JP-2026076250-A - system

JP2026076250AJP 2026076250 AJP2026076250 AJP 2026076250AJP-2026076250-A

Abstract

[Problem] Regarding drug transport devices and drug sorting devices. [Solution] In the drug sorting device (1), when the same type of drug is packaged into drug packets located at different positions in a group of drug packets that are consecutive, the packaging mechanism (6) either packages the same type of drug contained in the same or different compartments into the same drug packet in the group, or packages the same type of drug located close to each other in the group. [Selection Diagram] Figure 1

Inventors

津田紘道
伊藤昂祐

Assignees

株式会社湯山製作所

Dates

Publication Date: 20260511
Application Date: 20260121
Priority Date: 20190627

Claims (2)

A system including a drug sorting device and a data management device that is communicatively connected to the drug sorting device and manages drug data relating to all drugs that can be handled by a plurality of the drug sorting devices, The aforementioned chemical sorting device is An imaging unit that images each of the multiple types of drugs that are put into the aforementioned drug sorting device, A discrimination unit that determines the type of drug based on the image of the drug captured by the imaging unit and drug data relating to the multiple types of drugs, A sorting unit sorts the drugs by type based on the discrimination results from the discrimination unit, The system includes a control unit that associates the drug data with model identification information for identifying the drug sorting device, The control unit transmits the drug data linked to the model identification information to the data management device. The aforementioned data management device is From each of the multiple drug sorting devices, drug data linked to the model identification information is obtained. By referring to the aforementioned model identification information, the drug sorting device that is the source of the drug data is identified, A system that, if the reliability of the drug data obtained from the drug sorting device is low, infers that the reliability of drug data for other types of drugs transmitted by the drug sorting device is also low.
The system according to claim 1, wherein the aforementioned model identification information includes the creation date and time of the drug data based on the image of the drug.

Description

This invention relates to a drug transport device and a drug sorting device. Traditionally, returned medications of multiple types were sorted by type by a pharmacist or physician. The returned medications are those prescribed to various patients, or those that have already been dispensed. Therefore, compared to dispensing where medications (tablets) are collected (packaged) for each dosage period from pre-packaged drug cassettes (based on prescription information for each patient), the number of medications returned in batches for multiple patients is significantly larger. For this reason, automatically sorting and reusing returned medications is highly valuable. Generally, the number of medications dispensed for a single dosage period is around 2-3 types, and at most around 10 types. Furthermore, to avoid the time, effort, and risk of misadministration due to sorting errors (such as incorrectly returning medications to the wrong cartridges), some pharmacies and hospitals (more precisely, their in-house pharmacy departments) simply discard returned medications. Patent Document 1 discloses a drug sorting device that automatically recognizes and stores returned ampoules or vials. This drug sorting device recognizes the orientation and posture of the ampoules or vials, as well as their characteristics (e.g., shape, size, type, and expiration date). It then associates the storage area set for each ampoule or vial at the time of storage, according to its size, with the identification information of each ampoule or vial, thereby individually arranging the ampoules or vials and storing them in a way that allows for easy retrieval. International Publication No. 2015/170761 (Published November 12, 2015) This is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a drug sorting device.This is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a drug sorting device.This is a perspective view showing the overall configuration of the imaging unit, and a perspective view showing an example of a drug placement platform.This is a diagram illustrating the rotation of the imaging unit.This flowchart shows an example of drug adsorption processing by a drug adsorption control unit.This figure shows an example of an adsorption mechanism.This is a diagram illustrating an example of how the adsorption mechanism works.This diagram illustrates an example of the operation of the push detection unit, and also shows an example of the configuration of the drug transport mechanism for realizing the full state determination process of the standby tray by the sorting control unit.This flowchart shows an example of the sorting control unit's process for determining if the standby tray is full.This diagram illustrates an example of pre-discrimination image processing by the image processing unit.This flowchart shows an example of the repackaging process performed by the control unit.This is a schematic plan view of the second storage area.This flowchart shows an example of packaging processing by the packaging control unit, and another flowchart shows an example of drug sorting processing by the sorting control unit.This flowchart shows an example of the discrimination process performed by the discrimination unit.This is a diagram illustrating an example of a drug delivery mechanism.This flowchart shows examples of displays and processing when a drug sorting device terminates abnormally during drug packaging.This diagram shows an example of the configuration of a drug delivery mechanism.This diagram shows an example of the configuration of the storage compartment lifting mechanism. [Basic configuration of drug sorting device 1] [Overview of Drug Sorting Device 1] First, an overview of the drug sorting device 1 will be explained using Figures 1 and 2. Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the drug sorting device 1. Figure 2 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the drug sorting device 1, where 2001 is a perspective view of the drug sorting device 1 and 2002 is a perspective view showing the basic configuration of the drug sorting area 2. As shown in Figures 1 and 2001 and 2002 of Figure 2, the drug sorting device 1 comprises a drug sorting area 2, a touch panel 3, a print output unit 4, and a packaging mechanism 6. The drug sorting device 1 captures images of each of several types of drugs, identifies the type of drug based on the images obtained, and sorts the drugs according to their type. Specifically, this process is performed in the drug sorting area 2. The drug sorting area 2 (internal configuration of the drug sorting device 1) will be described later. After sorting by type, the drugs are visually inspected by the user, and then either packaged or returned to drug shelves or a packaging machine. In this embodiment, the multiple types of drugs are drugs that are not contained in containers or packaged, and are described as tablets or capsules as an example. Furthermore, the multiple type