Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
  • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
  • A61J7/0076—Medicament distribution means
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
  • B65B35/06—Separating single articles from loose masses of articles
  • B65B35/08—Separating single articles from loose masses of articles using pocketed conveyors
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
  • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
  • B65D83/0409—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills the dispensing means being adapted for delivering one article, or a single dose, upon each actuation

Definitions

• Storage container for a device for the automated dispensing of individual medication portions
• the present application relates to a storage container for individual portions of medication, and in particular one
• Storage container for a device for the automated dispensing of individual medication portions.
• Portions of medication for example individual tablets of a drug, are used in blister machines used in particular in hospitals and blister centers, with which portions of medication are blistered patient-specifically in accordance with the medically prescribed administration times / combinations.
• Corresponding blister machines contribute to the optimization of drug management and the
• the different portions of medication blistered with the blister machines are stored in a variety of devices for automatically dispensing individual portions of medication, and a single blister machine may include several hundred of such devices, depending on the site requirements.
• the devices for the automated dispensing of individual medication portions usually comprise two
• Main components namely a reservoir for storing the individual portions of medication, said reservoir including, inter alia, at least a portion of a necessary for departing individual medication portions singulator, and a container receptacle on which the container is mounted.
• This container receptacle can likewise comprise parts of the singling device (for example the motor and / or a control device).
• the two are Main components of the device for dispensing individual medication portions separate components, but it is also conceivable to carry out the device in one piece.
• the device for dispensing individual medication portions is usually on the container receptacle on the
• the contamination particles impair the mechanics within the reservoir and settle in it. Especially when changing the nature of
• Medication portions in a storage container must be taken to ensure that it is thoroughly cleaned, so that it is possible to avoid any remainders of medication in the reservoir
• Separation device are discharged from the reservoir, and, in the extreme case, be blistered with.
• Reservoir is virtually unavoidable, especially in those drugs that are often in demand. Also, the entry of contaminant particles in the refilling of medication portions in regular operation can not be prevented.
• the storage container according to the invention comprises a
• Housing enclosing housing with a bottom surface, wherein in the receiving space, the individual drug portions are stored.
• a separating device On the bottom surface is a separating device with at least one channel for receiving at least one
• the separating device in the storage container may comprise all components which are necessary for the separation of medicament portions stored in the receiving space.
• the separating device of the invention may comprise all components which are necessary for the separation of medicament portions stored in the receiving space.
• Container receptacle are arranged.
• singularizing device encompasses “complete” separating devices and only partial singulating devices, ie such
• the reservoir according to the invention further comprises
• the medication portions reach the opening of the channel facing the receiving space in the latter and further through the channel to that of the bottom surface Opening the channel where it is in the contact area on the
• Medication portion leaves the reservoir.
• Impurity particles arise firstly when filling the receiving space with individual medication portions and secondly when separating itself, for example when a single portion of medication in the singulation on the
• Contamination particles are constantly moved on the floor surface. In the vibration-induced movements of the
• Impurity particles inevitably get to and in the at least one depression in the bottom surface in which they are held.
• the well will thus ensure that contaminant particles that inevitably arise during operation are constantly “captured.”
• the contaminant particles held in the well can no longer be discharged or disturb the mechanics, effectively reducing the overall contamination by contaminant particles ,
• the singulating device can be made by a person skilled in the art
• Singling device only has a channel for receiving a single medication portion, wherein the channel in a receiving position, in which the receiving space
• Abgabewolf is movable, in which the receiving space facing opening of the channel closed and the bottom surface facing opening is open to a discharge opening in the housing / the bottom surface.
• a correspondingly constructed separating device is structurally kept very simple, with such
• rotor having a plurality of channels, wherein the rotor is arranged such that between the underside of the rotor and the bottom surface, a gap is provided, through which impurity particles can pass. Due to the plurality of channels in the rotor, individual medication portions are always arranged in several channels and one
• Delivery of a single portion of medication can be achieved by rotating the rotor only by a certain angle to a dispensing position in which a single
• Medication portion can be discharged from a corresponding channel via a discharge opening in the housing.
• the arrangement of the channels in the rotor is dependent on the exact structural design of the singulator, but it is preferred that the channels are arranged on the outer circumference of the rotor and open to the outside, d. H. the
• Channels are formed by a plurality of webs on the circumference of the rotor.
• the housing is then adapted to the rotor so that a special portion of the housing is adapted to receive the rotor and has a corresponding circular cylindrical portion whose diameter is slightly larger than that
• Outer diameter of the rotor is. Correspondingly arranged channels are easier to clean. Furthermore, the entry of medication portions into the channels is facilitated by a corresponding formation of the top of the rotor.
• the floor surface moves.
• at least a portion of the floor area funnel-shaped wherein the rotor of the separating device is arranged in the center of the funnel-shaped portion and the at least one formed in the bottom surface recess between the center of the funnel-shaped portion and the contact region is arranged.
• the at least one recess is thus formed within the annular contact area, so that the impurity particles not only by the vibration of the reservoir, but also by gravity due to the inclination of the funnel-shaped
