Tablet cassette
AssigneeYuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsShoji YUYAMA, Naoki KOIKE
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Abstract
A tablet cassette is provided that can easily adjust the depth etc. of a guide groove of a rotor depending on the size of a tablet to be dispensed. The tablet cassette includes movable pieces that are disposed movably in a radial direction of the rotor in the plurality of tablet guide grooves and form surfaces in the radial direction of the rotor in the tablet guide grooves, and a movable piece moving mechanism that moves the movable pieces in the radial direction of the rotor.
Claims11
A rotor for a tablet cassette rotatably disposed in a cassette body, the rotor having a plurality of tablet guide grooves extending in a rotation axial direction so that the tablets contained in the cassette body are discharged through the tablet guide groove, characterized in that:
- a plurality of movable pieces movable in a radial direction of the rotor is provided;
- each of the plurality of movable pieces form a surface of each of the plurality of tablet guide grooves in the radial direction of the rotor;
- a movable piece moving mechanism for moving the plurality of movable pieces is provided;
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- the movable piece moving mechanism moves the plurality of movable pieces in the radial direction of the rotor to adjust the dimension in the radial direction of each of the plurality of tablet guide grooves in response to the size of the tablet.
A tablet cassette comprising:
- a cassette body for storing tablets;
- and
- a rotor that is disposed rotatably in a bottom of a tablet container of the cassette body, the rotor being formed with a plurality of tablet guide grooves extending in a rotation axial direction, wherein the tablet cassette further comprises:
- a plurality of movable pieces that are disposed movably in an radial direction of the rotor in the plurality of tablet guide grooves and form surfaces in the radial direction of the rotor in the tablet guide grooves;
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- a movable piece moving mechanism that moves the movable pieces in the radial direction of the rotor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.