JP7125659B2 - Drug sorting device and drug sorting system - Google Patents

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TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a medicine sorting device that sorts medicines so that users do not take them by mistake. The present invention also relates to a medicine sorting system for packaging and sorting medicines by dose.

Elderly patients (users) and patients whose symptoms have passed the acute stage are often treated at home. In addition, patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia who do not require emergency care are often treated at home. Patients recuperating at home need to take medication based on self-management.
For example, if the doctor's prescription is to take medicines A and B in the morning, medicine B in the afternoon, and double the amount of medicines A and C after dinner. In addition, it is necessary for the patient himself/herself to take out a prescribed amount of medicine of a prescribed kind from a medicine box or the like at a prescribed time and take it.
However, as a practical matter, there are cases where the type or amount of medicine to be taken is wrong, or the medicine is forgotten to be taken. Conversely, the drug may be taken repeatedly.
In particular, it is difficult for elderly people and patients with low energy to take out a prescribed amount of a prescribed type of medicine from a medicine cabinet or the like, and they may not be able to take the medicine accurately.

As means for solving this problem, Patent Literatures 1 and 2 propose devices called medication calendars or medicine calendars.
In the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, a calendar is provided with a drug containing portion for containing a drug.
In the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, four drug storage units are arranged below each date. Each of the four drug storage units corresponds to the timing of taking (usage), and according to the description of Patent Document 1, "morning", "noon", "night", and "before neck" are displayed.
Then, the drug corresponding to the timing of taking is stored in the drug storage portion of the medication calendar (medicine calendar). When it is time to take the drug, the user takes out the drug from the corresponding drug container and takes the drug.

The medication calendar described above tends to be used not only in individual homes but also in nursing care facilities for the elderly and hospitals with inpatient facilities.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-258999 JP 2013-248873 A

The medication calendar disclosed in Patent Literature 1 is a drug setting tool for setting drugs, and is installed in a patient's home, nursing care facility, or the like.
A pharmacist at a home-visit pharmacy may make rounds to visit the patient's home or nursing care facility to replenish the drug storage section of the medication calendar.
In some cases, a pharmacist stores a drug in a drug placement portion of a medication calendar in his or her own pharmacy (dispensing room) and brings the medication calendar containing the drug to the patient's home or nursing care facility.
Regarding the format of the medication calendar, there are no particular legal provisions, and various types are used by each facility.
Typical dosing calendar formats are the three types shown in FIGS.

The first type is a personal medication calendar 100 as shown in FIG. 11, which is a matrix form composed of a day of the week axis and a dose timing axis.
Specifically, it is in a matrix shape with the 7 days of the month (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) as the vertical axis and "Breakfast", "Daytime", "Nighttime", and "Before going to bed" as the horizontal axis. be.
The personal medication calendar 100 is for exclusive use by a single user, and contains, for example, the medications Muramatsu takes for a week by day of the week and timing of administration.
For example, after lunch on Wednesday, Muramatsu, who is a taker, takes the drug stored in the position for lunch on Wednesday.
The individual medication calendar 100 often uses one week as one unit, but the number of days used as one unit is arbitrary, and may be 10 days, 2 weeks, 28 days, or the like. good too.

The second format is a multi-user daily dosing calendar 101 as shown in FIG. The daily dosing calendar-101, like a daily calendar, shows the day of the week when the medication should be taken. In the daily medication calendar 101, the drug storage units are arranged in a matrix pattern composed of the name of the drug taker and the timing of taking the drug.
Specifically, a matrix with the names of the seven names Muramatsu, Hayata, Arashi, Fuji, Ide, Kirishima, and Morohoshi on the vertical axis, and "for morning", "for daytime", "for night" and "before bed" on the horizontal axis. Shape.
The daily medication calendar 101 is shared by a plurality of users, and contains, for example, the drugs that seven users take in a day, according to the names of the users and the timings of taking the drugs.
For example, on the morning of the day, seven people, Muramatsu, Hayata, Arashi, Fuji, Ide, Kirishima, and Morohoshi, take drugs stored in their respective "morning" drug storage units. After finishing lunch, the above-mentioned seven people take the drugs stored in their respective "daytime" drug storage units.
A multi-user daily medication calendar 101 is used in nursing homes and hospitals. In the daily dosing calendar-101, the number of patients to be taken as one unit is arbitrary, and may be 5 or 10.

The third format is a medication calendar 102 for multiple users as shown in FIG.
Specifically, the timing of taking the medicine is written in large letters like "morning use" at the top, and the names of 28 people, namely Hongo, Ichimonji, ... Tojo, and Sano, are lined up.
The medication calendar by dosing time 102 is shared by a plurality of takers, and is used in nursing homes and hospitals. For example, medicines taken at specific times of the day by each of 28 users are stored according to the names of the users.
For example, on the morning of the day, 28 people whose names are on the calendar take the medicines stored in the medicine storage units with their names.
When all the patients have finished taking their medication, the medication calendar by administration time 102 is removed, and the medication calendar by administration time 102 for daytime is prepared.
In the medication calendar by dosing time point 102, the number of patients to be treated as one unit is arbitrary, and may be 10 or 30.

