JP2002068102A - Selective feeder for drug - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple structural and selective feeder for drug which can discriminate the supplied part of cassettes securely. SOLUTION: On the cassettes mounted in the vertically same level in a plurality of cassette applied parts which are arranged vertically and horizontally, a visually distinguishable common level discrimination information is put thereon so that the vertically common step cassettes can be visually distinguished from the cassettes mounted on the different vertical position, and on the cassettes mounted on the same horizontal row in the plural cassette applied parts, the common applied level discrimination information which can be visually distinguished from the cassettes mounted on the different horizontal position is affixed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of supporting a plurality of cassettes for accommodating a medicine, selecting any one of the plurality of cassettes, and discharging a predetermined amount of the medicine accommodated in the selected cassette. The present invention relates to a drug selection and supply device configured to be capable of performing the above-described operations.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A medicine selecting and supplying apparatus is provided in which a plurality of base members are provided on a support frame such as a drum in multiple stages in a vertical direction and in multiple rows in a horizontal direction, and a cassette is detachably attached to each of the multiple base members. Has been widely used.
The cassette contains a medicine such as a tablet, a powdered medicine or a liquid medicine. For example, when the cassette is for storing tablets, the cassette is provided with a tablet aligning roller configured to discharge the stored tablets by a predetermined amount according to the rotation, and the cassette is provided with When mounted on the base member, a rotational driving force is transmitted to the roller.

[0003] In the drug selective supply device, for example,
When discharging a certain medicine, one base member on which a cassette containing the one medicine is mounted is selectively driven via an operation device. Thereby, the roller of one cassette mounted on the one base member rotates, and one medicine is discharged from the one cassette by a predetermined amount.

That is, in the above-mentioned medicine selective supply device,
One cassette and one base member correspond one-to-one. Therefore, when one cassette is removed for refilling or replenishing the medicine, it is necessary to re-attach the one cassette to the corresponding base member.

Various proposals have conventionally been made to prevent such erroneous mounting of the cassette on the base member. For example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 4-49044 discloses a set of numbers for setting a shelf number and a loading point number by inserting a pin into a specific hole on a contact surface of a cassette with a base member. In the case where a set of fitting holes facing the holes of the set of number setting portions is provided on the contact surface of the base member with the cassette, and the cassette is mounted on the corresponding base member. In the medicine container, the pin is inserted into the fitting hole of the base member, whereby the connector between the cassette and the base member is connected, and the cassette and the base member are electrically connected. A container is disclosed.

However, the one described in the above publication is
The fitting / non-fitting of the abutting surfaces of the base member and the cassette prevents erroneous mounting of the cassette. Attach one of the removed cassettes to any of the actually vacant base members. Otherwise, there is an inconvenience that the mounting position of the one cassette cannot be determined. That is, for example, when a plurality of cassettes need to be replenished at the same time, and the plurality of cassettes are removed from the corresponding base member, in the one described in the above-mentioned publication, Then, it is necessary to search for a base member to be fitted with a pin by sequentially mounting the base member on an empty base member.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and is intended for mounting a detached cassette on a vacant base member when re-attaching the detached cassette to a corresponding base member. It is an object of the present invention to provide a medicine selecting / supplying device having a simple structure capable of reliably determining the mounting position of the cassette without trying.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a support base having a plurality of cassette mounting points aligned vertically and horizontally, and a cassette mounting point on the support base. A plurality of cassettes that are removably mounted on the cassette, select any one of the plurality of cassette mounting locations, and select a cassette mounted on the selected one of the cassette mounting locations. A medicine selecting / supplying device configured to discharge an arbitrary amount of medicine to be accommodated, wherein, among the plurality of cassette mounting points, cassettes mounted in the same vertical direction are mounted at different vertical positions. The cassette has common mounting stage identification information capable of visually distinguishing the cassette from the cassette, and among the plurality of cassette mounting locations, the cassette mounted in the same horizontal row is Providing with that drug selection supply apparatus having a common mounting column identification information capable of visual discrimination between Casetta mounted on different horizontal position.

In one embodiment, one of the mounting stage identification information and the mounting column identification information is a color assigned to a cassette, and the other of the stage position identification information and the column position identification information is a color of the cassette. May be formed by at least one element of the color, quantity, or shape of the mark attached to the mark.

