US20170029152A1 - Automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus - Google Patents
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- FIGS. 2 and 3 are partial side configurational views illustrating a counting part and a packing part, respectively;
- the transfer plate 22 includes a top transfer plate 221 disposed at a lower portion of an outlet of the main hopper 21 , and a bottom transfer plate 222 on which a plurality of pill movement paths are formed by a partition wall and one end of which is disposed at a lower portion of a front side of the top transfer plate 221 .
- the heating bar 433 positioned at the rear surface of the sealing body 432 which is advanced by the sealing drive unit 434 , heats and seals the inlet of the pouch 1 .
Abstract
The present invention relates to an automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus which may automatically count and package pills into a pouch having a sealable inlet. The automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus includes a bottom transfer part for supplying a pouch, a top transfer part disposed at an upper portion of the bottom transfer part for supplying pills, a counting part for counting the pills supplied by the top transfer part, and a packing part for inputting and packing the pills supplied by the top transfer part into the pouch supplied by the bottom transfer part.
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- This application claims priority to and the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 2015-0105548, filed on Jul. 27, 2015, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates to an automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus capable of automatically performing a series of processes for providing pills and pouches, counting the pills, and inputting the pills into the pouches for packaging.
- Discussion of Related Art
- Generally, a typical pill counting and packaging technique includes a supplier for simultaneously supplying a plurality of pills; a transfer unit including an upper transfer device, which is connected to the supplier, having a plurality of main tracks arranged in parallel in a transverse direction so as to transfer the plurality of pills supplied from the supplier through paths different from each other, a first lower transfer device having a plurality of first sub-tracks, each of which has an upper portion connected to a lower portion of each of the main tracks and a plurality of first guide rails arranged in parallel in the transverse direction so as to transfer the plurality of pills supplied from the main tracks by dividing the pills into paths different from each other, and a second lower transfer device having a plurality of second sub-tracks, each of which has an upper portion connected to a lower portion of each of the first sub-tracks and a plurality of second guide rails formed therein corresponding to the first guide rails; and a discharger for discharging the pills, which are supplied from the transfer unit along the paths different from each other, through paths different from each other. Here, the supplier is formed of a hollow, an internal lower portion of the supplier is formed of a hollow and a supply hopper divided into a plurality of spaces so as to correspond to the number of the main tracks, an upper portion of the supplier is connected to a lower portion of the supply hopper, and a lower portion of the supplier is connected to each of the main tracks, wherein the supplier includes a connection hopper having an inside divided into a plurality of spaces so as to correspond to the supply hopper.
- Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus provided with a sequence of an automatic processing system for counting pills which are supplied, inputting a target number of the pills into a pouch, and simultaneously closing an inlet of the pouch and sealing the inlet when the inputting is completed, then separating and discharging the pouch from a pouch roll.
- In other to achieve the above object, in accordance with the present invention, an automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus includes a bottom transfer part configured to supply a pouch; a top transfer part disposed at an upper portion of the bottom transfer part and configured to supply pills; a counting part configured to count the pills supplied by the top transfer part; and a packing part configured to input and pack the pills supplied by the top transfer part into the pouch supplied by the bottom transfer part, wherein the bottom transfer part includes a bottom body; a store roller installed at a lower portion of a rear side of the bottom body and wound with a pouch roll in which sheets of pouches are connected in a row; upper and lower transfer rollers installed at an upper portion of a front side of the bottom body and configured to vertically support the pouch; and a transfer roller drive unit configured to deliver a rotational power to the upper transfer roller or the lower transfer roller to release the pouch roll wound on the store roller, thereby providing and transferring the pouch to the front side of the bottom body, and wherein the packing part includes a blowing unit installed at an upper portion of the upper transfer roller on a front surface of the bottom body and configured to open an inlet of a sheet of the pouch supplied by the bottom transfer part; a relay unit having a relay hopper configured to provide a pill input path from the top transfer part to the pouch, a shutter plate rotatably provided at an outlet of the relay hopper, and a plate drive unit configured to rotate the shutter plate to control an opening and a closing of the outlet of the relay hopper; and a sealing unit disposed at a lower portion of the lower transfer roller on the front surface of the bottom body and configured to heat and seal the inlet of the pouch.