• the at least one recess is formed as a groove coaxial with the rotor axis.
• the exact configuration of the depression or depressions is of the special construction of the
• the recess may be annular, ie. H. that a groove formed as a groove the entire center of
• the recess is formed only as a ring portion and a certain angular range remains free, in which no recess is arranged.
• cleaning agents that supply impurity particles of at least one recess.
• These cleaning agents may be formed, for example, as small brushes, which depend on the direction of rotation of the rotor on the
• the rotor can, for example, penetrate the bottom surface
• Contamination particles enter the axle area and cause a mechanical disturbance, it is provided in a preferred embodiment, that on the bottom surface
• the bottom surface is coated with a non-stick coating.
• the contaminant particles reach the at least one depression, inter alia, due to the vibrations occurring during operation.
• the reservoir contains a vibration device which actively exposes the reservoir to vibrations to actively contaminate the contaminant particles formed during operation to the at least one recess to move.
• Figures 1A and 1B are oblique views of the embodiment of the reservoir according to the invention, wherein Figure 1A the reservoir from obliquely above and Figure 1B the
• FIG. 2 shows a further oblique view of the embodiment of the storage container with the cover removed
• FIG. 3 shows a plan view of the housing of the embodiment
• FIGS 4, 5 and 6 show sectional views of the embodiment
• FIG. 7 shows a further sectional view, wherein this is rotated by 180 ° with respect to FIG. 6,
• Figure 8 shows an enlargement of a detail of Figure 7, and the
• FIGS. 9A and 9B are detailed views of a part of FIG.
• FIG. 1A shows an oblique view of the embodiment of the storage container 1 according to the invention for a device for the automated dispensing of individual medication portions.
• the reservoir shown is merely a part of the aforementioned device, which is a further main component
• Container receptacle includes. However, the container receptacle is not part of the present application and will not be discussed in detail here.
• the storage container 1 comprises a housing with a plurality of housing sections, with an upper one
• Singling device a lower bottom portion 3c and a handle portion 3d.
• the upper portion 3a is closed with a cover 5.
• FIG. 1B shows a further oblique view of FIG.
• the rotor 101 comprises (see in particular FIG. 9B) a plurality of channels 102, which are arranged outwardly open on the circumference of the rotor by webs 108 separated from each other and have an upper opening 103 and a lower opening 104.
• the rotor 101 itself is mounted on a rotor axis 106 which extends through the bottom surface 104 (see FIG. 1B).
• FIG. 2 In the oblique view shown in Figure 2 can also be seen a further housing portion 3e, which is formed obliquely to the rotor 101 out.
• the housing sections 3a and 3e and the rotor 101 define a receiving space 2, in which individual medication portions are stored in the operating state.
• Figure 3 shows a plan view of the housing of the first
• circular-cylindrical portion 3b of the housing has a bottom surface 4 with a central rotor axis opening and a
• Medication delivery opening 109 encloses.
• In the bottom surface can also be seen on a circular arc groove-shaped and coaxial with the rotor axis opening formed recess 7.
• FIG. 4 shows a sectional view of the embodiment of the storage container according to the invention.
• the housing section 3e inclined towards the rotor 101 can be seen.
• the bottom surface 4 down is followed by the bottom surface 4 down, which in the shown
• Embodiment is designed funnel-shaped towards the rotor axis opening.
• the rotor 101 and the rotor axis 106 are arranged such that between the underside of the rotor and the top of the bottom surface 4, a gap 11 is formed, through which impurity particles can move to the recess 7, wherein the recess coaxial with the
• Floor surface 4 is formed as a circumferential groove.
• Opening 104 wherein the opening 104 is aligned with an opening 109 in the bottom surface 4.
• the discharge position is shown, d. H. in this position is a scattered
• Medicated portion supplied via a correspondingly aligned channel of the opening 109, via which they the device for the automated dispensing of individual medication portions
• annular region formed at the outer bottom surface 4, which is interrupted only by the opening 109.
• drug portions are moved (when singling) to the opening 109. At u. a. This movement can chip off the smallest drug particles from the individual portions of medication and contaminate the
• the bottom surface is funnel-shaped, wherein these
• a retaining means 105 is further shown, wherein a portion of this retaining means a
• Opening 6 in the housing penetrates and engages part of the aligned with the opening 109 channel. In this way it is prevented at the moment where a scattered
• Medication portion is discharged through the opening 109, another portion of medication slips from above and also discharged. It follows that in the event that two
• Drug portions should be delivered, two rotation steps of the rotor are necessary.
• a vibration device 12 is arranged on the housing, with which
• Impurity particles can be moved to the recess 7 by exposing the housing to vibrations.
• FIG. 5 shows a further sectional view of FIG
• Figure 7 shows the illustration shown in Figure 6 rotated by 180 °, and in this view is in a channel
• the channel engaging portion 105b is either elastically deformed to be deformed by a land (eg, brush-like configuration of the engaging portion 105b), or the retaining means 105 includes an elastic portion such that the channel engaging portion 105b can be pressed out of the channel during a movement of the rotor.
• the rotor axis is arranged.
• FIG. 8 illustrates the details given above in a detail enlargement.
• Figures 9A and 9B show detailed views of a part of the separating device and with this cooperating
• the separating device comprises u. a. the rotor 101 with a plurality of channels 102, which are separated by webs 108 from each other.
• a plurality of cleaning means 110 are arranged, which contribute to the on the bottom surface between the
• Detergent 110 is dependent on the direction of rotation of the rotor.
• FIG. 9A further shows the stop mechanism 107, which cooperates with the rotor axis 106. This includes the
• Rotor axle 106 formed teeth 106b can intervene.
• This stop mechanism is used to set the rotor at certain operating conditions, so that unintentional rotation of the rotor is avoided. This can prevent unintentionally dispensing a portion of medication.
• the stop mechanism can lock the rotor when the reservoir from the
• Container receptacle is removed. This can for example be provided that when placing the reservoir on the container receptacle of the stop mechanism 107 is brought about the at least partially elastic arm 107c out of engagement with the toothing 106b, when removing the

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