JP2963415B2 - Medicine bag sorting device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sorting device for sorting medicine bags for storing tablets, powdered medicines, sachets and the like based on conditions such as patient names and priorities.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Usually, a medicine bag of this kind is temporarily stored in a storage case after information such as a patient name, usage, and precautions is printed on the surface of the printing device, and then the tablet is placed inside the medicine bag. In the past, printed medicine bags were stored as they were in the same storage case. It was necessary to separate the medicine bags separately.

[0003] In particular, when medicine bags printed by a plurality of printing devices are stored in the same storage case, a large number of kinds of medicine bags are mixed with each other. .

In dispensing operations at pharmacies and the like, it is often the case that priorities are set for dispensing medicines for each patient, and medicine bags are reissued due to changes in printing contents or printing errors. In this case, in the conventional method, in order to prevent mixing of the medicine bags, it is necessary to interrupt the bag making and printing of another medicine bag and to make and print only the target medicine bag.

[0005] In view of the above, the present invention provides a sorter capable of automatically processing a plurality of medicine bags in parallel and automatically sorting the medicine bags on the basis of various conditions such as patient name, priority order, and reissue. It is intended to provide a device.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is applied to a plurality of sets of printing devices for printing medicine bags.
Sends the input printing information to each of multiple sets of printing devices
And print information from multiple printers
Sorted and discharged medicine bags by sorting device
Transfer from the printing device in the medicine bag sorting device
Multiple detectors and multiple markings to detect medicine bags to be introduced into the road
One transport path for receiving medicine bags from the U-shaped device and one transport
Take the medicine bag from the road and shake the medicine bag in at least two directions
The separating plate for separation and each of the plurality of detectors are detected.
Based on the detected detection signal,
Reads the medicine bag print information from the storage unit and switches the sorting direction.
Than is the control device has a bag-vibration divided device provided with a controlling so replaced Ri.

[0007]

In the medicine bag sorting apparatus of the present invention having the above-described structure, when printing is performed in parallel on each of the medicine bags by the plurality of printing devices, the medicine bags are respectively put into a standby state, and the standby state is set.
Is detected by the detector and related to the control mode signal based on the medicine bag information.
Bag by is fed to one of the conveyance path. At that time , wait
A detector detects whether there is a medicine bag in a machine state, and the medicine bag is conveyed under the control of the control device based on the detection signal.

[0008] For the medicine bag conveyed as described above,
Advance by medicine bag information storage unit of the control device or those that medicine bag of which patients have been determined by the control device, the distribution plate is controlled according to the control mode of the bag information, control
When the control mode is by patient name, the direction of the distribution plate is switched according to the patient name, and the medicine bag is distributed in a desired direction. When the control mode performs prioritization and reissuance of medicine bags, information on the order and reissue is input to the control device, and medicine bags are sorted in the same manner as described above.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1A shows an embodiment in which the sorting device of the present invention is connected to a conventional medicine bag making / printing device. It is assumed that the sorting device of this embodiment is used to sort the medicine bags in a desired direction after printing on the medicine bags and then manually enclose necessary medicines in the medicine bags. In this example, a medicine bag T made by one bag making device 1 is distributed to three printing devices 2, 3, and 4,
Information such as the patient name and usage is printed on each surface.

The printed medicine bag T is then sent to a carry-out conveyor 8 through a plurality of conveyance paths 5, 6, 7 connected to the printing devices 2, 3, 4, and the carry-out conveyor 8 It is thrown into the storage case 9 installed at the end. As shown in FIG. 2, a distribution plate 12 that partitions the inside of the case into two storage portions 10 and 11 is swingably mounted inside the storage case 9. The distributing plate 12 has a central portion connected to a cam disk 14 via a link 13, and a drive motor M for rotating the cam disk on the cam disk 14.
15 are connected. A pair of notches 16, 16 are formed on the periphery of the cam disk 14 at 180 ° opposite positions, and proximity switches 17, 17 for detecting the respective notches 16, 16 are connected to the drive motor 15. Mounted on the end face.

In this structure, when the cam disk 14 is rotated in a range where the notch grooves 16 and 16 and the proximity switches 17 and 17 coincide with each other, the distribution plate 12 moves between the solid line position and the chain line position in FIG. The medicine bags that are swung and discharged from the carry-out conveyor 8 are sorted and stored in the respective storage units 10 and 11. In addition, the outside of the discharge side roller 18 of each of the transport paths 5, 6, and 7,
Detectors 19, 20, 21, and 22 for detecting the presence of a medicine bag are provided at the discharge side end of the carry-out conveyor 8, respectively. The signals of these detectors 19, 20, 21, and 22 are shown in FIG. The signal is output to a control device (CPU) 23 such as a microcomputer as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, when the detectors 19, 20, and 21 provided in the respective transport paths detect the medicine bags, the control device 23 causes the medicine bags to temporarily wait while being bitten by the discharge roller 18,
Under the condition that the detector 22 of the carry-out conveyor 8 is off (in a state where no medicine bag is present on the carry-out conveyor 8), the medicine bag is sent to the carry-out conveyor 8.

