WO2017063788A1

WO2017063788A1 - Reservoir container for a supply and dispensing station for medication

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Publication number: WO2017063788A1
Application number: PCT/EP2016/070868
Authority: WO
Inventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger
Original assignee: Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany Gmbh
Priority date: 2015-10-12
Filing date: 2016-09-05
Publication date: 2017-04-20
Also published as: ES2663811T3; CN108137175A; CA2995005A1; EP3156338A1; AU2016339738B2; CN108137175B; AU2016339738A1; EP3156338B1; CA2995005C

Abstract

The invention relates to a reservoir container for a supply and dispensing station for medication. Reservoir containers according to the prior art comprise a slot through which a retaining section of a retaining means is guided. The slot must be adapted to the dimensions of the medication; furthermore, dust can escape through the slot. A reservoir container according to the invention comprises a housing (10) enclosing a receiving chamber (2) and having a circular-cylindrical section (11) and a base surface (20) having a dispensing opening (21), a separating device (30) arranged in the circular-cylindrical section (11) of the housing (10) and having at least one channel (31), and a retaining means (40) arranged completely within the housing (10, 11) enclosing the receiving chamber (2), having a fastening section (41) and a retaining section (42), wherein the retaining section (42) is held above the dispensing opening (21) and wherein the fastening section (41) interacts with at least one fastening receptacle (15a, 15b) within the housing (10) in order to fasten the retaining means (40) in the housing (10, 11).

Description

Reservoir for a supply and delivery station for

The present invention relates to a storage container for

Medicines and in particular a storage container for a storage and dispensing station for medicines.

Modern blister machines, as disclosed, for example, in WO 2013/034504 Al, comprise, depending on the expansion stage, several hundred storage and dispensing stations. In each of these, a plurality of drug portions of a particular drug are stored, and on request, individual drug portions can be dispensed. With the blister machine are stored in the storage and dispensing stations

Pharmaceutical portions patient-individual according to the medically prescribed input times compiled and blistered.

To compile the drug portions corresponding storage and dispensing stations are driven to deliver one or more isolated portions of medication. When a supply and delivery station is actuated, a single medicament portion is separated with a separating device and transferred to a guide device of the blister machine via a delivery opening. By means of the guide device is a dispensed drug portion, possibly under

Interposition of a collector, a

Packaging device fed which individual or more drug portions blisters according to the medical specification.

For separating the medicament portions, which are stored in a storage container of a supply and dispensing station, the separating device comprises a rotor with a

Variety of channels, usually on the outer circumference of the

Rotors are arranged. The channels are adapted to the respectively to be separated drug portions in terms of their size such that in a channel, the drug portions only one above the other, but can not be arranged side by side.

To deliver a portion of medication from a channel, a channel is passed through a discharge opening in the housing of the

Reservoir moves, and in the channel at the bottom

Place arranged drug portion slips or falls into the delivery port. In order to avoid that further medicament portions stored in or over the channel are also dispensed, an area is located in the area above the dispensing opening

Retaining portion of a retaining means guided at least in or over the channel, which is aligned with the discharge opening. This retaining portion is arranged in relation to the height of the channel in or above this, that under the retaining portion only a drug portion can be arranged. Provided the retention section is led into the channel, the lowest drug portion of it above

arranged to separate, the individual channels separating projections have a slot which receives the retaining portion upon rotation of the rotor. If the retaining section is guided over the channels, it is routed only slightly over the upper ends of the projections on a regular basis, so that it is avoided that further delivery of the medicament portion

Get drug portions in the channel.

The retaining portion of the retaining means is at

known supply and dispensing stations led from the outside through a housing slot in the reservoir. A disadvantage of this design is that the resulting in the operation of a supply and dispensing station dust can escape through the slot from the reservoir and the blister machine

contaminated.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a

Storage container for a supply and delivery station

with which the contamination of the

Blister machine in which it is used is reduced.

The problem is solved by a storage container according to

Claim 1. The storage container according to the invention for a The medicament supply and dispensing station comprises a housing enclosing a medicament portion receiving space with a circular cylindrical section and a bottom surface, this bottom surface having a dispensing opening for receiving individual medicament portions.

