Intelligent medicine cabinet and medicine dispensing method

Abstract

The invention relates to an intelligent medicine cabinet and a medicine dispensing method. The intelligent medicine cabinet comprises a cabinet body. The cabinet body comprises a medicine shelf, a front panel located in front of the medicine shelf, a cabinet door located on the rear side of the medicine shelf, a medicine dispensing mechanism and a control system. The invention further discloses the medicine dispensing method. According to the intelligent medicine cabinet, a medicine hopper unit can reach any needed position in the vertical plane in front of the medicine shelf, the problems ofthe medicine feeding mode and counting are well solved through the cooperation of a conveying belt and through beam sensors, when medicines are placed, only the cabinet door needs to be opened, the medicines are pushed in from back, medicines with earlier production date are placed in the front, the medicines placed this time are placed behind, operation is easy and convenient, the situation thatdue to unreasonable medicine placement, the medicines with earlier production date are out of date can be prevented, all the medicines can be dispensed at a time according to the set sequence throughinput or code scanning, use is very convenient, and the intelligent medicine cabinet is suitable for medical care medicine dispensing in hospitals and autonomous medicine dispensing for patients.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of medical equipment, and more specifically, relates to an intelligent medicine cabinet and a method for taking medicine. Background technique [0002] For shelves used to store medicines, such as medicine display racks in hospitals and pharmacies, it is used for classified storage of medicines. The use of drug display racks can improve the work efficiency of hospitals and pharmacies to a certain extent and facilitate the management of different types of drugs. [0003] With the development of technology, intelligent medicine cabinets that automatically dispense medicines have emerged as the times require, which provides convenience for doctors and nurses to take medicines and for people to take medicines by themselves. The medicines in the cavity are pushed out, and some of them are grasped by the mechanical arm. There are some problems in the above method. The cost of the mechanical arm is high, which is not conduc...

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[0003] With the development of technology, intelligent medicine cabinets that automatically dispense medicines have emerged as the times require, which provides convenience for doctors and nurses to take medicines and for people to take medicines by themselves. The medicines in the cavity are pushed out, and some of them are grasped by the mechanical arm. There are some problems in the above method. The cost of the mechanical arm is high, which is not conducive to popularization, and it can only grasp the medicines in the shallow medicine storage cavity, which makes the The drug storage chamber has limited drug storage. In addition, due to the limited grasping method and strength, it can only deal with drugs of a specific shape, and cannot adapt to scenarios such as boxed, bottle-shaped, and bag-shaped drugs, and the scope of use is limited; for The push rod method, when placing medicines, can only be placed from the front of the cabinet. If the medicines are directly pushed into the medicine storage cavity, the original medicines in the cavity will be pushed to the innermost side. If it is due or expired, if you want to avoid this situation, you need to take out the medicine in the cavity, put the new medicine in, and then put the taken out medicine at the front, which is very troublesome. In addition, this kind of

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