In a different aspect, the mounting stage identification information and the mounting column identification information are formed by marks attached to the cassette, and the mounting stage identification information includes any one of a color, a quantity, and a shape of the mark. The step position can be identified by one of the elements, and the mounting row identification information can identify the row position by another element of the color, quantity or shape of the mark.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A preferred embodiment of a drug selection and supply device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a medicine selective supply device 1 according to the present embodiment. The drug selective supply device 1
Is a support pedestal having a plurality of cassette mounting points aligned vertically and horizontally (not shown in FIG. 1)
And a plurality of cassettes 10 which are detachably attached to each of the cassette attachment locations on the support base. In addition, in the medicine selective supply device 1 shown in FIG.
A pair of drum-shaped support bases are provided. Fig. 2 (a)
2B and 2B are a partial plan view and a partial side view, respectively, of one part of the support gantry 100. 3 (a) and 3 (b)
3A and 3B are a plan view and a side view of the cassette 10, respectively, showing a state when the cassette 10 is not mounted.

The support gantry 100 has a plurality of cassette mounting points aligned vertically and horizontally. Specifically, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the support gantry 100 is provided with a plurality of base members 110 that are vertically and horizontally aligned, and through the base members 110, The cassette 10 is detachably mounted on the support base 100. That is, the base member 110 provided on the support base 100 forms a cassette mounting portion. In the medicine selection and supply device 1 shown in FIG. 1, each support base 100 is composed of eight stages in the vertical direction, and a total of 256
It has 512 cassette mounting points, and the entire apparatus has 512 cassette mounting points.

The base member 110 is provided so as to protrude outward from the support frame 100 such as a drum.
Is provided. In the present embodiment, the base member 110 is detachably mounted on the support base 100 by fastening means such as bolts, but instead of this,
It is also possible to provide the base member on the support base so as not to be detachable.

More specifically, the base member 110 includes a mounting portion 111 on which the cassette 10 is mounted, and a mounting portion 1 on which the cassette 10 is mounted.
A contact portion 112 extending upward from the contact portion 112;
And a pair of guide pieces 113 extending to the opposite side to the mounting portion 111 from above, so that a space extending in the vertical direction is formed by the pair of guide pieces 113 and the surface of the support base 100, It is mounted on the support frame 100.

The space extending in the vertical direction is provided with a guide path 3 for guiding the medicine dispensed from the cassette 10 to a hopper (not shown) disposed below the support base 100.
It becomes 0. That is, in the present embodiment,
A guide path for guiding the medicine discharged from the cassette 10 to a hopper disposed below the support frame such as a drum is not formed inside the support frame, but is formed between the base member 110 and the surface of the support frame 100. It is formed by. Therefore, the base member 110 is connected to the support base 10.
If the guide path 30 is detachable with respect to the guide path 30, the guide path 30 can be easily cleaned.

That is, since the medicine passes through the guide path 30, a medicine coating member or the like adheres to the guide path 30. Therefore, the guideway needs to be cleaned.
For example, if the guideway is formed inside a support base, for example, inside a drum, the drum needs to be disassembled for cleaning the guideway.

On the other hand, as in the present embodiment, the base member 110 is made detachable from the support gantry 100 while the guide member 113 of the base member 110 and the surface of the support gantry 100 guide the guide member. If the path 30 is formed, the guide path 30 can be cleaned without disassembling the support base 100.

Further, when the guide path is formed inside a support base such as a drum, it is necessary to form a communication hole on the surface of the support base for communicating the discharge port of the medicine container with the guide path, Although the manufacturing cost of the support gantry will increase, such an inconvenience does not occur in the present embodiment.

The base member 110 is mounted on the mounting portion 11.
1, a drive shaft 115 whose lower end is supported by the motor 111 so as to be relatively non-rotatable and whose upper end extends upward from the upper surface of the mounting portion 111, and an upper end of the drive shaft 115. And a drive gear 116 that is supported so as not to rotate relatively.

In the present embodiment, the cassette 1
0 is configured so that the stored tablets can be discharged every predetermined number. That is, the cassette 10 includes a medicine container 11 having an upper opening, a medicine aligning roller 12 disposed in the medicine container, and a lid member 13 for detachably closing the upper opening of the medicine container. The medicine to be stored can be discharged at predetermined intervals according to the rotation of the roller 12.

