JP3122584B2 - Drug container identification 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 medicine container identification device for identifying medicine inside a medicine container based on medicine information signals.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a dispensing operation at a pharmacy, a specified drug name is confirmed from the description of a prescription, a container for storing the specified drug is taken out of a number of drug containers placed on a drug shelf, and the medicine is taken out. The method is performed by weighing a specified amount of drug from a container. Conventionally, as a means for eliminating such mistakes at the time of drug selection in the dispensing work, Japanese Patent Publication No. 3-587
No. 43 proposes a method.

[0003] In this method, a transmitter and a movement sensor for operating the transmitter are incorporated in a receiving stand attached to the bottom of the medicine container, and the medicine container is identified based on an identification code transmitted from the transmitter. The drug is to be identified.

[0004]

In the method proposed above,
Certainly the medicine container can be identified, but the shape and dimensions of the medicine container correspond to the shape of the top surface of the pedestal because the bottom of the medicine container must be fitted into the cradle with the transmitter and connected together. Need to be done. However, drug containers on the market do not have a standardized size and shape, and even containers that contain the same drug vary in shape and size depending on the sales company. In many cases, it is not possible to directly fit a commercially available drug container into the cradle.

[0005] Therefore, in order to identify a commercially available medicine container, the medicine is transferred from the commercially available medicine container to a special container formed corresponding to the shape of the upper surface of the receiving table, and the special container is used. However, such a medicine transfer operation requires cleaning and sterilization of the container each time the operation is performed, and thus requires extra time and labor, thereby lowering the operation efficiency. In addition, every time the medicine inside the dedicated container runs out, it is necessary to repeat transfer from a commercially available container, which is inefficient.

Further, since the receiving table mounted on the bottom surface of the medicine container has a relatively large shape, if a large number of preparations are prepared according to the kind of medicine to be detected, a large space is required for storage. There is a defect.

[0007] This invention is to solve the above problems, a commercially available drug container can be used to directly identify the work, to provide an identification method requires little space in member that transmits medicine information It is an object.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems , the present invention has a transmitting / receiving function and stores medicine information.
Memory chip and a signal transmitted from the memory chip.
Identification device for identifying the medicine inside the medicine container based on the
On various types and sizes of commercially available drug containers.
Drug container via attachment means to which the memory chip can be attached
Configured to removably mount it on the SL memory chips
Thus, the medicine container identification device was constructed.

[0009]

In the above identification device , a memory chip storing the drug information is attached to a commercially available drug container, and the drug information is transmitted from the memory chip in response to a transmission request signal from the identification device or the like, and the signal is transmitted to the memory chip. The medicine in the medicine container is identified based on the medicine. When there is no more medicine inside the medicine container, the chip is removed from the container via the attachment means, replaced with another medicine container, and the above-described identification operation is repeated. this
In this case, change the medicine container to one with a different shape and size.
You may.

[0010] As the memory chip, a capsule
Antenna with antenna and read / write memory
You can use spawners, etc.. HTo store
Drug information includes the name of the drug, precautionary notes on dispensing, dispensing amount
There is drug data such as indication of
May be included. HIn a medicine container
Attaching means to attach is a band wrapped around the containerYahi
OrAny of elastic ringsUsingFormed
TossCan be

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 2 shows a memory chip for storing medicine information. This memory chip 1 has a ferrite antenna 3 inside a hard glass tubular case 2.
And a transponder formed by incorporating a C-MOS IC chip 4 as a memory and a power supply capacitor 5 into a capsule shape as a whole.

The IC chip 4 is provided with an ID RAM memory, a control circuit necessary for communication, and the like, so that the medicine information coded in the memory can be repeatedly read and written by transmission / reception radio waves. . The power supply capacitor 5 has a function of obtaining power from a received radio wave and supplying the power to the IC chip 4, thereby eliminating the power supply of the chip 1.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the attaching means for attaching the memory chip 1 to the medicine container uses a band 10 which is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the medicine container A. At the end, a mounting hole 11 into which the capsule-shaped chip 1 is detachably inserted is provided. A hook-and-loop fastener 12 for joining the ends of the band wound around the container A is attached to the back surface of the band 10. The female member 13 of the hook-and-loop fastener 12 is formed vertically long in the length direction of the band 10, and can be engaged with the male member 14 at an arbitrary position even when the diameter of the medicine container A changes, thereby joining the band 10. It has become.

As shown in FIG. 1, the device for identifying the medicine inside the medicine container comprises a transmitting / receiving antenna 20, an input control device 21, and an identification device 30. The input control device 21 has a reading and writing function for the memory chip 1, and is formed by an RF module 22 and a control module 23 as shown in FIG.

The control module 23 has a decoding circuit 24 for transmission and reception, and converts an output signal sent from a database or the like into a transmission signal according to a data writing communication procedure determined with the chip 1 at the time of writing. The RF module 22 modulates the signal to a predetermined frequency and transmits the signal from the antenna 20. When reading,
The transmission signal from the chip 1 received by the antenna 20 is RF
The module 22 demodulates the signal, and the control module 23 converts the signal into a digital signal and outputs the digital signal to the identification device 30.

