Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090184128 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PACKING PRESCRIPTION PACKAGES AND PRESCRIPTION PACKAGE BOX - According to one embodiment a prescription package supplier is provided for cutting prescription packages successively discharged from an automatic prescribed-medicament packing machine and supplying them, the automatic prescribed-medicament packing machine successively packing medicaments prepared according to a physician's or pharmacist's prescription, dose by dose, and a prescription package receiver for accommodating the prescription packages supplied from the prescription package supplier in a prescription package box. The prescription boxes are then discharged. According to another embodiment, a method for automatically packing prescription packages is provided. According to yet another embodiment, a prescription package box in which separate prescription packages are packed by the automatic prescription package packing apparatus is provided. | 07-23-2009 |
20100043351 | AUTOMATIC MEDICINE PACKING MACHINE WITH CLEANING DEVICE - Disclosed is an automatic medicine packing machine having a cleaning device for automatically cleaning dust generated in the packing machine while packing successively various medicines dose by dose. An automatic medicine packing machine includes a plurality of cassettes arranged in an upper portion of a body to receive medicines of various sizes and shapes, a hopper assembly arranged in a lower portion of the body to collect medicines discharged from the cassettes, a hopper mounting unit for mounting the hopper assembly to a lower portion of a frame of the body to be openable, a packing device for packing the medicines collected by the hopper assembly, and a hopper cleaning device for sucking dust generated from the hopper assembly during a medicine packing process to clean an interior of the hopper assembly. | 02-25-2010 |
20100085428 | MEDICINE PACKET INSPECTING APPARATUS - A medicine packet inspecting apparatus is disclosed. The medicine packet inspecting apparatus includes a transfer conveyer installed on the upper surface of a main body to transfer medicine packets to one side of the main body, a tablet spreading unit installed on the upper surface of the transfer conveyer to uniformly spread tablets within the medicine packets, an image reading unit to capture the upper surfaces of the medicine packets with a camera and to judge whether or not the tablets are defective through comparison of the captured images with information regarding a prescription and the tablets stored in a data storage unit, and a making unit to mark a defective sign on medicine packets if the tablets within the medicine packets are judged to be defective. | 04-08-2010 |
20100116837 | MEDICINE DISCHARGE DEVICE OF AUTOMATIC MEDICINE PACKING MACHINE - Disclosed is a medicine discharge device of an automatic medicine packing machine, which is used to discharge a medicine, fed from a medicine cassette based on a medical prescription, into a medicine packing device. The medicine discharge device includes a medicine input unit installed under a medicine cassette mount to receive the medicine fed from the medicine cassette, a frame provided with a gate unit, the gate unit including gate members to be opened or closed by a drive unit so as to control movement of the medicine discharged from the medicine input unit, a plate installed under the frame and having an accommodation portion to receive the medicine and a recess to allow the medicine to be moved from the gate members to a discharge passage, a vibrator to vibrate the plate, and a medicine transfer unit to discharge the medicine, having passed through the recess, into a hopper. | 05-13-2010 |
20100170206 | MEDICINE POUCH ARRANGING DEVICE - Disclosed is a medicine pouch arranging device capable of uniformly spreading tablets of medicine packed in a medicine pouch, enabling inspection to determine whether a correct medicine has been packed in a series of medicine pouches which have been automatically packed on a per dose basis and successively discharged from an automatic medicine packing machine. The medicine pouch arranging device includes a transfer roller to transfer the medicine pouches, a guide plate to support the medicine pouches that are being transferred thereon, the guide plate having at least one opening, a vibrator to vibrate each of the medicine pouches that are being transferred on the guide plate by applying shock or vibration to the medicine pouch, and a sponge roller arranged above the guide plate to press each of the medicine pouches so that some vertically or obliquely erected tablets of medicine packed in the medicine pouch are laid flat. | 07-08-2010 |
20100300041 | AUTOMATED MEDICINE STORAGE AND MEDICINE INTRODUCTION/DISCHARGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is an automated medicine storage and medicine introduction/discharge management system, which includes a main body in which a plurality of receiving shelves is arranged, the main body having a door to enable user access, a medicine introduction/discharge unit installed in one side region of the main body to introduce or discharge a medicine product into or out of the main body, a robot transfer unit installed in the main body to transfer the medicine product, introduced via the medicine introduction/discharge unit, to each receiving space of the main body, or to discharge the medicine product received in the receiving space, and a control unit to control operations of the main body, the medicine introduction/discharge unit, and the robot transfer unit. The system is able to store a variety of medicine in a single main body and to achieve enhanced security for special medicine and efficient management of stock. | 12-02-2010 |
