KR100532004B1 - Medicine package printing device - Google Patents

Abstract

When controlling the printing operation by the medicine packing machine in the chemical packaging machine, the printing data management (factor order, catcher) is divided and package control is performed together with the body control unit to improve the reliability of the printing operation and Improves operability of printing information input.

The signal from the printing information input unit 50 is transmitted to the main body control unit 20 of the drug delivery packaging machine, the signal from the main body control unit 20 is transmitted to the printing control unit 30, and the printing from the input unit 50 is performed. The main body control unit 20 collectively manages which of the different print data to print next according to the data, the print order, and the fractional data together with the dividing and wrapping operation, and prints data per packet by the control. The print start signal is transmitted to the print control unit 30 and printed by the printer unit 11.

Description

Drug packaging device {MEDICINE PACKAGE PRINTING DEVICE}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drug packaging device for printing patient names, drug names, and the like on a drug distribution site in a drug division packaging machine for distributing drugs such as powdered medicines.

A medicine dividing packaging machine for distributing drugs such as powdered medicine to each patient based on prescription instructions. V-shaped dividing unit with freely installed diaphragm plates along the longitudinal direction of the V-shaped back. It is known to provide a chemical dividing unit in the form of a circular disk, or a circular disk-type chemical dividing unit provided with an R-groove on the outer circumference of the circular disk to contact a scraping roller having a predetermined width so as to scrape out by a predetermined amount. In such a medicine division packaging machine, a drug distribution unit for distributing a drug divided into a predetermined amount following the drug division unit on a distribution site, or a drug packaging device for printing a requirement such as a patient name or a drug name on the distribution site is provided.

The drug distribution unit is a triangular plate placed in the middle of a conveying path for conveying a heat-sealable distribution sheet wound in a roll shape in one direction and is divided into a predetermined amount between the folded gold obtained by folding the distribution sheet twice and dropping the medicine. It is intermittently supplied from a chemical | medical agent supply unit, and the chemical | medical agent is heat-sealed for every fixed quantity, and it forms the distribution band continuously.

The drug packaging device is installed in the conveying path so as to print the requirements on the distribution site in front of the distribution unit, and after printing the requirements, a corresponding quantity of medicine is distributed by the above-mentioned distribution unit. The above-described distribution processing by the chemical | medical agent division unit or distribution unit and the printing operation by a printing apparatus differ greatly, and since the operation content differs significantly, the main body control part which controls a chemical | medical agent division unit and a distribution unit, and the printing control part which controls a printing apparatus are described. Is usually installed separately.

An example in which the printer control unit is controlled by the printing control unit in the drug delivery packaging machine is described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-200527. This publication solves the problem that if the print data such as the patient name is frequently updated among the data inputted from the print information input unit, the waiting time increases during timing of print at the printer, resulting in a decrease in distribution efficiency. The control from the printing control unit to the printer unit has been described with the object of reducing the size and improving the distribution efficiency.

6 shows a block diagram of a conventional control circuit which includes not only the control of the printer unit by such a printing control unit but also a main body control unit which controls the entire medicine dispenser packaging machine. As shown in the drawing, the medicine packaging machine is composed of a printing information input unit, a printing control unit, a printer unit, and a medicine packaging agent interface in the main body control unit of the medicine splitting packaging machine.

In the factor information input unit, patient name, usage, number of days, factor order (repetition / continuation), factor data (morning, day, evening, before bedtime), etc. are input, and patient name, number of days, fraction based on these input data. , Catcher, print order (repetitive / continuous), print data (morning, day, evening, before bed) and the like are transmitted to the print control unit. The printing control section stores the printing font in the memory, and generates dot data from the character code to drive the printer section. The printer section is provided with a print head, an ink ribbon, and the like, and prints in contact with the distribution sheet.

The print information input from the print information input unit is transmitted to the print control unit in the communication configuration (serial communication) shown in Fig. 4B, and the printer unit includes management of printing the next of the different print data for each taking time. The printing control unit controls all of the operations of the control unit, and the control unit receives control print signals for each packet from the main body control unit, and controls the printer unit to start printing the medicine package.

As described above, the management (catcher) of the divided packaging by the division unit or distribution unit of the main body of the chemical division packing machine in the conventional medicine division packaging machine is carried out by the main body control unit, and the management of the printing data for the printer unit (factor order, catcher). Is a print start signal from the main body control unit to the printing control unit, and printing information is not transmitted to the main body control unit.

