JPH0472116A - Medicine packer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily carry out the containing work of tablet cases and securely discharge medicine from a taking out opening to a medicine discharge outlet, by making the taking out opening of the medicine of the tablet cases to position at the medicine discharge outlet on the bottom plate and by fitting the connecting direction of a connector and the containing direction of the tablet case to the gravitational direction. CONSTITUTION:When tablet cases 6 are contained in respective a plurality of partitions divided by partition plates 5 in a plane, the partition plates 5 act as guide members to guide the tablet cases 6 to the gravitational direction and the second connector C2 equipped below the case 6 guided to the gravitational direction by the partition plates 5 is connected in the same gravitational direction with the containing direction of the tablet case against the first connector C1 equipped at the bottom plate 10. In this time, the discharge outlet 31 as a taking out opening is connected in the gravitational direction to fit to the medicine discharge outlet 11 of the bottom plate 10. Therefore, the containing direction of the tablet case 6 becomes the same direction, the gravitational direction, with the falling direction of the medic8ine and also the connecting direction of both connectors C1, C2 respectively.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objective of the Invention] Industrial Field of Use The present invention provides a drug in hospitals, pharmacies, etc. that automatically selects and packages one or several types of drugs based on different prescriptions for each patient. Regarding packaging machines.

Conventional technology As a loading device for tablet cases that store drugs, ■
Utility Model Publication No. 54-10239 and ■ Utility Model Publication No. 62-50
There is Publication No. 5. Publication (2) has a stepped tablet case mounting stand and a tablet case fJ1 placed on this mounting stand, and the horizontal surface of the mounting stand has a through hole that matches the tablet drop opening of the tablet case. There is an outlet on the vertical surface that can be inserted and removed in the front and back direction.

On the other hand, in the publication (■), the loading operation is performed by moving the tablet case back and forth with respect to the loading shelf, and the bottom surface of the tablet case is a stepped surface, and the vertical direction of this stepped surface is A connector is disposed at a portion corresponding to the tablet case, a tablet number outlet is formed on the back side of the tablet case, and a connector and a through hole are formed at a portion of the shelf corresponding to the tablet case.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention In the above-mentioned publication (■), since the surface where the through hole is formed and the surface where the outlet is disposed intersect with each other, the tablet case must be moved in the front and back direction and placed on the mounting table. Due to the conditions for this back-and-forth movement, the tablet drop opening formed on the bottom of the tablet case and the through hole formed in the horizontal surface of the mounting table should be in a state where one side faces the other. There was a problem in that it was not possible to confirm whether the tablet drop opening and the through hole were aligned when fixing the tablet case.

In Publication No. 1-b■, since the connection direction of the connector is different from the direction of gravity, when the tablet case is fixed or removed, a force in the direction of gravity is applied to the connector installed on the shelf. However, the orientation of the connectors may change, and repeated attachment and detachment of the tablet case may make it difficult to connect the connectors to each other.

Therefore, in the present invention, when the tablet case is fixed, the drug packaging is configured so that it faces either the drug outlet of the tablet case or the drug outlet of the bottom plate, and the direction of connection to the connector and the storage direction of the tablet case are in the direction of gravity. It provides an opportunity for

[Structure of the invention]

Means for Solving the Problems The drug packaging machine of the present invention includes a drug storage section that is divided into a plurality of sections in a plane by partition plates arranged in a grid pattern, and a drug storage section that is elongated in the vertical direction and is stored in each section. a plurality of tablet cases, a bottom plate disposed below the drug storage section;
The bottom plate includes a loading mechanism for loading a specified number of drugs into a packaging bag at once, and a packaging machine section for sealing and packaging the packaging bag into which the medicine has been loaded.
The tablet case has an outlet for taking out the medicine at its lower part and a second connector connected to the first connector, and the tablet case is stored in each compartment of the medicine storage part. When this happens, the second connector is connected to the first connector, and the outlet is configured to face the drug outlet.

A partition plate divides the active drug storage area into multiple compartments,
It acts as a guide member that guides the tablet case in the vertical direction when storing and removing the tablet case, and acts as a distribution member that divides the bottom plate into parts corresponding to each section.

On the other hand, the drug outlet formed in the bottom plate acts as a guide for the outlet and also as a positioning member.

Example Embodiments of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

1 is a tablet packaging machine. This packaging machine consists of a casing 4 having a drug storage section 2 at the top and a packaging machine section 3 at the bottom, and a casing 4 that is inserted into a grid-like partition plate 5 of the drug storage section 2 and arranged in a plane, elongated in the vertical direction. A plurality of formed tablet cases 6, a loading mechanism 7 for taking out a predetermined number of tablets from the lower part of a selected one of the tablet cases and putting them all at once into a packaging bag, and a tablet taking out operation and loading of the tablet case 6. It is equipped with a control device 8 that controls the tablet loading operation of the mechanism 7, and seals and packages the packaging bag into which the tablets are loaded.