As noted above, medication calendars 100, 101, and 102 come in multiple types.
For example, the medication calendar disclosed in Patent Document 1 is installed in the home or nursing care facility of the recipient, and a pharmacist at a home-visit pharmacy visits the recipient's home or nursing facility to deliver the drug to the drug storage unit. refill.
In addition, a pharmacist stores drugs in the drug placement portion of the medication calendars 100, 101, and 102 at his or her own pharmacy (dispensing room), and distributes the medication calendars 100, 101, and 102 with the drugs accommodated to the patient's home or nursing care facility. In the case of bringing the medicine to the hospital, the pharmacist puts the prescribed medicine into each medicine placement section according to the format of the medication calendars 100, 101, and 102. FIG.
However, as noted above, there are multiple types of medication calendars 100, 101, and 102, which can be confusing and tricky to work with.
Therefore, in pharmacies, the task of putting prescribed medicines into the respective medicine placement portions of the medication calendars 100, 101, and 102 is a heavy burden.

The same applies to the case where a pharmacist of a home-visit pharmacy makes a round visit to the patient's home or nursing care facility and replenishes the drug container with the drug at the patient's home or the like. In this case, the drugs are sorted in advance in the pharmacy and brought to the recipient's home in that state, but sorting the drugs is troublesome and prone to mistakes.

Therefore, the present invention focuses on the above-described problems of the prior art, and an object thereof is to develop a device for cutting drug packaging belts in order to reduce the burden of sorting work on pharmacists.

A mode for solving the above-described problems is a drug package which has a packaging belt holder, a pull-in roll, and a cutter, and which is prepared based on prescription information and packaged for each dose for one patient. is held by the packaging band holder, the drug packaging band is drawn into the pull-in roll, cut into individual drug packages by the cutter, and A temporary placement unit is installed at the drop position of the drug sorting device, and the medicine sorting device has an inching table for moving the temporary placement unit little by little.
A preferred embodiment is a drug sorting apparatus having transport means for taking out and transporting drug packages from the temporary placement section.
Another aspect for solving the above-mentioned problems is to introduce a drug packaging strip in which a plurality of drug packages are connected in a strip shape, each drug package is prepared based on prescription information and packaged for each dose for one patient, A medicine sorting device that separates medicine packages individually from the medicine packaging belt and sorts them based on specific conditions, comprising: a packaging belt mounting part for mounting a wound medicine packaging belt; and an attachment to the packaging belt mounting part a pulling means for pulling in the drug packaging belt that has been cut; a separating means for separating the drug packaging from the drug packaging belt; a temporary placing portion for temporarily placing the cut medicine packaging; , a drug sorting apparatus having transport means for taking out and transporting drug packages.
In a preferred embodiment, it is possible to create a set of daily dose medicines in which drug packages of drugs to be taken in a day by a specific patient are arranged according to the conditions of the timing of taking the drugs, and a plurality of single doses for each specific patient can be created. It is possible to create an individual multi-daily medicine set by collecting daily medicine sets and collecting the daily medicine sets of multiple users for each day. It is possible to create a set of daily dose medicines, and it is possible to create a set of multiple dose time points in which drug packages of drugs to be taken by a plurality of users are grouped in a predetermined order for each dose timing. It is possible to sort the introduced drug packaging strips and discharge them in any form of individual multi-day medicine collection, multi-person daily medicine collection, multi-person collection according to time of administration. It is a sorting device.
In a further preferred embodiment, it is possible to create a daily dosage arrangement in which the medicine packages to be taken by a specific patient in a day are arranged in the order of the timing of dosing in a separately prepared medicine setting tool, and the separately prepared medicine set device is provided. It is possible to create an individual multi-day dosing arrangement by collecting a plurality of daily dosing arrangements corresponding to a plurality of days of a specific patient in the medicine set tool, and separately prepared medicine It is also possible to create a multi-user daily dose array in which the daily dose arrays for multiple users are collected for each day in the set tool, and a separately prepared drug set tool includes: This medicine sorting device is capable of creating an arrangement for multiple people taking medicines, in which medicine packages to be taken by a plurality of users at a specific medicine timing are grouped in a predetermined order.
Another aspect for solving the above-described problem is to provide a drug packaging device that packs a drug for a single patient based on prescription information, so that a daily dose for a single patient can be taken. A step of ejecting a repetitive drug packaging band arranged in order of timing and a continuous drug packaging band arranged and connected according to the timing of taking, and a step of a pharmacist confirming the drug packaging connected in a plurality of belts A drug sorting method comprising the step of winding a confirmed drug packaging strip into a roll, and the step of cutting the rolled drug packaging strip into drug packages by the drug sorting apparatus described above. be.
Another aspect for solving the above-described problem is to introduce a drug packaging strip in which a plurality of drug packages each containing a single dose of drug are connected in a strip shape, and the drug packages are individually separated from the drug packaging strip and specified. This medicine sorting device is characterized by sorting based on the following conditions.

A drug packaging band is created based on prescription information using, for example, a drug packaging device. Preferably, the drug packaging strips are inspected by a pharmacist before they are introduced into the drug sorting machine, and are introduced into the drug sorting machine after the audit.

In the above-described embodiment, the condition that the drug should be taken daily by a specific user and the timing of taking the drug are the specific conditions, and the drug package for the drug that the specific user should take daily is specified. It would be desirable to be able to create a set of daily doses arranged according to the timing of the doses.

In the above-described aspect, it is possible to create an individual multi-day medicine set by collecting a plurality of the daily-use medicine sets for each specific user, with the drug taker as the specific condition. It is desirable.