- The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art by describing exemplary embodiments thereof in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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FIG. 1 is a side configurational view illustrating an automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus according to the present invention; -
FIGS. 2 and 3 are partial side configurational views illustrating a counting part and a packing part, respectively; -
FIG. 4 is a partial front configurational view illustrating a guide unit of the packing part; and -
FIG. 5 is a partial front configuration view illustrating a sealing unit of the packing part. - Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
- Prior to describing the preferred embodiments of the present invention, terms or words used in this disclosure and claims are not to be construed by limiting to ordinary or dictionary meanings, and these should be construed as meanings and concepts meeting the technical spirit of the present invention on the principle that inventors may appropriately define concepts of terms in order to describe their own invention in the best possible way. Therefore, embodiments disclosed herein and configurations shown in the accompanying drawings may be merely a single preferred embodiment and may not represent all technical spirits of the present invention, and it should be understood that numerous other equivalents and modifications may exist and may be devised by those skilled in the art at the time of applying this application.
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FIG. 1 , a direction to a top transfer part is specified as an upper portion or an upper side and a direction to a bottom transfer part is specified as a lower portion or a lower side, whereas a direction to a store roller of the bottom transfer part is specified as a rear portion or a rear side and a direction to the upper and lower transfer rollers is specified as a front portion or a front side. - As shown in
FIGS. 1 to 5 , an automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus schematically include abottom transfer part 10, atop transfer part 20, a countingpart 30, and apacking part 40. - Looking at each component, as shown in
FIG. 1 , thebottom transfer part 10 is for supplying apouch 1, and may include abottom body 11, astore roller 12 installed at a rear lower portion of thebottom body 11 and wound with a pouch roll in which sheets ofpouches 1 are connected in a row, upper andlower transfer rollers bottom body 11 to vertically support thepouch 1, and a transferroller drive unit 15 for delivering a rotational power to theupper transfer roller 13 or thelower transfer roller 14 to release the pouch roll wound on thestore roller 12, thereby supplying and transferring the pouch to a front side. - Here, the
bottom body 11 includes abottom frame 111, avertical frame 112 erected at one side of an upper portion of thebottom frame 111, and ahorizontal frame 113 disposed at an upper portion of thevertical frame 112 on front and rear sides. - And, the
store roller 12 is laterally and horizontally disposed at a rear side of thebottom frame 111 of thebottom body 11, and the upper andlower transfer rollers horizontal frame 113 of thebottom body 11. - In addition, the
bottom body 11 further includes a plurality ofguide rollers 16 disposed at each of theframes pouch 1. Moreover, thebottom body 11 further includes afront cover 114 disposed at the front side of thehorizontal frame 113 to have a form covering some portions of the upper andlower transfer rollers guide rollers 16. - As shown in
FIG. 1 , thetop transfer part 20 is disposed at an upper portion of thebottom transfer part 10 to supply pills, and includes amain hopper 21, atransfer plate 22 for receiving the pills provided from themain hopper 21, and avibration unit 23 for vibrating thetransfer plate 22 to transfer the pills to the front side. - Here, the
transfer plate 22 includes atop transfer plate 221 disposed at a lower portion of an outlet of themain hopper 21, and abottom transfer plate 222 on which a plurality of pill movement paths are formed by a partition wall and one end of which is disposed at a lower portion of a front side of thetop transfer plate 221. - Additionally, the
vibration unit 23 is disposed at a lower portion of thebottom transfer plate 222 to vertically vibrate thebottom transfer plate 222, and to this end it may be preferable to arrange thebottom transfer plate 222 to be inclined downward toward the front side. Thevibration unit 23 may include an eccentric cam supporting the lower portion of thebottom transfer plate 222, and a cam driver for rotating the eccentric cam. Therefore, thevibration unit 23 may be modified and changed in a variety of forms within the range which satisfies conditions for vertically vibrating thebottom transfer plate 222. - As shown in
