KR100955946B1 - Apparatus for delivery of meddicine packing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is to deliver the drug administered from the drug manufacturer to be packaged once a batch, the transport structure of the drug packaging machine that can be simple and accurate, thereby reducing the volume and manufacturing cost of the entire device accordingly An apparatus comprising: a main body; A distribution tray disposed on an upper portion of the main body and having a plurality of medicine injection holes penetrating up and down and having an opening and closing door at a bottom thereof to open and close the medicine injection hole; A transfer unit disposed inside the main body and provided with a spiral screw blade on an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft to receive and transport the medicine discharged from the medicine injection hole between the screw blades; And a discharge part in which a discharge hole for discharging the medicine transferred through the transfer part to the outside is formed.

Medicine, packing, conveying, screw

Description

Apparatus for delivery of meddicine packing machine

The present invention relates to a transfer device of a pharmaceutical packaging machine, and more particularly, to deliver the drug administered from the drug manufacturer to be packaged once a batch, the transfer structure is simple and accurate, and thus the volume and The present invention relates to a delivery device for a pharmaceutical packaging machine that can significantly reduce the manufacturing cost.

In general, the pharmaceutical packaging machine is used in hospitals, pharmacies, etc., is a device that allows the pharmacist to automatically package the medicine without the medicine directly when the medicine is prepared based on the prescription prescribed by the doctor.

The pharmaceutical packaging machine is usually arranged on top of a plurality of cassettes arranged in a multi-stage, the cassette is accommodated in a variety of different tablets, respectively. The tablets stored in the cassettes are interfaced with a computer to be selectively discharged from the cassette by a user's computer operation. The discharged tablets are collected in a hopper and packaged in a packing unit provided under the medicine packing machine. As described above, a method of storing tablets in a plurality of cassettes and discharging the tablets from the cassette by the operation of a computer is called an automatic type.

On the other hand, the way that a person puts the medicine in the tray by hand is called semi-automatic type. On the other hand, the mixed type pharmaceutical packaging of the form of mixing the above automatic type and semi-automatic type is also used.

In particular, the semi-automatic and mixed type pharmaceutical packaging machine is provided with a transporting device for transporting the administered drug to the packaging portion to be packaged by batch once the drug administered manually.

In the conventional conveying apparatus, after administering a medicament one by one or once in a disc or square distribution tray, the lower portion of the distribution tray is opened to accommodate the bucket, and the bucket is an endless track type. Was transported through the conveyor belt and poured to the discharge side to transfer the medicine to the packaging. In addition to this method, various kinds of transfer devices are used, but most of them have complicated structures and require a lot of space for their driving.

The conventional transport device has a disadvantage in that the structure is complicated and the volume of the distribution tray becomes larger as well as the volume occupied by the transport device.

In addition, the above-mentioned conventional conveyor belt type transfer device occupies a relatively small volume compared to the previous transfer device, and the distribution tray located at the upper portion does not require a large volume, thereby reducing the overall volume of the apparatus. Still, it wasn't as small as the user wanted.

In addition, the conveyor belt type conveying device has a high manufacturing cost because many accessories such as a drive motor, a conveyor belt, a plurality of buckets must be built in, and if very precise control is not performed, chemicals may be lost or damaged to cause defects. There were many problems.

The present invention was created in order to solve the conventional problems as described above, the structure is very simple and can accurately transport the medicine to the packaging portion, it takes up less space and can transport many kinds of medicine, efficient, and manufactured In addition to being very inexpensive, the object of the present invention is to provide a transport device of a pharmaceutical packaging machine that is easily changed to a small capacity or a large capacity according to the use environment.

The present invention to achieve the above object, the main body; A distribution tray disposed on an upper portion of the main body and having a plurality of medicine injection holes penetrating up and down and having an opening and closing door at a bottom thereof to open and close the medicine injection hole; A transfer unit disposed inside the main body and provided with a spiral screw blade on an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft to receive and transport the medicine discharged from the medicine injection hole between the screw blades; And a discharge part formed with a discharge hole for discharging the drug transferred through the transfer part to the outside.

In addition, according to the present invention is provided with a sensor for detecting the position of the screw blade, the control unit for opening the opening and closing door when the position between the medicine injection hole and the screw wing is matched; drug further comprising a Provides a conveying device for the packaging machine.

In addition, according to the present invention, the opening and closing door is provided with a solenoid is connected to one side of the drug packaging machine, characterized in that for opening and closing the medicine injection holes at a time.

