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US 2019/0053984 A1Published application
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.
Claims10
A rotor for a tablet cassette rotatably disposed in a cassette body, the rotor comprising:
- 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 grooves, first and second side surfaces of each of the plurality of tablet guide grooves being formed by first and second movable plates which are movable relative to one another in a circumferential direction of the rotor;
- a groove width adjustment mechanism configured to move the first and second movable plates in the circumferential direction of the rotor relative to one another to adjust a width of each of the plurality of tablet guide grooves in response to a size of the tablet;
- and
- a rotor cover configured to cover the groove width adjustment mechanism.
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A tablet cassette comprising:
- a cassette body for storing tablets;
- a rotor rotatably disposed in a bottom portion 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, first and second side surfaces of each of the plurality of tablet guide grooves being formed by first and second movable plates which are movable relative to one another in a circumferential direction of the rotor;
- a groove width adjustment mechanism configured to move the first and second movable plates in the circumferential direction of the rotor relative to one another to adjust a width of each of the plurality of tablet guide grooves in response to a size of the tablet;
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- a rotor cover configured to cover the groove width adjustment mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.