KR20180128007A - Patent application title: MEDICINE ROTATING UNIT AND MEDICINE RETARDANT WITH THE SAME - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a rotary device for conveying a medicament by a variable size of a plurality of compartment spaces in which a medicament is disposed, the medicament being rotatable periodically by a driving unit; And a plurality of partition members arranged radially one end of which is fixed to the rotary member such that the partition space in which the medicament is arranged is periodically rotated to be variable, and a medicine take-out apparatus having the same. According to the present invention, since the shape of the space in which the medicine is placed is not fixed, and the space of the compartment can be changed according to the arrangement of the partition members, various planes of the medicine rotation unit can be set.

Description

Patent application title: MEDICINE ROTATING UNIT AND MEDICINE RETARDANT WITH THE SAME

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rotating unit and a drawing device, and more particularly, to a unit for automatically rotating a medicine and a medicine drawing device having the same.

Generally, the automatic medicine packing apparatus is a device that automatically packs medicines accommodated in a medicine cassette and medicines that can not be accommodated in a medicament cassette at the same time or independently in accordance with a patient's prescription.

Herein, the medicines contained in the medicament cassette are stored in a large amount in the automatic medicine packing apparatus and can be automatically dispensed as needed. However, a medicament which can not be accommodated in the medicament cassette is prepared by separately preparing a tray, It can be installed in the automatic packaging apparatus and automatically distributed.

On the other hand, in the conventional automatic medicine packing apparatus, a plurality of medicine cassettes and trays containing medicines are mounted on the main body, and when the user inputs the type and quantity of medicines through the input device according to prescription, Minute of the drug.

The discharged medicines are collected in the hopper. The collected medicines are packed in a wrapping paper for one dose, and the discharge of medicines from the medicine cassette and the tray and the packaging operation of the discharged medicines are repeated according to the number of doses inputted to the input device Packaging of medicines is carried out continuously.

Such a medicine automatic packing apparatus is a product in which the reliability and reliability of the operation is very important, for example, the kind and quantity of the medicine to be taken once are discharged according to the input, so that the medicine packed in the wrapping paper, Whether or not foreign substances are adhered and the number of medicines according to the prescription are required.

That is, since the automatic medicine packing apparatus may cause a weakening accident when an incorrect medicine is discharged from a medicine cassette or a medicine tray, it must be inspected before packaging to ensure that the discharged medicine meets the prescription.

For this reason, conventionally, an apparatus for inspecting whether or not a packaged medicine is normal is provided with a camera for photographing a medicine bottle printed with information about a medicine, a vision ) Inspection system.

As disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2014-0057943, a conventional automatic medicine packing apparatus uses a position changing unit and a medicine photographing unit having a circular medicine collecting unit for supplying and inspecting medicines.

The conventional circular position variable portion has a problem in that when the position variable portion rotates, the medicine collecting portion has a constant shape and the medicine is pushed to one corner of the medicine collecting portion, There is a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a medicine spinning unit having the accuracy, promptness, and convenience of packaging and inspection of a medicine before packaging a medicine by a single dose according to a prescription of a patient, and a medicine taking-out apparatus having the medicine spinning unit.

The medicine rotating unit according to the embodiment of the present invention is a medicine rotating unit that rotates periodically by a driving unit for transferring medicine by variable of a plurality of compartment spaces in which medicines are arranged, And a plurality of partitioning members arranged radially one end of which is fixed to the rotating member so as to periodically rotate so as to vary the partition space in which the medicine is disposed.

Here, the size of the space may be variable according to the rotation of the rotary member.

The medicine rotating unit may include a pair of rectilinear portions facing each other in a plane and a pair of curved portions facing each other connecting both ends of the rectilinear portion.

In addition, the partitioning members may be arranged to stand up in the vertical direction.

Further, the partitioning member may include a part of an elastic material.

In addition, the partitioning member may include a stretchable material at a lower portion in contact with the medicine.

Furthermore, the partitioning member may include an elastic material at an end portion in contact with the medicine.

In addition, the medicine taking-out apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an upper cover having a charging port for injecting medicine into the upper side; A lower base which forms a bottom of the compartment space in which the medicine is placed and in which a discharge port through which the medicine is discharged is formed on the lower side; A rotary member disposed between the upper cover and the lower base and being rotatable periodically by a driving unit; And a medicine rotating unit having a plurality of partitioning members arranged in a radial direction, one end of which is fixed to the rotating member such that the divided space in which the medicine is disposed is periodically rotated to vary the space.

Here, the rotating member may have a chain shape to facilitate coupling with the partitioning member, and the fixed end of the partitioning member may be hinged to the rotating member.

In addition, the upper cover and the medicine rotating unit may be detachably attached to the lower base.