FIGS. 2 and 3 , the countingpart 30 is for controlling an operation of thepacking part 40 by counting the pills supplied by thetop transfer part 20. The countingpart 30 includes apill input pipe 31 having a penetrated portion at a middle thereof and first and secondtransparent plates transfer plate 22 by thevibration unit 23 to be input into thepill input pipe 31; a photo-coupler 32 having alight emitting diode 321 installed outside the firsttransparent plate 311 to emit light and alight receiving transistor 322 installed outside the secondtransparent plate 312 to output an electrical signal in response to the light emitted from thelight emitting diode 321; and acontroller 33 for counting the pills input into thepill input pipe 31 in response to the electrical signal provided from thelight receiving transistor 322 and controlling each unit of thevibration unit 23 and thepacking part 40 to be described below to input the pills into thepouch 1 to a target value, wherein thecontroller 33 resumes counting the pills continuing a previous count of the pills when the counting of the pills has been stopped and then is restarted. - As shown in
FIGS. 1 to 5 , thepacking part 40 is for inputting and packaging the pills supplied by thetop transfer part 20 into thepouch 1 supplied by thebottom transfer part 10. Thepacking part 40 includes a blowingunit 41 installed at an upper portion of theupper transfer roller 13 on a front surface of thebottom body 11, that is, on a front surface of thefront cover 114 of thebottom body 11, for opening an inlet of a sheet of thepouch 1 supplied by thebottom transfer part 10; arelay unit 42 having arelay hopper 421 providing a pill input path from thetop transfer part 20 to thepouch 1, ashutter plate 422 rotatably provided at an outlet of therelay hopper 421, and aplate drive unit 423 for rotating theshutter plate 422 to control an opening and a closing of the outlet of therelay hopper 421; asealing unit 43 disposed at a lower portion of thelower transfer roller 14 on the front surface of thebottom body 11, that is, on the front surface of thefront cover 114 of thebottom body 11, and provided with aheating bar 433 for heating and sealing the inlet of thepouch 1. - As shown in
FIGS. 3 and 4 , the blowingunit 41 includes anozzle 411 fixed to and installed at a separate bracket and the like provided on the front surface of thefront cover 114, and anair supply unit 412 connected to thenozzle 411 to supply air under the control of thecontroller 33. - Here, a
nozzle 411 having a downward discharge type structure so as to discharge air into the inlet of thepouch 1 located at a lower side thereof is preferable. - In addition, as shown in
FIGS. 2 and 3 , therelay unit 42 further includes acollection hopper 424 for collecting the dropped pills, which pass from thebottom transfer plate 222 of thetop transfer part 20 to thepill input pipe 31, to guide the collected pills to move to therelay hopper 421. - Moreover, as shown in
FIGS. 2 and 3 , theplate drive unit 423 of therelay unit 42 includes a supportingbar 423 a provided at an upper portion of a front side of therelay hopper 421; a knownpneumatic cylinder 423 b provided with acylinder body 423b 1 and apiston 423 b 2 installed therein, which are hinge-coupled to the supportingbar 423 a, and enabling thepiston 423 b 2 to perform a forward and backward movement according to a selective supply of air; afirst hinge 423 c mutually connecting an end of thepiston 423 b 2 of thepneumatic cylinder 423 b and a middle end of a front surface of theshutter plate 422; and asecond hinge 423 d mutually connecting an upper portion of theshutter plate 422 and a lower portion of the front side of therelay hopper 421. - With such a configuration, opening and closing operations of the
shutter plate 422 may be possible based on thesecond hinge 423 d by the forward and backward movement of thepiston 423 b 2 of thepneumatic cylinder 423 b. At this point, a lower portion surface of the outlet of therelay hopper 421 has a structure which is inclined from the front side more as it nears the rear side, and theshutter plate 422 has a size capable of blocking the outlet of therelay hopper 421. When the pills are input into the inlet of thepouch 1, theshutter plate 422, which is rotated to be opened by theplate drive unit 423, having a rotational angle so as to support an inward side of the inlet of thepouch 1 toward an outward direction thereof may be preferable. - As a result, the opened outlet of the
pouch 1 may be supported by theshutter plate 422, which is rotated to be opened, to maintain an open state. - In addition, as shown in
