Medicine feeding apparatus
View Patent ↗A medicine feeding apparatus in which a usability is improved by automatically executing a fine adjustment of a horizontal position and a vertical position of a door panel in correspondence to an operation of taking a drawer in and out without the necessity of executing a troublesome mount fine adjusting work of a door panel. In a medicine feeding apparatus provided with a main body, drawers are attached to the main body so as to be freely drawn, a plurality of tablet cases are detachably attached to the drawers and receiving medicines, and a door panel of the drawer is rotatably held and is finely adjusted to a proper position in correspondence to an operation of taking the drawer in and out.
1. A medicine feeding apparatus comprising:
a main body:
drawers attached to said main body so as to be freely drawn;
a vertically-oriented door panel adjustably attached to a front surface of each of said drawers at a plurality of locations on the front surface via a mounting plate which is held adjacently to the front surface of each of said drawers; and
a plurality of tablet cases detachably attached to said drawers for receiving medicines,
wherein the relative position of each said door panel to the front surface of each said corresponding drawer is adjustable so as to properly position the door panel of each said drawer during an operation of taking the drawer in and out.
2. A medicine feeding apparatus as claims in claim 1 , wherein said drawer is constituted by said front surface and a drawer main body detachably attaching a plurality of said tablet cases, and a said door panel is adjustably held to a front surface of said drawer main body, and a circuit substrate is arranged between the drawer main body and the door panel.
3. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said mounting plate is adjustably held to the drawer main body by a screw and a spacer which both fit into a hole in said mounting plate.
4. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a thickness of said spacer is larger than a thickness of said mounting plate.
5. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said spacer is structured by a metal.
6. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said mounting plate is constituted by a panel mounting body fixing said door panel, and a substrate mounting body fixing said circuit board.
7. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the panel mounting body is provided with a cut-off hole having an inner diameter which is smaller than an outer diameter of a head portion of said screw and larger than an outer diameter of said spacer, and a difference in dimension between the inner diameter of said cut-off hole and the outer diameter of said spacer is larger than a difference in dimension between a thickness of said spacer and a thickness of said mounting plate.
8. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein an outer periphery of said door panel is provided with protruding portions for fine adjustment opposing to the adjacent door panel.
9. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said protruding portion is formed at two right and left positions on an upper surface of the door panel, and has a proper height which is equal to an interval with respect to the upper and lower adjacent door panel.
10. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said protruding portion is provided at the center of both right and left side surfaces of the door panel, and has a proper height which is equal to an interval with respect to the right and left adjacent door panel.
11. A medicine feeding apparatus as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the door panel attached to said panel mounting body and the circuit board attached to said substrate mounting body are integrally moved in correspondence to the operation of taking said drawer in and out.
12. A medicine feeding apparatus comprising:
a main body;
a plurality of tablet cases receiving medicines; and
drawers attached to said main body so as to be freely drawn, and detachably attaching said tablet cases,
wherein said drawer is constituted by a drawer main body detachably attaching a plurality of tablet cases, and a vertically-oriented door panel adjustably held to a front surface of said drawer main body at a plurality of locations on the front surface, a circuit board is arranged between the drawer main body and the door panel, said door panel is adjustably held to the drawer main body and is finely adjusted to a proper position in correspondence to an operation of taking the drawer in and out by adjusting the relative positions of the door panel to the drawer, the medicine discharged from said tablet case falls freely so as to be collected at one position, and collected medicine is charged into a medicine packing paper,
wherein said door panel is adjustably held to a front surface of said drawer main body via a mounting plate adjacently held against the front surface of the drawer main body by a screw and a spacer, both of which fit within a hole in said mounting plate.