Abstract: Provided is a drug dispensing box and cartridge having a mutually coupled structure. The cartridge disposed on each of floors of a drug dispensing apparatus and connected to each of a plurality of drug dispensing boxes includes a cartridge housing comprising a lower housing supporting the drug dispensing box and a rear housing restricting entry of the drug dispensing box by a predetermined distance, a rail disposed along an entry path of the drug dispensing box on the lower housing; and a first data transmitting/receiving terminal connected to the drug dispensing box to transmit/receive data. A rail for guiding the drug dispensing box when the drug dispensing box and the cartridge are connected to each other may be provided to connect the drug dispensing box to the cartridge at a regular position.

Abstract: A drug gathering apparatus includes a cart accommodation unit in which a drug transfer cart is accommodated, a drug introduction hole through which a drug is introduced from an external device, a supply unit storing drug gathering units in an overlapping state, the supply unit sequentially separating the overlapping drug gathering units downward in order from the lowermost drug gathering unit, a transfer unit transferring the discharged drug gathering unit to the cart accommodation unit after the drug introduced through the drug introduction hole is accommodated into the drug gathering unit discharged from the supply unit, and a cart-side elevation unit elevating the drug gathering units disposed within the cart accommodation unit up to a specific height of the drug transfer cart. The drug gathering apparatus may gather drugs introduced by accurately repeatedly supplying the drugs dispensed from the external device to the drug gathering unit to maximize work efficiency.

Abstract: Provided is a medicine-taking management apparatus. The medicine-taking management apparatus includes a preservation unit for preserving a chartula package, a transfer unit including at least one roll for transferring the preserved chartula package, a cutting unit for cutting a chartula of the transferred chartula package, a dispensing hole through which the cut chartula is dispensed from the chartula package to the outside, a storage unit providing a space in which the cut chartula is stored therein, and a path selection unit for controlling a path so that the cut chartula travels to one of the dispensing hole and the storage unit. Even though the medicine is not taken at a fixed medicine-taking time when the medicine-taking time is fixed, the follow-up medicine-taking management may be enabled without separately managing the corresponding chartula by the user.

Abstract: Provided is a box for dispensing blister-packaged drugs. The box for dispensing blister-packaged drugs includes a drug accommodation unit having an accommodation space in which the plurality of blister-packaged drugs are separately accommodated, the drug accommodation unit being disposed in at least one row, a position moving unit coupled to the drug accommodation unit to move a position of the drug accommodation unit, and a dispensing unit disposed in the movement direction of the drug accommodation unit to dispense the blister-packaged drugs accommodated in the drug accommodation unit one by one to the outside.

Abstract: Provided is a dispensing box for a drug-containing ampoule. The dispensing box for the drug-containing ampoule includes a partition member including a partition wall for partitioning a plurality of unit cells in which ampoules are stored, a shutter opening or closing a lower portion of each of the unit cells partitioned by the partition member, a driving unit operating the shutter, a conveyer on which a dropping ampoule is seated when the lower end of each of the unit cells is opened, and a discharge hole defined in an end of the conveyer to dispense the ampoule seated on the conveyer when the conveyer is operated. A drug storage matrix in which the drug-containing ampoule is stored may be provided, and a shutter device for dispensing the drug-containing ampoule may be provided to easily dispense the drug-containing ampoule.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bobbin fixing apparatus. The bobbin fixing apparatus includes a rotating shaft installed to a mounting plate and provided with a fixing unit partially protruding from the rotating shaft so as to be inserted into the rotating shaft, and a bobbin on or from which an object is wound or unwound, the bobbin being placed on the rotating shaft such that the fixing unit is exposed in front of the bobbin. The bobbin includes a rotating body, a plurality of bobbin members on which an object is wound, and an end coupler configured to be operated upon receiving pressure when the bobbin is placed on the rotating shaft, the end coupling serving to keep an end of the object in a fixed position on the rotating shaft during winding or to release the end of the object from the fixed position during unwinding.