FIGS. 2, 3, and 5 , thesealing unit 43 includes twoguide poles 431 longitudinally and horizontally disposed at both ends of the front surface of thefront cover 114 of thebottom body 11; asealing body 432 inserted into the twoguide poles 431; theheating bar 433 provided horizontally on a rear surface of the sealingbody 432; and asealing drive unit 434 for moving the sealingbody 432 forward and backward along the twoguide poles 431, and which is controlled by thecontroller 33. At this point, thesealing drive unit 434 is fixed to and installed at thehorizontal frame 113 of thebottom body 11 and an end of the built-inpiston 423 b 2 is connected to the sealingbody 432, wherein thesealing drive unit 434 may be connected to the sealingbody 432 without interfering with thepouch 1 into which the pills are input, and may include a known pneumatic cylinder capable of moving the sealingbody 432 in forward and backward directions according to a selective supply of air. Therefore, the sealingdrive unit 434 may be modified and changed in a variety of forms within the range satisfying conditions for moving the sealingbody 432 in forward and backward directions. - As a result, when the inputting of the pills into the inlet of the
pouch 1 is completed, theheating bar 433 positioned at the rear surface of the sealingbody 432, which is advanced by thesealing drive unit 434, heats and seals the inlet of thepouch 1. - In addition, the
packing part 40 further includes aguide unit 44 pushing both ends of the inward side of the inlet of thepouch 1 to induce a closing of the inlet of thepouch 1 when being sealed by thesealing unit 43 after the inputting of the pills into the inlet of thepouch 1 is completed. As shown inFIGS. 4 and 5 , theguide unit 44 includes aguide cylinder 441 of a pneumatic cylinder structure provided at one side of theupper transfer roller 13 in thefront cover 114 of thebottom body 11; aguide piston 442 installed in theguide cylinder 441 and performing a reciprocating movement in left and right directions according to a selective supply of air; aguide pushrod 443 of a backslash ‘\’ shape hinge-coupled to an end of theguide piston 442 and having a long hole formed at a middle portion of theguide pushrod 443 in a length direction; and aguide pin 444 provided at theguide cylinder 441 and fitted in the long hole of theguide pushrod 443. With such a configuration, when theguide piston 442 advances, theguide pushrod 443 simultaneously advances with the advancing of theguide piston 442 to perform a rotational operation based on theguide pin 444. At this point, theguide pushrod 443 being vertically erected pushes the inward side of the inlet of thepouch 1 toward an outward direction thereof. - Moreover, a
guide unit 44 is further provided at the other side of theupper transfer roller 13 in thefront cover 114 of thebottom body 11, wherein the twoguide units 44 are provided in a structure facing each other such that the both ends of the inward side of the inlet of thepouch 1 are pushed toward the outward direction thereof to induce a closing of the inlet of thepouch 1. - Meanwhile, when the inlet of the
pouch 1 is sealed by thesealing unit 43, the upper orlower transfer roller roller drive unit 15 to separate and drop a sheet of thepouch 1 from the pouch roll when theheating bar 433 of thesealing unit 43 pressurizes and fixes the inlet of thepouch 1. - Looking at an operation of the automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus with such a configuration, pills accommodating in the
main hopper 21 of thetop transfer part 20 are transferred to thebottom transfer plate 222 after passing thetop transfer plate 221 of thetransfer plate 22; thebottom transfer plate 222 being vertically vibrated by thevibration unit 23 transfers the pills to a front side; the photo-coupler 32 counts the pills passing through thepill input pipe 31; thecontroller 33 controls theplate drive unit 423 based on the counted value to rotate theshutter plate 422, thereby closing the outlet of therelay hopper 421; and thecontroller 33 simultaneously controls thesealing drive unit 434 to move the sealingbody 432 backward such that theheating bar 433 positioned at the rear side of the sealingbody 432 heats and seals the inlet of thepouch 1 and simultaneously pressurizes the inlet. Thecontroller 33 simultaneously controls theguide cylinder 441 to advance theguide piston 442 such that theguide pushrod 443 connected to theguide piston 442 is rotated based on theguide pin 444 to be vertically erected and to close the inlet of thepouch 1. At this point, a rotational operation of theguide pushrod 443 is completed before the sealingbody 432 begins a backward movement operation and theheating bar 433 reaches the inlet of thepouch 1, that is, before pressurizing the inlet. - After the sealing is completed, the