Further, the rotary member has a pair of straight portions facing each other in a plane and a pair of curved portions facing each other connecting both ends of the straight portion,

The upper cover and the lower base may be provided to correspond to the shape of the rotating member.

In addition, the compartment space disposed in the rectilinear section and the compartment space disposed in the curved section may be formed as one or more than one.

In addition, the compartment space may be arranged to perform one or more of the following actions: injection, atmospheric, inspection, discharge and disposal of medicines.

At least one of the compartment spaces is communicated with the inlet so as to serve as a first input of the medicine, and at least one of the compartment spaces, which is located in the normal rotation direction of the medicine rotating unit, , The final injection of the drug, the inspection, the discharge and the disposal.

In addition, the compartment space serving as the secondary injection of the medicament in the compartment space may be arranged to communicate with the dispensing orifice.

In addition, the compartment space serving as the final input of the medicament in the compartment space may be arranged to communicate with the inlet, and the inspection equipment may be disposed on one side so as to also serve as an inspection function of the medicament.

In addition, a compartment space serving as a final input of the medicine in the compartment space; Or adjacent adjoining compartment spaces may be arranged to communicate with openable and closable medicament waste ports on the underside to serve as a disposal agent.

On the other hand, the partitioning members are provided with N (natural numbers of N ≥ 2), a first compartment space, a second compartment space, ... and an Nth compartment space, and in the first compartment space, And the first compartment space; Or an inspection device for inspecting the medicine for the supplied one of the compartments may be disposed on one side of the compartment space located in the forward rotation direction of the first compartment space.

In this case, the upper cover may include a first medicament inlet port and a second medicament inlet port, and the first medicament inlet port may be communicated with the first medicament inlet port. Or the second compartment space to the Nth compartment space located in the normal rotation direction with respect to the first compartment space, the second medicine inlet port is arranged so as to communicate with the second medicament inlet port, The inspection equipment may be disposed on one side of the compartment space.

In addition, the outlet may communicate with any one of the remaining compartment spaces located in the forward rotation direction with respect to the compartment space in which the inspection equipment is disposed.

In addition, the lower base includes a medicine waste port and a medicine discharge port, and the medicine waste port is arranged to communicate with any one of the remaining compartment spaces located in the forward rotation direction with respect to the compartment space where the inspection equipment is disposed , And the Nth compartment space, which is the last compartment space, can be arranged to communicate with the medicine outlet.

In addition, the rotating member may be provided such that the partitioning member moves the medicine by the rotational force for dispersing the medicine, and has a rest period before the rotation movement to the adjacent compartment space so as to have time for inspection of the medicine .

According to the medicine rotating unit and the medicine taking-out apparatus having the medicine rotating unit according to the embodiment of the present invention,

First, since the shape of the space in which the medicine is placed is not fixed and the space of the compartment can be changed according to the arrangement of the partition members, various planes of the medicine rotation unit can be set.

Second, because the partition member moves with a small impact, the medicament is scattered without collecting on one side of the partition space.

Third, if the medicine rotating unit is provided with a straight line portion and a curved line portion, it is possible to configure a necessary medicine draw-out by adjusting the number of the divided spaces arranged in the straight line portion and the curved portion.

Fourthly, when a part of the partitioning member includes an elastic material, it is possible to prevent damage to the medicament when the partitioning member is in contact with the medicament.

Fifth, when the rotary member is in the shape of a chain and the partition member is hinged to the rotary member, it is possible to vary the medicament compartment space according to the arrangement of the partition members, so that various planes of the medicine rotation unit can be easily set.

Sixth, if the upper cover and the medicine rotating unit are provided so as to be detachable from the lower base, it is easy to clean the upper surface of the lower base.

Seventh, it is possible to form one or more compartment spaces of the straight line portion and the curved line portion so that various processes such as injection, inspection, discharge, and disposal of medicine can be performed.

A plurality of compartment spaces into which the first medicament is injected and a second medicament injected into the compartment space located downstream in the normal rotation direction to secure a desired interval between the first injection and the second injection have.

Ninth, the conventional medicine rotating unit has a problem that when the medicine is rotated, it is difficult for the medicine photographing unit to take an accurate photograph because the medicine is pushed to one corner of the medicine collecting unit, but the medicine is directly examined in the compartment space serving as the second input of the medicine , It is possible to minimize the time required for the inspection of the drug.

After the drug test, the drug can be discarded according to the result of the test. It is possible to move the position of the compartment space according to the prescription information of the discarded medicament, and the remodeling may be possible.

