Automatic medicine packaging machine with door lock unit
AssigneeJvm Co., Ltd.
InventorJun Ho Kim
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Abstract
An automatic medicine packaging machine with door lock unit that prevents the supplement and outflow of tablets by an unauthorized person and makes tablets kept and treated more safely is disclosed. The automatic medicine packaging machine comprising a plurality of tablet cassettes and a door includes; a door lock unit that is established on a body of the automatic medicine packaging machine and locks or unlocks the door; a button operation unit that is established on the front of the body and that operation is inputted by a user; and a lock controller that controls the operation of the door lock unit according to a lock or unlock signal inputted by the button operation unit, in which the lock controller includes a user authentication unit that authenticates user of the door lock unit.
Claims11
An automatic medicine packaging machine comprising a plurality of tablet cassettes arrayed in the interior of a body and a door for opening and closing the body and continuously packaging each dose of medication by extracting tablets from the tablet cassettes, the automatic medicine packaging machine comprises:
- a) a door lock unit that is established in the body of the automatic medicine packaging machine and locks or unlocks the door;
- b) a button operation unit that is established on the front of the body and receives operation command inputted by a user;
- c) a lock controller that controls the operation of the door lock unit according to a locking or unlocking signal inputted by the button operation unit;
- d) a hopper that is adapted to trap tablets which have been dispensed from the tablet cassettes;
- e) a printing unit that is adapted to print instructions to each package of tablets dispensed by the hopper;
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- f) a sealing unit that is adapted to feed and seal tablets in the hopper by tablet envelope(s) on which instruction labels are printed by the printing unit;
- wherein the lock controller comprises a user authentication unit that authenticates user of the door lock unit;
- wherein the door lock unit comprises a driver that is controlled by the lock controller and an anchor member that locks or unlocks the door by being vertically moved by the driver;
- wherein the door lock unit further comprises a manual operation unit that locks or unlocks the door lock unit by manual operation of a user;
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- wherein the manual operation unit further comprises an on/off switch that is established on the body as a state of being connected to the driver, a battery that is connected to the on/off switch and provides power to the driver, and a key operation unit that is exposed outside the body and controls the driver's operation of locking or unlocking by turning on/off power to be supplied to the driver.
The automatic medicine packaging machine of ciaim 1, wherein the user authentication of the door lock unit is done by authentication information inputted by the button operation unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.