Although it is reasonable to control and print the print information directly to the print control unit and concentrate the processing at the print control unit, the influence of the main body control unit tends to be small. It is inseparable from the contents and the timing of division and packing in the main body of the packaging machine, and there is a problem that it is easy to cause malfunctions such as timing misalignment and weak to noise due to the influence of noise from any of the control units.

In addition, if there is a mistake in the input data to the printing information input unit, and a large processing burden is imposed on the printing control unit due to complicated data modification at the input unit during the process of correcting this, the catcher counts in both the printing control unit and the main body control unit. In some cases, misalignment occurs and printing is not carried out in the relevant part of the medicine, or in the scared part. Sometimes you need to fix it. For this reason, there is a desire for a drug printing device that improves the reliability of printing and hardly causes shift of printing.

On the other hand, hospital pharmacies and pharmacies have a situation in which a large number of prescriptions must be received within a limited time period and must be prepared within a short time. In such a situation, it is preferable that at least one input item to the print information input unit is provided. However, it is not easy to omit any of the conventionally set input items, and in the case of omitting any of the items, it is possible to obtain data of the item by some other means.

As the input items, there are days and catchers' data. If there is an input mistake in these data, the correction product is considerably large. In order to prepare a large number of prescriptions in order, the printing information input unit inputs and stores some printing information in advance. For example, if there is a mistake in inputting the reserved number of days or catcher data, each printing information is input. This is because it is necessary to delete and print out the printing information while considering the sequence number in the drug delivery packaging machine main body because of the direct transmission method to the printing control unit.

Therefore, if something is acquired by other means regarding the number of days and the catcher among the above input items, the product of the input is lost, and operability can be greatly improved, and furthermore, their item data is related to the division / packaging operation in the main body control unit. By making it possible to obtain the data by the acquisition, it is difficult to cause a shift in the timing of the printing operation.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the problems in the conventional medicine packaging machine, and the reliability of the printing operation by dividing the printing data management (factor order, catcher) in one unit and the unit control unit together with the packaging control when controlling the printing operation. It is an object of the present invention to obtain a drug storage device that can improve printing operation, prevent misalignment, reduce the effort of inputting printing information at the input unit, and improve operability.

The present invention relates to a division distribution operation in a drug delivery packaging machine for dividing a supplied medicine into a fixed amount as a means for solving the problem of a singing problem, and supplying the medicine to a drug wrapping paper to form a heat-sealed distribution table continuously. A printer unit installed in the conveyance path of the drug wrapping paper to print the necessary information on the medicine wrapping paper, and a printing control section for controlling the printer operation, transmitting a signal from the printing information input section to the main body control section controlling the division distribution operation, and the main body control section. Connected to transmit a signal to the print control unit through the catcher setting means, and inputs the catcher signal from the catcher setting means to the main body control unit, and prints the print data including print data, print order, and variance related to the divided distribution of medicines from the print information input unit. Sends a signal of information and sends one packet from the main body control unit based on the printing information. Each printing data and a signal for starting printing are transmitted to the printing control unit, and the printing system prints the printing material for the number of days required and the catcher in the predetermined printing order by the printing control unit.

In such a medicine packaging machine, the printing information from the printing information input unit is transmitted to the main body control unit of the medicine splitting packaging machine. The catcher signal is transmitted from the catcher setting means to the main body controller. The main body control unit divides and controls the print order and catcher's print management so that printing is performed on the weak paper at a predetermined timing and print order while controlling the division and wrapping operation from the print data, print order, fraction and catcher data of the print information. Co-ordinate with each other.

Therefore, when printing data is sent to the printing control unit together with the printing start signal by setting the printing order by the main body control unit, the printing control unit reads font data necessary for the printing unit from the storage unit and outputs the printing control signal. Printing by the printer unit is performed.

Since only the input data of the printing data and the printing order are input to the printing information input unit, the input work is faster than before, and the work is reduced because the correction of the number of input mistakes and the number of catchers are unnecessary.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiment of this invention is described. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The figure which shows schematic structure of a chemical | medical agent division packaging machine, FIG. This medicine split packing machine 1 is based on the premise that the powdered tablets are supplied and distributed in a common hopper through a common hopper, and the powders are divided into a predetermined amount, and the powders and tablets are packaged individually, or in the same or different bags. It has a function that can be distributed in the mode, the printer is installed in the middle of the transport path to send the drug wrapping paper to print the taking time of each medicine before dispensing the medicine.

The present invention relates to a medicine packaging machine including the printer, and does not target the medicine splitting packaging machine (1) itself, but the medicine packaging printing apparatus is included in a part thereof and is closely related. (1) will be briefly described. As shown, the chemical | medical agent division packaging machine 1 is equipped with the powder dispensing unit 2, the tablet dispensing unit 3, and the packaging unit 4 in the lower part integrally, and inputs the operation panel 5 and printing information. The input from the means 50 is understood and manipulated.

