KR200291361Y1 - Automatic Tablet Distributing System - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an automatic tablet dispensing system for dispensing tablets to a packaging machine for automatic packaging of tablet type medicine.

The present invention comprises a plurality of supply modules for supplying drugs; A module mounting part having a plurality of module accommodating parts formed at a center thereof, the collecting part for collecting and moving down each of the medicines and the waste medicines supplied from the plurality of supply modules, the upper and lower multistage structures corresponding to both sides of the collecting part; A rotating part for rotating the module mounting part; A drug passage for moving the drug supplied through the collecting part of the module mounting part to the packing part; A waste medicine passage for moving the waste medicine discharged through the collection unit to the waste medicine container; The present invention provides an automatic tablet dispensing system comprising a manual processing unit for processing surplus medicines not added to the packaging unit from the medicine supplied from the supply module, and manually adding the medicines to the packaging unit.

Description

Automatic Tablet Distributing System

The present invention relates to an automatic tablet dispensing system, and more particularly to an automatic tablet dispensing system for dispensing tablets in a packaging machine for automatic packaging of tablet type medicine.

In general, the medicine to be given to the patient varies depending on the type of disease, but is usually prepared by prescribing various types of medicine.

In other words, in the case of only one or two kinds of medicines in the form of tablets or capsules, it is possible to supply the medicines in the packaging unit (usually 10 unit packaging) without the need for a separate preparation process. If the dosage is prescribed differently by type, it must be prepared in a single dosage unit and supplied separately packed.

By the way, for short-term prescriptions within a week does not take much time by manual packaging, but for long-term prescriptions over a month, at least 90 bags should be packed based on three doses per day. It takes time.

Therefore, in the case of a large pharmacy with many customers, there is a problem in that the cost of medicine packaging increases.

In order to solve this problem, there is an increasing number of pharmacies using an automatic packaging machine that automatically packages a large number of drugs as prescribed in the prescription.

A schematic configuration of such an automatic packaging machine includes a supply module for supplying a plurality of medicines by type, a dispensing device for dispensing medicines from the plurality of supply modules, and distributing the medicines by packaging unit, and packaging the medicines supplied by the dispensing device. It consists of a packing machine.

In addition, in order to automatically package the medicine, the type and quantity of medicine must be precisely controlled according to the inputted prescription instructions, and thus, the supply module and the dispensing device must satisfy the conditions for accurate operation.

However, the conventional automatic packaging machine has a problem that the user needs manual intervention step by step because the reliability of the supply module and the distribution device is poor.

Therefore, the present invention has been devised in view of the problems of the prior art, the purpose of which is to maintain the variety and content according to the instructions of the prescription entered to increase the packaging reliability and to reduce the packaging cost with minimal manual intervention An automatic tablet dispensing system is provided.

1 is a front view for explaining the automatic tablet dispensing system according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view for explaining the automatic tablet dispensing system according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a side view for explaining the automatic tablet dispensing system according to the present invention.

4 is a detailed view for explaining a portion A of FIG.

5 is an exemplary view for explaining the type by size of the tablet supply module.

6 is a perspective view for explaining the structure of the tablet supply module.

7 is a perspective view for explaining a cutter of the tablet supply module.

8 is a perspective view for explaining a detailed structure of the tablet supply module.

9 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the structure of the first embodiment of the discharge unit;

10 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the structure of a second embodiment of the discharge unit;

11 is an explanatory diagram for explaining an operating state of the first embodiment of the discharge unit;

12 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the operation state of the second embodiment of the discharge unit;

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: module accommodating part 20: housing

30: tablet supply module 50: separation unit

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a plurality of supply module for supplying a drug; A module mounting part having a plurality of module accommodating parts formed at a center thereof, the collecting part for collecting and moving down each of the medicines and the waste medicines supplied from the plurality of supply modules, the upper and lower multistage structures corresponding to both sides of the collecting part; A rotating part for rotating the module mounting part; A drug passage for moving the drug supplied through the collecting part of the module mounting part to the packing part; A waste medicine passage for moving the waste medicine discharged through the collection unit to the waste medicine container; It provides an automatic tablet dispensing system, characterized in that it comprises a manual processing unit for processing the surplus medicine is not added to the packaging unit from the medicine supplied from the supply module, and manually put the medicine in the packaging unit.

