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).

  • Patent number: 8295977
    Abstract: (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: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yuyama, Yoshinori Kumano, Tasuku Minami
  • Patent number: 7857162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tasuku Minami, Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20090294467
    Abstract: (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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yuyama, Yoshinori Kumano, Tasuku Minami
  • Patent number: 7562791
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Naoki Koike, Tasuku Minami
  • Publication number: 20080164281
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Naoki Koike, Tasuku Minami
  • Publication number: 20080029537
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Tasuku Minami, Hiroshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7040505
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tasuku Minami
  • Publication number: 20040245276
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tasuku MInami
  • Patent number: 6736286
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Yuyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tasuku Minami, Hiroyasu Hamada
  • Publication number: 20030038143
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tasuku Minami, Hiroyasu Hamada
  • Patent number: 5927546
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho
    Inventors: Shoji Yuyama, Naoki Koike, Tasuku Minami