In the circular cylindrical portion of the housing, a separating device is provided with at least one channel for receiving at least one drug portion. Depending on the exact configuration of the singulation device, the channel can only one or more drug portion

Take medication portions, which can then be arranged only one above the other in the channel.

The reservoir further comprises a completely disposed within the housing enclosing the housing

Retaining means with a mounting portion and a

Retaining portion, wherein the retaining portion is held above the discharge opening and an entrance of more

Pharmaceutical portions in one at the discharge opening

prevents aligned channel, and wherein the

Attachment portion cooperates with at least one fastening receptacle within the housing for fixing the retaining means in the housing. The attachment receptacle can have any desired configuration, as long as it is ensured that the retention means is held stationary. Also, the design of the attachment portion of the retaining means is arbitrary, as long as the fixed fixing of the

Retaining portion is ensured in the housing itself. For example, the attachment portion and the

Retention section the same "component" of the return means concern, but fulfill other functions.

The inventive design and arrangement of the retaining means can be dispensed with the introduction of a slot through which the retaining portion in the housing. In the operation of the supply and

Dust can not escape to the outside, but the dust remains largely inside the reservoir. and discharge station and can be collected there before an eventual exit to the outside.

Depending on the exact configuration of the at least one channel for receiving medicament portions, the retention section may be arranged above an upper opening of the channel facing the receiving space. In this case, the channel is spatially configured so that only one

Medicated portion can be arranged in this. In the event that the channel is designed so that several

Medicament portions can be arranged one above the other in this, the retaining portion of the retaining means is inserted into the aligned at the discharge port channel such that the arranged in the channel drug portions

are separated, in at least one drug portion over the retention portion and exactly one drug portion under the retention portion. The portion of medication located below the retention section is delivered via the delivery opening. The entry of further drug portions in the channel is prevented, since only the lower

Medicament portion is released and the retention means the slipping of further drug portions, and thus the entry of further drug portions prevented. In such an embodiment, projections of the

Separating device defining the channels, a gap in which the retaining portion is guided.

Regardless of which type of channel is used, it is always necessary that the positioning of the

Retention section over or in the channel, and the

Design of the channel itself, to the dimensions of

Medicament portions are adjusted. This is achieved in known supply and dispensing stations in that to the

Medication portions adapted separating devices (design channel) and housing (positioning slot or

Retention section). However, this in turn has the disadvantage that numerous different retaining means, separating devices and housing must be provided. In the Inventive supply and delivery station according to the invention, it is advantageously no longer necessary to maintain a plurality of housings due to the complete relocation of the restraint means into the housing.

In order to avoid the use of different, adapted to the configuration of the at least one channel retaining means, it is in a preferred embodiment

provided that the at least one fastening portion of the retaining means cooperates with the fastening receptacle within the housing in such a way that the retaining portion of the retaining means is adjustable in height fixable.

To determine the restraint means acts

Attachment portion of the retaining means with at least one mounting receptacle within the housing together. The attachment receptacle can be arranged at any suitable location within the housing, wherein the location of the attachment receptacle the exact configuration of

Restoring means, and in particular the attachment portion of the restraint means conditionally. In a preferred

Embodiment in which the retaining means is particularly simple, it is provided that the at least one fastening receptacle in the circular cylindrical

Section of the housing is arranged. By doing

circular-cylindrical portion of the housing and the separating device is arranged in the channels or over the channels of the retaining portion of the fastening means is fixed, so that this spatial arrangement of

Attachment a structurally particularly simple

Retention means allowed.

As stated above, it is at a preferred

Embodiment provided that the retaining portion of the retaining means is adjustable in height can be fixed. To achieve this, it is conceivable, for example, in the

Befestigungsaufnahme provide various attachment positions, with which the attachment portion of

Retaining means cooperate with the fastening receptacle can. The various attachment positions can be realized for example by a latching means or the like, which positions the retention portion depending on the exact configuration of the channels.