In addition, according to the present invention, the drug injection holes are arranged in a row in the transverse and longitudinal direction, the rotary shaft and the screw blades are transported to the drug packaging machine characterized in that a plurality of installation corresponding to the number of columns of the drug injection hole Provide a device.

In addition, according to the present invention, the discharge unit provides a transporting device of the medicine packaging machine further comprising; a conveyor for smoothly transporting the medicine dropped through the discharge hole to the outside.

In addition, according to the present invention, the dispensing tray provides a transporting apparatus of the pharmaceutical packaging machine, characterized in that the slide back and forth from the main body.

The delivery device of the pharmaceutical packaging machine according to the present invention is to carry the drug through the rotation of the spiral screw blade, the structure is very simple, but does not cause the loss or damage of the drug, and thus the manufacturing cost is significantly reduced Has

On the other hand, the present invention is efficient because it can be transported to accommodate a variety of drugs even while occupying a relatively small space, it is a very useful invention that is easy to be changed to a small capacity or a large capacity according to the use environment.

The apparatus for transporting a medicine packaging machine according to the present invention includes a main body, a dispensing tray disposed on an upper portion of the main body, a dispensing tray into which a medicament is introduced, a conveying unit accommodated in the main body and dropped from the dispensing tray, and transported; It is provided with a discharge portion for discharging the drug transported through.

The conveying apparatus having such a configuration has a spiral screw blade in which the conveying unit is rotated, and has a structure for receiving and transporting a medicine between the screw blades, which is much higher than that of a bucket coupled to a plurality of conventional conveyor belts. It has a simple structure.

On the other hand, because the drug injection hole of the distribution tray is made to match the space formed between the screw blades and the drug is made, the space occupied by the distribution tray and the transfer portion is required less to reduce the overall volume of the device It becomes very efficient.

Hereinafter, the technical configuration of the present invention according to the accompanying drawings in detail.

1 is a perspective view according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is a perspective view showing an operating state according to an embodiment of the present invention, 4 is a front cross-sectional view showing a configuration state according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 5 is a side cross-sectional view showing a configuration state according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Figures 1 to 5, the transporting device 100 of the drug packaging machine according to the invention the main body 10; A distribution tray 20 disposed above the main body 10 and formed with a plurality of medicine injection holes 21 penetrating up and down and having an opening and closing door 22 on a bottom surface thereof to open and close the medicine injection hole 21. ); Is disposed inside the main body 10, a spiral screw blade 32 is provided on the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft 31 to accommodate the medicine 90 discharged from the medicine injection hole 21 between the screw blade 32 Transfer unit for conveying; And a discharge part in which a discharge hole 41 for discharging the medicine 90 transferred through the transfer part to the outside is formed.

The transport device 100 of the pharmaceutical packaging machine can be applied and used in various forms. That is, the present invention can be applied to a semi-automatic drug packaging machine for packaging by manually administering the drug by the drug manufacturer. Such a semi-automatic type is used in small pharmacies or hospitals where the amount of medicine is relatively small, and is useful because it can be installed in a narrow space. Therefore, the transfer device according to the present invention can be used as an independent semi-automatic drug packaging machine in association with the packaging unit.

On the other hand, the present invention can be used to be applied to the pharmaceutical packaging machine of the mixed form of the automatic type and semi-automatic type. That is, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the mixed type pharmaceutical packaging machine is provided in a plurality of multi-stage arrangement at the top of the cassette containing the drug, a hopper formed at the bottom of the cassette to collect the medicine, and the hopper It includes a packing unit for discharging to the outside by packing the medicine in the lower portion. As such, a pharmaceutical packaging machine having a configuration including a plurality of cassettes, a hopper and a packaging part is a general configuration of an automatic type. In addition, there is further provided with a tablet feeder for supplying drugs in a semi-automatic type inside the automatic drug packaging machine can be implemented to be packaged together in the packaging unit, this method of the above-described automatic type and semi-automatic type It is a mixed type pharmaceutical packaging machine.

The transfer device 100 according to the present invention is disposed to perform the function of the semi-automatic drug supplied from the mixing type drug packaging machine to the hopper. As described above, the transfer device 100 applied to the mixed type pharmaceutical packaging machine is embodied in a manner in which the pharmaceutical preparation agent directly administers the medicine, and thus may be useful for special tablets or small amount of medicines that cannot be stored in the cassette.

