A medicine sorting device for hospital pharmacy

Abstract

The application discloses a medicine sorting device for hospital pharmacy, which comprises a shell, a control module arranged on the left side of the shell, a display screen arranged on the top of the shell, a medicine feeding port arranged on the right side of the top of the shell, eight medicine taking grooves arranged on the front end of the inside of the shell, cabinet doors arranged on the front end of the eight medicine taking grooves, magnetic suction locks movably matched with the cabinet doors and arranged on the right side of the medicine taking grooves, an upper conveying belt and a lower conveying belt arranged on the rear end of the inside of the shell, and the like. The medicine box is conveyed by the conveying belt, and the two-dimensional code of the medicine box is scanned by the multiple scanners. The multiple medicines of the same patient are pushed into the medicine guiding structure by the pneumatic telescopic rod and then slide into the medicine taking groove, the cabinet door number corresponding to the patient's medicine is displayed on the display screen, the patient can take the medicine according to the number, the staff can distribute the medicine, the workload of the staff is reduced, and the patient can avoid waiting for a long time.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This invention relates to the field of drug sorting technology, specifically a drug sorting device for hospital pharmacy. Background Technology

[0002] Hospital pharmacy is a science that studies the supply of medicines, pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical administration, and clinical drug use in hospitals. It is pharmaceutical work that comes into contact with clinical work in hospitals, and it is pharmaceutical administration and pharmaceutical technology work centered on pharmaceutics. It serves clinicians and patients, and its responsibilities include supplying drugs and guiding and participating in safe, rational, and effective drug therapy in clinical practice. The quality standard is treatment effect. It is a pharmaceutical science work carried out in the specific environment of a hospital. When patients pick up their medications, they need to swipe their medical insurance card. The medication information on the medical insurance card will be displayed on the staff's computer, and a medication pick-up slip will be issued. The pharmacist will then go to the pharmacy to find the required medication, and the found medication will be distributed to the patient by the staff.

[0003] Based on the above findings of the inventors, the existing methods have the following main shortcomings. For example, when a pharmacist in a hospital simultaneously dispenses medication to multiple patients and distributes it to staff, the staff needs to distribute the medication to each patient. When multiple patients are dispensing medication at the same time, the staff's dispensing speed is slow, which increases the waiting time for patients to dispense their medication.

[0004] Therefore, a hospital pharmacy drug sorting device is needed to help hospital pharmacy staff distribute drugs. Summary of the Invention

[0005] The purpose of this invention is to solve the problem that when pharmacists in hospitals simultaneously dispense medication to multiple patients, the staff need to distribute the medication to the patients, and the staff's dispensing speed is slow when multiple patients are dispensing medication at the same time, resulting in longer waiting times for patients to pick up their medication. Therefore, this invention proposes a medication sorting device for hospital pharmacy.

[0006] To address the above problems, the present invention provides a drug sorting device for hospital pharmacy.

[0007] To achieve the above objectives, the present invention is implemented through the following technical solution: a hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device, the structure of which includes a shell, a control module is provided on the left side of the shell, a display screen is provided on the top of the shell, and a drug inlet is provided on the top right side of the shell. The front interior of the outer casing has eight medicine dispensing slots, each with a door at its front end. The door engages with a magnetic lock mounted on the right side of the dispensing slot. The rear interior of the outer casing has an upper conveyor belt and a lower conveyor belt, with an inclined conveyor belt between them. The upper conveyor belt, lower conveyor belt, and inclined conveyor belt are driven by servo motors. The rear ends of the upper and lower conveyor belts are each equipped with four scanning devices. The rear interior of each of the eight medicine dispensing slots has a medicine guiding structure. The bottom interior of the outer casing has a cylinder connected to each of the eight medicine guiding structures.

[0008] Furthermore, the scanning device includes four support arms bolted inside the housing, which are fixedly connected to the scanner. The scanner has pneumatic telescopic rods at the bottom of its front end. The bottom of the four upper pneumatic telescopic rods is flush with the end face of the upper conveyor belt, and the bottom of the four lower pneumatic telescopic rods is flush with the end face of the lower conveyor belt.

[0009] Furthermore, the pneumatic telescopic rod has a support seat on its end face, a rubber pad on its end face, and a plurality of rubber strips on the rear end of the rubber pad. The end of the rubber strips away from the rubber pad is fixedly connected to the end face of the support seat.

[0010] Furthermore, serial number labels are affixed sequentially to the end faces of the eight boxes; medication can be retrieved by viewing the box door with the corresponding label for the medication number on the display screen.

[0011] Furthermore, the drug guiding structure includes a support frame fixedly installed at the rear end of the drug dispensing trough, a guide pipe is installed in the middle of the support frame, a buffer plate is provided at the bottom of the guide pipe, and a receiving plate is provided at the upper end of the guide pipe. The receiving plate is aligned with the lower end face of the upper conveyor belt and the lower conveyor belt.

