JPH0930501A - Drug housing container for drug selection supply device of tablet etc. - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drug housing container for drug selection supply device of tablet, etc., wherein drugs left in the drug housing container are not discharged in the device when the drug housing container is to be attached to or detached from the drug selection supply device. SOLUTION: A drug housing container can be mounted in a drug housing container support body 2 in a drug selection supply device. A housing container body 1 capable of housing drugs such as tablet and capsule, a drug aligning roller 25 rotatable with center at an axis 29, a drug aligning passage 24 where a plurality of formed drugs can be aligned on the outer periphery of the drug aligning roller 25, and an opening 13 from which the drugs are discharged by the rotation of the drug aligning roller 25 are provided. The drug aligning roller 25 is equipped with a restraining means for restraining the autorotation of the drug aligning roller 25.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drug selection and supply device mainly installed in a hospital or the like, that is, a tablet or the like mounted on a device for appropriately selecting and extracting drugs such as tablets and capsules according to a prescription for each patient. The present invention relates to a medicine container for a medicine selective supply device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a drug container such as a tablet or a capsule has a drug container for containing the drug and a drug aligning path for rotatably arranging the drug in the drug container. It is composed of the formed drug alignment roller, a gear fixed to the rotation shaft of the drug alignment roller, and a drug discharge opening for discharging the drug from the drug alignment path. Such a drug container is attached to a drug selection and supply device, and the rotation drive of the motor of the drug selection and supply device is transmitted to a drug alignment roller via a gear so that the roller rotates, and the drug alignment path is obtained according to data such as a prescription. A predetermined number of the medicines that are tandemly lined up are individually discharged from the openings into the medicine selection and supply device. Then, in the medicine selection and supply device, a packing operation is performed in which the discharged medicines are packed one by one by the packing device.

[0003]

By the way, as the packaging work progresses, the amount of the drug contained in the drug container naturally becomes small and must be replenished. In this case, the drug container is removed, After replenishing the medicine, the medicine selecting and supplying device is mounted again and the packing operation is continued.

However, since the conventional medicine container is provided with the medicine aligning roller rotatably, the medicine aligning roller is inadvertently rotated by vibration, impact, etc. applied to the medicine container at the time of attachment / detachment, so that the medicine aligning path is There is a possibility that the medicine remaining in the medicine will be discharged to the medicine selecting and supplying device through the medicine discharging opening.

The present invention solves the above problems,
An object of the present invention is to provide a drug container for a drug selective supply device such as a tablet that does not inadvertently discharge the drug remaining in the drug container when the drug container is attached and detached.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and a means for solving the problems is to be attachable / detachable to / from a medicine container holding body 2 in a medicine selecting and supplying device. In addition, the container main body 1 provided with a medicine container 16 capable of accommodating medicines such as tablets and capsules and the shaft 29 provided in a substantially vertical direction are rotatable about the medicine container 16 and A substantially cylindrical drug aligning roller 25 provided on the bottom side and a plurality of drug aligning paths capable of aligning drugs such as tablets and capsules formed on the outer peripheral side of the drug aligning roller 25.
In a medicine container provided with 24 and an opening 13 serving as an outlet through which the medicines are individually discharged by rotation of the medicine aligning roller 25, the medicine container roller 1 includes the medicine container 1 A means for suppressing rotation of the medicine aligning roller 25 is provided at least when the medicine is not attached to the medicine container supporting body 2.

Further, the means according to claim 3 is a means for restraining the medicine aligning roller 25 when the medicine container main body 1 is attached to the medicine container supporting body 2. There is provided a releasing means for releasing.

