Patents by Inventor Shoji Yuyama

Shoji Yuyama has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6789996
    Abstract: A support member (7) is positioned at a lower part of a storage container (3). The support member (7) supports a second medicine container (10, 16, 17) placed on the lowermost medicine container so that the lowermost medicine container falls off by its own weight. The discharge member (8) discharges the medicine container which fell off from the support member (7). The collecting mechanism (24) conveys the medicines containers discharged from the discharge member (8) to one position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Hiroyuki Yuyama, Toshihiro Amatsu
  • Patent number: 6773081
    Abstract: A cabinet for conveying medicine which occupies a small space when not in use and which can hold the various sizes of medicine buckets. A plurality of medicine bucket supporting members (3a, 3b) for supporting multiple stages of medicine buckets (7) are provided on a movable base member (2). The medicine bucket supporting members (3a, 3b) are juxtaposed on the base member (2) with a predetermined distance therebetween. The medicine bucket supporting members (3a, 3b) are positioned so that, when a plurality of the cabinets (1) are juxtaposed with all of the medicine buckets (7) removed, the medicine bucket supporting members (3a, 3b) do not interfere with the base member (2) of an adjacent cabinet (1). Whereby, the medicine bucket supporting members (3a, 3b) of each cabinet (1) can be disposed so as to abut against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Shuji Aoyama, Akitoshi Honryo
  • Patent number: 6766920
    Abstract: The present invention provides a medicine feed unit 1 which can reliably feed a predetermined number of medicine sticks 5 without requiring a work for aligning the medicine sticks. The medicine feed unit 1 is equipped with a medicine housing container 3 for housing a plurality of medicine sticks 5 each obtained by packaging a medicine in a cylindrical bag sealed at both end portions and a medicine feeding section 4, to which the medicine housing container 3 is removably attached and which feeds the medicine sticks 5 one by one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Nakaji Takeda, Yasuhiro Shigeyama, Chisei Asaoka
  • Publication number: 20040094386
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Tsuyoshi Kodama, Yasuhiro Shigeyama, Toshihiro Amatsu, Katsunori Yoshina, Tetsuo Hiraya, Ayumu Saito, Takahiro Kitakura
  • Patent number: 6726056
    Abstract: A drawer 2c is provided with a collecting mechanism 20 for collecting medicines discharged from the storage containers 3. The body frame 1 is provided with a recovery box 28 for recovering medicines collected by the collecting mechanism 20. The collecting mechanism 20 has a first passage and a second passage which can be used interchangeably. The first passage allows the medicines discharged from the storage containers 3 to be conveyed to the recovery box 28, when the drawers 2c are contained in the body frame 1, while the second passage allows the medicines discharged from the storage containers 3 to be conveyed to the recovery box 28 when the drawers 2c are drawn out of the body frame 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Toshihiro Amatsu
  • Publication number: 20040060943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tablet packing apparatus in which there is no risk that next tablets are mixed into tablets previously discharged. The packing apparatus comprises a plurality of feeder vessels 36 containing the tablets, a plurality of mounting bases 32 on which respective feeder vessels 36 are mounted, and a tablet reserving member 200 disposed below the mounting base 32 and reserving the tablets fed from the feeder vessels 36 and a shutter 203,300 which is movable to open and close the lower opening of the tablet reserving member 200. The apparatus further comprises a LED 201 which is turned on when the tablets are fed to the tablet reserving member 200 and a sensor 206, 301a, 301b for detecting opening or closing operation of the shutter 203, whereby when the sensor 206, 301a, 301b detects the opening operation of the shutter 203,300, the LED 201 is turned off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Hiroyuki Yuyama, Tsuyoshi Kodama, Hidenori Murakami
  • Patent number: 6692211
    Abstract: The lifter 3 is moved upward until the storage shelf 2 on which the packaging box 9 that contains the transfusion bottles 13 corresponding to the prescription is stored. Then, the first conveyor mechanism 8 of the storage shelf 2 and the second conveyor mechanism 14 of the lifter 3 are driven to convey the packaging box 9 of the transfusion bottle 13 from the storage shelf 2 to the lifter 3. When the lifter 3 is moved downward to the lowermost position, the second conveyor mechanism 14 of the lifter 3 and the third conveyor mechanism 16 of the receiving table 4 are driven to convey the packaging box 9 of the transfusion bottle 13 from the lifter 3 to the receiving table 4. Subsequently, the grip mechanism 5 is driven to grip the transfusion bottle 13 in the packaging box 9 on the receiving table 4 and convey it to the collection container 20. Then, the transfusion bottle 13 is released above the collection container 20 and contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Tsuyoshi Kodama, Reiji Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 6691490
