Injection drug takeout device
AssigneeYuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorsShoji Yuyama, Akira Taniguchi
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Abstract
To reliably bias drugs to a rotor side without upsizing a device, with little layout limitations, and without damaging the drugs. Biasing means that biases drugs stored in a cassette 3 to a rotor 23 side to arrange the drugs includes: a casing 35; a constant load spring 36 provided in the casing 35 and having a spring part 41 fixed to the rotor 23 side of the cassette 3 at its tip; a locking plate 42 provided in the casing 35 and having a gear part 46 that engaged with and disengaged from a locking rack 26 formed in the cassette 3; and a pressing block 43 projected so as to be pressed from the contact surface of the casing 35 in contact with the drugs and rotating the locking plate 42 by pressing to release the gear part 46 from the locking rack 26.
Claims9
A drug dispensing device including cassettes detachably fitted to respective shelves of a storage shelf and storing different types of drugs, each of the cassettes comprising:
- a rotor configured to hold a held drug at a closed position at one end side thereof and to rotate the held drug to an open position to thereby permit the held drug to be taken out of the cassette;
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- biasing means configured to bias a stored drug to a rotor side of the cassette to thereby arrange the stored drug,
- wherein the biasing means comprises:
- a casing having a front contact surface that contacts the stored drug,
- a constant load spring that is provided in the casing and that includes a spring part having a leading end thereof fixed to the rotor side of the cassette,
- a locking member that is provided in the casing to be rotatable about a support shaft and that includes a gear part for engaging with and disengaging from a locking rack formed in the cassette, and
- a pressing member that projects in a pressable manner from the front contact surface of the casing, the pressing member having a first end surface that contacts the stored drug and a second end surface that contacts the locking member,
- wherein if the first end surface of the pressing member contacts the stored drug, then the pressing member is pressed and the second end surface of the pressing member contacts the locking member to rotate the locking member about the support shaft, whereby the gear part disengages from the locking rack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.