20110157342 | MEDICINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a medicine management system wherein a camera is installed in a camera tube to acquire a good-quality medicine image, thereby improving recognition efficiency. A method of setting the camera of the medicine image capturing device includes extracting a jig block from a medicine image captured by the medicine image capturing device, analyzing image elements of the jig block, and setting a capturing mode of the camera. | 06-30-2011 |
20110160896 | DISPENSARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A dispensary management system includes a medicine compounding management unit for managing medicine compounding information and for automatically compounding medicines according to the medicine compounding information and a medicine storage management unit connected to the medicine compounding management for storing residual medicines and, when medicines in the medicine compounding management unit are insufficient, for informing the medicine compounding management unit of a position where medicines corresponding to insufficient medicines are stored. A dispensary management method includes inputting medicine compounding information, determining whether medicines are insufficient based on the medicine compounding information, retrieving a cabinet storing medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines, filling the insufficient medicines, and compounding medicines according to the medicine compounding information. | 06-30-2011 |
20110172815 | MEDICINE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, BIN FOR THE APPARATUS, AND CART FOR THE APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides medicine management apparatuses that stores various kinds of medicines and permits the stored medicines to be dispensed according to prescriptions. More particularly, the present disclosure provides medicine management apparatuses that ensure stable medicine management and security while providing efficiency in stock management and preparation of medicines. The medicine management apparatus includes a plurality of shelves rotatably coupled to a vertically disposed circular rotary carousel and a plurality of bins seated on the shelves and accommodating medicines. The apparatus further includes a main door that opens and closes an inlet/outlet port formed at a front side of a housing of the medicine management apparatus; and a shelf assistant door that opens or closes an opened front part of each of the shelves exposed through the inlet/outlet port and is provided with a lock. | 07-14-2011 |
20110299907 | PRINTER FOR AUTOMATIC PACKING MACHINE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present disclosure provides a printer for an automatic packing machine, which employs a ribbon cartridge to facilitate replacement of a ribbon tape and allows a thermal print head to be lifted or lowered to further facilitate replacement of the ribbon tape. The present disclosure also provides an automatic packing machine including the same. The printer is configured to print medicine data on a surface of a wrapping paper using a thermal print head and a ribbon tape. The printer includes a stationary plate secured to a lower portion of a body of the automatic packing machine, a movable plate disposed to be movable with respect to the stationary plate, and a ribbon cartridge receiving a ribbon tape and detachably mounted to the movable plate. | 12-08-2011 |
20110303692 | MEDICINE DISPENSER, METHOD OF DISCHARGING MEDICINE, AND AUTOMATIC MEDICINE PACKING MACHINE INCLUDING THE DISPENSER - The present disclosure provides a medicine dispenser, which can detect the number of medicines such that an accurate number of medicines can be discharged for packing, a medicine discharging method, and an automatic packing machine including the medicine dispenser. The medicine dispenser includes a frame and a medicine transfer unit attached to the frame and transferring medicines one pill at a time to an outside of the medicine dispenser. The medicine transfer unit includes a detection unit that detects the number of medicines dropping from a medicine container to be packed, and a transfer unit that pushes the medicines, the number of which is detected by the detection unit, into a packing passage connected to a packing unit to transfer the medicines to the packing unit. | 12-15-2011 |
20120211585 | BOBBIN FIXING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a bobbin fixing apparatus. The bobbin fixing apparatus includes a rotating shaft installed to a mounting plate and provided with a fixing unit partially protruding from the rotating shaft so as to be inserted into the rotating shaft, and a bobbin on or from which an object is wound or unwound, the bobbin being placed on the rotating shaft such that the fixing unit is exposed in front of the bobbin. The bobbin includes a rotating body, a plurality of bobbin members on which an object is wound, and an end coupler configured to be operated upon receiving pressure when the bobbin is placed on the rotating shaft, the end coupling serving to keep an end of the object in a fixed position on the rotating shaft during winding or to release the end of the object from the fixed position during unwinding. | 08-23-2012 |