    Abstract: A drug packaging system including a bag supply unit (A) for printing injection drug information on bags and feeding the bags, a drug feed unit (B) for putting drugs specified the doctors' orders into each of the bags (206) received from the bag supply unit (A), and a packaging unit for putting the bags (206) into a bucket (209). The packaging unit includes a bed (230) for supporting bags, a mouth-opening means (231, 232) for opening the mouth of the bag on the bed, and a chute (233) through which drugs are fed into the bag on the bed through the bag mouth. The bed (230) is pivotable between a position for putting drugs into the bag and a position for dispensing the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Hiroshi Nose, Tsuyoshi Kodama, Kunihiko Kano, Masahiko Kasuya, Yasuhiro Shigeyama
  • Patent number: 6690998
    Abstract: In the present invention, in order to reliably smoothly recover different kinds of medicines separately and pack them, the apparatus is provided with hoppers 18, 19 with at least two separated passages, and wherein each hopper 18, 19 can feed a different kind of medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Yuyama
  • Patent number: 6644504
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tablet packing apparatus which is possible to feed specially administrative tablets separately from general tablets. Specially administrative tablets are contained in a feeder vessel. A tablet reserving member 200 is disposed below the feeder vessel 36. A shutter 203 which is movable to open and close the lower opening of the tablet reserving member 200 is provided. When setting the tablet vessel beneath the tablet reserving member 200 and moving the shutter 203 to open the lower opening of the tablet reserving member 200, the specially administrative tablets are fed into the tablet vessel without passing through the common passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Hiroyuki Yuyama, Tsuyoshi Kodama, Hidenori Murakami
  • Patent number: 6638003
    Abstract: A tablet sheet removing apparatus in which tablet sheets (S) are contained in a stacked state within a tablet sheet containing portion (1). Among the tablet sheets (S), at least two tablet sheets (S1, S2), forming the discharge side, are supported separately. A discharge portion (3) sucks and holds only the first tablet sheet (S1) from the discharge side among the tablet sheets (S) supported by an elastic support portion (2) to move and discharge it. Thus, in spite of the stacked direction of the tablet sheets, only one tablet sheet (S1) can be discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Yuyama
  • Patent number: 6625952
    Abstract: A medication dispensing apparatus of the present invention contains a plurality of different kinds of medication separately, dispenses the medicament to pack them into package belt, and discharges the package belt. The medication dispensing apparatus comprises a cutting device for cutting the package belt into short package belt including at least one medication package for specified period in accordance with prescription data, a stacking device for stacking the short package belts and a bundling device for bundling the stacked short package belts. According to the medication dispensing apparatus, it is possible to cut off medication packages and empty packages from the package belt automatically and rapidly, reducing medication distributing job in a hospital. The medication dispensing apparatus is applicable to a medicament collecting system comprising a tray feed station, a medication dispensing station and a tray recovering station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: AutoMed Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Duane S. Chudy, Shoji Yuyama, Shigeru Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 6616010
    Abstract: A medicine feeder apparatus comprising a plurality of cassettes each of which contains a different kind of medicine and a base portion on which the plurality of cassettes are mounted and which discharges the medicine in accordance with the prescription. the apparatus comprises an identification which is provided on each cassette, the identification showing information on the medicine contained in the cassette; a reader which is provided on the base portion, the reader reading the identification of the cassette during the cassette is mounted on the base portion; and a rock which is provided on the base portion, the rock preventing the cassette from being mounted. If the information of the medicine read from the identification by the reader does not coincide with a previously stored information, the rock is operated, while if coincide, the rock is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: YuYama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Yasuhiro Shigeyama, Ayumu Saito, Akitomi Kohama, Masahiko Kasuya, Masaki Tujita
  • Patent number: 6581355