A sliding door 9 is attached to the upper surface of the casing 4, and by sliding this door, the upper surface is opened, and a lattice-shaped partition plate 5 and each compartment divided into a plurality of planes by the partition plate are opened. are arranged so that the upper part of the tablet case 6 is exposed. The partition plate has 12 columns in the depth direction, and is modularized with 10 rows as one unit (however, the columns and rows are not limited to this). Therefore, 1 module is 120 pieces and 1
It can accommodate 20 types of tablets, that is, 120 tablet cases 6, and by connecting a plurality of these modules, it can be configured to store 120, 240, 360, 480 types, etc.

Medicine storage unit 2 Specifically, below each compartment divided by a grid-like partition plate 5, a step-shaped bottom plate 10 with a concave center is disposed. As shown in FIG. 2, the bottom plate 10 has female electrical connectors (hereinafter referred to as first connectors) CI and tablet cases 6, each having a bottle holder open upward, in a portion corresponding to the bottom of each compartment. A drug discharge port 11 through which the drug completely removed from the hopper falls into a hopper 35, which will be described later.
It also has a. Each tablet case 6 is electrically connected to the control device 8 by being inserted into the first connector C1, and receives and passes drive signals and detection signals. Incidentally, since the bottom plate 10 is formed in a stepped shape, there are two types of tablet cases 6A having different lengths as shown in FIG.

6B can be stored, allowing the appropriate number of tablets to be stored with tablets of different sizes.

As described above, the tablet case 6 is formed into a vertically elongated prismatic shape (45I square, length 300IID), and the tablet case 12 for storing tablets is in the upper part of the rectangular cylindrical case 14, and the mechanical part 13 is in the lower part. are placed respectively. The mechanism part 13 has a funnel-shaped concave surface 15 on the upper surface, and a hole 16 is defined in the center of the concave surface, and a semi-cylindrical body 17 and 18 divided into two in the axial direction, and this amphiphilic cylinder are formed. It is composed of two support shafts 19 and 20 that are supported, and a DC motor 22 that rotationally drives these support shafts via a gear reduction device 21. A cam mechanism comprising a helical groove (not shown) formed on the circumferential surface of the support shaft 19.20 and a movable plate 23 attached to the semi-cylindrical body 17.18 and matching the helical groove. , the semi-cylindrical bodies 17, 18 move up and down alternately. Claw pieces 24 and 25 for separating tablets that have fallen through the hole 16 and detection arms 26 and 27 for detecting the presence or absence of tablets are attached to the semi-cylindrical bodies 17 and 18, respectively. As the body moves up and down, the claw piece 24.2
Convex portions 28 and 29 for adjusting the amount of protrusion of the hole 16 into the hole 16 have been formed. The semi-cylindrical body 17 and the convex portion 29, and the semi-cylindrical body 18 and the convex portion 28 move up and down in conjunction with each other.

As the amphibious cylindrical body 17.18 moves up and down, the claw pieces 24.25 and the detection arm 26.27 move in and out of the hole 16, thereby aligning the tablets, separating them one by one, sending them downward, and detecting the descending side. The end of the arm 27 hits the protrusion 30 and the arm 2
When 7 is withdrawn, the tablets are discharged one by one from the discharge port 31 serving as the lower portion. Here, one detection arm 26
A shielding plate 32 is attached to the end of the shielding plate, and a reed switch 33 and a magnet 34 are arranged on both sides of this shielding plate. Then, when the tablet pushed by the descending claw piece 25 pushes down the rising detection arm 26, that is, in the state shown in FIG. The device is designed to obtain a tablet ejection signal. Note that if there is no tablet on the detection arm 26, the arm will not be pushed down by the tablet, so the shielding plate 32 will not move.

In addition, at the bottom of the tablet case 6, there are
As shown in the figure, a male electrical connector (
C2 (hereinafter referred to as the second connector) is provided. However, the υ outlet 31 extends below the second connector C2, so that the outlet 31 faces into the medicine outlet 11 when the tablet case 6 is stored.

Reference numeral 35 designates a hopper having a triangular cross-section that is high at the front and back and low at the center, and the tablets discharged from the tablet case 6 are guided by this hopper 35 to the center of the hopper in the front and back direction. This hopper has a structure that is simply locked to the casing 4, and can be removed without using any special tools, making cleaning such as removing powder powder easy. 36
, 37 are a pair of conveyors installed at the lower part of the hopper 35, and transport the tablets dropped at the center of the hopper 35 in the front-rear direction to the center in the left-right direction.

The loading mechanism 7 is composed of a movable container 39 that can be moved in the front and back direction and whose bottom plate 38 can be fully opened when the container is moved forward, and a bag opening device 40 that widens the entrance before the container is inserted into the medicine package paper. 36. When one package of tablets collected in the movable container 39 according to 37 is collected,
The container is horizontally moved forward, the bottom plate 38 is opened, and the tablets are put into the drug wrapper.

The packaging machine section 3 includes a roller 42 around which a packaging sheet 41 which can be thermally welded and has been folded in half in advance, a tension arm 43, and a T-shaped roller 42 that heat-seals the packaging sheet into a T-shape to form continuous portion packages. a shaped heat sealing mechanism 44;
A printer device #45 prints predetermined items such as prescription data on each divided package; a feed roller 46 intermittently sends out sheet-shaped divided packages;
7 and a conveyor 48.