For the eleventh time, the contents of the drug test results can be displayed on the corresponding drug, so that the examiner can easily check the contents of the drug test results. In addition, the inspector can check only the drug marked with the error, and check whether the error occurred due to the misuse of the drug or whether the error occurred in the inspecting equipment for the normally injected drug. At this time, the error marking can be represented by marker ink which can be easily removed. Therefore, when it is determined that the naked eye test is normal, it is possible to change the cannon identified as an error to the normal cannon only by removing the marking.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a medicine take-out apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a perspective view of a medicine take-out apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is an exploded perspective view of the medicine taking-out apparatus shown in FIG.
4 is a cross-sectional view of the medicine taking-out apparatus shown in Fig.
FIG. 5 is a partially exploded perspective view showing a state in which the medicine automatic rotation unit and the lower base shown in FIG. 2 are separated.
FIG. 6 is a partially exploded perspective view showing a medicine disposal port of the medicine taking-out apparatus shown in FIG. 2. FIG.
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view schematically showing the medicine taking-out apparatus shown in FIG. 2. FIG.
8 to 21 are cross-sectional views illustrating an operation sequence of the medicine taking-out apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that, in the drawings, the same components are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible. Further, the detailed description of known functions and configurations that may obscure the gist of the present invention will be omitted. For the same reason, some of the components in the drawings are exaggerated, omitted, or schematically illustrated.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a medicine take-out apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the principle of operation of drug injection, drug inspection, drug disposal, and medicine packaging performed in the drug withdrawal device (ADM) according to the present invention will be described.

The medicine drawing device ADM has a plurality of compartment spaces C1, C2, C3, C4 divided by the medicine rotating unit 100. [ The medicine rotating unit 100 includes a plurality of partitioning members 120 which are connected to the rotating member 110 and the rotating member 110 by the driving unit to form the compartment spaces C1, C2, C3, and C4, . Although the number of the divided spaces C1, C2, C3, and C4 is four, it is for convenience of description, and the number of the divided spaces may be appropriately modified.

The medicine injected into the compartment space is moved to the next compartment space by the rotation of the medicine rotating unit 100, and the set operation is performed in each of the compartment intervals.

The first operation in the divided space C1, the second operation in the divided space C2, the third operation in the divided space C3, and the second operation in the divided space C4 are performed for each divided section. The fourth operation is performed.

First, the compartment space C1 is a compartment into which the first medicine is introduced. To this end, the first drug inlet is disposed in the compartment space C1. The compartment space C1 is a space into which the first medicine collected from the first medicine dispenser is charged according to a prescription. For example, the first dispenser may be a tray.

Referring to FIG. 1, the compartment space C1 is shown as one compartment, but this is for convenience of explanation, and the compartment space C1 may be formed of a plurality of compartment spaces according to the embodiment. Referring to FIG. 6, the four compartment spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3 and 130A4 indicated by 130A correspond to the compartment space C1 in which the first operation is performed.

When the first medicine is introduced into the compartment space C1, the control unit rotates the medicine rotation unit 100 by one compartment space, thereby moving the first medicine into the compartment space C2. In the present invention, this rotation is referred to as forward rotation.

The control unit performs overall control relating to the divided spaces C1, C2, C3, and C4.

Secondly, the compartment space C2 is a compartment into which the second medicament is introduced. To this end, the second drug inlet is disposed in the compartment space C2. The second medicament is a space into which medicines collected from the second medicament dispenser are injected according to prescription. For example, the second drug dispensing apparatus may be a medicine cassette.

When the second medicament is injected, the first medicament and the second medicament are placed in the compartment space C2. That is, the compartment space (C2) is a compartment in which one medicine by prescription is accommodated.

In the present invention, the second medicament refers to a medicament which is accommodated in a medicament cassette and is introduced according to a cassette control of a control section. The first medicament has a form or component which is difficult to be accommodated in a medicament cassette, it means.

Therefore, the drug dispensing apparatus (ADM) according to the present invention includes a charging port for charging the first medicine and a charging port for charging the second medicine, that is, two drug charging ports.

According to the above description, the first medicine inlet is disposed in the partition space C1, and the second medicine inlet is disposed in the partition space C2. However,

The present invention is not limited to this, and the second drug inlet may be disposed in the compartment space C1, and the first drug inlet may be disposed in the compartment space C2.

In addition, the first drug inlet may be provided in plurality according to the type of the first drug to be injected. Likewise, the second medication inlet may also be provided in plurality according to the type of the second medicament to be injected.

On the other hand, the first medicament and the second medicament may not be input through the respective input ports but may be input through one input port. That is, the first medicine dispensing device and the medicine dispensing passage of the second medicine dispensing device are connected to the first medicine dispensing port, and the first medicine and the second medicine may be simultaneously supplied through the first medicine dispensing port. Likewise, the first drug dispensing device and the drug dispensing passage of the second drug dispensing device may be connected to the second drug dispensing port so that the first medicine and the second medicine may be simultaneously injected through the second drug dispensing port.

