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 width of a guide groove of a rotor depending on the size of a tablet to be dispensed. The tablet cassette includes a groove width adjustment mechanism that relatively moves both sides of each of the tablet guide grooves in a circumferential direction of the rotor.
Claims4
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:
- surfaces of each of the plurality of tablet guide grooves are formed by movable members which are relatively movable in a circumferential direction of the rotor;
- and
- a groove width adjustment mechanism is provided to move the movable members in the circumferential direction of the rotor and adjust the width 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 groove width adjustment mechanism that relatively moves both sides of each of the tablet guide grooves in a circumferential direction of the rotor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.