In each of the above-described embodiments, the drug takers are set as the above-mentioned specific conditions, and the daily dose drug sets of a plurality of drug takers are collected for each day to form a multi-person daily dose drug set. It is desirable to be able to

In each of the above-described embodiments, the timing of dosing is set as the specific condition, and for each timing of dosing, drug packages of drugs to be taken by a plurality of dosing persons are grouped in a predetermined order and set by dosing time for a large number of people. It is desirable to be able to create

Another aspect for solving the above-described problem is to introduce a drug packaging strip in which a plurality of drug packages each containing a single dose of the drug are connected in a strip shape, and separate the drug packages from the drug packaging strip individually. A medicine sorting device for sorting medicine packages, which is capable of creating a set of daily dose medicines in which medicine packages of medicines to be taken in a day by a specific user are arranged according to the condition of the timing of taking the medicine, and It is possible to create an individualized multi-daily medicine set by collecting multiple daily dose medicine sets for each user, and collecting daily dose medicine sets for multiple users for each day It is possible to create a set of multi-person daily dose medicines that are grouped together, and a multi-person group in which drug packages of medicines to be taken by multiple people are grouped in a predetermined order according to the timing of taking. It is possible to create collections by dosing time, and the introduced drug packaging belts can be sorted into individual multi-day medicine collections, multi-person daily medicine collections, and multi-person collections by dosing times. A medicine sorting device characterized in that it can be discharged.

In each of the above-described aspects, the packaging belt mounting portion for mounting the wound medicine packaging belt, the retracting means for drawing in the medicine packaging belt mounted on the packaging belt mounting part, and the separating means for separating the medicine packaging from the medicine packaging belt. Further, it is desirable to have a temporary placement section for temporarily placing the cut medicine packages, and a conveying means for taking out the medicine packages from the medicine packages temporarily placed in the temporary placing section and conveying them to individual containers.

In the above aspect, it is desirable that there is a separately prepared medicine setting tool and that the individual container can be attached to the medicine setting tool.

Another aspect for solving the above-described problem is to introduce a drug packaging strip in which a plurality of drug packages each containing a single dose of the drug are connected in a strip shape, and separate the drug packages from the drug packaging strip individually. A medicine sorting device for sorting medicine packages, in which a medicine setting device separately prepared is capable of forming a daily dose array in which medicine packages to be taken by a specific patient in a day are arranged in the order of dosing timing. In addition, it is possible to create an individual multi-day dosing arrangement by collecting a plurality of daily dosing arrangements corresponding to a plurality of days for a specific patient in a separately prepared medicine set tool. In addition, it is also possible to create a multi-person daily dose array by collecting the daily dose arrays for multiple doses for each day in a separately prepared drug set tool, and separately. It is characterized in that it is also possible to create an arrangement according to dosing times for a large number of people, in which drug packages to be taken by a plurality of dosing persons at a specific dosing timing are put together in a predetermined order on the ready-to-use drug set tool. It is a drug sorting device that

In each of the above-described aspects, there is a separately prepared drug setting tool, the drug setting tool has a plurality of drug placement units, and has package placement means for transporting the drug package and placing the drug package in each drug placement unit. is desirable.

A mode of a drug sorting system includes: a drug packing device for discharging a drug packaging band in which a plurality of drug packages each containing a drug for each dose are connected in a strip shape; and any one of the drug sorting devices described above. Characterized by

According to the medicine sorting apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the burden of sorting medicines on pharmacists and dispensing assistants.

1 is a perspective view of a drug sorting system according to an embodiment of the invention; FIG. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a medicine packaging device employed in the medicine sorting system of FIG. 1; FIG. 10 is a front view of a drug packaging band dispensed from a drug packaging device, (a) showing an example in which daily doses are collectively arranged in order of dosing timing and discharged, and (b) shows the dosing timing. Shown below is an example in which all of these are discharged together. FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a drug packaging band dispensed from the drug packaging device; It is a block diagram of the packaging strip|belt attachment part of the medicine sorting apparatus of embodiment of this invention, a drawing-in means, and a separation means. 1 is a perspective view of a temporary storage box storage area of a medicine sorting device according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. (a), (b), and (c) are explanatory diagrams explaining the process of completing a personal medication calendar by the medicine sorting device of the embodiment of the present invention. (a), (b), and (c) are explanatory diagrams explaining the process of completing a daily medication calendar by the medicine sorting device of the embodiment of the present invention. (a), (b), and (c) are explanatory diagrams for explaining the process of completing a medication calendar by dosing time by the medication sorting device of the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing another example of the temporary storage box storage area of the medicine sorting device according to the embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a front view of a personal medication calendar; 1 is a front view of a daily dosing calendar; FIG. Fig. 3 is a front view of a dosing calendar for each dosing time;

Embodiments of the present invention will be further described below.
The drug sorting system 1 of this embodiment is composed of a drug packaging device 110 and a drug sorting device 2 as shown in FIG.
The drug packaging device 110 discharges a drug packaging band in which a plurality of drug packages each containing a single dose of drug are connected in a strip shape.
The drug packaging device 110 employed in this embodiment can accommodate solid drugs such as tablets and capsules and powdered drugs in one package.

The medicine packaging device 110 has medicine supply means 112 and packaging means 113 as shown in FIG. The drug supply means 112 has a powder drug supply section 116 and a solid drug supply section 115 . The powdered medicine supply unit 116 can open the bottom of the square member 120 to divide and store the powdered medicine stored in the square member 120 into the divided containers 121 and supply the powdered medicine to the packaging means 113 in predetermined amounts.

