited document 2, the tablet case was pulled out from the main body of the medicine supply device and detachably attached so that maintenance work such as cleaning and replacement of the tablet case could be performed very easily. There was a thing.
Japanese Utility Model Publication No.57-5282 JP, 2003-237702, A By the way, in a medicine supply device as shown in patent documents 1, these tablet cases, a chute, a hopper, etc. are polluted with the fine powder etc. which arise from a medicine with the impact by the fall of a medicine. In some cases, these fine powders were mistakenly enclosed in the wrapping paper. However, since the conventional medicine supply device has a structure in which a hopper, a filling device, and the like are fixed in the main body, it has been extremely difficult to perform maintenance such as cleaning and parts replacement.

  On the other hand, in the medicine supply device as shown in Patent Document 2, a plurality of tablet cases containing medicines are provided side by side on a drawer that can be pulled out, but functions as a door attached to the front of the shelf. Because the door panel with the screw is firmly fixed with screws etc., if the screw is tightened by shifting from the proper position when installing the door panel, it is in the normal state where multiple drawers are pushed in, and the position of the door panels As a result, the relationship is shifted and the appearance from the front as the medicine supply device is deteriorated. In order to restore this positional relationship, the door panel mounting fine adjustment operation has to be performed again.

  The present invention is such a medicine supply device, and does not require complicated installation fine adjustment work of the door panel, and automatically adjusts the horizontal position and vertical position of the door panel automatically in accordance with the drawer insertion / extraction operation. An object of the present invention is to provide a medicine supply device that can be used and has improved usability. In addition to this, the present invention provides a medicine supply device in which a circuit board that receives a signal from a tablet case housed in each drawer is disposed on the back side of the door panel, and the board is separated for each drawer. It is for the purpose.

  The medicine supply device (1) of the present invention is a medicine supply device (1) comprising a main body (2) and a plurality of drawers (5) attached to the main body so as to be able to be put in and out. (5) includes a drawer body (15) and a door panel (11) attached to the front surface (16) of the drawer body via a mounting plate (18), and the mounting plate (18) is attached to the drawer body ( 15) is mounted so as to move with respect to the door panel (11), and a protrusion (33) having a height equal to half of the interval between the adjacent door panels (11) is provided opposite to the outer periphery of the door panel (11). The projections (33) facing each other come into contact with each other and the distance between the adjacent door panels (11) is adjusted as the drawer (5) is put in and out.

  According to the present invention, the interval between the adjacent door panels (11) is automatically adjusted each time the drawer (5) is put in and out.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a state in which a drawer with a medicine supply device of the present invention is pulled out, FIG. 2 is a perspective view in an exploded state of the front portion of the drawer of the medicine supply device, and FIG. Sectional drawing and FIG. 4 are front views explaining the positional relationship of the top, bottom, left and right of the door panel of the medicine supply device.

  The drug supply device 1 of the present invention is installed in a hospital, a dispensing pharmacy, or the like, and discharges one type and a number of drugs (tablets, capsules, etc.) described in the prescription one by one from the discharge port in the tablet case. However, all the operations from extraction of tablets to packaging are performed in a series of mechanisms, such as collecting them in one place by a hopper through a chute that corresponds to a passage that naturally drops using the weight of the drug, and then packaging with wrapping paper. Everything is automated. As shown in FIG. 1, the medicine supply device 1 includes a vertically long rectangular main body 2 and a control personal computer (not shown).

  The main body 2 includes an upper structure 3 and a lower structure 4 that are separable from each other. The upper structure 3 is stacked on the lower structure 4 and connected. And in this upper structure 3, the case storage part which the front and upper and lower sides open | released is comprised in order to store the tablet case 6 mentioned later, and the top surface of this case storage part is obstruct | occluded with the detachable top plate 3A. Has been.

  In the case storage part of the upper structure 3, shelves 5 are arranged in a freely retractable manner as drawers in four rows on the left and right and five on the top and bottom (20 in total). A door panel 11 is attached to the front end of each shelf 5, and each door panel 11 closes the front opening of the upper structure 3 in a state where all the shelves 5. In the center of the shelf 5, a passage 12 opened up and down is formed in the front and rear, and serves as a downward passage for the medicine discharged from the tablet case 6 of the shelf 5 located on the shelf. is there. On the left and right sides of the passage 12, eight drive bases 13 of the tablet case 6 are attached in parallel in the front-rear direction (16 in total on the left and right) (not shown). The tablet case 6 includes the drive base 13 and a storage container connected thereto.

  The lower structure 4 has an open front surface and an upper surface, and communicates with the upper structure 3 on the upper surface. In the lower structure 4, a packaging machine or the like (not shown) as a filling device, which will be described later, is housed and installed, and the opening on the front surface is closed openably and closably by the double panels 8 and 8. Yes.

  Next, based on FIGS. 2 to 3, the front structure of each shelf 5, that is, the door panel 11 of the drawer (shelf 5) is rotatably held, and the door panel is attached to the shelf 5 in and out. A structure for finely adjusting 11 to an appropriate position will be described. First, the mounting structure of the door panel 11 will be described, and then the fine adjustment means provided on the door panel 11 will be described.

