KR20190130532A - Preparation of drugs method for automatic medicine packing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a preparation method of an automatic medicine packing machine, which can collect medicine in a vibration section when an automatic medicine packing machine is restarted from an operation stopped state so as to prevent an arrangement of the medicine in the vibration section from becoming disordered during the opening and closing of the automatic medicine packing machine and to prevent drugs from being prepared incorrectly due to a random discharge from the vibration section to a hopper. The preparation method of an automatic medicine packing machine, according to the present invention, comprises: initializing the automatic medicine packing machine when the automatic medicine packing machine is restarted from a stopped state of a medicine packing process; and starting the medicine packing process.

Description

Preparation of Automatic Pharmaceutical Packaging Machine {PREPARATION OF DRUGS METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC MEDICINE PACKING MACHINE}

The present invention relates to a method for preparing an automatic drug packing machine, and more particularly, by retrieving the drug in the vibration section when the automatic operation of the automatic drug packing machine is stopped, The present invention relates to a method for preparing an automatic medicine packaging machine for preventing the problem of mis-formulation of a drug by distorting an arrangement or randomly discharged to a hopper in a vibration section.

BACKGROUND ART [0002] Conventionally, automatic drug packing machines have been developed and used to supply medicines from a plurality of cassette devices containing drugs such as tablets and capsules for each type, and to continuously package them one by one.

1 is a schematic front view of a typical pharmaceutical automatic packaging machine.

Referring to FIG. 1, a conventional automatic medicine packing machine includes a main body 100, a plurality of cassette devices 110 arranged on an upper part of the main body 100 and containing a medicine such as tablets or capsules of various sizes and shapes; And, the hopper 130 is arranged in the lower portion of the main body 100 to collect the drug is discharged from the cassette devices 110, the printing device 140 for printing a variety of information on the surface of the wrapping paper for packaging the drug; The packaging device 150 which wraps the medicine collected by the hopper 130 with the wrapping paper was used.

As described above, a cassette device included in a conventional automatic medicine packing machine includes a cassette body for accommodating drugs such as tablets or capsules of various sizes and shapes, a distribution block rotatably provided in the cassette body for separating and discharging the medicine, And a cassette pedestal for supporting the cassette body, and a partition member installed in the cassette body for dispensing and discharging the medicines separated and discharged by the distribution block.

A plurality of discharge grooves are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the distribution block, and the medicine contained in the cassette body is discharged to the outside of the cassette body along the discharge groove. At this time, the partition member for blocking the discharge groove in the middle so that only a predetermined amount of the drug is required is required.

The main body is provided with a drug discharge device between the cassette device and the hopper. Such a drug dispensing apparatus includes a frame, a spaced apart unit that is mounted on the frame, and moves the drugs to be spaced apart from each other and arranged in a row, and a drug that is disposed upstream of the spaced apart unit on the frame to be dispensed one by one. A drug supply unit for supplying to the spaced array unit, and a drug delivery unit for delivering a drug discharged one by one via the spaced array unit to the hopper side.

However, such a conventional medicine automatic packaging machine is separated from the medicine due to the impact generated during the process of opening and closing the packaging machine, the remaining medicines are arranged in a row one by one in the separation arrangement unit when the packaging machine is opened due to the cassette replacement during the packaging of the medicine. There is a problem in that the medicine is misfilled when the automatic packaging machine is restarted after the cassette is displaced from the arrangement unit or is randomly discharged to the hopper from the spaced arrangement unit to replace the cassette.

Accordingly, the present invention for solving the conventional problems, to provide a method for preparing a pharmaceutical automatic packaging machine to prevent the problem of the drug is misfilled by the drugs remaining in the separation arrangement unit upon restarting the automatic pharmaceutical packaging machine. will be.

According to the present invention for achieving the above object, in the method for preparing a pharmaceutical automatic packaging machine, the automatic pharmaceutical packaging machine stops the pharmaceutical packaging process and initializes the pharmaceutical automatic packaging machine upon restarting, and then starts the pharmaceutical packaging process. There is provided a method for preparing a pharmaceutical automatic packaging machine.

The automatic medicine packing machine delivers a medicine supplying unit for supplying a medicine, a separation arrangement unit for arranging the medicine supplied from the medicine supplying unit in a line, and a medicine arranged in the separation arrangement unit for transporting to a packaging device or to the outside. Including a drug delivery unit for discharging, the initialization is preferably to prevent the drug arranged in the spaced array unit to be randomly introduced into the packaging device.

