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Medicine packaging apparatus and method of packaging medicine

AssigneeYuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.

InventorsHiroyuki Yuyama, Tomohiro Sugimoto

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Abstract

There is provided a medicine packaging method, which is capable of rapidly coping with errors occurring during processes. The medicine packaging method includes the following steps: a medicine supplying step for supplying a relevant medicine according to a prescription data; a medicine standby step for allowing the supplied medicine to temporarily stand by; a medicine detecting step for detecting the standing by medicine; a printing step for printing a packaging paper when the medicine based on the prescription data is detected; a conveying step for conveying the packaging paper; and a packaging step for supplying the temporarily standing by medicine to a printed portion of the packaging paper and packaging the medicine. The steps are performed in sequence.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method of packaging a medicine, comprising the following steps:

(a) supplying a medicine based on a prescription data;
(b) allowing the supplied medicine to temporarily stand by;
(c) detecting whether the standing by medicine of step (b) accurately corresponds to the prescription data;
(d) printing medicine information on a packaging paper if the standing by medicine of step (b) is detected in step (c) to accurately correspond to the prescription data and printing error information on the packaging paper if the standing by medicine of step (b) is detected in step (c) not to accurately correspond to the prescription data;
(e) conveying the packaging paper upon which the medicine information or error information is printed in step (d);
and
(f) packaging the standing by medicine in the packaging paper following the printing of step (d) and the conveying of step (e).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/551,522Filed 17 Jul 2012 · division
Priority: JP 2006-2402845 Sep 2006
Published: US 2013/0008136 A110 Jan 2013
Granted: 7 Apr 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

B65B 5/103
By gravity: for packaging pills or tablets
B65B 9/073
Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or…:…
B65B 39/006
Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers: grids for introducing bottles into cases
B65B 57/10
Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices: responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials…

Family

PCT/JP2007/066055Parent of this division · filed 18 Aug 2007
Application13/110,648Parent of this division · filed 18 May 2011
US 2013/0008136 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Jan 2013
US 8,245,483 B2Parent of this division
Application12/440,014Parent of this division
US 8,020,356 B2Parent of this division
US 2010/0043349 A1Published application
US 2011/0239587 A1Published application
US 8,997,441 B2This patent

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