[0008]

The container for accommodating medicines such as tablets having the above-mentioned structure is provided on the medicine container supporting body 2 for discharging medicines such as tablets and capsules accommodated in the container according to the instruction of the medicine selecting and supplying device. The medicine aligning roller 25 is rotated by the rotation driving member of the medicine accommodating container support 2,
Drugs such as tablets and capsules stored in 16
And are individually discharged from the opening 13 to the drug selective supply device. By the way, when replenishing a drug in the drug container, the drug container must be attached to and detached from the drug container support 2, but in the drug container having the above configuration, rotation of the drug alignment roller 25 is suppressed. Therefore, the rotatable medicine aligning roller 25 does not naturally rotate due to vibration or the like generated when the medicine storage container is removed or mounted. Therefore, the drug storage unit
It is possible to prevent the medicine from being inadvertently discharged from the opening 13 even if the medicine remains in the medicine 16 or the medicine arrangement path 24.

Further, as described in claim 3, if the medicine accommodating container support 2 to which the medicine accommodating container is mounted is provided with a releasing means for canceling the suppressing means of the medicine aligning roller 25, the suppressing means at the time of mounting. The regulation is lifted and the medicine alignment roller 25 becomes completely rotatable, and the medicine container support
The drug can be discharged according to the instruction of the drug selection and supply device without any load being applied to the rotary drive member of 2.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a container provided with a drug container 16 which can be attached to and detached from a drug container supporting body 2 in a drug selection and supply device and which can accommodate drugs such as tablets and capsules. The container body is shown. The accommodating container main body 1 is formed in a substantially fan shape in a plan view, and a drug inlet 1a and a lid 1b for opening and closing the drug inlet 1a are provided above the drug container 16.

On the mounting surface 2a of the medicine container supporting body 2, a pair of guide rails 3 and 3'which serve as guiding paths when the container body 1 is mounted are projected, and the medicine container supporting body 2 is provided.
Inside the container, there is a recess 4 in the front wall of the container body 1.
A front plate 5 having a convex portion 5a that fits in is provided upright. On the front plate 5 side of the guide rails 3 and 3 ', stepped portions 6 and 6'having a substantially bowl shape in plan view are formed, respectively. Reference numeral 7 denotes a carry-out port for supplying the medicine discharged from the storage container main body 1 to a packaging device (not shown), and 8 denotes a large gear 8a that rotates via a rotary driving body 9 such as a motor. A dual gear consisting of a small gear 8b and protruding from the mounting surface 2a is shown. Reference numeral 10 denotes a rod-shaped protruding rod that is provided in the vicinity of the substantially central portion of the one guide rail 3, and the protruding rod 10 is a medicine stirring roller body described later.
It is a releasing means for releasing the restriction of the stopper 18, which is a suppressing means for suppressing the rotation of 11.

On the other hand, a drug stirring roller body 11 is provided at a substantially central bottom of the container body 1, and the drug container 16 is located in front of the drug container body 1 in the direction of the drug stirring roller body 11. A bottom portion 15 is integrally formed with the wall surface 12 and the other wall surface 14 facing the wall surface 12 so as to be inclined downward.
A double gear 17 composed of a large gear 30 and a small gear 33 is attached to the medicine stirring roller body 11.

More specifically, a gear accommodating portion 20 is provided below the accommodating container body 1 via a partition wall 19. In addition, a cylindrical roller storage wall 21 that surrounds the periphery of the medicine stirring roller body 11 and a cylindrical support wall 22 that supports the medicine stirring roller body 11 from below are formed above the partition wall 19. .

Further, the medicine stirring roller body 11 is fitted with a medicine aligning roller 25 having a plurality of medicine aligning paths 24 around which the medicines 23 are arranged in a row and an upper surface of the medicine aligning roller 25, and is substantially cylindrical. Is obliquely cut, and the stirring roller 26 is formed with an inclined surface 27 having a high portion 26a on one circumferential end side and a low portion 26b on the other circumferential end side.
The medicine aligning roller 25 has a hole 28 formed in the rotary shaft core portion, and moreover, has a pipe-shaped shaft 29 extending downward.
Is fitted into the support wall 22 and projected into the gear storage portion 20,
The large gear 30 is fixed to the lower end. On the other hand, a cylindrical shaft 31 is inserted through the hole 28, an agitating roller 26 is fixed to the upper end thereof, and a small gear 33 is attached to the lower end thereof.
Is stuck.