The solid drug supply unit 115 has a cassette type drug supply unit 122 and a manual drug supply unit 123 as shown in FIG. The cassette-type drug supply unit 122 is configured by attaching a large number of drug cassettes 126 to a drug feeder (not shown) built in a drug shelf 125 .
The drug cassette 126 stores solid drugs and dispenses a required amount of solid drugs as needed.

The packaging means 113 has a sheet feeding mechanism 127 and a bag forming mechanism 128 . The packaging means 113 folds the medicine wrapping paper 130 fed from the sheet feeding mechanism 127 in two at the approximate center in the lateral direction (width direction), and crimps the folded medicine wrapping paper 130 into a bag shape. .

The drug packaging device 110 can dispense and package powdered drugs and solid drugs from the powdered drug supply unit 116 and the solid drug supply unit 115 to the packaging means 113 based on prescription data input to an operation terminal (not shown).
Desired printing is performed on the drug package 7 by printing means (not shown).

FIG. 3 shows the form of the drug package 7 discharged from the drug packaging device 110. As shown in FIG.
The drug package 7 is discharged as a drug package band 5 that is long and connected in a strip shape.
The medicine packaging band 5 has an information printing part 6 printed with prescription information at the head, followed by a large number of medicine packages 7 .
On the information printing part 6, the name of the person taking the medicine, the name of the prescribed drug, the amount of prescription, etc. are printed. It also describes the format of the drug packaging band 5, which will be described later. Recording means such as a two-dimensional bar code is printed on the information printing unit 6, and the information is also written in the two-dimensional bar code.

In the drug packaging device 110 of the present embodiment, a repetition format in which daily doses are collectively arranged and connected in order of dose timing as shown in FIG. The medicament packages 7 can be discharged in a continuous fashion, grouped together and connected.

As shown in FIG. 3(a), in a repetitive drug packaging band 5a in which daily doses are grouped and arranged in order of dosing timing, there is an information printing section 6 printed with prescription information at the top, followed by the dosing information. Medicine packages 7 are arranged in order of timing.
In the example shown in FIG. 3(a), the medicines taken by the user "Muramatsu" are arranged in series in the order of "morning use", "daytime use", "night use", and "before going to bed". The drug packages 7 for "morning use", "noon use", "night use" and "before sleeping" for the next day are connected in this order. After that, one dose is connected in series in order of "morning use", "daytime use", "night use" and "before sleeping".
If the doctor's prescription is for 21 days, for example, 21 sets of "for morning", "for lunch", "for night", and "before bed" are connected in a belt shape and discharged.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3(b), in a continuous form drug packaging band 5b that is grouped and connected for each dosing timing, there is an information printing section 6 printed with prescription information at the head, followed by Medicine packages 7 are arranged in the order of timing of taking.
In the example shown in FIG. 3(b), the medicines taken in the morning by the recipient "Muramatsu" are continuously connected in series, and then the medicines taken in the afternoon by the recipient "Muramatsu" are continuously connected in series. . After that, drug packages for night use and before going to bed are connected.
If a doctor's prescription is for 21 days, for example, 21 drug packages 7 containing "morning" drugs are discharged in succession, followed by "daytime" drug packages. 7 are continuously discharged in 21 packets.

As shown in FIG. 4, each medicine package 7 contains all the medicines to be taken by the patient at one time. The drug enclosed in one drug package 7 may be one type of solid drug, or may be multiple types of solid drugs. In some cases, a solid medicine and a powdered medicine are contained in the same package.

Next, the medicine sorting device 2 will be explained.
The medicine sorting device 2 has a housing 3 that constitutes an outer shell, and a packaging band mounting section 15 is provided on the top surface of the housing 3 .
The inside of the housing 3 of the drug sorting device 2 is divided into four areas.
That is, inside the drug sorting device 2 and on the front side, there is a cutting process area 10 in which the drug packaging band 5 is cut and put into a temporary storage box (temporary storage section) 8, and a temporary storage box for storing the temporary storage box 8. There is a storage area 11 . Inside the drug sorting apparatus 2 and on the back side, there are a drug package pick-up area 12 and a calendar storage area 13 .

A large number of packaging strip holders 16 are arranged on the packaging strip mounting portion 15 . The packaging band holder 16 is composed of a support column 18 held in a vertical position and an insertion core member 20 horizontally cantilevered from the tip of the support column 18 .

The cutting process area 10 incorporates a pull-in roll 21 and a cutter 22 as shown in FIG.
In addition, an inching table 23 is provided for inching the temporary storage box 8 by a fixed distance.

The temporary box storage area 11 is a shelf that accommodates a large number of temporary boxes (temporary box) 8, and any temporary box 8 can be taken out by a moving device (not shown). Also, the temporary storage box 8 that has been taken out can be returned to a predetermined position.

A pickup device (conveying means) 25 is provided in the medicine packaging pickup area 12 . The pick-up device 25 is composed of a packaging holder 26 such as a mechanical grip or a vacuum pad, and a moving device 27 for moving the packaging holder 26 itself. The pickup device 25 is a conveying means that picks up the drug package 7 from the temporary storage box (temporary storage section) 8 and transports it to the pocket member (individual container) 36 .

