Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
  • G07F17/0092—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
  • G07F11/02—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines
  • G07F11/44—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which magazines the articles are stored in bulk

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a supply and
• Dispensing station for a blister machine for a blister machine
• Modern blister machines as disclosed, for example, in WO 2013/034504 AI, include, depending on the expansion stage of the blister machine, several hundred stock and
• corresponding supply and dispensing stations for dispensing one or more medicament portions are activated by means of a control device of the blister machine.
• composition is one with a separating device of the supply and dispensing station in a reservoir
• Dispensing opening a guide device of the blister machine passed.
• the dispensed drug portion optionally with the interposition of a collecting device, a packaging device is supplied, which blisters individual or multiple drug portions.
• the separating device arranged in a section of the storage container is usually designed in the form of a rotor which has a plurality of channels extending in the axial direction through the separating device.
• Above the singling device is a receiving space for the medicament portions to be separated.
• the separating device is rotated by a drive. The rotation of the separating device leads to co-rotation of at least a part of the stored in the reservoir
• Blister machines comprises a base part, over which the
• Supply and delivery station usually on one
• Blister machine is attached, at least one contact means with which the supply and dispensing station is electrically coupled to a blister machine and via which electrical charges are discharged to the blister, a arranged on the base reservoir, which is a
• receiving space for drug portions enclosing housing which has a circular cylindrical receiving space, a bottom surface and in the circular cylindrical receiving space comprising rotatably arranged singulating device with a plurality of extending in the axial direction through the singularizing means channels and a coupling means, and a drive for moving the singling device.
• Singling device at least one with to
• Conduction device is provided, via which the electrically conductive outer surface of the singulation device is electrically conductively coupled to the contact means.
• Separating device when separating or separating a medicament portion for co-rotating at least a portion of the stored in the reservoir drug portions. This leads to a friction between drug portions
• Singling device forms or has, be discharged. Reduction of electrostatic charge of
• Separation device causes that at the separation of the resulting drug dust no longer or only to a lesser extent adheres to this. This will clean the Separation device is facilitated and it is avoided that falling or entrained accumulations of drug dust from the supply and delivery station in other parts of the
• the singulator is in the
• a storage and dispensing station is electrically coupled to the blister machine, in such a way that electrical charges are discharged to the blister machine.
• the singling device With electrical coupling of the dispensing and storage station with a blister machine (via the contact means), the singling device is thus grounded.
• the contact means can be arranged in the base part or the storage container, which can be designed as a common component or as separate, connectable components.
• the blister machine according to the above-mentioned WO-font
• Dispensing stations the base part and the reservoir are designed as separate but couplable components, wherein the
• Reservoir can be plugged onto the base part.
• the base part is detachably connected to the blister machine, wherein electrical contacts between blister machine and
• Base part for example, a power supply for a drive and / or a line for a control unit of the supply and dispensing station, can be designed as a connector.
• the contact means is at least partially provided by means of a ground line, which is coupled to a motor of the drive, provided or designed as such.
• a ground line which is coupled to a motor of the drive, provided or designed as such.
• an already existing component or group of components namely the grounding of the motor of the drive, also used for discharging electric charges.
• ground line over which charges can be dissipated by the engine.
• the singulation device is electrically conductive at least in the case of the outer surface coming into contact with the medicament portions to be separated.
• the electrically conductive outer surface of the singling device is designed as a surface-conductive coating.
• Carrier material can be a cost-effective, non-conductive material can be used, and only in the areas that come into contact with drug portions to be separated, the be provided more costly conductive coating, which is then electrically conductively coupled via the conduit means with the contact means.
• Base body to apply an electrically conductive coating.
• the separating device at least in its electrically conductive outer surface of an electrically conductive
• conduit means via which the electrically conductive outer surface of the separating device is electrically conductively coupled to the contact means, via which the electrical charge is discharged to a blister machine.
• the contact element may be, for example, a type of spring contact which bears temporarily or permanently against the slip ring.
• the slip ring itself can be formed without interruption, but it is also possible that the slip ring is formed by various segments, which only temporarily in contact with the
• Contact element are. These segments can then be interconnected or individually, optionally under Interposition of a node to be coupled to the contact means.