20120239186 | MEDICINE FEEDING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a medicine feeding apparatus. The medicine feeding apparatus includes a medicine cartridge, a cartridge mount, a medicine discharge mechanism, and a discharge drive mechanism. The medicine cartridge has an entrance opening formed in the top thereof, through which a medicine product is put into the medicine cartridge, and a discharge hole formed in a front position of the bottom thereof, through which the medicine product is discharged from the medicine cartridge by operation of the medicine discharge mechanism. The entrance opening is provided with a cover. The medicine cartridge is mounted on an upper surface of the cartridge mount, and the cartridge mount has an outer discharge hole communicating with the discharge hole to discharge the medicine product from the cartridge mount. The discharge drive mechanism is provided at the medicine cartridge and the cartridge mount and serves to drive the medicine discharge mechanism. | 09-20-2012 |
20120280075 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REINSPECTING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for reinspecting a prescription drug, which reinspect the defect state of a defective drug pack after the defect state of an individually packaged drug has been inspected by analyzing the image of the drug. The apparatus includes a drug pack information transceiving module to receive primary inspection data, a drug reinspection controlling module to control a procedure of reinspecting a defect state of a drug pack which has been primarily determined as a defective drug pack, an image processing module to photograph the drug pack, which has been primarily determined as the defective drug pack, and to process an image of the drug pack, and a defect analyzing module to determine a defect state of the drug by analyzing a drug contained in the image of the drug pack provided from the image processing module. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284041 | INTEGRATED DRUG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS BY USING THE SAME - Disclosed are an integrated drug management system and a method of providing prescription drugs by using the same. The integrated drug management system includes a drug information managing module to manage a basic information and a pattern information of an individual drug by performing an image processing scheme for the individual drug, an integrated management control module to control a drug management work and a prescription drug management work, a prescription drug making module to provide the drug by preparing a drug according to a prescription information, a prescription drug inspecting module to inspect a defect state of the drug, a prescription drug reinspecting module connected to the integrated management control module to reinspect the defect state of the drug which has been determined as a defective drug, and a drug pack providing module to provide a drug pack to each ward or each patient. | 11-08-2012 |
20130000423 | APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING DEFECTIVE MEDICINES - Disclosed is an apparatus for inspecting a defective medicine. The apparatus includes a body provided therein with a working space used to correct the defective medicine, a defective medicine winding roll installed at one side of the body and around which medicine pack containing the defective medicine is wound, a reinspector installed at one side of the defective medicine winding roll to reinspect medicine packs released from the defective medicine winding roll, a corrected medicine winding roll installed at an opposite side of the body to wind medicine packs, which have been inspected by the reinspector or corrected in the working space, and a controller to control operations of the defective medicine winding roll, the reinspector, and the corrected medicine winding roll. | 01-03-2013 |
20130126547 | System for Automatic Storage and Taking Out of Chartula - A system for automatic storage and taking out of chartula comprises a cabinet, pouch-storing trays, a first receiving frame, a first receiving frame, a first receiving frame inlet, a taking-out basket, a taking-out basket outlet, a pouch-taking-in module, a pouch-storing module, a pouch-taking-out module, and a moving device. The taking-in tray is for taking in medicine from outside. The taking-in tray inlet is provided through the front surface of the cabinet, and the taking-in tray inlet comprises a first locking device which is locked or unlocked from inside. The taking-out basket is for taking out erroneous pouches to the outside. The taking-out basket outlet is provided through the front surface of the cabinet, and the taking-out backer outlet comprises a second locking device which is locked and unlocked from outside. | 05-23-2013 |
20130247731 | MEDICING CUTTING DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC MEDICINE PACKING MACHINE WITH THE SAME - Provided is a medicine cutting device capable of cutting an accommodated medicine into halves and discharging the cut medicines. A medicine cutting device for cutting and discharging medicines while moving one pill at a time includes: a first member disposed in parallel to a direction in which a medicine is supplied; and a second member facing the first member, wherein the medicine is disposed between the first member and the second member. The medicine is cut while the second member reciprocates with respect to the fixed first member, or the first member reciprocates with respect to the fixed second member, or the first member and the second member simultaneously reciprocate in a mutually proximal or distal direction. | 09-26-2013 |
20130264376 | DRUG PACKAGE WINDING APPARATUS - A drug package winding apparatus is provided. The drug package winding apparatus includes a drug package introducing unit to introduce a drug package, which is formed by packaging a great amount of drugs in a unit of a single pack having a dose of drugs and is not individually divided into single packs, into a body, a drug package winding unit to wind the drug package introduced into the drug package introducing unit, a drug package cutting unit to cut a boundary between one side pack and an opposite side pack of the drug package wound by the drug package winding unit, a sticker attaching unit to attach a sticker to an end portion of the drug package cut by the drug package cutting unit, and a drug package discharge unit to discharge the drug package having the sticker by the sticker attaching unit. | 10-10-2013 |
