JP3021584B2 - Inventory control device for drug packaging machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a medicine packaging for automatically selecting and packing one or several kinds of medicines based on a different prescription for each patient in a hospital or a pharmacy. Machine inventory management device.

2. Description of the Related Art Currently, there are thousands of types of tablets dispensed in hospitals and pharmacies, but the number of tablets actually used is limited to about 800. Conventionally, a tablet packaging machine has been used, which can store approximately 250 kinds of tablets per unit, and can automatically pack tablets as prescribed by simply inputting desired dispensing data with a controller such as a personal computer. I have. As disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. Sho 58-46962, for example, the structure of such a tablet packaging machine accommodates a medicine accommodating unit accommodating a plurality of rectangular parallelepiped tablet cases, and a funnel-shaped hopper at a lower part. A casing containing a packaging machine unit via a shutter is provided.A plurality of cuboid tablet cases are stacked vertically in the medicine storage unit in accordance with the type of tablet. The tablet is driven by inputting a signal to extract the tablet, introduce the tablet into the hopper through the falling path, and then discharge one packet to the packaging machine via the shutter.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention The controller of the tablet packaging machine does not indicate the number of tablets stored in each tablet case, and the user visually checks the stock status in each tablet case. However, when the stock situation is appropriate, the tablet case can only be replenished to the corresponding tablet case by the user, and the tablet case is not provided with the stock management function.

In view of the above, the present invention provides an inventory management device for a medicine packaging machine, which is capable of automatically checking the number of medicines stored in each tablet case.

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention is directed to a medicine packaging machine including a controller having a key input unit and a display device, and a packaging machine for packaging medicines, which is transferred from the controller. Packaging, which controls the operation of the packaging machine based on the dispensing data including the kind of the medicine, the number of medicines, and the number of days, and transmits a medicine extraction signal to the controller each time one medicine stored in a plurality of tablet cases is extracted. A control device of the device, a file memory provided in the controller, for registering an appropriate stock quantity and a stock quantity for each tablet case, and a stock quantity of the corresponding tablet case in the file memory each time the medicine extraction signal is received. And a central processing unit of a controller for searching the file memory and displaying a search result on the display device when there is a tablet case in which the stock quantity is equal to or less than the appropriate stock quantity. Ri is intended to provide an inventory management system for the managed medicine packaging machine.

Further, the search result is displayed by the number of the tablet case whose stock quantity is equal to or less than the proper stock quantity.

Alternatively, the search result is displayed such that a tablet case whose stock quantity is equal to or less than an appropriate stock quantity is different from other tablet cases. In other words, in addition to encouraging the replenishment of the medicine, in order to notify which tablet case needs to be replenished, the retrieving means, for tablet cases whose stock quantity is equal to or less than the appropriate stock quantity predetermined for each tablet case, It is desirable to make the display state different from other tablet cases.

Operation When the medicine extracting signal is output from the packaging machine (specifically, the tablet case), the search operation of the search means is started, the stock quantity of the corresponding tablet case is reduced by one, and the file memory is searched to find the proper stock quantity. When the number of tablet cases is equal to or less than the number, the search result is displayed on the display device. Therefore, even during the packaging operation, the stock number of the medicine in the entire medicine packaging machine is confirmed, and the automatic stock management is performed.

In addition, when the stock quantity of a predetermined tablet case becomes equal to or less than a predetermined appropriate stock quantity for the tablet case, a search result is displayed on the display device,
The user is notified of the situation only when the medicine replenishment operation is necessary.

Further, when the stock quantity of a predetermined tablet case becomes equal to or less than a predetermined appropriate stock quantity for the tablet case, the display state of the corresponding tablet case on the display device is different from that of the other tablet cases. Is displayed, the user is notified of the tablet case that needs replenishment of the medicine.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an external view of a medicine packaging machine, which comprises a controller 10 and a packaging machine 11. The controller 10 creates drug information by key operation of the key input unit 12 and displays the created drug information on the display device 22, creates dispensing data including the drug type, the number of drugs, and the number of days, transfers the data to the packaging machine 11, and performs packaging. The machine 11 performs a packaging operation based on the transferred dispensing data. The drug information is
A series of information units consisting of a drug code, a tablet case number, a drug name, an appropriate stock quantity, and a stock quantity are obtained by assembling a plurality of units in correspondence with each tablet case. The tablet case number corresponding to the medicine name, and the number of medicines means the number of medicines to be extracted (there is a designation of the time of taking).

