Patents by Inventor Tasuku Minami
Tasuku Minami 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).
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Patent number: 8295977Abstract: (Object) To enable, in an operation of supplying a medicine to a medicine cassette, in which it is typical that the medicine once put in a vial bottle is recovered to a medicine cassette (medicine receiving container), an operation of specifying the medicine cassette to which the medicine is to be supplied to be performed more accurately and more efficiently. (Solving Means) Information used for specifying the medicine is read by reading a prescription code (d31) recorded as a bar code on a vial bottle (S202) or is input as search information through an operation portion (S221). As a result, a cassette shelf (2) (cassette code (d21)) to which a medicine cassette (1) for receiving the medicine corresponding to the input information is mounted is specified (S203, S224), and a shelf lamp (3) provided to the specified cassette shelf (2) is brought into a predetermined notification display state (blinking state).Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yuyama, Yoshinori Kumano, Tasuku Minami
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Patent number: 7857162Abstract: A tablet feeder including a tablet accommodating section (4) capable of accommodating a multiplicity of tablets A; a tablet array member (8) which is disposed in the tablet accommodating section (4) and which, while being driven and rotated, retains the tablets A one after another in pockets (11) formed in an outer periphery thereof and discharges the tablets at a discharge position; and a partitioning member (13) whose partitioning portion (14) having a shape of a brush partitions the pocket (11) so that the upper tablets A do not fall into the lower pocket (11). Thereby, the tablets A that are retained in the pocket (11) of the tablet array member (8) are discharged in a predetermined number. The partitioning member (13) includes a plurality of brush elements (15a, 15b) constituting a partitioning portion (14). At least part of the brush elements (15a) each has a tip that is bent in a U-shape. Thus, deformation of the brush elements (15a), constituting the partitioning member (13), can be surely prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tasuku Minami, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20090294467Abstract: (Object) To enable, in an operation of supplying a medicine to a medicine cassette, in which it is typical that the medicine once put in a vial bottle is recovered to a medicine cassette (medicine receiving container), an operation of specifying the medicine cassette to which the medicine is to be supplied to be performed more accurately and more efficiently. (Solving Means) Information used for specifying the medicine is read by reading a prescription code (d31) recorded as a bar code on a vial bottle (S202) or is input as search information through an operation portion (S221). As a result, a cassette shelf (2) (cassette code (d21)) to which a medicine cassette (1) for receiving the medicine corresponding to the input information is mounted is specified (S203, S224), and a shelf lamp (3) provided to the specified cassette shelf (2) is brought into a predetermined notification display state (blinking state).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yuyama, Yoshinori Kumano, Tasuku Minami
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Patent number: 7562791Abstract: To automatically eliminate clogging of tablets, a tablet filling device provides a cassette body including a tablet cassette, having tablets, a rotor having a groove for holding a tablet, and a discharge port for discharging the tablet held by the groove. The cassette body includes a worm gear in mesh with a gear fixed to a shaft of the rotor. A carrying member is adapted to approach the tablet cassette while holding a tablet container. The tablet filling device is equipped with a drive shaft engaged with the worm gear to rotate the rotor via the gear. The tablet container is carried to the tablet cassette by the carrying member and, when a rotation of the rotor stops halfway through dispensing of tablets, the worm gear is moved in the axial direction of the drive shaft of the carrying member to cause the rotor to make a reverse rotation.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Naoki Koike, Tasuku Minami
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Publication number: 20080164281Abstract: To automatically eliminate the clogging with tablets before maintenance, the present invention provides a cassette body (14) including: a tablet cassette (12) which has, in a cassette main body (14) accommodating tablets, a rotor (13) rotatably provided and having a groove for holding a tablet, and in which a discharge port (19) for discharging the tablet held by the groove is formed in the cassette main body (14), with the cassette main body (14) being provided with a worm gear (23) in mesh with a gear (33, 22) fixed to a shaft of the rotor (13) protruding from a bottom of the cassette main body (14); and a carrying member (41) adapted to approach the tablet cassette (12) accommodating tablets to be extracted while holding a tablet container (9), and equipped with a drive shaft (50) to be engaged with the worm gear (23) to rotate the rotor (13) via the gear (33, 22). The worm gear (23) is provided so as to be movable in an axial direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2006Publication date: July 10, 2008Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Naoki Koike, Tasuku Minami
