Medicine dispensing system and medicine dispensing device
There is provided a medicine dispensing system configured such that a medicine dispensing device includes a sub unit having a function to dispense medicine that is connected to a medicine dispensing device that includes a main unit having a function of packing medicines. There is also provided a medicine dispensing device that can be appropriately integrated with such a medicine dispensing system. The medicine dispensing system includes, in some embodiments a main unit, a sub unit and a transfer device connecting the main unit and the sub unit. The medicine dispensing system transfers the medicine dispensed in the sub unit to the main unit by means of a transfer device and dispenses the medicine at a medicine packing part together with the medicine dispensed from a main storage part in the main unit.
1. A medicine dispensing device comprising:
a storage part configured to store and dispense a medicine; and
a packing means configured to pack the medicine dispensed from the storage part into a packing paper sheet,
wherein the packing means includes
a packing part configured to pack the medicine; and
a packing paper sheet conveying part configured to convey a packing paper sheet into which the medicine is packed by the packing part,
wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part is configured to convey the packing paper sheet along a predetermined conveyance path through contact with the packing paper sheet,
wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part includes:
a power-operated belt;
a pressing roller for pressing the packing paper sheet toward a conveyance plane of the conveyance path formed by the belt; and
a detecting means configured to operate through contact with the packing paper sheet passing through the conveyance path,
wherein the detecting means includes:
a sub roller disposed at a lateral side of the pressing roller, the sub roller being rotatable through contact with the packing paper sheet passing through the conveyance path;
a pinch roller disposed such that the packing paper sheet is interposed between the sub roller and the pinch roller; and
a rotation detecting means configured to detect a rotation of the pinch roller, and
wherein paper transfer abnormality in the packing paper sheet is detected when the rotation detecting means does not detect the rotation of the pinch roller during operation of the belt of the packing paper sheet conveying part.
2. The medicine dispensing device of claim 1 , wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part includes: a receiving portion receiving and transferring the serial packing paper sheet formed by packing the medicine in the packing part; a conveying portion upwardly conveying the packing paper sheet transferred from the receiving part; and a bent portion connected to a distal end portion of the conveying portion,
wherein the packing paper sheet conveying part has a serial conveying path of the packing paper sheet from the receiving portion through the conveying portion to the bent portion, and
wherein the medicine packed in the packing means is allowed to be removed at a desired position by bending the bent portion.
3. The medicine dispensing device of claim 2 , wherein the detecting means is provided in the conveying portion.
4. The medicine dispensing device of claim 1 , wherein the detecting means is situated upstream in a conveyance direction of the packing paper sheet in the packing paper sheet conveying part.