The supply module includes a module housing mounted inside the module receiving portion; An inlet formed on one side of the module housing and into which medicine is introduced; A door mounted on the inlet and opened and closed; A drum rotatably mounted to the inlet; A screw mounted to the inner circumferential surface of the drum to move the medicine to the middle portion; A plurality of blades mounted on the screw to move the medicine to the central axis position of the drum; A track for discharging the medicine moved by the plurality of blades to the outside; A rotary gear mounted to one side outer circumferential surface of the drum; It is composed of a drive motor mounted on the rotary gear to rotate the drum.

And, the track is formed by the upper surface of the portion in the blade position is open, the remaining portion is formed in a tubular shape.

In addition, the supply module has a circular wall is formed in the inlet is formed on one side is connected to the track, the drug outlet is formed on the bottom of the tablet, the drug separator is formed on the bottom opposite the drug separator is formed Separation cylinder, tablet receiving portion for receiving the tablets coming through the inlet is formed in the opposite position with respect to the center of the rotating plate mounted in the separation cylinder, the cover installed on the separation cylinder, connected to the center of the rotating plate to rotate It further comprises a first separation unit consisting of a rotating rod, a drug supply unit installed under the actual separation port of the separator to discharge the medicine, and a waste medicine discharge unit installed under the waste medicine separator to discharge the medicine, or a circular wall is formed. Inlet is formed on one side is connected to the track, the actual separation port is discharged tablets on the bottom And a separation container having a waste medicine separator formed at a bottom opposite to the medicine separator, a tablet receiving part for receiving tablets introduced through the injection hole, formed at an opposite position with respect to a center, and mounted in the separation container. Cutter groove is formed in the radial direction in the opposite direction, the cover is installed on the separator, the first rotary rod is connected to the center of the rotating plate to rotate, the actual supply unit is installed under the actual separation port of the separator to discharge the chamber, The waste medicine discharge unit is installed under the waste medicine separator to discharge the waste medicine, the cutter to rotate into the tablet receiving portion of the rotating plate through the cutter groove formed in the rotating plate to divide the tablet 1/2, driving the cutter Cutter drive unit, the pedestal is installed under the actual separation port of the separator, the first It consists of a double-shaft structure made by the rod further comprising a second separator configured to a second hoejeonbong that drives the said support.

As described above, the present invention improves the reliability of the medicine packaging by supplying the tablet type medicine to the packaging machine exactly as prescribed in the prescription.

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Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in which preferred embodiments are shown.

1 is a front view for explaining the automatic tablet dispensing system according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a plan view for explaining the automatic tablet dispensing system according to the present invention, Figure 3 is an automatic tablet dispensing system according to the present invention Figure 4 is a side view for explaining, Figure 4 is a detailed view for explaining the portion A of Figure 3, Figure 5 is an exemplary view for explaining the type by size of the tablet supply module, Figure 6 is a perspective view for explaining the structure of the tablet supply module 7 is a perspective view for explaining the cutter of the tablet supply module, Figure 8 is a perspective view for explaining the detailed structure of the tablet supply module, Figure 9 is an exploded perspective view for explaining the discharge structure of the tablet supply module, Figure 10 is An exploded perspective view for explaining the cutter operation of the discharge portion, Figure 11 is an explanatory view for explaining the operating state of the first embodiment of the discharge portion, Figure 12 is a description of the operation state of the second embodiment of the discharge portion Description of the Fig.

