KR100553358B1 - Method and apparatus for driving slide rack of medicine packing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic pharmaceutical packing machine, more specifically, a plurality of slide racks are provided in the interior of the main body opened by the door, a plurality of tablet cassettes are mounted on the door and the slide rack, mounted on the slide rack The present invention relates to a slide rack control method and apparatus for automatic drug packaging device which automatically draws a slide rack equipped with a tablet cassette when a tablet is shortened in a tablet cassette.

Each slide rack is divided into a plurality of sectors, and when a tablet is included in a tablet cassette included in the divided sector, the controller automatically draws out only the sector including the tablet cassette by the controller, thereby eliminating unnecessary motors. There is an effect that can prevent the drive and easily identify the corresponding tablet cassette.

Pharmaceuticals, Tablets, Auto, Packed, Slide Rack, Driven, Remote

Description

Method and apparatus for driving slide rack of automatic medicine packing machine {Method and apparatus for driving slide rack of medicine packing machine}

1 is a block diagram showing a driving method according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart showing a driving method according to the present invention;

3 is a front view of the automatic pharmaceutical packing machine according to the invention,

4 is a schematic front sectional view of FIG. 3;

5 is an enlarged view of a portion A of FIG. 4;

6 is an enlarged view of a portion B of FIG. 4;

7 is a schematic cross-sectional view of FIG. 3;

8a is a configuration diagram showing an operating state of the present invention,

8B is a schematic plan sectional view showing a state in which the door is opened;

Figure 8c is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a state that the slide rack is pulled out,

9 is a front view showing another embodiment of the present invention,

10 is an enlarged view illustrating main parts of FIG. 9;

11 is a configuration diagram showing an operating state of FIG.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10: input unit

   11: remote control receiver 12: touch screen

20: drive unit

30: detector

   31: proximity sensor 32: sector

40: display

The present invention relates to an automatic pharmaceutical packing machine, more specifically, a plurality of slide racks are provided in the interior of the main body opened by the door, a plurality of tablet cassettes are mounted on the door and the slide rack, mounted on the slide rack The present invention relates to a slide rack driving method and apparatus of an automatic drug packing device for automatically extracting a slide rack equipped with a tablet cassette when a defect occurs in a tablet cassette.

Conventional automatic medicine packing machine is provided with a plurality of tablet cassettes respectively on the front of the door and the side of the slide rack, when a prescription is input to the control unit, the control unit discharges tablets from the corresponding tablet cassette according to the prescription once and prints through the hopper It is contained in the wrapping paper printed by the portion, the packaging paper containing the tablet is configured to be heat-sealed by the sealing portion continuously sealed packaging while moving.

In the case of tablets lacking in the tablet cassette of the slide rack during use, the user opens the door, manually pulls out the slide rack, checks the tablet cassette number, and refills the missing tablet.

In order to refill the cassette as described above, the user pulls out the slide rack to check the cassette number to be refilled in order to identify the slide rack in which the tablet cassette is short of the plurality of slide racks, and then the filling is performed. As a result, there has been a problem in using a time delay and an excessive force required to manually pull out and return the door and the slide rack equipped with about 100 tablet cassettes.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the conventional problems as described above,

The object is to easily withdraw the slide rack equipped with the missing tablet cassette by identifying and taking out the slide rack equipped with the missing tablet cassette with a remote controller.

Another object of the present invention is to prevent unnecessary driving of the motor by dividing each slide rack into a plurality of sectors so as to draw out only up to a sector equipped with a defective tablet cassette.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes a display step of displaying the number on the display by identifying the missing cassette cassette number in the control unit; An input step of inputting a number of the defective tablet cassette; A sector derivation step of confirming whether a corresponding tablet cassette number exists in a sector of a slide rack previously allocated by the control unit; It provides a driving method of the slide rack of the automatic pharmaceutical packaging machine, characterized in that it comprises a drive step of driving the motor so that the sector of the slide rack derived, withdraw only up to the sector containing the defective tablet cassette.

The method may further include a sector dividing step of dividing each slide rack into a plurality of sectors and inputting the number of the tablet cassette included in each divided sector to the controller before the displaying step. It is to provide a method of driving a slide rack.

In addition, to provide a slide rack driving method of the automatic drug packaging machine, characterized in that further comprising a return drive step for returning the slide rack drawn by the remote control to the initial state after the drive step.

In addition, to provide a slide rack driving method of the automatic medicine packaging machine, characterized in that the entire power, including the slide rack on / off in accordance with the on / off signal input by the remote control.

In addition, to provide a slide rack driving method of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that the drive of the slide rack is stopped in accordance with the emergency stop signal input by the remote control.