In a structurally particularly simple preferred

Embodiment, it is provided that the at least one

Attachment receiving a cylindrical cavity and the attachment portion at least one cylindrical

Guide portion, wherein the cylindrical

Guide portion in the cylindrical cavity of the

Fastening receptacle is arranged, wherein the cylindrical cavity is preferably the same depth or depth than the cylindrical guide portion is long. This preferred embodiment ensures the most far-reaching flexibility with regard to the height adjustability of the restraint means.

In order to arrange the retaining means particularly secure in the housing or set it is in a preferred

Embodiment provided that the attachment portion is formed in two parts and each part with a

Fastening receiver cooperates. In this context, it is particularly advantageous that the two parts of the

Attachment section at outer end portions of

Restoring means are arranged. The resulting, in the broader sense U-shaped retaining means is particularly stable and secure in the housing.

As already stated, the retaining portion of the

Retaining means cover or engage in a channel oriented at the discharge opening "from above", in order to prevent more than one medicament portion from being transferred into the delivery opening. In the first alternative, it is preferred that in the at least one fastening receptacle a

Restoring means is arranged, which pushes the retaining means in the direction of the discharge opening or pulls, d. H. from the top to the top of the arranged between the channels

Projections. By applying pressure to the return means, a height-adjustable retention means can be used to ensure that the retaining portion does not "lift off" from the channels separating the projections, resulting in a

Slipping of drug portions would result.

In the following two preferred embodiments of the storage container according to the invention for storage and

Dispensing stations described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which

Figures la - ld different views of a first

Embodiment of the reservoir show;

Figures 2a - 2c different sectional views of the first

Show embodiment;

Figure 3 is a further sectional view of the first

Embodiment shows;

Figure 4 is a sectional view at a distance

Singling device shows;

Figure 5 shows a detail view of the singulator in combination with the restraint means;

Figure 6 shows a detail view of the restraint means; and

Figures 7a and 7b are two sectional views of a second

Embodiment show.

Figures la and lb show two oblique views of a supply and discharge station 1 with a first embodiment of the storage container according to the invention. FIGS. 1c and 1d show plan views of the supply and delivery station, wherein in FIG. 1d a separating device 30, which is at least indicated in FIGS. In all

Representations of the supply and dispensing station is omitted cover for a better overview. The cover is

usually part of the housing. But it is also conceivable that a reservoir is used without cover.

The storage container according to the first embodiment comprises a medicament portion accommodating space 2

enclosing housing 10, which has a circular cylindrical portion 11 in the lower portion. The reservoir (and the housing 10) is closed at the bottom by a bottom surface 20 having a discharge opening 21 (see Figure ld). The bottom surface 20 has another central

Receiving 22, which cooperates with a separating device 30. As can be seen from FIG. 1c, the singling device 30 is in the circular cylindrical shape

Section 11 of the housing 10 is arranged and comprises a

A plurality of channels 31 for receiving at least one

Medicament portion. The channels 31 are formed by a plurality of projections 32, which together with a

Middle part 34 form a rotor, of a in one

Housing portion 12 arranged (not shown) drive is moved. The projections 32 may be integral with the

Central part 34 may be executed, but it is also conceivable that the projections 32 on the outer circumference of the central part 34th

are attached and so the channels on the outer circumference of the

Middle part 34 are generated. As can be seen in particular in Figure lb, the circular cylindrical portion 11 of the housing 10 comprises two Ausbuchtunen 14a, 14b, in which

Attachment receptacles 15a, 15b are formed, which are described in more detail in the following figures.

In the arranged under the reservoir housing 12, the motor for moving the separating device 30 and other components of the supply and delivery station,

For example, a sensor for checking the delivery of a

Medicated portion, arranged. The reservoir can be released from the lower portion of the supply and delivery station, for example, to fill new drug portions in the reservoir. In order to be able to better handle the supply and delivery station (or possibly only the storage container), a handle 13 is provided in the front region.

As can be seen in Figure ld, are in the

circular cylindrical portion 11 of the housing 10 in the region of the bulges 14a, 14b two fastening receptacles 15a, 15b provided, which are perpendicular cylindrical in the

Bulges extend. In the embodiment shown, the lateral surface of the cylindrical fastening receptacles is designed as a circular widening blind bore, wherein the circular cylindrical portion 11 of the housing has an opening. In these mounting receivers 15a, 15b is a

Attachment portion 41 of a in Figure lc only to

warning means of restraint.

