Cassette handling apparatus
AssigneeYuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkifumi TANAKA, Hidenori TSUJI, Satoshi GOTOU, Hiroshi IEDA
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Abstract
A main unit includes a cassette shelf, at least one transporting cassette holder that temporarily holds a cassette removed from the cassette shelf and to be transported to a drug receiver, at least one returning cassette holder that temporarily holds the cassette received from the drug receiver and to be returned to the cassette shelf, and a main cassette transporter that transports the cassette between the cassette shelf and the at least one transporting cassette holder, and between the cassette shelf and the at least one returning cassette holder.
Claims6
A cassette handling apparatus for transporting and receiving a cassette to and from a drug handling apparatus, the drug handling apparatus including a drug receiver for removing a drug from a cassette or loading a drug into the cassette, the cassette handling apparatus comprising:
- a cassette shelf configured to store a plurality of cassettes;
- a cassette holder configured to temporarily hold the cassette transported from the cassette shelf or the drug receiver;
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- a cassette transporter configured to transport the cassette between the cassette shelf and the cassette,
- the cassette transporter including a cassette gripper for drawing the cassette from the cassette shelf or the cassette holder and gripping the cassette,
- the cassette gripper including a lid that functions as a lid of the gripped cassette and that is movable above the gripped cassette.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.