The automatic tablet dispensing system according to the present invention is equipped with a plurality of supply modules 30 for supplying a tablet type medicine, the plurality of tablet modules 30 is equipped with a tablet unit supplied from each tablet module 30 ( It consists of a dispensing device that supplies it to 15).

The dispensing device comprises a plurality of supply modules 30 mounted at the upper end, and a packing unit 15 mounted at the lower end to package the tablets in a single dosage unit as instructed by prescription.

Accordingly, the dispensing device is configured as shown in Figs. 1 to 4 to implement a function of collecting and dispensing the tablets supplied from the plurality of supply modules 30.

The plurality of module accommodating parts 10 to which the plurality of supply modules 30 are mounted, respectively, has a left and right symmetrical structure centering on the chamber collecting part 14a and the drug collecting part 12a that are formed up and down in the center while being configured in a multistage structure. Is made of.

Thus, the plurality of module receiving portion 10 is installed on the rotatable module mounting portion 22, the lower end of the module mounting portion 22 is mounted with a circular rotary rail 23 with respect to the center, the rotary rail 23 is rotated by the rotary motor 24.

The reason for allowing the module mounting part 22 to be rotatable is as seen from above as shown in FIG. 2, since the module accommodating part 10 is formed in the left and right directions based on the outlet 16 through which the packaged medicine is discharged. This is because it is necessary to rotate the module accommodating part 10 in the forward direction in order to mount the supply module 30 to the part 10.

Therefore, the size of the module accommodating part 10 and the supply module 30 also differs according to a position. That is, a large module receiving portion 10a is formed at the center portion, a medium module receiving portion 10b is formed at the middle portion, and a small module receiving portion 10a is formed at the outside thereof, and each module receiving portion 10a to 10c is formed. 5, the large supply module 30a, the medium supply module 30b, and the small supply module 30c are respectively mounted.

At this time, the module accommodating part 10 is formed in the central portion of the lower side than the side of the center on the side so that the tablet supplied from the supply module 30 slides by gravity.

Since the plurality of module receiving portion 10 is formed on both the left and right sides as described above, the medicine supplied to the supply module 30 mounted on the module receiving portion 10 is collected and transferred to the lower packing portion 15. I need a way to do it.

To this end, the front and rear long and the same length as the front and rear width of the module accommodating portion is formed with the medicine collection unit 14a and the waste medicine collection unit 12a.

In other words, both sides of the drug collection unit 14a are formed adjacent to the module collection unit 10, and the drug collection unit 12a is formed at the center of the drug collection unit 14a.

Here, the reason why the waste medicine collection unit 12a and the actual drug collection unit 14a are separated as described above is because most of the tablets injected into the supply module 30 are packaged and distributed in bulk, so that some of the tablets are broken during distribution. There may be things you can't keep.

The supply module 30 filters the broken tablets (waste) and sends them to the waste medicine collection unit 12a, and the tablets keeping the original shape are sent to the drug collection unit 14a. This separation of the drug and drug is described in the section on the supply module 30 below.

The lower ends of the drug collection unit 14a and the drug collection unit 12a as described above are formed downward in the center direction from both front and rear ends to allow movement by gravity, and each of the drug passages 14 is located below. ) And the waste passage 12 are mounted.

Here, since the module mounting portion 22 is rotatable by the rotary rail 23 and the rotary motor 24, the chamber collecting portion 14a and the waste medicine are disposed with respect to the chamber passage 14 and the waste passage 12. The collection part 12a is made rotatable.

The packaging part 15 is installed below the chemical passage 14, and the waste medicine passage 12 penetrates through the chemical passage 14 to be protruded to the outside and is connected to a waste medicine container 13 installed at a lower end thereof. .

On the other hand, the drug passage 14 is connected to the exit passage 18 for drawing out the drug supplied from the supply module 30, but not injected into the packaging unit 15 to the outside, the exit passage 18 The inlet is equipped with a damper 19 capable of opening and closing control.