With such a structure, when the large gear 8a and the small gear 8b rotate via the rotation driving body 9, the small gear 33 and the large gear 30 meshing with them rotate, and the medicine stirring roller body 11 rotates. In addition, the number of teeth of the large and small gears is appropriately selected, and the rotation speeds of the medicine aligning roller 25 and the stirring roller 26 are designed to be different speeds.
Since the side mixes the drug accumulated on the side of the lower part 26b,
On the b side, the drug does not become bridging, and is reliably and promptly introduced into the drug alignment path 24 and tandem.

Further, in the gear accommodating portion 20 of the accommodating container body 1, one side 18a of the stopper 18 formed of a hairpin-shaped leaf spring as a restraining means is fixed to the partition wall 19 via a pin 35. Is stuck to. A substantially bowl-shaped receiving portion 36 in a plan view is formed at the tip of the other side 18b of the stopper 18, and the medicine aligning roller 25 is provided near the receiving portion 36.
A substantially triangular locking portion 37 that locks to the teeth of the large gear 30 fixed to the shaft body 29 is provided.

Reference numerals 39 and 39 'denote guide paths for mounting the container main body 1 along the guide rails 3 and 3'of the drug container support 2 and projecting downward from the partition wall 19 to store gears. Part 20
Formed within. 40, 40 'is the step of the guide rail 3, 3'
Positioning projections that fit in 6, 6'are shown.

The above-mentioned drug container is used as a drug container support 2
When it is fitted along the guide rails 3 and 3'of, the positioning protrusions 40 and 40 'and the step portions 6 and 6'are fitted to each other as shown in FIGS. , Driving means 9
The double gear 8 of the above meshes with the double gear 17 of the medicine stirring roller body 11, and at the same time, the projection bar 10 of the medicine container support 2 comes into contact with the receiving portion 36 of the stopper 18 to press the leaf spring. The restraint by the stopper 18 is released, and the medicine aligning roller 25, which could not be carelessly rotated by the stopper 18, is rotated before the attachment, that is, the rotatable state. Then, by rotating the medicine stirring roller body 11 via the rotation driving body 9, the medicine introduced into the medicine alignment path 24 is discharged from the medicine container supporting body 2 through the opening 13 based on the data such as the prescription. It is discharged to the outlet 7 and supplied to the packaging device.

On the other hand, when the container body 1 is detached from the drug container support body 2, as shown in FIG. 4, the pressing of the protruding bar 10 is released and the stopper 18 is returned by the elastic force, so that The stopper 37 is locked to the teeth of the large gear 30 to prevent the medicine aligning roller 25 from freely rotating. Therefore, at least when the medicine container is not attached to the medicine selecting and supplying device, the medicine aligning roller 25 does not rotate, so that the medicine is selected from the opening 13 even if the medicine remains in the medicine aligning path 24 or the like. Not discharged to feeder.

In the above embodiment, the releasing means 10 is provided on the drug container supporting body 2, but the releasing means does not necessarily have to be provided on the drug container supporting body 2. Absent. For example, the elastic force of the leaf spring of the stopper 18 which is the restraining means is loosened, or the stopper 18 is
By rotating the medicine container supporting body 2 rotationally even when the depressing means acts on the medicine aligning roller 25, by appropriately changing the design such as making the locking portion 37 of the semicircular shape or changing the mounting position of the stopper 18. Drug alignment roller 25 by body 9
It is possible to rotate.