20130276935 | DRUG REFILLING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided a drug refilling apparatus. The apparatus includes a main body on which a drug cartridge is mounted, a cartridge mounting unit installed on a top surface of the main body to allow the drug cartridge mounted thereon, an unfastening unit unfastening a fastened state of a cover included in the drug cartridge, and a cartridge locking unit locking or unlocking the drug cartridge while the drug cartridge is being mounted on the cartridge mounting unit. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282171 | MEDICINE STORAGE APPARATUS - There is provided medicine storage apparatus. The apparatus may include a medicine storage case including a plurality of cells storing medicines therein, a door installed on a top surface of each of the cells and being opened and closed, a door opening/closing unit opening and closing the door, and a memory chip storing identification information for each of the cells while being initially manufactured and information of the medicines stored in each of the cells, and a medicine storage case mounting unit, on which the medicine storage case is mounted to be detachable, including a control unit controlling the door opening/closing unit to open the door provided in each of the cells. | 10-24-2013 |
20130325168 | AUTOMATIC MEDICINE WAREHOUSING AND RELEASING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY WAREHOUSING AND RELEASING MEDICINES THEREOF - Disclosed are an automatic medicine warehousing and releasing management system and a method of automatically warehousing and releasing medicines thereof. Warehoused medicines are arranged at proper positions on a storage shelf, and released medicines are discharged from the storage shelf. The automatic medicine warehousing and releasing management system includes a medicine holding and transferring unit to arrange warehoused medicines on a storage rack by holding and accommodating the warehoused medicines according to holding priorities of the medicines based on sizes and expiration dates of the medicines, and release the medicines by holding and accommodating the medicines on the storage rack according to the holding priorities of the medicines, and a medicine warehousing and releasing control unit connected with the medicine holding and transferring unit to control the arranging of medicines requested for warehousing on the storage rack and the discharging of medicines requested for releasing from the storage rack. | 12-05-2013 |
20140103060 | BOX FOR DISPENSING BLISTER-PACKAGED DRUG - Provided is a box for dispensing blister-packaged drugs. The box for dispensing blister-packaged drugs includes a drug accommodation unit having an accommodation space in which the plurality of blister-packaged drugs are separately accommodated, the drug accommodation unit being disposed in at least one row, a position moving unit coupled to the drug accommodation unit to move a position of the drug accommodation unit, and a dispensing unit disposed in the movement direction of the drug accommodation unit to dispense the blister-packaged drugs accommodated in the drug accommodation unit one by one to the outside. | 04-17-2014 |
20140103061 | DISPENSING BOX FOR DRUG-CONTAINING AMPOULE - Provided is a dispensing box for a drug-containing ampoule. The dispensing box for the drug-containing ampoule includes a partition member including a partition wall for partitioning a plurality of unit cells in which ampoules are stored, a shutter opening or closing a lower portion of each of the unit cells partitioned by the partition member, a driving unit operating the shutter, a conveyer on which a dropping ampoule is seated when the lower end of each of the unit cells is opened, and a discharge hole defined in an end of the conveyer to dispense the ampoule seated on the conveyer when the conveyer is operated. A drug storage matrix in which the drug-containing ampoule is stored may be provided, and a shutter device for dispensing the drug-containing ampoule may be provided to easily dispense the drug-containing ampoule. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114471 | MEDICINE-TAKING MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - Provided is a medicine-taking management apparatus. The medicine-taking management apparatus includes a preservation unit for preserving a chartula package, a transfer unit including at least one roll for transferring the preserved chartula package, a cutting unit for cutting a chartula of the transferred chartula package, a dispensing hole through which the cut chartula is dispensed from the chartula package to the outside, a storage unit providing a space in which the cut chartula is stored therein, and a path selection unit for controlling a path so that the cut chartula travels to one of the dispensing hole and the storage unit. Even though the medicine is not taken at a fixed medicine-taking time when the medicine-taking time is fixed, the follow-up medicine-taking management may be enabled without separately managing the corresponding chartula by the user. | 04-24-2014 |