The initialization may vibrate the spaced array unit to move the drug in the spaced array unit to the drug delivery unit, so that the drug is discharged and recovered outside.

The initialization detects the drug by a detection sensor installed in the drug delivery unit, the detection sensor transmits the detected electric signal to the control unit, the control unit transmits the electric signal transmitted from the detection sensor for a predetermined time or more. If not, it is preferable to complete the initialization.

According to the present invention as described above, the drug automatic packaging machine is initialized when the automatic drug packaging machine is restarted so that the drugs remaining in the separation arrangement unit during the previous drug manufacturing process in the state of stopping the automatic drug packaging machine There is an effect to prevent the problem of auxiliaries of the drug generated.

1 is a schematic front view of a general pharmaceutical automatic packaging machine,
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the drug discharge device in Figure 1,
3 is a side view of FIG.
4 is a schematic front view of the drug delivery unit in FIG. 2, FIG.
5a is a plan view showing the plate of FIG.
5B is a side view showing the plate of FIG. 2;
Figure 6 is a schematic perspective view of a typical pharmaceutical automatic packaging machine showing a state equipped with a drug discharge device,
7 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating a method of preparing an automatic drug packing machine according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a detailed flowchart illustrating only the automatic drug packaging machine initialization step of FIG. 7.

Hereinafter, with reference to the drawings will be described in detail an embodiment of a general drug discharge device to which the present invention can be applied prior to the description of the present invention. However, the general drug discharging device is only one embodiment that is applied to explain the present invention reveals that the present invention is not limited to the general drug discharging device.

In the present invention, the release drug is a drug having a non-standardized asymmetric shape, such as a semi-circular or semi-elliptic half-pill tablet cut into half or round tablets, etc. do. In addition, in the present invention, the drug is not only the above-described release drug, but also has an intact tablet shape, but requires special handling such as drugs, so that the existing cassette device cannot be used or the frequency of use is low. It should be considered to include all drugs that are inefficient.

The drug dispensing apparatus to which the present invention can be applied is a device capable of precisely dispensing even a release drug of an unshaped shape, including a standardized drug such as a tablet or capsule. In order to eject the medications exactly one by one, it is necessary to align the medications that are bundled together at regular intervals. If the drugs are arranged in close proximity, one or more drugs may be discharged at once by inertia.

As shown in Figures 1 to 3, the drug discharge device (D) to which the present invention can be applied, the frame 10, and is mounted on the frame 10 while moving the drugs in a line to separate the drugs from each other in a row A separation supply unit 30 for arranging, a medicine supply unit 30 for supplying the drugs arranged in a line upstream of the separation arranging unit 20 on the frame 10 and arranged in a row to the separation arranging unit 20; Further, the drug delivery unit 40 for delivering a drug discharged one by one through the spaced array unit 20 to the hopper 130 side.

The spaced array unit 20 includes vibration generating means 21 for generating vibration and a plate 22 attached to the vibration generating means 21 and vibrating together. As the vibration generating means 21, any structure conventionally used can be used as long as the plate 22 can be vibrated in a linear direction, and the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The plate 22 vibrates by the vibration generating means 21 to finely move the drugs placed on the upper surface thereof. The plate 22 includes a groove 23 for moving the medication to the discharge passage 42 of the medication delivery unit 40.

The plate 22 is installed with a slight inclination toward the side to which the discharge passage 42 is attached, so that the drugs on the plate 22 gradually discharge the passage passage 42 as the plate 22 vibrates by the spaced array unit. To move toward the

The groove 23 includes one or more inclined surfaces 24, and thus the bottom surface of the groove 23 has a form in which one or more steps are formed. The drug may move faster while passing through the inclined surface 24, thereby further increasing the distance from another drug to be transported immediately behind. In this way, the gap between the drug and the drug discharged due to the inclined surface 24 formed in the groove portion 23, it is possible to accurately control the discharge of the drug.

The cross-sectional shape of the groove portion 23 preferably has an English U or V shape so that the drug can move along the centerline of the groove portion 23. In addition, when two or more inclined surfaces 24 are formed on the plate 22, the angles of the inclined surfaces 24 may be all designed to be the same or different from each other as necessary.