The compartment space C2 can also serve as a space for inspecting whether the injected first medicine and the second medicine are properly injected according to a prescription.

For this purpose, an inspection device for inspecting the medicine may be disposed on one side of the compartment space C2. The inspection equipment inspects the compartment space (C2) and confirms the introduced medicine. The partition space C2 may further include an alignment device for eliminating inspection errors caused by overlapping of the medicines. The aligning device is a device for dispersing the injected drug by applying vibration to the compartment space C2. The sorting device is driven by the control unit and may operate immediately after the second medicine is inserted. However, since the medicine is scattered naturally according to the dropping, the inspection device can operate at the time of occurrence of the medicine detection error have. That is, when the control unit receives the detection error signal from the inspection equipment, the alignment unit is driven, and then the inspection equipment can check the medicine again.

If it is determined that the loaded medicine is different from the prescription, the control unit rotates the medicine rotating unit 100 by one compartment space to move the loaded medicine to the compartment space C3.

The compartment space (C3) is a compartment for discarding the medicine. To this end, a chemical waste port is disposed in the compartment space C3. If the control unit determines that the introduced medicine is different from the prescription, the control unit opens the medicine disposal unit and removes the medicine that does not fit the prescription from the compartment space (C3).

At this time, when the inputted drug is judged to be different from the prescription, the operation can be performed by dividing into three cases.

≪ First operation: chemical waste &

When it is determined that at least one of the injected first medicine or the second medicine is different from the prescription, the control unit rotates the medicine rotating unit 100 by one compartment space as described above, and moves the loaded medicine into the compartment space C3 Dispose of the waste by opening it. After disposal, the control unit may be positioned in the compartment space C1 by reversing the rotation of the medicine rotation unit 100, or may be rotated in the normal direction to return to the compartment space where the medicine is to be injected. Thus, the first agent and the second agent can be controlled to be sequentially injected again.

According to various embodiments of the present invention, at least one of the drug discharge port and the drug disposal port may be disposed in the compartment space C2 as well as the inspection equipment.

If it is determined that at least one of the injected first medicine or the second medicine is different from the prescription, the control unit may dispose the medicine in the compartment space C2 by opening the medicine disposal port provided in the compartment space C2.

Alternatively, when it is judged that the loaded medicine is the same as the prescription in the examination result in the compartment space C2 (that is, when it is normal), the control unit opens the medicine discharge port arranged in the compartment space C2 and the normal medicine is transferred to the wrapping paper To be packaged.

<Second Operation: Repackaging>

If it is determined that at least one of the first medicine or the second medicine is missing, the control unit rotates the medicine rotating unit 100 in the opposite direction to move the corresponding compartment space into the compartment space into which the first medicine or the second medicine is introduced . Or the rotating unit 100 is rotated in the forward rotation direction to position the compartment space into the compartment space into which the first medicament or the second medicament is introduced.

If it is determined that the first medicament is properly injected and the second medicament is omitted, the control unit moves the corresponding compartment space to the compartment space (C2) and transmits a re-entry instruction to the second medicament dispensing apparatus, Into the space C2.

If the first medicament is missing, the control unit moves the corresponding compartment space to the compartment space C1 and transmits a re-insertion command to the first medicament dispenser, (C1).

Thereafter, the rotation unit 100 is rotated in the forward direction so that the inspection is performed again in the compartment space C2. The subsequent procedure is the same as described above.

If it is determined that the loaded medicine is the same as the prescription (that is, normal), the control unit rotates the medicine rotation unit 100 to move the normal medicine to the compartment space C3. The normal medicines are transferred to the compartment space C4 by successive operations according to the result of drug injection, inspection and inspection for the new compartment space C2.

The compartment space C4 is a compartment for packaging the medicament. For this purpose, a discharge port connected to the packing section is disposed in the compartment space C4. The control unit controls the discharge port to be opened, and the normal medicine is transported to the wrapping paper through the discharge port and packed.

According to various embodiments of the present invention, not only a chemical waste port but also a medicine discharge port may be disposed in the compartment space C3.

When the inspection result is normal in the compartment space C2, the control unit rotates the medicine rotation unit 100 to move the normal medicine to the compartment space C3, opens the medicine discharge port arranged in the compartment space C3, Lt; RTI ID = 0.0 &gt; pavement &lt; / RTI &gt;

&Lt; Third operation: error marking >

In order to accelerate the rapid packaging of medicinal products, it is possible to proceed with the medicinal packaging even if the medicinal product inspection error occurs.