Abstract: Disclosed is a medicine feeding apparatus. The medicine feeding apparatus includes a medicine cartridge, a cartridge mount, a medicine discharge mechanism, and a discharge drive mechanism. The medicine cartridge has an entrance opening formed in the top thereof, through which a medicine product is put into the medicine cartridge, and a discharge hole formed in a front position of the bottom thereof, through which the medicine product is discharged from the medicine cartridge by operation of the medicine discharge mechanism. The entrance opening is provided with a cover. The medicine cartridge is mounted on an upper surface of the cartridge mount, and the cartridge mount has an outer discharge hole communicating with the discharge hole to discharge the medicine product from the cartridge mount. The discharge drive mechanism is provided at the medicine cartridge and the cartridge mount and serves to drive the medicine discharge mechanism.

Abstract: There is provided medicine storage apparatus. The apparatus may include a medicine storage case including a plurality of cells storing medicines therein, a door installed on a top surface of each of the cells and being opened and closed, a door opening/closing unit opening and closing the door, and a memory chip storing identification information for each of the cells while being initially manufactured and information of the medicines stored in each of the cells, and a medicine storage case mounting unit, on which the medicine storage case is mounted to be detachable, including a control unit controlling the door opening/closing unit to open the door provided in each of the cells.

Abstract: There is provided a drug refilling apparatus. The apparatus includes a main body on which a drug cartridge is mounted, a cartridge mounting unit installed on a top surface of the main body to allow the drug cartridge mounted thereon, an unfastening unit unfastening a fastened state of a cover included in the drug cartridge, and a cartridge locking unit locking or unlocking the drug cartridge while the drug cartridge is being mounted on the cartridge mounting unit.

Abstract: A drug package winding apparatus is provided. The drug package winding apparatus includes a drug package introducing unit to introduce a drug package, which is formed by packaging a great amount of drugs in a unit of a single pack having a dose of drugs and is not individually divided into single packs, into a body, a drug package winding unit to wind the drug package introduced into the drug package introducing unit, a drug package cutting unit to cut a boundary between one side pack and an opposite side pack of the drug package wound by the drug package winding unit, a sticker attaching unit to attach a sticker to an end portion of the drug package cut by the drug package cutting unit, and a drug package discharge unit to discharge the drug package having the sticker by the sticker attaching unit.

Abstract: The tablet cassette includes a division block installed to be rotated by a drive motor to discharge tablets introduced from above through transfer passages indented in an outer circumferential surface thereof. Each of the transfer passage includes a separation recess for downward transfer of the tablets, a lower end of which is blocked by a prop, and a supply recess along which the tablets having passed through the separation recess are moved on the outer circumferential surface of the division block to thereby be discharged downward via rotation of the division block. The tablet cassette further includes a bottom ring provided around a lower end of the division block to transfer the tablets located in the separation recess into the supply recess via rotation of the division block.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for inspecting a defective medicine. The apparatus includes a body provided therein with a working space used to correct the defective medicine, a defective medicine winding roll installed at one side of the body and around which medicine pack containing the defective medicine is wound, a reinspector installed at one side of the defective medicine winding roll to reinspect medicine packs released from the defective medicine winding roll, a corrected medicine winding roll installed at an opposite side of the body to wind medicine packs, which have been inspected by the reinspector or corrected in the working space, and a controller to control operations of the defective medicine winding roll, the reinspector, and the corrected medicine winding roll.