Then, the feed roller 46 is driven intermittently to convey the packaging sheet 41, and when the intermittent operation is stopped, the heat sealing mechanism 44 applies the heat sealing mechanism 44 to the compartment of each package and the top of the opening side with this compartment as a boundary. The half halves and the lower half M are heat welded into a T-shape to form a package with the upper half on the opening side open. As will be described later, the medicine transported by the conveyors 36, 37 falls into the movable container 39 from between the two conveyors 36, 37. The movable container 39 has openings on the upper and lower surfaces, and the lower opening is closed by the bottom plate 38, and the lower part is sealed by the heat sealing mechanism 44 by the feeding operation of the feeding roller 46. Then, the bag opening device 40 opens the upper part of the divided package, and the movable container 39 moves forward on the bottom plate 38 toward the divided package. and movable container 39
When the movable container 39 advances further forward of the bottom plate 38, the lower opening of the movable container 39 is opened, so that the medicine inside falls into the sachet, completing the operation of putting the medicine into the sachet. By introducing this medicine, the movable container 39 moves rearward and stops at a predetermined position.

Thereafter, by the operation of the heat sealing mechanism 44 accompanying the operation of forming the next divided package, the opening of the upper half of the divided package is thermally welded, and the divided package containing the drug is sealed.

As described above, the drug supply device of the present invention, that is, the tablet case 6, has a vertically elongated prismatic shape and has a small bottom area, so when the drug supply device is mounted on the drug packaging machine 1, it is arranged side by side in a plane. Therefore, the height of the drug packaging machine 1 can be significantly reduced even if the capacity and number of devices arranged are the same as in the past. As a result, usability for the user can be improved. In addition, the drug outlet 3 of the tablet case 6
1 are all located in a plane at the bottom of the supply device, so the medicine discharged from the tablet case 6 to the hopper 35 is discharged from a considerably low position, greatly reducing damage caused by falling medicine. It is possible to reduce the drop time, shorten the falling time, and contribute to speeding up the packaging operation. Furthermore, since the tablet cases 6 can be arranged in a plane, there is no need for a drop path shared by each tablet case 6 as in the conventional case, and the drop path that is shared by each tablet case 6 is no longer necessary.
- Even if the soot 6 is extracted, the medicine will not jump out of the machine from this extraction part, and even if it is not extracted, the medicine case part 12 is located on the top of the tablet case 6, so the medicine packaging machine The tablet case 6 can be easily replenished with medicine even during operation, and the user's work efficiency can be improved.

In addition, in each section formed in a plurality of planes on the partition plate 5,
When storing the tablet case 6, the partition plate 5 acts as a guide member that guides the tablet case 6 in the direction of gravity. The connector C2 is connected to the first connector C1 provided on the bottom plate 10 in the direction of gravity, which is the same as the storage direction of the tablet case. It can be connected in the direction of gravity so that it faces you. Once, the storage direction of the tablet case 6, the falling direction of the drug, and both connectors C
The connecting directions of I and C2 are the same (in the direction of gravity), which not only facilitates the work of storing the tablet throat case 6, but also allows the discharge port 31 to be reliably communicated with the drug discharge port 11.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, the direction in which the tablet case is stored in each compartment, the direction in which the medicine falls from the tablet case, and the direction in which both the first and second connectors are connected are all set in the same direction (in detail). (in the direction of gravity), which not only makes it easier to store the tablet case, but also ensures that the orientation of the connector does not change when connecting and disconnecting the connector, and that the medication is reliably discharged from the outlet to the medication outlet. can do.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Each figure shows an embodiment of the drug packaging machine of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a vertical view of the main part explaining the connection relationship between the tablet case and the bottom plate, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the bottom plate and the partition plate, Figures 3 and 4 are a perspective view of the tablet case and a perspective view of the mechanism;
FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the drug packaging machine, FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing the arrangement of the tablet cases and the loading mechanism, and FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram for explaining the operation of the tablet cases. 1... Drug packaging machine, 2... Drug storage section, 3
...Packaging machine section, 5.Partition plate, 6.Tablet case, 7.Insertion mechanism, 10..
・Bottom plate, 11 river drug outlet, 31... outlet,
CI...first connector, C2...second connector.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A drug storage section partitioned into a plurality of sections in a plane by partition plates arranged in a grid pattern, and a plurality of tablet cases that are elongated in the vertical direction and stored in each of the sections;
comprising: a bottom plate disposed below the medicine storage unit; a loading mechanism for loading a designated predetermined number of medicines into a packaging bag at once; and a packaging machine unit for hermetically packaging the packaging bag into which the medicine has been loaded;
The bottom plate has a first connector and a medicine outlet in a portion corresponding to each compartment, and the tablet case has a medicine outlet in its lower part and a second connector connected to the first connector. and configured such that when the tablet case is stored in each compartment of the drug storage section, the second connector is connected to the first connector and the ejection port faces the drug outlet. Pharmaceutical packaging machine.