Medicament dispensing machine

摘要

The medicament dispensing machine enables to use vials having various sizes and shapes without changing a part in the machine or without performing a special operation. The medicament dispensing machine contains a discharging unit that receives a vial filled with a medicament from a medicament filling means and discharges out of a vial discharging window. The discharging unit contains a vial gripping means having a pair of gripping arms that grip a vial, a body of gripping means having the vial gripping means, a moving means that moves the vial gripping means from the medicament filling means to the vial discharging window, and an orientation changing mechanism that changes the orientation of the body of gripping means. With a coordination of the movement of the body of gripping means toward the vial discharging window, the orientation changing mechanism makes the gripping arms orient to the vial discharging window.

主权项

1. A medicament dispensing machine, comprising:
a medicament filling device for filling an empty vial with a medicament, the vial stocked in a body of the medicament dispensing machine; a vial discharging window for discharging the vial filled with the medicament; and a discharging unit for receiving the vial filled with the medicament and for discharging the vial to the vial discharging window, the discharging unit comprising:
a vial gripping device for receiving and gripping the vial, the vial gripping device comprising a pair of gripping arms,a body of gripping device comprising the vial gripping device,a moving mechanism for moving the vial gripping device from a place where the vial gripping device receives the vial to a place where the vial discharging window is located, andan orientation changing mechanism for changing an orientation of the body of gripping device; wherein the pair of gripping arms comprising:
contact portions where the gripping arms contact to a body of the vial, anda vial detection device for detecting the contact of at least one of the gripping arms to the vial, the vial detection device provided in the contact portion of at least one of the gripping arms; wherein the vial is transferred to the gripping arms from the medicament filling device with a confirmation of detection by the vial detection device that the gripping arms have gripped the vial, wherein the orientation changing mechanism changes the orientation of the body of gripping device so that the gripping arms face in a direction of the vial discharging window after the vial detection device confirms the detection that the gripping arms have gripped the vial.