The inspection equipment inspects the compartment space (C2) and confirms the introduced medicine. In this embodiment, even if an error occurs, the control unit rotates the respective compartment spaces in the normal direction (i.e., transfers the compartment spaces to the compartment space C4) so that the error-generated medicines are packed as they are. At this time, the control unit can control the marking unit to mark whether or not an error has occurred on the wrapping paper on which the error occurred drug is put.

The errors (errors) that occur are often caused by the fact that the drugs are not distinguished in the process of analyzing the images of the drugs. Therefore, if an error occurs, it may be desirable to discard the medicines and package the medicines as they are, rather than proceeding with the new medicines.

Subsequent inspectors can only identify the drug marked with the error and can confirm whether the drug was actually caused by misapplication or whether the test equipment caused an error in the injected drug. At this time, the error marking can be represented by marker ink which can be easily removed. Therefore, when it is determined that the naked eye test is normal, it is possible to change the cannon identified as an error to the normal cannon only by removing the marking.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the medicine withdrawing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the medicine withdrawing apparatus shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a cross- FIG. 6 is a partially exploded perspective view showing a medicine waste port of the medicine taking-out apparatus shown in FIG. 2. FIG. 6 is a partially exploded perspective view showing a state in which the automatic medicine-

Referring to FIGS. 2 to 6, the drug removal device ADM includes a medicine rotation unit 100, an upper cover 200, and a lower base 300.

The medicine rotating unit 100 is formed of a combination of the straight line 130 and the curved line 140. However, the medicine rotating unit 100 according to the present invention is not limited to this, It is also possible. The partition space C may be formed in various forms according to the shape of the rotary member 110 and the number and shape of the partition members 120.

The medicine rotating unit 100 is formed of a combination of the straight line part 130 and the curved part 140 and the upper cover 200 and the lower base 300 are formed in the shape of the medicine rotating unit 100 The following description will be made by way of example.

The upper cover 200 is provided with a charging port 210A (210B) for charging medicine. One or more of the inlet ports 210A and 210B may be formed as needed, but two inlet ports 210A and 210B are illustrated in the present embodiment. Hereinafter, the inlet 210A can not be accommodated in the medicament cassette, and the medicines collected in the tray are used whenever necessary, and the inlet port 210B is used to insert medicines that can be accommodated in the medicament cassette do.

The lower base 300 forms the bottom of the compartment space C where the medicine is disposed, and the discharge port 310 through which the medicine is discharged is formed on the lower side. The medicine is contained in the wrapping paper located below the discharge port 310 through the discharge port 310.

The medicine rotating unit 100 is disposed between the upper cover 200 and the lower base 300 and includes a rotating member 110 and a plurality of partitioning members 120.

The rotary member 110 is provided so as to be rotatable periodically by a driving unit (not shown). The partitioning member 120 is periodically rotated so that one end of the partitioning member 120 is fixed to the rotary member 110 so as to be variable in the partition space C where the medicament is disposed.

The rotating member 110 may be provided to have a resting member before each of the adjacent compartment spaces to move the partition member 120 by the rotational force and to have time for inspection of the medicament for the medicament scattering have.

The partitioning member 120 may be arranged to stand upright in a vertical direction, and some of the partitioning members 120 may include an elastic material to prevent damage to the medicine.

That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the partitioning member 120 may include a lower portion 121 in contact with the medicament and an end portion 122 in contact with the medicament may comprise a stretchable material.

Here, the rotary member 110 is formed in a chain shape to facilitate coupling with the partition member 120, and one end of the partition member 120 is fixed to the rotary member 120 by a hinge (H). By doing so, it is possible to vary the compartment space C according to the shape of the rotary member 110 and the arrangement of the partition members 120, so that it is easy to set various planes of the medicine rotation unit 100.

3 and 5, the upper cover 200 and the medicine rotation unit 100 are detachably attached to the lower base 300, thereby facilitating the cleaning of the upper surface of the lower base 300. As shown in FIG. 5, the medicine rotating unit 100 can be engaged with the lower base 300 by a disengaging shaft S provided with a projection.

4, the medicine rotating unit 110 includes a pair of rectilinear portions 130 facing each other in a plane, and a pair of curved portions 140 facing each other connecting both ends of the rectilinear portion 130 .

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view schematically showing the medicine taking-out apparatus shown in FIG. 2. FIG.

7, the medicine rotating unit 100 includes a pair of rectilinear sections 130A and 130B facing each other in a plane, and a pair of opposite curved lines connecting the opposite ends of the rectilinear sections 130A and 130B. The upper cover 200 and the lower base 300 are provided to correspond to the shape of the medicine rotating unit 100. [

At this time, a plurality of partition spaces C arranged in the straight line portions 130A and 130B are formed, and the partition spaces C arranged in the curved portions 140A and 140B can be formed as one unit. The partition space C is defined as including 130A1, 130A2, 130A3, 130A4, 130B1, 130B2, 130B3, 130B4, 140A, 140B in FIG.

