# US 2021/0276752 A1 · Medicine transfer unit and medicine transfer module including the same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0276752 A1 - Document ID: US20210276752A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/190,714 - Filed: 2021-03-03 - Published: 2021-09-09 - Earliest claimed: 2020-03-04 - Assignees: Jvm Co., Ltd. - Applicants: JVM Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Joon Ho KIM - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210276752A1 ## CPC - B65B 39/002: {Pivoting plates} - B65B 39/007: {Guides or funnels for introducing articles into containers or wrappers} - A61J 7/0069: {Trays for holding or distributing medicines (display trays A47F3/14; serving trays A47G23/06)} - A61J 7/0084: {for multiple medicaments} - B65B 3/003: {Filling medical containers such as ampoules, vials, syringes or the like} - B65B 5/103: {for packaging pills or tablets} - G07F 17/0092: {for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles (medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00)} - A61J 1/035: {Blister-type containers (blisters in general B65D75/36)} - 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) - A61J: CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) ## Abstract Disclosed is a medicine transfer unit including a body portion having one side and another side which are opened and an opening or closing portion connected to the body portion to be changeable in state. Here, the opening or closing portion includes a bottom portion configured to close the other side of the body portion in a first state and to open the other side of the body portion when the first state changes to a second state and a jamming prevention portion extending from the bottom portion toward an inside of a sidewall of the body portion on the basis of the first state so as to prevent the stored medicine from being jammed on sidewalls of the body portion and not being dispensed through the other side in the second state. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A medicine transfer unit comprising: a body portion having one side and another side which are opened to allow a medicine inputted through the one side to pass therethrough and to be dispensed through the other side; and an opening or closing portion connected to the body portion to be changeable in state and configured to selectively implement any one of a state in which the medicine inputted through the one side is temporarily stored in an internal space of the body portion and a state in which the stored medicine is dispensed through the other side, wherein the opening or closing portion comprises a bottom portion configured to close the other side of the body portion in a first state and to open the other side of the body portion when the first state changes to a second state and a jamming prevention portion extending from the bottom portion toward an inside of a sidewall of the body portion on the basis of the first state so as to prevent the stored medicine from being jammed on sidewalls of the body portion and not being dispensed through the other side in the second state. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The medicine transfer unit of claim 1, wherein the opening or closing portion is rotatably connected to the body portion and implements any one of the first state and the second state depending on rotation, and wherein the jamming prevention portion extends from any one of sides of the bottom portion toward the inside of the sidewall of the body portion on the basis of the first state. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The medicine transfer unit of claim 2, wherein the jamming prevention portion covers the inside of the sidewall of the body portion located on an extension side on the basis of the first state. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The medicine transfer unit of claim 3, wherein the jamming prevention portion forms a sidewall with a sidewall, by which the stored medicine is jammed in the first state, opposite the sidewall of the body portion located on the extension side on the basis of the first state among the sidewalls of the body portion. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The medicine transfer unit of claim 2, wherein in the first state, a distance between the jamming prevention portion and a sidewall opposite the sidewall of the body portion located on an extension side on the basis of the first state among the sidewalls of the body portion is formed so that a part of the other side is smaller than a part of the one side. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The medicine transfer unit of claim 5, wherein a distance between the jamming prevention portion and the opposite side corresponding to the part of the other side is linearly or nonlinearly decreased toward the other side. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The medicine transfer unit of claim 1, wherein each of the body portion and the opening or closing portion comprises a first attraction portion and a second attraction portion which generate attraction through an interaction so as to maintain the first state and to prevent the stored medicine from being abnormally dispensed in the first state. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) A medicine transfer module comprising: a plurality of such medicine transfer units of claim 1; a movement support unit configured to support the plurality of medicine transfer units to allow the plurality of medicine transfer units to be movable along a certain path; and an opening or closing driving unit configured to change a state of the opening or closing portion of each of the plurality of medicine transfer units, wherein each of the plurality of medicine transfer units repetitively moves, due to the movement support unit, to an input position through which a medicine is inputted through the one side and moves, due to the opening or closing driving unit, to a dispense position through which the medicine inputted at the input position is dispensed toward the other side, and wherein the dispense position is a position to which two or more of the plurality of medicine transfer units are applied at the same time among the plurality of medicine transfer units. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The medicine transfer module of claim 8, wherein the two or more medicine transfer units located at the dispense position are implemented, by the opening or closing driving unit, to change a state of the opening or closing portions thereof at the same time so that the medicines inputted at the input position at the same time are dispensed through the other side. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The medicine transfer module of claim 9, wherein the number of the two or more medicine transfer units corresponds to the number of cups included in one row of a blister pack in which a plurality of such cups are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns so as to dispense medicines into the cups included in one row of the blister pack at the same time by the opening or closing driving unit. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The medicine transfer module of claim 8, wherein the opening or closing portion comprises a protruding portion which comes into contact with the opening or closing driving unit to change from the first state to the second state, and wherein the protruding portion comprises a rotational element rotated along a path of a case unit to allow the plurality of medicine transfer units to be stably movable along the certain path.