And, the lower end of the exit passage 18 is provided with a manual management unit 25, the manual management unit is not supplied by the plurality of supply modules 30 or 1/2 tablet, 1/3 tablet, 1 / 4 tablets to feed manually.

Such a manual management unit 25 is controlled by the sub-control unit 27 is made of a rotatable structure, it is composed of a plurality of manual loading portion (25a).

The manual loading portion 25a also serves as a container for receiving excess tablets that are discharged through the exit passage 18.

The additional tablet loaded in the manual loading section 25a is introduced into the packaging section 15 through the manual loading passage 26.

Therefore, the installation position of the manual management unit 25 should be between the lower end of the exit passage 18 and the packing unit 15.

The distribution device configured as described above is controlled and operated by the main control unit 28, which is controlled by the main control unit 28, and includes the rotary motor 24, the damper 19, and a supply module described below. 30, the packaging control of the packaging unit 15, the control instruction to the sub-control unit 27, and the like are made.

The supply module 30 mounted in the module accommodating part 10 will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 to 12.

The supply module 30 supplies the tablets to the packaging unit 15 through the chamber collecting unit 14a and the chamber passage 14 under the control of the main controller 30 in the state of loading a plurality of tablets. It should have the ability to supply as many tablets as needed to the packaging unit 15.

An input unit 34 is installed at one end of the module housing 32 corresponding to the internal size of the module accommodating unit 10, and a door 33 that can be opened and closed is mounted at the input unit 34.

The drum 34 is rotatably mounted to the input part 34, and a rotary gear 38 is formed at one outer circumferential surface of the drum 36, and a driving motor (drawings) is formed at the rotary gear 38. (Not shown) is controlled and driven by the main controller 28.

The inner circumferential surface of the drum 36 is equipped with a screw 35 having a moving direction in the center, and the blade 37 for moving the tablet moved in the central direction by the screw 35 to the center of the drum 36. Are attached at intervals of 90 degrees.

Then, the track 40 is installed on the central axis line of the drum 36, the track 40 receives the tablet which is moved to the center of the drum 36 by the screw 35 and the blade 37 It serves to move outside.

Accordingly, the track 40 is formed by opening the upper surface of the portion at the position of the blade 37 and forming the remaining portion in a tubular shape.

The purification movement path of the supply module 30 which consists of such a structure is demonstrated with reference to FIG.

The tablet 80a loaded inside the drum 36 is moved to the middle portion of the drum 36 by a screw 35.

The tablet 80b moved to the middle portion of the drum 36 is moved up by the blade 37.

The tablet 80c moved over the blade 37 automatically falls on the track 40 by gravity.

The tablet 80d dropped on the track 40 is discharged by gravity (the gravity movement is possible because the supply module itself is inclined), and the tablet 80e discharged from the track 40 is described later. Is put into the separation unit 50.

The separation unit 50 is composed of a first embodiment having no splitting function as shown in FIG. 9 and a second embodiment having a splitting function as shown in FIG.

Therefore, the separation part of the first embodiment may be used for the tablet supply fed into its original state, and the separation part of the second embodiment may be used for the tablet supply fed in the 1/2 purified state.

In the first embodiment of the separation unit 50 shown in Figure 9 is formed with a circular wall is formed in the inlet port 52 on one side is connected to the track (4), the tablet is discharged to the bottom ( 54 is formed, the separation container 51 formed with the waste medicine separator 53 on the bottom opposite the drug separator 54, the tablet receiving portion 56 for receiving the tablets coming through the inlet 52 is the center Rotating rod 55 is formed in the opposite position relative to the rotating plate 55 is mounted in the separating cylinder 51, the cover 57 is installed on the separating cylinder 51, the rotating rod connected to the center of the rotating plate 55 to rotate (58), a drug supply unit (60) installed under the drug separation hole (54) of the separation container (51) for discharging the drug, and a drug discharge part (65) disposed under the drug dispensing device (53) to discharge waste medicine (65). It is composed of

In addition, the tablet receiving portion 56 formed on the rotating plate 55 is provided with a keeper 56a on both inner surfaces (or either side), so that tablets (not waste) in a normal state no longer slide. It is possible to easily separate the waste medicine from the normal tablet by preventing it to maintain a stable posture in the tablet receiving portion 56.