The medicine aligning roller 12 has a rotating shaft 12
a, a roller body 12b supported by the rotation shaft 12a so as to be relatively non-rotatable, and a drive gear 26 of the base member supported by the lower end of the rotation shaft 12a so as to be relatively non-rotatable and mounted to the base member. And a driven gear 12c that meshes. That is, the cassette 10 is
In the mounting state, the driving force from the base member 110 can be received. Therefore, cassette 1
When the drive gear of one base member is rotated via an operating device or the like in a state in which 0 is attached to the base member, the medicine aligning roller 12 of the cassette rotates accordingly, and the peripheral edge of the roller is rotated. Are discharged from a discharge port (not shown) provided on the bottom wall of the medicine container 11. In addition, the tablets discharged from the cassette 10 are guided to the guide path 30 via the communication path 31 formed in the base member 110.

FIG. 4 is an exploded front view of the support base 100 with the cassette 10 mounted. As shown in FIG. 4, among the plurality of cassette mounting locations, a cassette mounted at the same position in the vertical direction (the same level) is visually distinguished from a cassette mounted at a different vertical position (different level). The same mounting position in the horizontal direction (same column) among the plurality of cassette mounting positions.
Has common mounting row identification information that allows visual identification with cassettes mounted at different horizontal positions (different rows). In FIG. 5, the cassette mounted on the m-th stage from the top and the n-th column from the left is denoted by reference numeral 10 (mn), and the mark attached to each cassette is denoted by 50 (mn).

In this embodiment, the colors of the marks attached to the plurality of cassettes are used as the mounting stage identification information, and the shape of the marks is used as the mounting row identification information. Specifically, the color of the mark attached to the cassette is different for each mounting stage of the cassette on the support base, and the shape is different for each mounting row.

For example, the cassettes 10 (1-1), 10 (1-2), 10 (1-3), 10 (1-4),
… Marks 50 (1-1), 50 (1-)
2), 50 (1-3), 50 (1-4),... Are the first colors (shown in white in FIG. 4), and the cassette 10 (2-1) mounted on the second stage , 10 (2-2), 10 (2-3), 10 (2-4), ...
Mark 50 (2-1), 50 (2-2), 50 (2-3), 50 (2-
4),... Indicate a second color (shown by oblique lines in FIG. 4) different from the first color, and the cassettes 10 (3-1) and 10 (3-2) mounted on the third stage. , 10 (3-3), 10 (3-4),
The mark is a third color (shown in black in FIG. 4) different from the first and second colors.
Then, the cassettes 10 (1-1), 10 (2-1), 10 (2-1), which are mounted on the mounting positions in the mounting positions in the first row (the left end in FIG. 4).
Marks of 10 (3-1), 10 (4-1), ... 50 (1-1), 5
, 0 (2-1), 50 (3-1), 50 (4-1),... Are mounted in the first shape (in FIG. 4, a shape) and in the second to fourth rows. The cassette marks have second, third, and fourth shapes, respectively (in FIG. 4, □, △, and そ れ ぞ れ shapes).

Therefore, even if one cassette is removed due to supply of a medicine or the like, the color and the shape of the mark attached to the one cassette indicate that the one cassette is in a plurality of positions on the support base. It can be surely known in which stage of the mounting position the object should be mounted and in which row.

As described above, in the medicine selecting and supplying device 1 according to the present embodiment, the cassettes mounted in the same vertical direction can visually distinguish the cassettes mounted in different vertical positions. The cassettes mounted in the same row in the horizontal direction have the same mounting stage identification information and the mounting row identification information sharing the visual identification with the cassettes mounted in different horizontal positions. Therefore, it is possible to determine at which of the plurality of mounting positions of the detached cassette 10 the mounting frame should be mounted on the support base 100 without attempting to mount the cassette to the vacant base member 110.
It is possible to reliably determine.

Furthermore, even if the cassette 10 is erroneously mounted, such erroneous mounting can be reliably detected. That is, for example, in the form shown in FIG.
Cassette 10 (1-1) to be mounted on the first row and first row
Is attached to the second row. In this case, the cassettes 10 (1-1), 10 (2-2), 10 (2-3),
Of the 10 (2-4),..., Only the cassette 10 (1-1) has a red mark. Therefore, the cassette 1
It is immediately found that 0 (1-1) is incorrectly attached.

