| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 053493000 | Of individual contents or group feed or delivery | 33 |
| 20090038274 | LOADING APPARATUS - A loading apparatus for loading blister cards into sleeves includes a blister card magazine for receiving a stack of blister cards and a sleeve magazine for receiving a stack of sleeves. A loading conveyor moves a lug along a path to load a blister card into a sleeve. A gate releasably retains the sleeve in a loading position as the blister card is loaded into the sleeve. The loading apparatus also includes a hopper that facilitates loading sleeves into the sleeve magazine and sensors that ensure the blister cards are properly loaded into sleeves. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090139189 | Tablet Filling Device - A tablet filling device that allows the device to be smaller since a driving range of an arm for holding vials is greatly decreased includes: a tablet supply unit | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090260330 | Blocking slide Unit of a Feed and Sorting Device for Packaging Machines - A feed and sorting device for tablets has a number of vertically extending filling tubes for tablets and a blocking slide unit for temporarily blocking the filling tubes. The blocking slide unit includes a base plate with first through-openings for the filling tubes, an upper retaining plate with second through-openings for the filling tubes, and a lower retaining plate with third through-openings for the filling tubes. The base plate is between the upper and lower retaining plates, and the first, second and third through-openings are at least partially aligned to allow the filling tubes to pass therethrough. Each blocking finger is supported in a receiving portion on the base plate and is secured thereto by the upper and lower retaining plates. Each blocking finger is assigned to one of the filling tubes, and the receiving portions are formed as recesses which, in a vertical direction, pass through the base plate. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100011715 | TABLET FILLING DEVICE - A device for filling tablets into tablet carriers, e.g., blisters, comprises a tablet storage container for intermediately storing a multiplicity of tablets which lie loosely next to one another and above one another and at least one displaceable load receiving means for removing a single tablet from the tablet storage container and transferring the received tablet to the tablet carrier. The load receiving means thereby removes the tablet from above from the tablet storage container. The load receiving means is designed for performing scanning movements above the tablet storage container, where the scanning movements proceed under the control of either predetermined curves or of a sensor for detecting tablets. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100031613 | Thin-part feeding device - A thin-part feeding device is provided which is compact and efficient. The device has a funnel portion with a feeding opening at the bottom thereof, a take-out tube for taking out thin parts from the funnel portion, and a receiving portion with separate opening for receiving thin parts from the discharge opening. The receiving portion is movable, and the receiving opening is sized to receive only one thin part. The device is operative to repeat a state where the receiving opening faces the discharge opening, and a state where the receiving opening is away from the discharge opening to enable thin parts to be taken out from the receiving opening. The device also features a novel, posture-correcting portion to correct vertical posture of thin parts, a delivery portion for receiving posture-corrected thin parts, and a transporting portion as described. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100077707 | TABLET SUPPLY APPARATUS - A tablet supply apparatus including a main body having a case accommodating unit at the upper portion thereof, plural tablet cases that are secured in the case accommodating unit and in which tablets are accommodated, a chute through which tablets discharged from each of the tablet cases drop, a hopper that is disposed below the chute and provided in the main body, a filling device for filling tablets received by the hopper into a container, and at least one tablet feeder for freely putting into the hopper tablets whose kinds are other than the kinds of the tablets accommodated in the table cases. The tablet feeder has an opening for putting tablets, a shutter for temporarily trapping the tables put from the opening and a switch for opening the shutter, and is designed so that the put tablets on the shutter are visually recognizable. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100229506 | Tablet Filling Instrument - A tablet filling instrument | 09-16-2010 |
| 20120272625 | System for Dry-Filling Bins with Vegetable Products - An apparatus for filling bins with produce such as fruit includes a filling head, and a disk arranged under the head. The disk is composed of two overlying plates, each having openings arranged radially to a rotating plate. Sensors underneath the disk detect the presence of the produce at a predefined vertical distance from the lower plate. A controller detects the instantaneous position of each of the two overlying rotating plates, determines individually the speed of rotation of each of said rotating plates in a manner that depends on a pre-coded external signal generated by said sensors and by the instantaneous positions of the rotating plates. The control unit processes the information received and controls the respective angular speed of the plates so that the respective openings are vertically aligned in correspondence of the information received in order to distribute the produce inside the bin in those angular positions at which the absence of underlying produce is sensed. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130212987 | TABLET PACKAGING DEVICE - A packaging section of a tablet packaging device includes: a placement base of a tray; a drawer storing the placement bas; a carrier provided with compartments corresponding to the storage concave portions of the tray; a drive device of the carrier; a shutter opening/closing; a bottom of the carrier; and an opening/closing device of the shutter. The drive device performs a step of defining a tablet discharge position on the tray as an original position and returning to the original position through a tablet reception start position and a tablet reception end position which are set below a discharge opening. A step of sequentially moving each compartment of the carrier below the discharge opening from the tablet reception start position to the tablet reception end position during the step to receive one tray of tablets is performed. When the carrier returns to the discharge position, the shutter is opened. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20140196415 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CLEANING AND/OR DISINFECTING A DEVICE FOR PRODUCING CONTAINERS FILLED WITH A LIQUID FILLING MATERIAL - A device for the integrated production and filling of containers and a method for cleaning and/or disinfecting at least the mold of at least one molding and filling station of the device. During a cleaning and/or disinfecting operation of the device, at least the inside of the mold is cleaned and/or disinfected with at least one cleaning and/or disinfecting agent by at least one cleaning element. During the cleaning and/or disinfecting operation, the at least one mold is opened and closed at least once, preferably many times and/or the plunger is moved at least once, preferably many times, between its initial position and end position. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20150101291 | MEDICINE SUPPLY APPARATUS - A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section | 04-16-2015 |
| 20160001003 | SYRINGE FILLING AND PACKAGING SYSTEM FOR HOSPITAL PHARMACIES - A semi-automated system ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160035172 | PAPER CURRENCY-PROCESSING DEVICE - A banknote handling apparatus includes an inlet, a first transport unit and a second transport unit which are configured to transport banknotes taken in through the inlet, a recognition unit configured to recognize each of the banknotes, a bundling stacker configured to stack any banknote recognized, by the recognition unit, as a banknote to be bundled, a non-bundling stacker configured to stack any banknote recognized, by the recognition unit, as a banknote not to be bundled, a bundling unit configured to bundle the banknotes stacked in the bundling stacker, and a dispense port through which the banknotes bundled by the bundling unit are dispensed. The bundling stacker includes only two bundling stackers, and the non-bundling stacker includes only two non-bundling stackers. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160059974 | SEALED-LETTER PREPARING DEVICE - There are provided: a paper folding unit folding and sending a content sheet to a transfer path; an inserter unit sending an insert sheet to the transfer path; an acquiring unit acquiring information on a top/bottom direction and a surface/obverse direction of the content sheet and insert sheet; a merging unit in which the content sheet folded by the paper folding unit is overlapped with the insert sheet; and an enclosing unit enclosing the merged content sheet and insert sheet into an envelope sheet, in which, when the content sheet and insert sheet merge and are overlapped, the content sheet is folded so that the top/bottom direction and the surface/obverse direction of an image of the content sheet match those of an image of the insert sheet, based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160185475 | CONVERTING MACHINE - Systems, methods, and apparatus for converting a sheet material into packaging templates can include a converting machine that performs conversion functions, such as cutting, creasing, and scoring, on the sheet material. Items to be packed into boxes formed of the packaging templates can be used as the pattern for determining the location of performance of the conversion functions on the sheet material. Accordingly, no intermediate measuring of the items may be required prior to performance of the conversion functions. Instead, longheads can be positioned adjacent to opposing sides of the items and cross heads can be advanced inward to the positioned longheads. | 06-30-2016 |
| 053494000 | Responsive to incomplete group or subgroup (no group - no feed) | 1 |
| 20100242416 | PACKAGING SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide a technology capable of reducing the power consumption of a packaging machine without declining the availability factor of the whole of the system in a packaging system. In order to achieve the object, the packaging system includes a processing device performing a predetermined process on supplied processing objects and discharging them, and a packaging machine packaging the processing objects discharged from the processing device. The packaging machine includes a control unit centralized controlling the operation of the whole of the packaging machine. The control unit operates the packaging machine in the power-saving mode when the insufficient supply of the processing objects has occurred in the processing device, or when the insufficient supply of the processing objects is likely to occur in the processing device. | 09-30-2010 |
| 053495000 | Responsive to complete group or subgroup | 5 |