    Abstract: In order to feed tablet vessels in with simple and low-cost construction, there is provided a vessel holder member (76) having fork-like support portions (78). The vessel holder member (76) is capable of linearly reciprocating between a vessel supporting position and a tablet receiving position. At the vessel supporting position, the vessel holder member (76) receives a tablet vessel (11) fed from a vessel feed section 3 and a flange of the tablet vessel (11) is supported by the support portions (78). At a tablet receiving position, the tablets fed from the tablet feed section (2) are contained in the tablet vessel (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Tsuyoshi Kodama, Takashi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20030062388
    Abstract: The present invention provides a medicine feed unit 1 which can reliably feed a predetermined number of medicine sticks 5 without requiring a work for aligning the medicine sticks. The medicine feed unit 1 is equipped with a medicine housing container 3 for housing a plurality of medicine sticks 5 each obtained by packaging a medicine in a cylindrical bag sealed at both end portions and a medicine feeding section 4, to which the medicine housing container 3 is removably attached and which feeds the medicine sticks 5 one by one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Nakaji Takeda, Yasuhiro Shigeyama, Chisei Asaoka
  • Publication number: 20030029882
    Abstract: In a casing, a grasp means and a movement means are provided. The movement means is driven and controlled by a control means with a container box being positioned in a specified position based on coordinate data of an injection drug housing member preinstalled in a coordinate data table for moving the injection drug housing member to a graspable position by the grasp means. Next, after grasped by the grasp means, the injection drug housing member is automatically transported to a desired position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Tsuyoshi Kodama, Naoki Koike, Akitomi Kohama, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Masahiko Kasuya, Takayuki Fujikawa, Hiroyasu Hamada
  • Publication number: 20030020383
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cabinet for conveying medicine which has a small space occupied by itself when not using it and which can hold the various sizes of medicine buckets irrespective of simple construction. A plurality of medicine bucket supporting members 3 for supporting in multistage medicine buckets 7 in which medicines are put are provided on a movable base member 2 with casters 4. The medicine bucket supporting members 3 are juxtaposed on the base member 2 with a predetermined distance therebetween. The opposite faces of the medicine bucket supporting members 3 are provided with support portions 8 for supporting both side edges of the medicine bucket 7. The medicine bucket supporting members 3 are positioned so that, when the plurality of cabinets 1 are juxtaposed with all of the medicine buckets 7 removed, the medicine bucket supporting members 3 do not interfere with the base member 2 of the adjacent cabinet 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Shuji Aoyama, Akitoshi Honryo
  • Publication number: 20020162850
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tablet packing apparatus which is possible to feed specially administrative tablets separately from general tablets. Specially administrative tablets are contained in a feeder vessel. A tablet reserving member 200 is disposed below the feeder vessel 36. A shutter 203 which is movable to open and close the lower opening of the tablet reserving member 200 is provided. When setting the tablet vessel beneath the tablet reserving member 200 and moving the shutter 203 to open the lower opening of the tablet reserving member 200, the specially administrative tablets are fed into the tablet vessel without passing through the common passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Hiroyuki Yuyama, Tsuyoshi Kodama, Hidenori Murakami
  • Publication number: 20020154987
    Abstract: The support member 7 is positioned at the lower part of the storage container 3. The support member 7 supports the second medicine 10, 16, 17 placed on the lowermost medicine so that the lowermost medicine falls off by its own weight. The discharge member 8 discharges the medicine which fell off from the support member 7. The collecting mechanism 28 conveys the medicines discharged from the discharge member 8 to one position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Hiroyuki yuyama, Amatsu Toshihiro
  • Publication number: 20020152717
    Abstract: The drawer 2c is provided with a collecting mechanism 20 for collecting the medicines discharged from the storage containers 3. The body frame 1 is provided with a recovery box 28 for recovering the medicines collected by the collecting mechanism 20. The collecting mechanism 20 has a first passage and a second passage which are interchangeable, the first passage allowing the medicines discharged from the storage containers 3 to be conveyed to the recovery box 28 in a state that the drawers 2c are contained in the body frame 1, while the second passage allowing the medicines discharged from the storage containers 3 to be conveyed to the recovery box 28 in a state that the drawers 2c are drawn out of the body frame 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Toshihiro Amatsu