In addition, there is provided a door on the front of the slide rack, a pharmaceutical automatic packaging machine having a plurality of slide racks are provided with a plurality of tablet cassettes on both sides into the interior of the main body opened by the door; A control unit for dividing each slide rack into a plurality of sectors and storing a tablet cassette number included in each divided sector; An input unit for inputting a number of the missing tablet cassette to the controller; A driving unit which drives the slide rack and the door of the sector to be inserted and removed by the signal of the controller; It is to provide a slide rack driving apparatus of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that configured to detect the insertion position on the upper portion of the slide rack input to the control unit.

In addition, the input unit is to provide a slide rack driving apparatus of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that the remote control receiver is formed on the front of the main body to receive the number of the cassette input by the remote control to enter the control unit.

In addition, the input unit, the slide rack driving apparatus of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that the touch screen is connected to the main body is connected to the control unit and connected to the electrical signal to input the number of the tablet cassette to be drawn out to the control unit. To provide.

In addition, the sensing unit at least one or more proximity sensors are arranged at equal intervals on the top of each of the slide rack, the sensing plate detected by the proximity sensor is mounted on the rear end of the slide rack, the insertion position of the slide rack After sensing, it is input to the control unit.

In addition, the control unit compares the number of the tablet cassette in the pre-allocated and stored sectors with the input number, and if it matches, derives a sector of the slide rack equipped with the tablet cassette corresponding to the number so as to extract the sector. It is to provide a slide rack drive of the automatic drug packing machine characterized in that the sending.                         

In addition, to provide a slide rack driving apparatus of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that the display is provided on the front of the main body so that the tablet cassette number shortened by the control unit and the number of the tablet cassette input by the input unit is displayed.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing a driving method according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the present invention provides a display step (S10) of checking a missing tablet cassette number in a control unit and displaying the number on a display, and an input step (S20) of inputting a number of the missing tablet cassette. And a number checking step (S30) of checking whether or not the missing tablet cassette number stored in the controller matches the input tablet cassette number, and if the numbers match, whether the corresponding tablet cassette number exists in the sector of the pre-assigned slide rack. Sector derivation step (S40) to confirm, the drive step (S50) to drive the motor so that the sector of the derived slide rack is drawn out, but only to the sector equipped with the defective tablet cassette (S50), the door and the slide rack is returned to its original position It is made of a return driving step (S60) to drive.

In this case, the display step (S10) is to display the number of the tablet cassette short-circuited by the control unit so that the user can recognize.

The input step (S20) is to enter the missing tablet cassette number remotely via a remote control or input the missing tablet cassette number on the touch screen connected to the main body.

The checking step (S30) is a step of determining whether the number of the input tablet cassette and the number of the missing tablet cassette mounted on the slide rack.

This means that if a number that does not correspond to the number of the tablet cassette mounted on the slide rack is entered due to an input error by the user, the control unit displays an error of the input number on the display or generates a beep to recognize that the input is incorrect. Wait for it to reenter without going to the next step.

If the cassette number input by the user matches the missing tablet cassette number mounted on the slide rack, the process proceeds to the next step.

The sector derivation step (S40) refers to a step of deriving a sector having the corresponding tablet cassette number from a controller in which each slide rack is divided into a plurality of sectors and a tablet cassette number included in each divided sector is pre-input. .

This divides each slide rack into a plurality of sectors before the power on / off step, and performs a sector division step of inputting the number of the tablet cassettes included in the divided sectors to the controller in advance, and the missing tablet cassette number is When input, the sector position of the corresponding tablet cassette is derived from this divided sector.

The door and slide rack driving step (S50) refers to a step in which the control unit drives the drive unit of the door and the slide rack to draw out the slide rack corresponding to the derived sector to the outside, but to draw only up to the sector where the defective tablet cassette is mounted. will be.

In addition, in the return driving step (S60), after the slide rack corresponding to the derived sector is drawn out, the user searches for a cassette corresponding to the number entered in the sector and refills the tablet and inputs a return signal by the remote controller. The controller receives the return signal to drive the door and the slide rack to return to the initial state.

In addition, the present invention is to allow the entire power source including the door and the slide rack to be turned on / off with a remote control, it is possible to turn on / off the entire power supply by the touch screen connected to the main body.

In addition, the present invention stops the drive of the door and the slide rack according to the emergency stop signal input by the remote control, which is a remote control or touch screen when emergency stop is required in the process of opening and closing the door and slide rack To stop the operation.