On the other hand, the identification device 30 is composed of a control computer provided with an input means 31 and a display means 32 such as a display, and is provided with a medicine name, a patient name, and a medicine amount to be introduced based on a prescription. It has a database for information. The identification device 30 includes a resonance circuit that outputs a transmission request signal to the chip 1. When a transmission signal from the chip 1 is input, the transmitted medicine information and the prescription of the prescription stored in the database are received. It is configured to compare with the description contents and display based on the comparison result.

Next, a method for detecting a medicine in a medicine container using the above-described chip 1 and identification device 30 will be described. Before the dispensing operation, the input control device 2
Then, a writing process of the drug information is performed from 1 and the drug information corresponding to the specified drug of the prescription is stored in each chip 1. In the dispensing operation, the chip 1 storing the medicine information is inserted into the hole 11 of the attached band 10 and the band 10 is wound around a commercially available medicine container A, and the medicine corresponding to the medicine inside the medicine container A is inserted into the medicine container A. A memory chip 1 having information is attached.

To identify the medicine, when the medicine container A with the memory chip 1 attached thereto is taken out of the medicine shelf, a transmission request signal is output from the identification device 30 to the chip 1 and the chip 1 transmits medicine information. Upon receiving the transmission signal from the chip 1, the identification device 30 determines whether the medicine of the medicine information is the medicine specified in the prescription, and displays the contents of the medicine information on a display screen or the like.

The operator can know whether the commercially available medicine container A taken out on the basis of the displayed contents is the specified medicine of the prescription or not, and also knows the patient and the dispensed amount based on the displayed information. Dispensing work can proceed.

On the other hand, when the medicine inside the medicine container A runs out, the band 10 is removed from the medicine container A, wound around a new medicine container A, and the above operation is repeated. By replacing the band 10 with the medicine container in this manner, any commercially available medicine container A can be continuously used for the identification operation.

In the above embodiment, the input control device 2
1 is used to write the drug information such as the drug name and the dispensed amount into each memory chip 1. However, the memory chip 1 can transmit only a unique identification code, and the identification code is transmitted to the identification device 30 side. It may be provided with functions such as correspondence with various types of medicine information, identification with prescription contents, and display of identification results. This allows the input control equipment 21 unnecessary, the structure of the memory chip 1 can be simplified.

FIG. 5 shows other various embodiments. In the example of FIG. 5 (a), the memory chip 1 has a flat plate shape, and an attaching means for attaching the memory chip 1 to the medicine container A is shown in FIG. This is a ring-shaped string 40 wound around the neck of the container A. In the example of FIG. 5B, the attachment means is an elastic ring 41 made of rubber or the like, and the memory chip 1 is attached to the medicine container A by elastic force . FIG.
In the example of (c), the flat memory chip 1 is attached to the surface of the medicine container A by using both adhesive tapes 42.

In the embodiment shown in FIG . 6, a memory chip 1 is attached to a cap B of a container, and the cap 1 is detachably attached to a plurality of medicine containers A, A ', A ". In this manner, the cap B is attached to the memory chip 1
There is an advantage that the memory chip can be surely attached to and detached from the medicine container by using it as an attaching means of the present invention.

[0024]

[Effect] As described above, the present invention, seed the memory chip
Removably attached to the medicine container using attachment means that can be attached to medicine containers of different shapes and sizes, and the medicine is identified based on the signal of the chip, so that a commercially available medicine container can be directly used for identification work. , Memory chips in multiple different forms
It can be repeatedly used for medicine containers having different shapes and sizes . Therefore, it is not necessary to transfer a medicine from a commercially available medicine container to a dedicated container, and it is possible to significantly improve the efficiency of the identification operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a structural diagram showing an apparatus for implementing an identification method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing a memory chip.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an attached band.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are block diagrams showing signal transmission and reception between a memory chip and an input control device, respectively.

5 (a), 5 (b) and 5 (c) are perspective views each showing another embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Memory chip 3 Antenna 4 IC chip 10 Attaching band 11 Chip insertion hole 12 Surface fastener 20 Transmitting / receiving antenna 21 Input control device 30 Identification device 40 String 41 Ring 42 Adhesive tape A Drug container B Cap

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-62-22652 (JP, A) JP-A-6-23019 (JP, A) JP-A-4-13138 (JP, U) 58743 (JP, B2) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A61J 3/00 310 A61J 1/05

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A memory chip having a transmitting / receiving function for storing medicine information, and an identification device for identifying a medicine in a medicine container based on a signal transmitted from the memory chip, and having various shapes and sizes. A drug container identification device configured to removably attach the memory chip to a drug container via attachment means capable of attaching the memory chip to a different commercially available drug container. 2. The medicine container identifying device according to claim 1, wherein said attaching means is formed by using one of a band, a string, and an elastic ring. 3. The medicine container identification device according to claim 1, wherein said memory chip is capable of writing medicine information.