11A is a casing, and in this casing 11A,
A tablet case storage unit 1 as a medicine storage unit is formed in an upper part, and a hopper 2, a shutter 3 as a loading mechanism, and a packaging mechanism 4 are arranged below the tablet case storage unit 1. The tablet case storage unit 1 is divided into a plurality of planes by a grid-like partition plate, and stores a tablet case 5 elongated in the up-down direction independently in each section. A tablet case 5 is placed in the tablet case storage unit 1 according to the type of medicine. The tablet case 5 is driven by input of a predetermined signal to take out medicines one by one. Is output to the hopper 2. The drug extraction signal is sent to the control device 14 described later, and is also transferred to the control circuit 13 via the interfaces 15, 16 and the transmission line 17.

The packaging mechanism 4 includes a roller 7 that winds a pre-folded packaging sheet 6 that can be thermally welded, a tension roller 8, and a printer 30 that prints predetermined items such as dispensing data and patient names on the packaging sheet 6. A T-shaped heat seal mechanism 9 for heat-sealing the packaging sheet 6 in a T-shape to form a continuous sachet, a feed roller 10 for intermittently feeding the sheet-like sachet, And a conveyor 45 for sending the sachet to the medicine package outlet.

Then, the feed roller 10 is intermittently driven to convey the packaging sheet 6, and when the intermittent operation is stopped, the heat sealing mechanism 9 thermally welds the packaging sheet 6 into a T-shape and opens the upper half of the opening bag. To form The medicine conveyed by the two conveyors (not shown) is supplied to the shutter 3 from between the two conveyors.
Fall into. The shutter 3 has openings on the upper and lower surfaces, and the lower surface opening is closed by a bottom plate. , Paper opening device (not shown)
Opens the upper part of the sachet, and the shutter 3 advances forward on the bottom plate toward the sachet. When the shutter 3 further advances to the front of the bottom plate, the medicine in the shutter 3 falls into the sachet because the lower surface opening is opened, and the medicine input operation to the sachet is completed. . The shutter 3 moves rearward and stops at a predetermined position by the introduction of the medicine. Thereafter, the opening of the upper half of the sachet is heat-sealed by the operation of the heat sealing mechanism 9 accompanying the operation for forming the next sachet, and the sachet containing the medicine is sealed.

FIG. 3 shows a control circuit according to the invention, and 13 is a controller 10
The control circuit unit 14 on the side is a control circuit unit or control device on the side of the packaging machine 11, which is connected by a transmission line 17 via interfaces 15 and 16 for converting transmission data into serial data and receiving data in parallel. .

The control circuit unit 13 on the controller side includes a central processing unit 18 and a system memory in which a control procedure of the system is programmed.
19, a keyboard interface 20 that detects an operation of the key input unit 12 and generates a key input signal, a CRT controller 21, a CRT 22 as a display device, and a key input unit 12. Type of drug, number of drugs,
Buffer memory 23 for storing dispensing data consisting of days
And a file memory 27 for storing medicine information created by key input.

On the other hand, the control device 14 includes a central processing unit 24, a system memory 25 in which a control procedure on the side of the packaging machine 11 is programmed, and a medicine type, the number of agents transmitted from the control circuit unit 13 on the controller 10 side, and the like.
Buffer memory 26 for storing dispensing data consisting of days
And a packaging machine controller for controlling the packaging operation of the packaging machine 11
28, a printer interface 29, a printer 30, and registers R1 and R2.