• the aforementioned embodiment is structurally simple, but requires the provision or use of other components. In a preferred embodiment it is
• conduit means an electrical
• Outer surface of the separating device is electrically conductively coupled to the coupling means and wherein the motor is coupled to the contact means.
• existing components are designed to be conductive in such a way that the electrical charge of the singulation device can be dissipated via them.
• the engine of the drive of the supply and delivery station is usually via a line with the central
• the engine is also on the contact means with a blister machine
• the coupling with the contact means, via which the electrical charges are finally removed at the blister machine, can be produced by any means known to those skilled in the art.
• Figure 2 shows an oblique view of a storage container according to the first embodiment
• Figure 3 shows a sectional view of the reservoir according to the first embodiment
• Figure 4 shows a detail view of a singulator within a reservoir
• FIG. 5 shows a further sectional view of a storage container placed on a base part according to the first embodiment
• Figure 6 shows a sectional view of the first embodiment of the storage and dispensing station according to the invention
• Figure 7 is an exploded view of a transition of the singulator / drive in a second
• Embodiment shows
• Figure 8 is a sectional view of the second embodiment of
• Figures la and lb show oblique views of a first
• Supply and delivery station a base 100 and a Reservoir 200, which are designed as separate components in the first embodiment.
• the base part 100 is part of a composite of five base parts 100. In alternative embodiments
• the base parts can be carried out separately.
• the components mentioned in the following description of the base part 100 are each at each
• Base part 100 is present, regardless of whether they are composite (as in the figures la and lb) or carried out separately.
• Each base part 100 comprises a lower portion 130 and an upper portion 120.
• the upper portion 120 includes a projection 121, on which a reservoir 200 can be pushed.
• a lower housing portion of the reservoir 200 is adapted to the geometry of the projection 121.
• Dispensing station to a guide device within the
• the chute 140 extends through the base member 100 to the projection 121 in which an opening 123 for receiving a drug portion is formed.
• a contact means 124 is provided, with which the supply and
• Dispensing station is electrically coupled to the blister and over which electrical charges are discharged to the blister machine. In the embodiment shown this is
• Section of the base member 100 is arranged, in an alternative embodiment, the contact means 124 also in the
• End face portion of the lower portion 130 may be arranged.
• the contact means for example, as Plug or the like be executed. It is also possible, with appropriate design of the reservoir that
• blister machines are deliverable.
• a contact element 122 is arranged in the projection, which on the one hand is connected to the contact means 124 and on the other hand to the electrically conductive outer surface of a (not here
• singulating device is electrically coupled.
• the contact element is part of the conduit means.
• the conduit device can also be provided in such a way that the use of a contact element formed as a separate component is unnecessary (see embodiments described below).
• the position is not limited to the illustrated, the contact element may also be formed outside of the projection.
• Figure 2 shows an oblique view of the storage container according to the first embodiment of the storage and dispensing station according to the invention.
• the first embodiment the first embodiment
• the storage container 200 comprises a housing 210 with a housing (in FIG. 3)
• the reservoir 200 further includes a lid 213, which among other things to
• FIG. 3 shows a sectional view of the storage container according to the first embodiment.
• the Singulation device 230 is formed as a kind of rotor having a plurality of protrusions 234 and channels 235, which extend in the axial direction through the singulator 230.
• the channels 235 are defined by the projections 234 on a central component of the singulator 230, so that the channels are open to the outer periphery of the singulator.
• the singulator 230 includes a central conical top surface 232 which defines, together with the housing 210, a medicament portion receiving space 202.
• a step is formed between the conical top surface 232 and the protrusions 234 so that a type of annulus is formed in the region above the channels and the protrusions.
• a corresponding annulus can be used for drug portions with a particular shape
• the bottom surface 220 has a discharge opening 221, via which separated drug portions through an opening 123 in the projection 121 of the base member 100 (see Figure la) of the chute 140 are supplied ,
• Section 211 of the housing 210 provided an opening. The function of the restraint, and in particular the
• Retaining portion it is to retain in the receiving space 202 disposed above the discharge port drug portions when a channel 235 is aligned with the discharge port 221.