130A1, 130A2, 130A3, 130A4, 130B1, 130B2, 130B3, and 130B4, which are the partition spaces C disposed in the straight line portions 130A and 130B, serve as one or more of the input, atmosphere, inspection, . Of course, any one or more of the injection, the atmospheric, the inspection, the discharge and the disposal of the medicine may be arranged in the curved portions 140A and 140B as necessary.

One of the compartment spaces C, for example, 130A1, communicates with the inlet 210A so as to serve as the primary introduction of the medicament, and at least one of the compartment spaces C disposed in the downstream in the normal rotation direction, Inspections, discharges and disposal of waste water.

In addition, the partition space 131B1 serving as the secondary injection of medicine in the partitioned space C may be arranged to communicate with the inlet 210B.

The compartment space 131B1 serving as a secondary injection of the medicine in the compartment space C arranged on the other side 130B of the straight portion is also arranged on one side so that the compartment space 131B1 also serves as an inspection function of the medicine. It is possible to perform the inspection of the medicine directly in the compartment space 131B1 serving as the secondary injection of the medicine. At this time, the drug tends to be scattered naturally due to the drop, so that the necessity of drug sorting is not high. Therefore, when the second injection of the medicine is completed, it is preferable that the test equipment 400 conduct the medicine test immediately. When the detection error occurs due to the drug overlap according to the result of the inspection, the alignment device can be driven to align the drug. An alignment device, not shown, is disposed in the secondary dosing area of the drug, and applies vibration to disperse the drug. This process minimizes the time required for drug testing.

The adjacent next compartment space 131B2 of the compartment space 131B1 serving as the secondary charging of the medicine in the compartment space C arranged on the other side 130B of the rectilinear section, (Not shown).

Next, a drug dispensing device ADM according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 8 to explain the operation sequence of the drug dispensing device ADM. In FIG. 8, unlike FIG. 7, there is a difference that the discharge port 310 for discharging the medicine is located in the curved portion 140B.

That is, in FIG. 8, one rectilinear section 130A has four compartment spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3, and 130A4, and the other rectilinear section 130B has four compartment spaces 130B1 130B2, 130B3, and 130B4 are arranged on the left and right sides of the curved portions 140A and 140B, respectively.

Among the divided spaces arranged on one of the linear portions 130A, the first divided space 130A1 on the basis of the rotational direction serves as a primary charging of the medicine, and the divided spaces 130A1, The first divided compartment space 130B1 on the basis of the rotational direction serves as a second charging and inspecting device for the medicine, and the second curved portion 140B1 of the curved portion 140A (140B) And a medicine discharge port 310 is disposed in the partition space of the discharge port 140B. Therefore, the medicine can be transferred to the package through the discharge port 310 and the packaging can be performed.

In addition, among the divided spaces arranged on the other side 130B of the rectilinear section, the divided space 130B2, which is arranged second in the rotational direction, is arranged to communicate with the medicine waste port 320 which can be opened and closed downward to serve as a waste.

The partitioning member 120 disposed on one of the linear portions 130A and the partitioning member 120 disposed on the other side of the linear portion 130B may be arranged so as to be coincident or staggered on a plane.

8 to 21 are cross-sectional views illustrating an operation sequence of the medicine taking-out apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the operation sequence of the drug dispensing device ADM will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 8 to 21. FIG.

The injected medicines T1 and T2 may contain various kinds of medicines but they can not be accommodated in the medicament cassettes in FIGS. 8 to 21, so that the medicines T1 and T2 accommodated in the medicament cassette Only the medicament T2 that can be administered will be described as an example. It is assumed that the medicine for one dose according to the prescription of the patient includes the medicine (T1) collected in the tray and the medicine (T2) that can be accommodated in the medicine cassette, and the medicine for one dose Are all assumed to be the same.

Then, the rotary member 110 can rotate in the forward direction or the reverse direction. It can be seen that the forward direction is counterclockwise.

First, as shown in FIG. 8, one tablet of the T1 medicine is automatically inserted through the inlet 210A according to the prescription of the patient, The medicine is firstly introduced into the main body 130A1 through the inlet 210A.

9, when the rotary member 110 rotates by one compartment space, a second one of the T1 drugs is injected into the compartment space 130A1 through the inlet 210A, and consequently, the compartment space 130A1 ( &Lt; / RTI &gt; 130A2).