The calendar storage area 13 is an area for storing the mount, which is the base material of the medication calendar, and the completed medication calendars 30, 31, and 32 in which the drug packages are held at predetermined positions on the mount. Since the medication calendar is often called a "medicine calendar" for general users, the medication calendars 30, 31 and 32 are indicated as "medicine calendar" in FIGS. there is

Next, functions of the medicine sorting device 2 will be described.
The medicine sorting apparatus 2 of the present embodiment has a medicine packaging band 5 in which a plurality of medicine packages 7 each containing a single dose of medicine are connected in a strip shape, and has a function of separating the medicine packages 7 from the medicine packaging belt 5 individually. have.
Further, the medicine sorting device 2 of this embodiment can sort the medicine packages 7 based on the condition of the person who takes the medicine, the condition that the medicine should be taken in a day, and the timing of taking the medicine, and further sorts the medicine packages 7 on the mounting paper 35. can be arrayed.

In the medicine sorting device 2 of the present embodiment, the medicine packaging band 5 discharged from the medicine packaging device 110 is attached to the packaging band mounting portion 15 on the top surface.
Before attaching the drug packaging band 5 to the drug packaging device 110, it is desirable to inspect in advance whether the drug is contained in each drug package 7 of the drug packaging band 5 correctly as prescribed.
This preliminary audit is performed by a pharmacist.

For example, if the drug packaging band 5 is a repetitive type drug packaging band 5a in which daily doses are grouped and arranged in order of timing of administration, as shown in FIG. Since the drugs are arranged in a repeated state such as morning, noon, night, before going to bed, morning, noon, night, and so on, confirmation work is easy.
Also, if the drug packaging band 5 is a continuous type drug packaging band 5b that is grouped and connected for each dose timing as shown in FIG. For morning, for morning, for morning, for noon, for noon, for noon, for noon... the same thing continues. Therefore, it is easy to find mistakes when different items are included or the number is different.

In this embodiment, for example, as shown in FIG. 3(a), a repetitive drug packaging band 5a in which daily doses are grouped and arranged in the order of dosing timing will be described.
In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5, the drug packaging strip 5a is wound into a roll and attached to the insertion core member 20 of the packaging strip holder 16. As shown in FIG. Then, one end of the drug packaging band 5a is sandwiched between the pull-in rolls 21. As shown in FIG. For example, one portion of the drug packaging band 5a for the patient "Muramatsu" is sandwiched between the pull-in rolls 21. As shown in FIG.

Then, by operating a predetermined start switch, the drug packaging belt 5a for the patient "Muramatsu" is pulled into the pull-in roll 21 and enters the housing 3. As shown in FIG. When a bar code reader (not shown) reads a bar code or the like printed on the drug packaging band 5a, the drug sorting device 2 reads the prescription information such as the name of the patient and the order of packaging (3a, 3b).
The reading of the prescription information and the like into the drug sorting device 2 may be performed directly from a bar code or the like, or may be read indirectly by being connected to another storage device.
For example, a prescription ID or prescription information or the like is read using a bar code or the like, and this information is automatically input to another server, computer, or the like, and the information is retrieved based on the prescription ID and read into the drug sorting device 2. good.

The drug packaging band 5a introduced into the housing 3 is cut into individual drug packages 7 by the cutter 22 in the cutting process area 10 of FIG.
Prior to the cutting of the drug packaging band 5a, the temporary box 8 is taken out from the temporary box storage area 11 and placed on the jogging table 23. As shown in FIG.
Therefore, there is a temporary storage box 8 at the drop position of the drug package 7, and the separated drug packages 7 enter the temporary storage box 8 one by one.
Then, the inching table 23 moves the temporary storage box 8 little by little, and the drug packages 7 are arranged in the temporary storage box 8 in the order in which they were connected by the drug packaging band 5a.
According to this embodiment, the medicine packages 7 are arranged in the temporary storage box 8 in the order in which they were connected by the medicine packaging strips 5a.
Specifically, the drug package 7 to be taken in a day is repeated in the form of morning, noon, night, before going to bed, morning, noon, night, and so on. be arranged in

When the drug packaging strip 5a for the patient "Muramatsu" is cut and all the drug packages 7 connected to one drug packaging strip 5a are placed in the temporary storage box 8, the temporary storage box 8 is replaced with a temporary storage box. It is moved to the storage area 11 and stored at a predetermined position.
The controller (not shown) stores that the temporary box 8 moved to the temporary box storage area 11 is for the patient "Muramatsu".
A new temporary box 8 is taken out from the temporary box storage area 11 and placed on the inching table 23. - 特許庁

Subsequently, drug packaging strips 5a for other users are cut by the same process, and all the drug packages 7 connected to one drug packaging strip 5a are placed in the temporary storage box 8. 8 is moved to the temporary storage box storage area 11 and stored at a predetermined position. It is stored that the temporary box 8 moved to the temporary box storage area 11 this time is for, for example, the patient "Hayata".
Furthermore, a new temporary box 8 is taken out from the temporary box storage area 11 and placed on the jogging table 23. - 特許庁

By repeating this process, in the temporary storage box storage area 11, as shown in FIG. In addition, the control device distinguishes to which patient each temporary storage box 8 is intended.
In principle, one medicine package 7 contains all the medicines to be taken at one time.
For example, when a herbal medicine is prescribed, it may be packaged separately from other medicines. In such a case, the herbal medicine and the like are stored in a temporary storage box 8 different from the temporary storage box 8 containing the drug package 7, as shown for the patient "Fuji" in FIG.