  Each shelf 5 includes a drawer body 15 to which a plurality (16 in this case) of tablet cases 6 are detachably attached, and a door panel 11 that is rotatably held on the front plate 16 of the drawer body 15. A circuit board 17 is disposed between the front panel 16 and the door panel 11 of the drawer body. The door panel 11 is rotatably held via a mounting plate 18 with respect to the front plate 16 of the drawer body 15. The circuit board 17 is attached to the mounting plate 18 through an insulating sheet 19 made of resin. The mounting plate 18 includes a metal panel mounting body 21 that fixes the door panel 11 and a metal board mounting body 22 that fixes the circuit board 17.

  The mounting plate 18 is rotatably held by a screw 23 and a metal spacer 24 with respect to the front plate 16 of the drawer body 15. The thickness T1 of the spacer 24 is larger than the thickness T2 of the mounting plate 18 (specifically, the substrate mounting plate 21). In this embodiment, the substrate mounting plate 21 has a thickness T2 of 1.5 mm, a spacer thickness T1 of 2.5 mm, and a dimensional difference (T1-T2) of 0.9 mm. Further, since the spacer 24 is made of metal instead of resin, there is a dimensional difference, so that even when the screw 23 is tightened, the spacer 24 is deformed by the rigidity of the metal even if the dimensional difference is tightened. In addition to preventing this, even if it is deformed, it can be absorbed by this dimensional difference. In this embodiment, four screws 23 and four spacers 24 are attached.

  The panel mounting body 22 includes a relief hole 27 having an inner diameter R2 that is smaller than the outer diameter R1 of the head of the screw 23 and larger than the outer diameter of the spacer, and the dimension between the inner diameter R2 of the relief hole 27 and the outer diameter of the spacer. The difference is larger than the dimensional difference (T1−T2) between the thickness T1 of the spacer and the thickness T2 of the mounting plate 18. Here, the inner diameter R2 of the escape hole 27 is set to 8 mm, and the outer diameter of the spacer 23 is set to 5.5 mm. This dimensional difference is 2.5 mm, and the previous dimensional difference (T1-T2 = 0.9 mm). Is set larger than. By securing the dimensional difference, the door panel 11 can be held rotatably with respect to the drawer 5 (specifically, the drawer body 15). Reference numeral 26 denotes a hole for escaping the screw 23 formed in the panel mounting plate 21, and the inner diameter thereof is larger than the outer diameter R <b> 1 of the screw 23. Reference numeral 29 denotes a screw for fixing the circuit board 17 to the board mounting plate 22.

  Next, fine adjustment means provided on the door panel side 11 are the fine adjustment protrusions 32 and 33 that face adjacent door panels provided on the outer periphery of the door panel 11. Two protrusions 32 are formed on the upper surface of the door panel 11 and are set to a height of an appropriate dimension 3a equal to the interval 3a between the door panels adjacent to each other in the vertical direction. The protrusion 33 is provided at the center of the left and right side surfaces of the door panel 11 and is set to a height of an appropriate dimension 2a equal to half of the interval 4a between the door panel adjacent to the left and right.

  Reference numeral 31 denotes a handle formed on the lower portion of the door panel 11 using unevenness, and reference numeral 34 denotes a display provided at a position corresponding to an information display LED (display means) 36 relating to the tablet case provided on the circuit board 17. It is a transparent part. Reference numeral 39 denotes a wiring hole provided on the front plate 16 of the drawer body 15 for passing signal lines (not shown) from the eight tablet cases 6, and each signal line is connected to the mounting substrate 17. Connected to the part. With these configurations, since the signal from the tablet case 6 can be received by each circuit board 17 arranged separately for each drawer 5, an independent circuit can be configured for each drawer 5.

  According to the drawer (that is, the shelf) 5 in the first embodiment of the present invention, the door panel 11 is rotatably held by the spacer 24. Therefore, the holding structure can be simplified, and the thickness T1 of the spacer 24 is Mounting plate (specifically, since the thickness is larger than the thickness T2 of the panel mounting body 21, even if a situation occurs in which the screw 23 is tightened too much from the proper tightening position, a distance that is too dyed can be absorbed by this dimensional difference. In addition, since the spacer 24 is made of metal, even if the screw 23 is tightened excessively from the proper tightening position, damage due to the tightening force of the door panel 11 or the spacer 24 can be suppressed / prevented.

  Since the mounting plate 18 includes a panel mounting body 21 that fixes the door panel 11 and a board mounting body 22 that fixes the circuit board 17, each fixing is performed using a gap formed between the mounting bodies 21 and 22. The panel mounting body 21 is provided with a relief hole 27 having an inner diameter R2 that is smaller than the outer diameter R1 of the screw head and larger than the outer diameter of the spacer. The dimensional difference between the inner diameter R2 of the hole and the outer diameter of the spacer is larger than the dimensional difference (T1-T2) between the thickness of the spacer and the thickness of the mounting plate. Can be held with respect to the drawer 5 so as to be rotatable.

