JPH07108682B2 - Drug supply device of drug packing machine - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a drug supply device for a drug packing machine.

[Prior Art] Generally, a medicine packing machine is provided with a large number of tablet feeders and a packing apparatus for packing the tablets discharged from each tablet feeder by an arbitrary number of tablets. There is one that is installed in a drawer and is configured such that each drawer can be pulled out from the housing.

Many kinds of medicines handled by this kind of medicine packing machine are prescribed relatively often, and the more frequently the tablets contained in each tablet feeder are prescribed, the medicine packing machine It contributes to efficient automation of labor and labor saving.

On the other hand, some chemicals require strict management because they are dangerous to use, and some have severe storage conditions such as temperature and humidity.These special chemicals are used by pharmacists and other dispensing workers. Since it must be handled carefully by hand, it is not handled by the medicine packing machine.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, no matter how special a medicine is, manual dispensing from the beginning to the end of the dispensing operation is
As compared with the case of using the medicine packing machine, there are problems that it is extremely troublesome and inefficient.

The present invention solves the problems of the above-mentioned conventional ones, and can dispense a drug which has conventionally been required to be manually dispensed by a dispensing worker such as a pharmacist using a drug dispensing machine. It is an object of the present invention to provide a drug supply device for such a drug packing machine.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention includes a tablet storage case containing a large number of tablet feeders, and a packaging device for packaging tablets discharged from any tablet feeder, In a medicine packing machine adapted to take out each tablet feeder from the tablet storage room to the front to perform tablet refilling work, a medicine sprinkling device is provided below the tablet storage room so as to be able to be pulled out forward, and prescription And a means for automatically pulling out the hand-spreading device from the housing when it is determined to be a hand-sewn prescription.

[Operation] By adopting the above-described means, the present invention employs the above-mentioned means, and when the prescription is determined to be a hand-dispensing prescription, the hand-dispensing device is automatically pulled out from the housing. When handling a drug that had to be used, a dispensing operator such as a pharmacist simply dispenses the drug onto an automatically dispensed dispensing device, and subsequent dispensing (packing) work is performed. It will be automatically performed by the medicine packing machine.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention shown in the drawings will be described below.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, in which the medicine packing machine 1 is
Each of the drawers 2 is constructed so that it can be pulled out to the front when viewed from the front by pulling the handle 3 provided on the front panel thereof by hand.

As shown in FIG. 2, each drawer 2 is provided with a plurality of shelves 4, 4, ... On both left and right sides (only one surface is shown), and each shelving 4 has a plurality of tablet feeders 5, 5 ,. …
Is installed. The tablets discharged from the tablet feeders 5 are designed to drop downward through chutes (not shown) provided between the left and right shelves of the drawer 2. Therefore, the upper part of the medicine packing machine 1 provided with these drawers 2, 2, ... Composes a tablet storage box accommodating a large number of tablet feeders 5, 5 ,.

The medicine packing machine 1 also has a packing device 6 below the drawers 2, 2, ..., and the tablets discharged from all the tablet feeders 5, 5, ... Installed in the drawers 2, 2 ,. , Hopper 7
It is introduced into the packaging device 6 via the, and is packaged by an arbitrary number of tablets.

The medicine packing machine 1 further comprises a hand-spreading device 8 that can be pulled out similarly to the drawers 2, 2, ... Below, and the hand-spreading device 8 can hold an arbitrary medicine, for example, three times a day. It can be taken daily, or three times a day for 14 days, or any other appropriate dose.

Then, when the medicine sprinkled on the sprinkling device 8 is also sequentially discharged from the sprinkling device 8 one by one, it is introduced into the packaging device 6 through the hopper 7 and is packaged one by one. It is like this.

As shown in FIG. 3, the medicine packing machine 1 is provided with a prescription accepting device 9 that accepts a prescription input from an appropriate input device, and the prescription accepting device 9 sends the accepted prescription to each drawer 2. It is divided into two, ..., And transmitted to the operating device 10 of the corresponding drawer body 2 so that the tablet feeder 5 corresponding to the prescription performs the tablet discharging operation.

Further, when the prescription accepting device 9 is not housed in any of the tablet feeders 5, 5, ... Of the drawers 2, 2, ... And receives the prescription of the medicine to be handed, the prescription (hand The spraying prescription) is transmitted to the processing device 11.

The processing device 11 automatically pulls out the hand spraying device 8 when the hand spraying prescription or the end of the prescription is notified, and when the switch 12 is operated by an operator such as a pharmacist, the processing device 11 automatically operates the hand spraying device 8. It is designed to be pushed into.

That is, the processing device 11 operates as follows.

First, when the hand-made prescription is transmitted from the prescription acceptance device 9,
The hand-spreading device 8 is automatically pulled out.

Next, when a worker such as a pharmacist sprinkles a medicine corresponding to the hand-spreading prescription on a predetermined position of the hand-spreading device 8 pulled out, and the switch 12 is operated, the processing device is operated.
11, the hand-spreading device 8 is automatically pushed to the storage position.

Next, when the medicine discharging operation from the hand-spreading device 8 by the hand-spreading prescription is completed, the processing device 11 automatically pulls out the hand-spreading device 8 again.

Then, when the operator, such as a pharmacist, confirms whether or not the discharged state of the medicine from the hand-spreading device 8 is checked, and the switch 12 is operated, the processing device 11 automatically restarts the hand-spreading device 8 again. It is configured to be pushed to the retracted position to complete one cycle of operation.