The medicine sorting apparatus 2 of the present embodiment further has a function of accommodating medicine packages 7 in medication calendars (medicine calendars in the drawings) 30, 31, and 32, which are medicine set tools.
In this embodiment, each of the medication calendars 30, 31, 32 employed has mounts 35a, b, c as base materials, and necessary items are printed on the mounts 35a, b, c.
The mounting paper 35 also has glued portions 37 arranged in a matrix of 7 rows and 4 rows.

In this embodiment, the drug package 7 is automatically accommodated in a predetermined position corresponding to the format of the mount 35 .
It is explained below.
The medicine sorting device 2 of the present embodiment has a pocket member accommodating portion (not shown), and a large number of pocket members 36 are stored in the pocket member accommodating portion. Then, the pocket member 36 is conveyed to the medicine packaging pick-up area 12 by a conveying mechanism (not shown).
In addition, the temporary storage box 8 of the person using the medication calendar 30 is transported to the medicine packaging pick-up area 12 .
Then, from the temporary storage box 8 , the drug packages 7 are pulled out in a predetermined order by the package holder 26 and thrown into the pocket member 36 .

For example, as shown in FIG. 7, if the medication calendar 30 to be adopted (medicine calendar in the drawing) is a personal medication calendar 30a, a temporary storage box 8 for one person (for example, for Muramatsu) written on the mount 35a is transported to the medicine package pick-up area 12. Twenty-eight pocket members 36 are conveyed from the pocket member accommodating portion corresponding to the number of glued portions 37 of the mount 35a.
Then, the drug packages 7 in the temporary storage box 8 are taken out by the package holder 26 in order from the front and put into the pocket member 36 one by one.

Here, in the temporary storage box 8, drug packages 7 to be taken in a day are repeated, such as morning, noon, night, before going to bed, morning, noon, night, and so on. Since the medicine packages 7 in the temporary storage box 8 are arranged in order, the medicine packages 7 in the temporary storage box 8 are taken out by the package holder 26 in order from the front and put into the individual pocket members 36 one by one. Drug packages 7 are placed in order.

Subsequently, the pocket members 36 are held one by one by a packaging arrangement means (not shown), and the pocket members 36 are moved and pressed against the paste-applied portion 37 of the mounting paper 35a to adhere the pocket members 36 to the paste-applied portion 37. As shown in FIG.
By continuing this work, the Personal Medication Calendar-30 is completed.
In the completed personal dosing calendar 30, medicine packages to be taken by a specific person in a day are arranged side by side according to the conditions of the timing of taking medicines, forming a set of medicines to be taken daily. . In addition, in the horizontal row of the personal medication calendar 30, drug packages to be taken daily by a specific patient (Muramatsu) are arranged in the order of the timing of taking the drug, forming a daily dose arrangement.
In addition, the completed personal administration calendar 30 constitutes an individual multi-day medicine set by collecting a plurality of daily medicine sets for each specific user (Muramatsu).
In addition, the vertical and horizontal matrix of the personal medication calendar 30 is an individual multiple-day dose array that is a collection of multiple daily dose sequences corresponding to multiple days (7 days) of a specific user (Muramatsu). forming an array.

Although the case of creating the personal medication calendar 30 has been described above, the medicine sorting device 2 of this embodiment can also create medication calendars 31 and 32 of other types.
For example, when making a daily medication calendar 31 for a plurality of users, as shown in FIG. It is transported to the drug packaging pick-up area 12 . For example, temporary storage boxes 8 for seven users are transported to the medicine packaging pick-up area 12 .
Twenty-eight pocket members 36 are conveyed from the pocket member accommodating section.
Then, the drug packages 7 in each temporary storage box 8 are put into the pocket member 36 one by one from the front. Here, the four drug packages 7 are taken out one by one from each temporary storage box 8 in order and put into the pocket member 36 one by one. Then, the operation of taking out the medicine package 7 is started.

Subsequently, the pocket members 36 are held one by one by packaging arrangement means (not shown) and pressed against the glued portion 37 of the mounting paper 35b in order to adhere the pocket members 36 to the glued portion 37 .
By continuing this work, a daily medication calendar 31 for multiple users is completed.
The completed daily dosing calendar 31 is in a state in which the drug packages to be taken by a specific user for the day are arranged side by side according to the dosing timing conditions, forming a set of daily dosing drugs. there is In addition, in the horizontal row of the daily medication calendar 31, drug packages to be taken by a specific patient (Muramatsu) in a day are arranged in the order of the timing of taking, forming a daily dose arrangement.
In addition, the completed daily medication calendar 31 constitutes a multi-person daily medication set in which the daily medication sets of multiple users are collected for each day and put together.
Further, the vertical and horizontal matrixes of the daily dosing calendar 31 form a multi-person daily dose array in which the daily dose arrays of multiple users are grouped together for each day.

