IP Library Granted Patent US 9,877,896
Granted Patent B2
US 9,877,896 · App. 15/328,431 · Granted Jan 30, 2018

Medicine cassette

Inventor: Mitsuhiro Mitani (Toyonaka, JP)
Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
A61J7/0076B65D83/0409
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,877,896
App. No.
15/328,431
Granted
Jan 30, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

[Object] To achieve a compact construction while making it possible to dispense a medicine certainly one by one. [Solution] A medicine dispensing unit for dispensing a medicine retained is disposed. The medicine dispensing unit comprises a first rotator having a circular face rotatably disposed at a slant state to a horizontal plane; a second rotator having a ring face rotatably disposed over the horizontal plane at an outer peripheral side of the first rotator; and a guide member having a guide face, the guide face being disposed above the circular face of the first rotator while extending radially with respect to the circular face, being positioned at a downstream side in a rotational direction of the first rotator towards a periphery in a radial direction, and being capable of contacting with the medicine placed on the first rotator due to rotation of the first rotator.

Claims (9)

1. A medicine cassette comprising a medicine dispensing unit for dispensing a medicine retained, the medicine dispensing unit comprising:

a first rotator having a circular face rotatably disposed at a slant state to a horizontal plane;

a second rotator having a ring face rotatably disposed over the horizontal plane at an outer peripheral side of the first rotator; and

a guide member having a guide face, the guide face being disposed above the circular face of the first rotator while extending radially with respect to the circular face, being positioned at a downstream side in a rotational direction of the first rotator towards a periphery in a radial direction, and being capable of contacting with the medicine placed on the first rotator due to rotation of the first rotator, wherein in the guide member, at least a part including the guide face to be contacted with the medicine is capable of deforming elastically so as to modify a positional relationship to the second rotator depending on a size of the medicine.

2. A medicine cassette comprising a medicine dispensing unit for dispensing a medicine retained, the medicine dispensing unit comprising:

a first rotator having a circular face rotatably disposed at a slant state to a horizontal plane;

a second rotator having a ring face rotatably disposed over the horizontal plane at an outer peripheral side of the first rotator; and

a guide member having a guide face, the guide face being disposed above the circular face of the first rotator while extending radially with respect to the circular face, being positioned at a downstream side in a rotational direction of the first rotator towards a periphery in a radial direction, and being capable of contacting with the medicine placed on the first rotator due to rotation of the first rotator,

wherein the first rotator and the second rotator stop every time one medicine is dispensed.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 23, 2017
From: MITANI, MITSUHIRO
To: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 041051/0562 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-150196 · Jul 23, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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