In the first embodiment of the separation unit 50 configured as described above, as shown in FIG. 11, when the tablet 80f enters the tablet receiving unit 56 from the track 40 through the inlet port 52 (FIG. 11). (A) of) The rotary plate 55 is rotated by the rotary rod 58 controlled by the main control unit 28 to rotate the tablet (80g) 180 degrees (see Fig. 11 (B)). At this time, when the waste medicine is introduced, it is discharged downward through the waste medicine separator 53 before rotating.

When the rotating plate 55 rotates 180 degrees, the tablet 80h is discharged to the chamber supplying unit 60 through the chamber separation port 54 (see FIG. 11C).

The second embodiment of the separation unit 50 shown in FIG. 10 is a separation unit having a function of dividing tablets into 1/2 tablets. For this purpose, the cutter 70 and the same configuration as the first embodiment shown in FIG. Cutter drive unit 75, the base 50 and the like is added to the cover 57, the cutter guide 57a for moving the cutter 70 is formed in the radial direction.

In addition, the rotating rod 58 is composed of a double shaft consisting of a first rotating rod for rotating the rotating plate 55 and a second rotating rod for rotating the pedestal 59.

The pedestal 59 is installed at the lower portion of the tablet separator 54, and the cutter 70 is divided into 1/2 to divide the tablet which is rotated and moved to the chamber separator 54 while being accommodated in the tablet container 56. ) Comes down against it.

As shown in FIG. 12, the second embodiment of the separation unit 50 configured as described above operates under the control of the main control unit 28.

First, when the tablet 80f enters the tablet receiving portion 56 through the inlet 52 after the pedestal 59 is moved under the actual separation opening 54 by driving the second rotating rod of the rotating rod 58. (Refer FIG. 12 (A)), the rotating plate 55 rotates by the rotating rod 58, and rotates the tablet 80g clockwise 180 degrees (refer FIG. 12 (B)). At this time, when the waste medicine is introduced, it is discharged downward through the waste medicine separator 53 before rotating.

And the cutter drive part 75 with the cutter 70 is driven to divide a tablet into 1/2 tablet (80h ', 80h ") (refer FIG. 12 (C)).

Again driving the second rotating rod to rotate the pedestal 59 45 degrees counterclockwise to open the actual separation opening 54 1/2 (see Fig. 12 (D)), each divided into 1/2 One half tablet (80h ") out of two 1/2 tablets is dropped through the chamber supply part 60 (refer FIG. 12 (E)).

At this time, the cutter 70 serves as a wall to prevent the remaining 1/2 tablet 80h 'from being separated even after separation of the tablet 80g.

12 (A) to (E) as described above is a process for supplying one of 1/2 tablets for any one medicine to the packaging unit 15.

Therefore, if the remaining half tablet (80h ') of the same drug is required in the next packaging process, the remaining half tablet (80h') is discharged through the following process.

The pedestal 59 is rotated 90 degrees clockwise (see FIG. 12F). Then, the other half tablet 80j falls through the chemical supply part 60 (refer FIG. 124 (G)).

After the tablet is introduced into the tablet receiving portion 56 of the rotating plate 55 as described above, separated into 1/2 tablet by the cutter 70, and then falls into the medicine supply unit 60 through two processes, the pedestal 59 ) Rotates 45 degrees counterclockwise to return to its original state (see FIG. 12 (H)), and receives the next tablet as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, the lower end of each of the drug supply unit 60 and the waste medicine discharge unit 65 is connected to the drug supply port 92 and the drug outlet 90 as shown in Figure 5, each drug supply port 92 and The waste drug outlet 90 is connected to the drug collection unit 14a and the waste drug collection unit 12a.