In this embodiment, the position and row position of the cassette are identified by the color and shape of the mark 50 attached to each cassette, but the present invention is not limited to this. It is not limited to such a form. That is, by changing any one element of the color, the number, or the shape of the mark for each mounting row, and making the other element different for each mounting row, the mounting row position and the mounting row position of each cassette can be changed. Can be identified.

Further, a different color 51 is applied to the cassette for each mounting stage or mounting row, so that one of the mounting stage or the mounting row can be identified by the color 51 of the cassette, and the shape of the mark 50 attached to the cassette can be identified. , Quantity or color, the other of the mounting stages or rows can be identified. FIG. 5 illustrates a mode in which different colors 51 (1), 51 (2), and 51 (3) are applied to the cassette 10 for each mounting stage, and the number of marks 50 is different for each mounting row.

In each of the above embodiments, a drum has been described as an example of the support frame 100. However, various types of support frames such as a shelf-type support frame and a drawer-type support frame may be used instead of the drum. Can be used. or,
In each of the above-described embodiments, the case where the cassette 10 accommodates tablets and discharges the accommodated tablets every predetermined number has been described as an example, but the present invention is not limited to such an embodiment. The present invention can also be applied to a case in which the cassette accommodates a powdered medicine or liquid medicine and can discharge the stored powdered medicine or liquid medicine at predetermined intervals.

[0031]

According to the medicine selection and supply device of the present invention, of the plurality of cassette mounting portions on the support base,
Cassettes mounted in the same vertical direction have common mounting stage identification information that enables visual identification with cassettes mounted in different vertical positions, and among the plurality of cassette mounting locations. The cassettes mounted on the same row in the horizontal direction have common mounting row identification information that enables visual identification with cassettes mounted on different horizontal positions, so that the In addition, it is possible to effectively prevent the one cassette from being erroneously mounted when the one cassette is removed and then remounted. Furthermore, even if the cassette is erroneously mounted, only the erroneously mounted cassette has different mounting stage identification information or mounting column identification information when viewed from each stage or each column. Therefore, such erroneous mounting of the cassette can be found at a glance.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of a drug selective supply device according to the present invention.

FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b) are a partial plan view and a partial side view, respectively, of a support gantry in the medicine selection and supply device shown in FIG. 1, showing a state where a plurality of cassettes are mounted. I have.

FIGS. 3 (a) and 3 (b) are a plan view and a side view, respectively, of a cassette in the drug selective supply device shown in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is an exploded front view of a support base in the medicine selective supply device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is an exploded front view of a support base in a different embodiment of the medicine selective supply device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Drug selection and supply apparatus 10 Cassette 50 Mark 100 Support gantry 110 Base member

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A support base having a plurality of cassette mounting locations aligned vertically and horizontally, and a plurality of cassettes removably mounted at each of the cassette mounting locations on the support base. A drug configured to select an arbitrary one of the cassette mounting locations from among the cassette mounting locations, and to discharge an arbitrary amount of the drug contained from the cassette mounted on the selected one cassette mounting location. A selection and supply device, wherein among the plurality of cassette mounting locations, a cassette mounted in the same vertical direction is a common mounting stage identification capable of visually distinguishing a cassette mounted in a different vertical position. Among the plurality of cassette mounting locations, the cassettes mounted in the same horizontal row are visually different from the cassettes mounted in different horizontal positions. Drug selection supply apparatus characterized in that it has a common mounting column identification information that can identify. 2. One of the mounting stage identification information and the mounting column identification information is a color assigned to a cassette, and the other of the step position identification information and the row position identification information is assigned to the cassette. 2. The medicine selection and supply device according to claim 1, wherein the medicine selection and supply device is formed by at least one of a color, a quantity, and a shape of a mark. 3. The mounting stage identification information and the mounting column identification information are formed by a mark attached to the cassette, and the mounting stage identification information is any one of a color, a quantity, and a shape of the mark. 2. The medicine according to claim 1, wherein the row position is identifiable by an element, and the mounting row identification information is identifiable by another element of the color, quantity or shape of the mark. Selective feeding device.