In alternative embodiments, it may be provided that the fastening receptacles in other sections of the

Housing are arranged, for example, at the upper opening of the housing 10 or at a (not in the figures

shown) cover.

It can already be seen in FIG. 1b that the restraint means merely indicated in FIG. 1c does not emerge from the housing 10 with its circular-cylindrical section 11, that is to say from FIG. H. is fully arranged in the housing 10, 11.

Figure 2a shows a partial side sectional view of

Supply and delivery station with a reservoir according to the first embodiment, wherein the housing 10 together with

circular cylindrical portion 11 is partially cut away, and so the view of the central separating device 30 is released.

The separating device 30 comprises a central part 34, on whose outer circumference a plurality of projections 32 are provided, by their arrangement and configuration on the circumference of the

Middle part 34 a plurality of channels 31 is defined. As can already be seen in Figure 2a, the projections 32 are each divided at the same height of a slot 33 in which a retaining portion 42 of the retaining means is guided. In the bulge 14a on the circular cylindrical

Section 11 of the housing 10, the fastening receptacle 15a is formed, in which a circular cylindrical portion 43a of a partial mounting portion 41a of the retaining means is guided. Due to the special design of

Attachment 15a and the circular cylindrical

Guide section 43a of the mounting portion is, with a suitable choice of the depth of the mounting receptacle and the length of the circular cylindrical guide portion

Ensures that the retention device is height adjustable is stored so that the retaining portion 42 of the

Restoring means to the height of the slot 33 in the projections 32 can adjust. This allows it to be the same

Retention means for a variety of different

Separation devices can be used. Due to the special arrangement and determination of the retaining means, it is also not necessary to provide different reservoirs for drugs with different dimensions, since a insertion of a slot in the housing of the reservoir is no longer necessary (the place of introduction of the slot is dependent on known storage containers of the size of the drug portions to be stored).

FIG. 2b shows a further sectional view, specifically a section through the circular cylindrical section 11 of FIG

Housing 10 and by the in the circular cylindrical

Section 11 arranged singulator. In this illustration, it can be clearly seen that the projections 32 are formed such that they on the inner circumference of the

abut circular cylindrical portion 11, so that a defined channel 31 is formed between two projections. In this figure, two fastening receptacles 15a, 15b are further to be seen, which in bulges 14a, 14b of the

circular cylindrical portion are arranged.

Figure 2c shows a further sectional view, wherein only the housing 10 and a part of the circular cylindrical

Section 11 are cut away so that the exact

Execution of the singulator 30 and their arrangement in the circular cylindrical portion 11 of the housing can be seen. As already described with reference to FIG. 2a

The retaining means 40 is formed via two circular cylindrical guide sections 43a, 43b, which are arranged on two partial fastening sections 41a, 41b, in the two fastening recesses 15a, 15b guided height adjustable. FIG. 3 shows a further sectional view of the supply and dispensing station 1 with a first embodiment of the invention

Inventory container according to the invention. In this embodiment, the rear portion of the housing 10 with

circular cylindrical portion 11 and the lower

Housing section 12, which does not belong to the invention

Reservoir belongs, cut away. In this illustration, once again the two circular cylindrical

Guide portions 43a, 43b of the two partial mounting portions 41a, 41b of the guide means shown. In this figure it can be seen that under the discharge opening 21, in which a drug portion is dispensed, a guide 50 is arranged, via which the dispensed drug portion, for example, a guide means is supplied. In Figure 3 further shows that the retaining portion 42 of the retaining means to the (temporarily) at the discharge opening 21 aligned channel 31 ^λ is arranged.

FIG. 4 shows a further sectional view, wherein in this illustration the separating device in the

circular cylindrical portion 11 of the housing 10 is omitted, so as to represent the spatial arrangement of the retaining portion 42 of the retaining means in the circular cylindrical portion. In particular, it can be seen that the

Retaining portion 42 is disposed above the discharge opening 21, and thus always conceals or separates the channels that at a

Rotation of the singulator are rotated via the discharge opening 21. In the center of the bottom surface 20, a receptacle 22 for the singulator 30 is shown, which is designed such that on this recording 22 the

Singulating device 30 with a (not shown) motor is rotatable.

