Medicine dispensing system

摘要

An information display integrating a display portion, a built-in electronic circuit, and a wireless receiver is attached to a container. Medicine dispensers are provided face a conveying path of a container conveying mechanism. The medicine dispensers put a medicine into the container when the medicine is in stock, and issues information on stockout medicine rather than dispensing a medicine when the medicine is out of stock. A write command is wirelessly transmitted to the information display so as to cause the stockout information to be displayed on the display portion in a visibly recognizable manner. In addition, partition information on the planar arrangement of sub containers that allows partitioning the internal space of the container is displayed on the display portion in a visually recognizable manner.

主权项

1. A medicine dispensing system comprising:
a plurality of containers each provided with a first information display having a communication function and including a display portion for displaying rewritable information in a visibly recognizable manner; a container conveying mechanism operable to convey the plurality of containers; a medicine dispenser provided to face a conveying path of the container conveying mechanism; a medicine transporting vehicle capable of conveying the plurality of containers and provided with a second information display having a communication function and including a display portion for displaying rewritable information in a visibly recognizable manner; a container loading device operable to load the plurality of containers onto the medicine transporting vehicle; and a dispensation control device operable to transmit display information to the first information display based on pharmaceutical indication data so as to cause the information to be displayed on the display portion of the first information display, and operable to output to the container conveying mechanism and the medicine dispenser a command for controlling cooperation between the container conveying mechanism and the medicine dispenser based on pharmaceutical indication data so as to cause one or more sorts of indicated medicines to be dispensed from the medicine dispenser to the container, and further operable to give a load command to the container loading device to indicate a medicine transporting destination based on information indicating the medicine transporting destination, and operable to transmit display information to the second information display based on information indicating the medicine transporting destination so as to cause at least information on the medicine transporting destination and whether or not a following medicine transporting vehicle is present to be displayed on the display portion of the second information display, wherein: the medicine dispenser is configured to notify the dispensation control device of information on stockout medicine if any; the dispensation control device is configured to transmit a write command to the first information display upon receipt of the information on stockout medicine from the medicine dispenser so as to cause the information on stockout medicine to be displayed on the display portion of the first information display in the visibly recognizable manner; and the dispensation control device further comprises:
matching data storing means for storing medicine—sub container matching data on matching between a plurality of sorts of medicines and sub containers capable of containing such medicines;computing means for determining planar arrangement of the sub containers in the container with reference to the medicine—sub container matching data to dispose in an internal space of the container the one or more sub containers containing the one or more sorts of medicines indicated by the pharmaceutical indication data and to partition the internal space of the container; anddisplay instructing means for transmitting partition information on the planar arrangement determined by the computing means to the first information display so as to cause the determined planar arrangement to be displayed on the display portion of the first information display.