Further, the medicine packaging machine 1 is provided with a clarification device 13 that clearly indicates the content of the medicine to be sprinkled (name of medicine, total amount, number of divisions, dose, etc.).

The clarification device 13 is configured by a printing device such as a printer or a display device such as an LCD, and when the prescription acceptance device 9 is informed of the manual prescription, the content of the medicine to be clarified by the prescription is specified, It is designed to inform pharmacists and other dispensing workers.

Next, the operation of the above will be described.

First, when the prescription inputted by an appropriate input device is transmitted to the medicine packing machine 1, the prescription is transmitted to the actuating device 10 of the corresponding drawer 2 by the prescription accepting device 9 and also as a hand-dispensed prescription. If there is, it is transmitted to the processing device 11.

When the prescription is the prescription of the tablet accommodated in any one of the tablet feeders 5 of the drawer body 2, the actuating device 10 of the drawer body 2 operates the tablet feeder 5 corresponding to the prescription. Then, the tablets discharged from the tablet feeder 5 by a predetermined number of tablets are transferred to the packaging device 6 via the hopper 7.
Then, the packaging device 6 packages the tablets by a predetermined number of tablets.

If the prescription is a hand-made prescription, the processing device 11
However, first, the hand-spreading device 8 is automatically pulled out, and at the same time, the specifying device 13 causes the contents of the drug (medicine name, total amount, number of divisions, 1
Specify the amount, etc.).

Next, when a worker such as a pharmacist sprinkles a medicine corresponding to the hand-spreading prescription on a predetermined position of the hand-spreading device 8 pulled out, and the switch 12 is operated, the processing device 11 The hand spreading device 8 is automatically pushed to the storage position.

Then, in this state, the processing device 11 sequentially discharges the medicine sprinkled on the sprinkling device 8 one by one according to the prescription, and the medicine discharged from the sprinkling device 8 is packaged via the hopper 7. Introduced into the device 6, 1 by the packaging device 6
It will be packaged in batches.

Next, when the medicine discharging operation from the hand-spreading device 8 by the hand-spreading prescription is completed, the processing device 11 automatically pulls the hand-spreading device 8 again.

Then, when a worker such as a pharmacist confirms the discharged state of the medicine from the hand-spreading device 8 that has been pulled out, and when the switch 12 is operated, the processing device 11 automatically restarts the hand-spreading device 8 again. Pushing to the retracted position completes one cycle of operation.

Therefore, the dispensing device 8 dispenses a special medicine that a pharmacist or the like must handle carefully by hand.
Dispensing (separation) work after that is done simply by
It will be automatically performed by the medicine packing machine 1.

In addition, the prescribed drug is used in any of the tablet feeders 5.
And the one to be hand-dispersed by the hand-dispersing device 8, both can be packaged in combination with each other, for example, as adjacent sachets for each dosing period. .

In the above embodiment, a plurality of stages of shelves 4, 4, ... Are provided on both left and right sides of each drawer 2, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, each drawer 2 is formed to have a narrow width. A plurality of shelves 4, 4, ... Can be provided on only one side and the tablet feeders 5, 5, ... Can be installed on them, or the tablet feeders 5, 5 ,. As long as they are provided, the tablet storage does not necessarily have to be configured as the drawer bodies 2, 2, ... As illustrated.

In order to inform the operator when the hand-spreading device 8 is pulled out, for example, an appropriate display device can be provided to turn it on or blink, or an appropriate alarm sound can be generated.

Furthermore, although the medicine packing machine including the tablet feeder 5 has been described in the above embodiment, the invention is not limited to this.
It is needless to say that the present invention can be applied to a medicine packing machine equipped with various medicine feeders including an appropriate powder feeder, and that the present invention can be variously modified and modified in the above embodiment.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION Since the present invention is configured as described above, when handling a medicine that conventionally requires manual dispensing work, a dispensing operator such as a pharmacist uses the dispenser to dispense the medicine. It only needs to be sprinkled, and when the prescription is determined to be a hand-spreading prescription, the sprinkling device is automatically pulled out from the housing, so there is no need to pull out the sprinkling device. The subsequent dispensing (packing) work of the medicine sprinkled on the hand-spreading device can be automatically performed by the medicine dispensing machine, so that the dispensing work of the medicine is manually dispensed from the beginning to the end. Compared to the case
Dispensing can be performed simply and efficiently, and the direction in which each tablet feeder is taken out when performing tablet refilling work and the direction in which the hand-spreading device is automatically pulled out when performing manual sprinkling work of the drug are both Also, since it is common to the front of the tablet storage, it is very easy for the operator to perform the tablet refilling work and the drug sprinkling work. Therefore, as a whole, Further, it has excellent effects such as improvement of work efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view showing a state in which the drawer body of FIG. 1 is pulled out, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of essential parts. 1 ... drug dispensing machine, 2 ... drawer, 3 ... handle, 4 ... shelf, 5 ... tablet feeder, 6 ... packaging device, 7 ... hopper, 8 ... spreading device, 9 ... prescription acceptance device , 10 …… Actuator 11 …… Processor, 12 …… Switch 13 …… Explicit device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A tablet storage container containing a large number of tablet feeders, and a packaging device for packaging tablets discharged from any tablet feeder, and each tablet feeder is taken out from the tablet storage container to the front and tablets are packed. In the medicine packing machine that has started to perform replenishment work, a medicine sprinkling device is provided so as to be able to be pulled out forward under the tablet storage box, and a means for judging a prescription and a hand sprinkling prescription are determined. And a means for automatically pulling out the hand-spreading device from the case when the medicine-supplying device is provided.