The main body 10 is to be a main frame of the transfer apparatus 100 according to the present invention, and a transfer part and a discharge part to be described later are installed therein. On the other hand, the main body 10 may be further provided with a packaging unit for packaging the drug discharged. In addition, the main body 10 is that the distribution tray 20 to be described later is disposed above, the drug administered through the distribution tray 20 is dropped to the transfer unit. Therefore, the upper end of the main body 10 is preferably opened. The size of the main body 10 can be changed according to the capacity of the medicine packaging machine, it is possible to change the width and width of the main body 10 to correspond to the length or number of the rotating shaft 31 and the screw wing 32 to be described later.

The distribution tray 20 is disposed above the main body 10. The distribution tray 20 is formed with a plurality of injection holes 21 penetrated up and down. The medicine injection holes 21 are formed to penetrate through the upper and lower surfaces of the distribution tray 20, so as to inject the medicine into the upper portion of the medicine injection hole (21). On the other hand, the lower surface of the distribution tray 20, that is, the opening and closing door 22 is provided. The opening and closing door 22 is located on the lower surface of the distribution tray 20, and serves to open or block the lower portion of the medicine injection hole 21.

The opening and closing door 22 is usually blocking the lower portion of the medicine injection hole 21. When the opening and closing door 22 blocks the lower portion of the medicine injection hole 21 as described above, the medicine administered to the upper portion of the medicine injection hole 21 is in a state accommodated in the medicine injection hole 21. On the other hand, when the opening and closing door 22 opens the lower portion of the medicine injection hole 21, the medicine contained in the medicine injection hole 21 will fall to the bottom. The opening and closing door 22 may be driven in various ways, it is preferable that the opening and closing in the hinge type.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the opening and closing door 22, as shown in Figure 5, the solenoid 50 is connected to one side to open and close the medicine injection hole 21 at a time. That is, the opening and closing door 22 is made of a thin and long plate shape, one side is connected to the lower surface of the distribution tray 20 by a hinge is rotatable up and down. On the other hand, by connecting the solenoid 50 and the axis of the hinge with a link 51, the opening and closing door 22 is rotated in accordance with the operation of the solenoid 50. Normally, the opening and closing door 22 is in a state of blocking the lower portion of the medicine injection hole 21, and when the solenoid 50 is pulled, the opening and closing door 22 is rotated to open the lower portion of the medicine injection hole 21. On the other hand, after the opening / closing door 22 is opened, when the pulling force of the solenoid 50 is released, the opening / closing door 22 is closed again by the restoring force. In this case, the opening and closing door 22 may further include a separate magnet member to assist opening and closing of the medicine injection hole 21.

4 and 5, the transfer unit is disposed inside the main body 10. The conveying unit includes a rotation shaft 31 and a screw blade 32. The screw blades 32 are formed spirally along the outer circumferential surface of the rotation shaft 31. The rotating shaft 31 and the screw blades 32 are located at the lower portion of the distribution tray 20 to transfer the medicine 90 dropped from the medicine injection hole 21 of the distribution tray 20.

The rotation shaft 31 may be implemented to rotate by connecting the drive motor 35 to the gear 36 on one side. As described above, the medicine 90 is dropped between the screw blades 32 that are integrally rotated together with the rotation shaft 31, and the medicine 90 is transferred to the discharge hole 41 to be described later. The thread spacing of the screw wing 32 is made to coincide with the spacing of the medicine injection holes 21. In particular, it is preferable that the conveying part further constitutes a cylindrical housing 33 and arranges the rotating shaft 31 and the screw blades 32 in the cylindrical housing 33. The inner diameter of the cylindrical housing 33 is formed to be finer than the screw wing 32. Due to this configuration, the medicines 90 accommodated between the screw blades 32 can be smoothly transported in the cylindrical housing 33.

On the other hand, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the drug injection holes 21 are arranged in a row in the horizontal and longitudinal directions, the rotary shaft 31 and the screw blades 32 of the drug injection hole 21 A plurality of columns may be provided to correspond to the number of columns.

That is, as shown in Fig. 1, the chemical injection holes 21 can be formed in six rows in the transverse direction and two rows in the longitudinal direction, as well as 6 × 3, 6 × 4, 6 × 5 ... The number can be changed in various ways such as 12 × 2, 12 × 3, 12 × 4 ... The drug injection holes 21 arranged in a row in the transverse direction correspond to between the above-described screw blades 32, so that the medicine is received and transported between the screw blades 32. In this way, the rows of the chemical injection holes 21 arranged in the lateral direction correspond to one rotation shaft 31 and the screw wing 32 to form one drive set. Therefore, when the horizontal rows of the chemical injection holes 21 are formed in two rows, three rows, four rows, ... in a plurality of rows in the longitudinal direction, the rotary shaft 31 and the screw blades 32 are also arranged in the vertical row. It corresponds to the number and is formed in plural. As a result, it is possible to efficiently administer and transfer various and large amounts of medicines while occupying a relatively small space.