| 20160251094 | Medicine Filling Apparatus | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160251095 | Medicine Filling Apparatus | 09-01-2016 |
| 053498000 | By sensing each individual article of the group or subgroup | 3 |
| 053500000 | Single sensor for successively sensing each article of the group or subgroup (e.g., counter) | 3 |
| 20080307757 | Device for Conveying Tablets - A device for conveying tablets has a lower part, an upper part with at least one guide channel for holding and conveying the tablets, and several elastic elements, arranged a certain distance apart, on each of which at least one piezoelectric vibratory element is mounted, wherein the elastic elements are arranged between the upper part and the lower part and connect the two parts together. In addition, the device has at least one control unit for exciting the piezoelectric vibratory elements and thus the elastic elements and a sorting device installed in the area of the guide channel to separate the good tablets from the bad. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20120159907 | Systems and Methods of Automated Tablet Dispensing, Prescription Filling, and Packaging - Systems and methods of automatically dispensing tablets are disclosed. The systems and methods of the invention provide a highly secure, highly accurate and rapid means of dispensing tablets. The system includes an automatic dispensing tablet dispensing system as shown in the Figures and provides a means of lowering errors while preventing unauthorized tampering by non-authorized personnel. Moreover, the invention relates to systems and methods for packaging vials, packaging items from totes, and packaging items from totes with vials. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20180022557 | PALLETIZING SYSTEM FOR LOADING ARTICLES ON PALLET | 01-25-2018 |
| 053501000 | By totalizing of individual contents | 2 |
| 20090094947 | Packaging Apparatus for Handling Pills and Associated Method - A packaging apparatus and method are provided for depositing pills into a container. At least one cylindrical rotary slat is rotatable about a longitudinal axis and includes a radially inward portion defining a plurality of pill apertures. Each pill aperture receives a pill from a plurality of pills in an interior space of the respective cylinder at a first angular position of the rotary slat. A negative pressure system applies a negative pressure to the pill apertures to retain the pills therein as the rotary slat rotates at least from the first to a second angular position. An ejection mechanism ejects the pills from the respective pill apertures toward the interior space at the second angular position. A collection mechanism disposed adjacent to the radially inward portion of the rotary slat about the second angular position collects the ejected pills and directs the pills toward the container for deposition therein. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20100077708 | TABLET SUPPLY APPARATUS - A tablet supply apparatus including a main body having a case accommodating unit at the upper portion thereof, plural tablet cases provided in the case accommodating unit, each of the tablet cases having tablets accommodated therein, a hopper provided at the lower side of the tablet case in the main body, a nozzle for filling tablets received by the hopper into a container, the nozzle comprising a passage through which tables drop, a shutter which is freely opened and closed so as to allow or prohibit passage of dropping tablets through the nozzle, and a sensor for detecting passage of the tablets dropping through the passage at an upper side of the shutter. Furthermore, a tablet feeder for adding deficient tablets to the hopper comprises plural cells for accommodating tablets and an endless belt on which the cells are arranged on a line side by side. | 04-01-2010 |
| 053502000 | By weight of contents | 4 |
| 20080256908 | METHOD AND MACHINE FOR FILLING CAPSULES OR SIMILAR WITH AT LEAST ONE PRODUCT, IN PARTICULAR A PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT IN MICROTABLETS - A method and machine for filling capsules with at least one pharmaceutical product, whereby the bottom shell of each capsule is fed along a given path in time with a relative metering chamber for transferring a given quantity of product from a container into the bottom shell; a control device weighing the product in the metering chamber to cut off supply of the product into the metering chamber, when the weight of the product substantially equals a given reference value. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20120186202 | ICE BAGGING SYSTEM - An ice bagging system includes an ice maker unit, an ice bagger unit, and an ice storing unit. The ice bagger unit includes a sheet of ice bags disposed on a bag roll, the sheet of ice bags is threaded through a plurality of guide rollers, a pinch roller assembly, and a sealing jaw assembly. The pinch roller assembly includes first and second pinch roller wheels that are axially movable inwardly and outwardly to selectively open or close an individual ice bag in the sheet of ice bags. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120192530 | DOSAGE SYSTEM OF SOLID PRODUCTS FOR PACKING MACHINES - Dosage system applied to automatic packaging machinery, capable of measuring the mass of solid products in bulk and adjusting the final mass of the package to be baled, so that the average masses of each package result in a value pre-established, as well as the standard deviation of the masses average result in a value within a tolerance range previously defined. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20150353212 | Box Filler for Produce Packaging - A “weigh/fill” type box filler for cherries, cherries and similar small produce that incrementally moves and fills an array of individual packaging bags within conventional packing boxes. The box filler includes a box conveyer, a producer conveyer, a metering gate, a weigh/fill scale assembly and three independent box lifters. The box conveyer moves the packing boxes incrementally over the weigh/fill scale assembly to position each row of bags within successive packing boxes beneath the metering gate. As one packing box is incrementally moved across the weigh/fill scale assembly and each row of bags is weigh/filled, the box lifters sequentially raise the adjacent preceding and following packing boxes out of contact with the weigh/fill scale assembly. The metering gate uses independently actuated gate paddles to selectively control the flow of produce into the individual bags first at a high volume “gross” fill rate and finishing with a lower volume or “fine” fill rate. | 12-10-2015 |
| 053503000 | By volume of contents | 1 |
| 20100192523 | Optical Filling Control of Pharmaceutical Capsules in Capsule Filling Machines - The present invention relates to a method for monitoring the filling of a capsule with a medicament, to a corresponding filling method, to the associated apparatuses, and to a computer program for controlling the method and the apparatus. In the monitoring method, after at least part of the capsule has been filled with a predefined filling mass of a predefined closed contour of the medicament, at least the filling mass in the part of the capsule after the filling operation is recorded using digital imaging in a first step, the contour of the filling mass in the part of the capsule is determined from the digital imaging recording in a second step, and the contour is analysed in a third step in order to assess the filling operation in comparison with the predefined contour. The invention provides for external influences on the image properties to be compensated for by controlling the optical system. | 08-05-2010 |
| 053504000 | By dimension of contents | 3 |
| 20080236108 | Package Wrapping Machine with Detection of Lip Features of Trayed Products to be Wrapped - A package wrapping machine includes a wrapping station where film is to be manipulated during a packaging operation. A support is provided for holding rolled film, the support located to permit film to be drawn into the wrapping station. A sensor arrangement detects package size data that is used to set one or more wrap parameters. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20100024365 | INSERTER APPARATUS - Apparatus for inserting a content pack into an envelope, the apparatus comprising: a gripping mechanism; means for operating the gripping mechanism to hold an envelope; means for opening a throat of the envelope; means for moving the content pack in a direction toward and into the throat of the envelope; means for accelerating the envelope in the direction of movement of the content pack while the gripping mechanism is operational; and means for releasing the gripping mechanism at a predetermined time, to release the envelope, the predetermined time being while the content pack is at least partially inserted into the envelope, and being predetermined in dependence upon parameters comprising at least the content pack depth and the envelope depth. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20140059981 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING HANDHELD MEASUREMENT DEVICES TO CREATE ON-DEMAND PACKAGING - Methods, apparatus, assemblies, and systems relate to producing on-demand packaging. For example, packaging can be automatically produced on-demand and be sized and configured for use with a customized set of items and/or a customized arrangement of items. In one aspect, one or more items are arranged. The one or more items are then measured using a measurement device. The measurement device includes, in some aspects, a bracket that engages the arranged one or more items. The bracket may, in some embodiments, elevate a measurement component relative to the arranged one or more items so as to provide clear line of sight unobstructed by the arranged one or more items. Measurements in three dimensions may be obtained and used to create a custom, on-demand package. | 03-06-2014 |
| 053505000 | Responsive to presence or absence of cover material (e.g., wrapper, receptacle, lid) | 2 |
| 20090056286 | Dispensing system with material spill prevention system - A material spill prevention system with feed location sensing system to reduce the possibility of material spillage relative to the film being utilized for bag formation. The material spill prevention system monitors whether there is a proper film feed situation and, if not, precludes the release of material from the dispenser as in by precluding a flow controller opening and the release of material to the bag intended to receive the release chemical (e.g., a foam packaging bag). The prevention system is applicable to a variety of film feed arrangements as in a C-fold film drawn by a nip roller arrangement from a roll source with the dispenser mechanism positioned intermediate the nip and film source relative to film travel. An embodiment of the spill prevention system also features an absolute position transducer for monitoring position of a flow controller which controls output of material from the dispenser. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20140109528 | DRUG-PACKAGING DEVICE - A drug-packaging device is provided that can reduce the number of steps executed by a worker with suppressing waste of a sheet which is caused by sheet exchange. A detection sensor for detecting the connection site between a packaging sheet remaining at a drug filling unit side and a new package sheet is provided, and drug filling processing at the connection site is skipped. | 04-24-2014 |