2 is a flowchart showing a driving method according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, an ON signal is input to a power supply unit of a remote controller or a touch screen connected to a main body so that the medicine packaging machine is turned on for refilling of a tablet cassette lacking tablets (S01). ).

When the on-signal is input to the controller of the automatic medicine packaging machine by the power supply unit of the remote controller or the touch screen, the controller applies power to the automatic medicine packaging machine (S02).

The control unit checks whether or not the tablet is missing through the discriminating means connected to each tablet cassette (S03).

The control unit displays the number of the missing tablet cassette on the display provided on the front of the main body of the automatic medicine packing machine or the touch screen connected to the main body so that the user can easily recognize it (S10).

The number of the tablet cassette to be refilled is input from the number of the tablet cassette displayed on the display or the touch screen through the remote controller or the touch screen (S20).

The controller which has received the number of the tablet cassette to be refilled again displays the number of the input tablet cassette on the display or the touch screen so that the user can confirm whether the tablet cassette has been correctly input (S21).

The control unit determines whether the number of the input tablet cassette coincides with the number of the missing tablet cassette (S30).

If the input number of the tablet cassette does not match the number of the tablet cassette that is missing, 're-input' is displayed on the touch screen and the display, and the feed back to the tablet cassette number input step (S20).

If the number of the input tablet cassette coincides with the number of the missing tablet cassette, the control unit next divides each slide rack into a plurality of sectors from the input tablet cassette number, and the tablet cassette included in each of the divided sectors. A sector of the corresponding slide rack is derived from the controller in which the number is input in advance (S40).

The control unit drives the door and the slide rack so that the sector of the slide rack derived by the control unit is drawn out to the outside of the slide rack including the tablet cassette which is lacking (S50).

When the tablet cassette shortened by the driving of the door and the slide rack, that is, the tablet cassette corresponding to the input number is taken out, the user refills the tablet into the tablet cassette, and the control unit re-uses the remote control or the touch screen by the user. Check whether the number of another tablet cassette to be filled is input (S51).

When the input of the number of the other tablet cassette to be refilled by the user is confirmed, it is fed back to the number display step (S10) and repeats whether the input numbers match and the derivation of the sector and the driving steps of the door and the slide rack. Once all tablet cassettes have been refilled, wait.

After refilling of the tablet cassette is completed, the user inputs a return signal to the controller through a remote controller or a touch screen (S61).

The control unit receiving the return signal drives the door and the slide rack to return to the original position (S60).

After the return of the door and the slide rack is completed, the user inputs an off signal to the controller using a remote controller or a touch screen (S71).

The control unit receives the off signal shuts off the entire power supply of the automatic drug packaging machine (S70).

Figure 3 is a front view of the automatic pharmaceutical packaging machine according to the invention, Figure 4 is a schematic front cross-sectional view of FIG.

As shown in Figure 3 and 4, the automatic drug packaging machine is provided with a pair of doors 2 on the upper front of the main body 1, when the door 2 is opened into the interior of the main body 1 Many slide racks 3 are provided.

A plurality of tablet cassettes 4 are respectively installed at the front of the door 2 and on both sides of the slide rack 3, and when a prescription is input to the control unit 5, the control unit 5 has a corresponding tablet cassette according to a prescription ( The tablet is discharged once in 4) and placed in the wrapping paper printed by the printing unit 7 through the hopper 6, and the wrapping paper containing the tablet is heat-sealed by the sealing unit 8 while continuously being sealed and packed. It is configured to be.

In addition, the door 2 is configured to be opened and closed manually by a user using a handle or automatically opened and closed by a separate driving unit.

The slide rack (3) is automatically inserted into the outside from the inside of the main body 1 by a drive unit provided in the lower, it is configured to have a sensing unit 30 in the upper portion is moved to sense the position.

Input unit 10 formed on the front of the main body 1 is composed of a remote control receiver 11 for receiving the number of the tablet cassette inputted as a radio signal by the remote controller to input to the control unit (5).

The control unit 5 receives the number of the tablet cassette input by the remote control receiving unit 11 and then displays it on the display 40 provided in the front of the main body 1 so that the user can access the tablet cassette through the remote control. It is possible to check whether the number is correctly entered, the display 40 may be implemented in various forms, such as a display device made of a liquid crystal from a simple display device made of a segment.

In addition, the display 40 displays the number of the missing tablet cassette derived by the confirmation of the control unit 5, so that the user can easily recognize the missing tablet cassette.

5 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 4, and FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of portion B of FIG. 4.

5 and 6, the upper part of the slide rack 3 is provided with a sensing unit 30, the lower portion of the slide rack 3 is provided with a drive unit 20 is configured.