Display device at the time of key input operation by key input unit 12
As shown in FIG. 2, the contents displayed on 22, that is, the display screen 31, include a patient information display section 32 showing patient information such as the name and gender of a patient to be dispensed in order from the top, and medicine information and dispensing information. The medicine information display unit 33 includes a medicine information display unit 33 and a medicine information display unit 34 that shows medicine information. Instruction means 12 for confirming the stock quantity of the medicine provided at an appropriate position of the key input unit 12
When C is operated, or when a tablet case that is less than the appropriate stock quantity is found by a search by a search unit described later, a window is displayed in one section of the medicine information display section 33.
The display 35 is displayed in an overlapping manner (this is called an interrupt display).

The window-display unit 35 includes a case position display unit 36 that indicates a schematic position of a case number (numbers 1 to 240 are regularly arranged in this embodiment) determined for each tablet case. A stock information display section 37 for displaying stock information including a case number, a medicine name, and a stock quantity of at least one of the tablet cases having the stock quantity or less.
It is composed of If it is desired to change the display content of the stock information display section 37 to another one, the cursor in the case position display section 36 may be moved to a desired case number by a cursor movement key (not shown). .

The control device 14 performs packaging control based on the dispensing data transmitted from the control circuit unit 13 on the controller side, but the transfer mode between the control circuit units 13 and 14 is determined by the control device 14 when the control device 14 issues a transfer request to the control circuit unit 13. It starts by sending a signal. At this time, the control device 14 periodically transmits the transfer request signal without performing the packaging control.

Further, when the medicine extraction signal is output from the control device 14 and transferred to the control circuit section 13, the central processing unit 18 based on the medicine extraction signal causes the central processing unit 18 to execute the inventory quantity and the appropriate inventory in the medicine information stored in the file memory 27. From the number, a tablet case number having a stock number equal to or less than the appropriate stock number is searched, and the search result is displayed on the display device 22 (specifically, the window-display unit 35 overlapping one section of the medicine information display unit). . For this reason, the central processing unit 18 has a function as search means. The central processing unit 18, the file memory 27, and the control device 14 constitute an inventory management device for a medicine packaging machine.

Hereinafter, the operation of the control circuit unit 13 on the controller side will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The central processing unit 18, N ₁ and N ₂ number initial stock at each step (i.e., the packaging machine the number of agents accommodated in each tablet case prior to 11 the work) and proper inventory quantity (i.e., each tablet case register inventory) as a supplement measure of drug prescribed in the file memory 27, to determine the presence or absence of the transfer request signal N ₃ step, the transfer request signal is not output, the drug excised N ₄ step The presence or absence of a signal is determined. N ₅ if there is no drug extraction signal
It is determined whether or not there is a key input in a step. The name of the medicine to be packaged every morning, noon, evening and before bedtime, the number of the medicines (including the designation of the package for each morning, noon, evening and before bedtime) and the number of days are entered by key input in the key input section 12. Once entered, the N ₆ steps to create a dispensing data based on the key input content in accordance with a predetermined format stored in the buffer memory 23. On the other hand, N ₄
If drug removed signal in step, file memory to subtract 1 from the stock quantity of the tablet case which has output the drug removed signal at N ₇ step (i.e. removal chemicals) 27
Drug information rewritten, inventory in medicine information N ₈ step is searched whether well below the optimum inventory number, if there is no lower than the optimum inventory number, N ₉ whether discrimination inventory confirmation signal at step Is done. If there is no inventory confirmation signal, return to N ₃ step, if there is a stock confirmation signal, the process proceeds to N ₁₀ step. If there is something less than the proper stock in N ₈ steps, at N ₁₀ steps, while displaying the case number corresponding to the drug on the case position display section 36 of the display device 22,
The stock information corresponding to one of the medicines is displayed on the stock information display section 37 (if there is one medicine, one of the medicines is displayed). FIG. 2 shows an example of a display when there are a plurality of applicable medicines. In this example, only the applicable case numbers are displayed. However, all the numbers are displayed and only the applicable case numbers are displayed in different colors. May be displayed or blinking. In accordance with this display, the user supplemented with appropriate chemicals tablet cases (and for convenience N ₁₁ steps), the number of supplemented drugs enter the words replenishment number (for convenience
N ₁₂ and step), in N ₁₃ step (rewritten drug information file memory 27 to replace the number of stock inventory + replenishment number), turn off the display of the relevant chemicals supplemented with N ₁₄ step, N Return to step ₈ . Therefore, if the replenishment of the medicine and the input operation of the number of replenishment are not performed, the display of the corresponding medicine on the stock information display section 37 does not disappear.