The plate 22 vibrating by the spaced array unit may be made of a metal material, a nonmetal material, or a metal and a nonmetal material. In particular, the release agent may be formed depending on which material the upper surface of the plate 22 is in contact with the drug. Since the moving speed of the can be changed, the material of the plate 22 may be changed in accordance with the moving speed of the release drug required in the design.

In the above description, the separation arrangement unit for arranging the medicines in a line by vibration is described as an example. However, if a plurality of drugs can be arranged in a line with each other spaced apart from each other, means other than vibration can be used.

As the medicine supply unit 30, a cylindrical feeder mounted on the frame 10 to move the medicine spirally by vibration may be used. The release medications poured and supplied at one time into the receiving portion 31 of the medicine supply unit 30 are arranged in a line along the spiral moving path 32 extending from the bottom of the receiving portion 31 to the outside of the receiving portion 31. Go to. Thus, the release agent moving in a line along the spiral movement path 32 in the cylindrical feeder as the drug supply unit 30 can be transferred from the cylindrical feeder onto the plate 22, that is, dropped, and then the plate 22 continues. ) Can be moved on.

One or more cutting grooves 33 may be formed in the helical movement path 32, which cuts the cutting groove 33 when two medicines move side by side along the helical movement path 32. One drug is to fall back to the receiving portion 31 while passing. To this end, the cutting groove 33 may be formed at the inner edge of the spiral movement path 32.

The release agent that has moved to the end of the plate 22 may be delivered to the outside through the drug delivery unit 40. The drug delivery unit 40 includes a discharge passage 42 in which the detection means 41 for detecting the number of drugs to be discharged is mounted and the number of drugs is correct according to the detection result of the detection means 41. The packaging passage 43 (see FIG. 4) for delivering the discharged medicine to the packaging device 150, and the medicine discharged when the number of the medicine is not correct according to the result detected by the detection means 41 Recovery passage 44 (see FIG. 4) for delivery towards 45.

The detection means provided in the discharge passage 42 so as to detect the number of drugs falling from the plate 22 may be, for example, an optical sensor including a light emitting part and a light receiving part.

On the other hand, one or more sensors (not shown) may be arranged along the plate 22 to detect the position of the drug moving on the plate 22. For example, when the sensor is provided at the end of the drug supply unit 30 side of the plate 22, the instant immediately after the medicine is supplied from the drug supply unit 30 to the plate 22 can be detected, and the plate ( When the sensor is installed at the distal end of the drug delivery unit 40 at 22), the moment immediately before the medicine is supplied from the plate 22 to the drug delivery unit 40 can be detected. In addition, sensors can be installed at other locations on the plate to detect the state of movement of the drug.

The sensor may be integrally installed in the plate 22 or may be installed outside the plate 22.

As shown in FIG. 4, an opening and closing member 46 for selectively opening any one of the packing passage 43 and the recovery passage 44 is provided at the inlet of the packing passage 43 and the recovery passage 44. In the discharge passage 42 upstream of the opening / closing member 46, a retention member 47 for temporarily holding the number of drugs detected is provided. The opening / closing member 46 is rotatably installed at a constant angle by the opening / closing motor 48, and the staying member 47 is also rotatably provided at a constant angle by the staying motor 49.

In FIG. 4, the watch is pivoted counterclockwise so that the retaining member 47 is opened to supply the retained medicine downward while the opening / closing member 46 opens the packing passage 43 and closes the recovery passage 44. The state which is turned in the direction is shown by the solid line.

As shown by the dotted lines in FIG. 4, the medicament can stay on the retention member 47 when the retention member 47 is turned clockwise to close the discharge passage 42. In addition, when the opening / closing member 46 is turned counterclockwise as shown by a dotted line in FIG. 4, the packing passage 43 may be closed and the recovery passage 44 may be opened.

The drug discharge method by the drug delivery unit 40 of the drug discharge device (D) to which the present invention can be applied is as follows.

First, the medicine moved to the medicine delivery unit 40 through the plate 22 of the medicine supply unit 30 and the spaced array unit 20 passes through the detection means 41 provided in the discharge passage 42. The number of drops is detected. At this time, since the staying member 47 provided in the discharge passage 42 is pivoted to a position capable of closing the discharge passage 42, all of the medicines falling remain on the retention member 47.

If the number of drugs dropped on the retaining member 47 matches the predetermined number, that is, the number to be packed in one medicine package, the opening / closing member 46 opens the packing passage 43 and opens the recovery passage 44. Turn to the closed position. Thereafter, as the retention member 47 swings to open the discharge passage 42, the drugs temporarily held by the retention member 47 fall down and are supplied toward the packaging passage 43.