Here, the sensing unit 30 is provided with at least one proximity sensor 31 on the upper portion of each slide rack 3, the sensing plate 32 is detected by the proximity sensor 31 is the respective slide rack It is attached to the rear end of (3).

The sensing unit 30 allows the sensing plate 32 which is moved with the slide rack 3 to be sensed while passing through the proximity sensor 31, and the information detected by the proximity sensor 31 is controlled. Is input to the control unit to recognize the position of the slide rack (3).

In addition, the drive unit 20 is the motor 21 mounted on the lower surface of the slide rack 3, the rack 23 is mounted to the inside of the rail (3a) to mesh with the gear 22 of the motor 21. It is composed of.

The drive unit 20 is to move the slide rack 3 in the rail (3a) along the rack 23 while the gear 22 is rotated by the drive of the motor 21 by the control of the control unit.

7 is a schematic plan sectional view of FIG. 3.

As shown in FIG. 7, a pair of doors 2 are provided in front of the main body 1, and a plurality of slide racks 3 are provided in the main body 1, and each of the slide racks is provided. N proximity sensors 31 are arranged on the upper part of the main body 1 corresponding to (3) at equal intervals so that the slide racks 3 form n-1 sectors S, respectively.

In addition, the door 2 is opened and closed manually by a user by pulling a handle or automatically opened and closed by a driving unit 20 controlled by a control unit.

In addition, the drive unit 20 for automatically opening the door 2 is preferably composed of a hydraulic cylinder (24) hingedly rotatably coupled to both ends of the door (2) and the main body (1) It is not limited to the cylinder 24, various opening and closing means can be implemented.

The receiving groove 2a formed inside the door 2 is a space for storing the remote controller when the door 2 is opened and closed manually.

Figure 8a is a configuration diagram showing an operating state of the present invention, Figure 8b is a schematic plan sectional view showing a state that the door is opened, Figure 8c is a schematic plan sectional view showing a state that the slide rack is pulled out.

As shown in FIGS. 8A to 8C, when a user inputs a number of a cassette to be refilled using the remote controller R, the remote controller receiver 11 receives the inputted number of the cassette to be input to the controller 5.

The controller 5 receiving the cassette number from the remote control receiver 11 displays the number so that the user can recognize it on the display 40, and then displays the sector of the slide rack 3 corresponding to the number. Will be derived.

Here, the sector divides each of the slide racks 3 into a plurality and divides the plurality of tablet cassettes mounted on the slide rack 3 into a predetermined number so that the sectors containing the tablet cassettes are drawn out.

For example, if 1 to 60 tablet cassettes are mounted on the first slide rack 3, the first sector S1 of the slide rack 3 is equipped with 1 to 20 tablet cassettes. The second sector S2 is loaded with tablet cassettes 21 to 40 and the third sector S3 with 41 to 60 tablets.

Similarly, the second slide rack (3) is equipped with 61 to 120 cassettes and is divided into three sectors (S4, S5, S6) of 20 pieces each, and the third slide rack (3) has 121 to 180 cassettes. It is mounted and divided into three sectors (S7, S8 and S9) of 20 pieces each.

When the cassette is divided into sectors and the user inputs No. 115 with the remote controller R, the controller 5 displays this number on the display 40 and then derives the sector S6 corresponding to the number. Will be done.

In addition, the controller 5 drives the hydraulic cylinder 24 of the door 2 to open the door 2 in order to draw out the derived sector S6, and then drives the second slide rack 3. By operating 20, the sector S6 on which the tablet cassette corresponding to No. 115 is mounted is taken out of the main body 1.

In this case, the controller 5 recognizes the movement position of the second slide rack 3 by the sensing unit 30 to operate the driving unit 20 only up to a sector including the tablet cassette.

In other words, the slide rack 3 such that the sensing plate 32 is moved from the last proximity sensor 31 to the first proximity sensor 31 among the four proximity sensors 31 arranged above the second slide rack 3. ) So that only the derived sector S6 is drawn out.

As such, when the sector S6 of the second slide rack 3 is withdrawn, the tablet cassette corresponding to No. 115 is searched in this sector S6 to refill the tablet, and when the filling of the tablet is completed, the user controls the remote controller R. By inputting a return signal to the control unit 5 through the control by the control unit 5 to the door 2 and the slide rack 3 to return to the original position.

Figure 9 is a front view showing another embodiment of the present invention, Figure 10 is an enlarged view of the main portion of Figure 9, Figure 11 is a block diagram showing the operating state of FIG.