Determining the other N ₃ step, when the transfer request signal from the controller 14 detects that the is being sent, whether the dispensing data shifts to N ₁₅ step. When the key input for packaging have been made, the buffer memory 23 by the processing of the aforementioned N ₆ steps are formulated data store, control of the packaging machine side pharmacy data through transmission line 17 is at N ₁₆ step Transfer to device 14. N In step ₁₇ , buffer memory 2
Clear the contents of ₃ and return to N3 step. Also, N ₁₅
When it is confirmed no dispensing data in step, returning to N ₃ steps.

Next, the operation of the control device 14 of the packaging machine will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Outputs a transfer request signal by M ₁ step, it is determined whether the dispensing data in M ₂ steps.
Here, when receiving the dispensing data from the control circuit unit 13 of the controller 10 side, stores the dispensing data to the buffer memory 26 at M ₃ steps. The M ₄ steps and M ₅ Step Next, the register R ₁ drug species from the pharmacy data, the number of agents are stored respectively in the register R2, the M ₆ step, whether the contents of register R2 is "0" It determines, if not "0", at M ₇ steps is output excised command signal for the tablet case drug from the tablet cases drug removal signal is output by being removed. Then in M ₈ step, stores again register R2 by one subtracted from the stored agent number in the register R2, is transferred to the medicament extraction signal control circuit 13 in M ₉ step, returns to M ₆ steps.
The M ₆ repeats the operation until ~M _9, the agent number of register R2 in M ₆ step becomes "0", the process proceeds to M ₁₀ step. In M ₁₀ step, the packaging machine 11 packaging operation is started, the number of days in M ₁₁ steps and M ₁₂ steps, i.e., the packaging operation for one dispensing portion of the drug is performed, returning to M ₄ steps.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, each time a medicine extraction signal is received, the number of inventories of the corresponding tablet case in the file memory is reduced by one, and the number of inventories in the file memory is reduced by searching the file memory. At one time, the search result is displayed on the display device, so that the user can know that the replenishment work of the medicine is necessary, and a display means for prompting the replenishment of the display device before the stock is completely exhausted. Available as

Further, according to the second aspect, since it is possible to confirm which tablet case needs replenishment of medicine by just looking at the display device, it is possible to easily know the medicine which needs replenishment.

According to the third aspect, since it is possible to confirm which tablet case needs replenishment of medicine by simply looking at the display state of the display device, it is possible to easily know the medicine that needs replenishment.

[Brief description of the drawings]

Each drawing shows an embodiment of the medicine packaging machine of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the medicine packaging machine, FIG. 2 is a front view showing one display screen on the display device, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the controller, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the packaging machine. A: drug packaging machine, 5: tablet case, 10: controller, 11: packaging machine, 12: key input unit, 13: control circuit unit, 14: control device, 18: central processing Device (search means), 22 display device, 27 file memory, R1, R2
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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A medicine packaging machine comprising a controller having a key input section and a display device, and a packaging machine for packaging medicines, wherein dispensing data comprising the kind of medicine, the number of medicines, and the number of days transferred from the controller. A control device for the packaging machine, wherein the control device controls the operation of the packaging machine and transmits a medicine extraction signal to the controller each time one of the medicines stored in the plurality of tablet cases is extracted. A file memory for registering an appropriate stock quantity and stock quantity for each tablet case, and each time the medicine extraction signal is received, the stock quantity of the corresponding tablet case in the file memory is reduced by 1 and the file memory is searched to find the stock. A central processing unit of a controller for displaying a search result on the display device when there is a tablet case whose number is equal to or less than an appropriate stock number; Place. 2. The inventory management device for a medicine packaging machine according to claim 1, wherein the search result is displayed by a number of a tablet case whose stock quantity is equal to or less than an appropriate stock quantity. 3. The management apparatus for a medicine packaging machine according to claim 1, wherein the search result is displayed for a tablet case whose stock quantity is equal to or less than an appropriate stock quantity in a state different from other tablet cases.