20140117038 | DRUG DISPENSING BOX AND CARTRIDGE HAVING MUTUALLY COUPLED STRUCTURE - Provided is a drug dispensing box and cartridge having a mutually coupled structure. The cartridge disposed on each of floors of a drug dispensing apparatus and connected to each of a plurality of drug dispensing boxes includes a cartridge housing comprising a lower housing supporting the drug dispensing box and a rear housing restricting entry of the drug dispensing box by a predetermined distance, a rail disposed along an entry path of the drug dispensing box on the lower housing; and a first data transmitting/receiving terminal connected to the drug dispensing box to transmit/receive data. A rail for guiding the drug dispensing box when the drug dispensing box and the cartridge are connected to each other may be provided to connect the drug dispensing box to the cartridge at a regular position. | 05-01-2014 |
20140117819 | DRUG GATHERING APPARATUS - A drug gathering apparatus includes a cart accommodation unit in which a drug transfer cart is accommodated, a drug introduction hole through which a drug is introduced from an external device, a supply unit storing drug gathering units in an overlapping state, the supply unit sequentially separating the overlapping drug gathering units downward in order from the lowermost drug gathering unit, a transfer unit transferring the discharged drug gathering unit to the cart accommodation unit after the drug introduced through the drug introduction hole is accommodated into the drug gathering unit discharged from the supply unit, and a cart-side elevation unit elevating the drug gathering units disposed within the cart accommodation unit up to a specific height of the drug transfer cart. The drug gathering apparatus may gather drugs introduced by accurately repeatedly supplying the drugs dispensed from the external device to the drug gathering unit to maximize work efficiency. | 05-01-2014 |
20140222459 | AUTOBOX MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is an autobox management system to register intrinsic ID information in an autobox, which stores drugs therein, thereby determining if the autobox is original when the autobox is mounted in a cabinet of a hospital, and to manage information of drug consumption through the communication with a cabinet, a hospital server, and a producer server. The autobox management system including a production management unit to produce an autobox, individually register autobox ID information in the autobox, and authenticate that the autobox is original, and a hospital management unit to request determination on if the autobox is original and to transmit information of drug consumption to the production management unit through communication with the production management unit. | 08-07-2014 |
20140231446 | MEDICINE DISPENSER, METHOD OF DISCHARGING MEDICINE, AND AUTOMATIC MEDICINE PACKING MACHINE INCLUDING THE DISPENSER - The present disclosure provides a medicine dispenser, which can detect the number of medicines such that an accurate number of medicines can be discharged for packing, a medicine discharging method, and an automatic packing machine including the medicine dispenser. The medicine dispenser includes a frame and a medicine transfer unit attached to the frame and transferring medicines one pill at a time to an outside of the medicine dispenser. The medicine transfer unit includes a detection unit that detects the number of medicines dropping from a medicine container to be packed, and a transfer unit that pushes the medicines, the number of which is detected by the detection unit, into a packing passage connected to a packing unit to transfer the medicines to the packing unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140262689 | APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING DISPENSED DRUGS - Disclosed is an apparatus for collecting drugs dispensed from drug dispensing boxes. The apparatus includes a main conveyor on which the dispensed drugs are placed and discharged to a first end thereof, and an auxiliary conveyor configured to be hidden at a lower portion of the first end of the main conveyor or to be expanded outside of the first end so as to increase a discharging path of the dispensed drugs. Due to the auxiliary conveyor, when the drugs are discharged or are redelivered to another apparatus, it is possible to control the drugs to fall down to a desired position. | 09-18-2014 |
20140332552 | AUTOMATIC MEDICINE PACKING MACHINE - Disclosed is an automatic medicine packing machine. Required medicines are packaged in the unit of a dose by automatically discharging the medicines medicine cassettes according to the prescription of a doctor or a pharmacist. A plurality of cassette magazines are drawably installed at an upper body part of the automatic medicine packing machine. Each cassette magazine is provided at one side thereof with a shelf, in which a medicine cassette is arranged, and provided at an opposite side thereof with a passage member to guide the medicines discharged from the medicine cassette. | 11-13-2014 |
20150070485 | MEDICINE PACKAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a medicine package inspection apparatus for inspecting whether or not accurate medicines have been packaged in medicine packages. The medicine package inspection apparatus includes: a conveying unit conveying the medicine packages; an image reading unit photographing the medicine packages and reading states of the medicines by the photographed image; an aligning unit uniformly spreading the medicines packaged in the medicine packages unit so as not to be overlapped with each other; and a displaying means pivotably installed on a front surface of the body and displaying a work state simultaneously with controlling a work of inspecting the medicine packages. The displaying means is pivotably and tiltably installed on the body through a pivoting and tilting unit and configures a portion of the body, such that an inner portion of the body is opened when the displaying means pivots. | 03-12-2015 |