In the same manner, in FIG. 10, a third T1 agent is injected into the partition space 130A1 through the injection port 210A, consequently, the T1 agent is injected into the partition spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3, The fourth T1 agent is injected into the partition space 130A1 through the inlet 210A and consequently the T1 agent is injected into the partition spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3 and 130A4.

In FIG. 12, a fifth T1 agent is injected into the partition space 130A1 through the inlet 210A, and consequently, the T1 agent is injected into the partition spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3, 130A4 and 140A.

Next, in FIG. 13, a sixth T1 drug is injected into the compartment space 130A1 through the inlet 210A, and consequently, the compartment spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3, 130A4, 140A, Each drug is injected. At this time, one tablet of the T2 medicine is automatically inserted into the compartment space 130B1 through the inlet port 210B from the medicine cassette according to the prescription of the patient. Therefore, the introduction of the drugs T1 and T2 corresponding to the dose of the patient according to the prescription of the patient is completed in the compartment space 130B1.

At the same time, the collected drugs T1 and T2 are photographed by the inspection equipment 400. [ The inspection apparatus 400 can photograph the compartment space 130B1 including the photographing apparatus and the illuminator and the medicines T1 and T2 are completed and the photographed image information is checked by the control unit for providing the print signal Quot ;. &lt; / RTI &gt;

In other words, the control unit can compare the images photographed by the inspection equipment 400 with predetermined data of the prescription of the patient to determine whether the drugs T1 and T2 collected in the segment space 130B1 are erroneous, It is possible to provide the marking unit or the printing unit with the inspection information so as to mark the result of the comparison with the prescription information on the wrapping paper on which the medicine collected in the space 130B1 is packed and to be packaged or to print the prescription information.

14, one seventh T1 agent is injected into the partition space 130A1 through the inlet 210A and consequently T1 agents are injected into the partition spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3, 130A4 and 140A, respectively, One tablet of the T2 agent is injected into the compartment space 130B1 (130B2) from the medicine cassette. Therefore, the injection of the drugs T1 and T2 corresponding to the dose of the patient according to the prescription of the patient is completed in the compartment spaces 130B1 and 130B2.

Similarly, in FIG. 15, one eighth agent of T1 agent is injected into the partition space 130A1 through the inlet 210A, and as a result, the T1 agent is injected into the partition spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3, 130A4, , And one tablet of the T2 agent is injected into the compartment space 130B1, 130B2, 130B3 from the medicine cassette. Therefore, the dosing of the drugs T1 and T2 corresponding to the single dose according to the prescription of the patient is completed in the compartment spaces 130B1, 130B2 and 130B3.

In FIG. 16, the ninth T1 agent is injected into the partition space 130A1 through the inlet 210A and consequently the T1 agent is injected into the partition spaces 130A1, 130A2, 130A3, 130A4 and 140A, One segment of the T2 drug is injected into the compartment space 130B1, 130B2, 130B3, and 130B4 from the medicine cassette. Therefore, the injection of the drugs T1 and T2 corresponding to the dose of the patient according to the prescription of the patient is completed in the compartment spaces 130B1, 130B2, 130B3 and 130B4.

It is assumed that the T1 medicine among the drugs injected into the compartment space 130B1 has been confirmed to be the defective medicine F by the photographing of the inspection equipment 400. [ As described above, if a signal for marking or printing an error on the wrapping paper is provided to the marking unit or the printing unit, the repeated operation can be continuously performed through the forward rotation.

At this time, it is possible to selectively discard the defective medicine (F) without displaying an error on the wrapping paper. Hereinafter, a method for discarding such a poor agent (F) will be described.

In FIG. 16, since normal T1 and T2 drugs are respectively injected into the compartment spaces 130B2, 130B3 and 130B4, the corresponding drugs need to be normally discharged, and only defective drugs F are present in the compartment space 130B1 You only need to discard this drug.

Thus, as shown in Fig. 17, the normal medicines arranged in the compartment space 130B4 of Fig. 16 are continuously discharged through the discharge port 310 toward the wrapping paper through the forward rotation. From this time, as shown in FIG. 17, the injection of the T1 medicine into the partition space 130A1 can be temporarily stopped.

Similarly, as shown in Fig. 18, normal drugs arranged in the compartment space 130B3 of Fig. 16 through forward rotation are discharged through the discharge port 310, and then, as shown in Fig. 19, Through the discharge port 310, the normal medicines arranged in the partition space 130B2 of FIG. In Fig. 19, since the defective agent F remains in the partition space 130B4, it can be discarded.

For this, as shown in FIG. 20, the defective medicine F moves to the divided space 130B3 through the reverse rotation.

21, the defective medicine F moves to the divided space 130B2 and the divided space 130B2 is arranged to communicate with the openable and closable chemical waste port 320 on the lower side through the reverse rotation, It is possible to dispose the defective medicine (F) by opening the waste port (320).