• Drug portions containing channel is moved via the discharge opening 221, so that the defined number of Medicament portions can be discharged from the aligned channel.
• the retaining portion 216 prevents
• Overlying drug portions are also delivered, so as to ensure that always only the arranged in a channel number of drug portions is delivered.
• Separation device 230 further comprises a coupling means 240, with which the singulation device 230 can be coupled to a drive, via which the singling device can be rotated for separating medicament portions.
• the coupling means is designed as a separate component, but alternatively it can also be provided that the coupling means is an integral part of the singulation device 230.
• the singling device is electrically conductive at least in its outer surface which comes into contact with the medicament portions to be separated.
• Singling device has a surface conductive coating 231.
• Conduction device arranged in the singulation device 230 contact element 236, 237th
• the projections 245 terminate below the opening of the receiving space 211, so that a kind of annulus is formed over this.
• medicament portions can enter the channels from the side.
• the exact configuration of the receiving space and the separating device is dependent on the medicament portions to be separated.
• Contact element is an electrical coupling with a disposed in the bottom surface 220 and / or the receiving portion 217 slip ring 222, 215 produced.
• the arrangement of the aforementioned slip rings in the bottom surface 220 and the receiving portion 217 is illustrated in Figures 5 and 6.
• FIG. 5 shows a further sectional view of a storage container according to the first attached to a base part
• FIG. 6 shows a sectional view of FIG
• FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate, in particular, the coupling between the base part 100 and the storage container 200 designed as separate components.
• the storage container 200 is pushed at its lower portion 212 onto the projection 121 of the base part 100, to which end the lower section 212 accordingly
• Figure 6 further illustrates the coupling between the singulator 230 and one in the base part
• the drive comprises a motor 112, a drive shaft 111 and a drive hub 110.
• An outer contour of the drive hub 110 interacts non-positively with an inner contour of the coupling means 240 which, in turn, interacts with the singulation device itself via a corresponding connection.
• the coupling means 240 may be an integral part of
• Singling device 230 be.
• the singulator 230 is shown in Figures 5 and 6 in a dispensing position.
• a channel is at the
• the retaining portion 216 of the retaining element 215 is inserted into the annulus and ensures that no further
• FIG. 7 shows an exploded view of the transition
• Dispensing station In an opening in the projection 121 of the upper portion of the base part, the outer contour of the drive hub 110 can be seen. Over this, the coupling means 240 can be seen and above this the separating device 230. Also in this embodiment, the coupling means 240 is formed as a separate component with respect to the separating device 230.
• FIG. 8 shows a sectional view through the second
• the contact means is used in this case, inter alia, as a power supply for the electric motor 112. Further, via the contact means further components in the interior of the base part or of the reservoir with a (not shown).
• the electric motor 112 comprises a drive shaft 111 which ends in a drive hub 110.
• the drive hub 110 has an outer contour (see FIG. 7) which is positively connected and releasable with an inner contour 241 of the coupling means 240
• the coupling means 240 is (releasably) connected to the singulator.
• Coupling means 240 of the singulator ensures that the reservoir can be easily removed from the base part without further work steps.
• the coupling means separately formed with respect to the singulator 230, at a lift but remains a connection between the coupling means 240 and singulator.
• Conduction device is provided, via which the electrically conductive outer surface 231 of the singulation device 230 is electrically conductively coupled to the contact means.
• the coupling means 240, the drive hub 110, the drive shaft 111, and the electric motor 110 constitute components of the conduit means.
• the coupling means 240 is electrically conductive and conductive with the electrically conductive outer surface 231 of
• Singulation device 230 connected. This can be achieved, for example, by using a singulator made entirely of a conductive material
• leads may be provided from the outer surface to the coupling means.
• the drive hub and the drive shaft are also electrically conductive, with what has been said above with regard to the exact execution.
• Electrostatic charge can over the outer surface of the
• Separation device to the coupling means are discharged from there to drive hub and drive shaft.
• Drive shaft is the charge via the engine and the line 113th can be discharged to the contact means 124, via which the charge is finally discharged to the blister machine or
• Components of the reservoir are virtually grounded on the blister machine.

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