Abstract: A medicine packet inspecting apparatus is disclosed. The medicine packet inspecting apparatus includes a transfer conveyer installed on the upper surface of a main body to transfer medicine packets to one side of the main body, a tablet spreading unit installed on the upper surface of the transfer conveyer to uniformly spread tablets within the medicine packets, an image reading unit to capture the upper surfaces of the medicine packets with a camera and to judge whether or not the tablets are defective through comparison of the captured images with information regarding a prescription and the tablets stored in a data storage unit, and a making unit to mark a defective sign on medicine packets if the tablets within the medicine packets are judged to be defective.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for reinspecting a prescription drug, which reinspect the defect state of a defective drug pack after the defect state of an individually packaged drug has been inspected by analyzing the image of the drug. The apparatus includes a drug pack information transceiving module to receive primary inspection data, a drug reinspection controlling module to control a procedure of reinspecting a defect state of a drug pack which has been primarily determined as a defective drug pack, an image processing module to photograph the drug pack, which has been primarily determined as the defective drug pack, and to process an image of the drug pack, and a defect analyzing module to determine a defect state of the drug by analyzing a drug contained in the image of the drug pack provided from the image processing module.

Abstract: Disclosed are an integrated drug management system and a method of providing prescription drugs by using the same. The integrated drug management system includes a drug information managing module to manage a basic information and a pattern information of an individual drug by performing an image processing scheme for the individual drug, an integrated management control module to control a drug management work and a prescription drug management work, a prescription drug making module to provide the drug by preparing a drug according to a prescription information, a prescription drug inspecting module to inspect a defect state of the drug, a prescription drug reinspecting module connected to the integrated management control module to reinspect the defect state of the drug which has been determined as a defective drug, and a drug pack providing module to provide a drug pack to each ward or each patient.

Abstract: Disclosed is an automated medicine storage and medicine introduction/discharge management system, which includes a main body in which a plurality of receiving shelves is arranged, the main body having a door to enable user access, a medicine introduction/discharge unit installed in one side region of the main body to introduce or discharge a medicine product into or out of the main body, a robot transfer unit installed in the main body to transfer the medicine product, introduced via the medicine introduction/discharge unit, to each receiving space of the main body, or to discharge the medicine product received in the receiving space, and a control unit to control operations of the main body, the medicine introduction/discharge unit, and the robot transfer unit. The system is able to store a variety of medicine in a single main body and to achieve enhanced security for special medicine and efficient management of stock.

Abstract: Disclosed is a medicine feeding apparatus. The medicine feeding apparatus includes a medicine cartridge, a cartridge mount, a medicine discharge mechanism, and a discharge drive mechanism. The medicine cartridge has an entrance opening formed in the top thereof, through which a medicine product is put into the medicine cartridge, and a discharge hole formed in a front position of the bottom thereof, through which the medicine product is discharged from the medicine cartridge by operation of the medicine discharge mechanism. The entrance opening is provided with a cover. The medicine cartridge is mounted on an upper surface of the cartridge mount, and the cartridge mount has an outer discharge hole communicating with the discharge hole to discharge the medicine product from the cartridge mount. The discharge drive mechanism is provided at the medicine cartridge and the cartridge mount and serves to drive the medicine discharge mechanism.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bobbin fixing apparatus. The bobbin fixing apparatus includes a rotating shaft installed to a mounting plate and provided with a fixing unit partially protruding from the rotating shaft so as to be inserted into the rotating shaft, and a bobbin on or from which an object is wound or unwound, the bobbin being placed on the rotating shaft such that the fixing unit is exposed in front of the bobbin. The bobbin includes a rotating body, a plurality of bobbin members on which an object is wound, and an end coupler configured to be operated upon receiving pressure when the bobbin is placed on the rotating shaft, the end coupling serving to keep an end of the object in a fixed position on the rotating shaft during winding or to release the end of the object from the fixed position during unwinding.

Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic tablet packing apparatus having sliding racks, wherein tablets received in a plurality of tablet cassettes are successively packed on a per dose basis based on a medical prescription. Each of the sliding racks includes a pair of left and right partition walls, a tablet discharge passage to guide the tablets discharged from the tablet cassettes being defined by facing inner surfaces of the left and right partition walls. Cassette pedestals are attached to outer surfaces of the left and right partition walls and in turn, the tablet cassettes are detachably arranged on the cassette pedestals. The left and right partition walls are able to be individually pulled out from a body of the apparatus. As the left or right partition wall is pulled out, the tablet discharge passage is revealed to the outside thus enabling easy cleaning thereof.