The medicine supplied toward the packaging passage 43 may be supplied to the packaging apparatus 150 through the hopper 130 of the automatic medicine packaging machine and packaged.

On the other hand, if the number of drugs dropped on the staying member 47 does not match the preset number, that is, the number to be packed in one medicine, the opening and closing member 46 opens the recovery passage 44 and The pavement passage 43 is pivoted to a position where it can be closed. Thereafter, as the retention member 47 swings to open the discharge passage 42, the drugs temporarily held by the retention member 47 fall down and are supplied toward the recovery passage 44.

The medicine supplied to the recovery passage 44 is supplied to the recovery container 45, and the drug recovered to the recovery container 45 may be reused later.

That is, if the number of drugs stayed and collected on the retention member 47 is smaller than the number to be packaged, the drugs are waited to be additionally moved and stayed as an unintended situation in which two or more drugs are delivered at once occurs. If the number of collected drugs is larger than the number to be packaged, the collected drugs may be delivered to the recovery passage 44.

5a to 5b show a modification of the plate installed in the drug discharge device (D). 5A is a top view and FIG. 5B is a side view.

As described above with reference to FIG. 1, the plate 51 according to the modification, by vibrating by the vibration generating means 21 to finely move the drugs placed on the upper surface thereof, the drug delivery unit ( And a groove portion 52 for moving to the discharge passage 42 of the 40, and a step 53 formed at least one upstream of the groove portion 52.

It is preferable that the upper surface 54 of each step has a concave shape of the central portion along the longitudinal center axis of the plate, and the shape, surface roughness, concave depth, and inclination angle of each upper surface 54 are different from each other. can do.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 6, the automatic drug packing machine equipped with the drug discharge device (D) will be described.

1 and 6, the drug dispensing device (D) to which the present invention can be applied may be arranged together with the cassette device (110) on the upper body 101 of the automatic drug packaging machine.

When the drug dispensing device is installed and used in the automatic medicine packing machine, the drug discharging device D includes a main body, in particular, an upper part of the main body together with a plurality of cassette devices 110 in which drugs such as tablets or capsules of various sizes and shapes are accommodated. 101). As the drug dispensing device D is arranged in the upper portion of the main body 101, the drug discharged from the drug discharge device D is packaged through the same hopper 130 as the drug discharged from the cassette device 110.

The hopper 130 is installed in the lower body 103 of the automatic medicine packing machine, and in addition to the hopper 130 collecting the medicines falling as described with reference to FIG. A printing device (not shown) for printing and a packaging device (not shown) for packing the medicine collected by the hopper with the wrapping paper are provided in the lower part of the main body 103.

As described above, in the automatic medicine packing machine to which the present invention can be applied, since the drug discharge device D is disposed on the upper body 101 together with the cassette device 110, the medicine discharged from the cassette device 110 is collected. Using the hopper 130 installed in the lower body 103 can collect and package the drug discharged from the drug discharge device (D).

The drug discharging device D may be withdrawn for refilling, cleaning, and maintaining the drug, and may be installed to be withdrawn in the longitudinal direction of the drug discharging device D, for example, from the upper portion of the main body 101.

When installed and used in the automatic drug packing machine, the drug discharge device (D) is configured to supply the required number of medicines to the packing device in accordance with the packaging cycle in which the medicine contained in the cassette device in the automatic drug packing machine is discharged and packed.

The drug dispensing device may be used as a discharge agent, as well as a general drug such as round or oval tablets or capsules.

Hereinafter, a method for preparing the automatic drug packing machine of the present invention applied to the automatic drug packing machine as described above will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8.

7 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating a method of preparing an automatic drug packing machine according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, when the automatic medicine packaging operation is started (S1), the medicine moved to the drug delivery unit 40 through the plate 22 of the medicine supply unit 30 and the spaced array unit 20 is discharged. The number of falls is detected while passing through the detection means 41 provided in the passage 42. At this time, since the staying member 47 provided in the discharge passage 42 is pivoted to a position capable of closing the discharge passage 42, all of the medicines falling remain on the retention member 47.

If the number of drugs dropped on the retaining member 47 matches the predetermined number, that is, the number to be packed in one medicine package, the opening / closing member 46 opens the packing passage 43 and opens the recovery passage 44. Turn to the closed position. Thereafter, as the retention member 47 swings to open the discharge passage 42, the drugs temporarily held by the retention member 47 fall down and are supplied toward the packaging passage 43.

