JPH0788159A - Injection preparing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce a burden of a worker who is engaged to preparation of an injection by providing a storage box for storing a vessel containing the injection taken out of a containing box in accordance with a prescription slip. CONSTITUTION:A storage box 4 is provided with a suitable conveyor 41 which is connected to conveyor of a printing unit 3, and also, is freely ascendable and descendable, a suitable storage shelf 42 consisting of plural stages arranged in the inner part of the conveyor 41, and a suitable transfer mechanism 43. The transfer mechanism 43 transfers a vessel on the conveyor 41 to an arbitrary storage shelf 42 from the conveyor 41 in a state that a tray label remains stuck in accordance with necessity, and also, the vessel on the conveyor 41 is carried to an inspecting unit 5 in accordance with necessity. Therefore, in the case it is unnecessary to store the vessel, the vessel received from the printing unit 3 is allowed to only pass through by operating the conveyor 41, and carried directly to the inspecting unit 5.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an injection drug dispensing machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, there are various types of injectable drugs, such as ampoules, vials, and infusion bottles, depending on the size and shape of the container, and there are various types from small to large. In addition, there are various types of injections such as subcutaneous injection, intramuscular injection, intravenous injection, and drip injection depending on the application site of the body to which they are applied, and it goes without saying that these must not be confused with each other and applied. Since all of these injectables are fast-absorbing and quick and effective, the wrong application may cause fatal effects on the patient, and therefore the person applying them should be careful. Attention must be paid to it, and the tension is not comparable to the handling of tablets and powders.

[0003]

However, in the prior art, since the injection drug preparation work was manually performed from the beginning to the end, the burden on the operator was large,
There was a problem that the burden could not be reduced.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art and to provide an injection drug dispensing machine capable of reducing the burden on an operator engaged in the injection drug dispensing. .

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a container for storing various injectables, a container for storing injectables taken out from the container according to a prescription, and an injectable drug. A storage for storing the contained container is provided.

[0006]

By adopting the above means, the present invention allows the injection drug taken out from the storage container to be stored in the container, which facilitates the handling of the injection drug in the subsequent dispensing operation.

[0007]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of an injectable medicine dispensing machine according to the present invention. This injectable medicine dispensing machine comprises a container stocker 1, a drug storage 2, a printing unit 3 and a storage. 4 and an inspection unit 5.

In the container stocker 1, as shown schematically in FIG. 2, a large number of tray-shaped containers 11 are stacked and stored. Each container 11 is made of transparent plastic in which a main body 12 and a lid 13 are provided in series. A partition 14 is formed on each of the main body 12 and the lid 13, and the lid 13 is closed to the main body 12. When the two partitions 14 are overlapped with each other, the inner space of the container 11 has a plurality of storage chambers 15.
It is designed to be divided into These containers 11
If necessary, the sheets are separated one by one from the bottommost one by an appropriate separating mechanism 16 and are conveyed to the medicine storage 2 by an appropriate conveyor 17.
As such a container 11, as shown in FIG. 2, for example, six storage chambers (even number) are formed, and although not shown, five storage chambers 15 are formed (odd number). It is preferable that the above-mentioned products are separately stored in the container stocker 1, and that any container 11 is selected and can be conveyed to the medicine storage 2 by the conveyor 17. For example, waste can be eliminated by using an even or odd container 11 that is suitable according to the number of prescribed injections. If required, it is also possible to use the container 11 in which the internal space is formed as a single storage chamber 15 without forming the partition 14 in both the main body 12 and the lid 13.

In the medicine storage 2, as shown schematically in FIG. 3, various types of injectable drugs 2 in the shape of ampoules or vials are provided.
1 is stored in a proper cartridge 22 for each chemical in a state of being laid side by side in the state of being laid down, and if necessary, it can be taken out one by one by an appropriate take-out mechanism 23 provided at the lower end of the cartridge 22. Has become. And the injection drug 21 taken out from the cartridge 21
Are first brought closer to the front by an appropriate one-sided shifting mechanism 24, then gathered from the left and right to the center by an appropriate conveyor 25, and further sequentially held one by one by an appropriate holding conveyor 26, and further, in a container. The containers 11 are arranged and accommodated in a predetermined accommodating chamber 15 that has been conveyed by an appropriate conveyor 27 connected to the conveyor 17 of the stocker 1. In FIG. 3, the conveyors 25 are provided on the left and right sides of the holding conveyor 26 in upper and lower two stages, and the plurality of cartridges 22 correspond to the respective conveyors. A conveyor 25 and a plurality of cartridges 22 corresponding to the conveyors 25 may be provided in each case, and in any case, the cartridges 22 can be pulled out from the housing to facilitate the replenishment of the injection drug 21 contained therein. It is preferably installed in a slide cabinet. Further, the container 11 containing the injectable drug 21 is conveyed by the conveyor 27 toward the printing unit 3.