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The medicament is conveyed by the variable of a plurality of compartment spaces in which the medicament is disposed,
A rotatable member rotatable periodically by a driving unit; And
And a plurality of partitioning members arranged radially one end of which is fixed to the rotating member such that the divided space in which the medicine is arranged is rotated by periodically rotating. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the space is variable in size according to rotation of the rotating member. The method according to claim 1,
The medicine rotating unit includes:
And a pair of curved portions which face each other and which connect both ends of the rectilinear portion. The method according to claim 1,
The partitioning member
And is arranged to stand up in a vertical direction. The method according to claim 1,
The partitioning member
Characterized in that a part of the medicine is contained in an elastic material. The method of claim 5,
The partitioning member
Characterized in that the lower part in contact with the medicament comprises a stretchable material. The method according to claim 5 or 6,
The partitioning member
Characterized in that the end portion in contact with the medicament comprises a stretchable material. An upper cover on which at least one inlet port through which the medicine is injected is formed on the upper side;
A lower base which forms a bottom of the compartment space in which the medicine is placed and in which a discharge port through which the medicine is discharged is formed on the lower side; And
A rotary member disposed between the upper cover and the lower base, the rotary member being periodically rotatable by the driving unit; one end of the rotary member being fixed to the rotary member so as to be periodically rotated to vary the space in which the medicament is disposed; And a medicine rotating unit having a plurality of partitioning members. The method of claim 8,
The rotary member is formed in a chain shape so as to facilitate coupling with the partition member,
Wherein the partitioning member is hinged to one end fixed to the rotating member. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the upper cover and the medicine rotation unit comprise:
Wherein the lower base is detachable from the lower base. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the rotary member has a pair of rectilinear portions facing each other in a plane and a pair of curved portions facing each other connecting both ends of the rectilinear portion,
Wherein the upper cover and the lower base correspond to the shape of the rotating member. The method of claim 11,
Wherein the compartment space disposed in the linear portion and the compartment space disposed in the curved portion are formed in one or more than one. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the compartment space is arranged to serve one or more of the following: input, atmosphere, inspection, discharge and disposal of the medicament. 14. The method of claim 13,
One of the compartment spaces is a space,
And is communicated with the inlet so as to serve as a primary injection of the medicine,
Wherein at least one of the compartment spaces located in the forward rotation direction of the medicine rotating unit is arranged to serve as a secondary injection of the medicine, a final injection of the medicine, inspection, discharge and disposal. 15. The method of claim 14,
Wherein the compartment space serving as a secondary injection of the medicament in the compartment space comprises:
And is disposed so as to communicate with the charging port. 15. The method of claim 14,
The compartment space serving as the final injection of the medicament in the compartment space,
And is arranged to communicate with the inlet port,
Characterized in that the inspection equipment is disposed at one side so as to also serve as an inspection function of the medicine. 18. The method of claim 16,
A compartment space serving as a final input of the medicament in the compartment space; Or adjacent adjacent compartment spaces,
And is disposed so as to communicate with an openable and closable medicine waste port on the underside so as to serve as a waste of the medicine. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the partitioning members are provided with N (natural number N &gt; = 2), a first compartment space, a second compartment space, ..., and an Nth compartment space,
Wherein the first compartment space is disposed so as to communicate with the medicine inlet,
The first compartment space; Or an inspection device for inspecting a medicine for a given one of the compartments is disposed in one of the compartment spaces located in the forward rotation direction of the first compartment space. 19. The method of claim 18,
Wherein the upper cover includes a first medication inlet and a second medication inlet for introducing medicines,
Wherein the first compartment space is disposed so as to communicate with the first medicine inlet,
The first compartment space; Or the second compartment space to the Nth compartment space located in the forward rotation direction with respect to the first compartment space,
Wherein the inspecting device is disposed on one side of the compartment space in which the second drug introducing port communicates. The method of claim 19,
Wherein the discharge port is arranged to communicate with any one of the remaining compartment spaces located in the forward rotation direction with respect to the compartment space in which the inspection equipment is disposed. The method of claim 19,
Wherein the lower base comprises a chemical waste port and a medication outlet,
Wherein the medicine waste port is arranged to communicate with any one of the remaining compartment spaces located in the forward rotation direction with respect to the compartment space in which the inspection equipment is disposed,
And the medicament discharge port is arranged to communicate with the Nth compartment space which is the last compartment space. The method of claim 8,
The rotating member includes:
Wherein the partitioning member is provided so as to move the medicine by the rotational force for dispersing the medicine and to have a rest period before the rotation movement to the adjacent compartment space so as to have time for the examination of the medicine.

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