  By providing the protrusions 32 and 33 for fine adjustment facing the adjacent door panels on the outer periphery of the door panel 11, the adjacent door panels 11 are moved each time the protrusions 32 and 33 are put in and out of the drawer 5. The door panel 11 that is freely rotatable can be freely rotated by making contact with the adjacent surfaces of each of the doors, and the gap between the door panels adjacent to each other in the vertical and left and right directions is automatically adjusted appropriately to the fixed intervals 3a and 4a. Fine adjustment of the panel 11 can be performed.

  More specifically, the protrusion 32 is formed on the upper surface of the door panel 11 on the left and right sides, and is set to an appropriate dimension 3a equal to the interval 3a between the door panel adjacent to the upper and lower sides. The protrusion 32 comes into contact with the adjacent surfaces of the door panels 11 that are vertically adjacent to each other, so that the rotatable door panel 11 is freely rotated, and the gap 3a between the door panels is automatically set at a constant interval 3a. It becomes possible to adjust.

  On the other hand, the protrusion 33 is provided at the center of both the left and right side surfaces of the door panel 11 and has an appropriate dimension 2a equal to half of the interval 4a between the door panels adjacent to the left and right. When the protrusion 33 contacts the adjacent surfaces of the door panels 11 adjacent to each other on the left and right, the rotatable door panel 11 freely rotates, and the gap 4a between the door panels is automatically adjusted to a constant interval 4a. It becomes possible to do.

  Each time the drawer 5 is pulled out, the door panel 11 can be finely adjusted to an appropriate position, so that the tightening force / fixing force between the drawer and the door panel can be reduced. Since the door panel 11 is rotatably held by the mounting plate 18, the door panel 11 can be finely adjusted by the pull-in / out operation of the drawer 5. Since the door panel 11 attached to the panel attachment body 21 and the circuit board 17 attached to the board attachment body 22 rotate integrally with the drawer 5 being put in and out, the positions of the substrate 17 and the panel 11 are It is possible to maintain a good relationship at all times.

It is a perspective view in the state where a drawer with a medicine supply device of the present invention was pulled out. It is a perspective view of the decomposition | disassembly state in the front part of drawer | drawing-out of the chemical | medical agent supply apparatus of this invention. It is sectional drawing of the front part of the drawer of the chemical | medical agent supply apparatus of this invention. It is a front view explaining the positional relationship of the up-down and left-right of the door panel of the chemical | medical agent supply apparatus of this invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Drug supply device 2 Main body 3 Upper structure 4 Lower structure 5 Drawer (shelf)
6 Tablet Case 11 Door Panel 12 Passage 13 Drive Base 15 Drawer Main Body 16 Front Plate 17 Circuit Board 18 Mounting Plate 21 Panel Mounting Body 22 Board Mounting Body 23 Screw 24 Spacer 27 Relief Hole 32 Projection (Top)
33 Projections (left and right sides)
34 Transparent part 36 LED (display means)

Claims (6)

A drug supply device comprising a main body and a plurality of drawers attached to the main body so as to be able to be put in and out, wherein the drawer is attached to the front surface of the drawer main body and the drawer main body via a mounting plate. And mounting the mounting plate so as to move with respect to the drawer body, and providing a protrusion having a height equal to half the interval between the adjacent door panels opposite to the outer periphery of the door panel, The medicine supply device is characterized in that the protrusions facing each other come into contact with each other in accordance with the pulling-in / out operation of the drawer to adjust the interval between adjacent door panels. A drug supply device comprising a main body and a plurality of drawers attached to the main body so as to be able to be put in and out, wherein the drawer is attached to the front surface of the drawer main body and the drawer main body via a mounting plate. A panel, and the mounting plate is mounted to move with respect to the drawer body, and a protrusion having a height equal to the interval between the adjacent door panels is provided on the outer periphery of the door panel, so that the drawer can be inserted and removed. Accordingly, the distance between the adjacent door panels is adjusted by bringing the protrusions into contact with the opposing surfaces of the adjacent door panels. The medicine supply device according to claim 1, wherein the protrusions are provided on both left and right side surfaces of the door panel. The medicine supply device according to claim 2, wherein the protrusion is provided on an upper surface of the door panel. The mounting plate is attached to the drawer body by screws and spacers, the spacer has a thickness larger than the thickness of the mounting plate, and the mounting plate is smaller than the outer diameter of the screw head. A clearance hole having an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the spacer is provided, and the dimensional difference between the inner diameter of the clearance hole and the outer diameter of the spacer is made larger than the dimensional difference between the thickness of the spacer and the thickness of the mounting plate. The medicine supply device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the mounting plate is moved by a dimensional difference between an inner diameter of the escape hole and an outer diameter of the spacer. A circuit board is disposed between the drawer body and the door panel, and the mounting plate includes a panel mounting body for fixing the door panel and a board mounting body for fixing the circuit board. The medicine supply device according to claim 5.