Furthermore, when making a medication calendar 32 by dosing time for a plurality of patients, temporary storage boxes 8 for more patients are transported to the drug packaging pickup area 12, as shown in FIG.
Then, the drug packages 7 in each temporary storage box 8 are taken out one by one from the front by the package holder 26 and put into the pocket member 36 one by one.
In this embodiment, 28 temporary storage boxes 8 for the patient are transported to the medicine packaging pick-up area 12 . If the number of users is less than the number of paste-attached portions 37 of the mount 35c, the number of temporary storage boxes 8 is reduced.
Then, the drug packages 7 corresponding to the corresponding dosing timing (for example, morning) in each temporary storage box 8 are taken out one by one by the package holder 26 and put into the pocket member 36 one by one.
Subsequently, the pocket members 36 are held one by one by moving means (not shown) and pressed against the paste-applied portion 37 of the mounting paper 35c in order to bond the pocket members 36 to the paste-applied portion 37 .
By continuing this work, a medication calendar 32 for each dosing time for a plurality of dosing persons is completed.

The completed dosing calendar by dosing time point 32 consists of a multi-user dosing time group group in which drug packages to be taken by a plurality of users are grouped in a predetermined order for each dosing timing.
In addition, the longitudinal and horizontal matrices of the medication calendar by dosing time point 32 constitute an arrangement for multiple people by dosing time points, in which drug packages to be taken by a plurality of users at specific dosing timings are grouped in a predetermined order. ing.

In the medicine sorting apparatus 2 described above, the pocket member 36 is glued to the backing paper 35, but the mounting structure of the pocket member 36 to the backing paper 35 is arbitrary.
For example, an engaging portion such as a hook may be provided on the mount 35 and the pocket member 36 may be engaged therewith.
Magnets may be attached to the mount 35 and the pocket member 36 to fix the pocket member 36 to the mount 35 by magnetic force.
A rewritable recording means such as RFID is attached to the temporary storage box 8 and the pocket member 36, and when these are transported to each area or attached to the mount 35, information exchange and confirmation are performed to check errors, It can be used as a means of information transmission.
Also, a non-rewritable identifier may be attached to the temporary storage box 8 or the pocket member 36 . Examples of non-rewritable identifiers are two-dimensional barcodes and barcodes.
Information may be obtained directly from the non-rewritable identifier for confirmation and error checking. Also, information obtained from rewritable recording means and non-rewritable identifiers may be input to other servers, computers, etc., and utilized for confirmation and error checking.

The pocket member 36 may be provided with a structure that prevents the drug package 7 from dropping or falling. For example, a biasing member that biases the opening of the pocket member 36 in the closing direction and a biasing member that compresses the space of the pocket member 36 itself are provided.
A structure is conceivable in which the opening is widened when the drug package 7 is inserted into the pocket member 36, and the opening is narrowed by the biasing member after the insertion.
The biasing member is desirably a spring or some kind of elastic structure, and the biasing force of the spring or the like lightly presses the packaging paper of the drug package 7 to prevent the drug package 7 from falling off.

In the above description, the drug packaging band 5a in which the daily doses are grouped and arranged in the order of the dose timing as shown in FIG. 3(a) is used. By changing the settings, it is possible to deal with a continuous type drug packaging band 5b that is grouped and connected for each timing of taking as shown in FIG. 3(b).
In the case of using a continuous type drug packaging band 5b as shown in FIG. It is to be extracted by changing the extraction position.
When using the drug packaging band 5b, the area on both ends of the temporary storage box 8 has the drug package 7 for morning and the drug package 7 for before going to bed, and the middle area has the drug package 7 for noon and night.
The packaging holder 26 moves through the areas of the temporary storage box 8 and sequentially removes the medicine packages 7 from each area.

Further, as shown in FIG. 10, a temporary box 8a for morning use, a temporary box 8b for daytime use, a temporary box 8c for night use, and a temporary box 8d for before going to bed are prepared for each patient, and in the cutting process area 10, Each drug package 7 is cut into a temporary storage box 8a for morning, a temporary storage box 8b for daytime, a temporary storage box 8c for night, and a temporary storage box 8c for nighttime. Items in (1) may be sorted into the temporary storage box 8d for before going to bed.

In the above-described embodiment, by sequentially removing the drug packages 7 from the temporary storage box 8, a daily dose drug set, an individual multi-day dose drug set, a multi-person daily dose drug set, and a multi-person dose point-by-dose group. In addition to this, it is also possible to write information on the recipient and timing of administration on the surface of the drug package 7 by means of a recording means such as a bar code, and refer to this information for sorting.
Alternatively, a daily dose set, an individual multi-day dose set, a multi-person daily dose set, and a multi-person dose-time-based set may be created based on only the information in the recording means such as bar codes.

The drug sorting apparatus 2 described above has the function of separating the introduced drug packaging strip 5 into individual drug packages 7, sorting them, and arranging them on the mount 35 of the medication calendar. 35 may not have the function of arranging.
For example, it is also possible to create and discharge a plurality of daily dose drug sets in which drug packages of drugs to be taken in a day by a specific patient are arranged in the order of dose timing. It is desirable that the order of timing of administration is morning, noon, night and before going to bed, but the order may be reversed with the taking before going to bed first.
Alternatively, a plurality of daily-use medicine sets may be collected for each specific user to form an individual multi-day-use medicine set, which may be discharged.
Taking the drug takers under the specified conditions, the daily dose drug sets of a plurality of drug takers are collected for each day to form a multi-person daily dose drug set, which is then discharged. There may be.
For each dosing timing, drug packages of drugs to be taken by a plurality of dosing persons may be grouped in a predetermined order to form a multi-person dosing time group, and this may be discharged.