In addition, according to the present invention, having a sensor for detecting the position of the screw wing 32, the opening and closing door 22 when the position between the medicine injection hole 21 and the screw wing 32 is matched It may further include a control unit for opening.

The medicine injected by the medicine preparation agent is accommodated in the medicine injection hole 21 and then dropped downward by the opening of the opening / closing door 22, and is accommodated in the state of being accommodated between the screw blades 32 to rotate the rotary shaft 31. To be transported. When all of the drugs are transferred in this manner, other drugs are administered and transported to repeat the process. At this time, if the rotation of the rotary shaft 31 is not precisely controlled, the position of the screw blades 32 threads may not coincide with the medicine injection hole 21. Therefore, when the drug is dropped, the drug may be caught between the screw blades 32, or because the accurate drop may not be made, the drug may be damaged or damaged. As a solution to this, a sensor is provided to sense the position of the screw wing 32. When the space formed between the threads of the screw wing 32 coincides with the medicine injection hole 21, opening and closing the door 22 can solve the problem.

On the other hand, according to a more preferred embodiment of the present invention, the distribution tray 20 is implemented to slide back and forth from the main body 10. As such, the method of allowing the distribution tray 20 to slide from the main body 10 may be variously adopted. As shown in FIG. 2, the guide wheel 15 is provided on the upper portion of the main body 10 and distributed. It is also a good method to form guide rails 25 on both sides of the tray 20 to allow the guide wheels 15 to slide.

As described above, the dispensing tray 20 is slid back and forth from the main body 10, and the drug maker dispensing the drug in the state in which the dispensing tray 20 is pulled forward and after dispensing all the drugs, the dispensing tray 20 By pushing the back 20, the drug transfer process is performed. As such, the configuration in which the dispensing tray 20 slides from the main body 10 is applied to an automatic type medicine packing machine and used to pull only the dispensing tray 20 without moving both the dispensing tray 20 and the main body 10. Drugs can be administered to provide convenience.

The discharge part is formed with a discharge hole 41 for discharging the drug transferred through the transfer unit to the outside. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the medicine 90 transferred along the rotating shaft 31 and the conveying screw 32 is discharged downward through the discharge hole 41 formed on the lower surface of the cylindrical housing 33. Meanwhile, the discharge part may further include a conveyor 44 that is connected to the driving motor 45 and rotates. The conveyor 44 serves to smoothly transport the medicines 90 discharged through the discharge hole 41 to the packaging unit (not shown).

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and any person having ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains may have various modifications and equivalent other embodiments. I will understand the point. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

1 is a perspective view according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is an exploded perspective view according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a perspective view showing an operating state according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a front sectional view showing a configuration state according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a side cross-sectional view showing a configuration state according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: main body 15: guide wheel

20: dispense tray 21: chemical injection hole

22: open and close door 25: guide rail

31: rotating shaft 32: screw wing

33: cylindrical housing 35: drive motor

41: discharge hole 44: the conveyor

45: drive motor 50: solenoid

100: transfer device

Claims (6)

main body; A distribution tray disposed on an upper portion of the main body and having a plurality of medicine injection holes penetrating up and down and having an opening and closing door at a bottom thereof to open and close the medicine injection hole; A transfer unit disposed inside the main body and provided with a spiral screw blade on an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft to receive and transport the medicine discharged from the medicine injection hole between the screw blades; And And a discharge part formed with a discharge hole for discharging the drug transported through the transfer part to the outside. The method according to claim 1, And a control unit having a sensor for sensing the position of the screw blade, wherein the control unit receives a signal detected from the sensor to open the opening / closing door when the position between the medicine injection hole and the screw wing is matched. Transfer device of the pharmaceutical packaging machine characterized in that. The method according to claim 1, The opening and closing door, One side is connected to the solenoid, the drug packaging device characterized in that for opening and closing the drug injection holes at a time. The method according to claim 1, The transfer unit is provided in plurality, The drug injection holes are transporting device of the drug packaging machine, characterized in that arranged in the longitudinal direction of the rotation axis. The method according to claim 1, The discharge portion, Conveyor for drug packaging machine further comprises; a conveyor for smoothly transporting the drug dropped through the discharge hole to the outside. The method according to claim 1, The distribution tray, Transfer device of the pharmaceutical packaging machine characterized in that the slide from the main body.

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