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US 8,541,024 B2Granted
Film-coated scored tablet
AssigneeTakeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
InventorsAkihiko Ono, Naomi Nagaoka, Shigeyuki Marunaka, Yukihiro Nomura
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Abstract
A film-coated scored tablet in which the forms of respective parts associated with a score line are optimized so as to more preferably divide the film along the score line is provided.
Claims9
A film-coated scored tablet comprising a tablet being coated with a film coating on a plain tablet having score lines, wherein
- the scored tablet has an upper surface and a lower surface whose peripheral shape is an oval shape, and a peripheral side surface, the upper surface and the lower surface are gradually elevated from the peripheral edge toward the center thereof, and a V-shaped groove as the score line is provided on each of the upper surface and the lower surface along the minor axis of the oval shape;
- an inner angle of the V shape of the V-shaped groove is from 50° to 90°;
- a path of the bottom of the V-shaped groove is elevated more on the center side than on the peripheral edge sides of each of the upper surface and the lower surface;
- a ratio of a depth d of the V-shaped groove in the center of each of the upper surface and the lower surface to a height h of the elevation of the surface (d/h) is from 0.4 to 0.9;
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- a ratio of a value obtained by doubling the depth d of the V-shaped groove (2d) in the center of each of the upper surface and the lower surface to a total thickness t of the scored tablet (2d/t) is from 0.2 to 0.4.
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