# US 11,027,865 B2 · Pill packaging device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,027,865 B2 - Document ID: US11027865B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/141,250 - Filed: 2018-09-25 - Published: 2019-03-28 - Granted: 2021-06-08 - Earliest claimed: 2017-09-25 - Applicants: Yesudasan Sujith - Inventors: Yesudasan Sujith - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11027865B2 ## CPC - B65B 5/103: {for packaging pills or tablets} - B65B 1/10: by rotary feeders - B65B 9/026: {the webs forming a curtain} - B65B 35/08: using pocketed conveyors - B65B 61/025: {for applying, e.g. printing, code or date marks on material prior to packaging} - B65B 35/12: by gravity - B65B 35/56: Orientating, i.e. changing the attitude of, articles, e.g. of non-uniform cross-section - B65B 39/007: {Guides or funnels for introducing articles into containers or wrappers} - B65B 61/26: for marking or coding completed packages - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) ## Abstract A pill packaging device comprising a pill encloser, a pill dispenser mounted to the pill encloser, and a pill funnel, which routes pills from the pill dispenser to the pill encloser. The pill packaging device may include rolls of first and second packaging film mounted to first and second film mounts, a pill carrousel, a printer, a barcode scanner, and seal jaws. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A pill packaging device comprising: a pill encloser; a pill dispenser mounted to the pill encloser; a pill funnel, which routes pills from the pill dispenser to the pill encloser; and an inner cutout window of a stationary seal jaw through which a barcode scanner scans for a printed barcode. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The pill packaging device of claim 1 wherein the pill funnel has two legs extending downward from a pill funnel body. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The pill packaging device of claim 2 wherein the two legs are of equal length. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The pill packaging device of claim 2 wherein the pill funnel has interior contours defining a pill path through the pill funnel, whereby a falling oblong shaped pill will be oriented with an oblong axis of the pill being parallel with a horizontal axis when the pill exits the pill funnel outlet. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The pill packaging device of claim 2 wherein the two legs are spaced apart at a closer distance than both two vertical arms of a seal jaw on the pill enclosure and two coaxial pull wheels. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The pill packaging device of claim 1 further comprising a guide window defined as a downward concavity in an upper perimeter inlet of the pill funnel. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The pill packaging device of claim 6 further comprising a pill sensor attached to the pill encloser and aligned with the guide window to detect pills entering the pill funnel passing by the guide window. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The pill packaging device of claim 1 further comprising a pull wheel that pulls sealed packages through the pill packaging device. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The pill packaging device of claim 1 wherein a mounting axis of a first set co-axial pull wheels is arranged above a mounting axis of a second set of pull wheels. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The pill packaging device of claim 9 further comprising a pill package exit path through a package exit channel that causes the packages of pills to exit at between 75 degrees and 25 degrees to a horizontal axis. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The pill packaging device of claim 1 further comprising first and second packaging film mounts which support rolls of first and second packaging film respectively. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The pill packaging device of claim 11 further comprising a printer that prints on the second packaging film before the first and second packaging films are sealed to form a package. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The pill packaging device of claim 12 further comprising the barcode scanner oriented to read barcodes as the first and second packaging films are being sealed to form a package. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The pill packaging device of claim 12, wherein a printer roller pulls at the second packaging film between 10 milliseconds and 100 milliseconds before a pull motor imparts rotation on pull wheels, the pull wheels positioned to pull the first and second packaging films after the first and second packaging films are sealed to form packages. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The pill packaging device of claim 1, wherein the pill dispenser further comprises a pill tray that remains stationary with respect to a pill encloser housing, and a pill carrousel that rotates with respect to the pill encloser housing. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The pill packaging device of claim 15, further comprising a plurality of pill apertures defined in the pill carrousel. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The pill packaging device of claim 16 further comprising a single funnel aperture defined in the pill tray that is oriented vertically above an inlet of the pill funnel. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The pill packaging device of claim 1 further comprising a moving sealing jaw with a substantially inverted U face, the moving sealing jaw sealing a first and a second packaging film into a package. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The pill packaging device of claim 18, wherein the moving seal jaw is moved by a seal motor, the moving seal jaw is heated, and the stationary seal jaw is positioned between the barcode scanner and the moving seal jaw, with the barcode scanner being substantially horizontally aligned with the moving seal jaw and the stationary seal jar. ### Claim 20 A pill packaging device comprising: a pill encloser; a pill dispenser mounted to the pill encloser; a pill funnel, which routes pills from the pill dispenser to the pill encloser; the pill funnel having two legs extending downward from a pill funnel body; the two legs being of equal length; a guide window defined in the pill funnel; a pill sensor attached to the pill encloser and aligned with the guide window to detect pills passing through the pill funnel by the guide window interior contours in the pill funnel defining a pill path through the pill funnel, whereby a falling oblong shaped pill will be oriented with an oblong axis of the pill being parallel with a horizontal axis when the pill exits the pill funnel outlet; first and second packaging film mounts which support rolls of first and second packaging film respectively; a moving seal jaw with a substantially inverted U face; a seal motor which moves the moving seal jaw in a reciprocal direction, the moving sealing being heated to seal the first and second packaging film together to create packages; a stationary seal jaw which supplies opposing force to the moving seal jaw; an inner cutout window defined within the stationary seal jaw through which a barcode scanner scans for a printed barcode; a printer that prints on the second packaging film before the first and second packaging films are sealed to form the package; the barcode scanner oriented to read barcodes as the first and second packaging films are being sealed to form the package; a printer roller pulls at the second packaging film between 10 milliseconds and 100 milliseconds before a pull motor imparts rotation on pull wheels, the pull wheels positioned to pull the first and second packaging films after the first and second packaging films are sealed to form packages; the pull wheels including a first and a second set of co-axial pull wheels, a mounting axis of the first set co-axial pull wheels being arranged above a mounting axis of the second set of pull wheels; a pill package exit path through a package exit channel that causes the packages of pills to exit at between 75 degrees and 25 degrees to a horizontal axis; a pill tray that is mounted on and that remains stationary with respect to a pill encloser housing; a pill carrousel that rotates with respect to the pill encloser housing; a plurality of pill apertures defined in the pill carrousel; a single funnel aperture defined in the pill tray that is oriented vertically above an inlet of the pill funnel; and the two legs of the funnel are spaced apart at a closer distance than both two vertical arms of the moving seal jaw and either the first or the second set of co-axial pull wheels.