Selectively Preset Cycle Flow Terminator Patents (Class 177/14)
  • Patent number: 9238555
    Abstract: A medicine counting device including a rotary container broadening radially in an upward direction and configured to rotate around an axis of the rotary container; a guide member fixed with a predetermined gap on a top surface side of the rotary container, spirally extending from the central portion towards an outer circumference of the rotary container, and configured to guide a medicine moved by a rotation of the rotary container from the central portion towards the outer circumference of the rotary container. The medicine counting device further includes a detector provided outside of the rotary container and a regulator configured to feed a medicine having been moved to the outer circumference and being in contact with the guide member towards the detector but returns the medicines which are not being in contact with the guide member to the central portion side of the rotary container by overpassing the guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Koike, Mitsuhiro Mitani