The powder dispensing unit 2 has a V-shaped long, thin V-shaped strip 6 having a cross section, a partition plate 7 freely installed therein, and a divider 8 below the V-shaped strip 6. Equipped with. The V-shape 6 is a position corresponding to the number of distributions for which the slide free partitioning plate 7 is to be divided in the total amount of the medicine with respect to the divider 8 having a plurality of dividing vessels provided in the longitudinal direction immediately below it. It moves to match with the scale of the scale plate 9 (refer FIG. 2), and the medicine is divided into the dividing number corresponding to the range of the V-shape 6 in which the partition plate 7 was set.

The V-shaped back 6 rotates the inclined back plate 10 by a drive unit not shown, and opens the lower part and drops the medicine into the divider 8 as shown by the dashed-dotted line. The diaphragm 7 is slide-free in the longitudinal direction along the vertical wall of the V-shaped back 6, with a magnet (m) connected to the arm and a position detection sensor (P _H ) on the wall of the tablet dispensing unit (3) ( Proximity switches or Hall elements (sensors) are provided, and a plurality of sensors P _H are provided in the longitudinal direction, and the amount of division is determined and displayed by the number of sensors up to the position where the partition plate 7 is set. .

The divider 8 consists of a plurality of cylindrical tubular dividing vessels provided along the longitudinal direction, and a bottom plate is provided at the bottom of each dividing vessel, and is not shown along the longitudinal direction (perpendicular to the ground). When the divided containers moved in the intermittent operation by the driving unit come to the position of the common hopper 41, the opening and closing operation is performed by the opening and closing mechanism (not shown), and a predetermined amount of dropping medicine is dropped. Above the common hopper 41 is a hopper 33 provided below the manual spreading means 31 of the tablet dispensing unit 3, and stores the chemicals from the dividing container 8 and the hopper 33 in common. .

The packaging unit 4 is installed below the common hopper 41, and is released from the medicine wrapping paper L wound around the roll shaft 44, and the medicine packaging paper S folded twice at the triangular plate under the common hopper 41. ), The medicine dropped from the common hopper 41 is distributed one by one by the heat seal 42 driven by the motor 43. In the middle of the conveyance path from the roll-form drug wrapping paper L to the common hopper 41, a printer portion 11 for printing on the medicine wrapping paper is provided. The printer 12 may be of a general type (impact dot, thermal, ink jet, etc.).

The tablet dispensing unit 3 consists of a manual spreading means 31, a divider (not shown) provided in the lower portion thereof, and a hopper 33 below. The manual spreading means 31 is composed of a plurality of divided small pieces of checkerboard shape, and drops the tablets sprayed manually to a predetermined checkerboard eye through a shutter for opening and closing the divided small pieces of the divider, The tablet is formed to be dropped into the hopper 33 by opening the cover plate at the bottom of each divided small bowl, and details are omitted.

3 is an overall schematic block diagram of the chemical | medical agent division packaging machine of the said embodiment, and the control circuit which controls the printer part incorporated in this. As shown in the drawing, the main body control unit 20 of the drug delivery packaging machine controls the powder dispensing unit 2, the tablet dispensing unit 3, and the packaging unit 4 described above. Printing information is sent to the main body control unit 20 from a printing information input unit 50 using a monochrome liquid crystal display 50a similar in appearance to a notebook personal computer and a small computer having a surface sheet type keyboard. The printing information input unit 50 may use a commercially available notebook personal computer with a large data storage capacity incorporating a hard disk and easy to see with color liquid crystal.

The main body control unit 20 is composed of a microcomputer that controls each unit, and includes a central computing unit (CPU) 21, a storage unit 22 storing a program for controlling each unit, and a medicine and a tablet. A predetermined pattern is provided by inputting a setting signal from the operation panel 5 provided on the medicine split packaging machine main body case, and having a setting pattern storage unit 23 for setting a pattern of medication instruction instructed by a prescription. It is controlled to perform the division and packaging operation.

Since the control of each unit by the main body control unit 20 is not the object of the present invention, description thereof is omitted. The main body control unit 20 is connected to a printing control unit 30 for controlling the printer unit 11. The printing control unit 30 writes the font data for printing in the storage unit. When a signal is transmitted from the main body control unit 20, the printing control unit 30 reads the font data based on the signal and transmits a control signal to the printer unit 11. To print the predetermined print data. The details of the signal transmitted from the print information input unit 50 to the main body control unit 20 and the signal transmitted from the main body control unit 20 to the print control unit 30 will be described later.