Figure 5 shows a detailed view of the interaction of the retaining means 40 with the singulator 30. As can be seen, the retaining portion 42 of the retaining means 40 is guided in a slot 33 of the projections 32, and prevented in the two channels, in the illustration shown positioned between the two guide portions 43a, 43b, one in the receiving space above the

Separation device 30 arranged drug portion enters the channel region below the retaining portion 42. As a result, slipping further drug portions is prevented.

FIG. 6 shows a detailed view of the retaining means 40 with a central retaining section 42, at the outer ends of which two partial fastening sections 41a, 41b are arranged, which in turn each have a circular cylindrical section

Guide portion 43 a, 43 b, which can be performed in corresponding mounting receptacles 15 a, 15 b at the circular cylindrical portion 11 of the housing.

Figures 7a and 7b show two sectional views of a supply and discharge station with a second embodiment of the storage container according to the invention. The second embodiment corresponds substantially to the first embodiment, with the difference that the projections 32 have no slot for guiding the retaining portion 42 of the retaining means 40, but that the retaining means 40 on the top of the

Projections 32 is guided, and so the entry of a further drug portion at least in the channel 31 ', which at the

Dispensing opening 21 is aligned, is prevented. The further details with regard to the determination or arrangement of the

Restraining means correspond to those of the first embodiment, so that a repeated detailed description is dispensed with here.

Claims

claims

1. Storage container for a storage and dispensing station (1) for medicaments, comprising:

a receiving space (2) for drug portions

enclosing housing (10) having a circular cylindrical portion (11) and a bottom surface (20), the bottom surface having a discharge opening (21),

a in the circular cylindrical portion (11) of the

Housing (10) arranged singulation device (30) with at least one channel (31) for receiving at least one

Medicament portion, and

a completely within the receiving space (2)

enclosing housing (10, 11) arranged retaining means (40) having a mounting portion (41) and a

Retaining section (42),

wherein the retaining portion (42) is held above the discharge opening (21) and an entrance further

Prevents drug portions in a at the discharge opening (21) aligned channel (31), and

wherein the attachment portion (41) cooperates with at least one attachment receptacle (15a, 15b) within the housing (10) for securing the retention means (40) in the housing (10, 11).

2. Storage container for a storage and dispensing station (1) for medicaments according to claim 1, characterized in that the at least one attachment portion (41) of the

Retaining means (40) in such a way with the fastening receptacle (15a, 15b) within the housing (10, 11) cooperates, that the retaining portion (42) of the retaining means (40)

height adjustable is fixed.

3. storage container for a supply and dispensing station (1) for medicaments according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the at least one fastening receptacle (15a, 15b) in the circular cylindrical portion (11) of the housing (10)

is arranged.

4. storage container for a supply and dispensing station (1) for medicaments according to one of claims 1-3, characterized

characterized in that the at least one fastening receptacle (15a, 15b) has a cylindrical cavity and the

Mounting portion (41) has at least one cylindrical guide portion (43 a, 43 b) in the

cylindrical cavity of the fastening receptacle (15a, 15b) is arranged, wherein the cylindrical cavity is preferably deeper than the cylindrical guide portion (43a, 43b) is long.

5. Storage container for a storage and dispensing station (1) for medicaments according to one of claims 1 - 4, characterized

in that the fastening section (41) is formed in two parts and each partial fastening section (41a, 41b) cooperates with a fastening receptacle (15a, 15b).

6. Storage container for a storage and dispensing station (1) for medicaments according to claim 5, characterized in that the two part-mounting portions (41 a, 41 b) of the

Attachment portion (41) at outer end portions of the retaining portion (42) are arranged.

7. storage container for a supply and dispensing station (1) for medicaments according to claim 6, characterized in that in the fastening receptacle (15a, 15b) a return means is arranged, which presses the retaining means (40) in the direction of the discharge opening (21) ,