A data memory 24 is connected to the control device 23 online, and the data memory stores print information such as patient names and usages to be printed on the surface of each medicine bag. When the medicine bag made by the bag making device 1 is distributed to the printing devices 2, 3, and 4, information to be printed on the medicine bag is output from the data memory 24 to each printing device, and the movement of the printing device is controlled. Control.

Further, the control device 23 is connected to a drive circuit 25 of the drive motor 15 of the distribution plate 12, and controls the operation of the drive motor 15 as described later.
Also, an external input device 26 is connected, and various data necessary for controlling the control mode and the printing device are externally transmitted to the control device 23.
It is configured so that it can be directly input to.

This embodiment is constructed as described above, and its operation will now be described.

In order to sort the medicine bags, the control unit 23 first sets a control mode for deciding the sort type of sorting by patient name or sorting based on priority or reissue. Command via 26.

In this case, in the case of distribution by patient name, distribution is performed based on the information in the data file 24 only by specifying the control mode. In the case of distribution based on priority or reissue, Along with the control mode, the control unit 23 is instructed to the control device 23 with data such as a priority patient name, a priority order, or a patient name to be reissued.

After the control mode is designated as described above, when the medicine bags are distributed from the bag making device 1 to the printing devices 2, 3, and 4, the control device 23 sends the printing devices 2, 3, and 4 to the respective printing devices 2, 3, and 4. The print information is output, and the medicine bag is printed.

The printed medicine bag is then transferred to each of the transport paths 5, 6,
7 and waits at the position of the discharge roller 18, a signal is output from each of the detectors 19, 20 and 21 to the control device 23. In this state, the control device 23 can specify what print information is printed on the medicine bags distributed to the respective printing devices. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the medicine bag at the standby position and the print information. Can be.

For this purpose, the drive motor 15 is driven based on the print information and the contents of the control mode, and the distribution plate 12 is swung to store the medicine bags in the predetermined storage portions 10 and 11.
In this case, when two or three of the detectors 19, 20, and 21 simultaneously output the standby state of the medicine bag, if each medicine bag has a priority, the medicine bag follows the order, and When there is no priority, the medicine bags are sent out to the carry-out conveyor 8 in the descending order of the print information input to the control device 23 and sorted to the storage case 9.

As described above, the medicine bag to be conveyed and the printing information are accurately specified by the control device 23, and the movement of the sorting plate 12 is controlled based on the information. Therefore, the medicine bag is reliably sorted and stored according to various conditions. can do.

In the above embodiment, the medicine bags are distributed in two directions. However, the medicine bags may be distributed in three or more directions. Further, the prescription may be flown to the printing device and the transport path at the same time as the medicine bag, and may be distributed in the same manner as the medicine bag.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention , the detection state of the medicine bag which is printed in parallel and conveyed from the printing apparatus is detected by the detector.
Number and print information stored in advance in the storage unit.
Based on Ri feed to one conveyance path, and the bag was controlled pretend division direction of the sorting plate in advance based on the print information stored in the storage unit for the drug bag fed to the conveyance path so that distribution Therefore, medicine bags can be automatically sorted according to various conditions such as patient name and priority order, and this has the effect of greatly increasing the efficiency of the sorting operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1A is an overall structural diagram of an embodiment, and FIG. 1B is a block diagram showing a control structure thereof.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a main part of the above.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a distribution plate and its driving unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2, 3, 4 Printing device 5, 6, 7 Conveying path 8 Conveying conveyor 9 Storage case 12 Distributing plate 14 Cam disk 15 Drive motor 19, 20, 21, 22 Detector 23 Control device 24 Data memory

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] The printing information input to a plurality of sets of printing devices for printing medicine bags is transmitted to the plurality of sets of printing devices, and the printing information is printed and discharged from the plurality of sets of printing devices. In a medicine bag sorting device that sorts medicine bags by a sorting device, a plurality of detectors that detect medicine bags to be introduced from a printing device into one conveyance path, one conveyance path that receives medicine bags from a plurality of printing devices, and one The medicine bag is received from the transport path, and based on the detection signal detected by each of the plurality of detectors, the medicine bag print information is read from the storage unit of the print information printed on the medicine bag, based on the detection signal detected by each of the plurality of detectors. A medicine bag sorting device provided with a control device that controls so as to switch the sorting direction. 2. A control mode of the control device, wherein a control mode for each patient name, a priority order, and a reissue is designated according to various input data necessary for controlling the printing device. The medicine bag sorting device according to claim 1, wherein