The medicine packing machine in the chemical | medical agent division packaging machine of embodiment with the said structure performs printing as follows. In the print information input unit 50, data of a patient name, usage, and print order (repetitive / continuous) as print information are input. Usage data is in this case morning, day, evening, before bedtime, before meals / after meals / between meals, every hour. It is data such as donbok (頓 服). However, no days of data are entered. This is because the total catcher's data is transmitted to the main body control unit 20 from the position detecting sensor P _H of the partition plate of the powder dispensing unit 2 and calculated there. The calculation of the number of days is described later.

When usage data is input, a fraction (= divided number of daily capacity) is set based on this. For example, morning = fountain 1, day = fountain 1, evening = fountain 1, bedtime = fountain 1, morning and evening = fountain 2, morning, day and evening = fountain 3, morning, day, evening and bedtime = fountain 4, After the meal, it is set in the factor information input unit 50, such as = fraction 3, every 4 hours = fraction 6, pork suit = fraction 1. The print order is a signal indicating repetition or continuation.

On the basis of the input signal, the print data, print order, and fractional data are transmitted from the print information input unit 50 to the main body control unit 20 in the communication configuration (serial communication) shown in Fig. 4A. The printing data is data for printing on one side of the medicine pack at each dose period, and is composed of a character code such as "after breakfast" and a control code such as specifying a horizontal double angle.

 If the signal of printing order (repetition / continuation) is printing for three days of morning, day, and evening,

Repeat: Morning, Day, Evening, Morning, Day, Evening, Morning, Day, Evening

Continuous: Morning, Morning, Morning, Daytime, Daytime, Daytime, Evening, Evening, Evening

It is data which controls and prints the same dosing period for 3 days or the same dosing period for 3 days in succession. However, the printing order is controlled by generating a control signal to send printing data in the repeating or continuous pattern in the main body control section 20 when transmitting the printing data from the main body control section 20 to the printing control section 30. .

In addition, the main body control unit 20 calculates the "number of days" data by calculating the data of "catcher" by the position detection sensor P _H of the partition board 7 with the data of "fraction" according to the usage data as necessary. Is obtained. When the internal operation is completed, the printing data and the printing start signal for each packet are transmitted from the main body control unit 20 to the printing control unit 30 under the control of the main body control unit 20, and the printing control unit 30 prints the printing data. Upon receiving the data signal, necessary font data stored therein is read out, the print control signal is sent out by the print start signal, and the print section 11 prints.

In the printing control, for example, in the case of the powdered dividing unit 2, the printing data, the printing order, and the fractional data are related to the powdering dividing operation, and the printing data for each one packet is given to the printing control unit 30 at a predetermined timing. The main body control unit 20 performs control to transmit.

That is, the main body control unit 20 performs all of the following factors management (factor order, catcher) of printing the different factor data at each time of taking the drug, and then first prints the medicine for one packet of medicine by synchronizing with the timing of the divided medicine packaging. The data is sent to the print control section, after which the print start signal is sent to the print section 11 via the print control section 30.

Therefore, it is not necessary to input the data of "days" and "catcher" into the print information input unit 50, and since such data is not input to the print information input unit 50, the number of input errors at the time of the input is not generated as in the prior art. Do not.

In the above description, the case where the medicine is supplied from the powder dispensing unit 2 is taken as an example. It goes without saying that the same control is also applied to the tablet dispensing unit 3. In this case, however, since the partition plate 7 of the powder dispensing unit 2 is not provided, the catcher data cannot be directly obtained. May be applied to the tablet dispensing unit 3 as it is.

5 is a schematic view of another type of drug delivery packaging machine. The powder dispensing unit 2 'shown is of a type having a dispensing plate and a scraping-out means for supplying the powder, and the tablet dispensing unit 3 is of the same type as in the case of FIG. The packaging unit 4 is basically the same as that of FIG. Although not shown, the units 2 ', 3, 4, are also provided in the same main body case as shown in FIG.

The powder dispensing unit 2 'is provided with a powder dispensing means for spraying a small amount of powder injected from the inlet 6a' of the hopper 6 'onto the dispensing dish 8' by vibrating feeder 7 '. have. The dispensing plate 8 'which receives the powder sprayed from this supply means has an R groove 8 R' on the outer periphery of the distribution plate 8a ', and makes it uniform on this groove to accumulate the powder. The scraping means 9 'divides the R-groove 8R' into the required number of divisions in the radial direction, and a circular disk plate having a predetermined thickness for scraping the amount of each divided area to the outside of the distribution plate 8 '. Equipped with. 9a 'is a rotatable arm.