The main controller 28 further includes an input means (not shown in the figure) for inputting a prescription and a display (not shown in the figure) for displaying a confirmation and operation state of the input prescription.

The present invention made as described above provides the effect of increasing the reliability of the drug packaging by supplying the tablet type of medicine exactly as prescribed in the packaging machine.

The present invention relates to an automatic tablet dispensing system, and more particularly to an automatic tablet dispensing system for dispensing tablets in a packaging machine for automatic packaging of tablet type medicine.

In the above, the present invention has been illustrated and described with reference to specific preferred embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the general knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Various changes and modifications will be made by those who possess.

Claims (5)

A plurality of supply modules for supplying drugs; A module mounting part having a plurality of module accommodating parts formed at a center thereof, the collecting part for collecting and moving down each of the medicines and the waste medicines supplied from the plurality of supply modules, the upper and lower multistage structures corresponding to both sides of the collecting part; A rotating part for rotating the module mounting part; A drug passage for moving the drug supplied through the collecting part of the module mounting part to the packing part; A waste medicine passage for moving the waste medicine discharged through the collection unit to the waste medicine container; An automatic tablet dispensing system, comprising: a manual processing unit for processing surplus medicines not added to the packaging unit among the medicines supplied from the supply module, and manually adding the medicines to the packaging unit. The module of claim 1, wherein the supply module comprises: a module housing mounted inside the module receiving part; An inlet formed on one side of the module housing and into which medicine is introduced; A door mounted on the inlet and opened and closed; A drum rotatably mounted to the inlet; A screw mounted to the inner circumferential surface of the drum to move the medicine to the middle portion; A blade mounted to the screw to move the medicine to the central axis position of the drum; A track for discharging the medicine moved by the blade to the outside; A rotary gear mounted to one side outer circumferential surface of the drum; And a drive motor mounted to the rotary gear to rotate the drum. 3. The automatic tablet dispensing system according to claim 2, wherein the track is formed by opening an upper surface of a portion at the blade position and forming a remainder tubular. The supply module according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the supply module is formed with a circular wall is formed in the inlet is formed on one side is connected to the track, the tablet separator is discharged to the bottom, Separation container formed with a waste medicine separator on the bottom opposite the actual separator, tablet receiving portion for receiving the tablets coming through the inlet is formed in the opposite position relative to the center is installed in the separator, the rotating plate is installed on the separator Cover, a rotary rod connected to the center of the rotating plate to rotate, the separation unit consisting of a dispensing unit installed under the dispensing spout of the separation container for discharging the dispensing, and a waste discharging portion installed under the waste dispensing spout Automatic tablet dispensing system comprising a. The supply module according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the supply module has a circular wall is formed, the inlet is formed on one side is connected to the track, a physical separator is formed to discharge the tablet at the bottom, Separation container formed with a waste medicine separator on the bottom opposite the actual separator, tablet receiving portion for receiving the tablets coming through the inlet is formed in the opposite position with respect to the center is mounted on the separation plate, in the opposite direction of the inlet A cutter groove is formed in the radial direction, the cover is installed on the separator, the first rotary rod connected to the center of the rotating plate to rotate, the chemical supply unit is installed under the chamber separation port of the separator to discharge the drug, the waste medicine separation Tablet of the rotating plate through the cutter groove formed in the rotating plate, the waste drug discharge portion is installed under the sphere to discharge the waste medicine The pedestal consists of a dual shaft structure on the cutter to rotate into the inner portion of the cutter to divide the tablet 1/2, the cutter driving unit for driving the cutter, the pedestal is installed under the actual separation port of the separator, the first rotating rod An automatic tablet dispensing system, characterized in that it further comprises a separating portion consisting of a second rotary rod for driving.