As shown schematically in FIG. 4, the printing unit 3 has a proper printing mechanism 31, a proper label attaching mechanism 32, and a proper elevating mechanism 33 connected to the conveyor 27 of the medicine storage 2. And a conveyor 34. The printing mechanism 31 conveys an appropriate label (tray label) 35 to the container 1 conveyed by the conveyor 27 of the medicine storage 2.
1 for identifying the barcode 36, a simple prescription content 37 for the injectable drug 21 contained in the container 11, and an appropriate supplementary content 38 to be combined with the container 11.
And the label attaching mechanism 32 attaches the tray label 35 on which these are printed to the corresponding container 11. Prescription content 3
7 includes, for example, the patient name, the drug name of the injectable drug 21 and the number thereof, and the complementary content 38 includes
For example, in addition to the drug name and the number of prescription drugs that are not stored in the drug storage 2, the number of prescriptions described below, the presence and number of infusion labels, and the like can be mentioned.
Then, the container 11 to which the tray label 35 is attached
Are conveyed by the conveyor 34 toward the storage 4.

As shown schematically in FIG. 5, the storage box 4 is composed of a suitable conveyor 41 which is connected to the conveyor 34 of the printing unit 3 and which can be raised and lowered, and a plurality of stages arranged behind the conveyor 41. An appropriate storage shelf 42 and an appropriate transfer mechanism 43 are provided, and the transfer mechanism 43 conveys the container 11 on the conveyor 41 with the tray label 35 attached, if necessary. The container 41 of the storage rack 42 is transferred to the conveyor 41 as required from the storage rack 42.
Then, the container 11 on the conveyor 41 is, if necessary,
It is designed to be transported to the inspection unit 5.
Therefore, when it is not necessary to store the container 11, the transfer mechanism 43 is not operated and only the conveyor 41 is operated, so that the container 11 received from the printing unit 3 is simply passed and the inspection unit 5 is directly passed. It can be transported to.

The inspection unit 5 has a bar code scanner 51 for reading the bar code 36 of the tray label 35 attached to the container 11, as schematically shown in FIG.
Appropriate printing mechanisms 52 and 53 and an appropriate binding mechanism 54 are provided. When the barcode 36 of the container 11 is read by the barcode scanner 51, the printing mechanism 52 corresponds to the identification of the container 11 by the barcode 36 and becomes the source of the injectable drug 21 contained in the container 11. The prescription 55 is printed, and the printing mechanism 53 uses the prescription 5
When an infusion solution is prescribed in 5, an appropriate label (infusion solution label) 56, a barcode 57 for identifying the infusion solution,
A simple prescription content 58 for the ring fluid is printed, and the infusion label 56 is affixed to an infusion bottle corresponding thereto. Further, the binding mechanism 54 attaches the tray label 35 after confirming and inspecting the actual content of the injectable drug 21 contained in the container 11 and the print contents of the tray label 35, the prescription 55 and the infusion label 56, respectively. Lid 1 of container 11
3 is closed, and a prescription 55 and an infusion label 56 are also attached together if the infusion bottle is not at hand, and the completed product is shown in FIG. In the figure, 59 is a binding band. When the infusion bottle is near, the infusion label 56 may be directly attached to the infusion bottle, so that only the prescription 55 may be integrally attached to the container 11 together with the tray label 35. It is necessary to take appropriate measures so that the infusion bottle to which 56 is attached and the container 11 are not separated from each other. Also, the tray label 3
5 can also be attached to the lid 13 when the lid 13 is closed.

Next, the operation of the injection drug dispenser configured as described above will be described. First, the content of a prescription issued by a doctor is input by an appropriate input device, and the input result is used as prescription data. When prescribing an injectable drug to a patient according to this prescription data, the prescription data is applied to the container stocker 1, the drug storage 2, the printing unit 3, the storage 4 and the inspection unit 5 as needed. Then, in the prescription, the medicine storage 2
The injectable drug 21 stored in is stored in the container 11 and taken out, and the other injectable drugs are printed on the tray label 35 or the infusion label 56 and are integrally attached to the container 11 together with the prescription 55. It As a result, all the injection drugs prescribed to the patient are
And as an adjunct to it, it will be able to be centrally managed.

Although the container 11 is formed in a tray shape as shown in FIG. 2 in the above embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this, and is widely used in, for example, a tablet packaging machine, a powder packaging machine and the like. It is also possible to use a packaging paper formed in a bag shape by heat sealing, and even when the packaging paper is used, a plurality of containers can be separated by separating the internal space of one container with a sealing portion. It can be divided into the storage chambers 15 or can be formed as a single storage chamber 15. If the packaging paper is used as the container 11, it is possible to print directly on the packaging paper without using a label.

[0015]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above,
The injectable drug taken out from the storage can be stored in the container, so that the injectable drug can be easily handled in the subsequent dispensing work, thus reducing the burden on the operator who is engaged in injecting drug dispensing. It has excellent effects such as being able to do.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a layout view showing an embodiment of an injection drug dispensing machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view showing a main part of the container stocker of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing a main part of the medicine storage case of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view showing a main part of the printing unit of FIG.

5 is a schematic perspective view showing a main part of the storage case of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic perspective view showing a completed state of the inspection unit of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: Container stocker 2: Chemical storage 3: Printing unit 4: Storage 5: Auditing unit 11: Container 21: Injection drug 35: Tray label 55: Prescription 56: Infusion label

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage box for storing various injectables, a container for storing injectables taken out from the storage box according to a prescription, and a storage for storing the container containing the injectables. An injecting drug dispensing machine characterized by the above.