The medicine supplied toward the packaging passage 43 may be supplied to the packaging apparatus 150 through the hopper 130 of the automatic medicine packaging machine and packaged.

On the other hand, if the number of drugs dropped on the staying member 47 does not match the preset number, that is, the number to be packed in one medicine, the opening and closing member 46 opens the recovery passage 44 and The pavement passage 43 is pivoted to a position where it can be closed. Thereafter, as the retention member 47 swings to open the discharge passage 42, the drugs temporarily held by the retention member 47 fall down and are supplied toward the recovery passage 44. And the medicine supplied to the recovery passage 44 is supplied to the recovery container 45 to be reused later.

If a problem occurs in the drug packaging operation (S2) during the automatic drug packaging process, such as inspection, parts replacement, drug replacement, repair, cassette replacement, specific drug input, etc. during the automatic drug packaging process, the operator forcibly shuts down the automatic drug packing machine. Suspend the automatic drug packaging process (S3).

When the worker restarts the automatic medicine packing machine after solving the problem, the automatic medicine packing machine is initialized according to the method for preventing misuse of the present invention. (S4) Here, the initialization column of the automatic medicine packing machine is spaced apart from the arrangement unit 20. It means to discharge the remaining drugs to the recovery container 45 through the recovery passage (44). The reason for initializing the automatic medicine packing machine as described above is that in the process of solving the problem, the automatic medicine packing machine causes an arrangement of the medicines remaining in the spaced array unit 20 or the spaces arranged in the spaced array unit 20. This is to prevent the problem of auxiliaries that may be caused by restarting the automatic drug packaging machine in the state that the drugs are supplied to the packaging passage 43 side by the shock in the state that the automatic drug packaging process is stopped. Therefore, the automatic drug packing machine according to the present invention is to start the drug packaging operation (S1) in the state in which the automatic drug packaging machine is initialized upon restarting the automatic drug packaging machine.

The automatic drug packing machine initialization step S4 according to the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 8.

FIG. 8 is a detailed flowchart illustrating only the automatic drug packaging machine initialization step of FIG. 7.

As shown in FIG. 8, the automatic drug packing machine initialization step S4 causes the vibration generating means 21 installed in the spaced array unit 20 in the automatic drug packing machine to vibrate the plate 22 of the array unit. (S4-1) and the medicine remaining in the spaced array unit 20 by the vibration of the plate 22 is discharged to the hopper 130. At this time, a detection sensor is installed on the side of the separation arrangement unit 20, the drug is discharged, the detection sensor detects the drug discharged and transmits an electrical signal to the control unit. (S4-2) And the control unit is the detection When the electric signal transmitted from the sensor is not transmitted for a predetermined time (preferably about 5 seconds), it is determined that there is no drug in the separation arrangement unit 20 so that the automatic medicine packing machine proceeds with the medicine packaging process. Here, the detection sensor may be an optical sensor including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit.

In addition, the detection sensor may detect the number of drugs discharged from the plate 22 while the automatic drug packing machine is in the process of drug packaging.

As described above, when the automatic packaging machine is restarted, the automatic packaging machine is initialized so that the medicines generated by the chemicals remaining in the separation arrangement unit during the previous pharmaceutical manufacturing process while the automatic packaging machine is stopped are processed. It is effective in preventing problems.

As described above, the automatic packaging machine according to the present invention has been described with reference to the illustrated drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and drawings, and the present invention falls within the scope of the claims. Of course, various modifications and variations can be made by those skilled in the art.

10: frame, 20: spaced array unit,
21: vibration generating means, 22: plate,
23: groove portion, 24: inclined surface,
30: drug supply unit, 31: receiving portion,
32: spiral travel path, 40: drug delivery unit,
41: detection means, 42: discharge passage,
43: pavement passage, 44: recovery passage,
45: recovery container, 46: opening and closing member,
47: no retention member, 48: opening and closing motor,
49: dwell motor, 101: upper body;
103: lower body, 110: cassette device,
130: hopper, D: drug discharge device

Claims (1)

In the preparation method of the automatic pharmaceutical packing machine,
The automatic drug packing machine stops the drug packaging process and restarts the automatic drug packing machine upon restarting the pharmaceutical packaging machine, characterized in that for starting the drug packaging process.

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