Drug sorting device sorting container and drug return method

• Main Authors: YOSHIKAWA YASUYUKI, MATSUNAGA MAKI, ITO KOJI, AMANO HIROKAZU, SUGIMOTO TOMOHIRO, HIGUCHI YUTA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 12.03.2024
• Subjects: BABY COMFORTERS; CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICALPURPOSES; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGINGPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL ORADMINISTERING FORMS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POSTAL SORTING; SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTEDPIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING; TRANSPORTING

약제 분류 장치(1)는, 제1 카메라(131)에 의해 촬상된 화상에 기초하여, 약제의 종류를 판별하는 판별부(64)와, 판별부에 의한 판별 결과에 기초하여, 제1 수용부(11)에 혼재된 상태에서 수용된 복수 종류의 약제를 종류별로 분류하고, 제2 수용부(14)에 저장하는 반송·분류 유닛(12)을 구비한다. A medicine sorting device (1) includes: a discrimination part (64) for discriminating a type of a medicine based on an image captured by a first camera (131); and a conveyance/sorting unit (12) for sorting, by each type, a plurality of types of medicines accommodated in a mixed state in a first accommodating part (11) based on a discrimination result of the discrimination part, and storing the medicines in a second accommodating part (14).