Medicine packing apparatus
A medicine packing apparatus is provided. The medicine packing apparatus includes: a rotation hopper provided with a plurality of partition spaces, transferring a medicine from a medicine dispenser to any one of the plurality of partition spaces through at least one injection part, and transferring the medicine to the discharge part; an inspector photographing the transferred medicine to inspect the medicine; a controller determining whether the medicine inspected by the inspector matches a medicine of a prescription; and a re-injection part disposed in a partition space between an injection part having a shortest medicine transfer distance to the discharge part on the basis of a rotation direction of the rotation hopper and the discharge part.
1. A medicine packing apparatus, comprising: a rotation hopper provided with a plurality of partition spaces, receiving a medicine from a medicine dispenser at any one of the plurality of partition spaces through at least one injection part, and transferring the medicine;
an inspector photographing the transferred medicine to inspect the medicine;
a controller determining whether the medicine inspected by the inspector matches a medicine of a prescription;
a discharge part discharging the injected medicines that match the prescription of the inspection result;
a disposal part configured to open and dispose injected medicines that do not match the prescription of the inspection result;
a re-injection part that re-injects medicines so that the medicines match a list of medicines if the controller determines that the inspected medicines do not match the list of medicines; a cassette for dispensing typical medicines;
a tablet tray for dispensing atypical medicines; and
an external inlet disposed at an outside of the medicine packing apparatus, the external inlet guiding a medicine to be injected to the re-injection part in replacement of the medicines omitted,
wherein the rotation hopper includes:
a bottom portion on which the medicine collected from a medicine dispenser is placed; and
a medicine transfer part transferring a medicine, wherein the bottom portion is unmovably fixed, and the medicine transfer part moves on the fixed bottom portion while pushing a medicine placed at one location to another location of the bottom portion,
wherein the medicine transfer part includes:
a rotation member rotatable by a driver,
a partition member connected to the rotation member to form the plurality of partition spaces, and
a pair of linear portions facing each other and a pair of curved portions facing each other, the pair of curved portions connecting both ends of the pair of linear portions on a plane,
wherein the partition member includes a lower portion for contacting the medicine and an end portion for contacting the medicine, formed of a flexible material,
wherein the inspector is disposed in a partition space in which the injection part of a last medicine among the medicines in the list of medicines is disposed, the disposal part is disposed in the partition spaces in which the rotating direction of the partition space in the inspector is disposed, the re-injection part is disposed in the partition spaces in the rotating direction of the partition space in which the disposal part is disposed, and the discharge part is disposed in the partition spaces in the rotating direction of the partition space in which the re-injection part is disposed, and
wherein the injection part comprises a first injection part injecting the medicines collected from the tablet tray and a second injection part injecting the medicines collected from the cassette.
2. A medicine dispensing apparatus, comprising:
a cassette for dispensing typical medicines;
a tablet tray for dispensing atypical medicines;
an external inlet disposed at an outside of the medicine dispensing apparatus;
a rotation hopper including a rotation member;
a plurality of partition spaces transferred by the rotation member;
an injection part injecting medicines into at least one of the partition spaces;
an inspector inspecting injected medicines, disposed in the partition space in which all medicines in a list of medicines described in a prescription are collected;
a discharge part discharging the injected medicines that match the prescription of the inspection result;
a disposal part configured to open and dispose injected medicines that do not match the prescription of the inspection result;
a controller determining whether the medicines inspected by the inspector match the list of medicines; and
a re-injection part re-injecting medicines so that the medicines match the list of medicines if the controller determines that the inspected medicines do not match the list of medicines,
wherein the inspector is disposed in a partition space in which the injection part of a last medicine among the medicines in the list of medicines is disposed,
the disposal part is disposed in the partition spaces in the rotating direction of the partition space in the inspector is disposed,
the re-injection part is disposed in the partition spaces in the rotating direction of the partition space in which the disposal part is disposed,
the discharge part is disposed in the partition spaces in the rotating direction of the partition space in the re-injection part is disposed,
wherein the injection part comprises a first injection part injecting the medicines collected from the tablet tray and a second injection part injecting the medicines collected from the cassette, and
wherein the re-injection part is supplied the medicines through the external inlet.
3. The medicine dispensing apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the plurality of partition spaces are formed by a plurality of partition members of which one end is fixed to the rotation member.
4. The medicine dispensing apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the medicine rotation hopper comprises a pair of curved portions facing each other connecting both ends of a pair of straight portions and a pair of straight portions facing each other on a plane.
5. The medicine dispensing apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , further comprising: a medicine dispenser comprising at least one of a tablet receiving part, the tablet receiving part including an atypical tablet receiving part, a powder receiving part, and a special handling medicine receiving part.
6. The medicine dispensing apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first injection part and the second injection part are disposed in the same partition space.
7. The medicine dispensing apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the controller, based on determining whether the medicines inspected by the inspector match the medicines described in the prescription, controls the disposal part to be open to empty the partition space.
8. The medicine dispensing apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the controller, based on the inspection information being at least one of over-injection of medicines, mismatched medicines, or breakage of medicines, controls the disposal part to be open to empty the partition space.