Further, in the above embodiment, the restraining means is composed of the stopper 18 formed of a hairpin-shaped leaf spring, but the restraining means is not necessarily limited to the above construction.
For example, as shown in FIG. 5, a plate in which a saw-shaped engaging portion 37 for engaging with the large gear 30 of the medicine aligning roller 25 is formed on one central portion and holes 41, 41 are formed on both end sides. The stopper 18, the support rods 42, 42 inserted into the holes 41, 41, and the springs 43, 43 fitted into the support rods 42, 42 and biasing the stopper 18 from the other end surface side. Deterrent means may be configured. If the drug container having such a structure is attached to the drug container supporting body 2 provided with two projecting rods as releasing means, as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 18 retracts and stopper
18 is separated from the large gear 30, and the restraint is released.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the stopper 18 which is the restraining means is structured to be engaged with the teeth of the large gear 30 by the leaf spring or the biasing force of the spring, but the restraining means is not necessarily limited to such a construction. However, for example, a stopper that locks the board of the large gear 30 may be used, and a leaf spring or a biasing force of rubber may be used instead of the spring. Further, as shown in FIG. 6, if the stopper 18 itself, which is the restraining means, is made of rubber, even if the stopper 18 is not provided with the engaging portion 37 as in the above embodiment, the stopper 18 deforms due to its elastic force. The rubber stopper 18 comes into contact with the large gear 30, and the large gear 30 can be reliably locked due to the nature of the rubber having a high frictional force.

[0023]

As described above, in the medicine container according to the present invention, the medicine aligning roller for individually aligning and discharging the medicine is provided with the restraining means for suppressing the rotation thereof. The rotatable medicine aligning roller does not rotate carelessly when the medicine container is detached from or mounted on the medicine selection and supply device. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the medicine aligning roller from rotating and discharging the medicine from the opening to the medicine selecting and supplying device even if the medicine remains in the medicine aligning path or the medicine storing portion. Therefore, it is possible to eliminate waste of the medicine and to facilitate a series of operations.

Further, according to the third aspect of the invention, when the medicine container is mounted, the medicine aligning roller is released from the restraining means and becomes completely rotatable, while when the medicine container is removed, the restraining means is released. As a result, the medicine alignment roller does not rotate carelessly. Therefore, the rotation of the medicine aligning roller can be suppressed and the rotation can be released only by attaching and detaching the medicine accommodating container, and the operator need not perform any new operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a reference view showing a part of a drug container supporting body in a drug container of the present invention and a drug selective supply device to which the drug container is attached.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a cross section taken along the line BB of FIG. 1 from the lower side.

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the medicine container.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing another embodiment of the suppressing means and the releasing means.

FIG. 6 is a bottom view showing another embodiment of the suppressing means.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Accommodating container body, 2 ... Medicine accommodating container support, 16 ... Medicine accommodating section, 18 ... Stopper, 24 ... Medicine alignment path, 25 ... Medicine alignment roller, 29 ... Shaft, 30 ... Gear

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A container main body provided with a drug container (16) which can be attached to and detached from a drug container support (2) in a drug selection and supply device and which can accommodate drugs such as tablets and capsules.
(1) and a substantially cylindrical drug aligning roller (25) that is rotatable about a shaft (29) provided in a substantially vertical direction and that is provided on the bottom side of the drug container (16). A plurality of drug aligning paths (24) capable of aligning drugs such as tablets and capsules formed on the outer peripheral side of the drug aligning roller (25), and the drugs are individually discharged by rotation of the drug aligning roller (25). In the medicine container provided with an opening (13) serving as an outlet, at least the container body (1) is attached to the medicine container support (2) in the medicine alignment roller (25). A drug storage container for a drug selection and supply device such as a tablet, which is provided with a deterrent means that deters the rotation of the drug aligning roller (25) when not mounted. 2. The medicine aligning roller, wherein the suppressing means is the medicine aligning roller.
The drug such as a tablet according to claim 1, which is a stopper (18) which can be locked to the gear (30) attached to the shaft body (29) of (25) or the teeth of the gear (30) by biasing an elastic body. A drug container for a selective supply device. 3. The medicine container supporting body (2) has means for suppressing the medicine aligning roller (25) when the container body (1) is mounted on the medicine container supporting body (2). A medicine container for a medicine selective supply device such as a tablet according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising release means for releasing the medicine.