Abstract: A method and apparatus for driving slide racks of a tablet automatic packing machine are disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of slide racks appeared as doors are opened inside of a main body and a plurality of tablet cassettes installed in the doors and the plurality of slide racks. The apparatus is operated such that, when tablets are exhausted in tablet cassettes installed in the slide rack, the slide rack is automatically withdrawn by operations of a remote control device. The method and apparatus can prevent unnecessary operations of a motor such that, when tablets are exhausted in a tablet cassette, only a sector including the empty tablet cassette can be withdrawn under control of the control unit, in which the sector is one of a plurality of sectors included in one of a plurality of slide racks, thereby easily confirming a corresponding tablet cassette.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information input device for a tablet automatic packing machine capable of easily and directly storing tablet information in a memory chip and updating/reading the tablet information in/from the memory chip at a user side.

Abstract: A tablet cassette for a medicine packing machine is disclosed. The tablet cassette for a medicine packing machine includes a cassette for accommodating tablets and having a passage formed at one side of a lower end thereof, a cassette support with which the cassette is detachably coupled on the upper surface of the cassette support and which has an inclined passage communicated with the passage in one side thereof, and a discharge driver provided in the cassette and the cassette support. The discharge driver includes a conic rotating body provided in the cassette and having divisional protrusions on the outer circumference thereof, and a driving motor provided in the cassette support to rotate the rotating body in a forward direction and to rotate the rotating body in a reverse direction when tablets are lodged such that overload is generated.

Abstract: A tablet dispensing apparatus capable of easily performing tablet dispensing controls and of stably performing open/close operation of opening/closing levers is disclosed, in which it is simply constructed and its initial settings for dispensing tablets is easily set.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information input device for a tablet automatic packing machine capable of easily and directly storing tablet information in a memory chip and updating/reading the tablet information in/from the memory chip at a user side. The information input device includes a plurality of cassette supporters each of which has a first connector on the upper surface thereof and a memory chip mounted and electrically connected on and to the first connector.

Abstract: A package paper thermal printer of a tablet packing machine for printing information about prescription medicines on package paper by a thermal print head and a ribbon tape, so that the information is very easily printed and the patient can easily recognize the information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tablet sensing system for a drug dispensing apparatus for sensing and counting tablets when the tablets are discharged from tablet cassettes. The tablet sensing system maintains optical receipt sensitivity such that tablet discharge is precisely conducted by setting initial reference values of a level of signal for light emitted from a light emitting device for determining the change of the amount of light without resetting reference values for determining whether tablets are discharged or not, detects an output level of the optical signal from the light emitting device by means of a light receiving device before the tablets are discharged to determine whether the amount of light is varied or not based on the set initial reference values, and adjusts the output level of the optical signal by compensating the amount of light emitted from the light emitting means by an amount of change of light.

Abstract: Disclosed is an output control apparatus of an actuation means for tablet dispensing and packing of a tablet dispensing and packing apparatus, and more particularly to a processing unit setting system for tablet packing, which is capable of controlling a heating roller, open/close time of a hopper, printing position, cutting time of a cutter, tablet dropping time into an auxiliary tray, operation time of a tablet cassette, etc., using digital signals, and easily effecting setting (initializing operation) of output control signals by an operator.