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Publication number: 20080029537Abstract: A tablet feeder comprising: a tablet accommodating section 4 capable of accommodating a multiplicity of tablets A; a tablet array member 8 which is disposed in the tablet accommodating section 4 and which, while being driven and rotated, retains the tablets A one after another in pockets 11 defined on an outer periphery thereof and discharges them at a discharge position; and a partitioning member 13 whose partitioning portion 14 having a shape of brush partitions the pocket 11 so that the upper tablets A do not fall into the lower pocket 11, thereby the tablets A retained in the pocket 11 of the tablet array member 8 are discharged by a predetermined number, the tablet feeder being characterized in that; at least part of brush element 15a among the brush elements 15a, 15b constituting the partitioning portion 14 of the partitioning member 13 has a tip bent in a U-shape. Thus, deformation of the brush element 15a constituting the partitioning member 13 can be surely prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2005Publication date: February 7, 2008Inventors: Tasuku Minami, Hiroshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 7040505Abstract: A tablet feeder that is simple in construction and yet capable of accurately preventing drawbacks from occurring due to jamming of medicine or the like. A motor (6) installed on a case support block (3) is driven to rotate a rotor (9) disposed in a medicine receiving case (1) through a plurality of gears. The tablets received in the medicine receiving case (1) are held in the pockets (10) of the rotor (9) and are moved to a discharge section (11) to discharge tablets therefrom. The gearing is composed of a driving gear (7) connected to the rotary shaft of the motor (6), and a driven gear (13) meshing with the driving gear (7). Installed in either of the power transmission paths extending from the motor (6) to the rotor (9) through the two gears (7, 13) is a power cut-off section (15, 17) that cuts off the power from the motor (6) when a force of a predetermined value or above acts on the rotor (9).Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tasuku Minami
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Publication number: 20040245276Abstract: The invention provides a tablet feeder that is simple in construction and yet capable of accurately preventing drawbacks from occurring due to jamming of medicine or the like. A motor 6 installed on a case support block 3 is driven to rotate a rotor 9 disposed in a medicine receiving case 1 through a plurality of gears. The tablets received in the medicine receiving case 1 are held in the pockets 10 of the rotor 9 and is moved to the discharge section 11 to discharge tablets from the discharge section 11. The gearing is composed of a driving gear 7 connected to the rotary shaft of the motor 6, and a driven gear 13 meshing with the driving gear 7. Installed in either of the power transmission paths extending from the motor 6 to the rotor 9 through the two gears 7, 13 is a power cut-off section 15, 17 that cuts off the power from the motor 6 when a force of a predetermined value or above acts on the rotor 9.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tasuku MInami
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Patent number: 6736286Abstract: The present invention provides a tablet feeder in which a rotor can smoothly rotate to discharge tablets in spite of a large volume type of tablet containing case having a simple construction. A support portion 11 is provided in the tablets containing case 4 and positioned above at least one of the pocket portions 9 for preventing the weight of the tablets acting on the pocket portions 9 from resisting the rotation of the rotor 8.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2002Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tasuku Minami, Hiroyasu Hamada
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Publication number: 20030038143Abstract: The present invention provides a tablet feeder in which a rotor can smoothly rotate to discharge tablets in spite of a large volume type of tablet containing case having a simple construction. A support portion 11 is provided in the tablets containing case 4 and positioned above at least one of the pocket portions 9 for preventing the weight of the tablets acting on the pocket portions 9 from resisting the rotation of the rotor 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2002Publication date: February 27, 2003Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tasuku Minami, Hiroyasu Hamada
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Patent number: 5927546Abstract: A tablet feeder can smoothly and continuously discharge all tablets in a case to the last one. The tablet feeder includes a tablet storage case and a support member. A rotor is rotatably mounted in the case on an inner bottom thereof. A plurality of pockets are formed in the outer periphery of the rotor at predetermined intervals. The rotor is rotated by a motor through a gear. A high-friction member is provided on the inner bottom of the case to prevent tablets from remaining on a boundary between the rotor and the inner bottom while bridging the rotor and the inner bottom.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yuyama SeisakushoInventors: Shoji Yuyama, Naoki Koike, Tasuku Minami