controller 33 controls the transferroller drive unit 15 to rotate the upper orlower transfer roller pouch 1 from the pouch roll, and then theguide pushrod 443 and the sealingbody 432 are respectively restored to their original positions. Also, thecontroller 33 controls the transferroller drive unit 15 to rotate the upper orlower transfer roller pouch 1 to the front side. In addition, thecontroller 33 controls anair supply unit 412 to open an inlet of thepouch 1 using air discharged from thenozzle 411 at the same time as opening the outlet of therelay hopper 421 through theshutter plate 422, thereby restarting an input of the pills into a newly suppliedpouch 1. - At this point, when the outlet of the
relay hopper 421 is closed by theshutter plate 422, the pills supplied to therelay hopper 421, which have been counted by the countingpart 30, and thecontroller 33 reflects the counted value of the pills when restarting the input of the pills into the newly suppliedpouch 1, thereby an input of a target value of pills is performed. - In accordance with the present invention, a primary effect of the automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus may be the possibility of packaging pills in a vinyl type pouch instead of a typical vessel used in pill packing.
- Also, in accordance with the present invention, when pills are packed in a pouch, each process for opening and fixing an inlet of the pouch, closing and sealing the inlet of the pouch, discharge the pouch, and the like may be automatically performed in the packing part.
- Although the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings by focusing on “the automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus” having an inventive form and structure, numerous other modifications and alternations can be devised by those skilled in the art and these should be construed as falling within the spirit and scope of the principles of the present invention.
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1. An automatic pill counting and packaging apparatus comprising:
a bottom transfer part configured to supply a pouch;
a top transfer part disposed at an upper portion of the bottom transfer part and configured to supply pills;
a counting part configured to count the pills supplied by the top transfer part; and
a packing part configured to input and pack the pills supplied by the top transfer part into the pouch supplied by the bottom transfer part,
wherein the bottom transfer part includes:
a bottom body;
a store roller installed at a lower portion of a rear side of the bottom body and wound with a pouch roll in which sheets of pouches are connected in a row;
upper and lower transfer rollers installed at an upper portion of a front side of the bottom body and configured to vertically support the pouch; and
a transfer roller drive unit configured to deliver a rotational power to the upper transfer roller or the lower transfer roller to release the pouch roll wound on the store roller, thereby providing and transferring the pouch to the front side, and
wherein the packing part includes:
a blowing unit installed at an upper portion of the upper transfer roller on in a front surface of the bottom body so as to opening an inlet of a sheet of the pouch supplied by the bottom transfer part;
a relay unit having a relay hopper configured to provide a pill input path from the top transfer part to the pouch, a shutter plate rotatably provided at an outlet of the relay hopper, and a plate drive unit configured to rotate the shutter plate to control an opening and a closing of the outlet of the relay hopper; and
a sealing unit disposed at a lower portion of the lower transfer roller on in the front surface of the bottom body and having a heating bar to heat and seal the inlet of the pouch.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, the shutter plate which rotated by the plate drive unit, when the pills are input into the inlet of the pouch, has a rotational angle so as to support an inward side of the inlet of the pouch toward an outward direction thereof.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the packing part further includes:
a guide unit configured to bidirectionally push both ends of the inward side of the inlet of the pouch to induce a closing of the inlet of the pouch when the inputting of the pills into the inlet of the pouch has been completed and the inlet of the pouch is sealed by the sealing unit.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the pouch is fixed by the heating bar of the sealing unit when the inlet of the pouch is sealed by the sealing unit, and the upper or lower transfer roller is rotated in reverse by the transfer roller drive unit to separate the sheet of the pouch from the pouch roll.
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