The above embodiment has been described on the premise that the medicine packages 7 are arranged in the medication calendars 30, 31, and 32, but the arrangement destinations of the medicine packages 7 sorted by the medicine sorting device 2 are It is not limited to 31 and 32.
For example, a plurality of sets of daily dose medicines are created and discharged, or sorted in the form of individual multiple day dose drug sets, multi-person daily dose drug sets, multi-person dose time-based sets, and drug sorting of the drug packages 7. It may be ejected from the device 2 and placed in a container or device other than a medication calendar.
For example, when the medicine sorting apparatus 2 of the present invention is used for medicine distribution in hospital wards, sorted medicine packages 7 are put into medicine distribution trays. In this way, the medicine sorting device 2 also contributes to reducing the workload of pharmacists and nurses in hospitals.
In this case, the destination of the medicine package 7 is not the medication calendars 30, 31, 32, but the medicine distribution tray mass, for example. Also, the pocket member (individual container) 36 may be set in the medicine distribution tray. In the present embodiment, the medicine package 7 is placed on the medicine distribution tray.

In addition to the calendar type, there are also box type medicine setting tools for setting medicines. The present invention can also be applied to a box-type medicine setting device.
That is, in the field of home nursing, etc., not only a calendar type but also a medicine setting tool called a medicine distribution box may be used.
Here, the medicine distribution box is a box made of inexpensive materials such as paper and plastic, and its shape and structure are not much different from medicine distribution trays used in hospitals.
The medicine sorting device 2 may have a function of throwing the medicine packages 7 into the medicine distribution box, or the medicine packages 7 discharged from the medicine sorting device 2 may be put into the medicine distribution box.

In the above-described embodiment, the medicine packaging band 5a is separated one by one and once stored in the temporary storage box 8, the medicine packaging 7 to be stored is set in the pocket member 36. FIG. However, the present invention is not limited to this configuration, and the separated drug package 7 may be set directly in the pocket member 36. FIG.
For example, the container may be integrated in advance with the mount of the medication calendar. For example, a calendar bag from which the pocket member 36 cannot be removed may be employed, and the drug package 7 may be directly put into the pocket member 36.

1 medicine sorting system 2 medicine sorting device 5 medicine packaging belt 7 medicine packaging 8 temporary storage box (temporary storage part)
10 Cutting process area 12 Pick-up area 13 Calendar storage area 15 Packaging band mounting unit 110 Medicine packaging device

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having a wrapping strip holder, a pull-in roll, and a cutter,
A drug packaging band in which a plurality of drug packages each containing a single dose of a drug for one patient are connected in a band shape and wound into a roll is held by the packaging band holder,
The drug packaging strip is drawn into the drawing roll and cut into individual drug packages by the cutter,
A temporary storage unit is installed at the drop position of the drug package,
A drug sorting device having an inching table for gradually moving the temporary placement section. 2. The drug sorting apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising transport means for taking out and transporting the drug packages from the temporary placement section. A drug packaging band was introduced in which a plurality of drug packages each containing a single dose of a drug for a single user were connected in a belt-like manner, and were created based on prescription information.
A drug sorting device for individually separating drug packages from the drug packaging band and sorting them based on specific conditions,
a packaging band mounting portion for mounting a wound drug packaging band;
a retracting means for retracting the drug packaging band attached to the packaging band attachment portion;
a separating means for separating the drug packaging from the drug packaging strip;
a temporary placement section for temporarily placing the cut medicine packaging;
A medicine sorting device having a conveying means for picking up and conveying a medicine package from among the medicine packages temporarily placed in a temporary placement section. It is possible to create a set of daily dose drugs in which drug packages of drugs to be taken in a day by a specific user are arranged according to the timing of dosing conditions,
It is possible to create an individualized multi-daily medication set by collecting a plurality of daily medication sets for each specific user,
It is possible to create a multi-person daily medication set by collecting daily dosage medication sets for a plurality of users for each day, and
It is possible to create a multi-user set according to dosing time, in which drug packages of drugs to be taken by a plurality of users are grouped in a predetermined order for each dosing timing,
According to claims 1 to 3 , it is possible to sort the introduced drug packaging belts and discharge them in any form of individual multi-day drug collection, multi-person daily drug collection, and multiple-dose time-based drug collection. The drug sorting device according to any one of 1. It is possible to create a daily dose array in which drug packages to be taken by a specific patient in a day are arranged in the order of the timing of taking the drug in a separately prepared drug setting tool,
In addition, it is possible to collect a plurality of daily dose sequences corresponding to a plurality of days of a specific dose for a separately prepared drug set tool and create a single individual multi-day dose sequence,
In addition, it is also possible to create a multi-person daily dose array in which the daily dose arrays for a plurality of users are collected for each day in a separately prepared drug set tool,
In addition, it is also possible to create a multi-user dosing timing array in which drug packages to be taken by a plurality of users at a specific dosing timing are grouped in a predetermined order in a separately prepared drug set tool. Item 5. The medicine sorting device according to any one of Items 1 to 4 . A repetitive drug packaging belt in which daily doses for a single patient are arranged and connected in order of dosing timing from a drug packaging device that packages a single dose of the drug for a single patient based on prescription information; or a step of ejecting continuous drug packaging strips that are grouped and connected according to the timing of taking;
A step in which a pharmacist confirms a drug package connected in a plurality of strips;
Having a process of winding the confirmed drug packaging belt into a roll,
6. A medicine sorting method, comprising the step of cutting a medicine packaging belt wound in a roll shape into medicine packages by means of the medicine sorting apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5 .

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