As shown in Figure 9 to 11, the automatic drug packaging machine is provided with a door 2 to the front of the main body 1, a slide rack (not shown) is provided inside the main body 1, the door 2 and a plurality of tablet cassettes 4 are provided in the slide rack (not shown), and the input unit 10 connected to the control unit 5 and an electric signal is provided on one side of the main body 1.

Here, the input unit 10 is composed of a touch screen 12 which is provided on one side of the main body 1 so as to be connected to the control unit 5 and the electrical signal on the tablet cassette number to be drawn out to the control unit 5. will be.

The touch screen 12 includes a number input unit 121, a power on / off input unit 122, an emergency stop input unit 123, a return signal input unit 124, an input number display unit 125, and the like on the screen. And a user inputs a signal to the controller 5 by touching the screen.

In addition, the number input unit 121 is to input the number of the cassette to be refilled to the control unit 5, the power on / off input unit 122 is to input so that the entire power of the automatic drug packaging machine on / off, emergency The stop input unit 123 inputs an emergency stop of the drive unit 20, and the return signal input unit 124 inputs the door 2 and the slide rack (not shown) after the refilling of the tablet into the cassette 4 is completed. ) Is to input the return signal to return to the original position, the input number display unit 125 is to display the number entered by the user to confirm.

According to the number of the cassette inputted to the controller 5 by the touch screen 12, the controller 5 detects the position of the slide rack (not shown) by the detector 30 and through the drive unit 20. The slide rack (not shown) will be taken out or returned to the outside.

As described above, the present invention can control the door and the slide rack only by the operation of the remote control or touch screen, thereby reducing the effort required to manually open and withdraw the door and slide rack equipped with about 100 tablet cassettes. Have

In addition, the present invention has the effect that the user can easily identify the position of the tablet cassette is missing.

In addition, the present invention divides the slide rack into a plurality of sectors to draw out only up to the sector including the defective tablet cassette, there is an effect that can save unnecessary driving of the motor and thereby time.

Claims (11)

A display step of identifying a tablet cassette number shortened by a control unit and displaying the number on a display; An input step of inputting a number of the defective tablet cassette; A sector derivation step of confirming whether a corresponding tablet cassette number exists in a sector of a slide rack previously allocated by the control unit; A drive method for driving a slide rack of a pharmaceutical packaging machine, characterized in that it comprises a pull-out driving step of driving the motor so that the sector of the derived slide rack is drawn out, but only up to the sector containing the defective tablet cassette. The method of claim 1; And a return drive step of driving the door and the slide rack to the initial state according to the return signal after the takeout drive step. The method of claim 1; And a step of turning on / off the entire power including the door and the slide rack according to the on / off signal input from the outside prior to the displaying step. The method of claim 3; Sliding the slide rack of the automatic medicine packing machine further comprises the step of partitioning each slide rack into a plurality of sectors before the power on / off step, and inputting the number of the tablet cassette included in each divided sector to the control unit Way. The method of claim 1; And driving the doors and the slide racks in response to the emergency stop signal input from the outside. Claims [1] A pharmaceutical packaging machine comprising: a door having a front surface of a slide rack, and a plurality of slide racks having a plurality of tablet cassettes mounted on both sides of the main body opened by the door; A control unit for dividing each slide rack into a plurality of sectors and storing a tablet cassette number included in each divided sector; An input unit for inputting a number of the missing tablet cassette to the controller; A driving unit for driving the slide rack and the door of the sector having the tablet cassette number inputted to the input unit under the control of the control unit so as to be inserted and removed; Slide rack drive device of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that configured to detect the insertion position on the upper portion of the slide rack input to the control unit The method of claim 6; The input unit, the slide rack driving apparatus of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that the remote control receiver is formed on the front of the main body to receive the number of the cassette input by the remote control to enter the control unit. The method of claim 6; The input unit is a slide rack driving apparatus of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that the touch screen is connected to the main body is connected to the control unit and the electrical signal connected to the main body to input the number of the tablet cassette to be drawn out to the control unit. The method of claim 6; The detection unit, at least one or more proximity sensors are arranged at equal intervals on the upper portion of the slide rack, the sensing plate detected by the proximity sensor is mounted on the rear end of the slide rack, after detecting the insertion position of the slide rack Slide rack drive device of the automatic medicine packaging machine, characterized in that input to the control unit. The method of claim 6; The control unit compares the number of the tablet cassette in the pre-allocated and stored sectors with the input number, and if it matches, derives a sector of the slide rack on which the tablet cassette corresponding to the number is attached and extracts the sector from the control signal. Slide rack drive device of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that to send. The method of claim 6; And a display in which a tablet cassette number shortened by the control unit and a number of the tablet cassette inputted by the input unit are displayed on the front of the main body.

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