Abstract: A medicine storing and dispensing apparatus includes: a cap container (501) storing a plurality of caps (2) for closing openings of vial bottles (3) and having a plurality of slits (508) formed on the bottom surface thereof; a plurality of cap stirring members (502) protruding from a rotating shaft (509) and extending inside a cap container (501) through the slits (508); and a cap pathway (503) which continues to the cap container (501), has a clearance allowing only one cap (2) to pass through, and which is inclined downward so as to align the passing caps (2).

Abstract: A tablet filling device for supplying a vial container of desired size certainly with no mistake comprising a plurality of containing means containing vial containers by size, a mean for taking out a vial container from the containing means based on prescription data, means for carrying a vial container taken out by the container take out means, a means or providing a table to a vial container carried by the carrying means, a means for collecting a vial container in the middle of carriage by the carrying means, a means provided on the carrying passage of the carrying means and detecting the size of a carried vial container, and a control means for judging whether the size of a vial container selected based on the prescription data matches the size of a vial container detected by the container size detection means and collecting the carried vial container by the container collection means if they do not match each other.

Abstract: A vial supply apparatus comprises: a vial supply part having a plurality of storage portions which store vials having different heights according to size, each storage portion comprising a rotatable endless member disposed at a predetermined interval from a partition wall, partitioning members disposed at predetermined intervals on the endless member, endless member driving means, and a supply port for dispensing a vial stored between adjacent partitioning members; a chute portion for dropping the vial dispensed from the supply port such that an opening of the vial faces upward; a robot arm for holding the vial supplied from the chute portion; and an adjustment table disposed below the robot arm, for adjusting an opening height of the vial supplied from the chute portion in accordance with the height of the vial.

Abstract: A compact tablet storage and take-out apparatus capable of quickly discharging and filing tablets. The tablet storage and take-out apparatus includes: a cylindrical drum; a drum driving device; a plurality of tablet cassette mounting bases fitted to an outer surface of the drum; tablet cassettes which are detachably mounted on the tablet cassette mounting bases; and a guide passage for guiding discharged tablets inside the drum. Moreover, the apparatus includes a transfer robot provided inside the drum so as to be liftable and also rotatable. The transfer robot is operable to transfers a vial between a delivery position located outside an opening formed in an upper end or a lower end of the drum and a tablet filling position. The position of at least one of the drum and the transfer robot is controlled so that an opening of the vial held by the transfer robot agrees with an outlet of the guide passage.

Abstract: Provided are a vial capping device and a vial capping method allowing the cap to be reliably fastened to the vial with a simple construction. The vial capping device has: a cap installation ring (35) equipped with an inner periphery thread (56) to be threadedly engaged with a thread (9) of an outer peripheral surface of a cap (1); a holding device (71) for holding a vial (1); a movement device (71) for bring ing at least one of a thread (6) of the inner peripheral surface of the cap attached to the cap (2) installation ring (35) and an opening (3) of the vial (1) close to the other; and a tightening motor (42) for rotating at least one of the cap installation ring (35) and the holding device (71).

Abstract: A vial supply apparatus comprises: a vial supply part having a plurality of storage portions which store vials having different heights according to size, each storage portion comprising a rotatable endless member disposed at a predetermined interval from a partition wall, partitioning members disposed at predetermined intervals on the endless member, endless member driving means, and a supply port for dispensing a vial stored between adjacent partitioning members; a chute portion for dropping the vial dispensed from the supply port such that an opening of the vial faces upward; a robot arm for holding the vial supplied from the chute portion; and an adjustment table disposed below the robot arm, for adjusting an opening height of the vial supplied from the chute portion in accordance with the height of the vial.

Abstract: A labeling apparatus of the present invention is constituted by: at least three support rollers 156a-156c which come into contact with the outer surface of the vial 3 to rotate; an arm 155a, 155b for rotatably supporting the support rollers 156a-156c; rotation means (rotation rollers 210a, 210b) for rotating the vial 3 held by the support rollers 156a-156c; label supply means 200 for supplying labels 4 to be attached on the outer surface of the vial 3; and endless member 157 which rotates according to the rotation of the vial 3 between a first support roller 156a with which the label 4 fed from the label supply means 200 comes into contact firstly and a second support roller 156b with which the label 4 comes into contact secondary.

Abstract: A device (1) for containing and dispensing tablets, wherein vial bottles (3) filled with tablets wait in waiting spaces (701a, b, c) and the vial bottles (3) are taken out from the waiting spaces (701a, b, c). A plurality of pair of holding members (703a, b) facing each other for holding the bodies of the vial bottles (3) are installed in the waiting spaces (701a, b, c), and stock sensors (710) of the same quantity as the pair of holding members (703a, b) are installed to check for each pair of holding members whether the vial bottles are held on the pair of holding members (703a, b) or not.

Abstract: A medicine storing and dispensing apparatus includes: a cap container 501 storing a plurality of caps 2 for closing openings of vial bottles 3 and having a plurality of slits 508 formed on the bottom surface thereof; a plurality of cap stirring members 511 formed in a rotating shaft 509 in the state of protruding inside the cap container 501 through-each of the slits 508; a cap stirring member 502 for steering the caps 2 by the stirring sections 510 through rotational driving; and a cap pathway 503 which continues to the cap container 501, has a clearance allowing only one cap 2 to pass through, and which is inclined downward so as to align the passing caps 2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compact tablet storage and take-out apparatus capable of quickly discharging and filing tablets. The tablet storage and take-out apparatus includes: a cylindrical drum; drum driving means; a plurality of tablet cassette mounting bases (341) which are fitted to an outer surface of the drum; tablet cassettes which are detachably mounted on the tablet cassette mounting bases; and a guide passage which guides inside the drum tablets discharged from the tablet cassettes. Moreover, the apparatus includes: a transfer robot which is provided inside the drum so as to be liftable and also rotatable, and which transfers the vial held by arms between a delivery position located outside an opening formed in an upper end or a lower end of the drum and a tablet filling position where the tablets discharged through the guide passage are filled.

Abstract: A drug filling apparatus capable of preventing drugs from being bridged to each other and reducing troubles. The drug filling apparatus has functions of selecting specific tablets from various types of tablet groups and filling of the selected tablets into a vial, and includes a storage cabinet (2), a drug supplying section (3), a drug halting section (5), a drug conveying section (6), a drug filling section (7), a vial storing section (8), and a vial carrying section (9). A drug dispenser (20) is installed in the drug halting section (5). A receptacle (31) of the drug dispenser (20) is constituted by an outer receptacle portion (35) and an inner receptacle portion (36). When a time for filling of tablets in the drug dispenser (20) into the vial comes, a motor (62) of a drive section (32) rotates according to specified signals to rotate the inner receptacle portion (36); that is, the rotational orientation of the inner receptacle portion (36) is changed to reverse the inner receptacle portion (36).

Abstract: On each of a plurality of disposed racks, an injection drug storing container is each detachably mounted. The injection drug storing container includes a transportation device for transporting a stored injection drug in one direction. The injection drug transported by the transportation device is housed in each housing portion formed on a circumferential portion of a rotating body one by one. The injection drug in each housing portion is sequentially delivered one by one by rotation of the rotating body.

Abstract: On each of a plurality of disposed racks, an injection drug storing container is each detachably mounted. The injection drug storing container includes a transportation means for transporting a stored injection drug in one direction. The injection drug transported by the transportation means is housed in each housing portion formed on a circumferential portion of a rotating body one by one. The injection drug in each housing portion is sequentially delivered one by one by rotation of the rotating body.