In the powder dispensing unit 2 ', the dispensing plate 8' is rotated and the vibrating feeder is rotated at the same time when the dispensing and packaging conditions are set. 7 ') starts to vibrate, and the injected powder is supplied to the R groove 8R' of the distribution plate 8 '. Since the scraping means 9 'is in the shape of a circular disk and is in close contact with the inner surface of the R groove 8R' of the distribution plate 8 ', the medicine of the distribution plate 8' in which the powder is accumulated is hopper 6 '. The scraping means is scraped off by the scraping means 9 'at a position opposite the.

At this time, the disk of the scraping means 9 'enters the piled powder, stops by rotating the dispensing dish 8' to an angle suitable for dividing, and collects the piled powder of the disk of the dispensing dish 8 '. . When the dispensing dish 8 'is rotated at a constant speed and the feed to the hopper 6' is constant, the dispensing dish 8 'is supplied radially to the R groove 8R' of the dispensing dish and radially from the center of rotation of the powder dispensing dish 8 '. When the cutting line is put evenly as if the cake is cut, and scraped off by the scraping means 9 'between the cutting line and the next cutting line, the powder is divided into equal parts and packed through the common hopper 41.

The control circuit of the above embodiment is applied as it is to the chemical | medical agent division packaging machine of the said structure. Therefore, the description of the operation is omitted. However, in this example, there is no partition plate, and the dividing number = fraction in the distribution plate 8 'must be instructed from the outside. In the chemical division packaging machine shown in the figure, the drug unit 2' and the tablet unit 3 are operated. Since the operation panel 5 is provided, the numeric key switch of the operation panel 5 may be used as a catcher input unit, and the signal may be input to the main body control unit 20 to form a catcher signal.

In addition to the above, there are various types of medicine dividing packaging machines, and of course, the way of thinking of the control circuit can be applied to any medicine packaging machine.

As described in detail above, the drug packaging device of the present invention transmits only the printing data, the printing order, and the printing information on the fraction from the printing information input unit to the main body control unit of the medicine splitting packaging machine, and the printing data for each packet from the main body control unit. The print start signal was sent to print the data for the number of days and the catcher in the predetermined printing order on the weak paper. This improves the reliability of the print and prevents the number of days and catchers from being input as the print input, thereby reducing the possibility of mistakes in the input operation and improving the workability.

1 is an overall schematic view of a drug delivery packaging machine including a drug packaging device of an embodiment;

2 is an external perspective view of a statue;

3 is an overall schematic block diagram of a control circuit for controlling an in-phase drug split packaging machine;

4 is an explanatory diagram of a transmission format of transmission data, FIG. 4A is a diagram showing an embodiment, and FIG. 4B is a diagram showing a conventional example;

5 is a schematic view of an example of a drug delivery packaging machine of another type, and

6 is a schematic overall block diagram of a control circuit of the prior art;

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

2: powder dispensing unit 3: tablet dispensing unit

4: packaging unit 5: operation panel

6: V-shaped 7: 7: partition plate

8: divider 10: backboard

11: printer portion 12: printer

20: main body control unit 30: printing control unit

31: manual spraying means 33: hopper

41: common hopper 42: heat seal

43: motor 50: print information input unit

Claims (3)

The medicines are divided into a predetermined amount, and the medicines are supplied to the medicine packaging to supply the medicines to the medicine packaging and to print the requirements on the medicine packaging in connection with the division distribution operation in the medicine packaging packaging machine which continuously forms a heat-sealed distribution table. A printer control unit and a print control unit for controlling the printer operation, connected to transmit a signal from the print information input unit to the main body control unit controlling the division distribution operation, and to transmit a signal to the print control unit through the main body control unit; Connecting the catcher signal from the catcher setting means to the main body control unit, and transmitting a signal of the print information including the print data, print order, and fractions related to the divided distribution of the medicine from the print information input unit, based on the print information The printing data is printed from the main body control unit and the signal at the start of printing Transmission, yakpo factor wherein been made in the print data of the necessary number of days, the catcher minutes at a predetermined printing sequence through the control factor to the factor cartridge paper portion. The drug packaging device according to claim 1, wherein the catcher setting means is configured to set the catcher by means of a partition plate provided freely in a V-shaped cross-sectional divider having a V-shaped cross section and a position detector linked thereto. The medicine package according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the print control unit reads the font signal stored in the font storage unit and prints the print data by the print start signal when the print control unit receives print data from the main unit control unit. Printing device.