[0012] Furthermore, the buffer plate includes a fixing plate bolted to the bottom of the feed tube, the fixing plate being connected to the top of the buffer plate, and the bottom of the fixing plate having five support bars, the end of the support bars away from the buffer plate being connected to the bottom of the feed tube.

[0013] Furthermore, the buffer plate is made of plastic, and the angle between the buffer plate and the horizontal support is 30 degrees. Beneficial effects

[0014] Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following beneficial effects: 1. This invention utilizes a conveyor belt to transport medicine boxes, and multiple scanners scan the QR codes on the medicine boxes to push multiple medications for the same patient into the medication guide structure via a pneumatic telescopic rod, where they slide into the medication retrieval slot. The display screen shows the door number corresponding to the patient's medication, allowing the patient to retrieve their medication independently based on the number. This assists staff in distributing medications, reduces the workload of staff, and avoids long waiting times for patients to retrieve their medications.

[0015] 2. This invention utilizes a guide tube to allow the medicine box to slide into the medicine dispensing trough. The medicine box can be deformed by pressing down on the end face of the buffer plate, causing the five support bars to slide down slowly. This protects the medicine inside the medicine box and prevents the medicine from breaking during the sorting process. Attached Figure Description

[0016] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the main structure of a hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device according to the present invention.

[0017] Figure 2 This is a top view cross-sectional structural diagram of the outer casing of the present invention.

[0018] Figure 3 This is a frontal cross-sectional view of the outer casing of the present invention.

[0019] Figure 4 This is a side view of the scanning device of the present invention.

[0020] Figure 5 This is a side view cross-sectional structural diagram of the pneumatic telescopic rod of the present invention.

[0021] Figure 6 This is a schematic diagram of the main structure of the drug delivery structure of the present invention.

[0022] Figure 7 This is a schematic diagram of the main structure of the buffer plate of the present invention.

[0023] In the diagram: 1. Outer shell; 2. Control module; 3. Display screen; 4. Drug inlet; 11. Dispensing trough; 12. Box door; 13. Magnetic lock; 14. Upper conveyor belt; 15. Lower conveyor belt; 16. Inclined conveyor belt; 17. Scanning device; 18. Drug guiding structure; 19. Cylinder; 10. Servo motor; 171. Scanner; 172. Pneumatic telescopic rod; 173. Four support arms; 1721. Support base; 1722. Rubber pad; 1723. Rubber strip; 181. Support frame; 182. Feeding tube; 183. Buffer plate; 184. Receiving plate; 1831. Fixing plate; 1832. Support bar. Detailed Implementation

[0024] To make the technical means, creative features, objectives and effects of this invention easier to understand, the invention will be further described below in conjunction with specific embodiments.

[0025] Example 1: Please refer to Figures 1-5 The specific embodiments of the present invention are as follows: Its structure includes an outer shell 1, a control module 2 on the left side of the outer shell 1, a display screen 3 on the top of the outer shell 1, and a drug inlet 4 on the top right side of the outer shell 1. The front interior of the outer casing 1 has eight medicine dispensing slots 11, each with a door 12 at its front end. The door 12 engages with a magnetic lock 13 mounted on the right side of each medicine dispensing slot 11. The rear interior of the outer casing 1 has an upper conveyor belt 14 and a lower conveyor belt 15, with an inclined conveyor belt 16 positioned between them. The upper conveyor belt 14, lower conveyor belt 15, and inclined conveyor belt 16 are driven by a servo motor 10. Four scanning devices 17 are located at the rear ends of the upper conveyor belt 14 and lower conveyor belt 15, respectively. Each medicine dispensing slot 11 has a medicine guiding structure 18 at its internal rear end. The bottom of the outer shell 1 has a cylinder 19, which is connected to each of the eight medicine guiding structures 18. The medicine is fed from the medicine inlet 4 and falls onto the upper conveyor belt 14 and is conveyed to the left. The scanning device 17 scans the QR code on the end face of the medicine box and pushes the medicine into the medicine guiding structure 18 and slides into the medicine dispensing slot 11. This completes the process of sorting and dispensing the medicine. The patient's medicine dispensing information is displayed on the screen 3, allowing the patient to open the corresponding box door 12 to retrieve the medicine according to the dispensing number displayed on the screen 3.

[0026] The scanning device 17 includes four support arms 173 bolted inside the housing 1. The four support arms 173 are fixedly connected to the scanner 171. The scanner 171 has pneumatic telescopic rods 172 at the bottom of its front end. The bottom of the four upper pneumatic telescopic rods 172 is flush with the end face of the upper conveyor belt 14, and the end face of the four lower pneumatic telescopic rods 172 is flush with the end face of the lower conveyor belt 15. By scanning the QR code on the medicine box with the scanner 171 for analysis, multiple medications for the same patient are pushed into the same dispensing slot 11 by the pneumatic telescopic rods 172.

[0027] The pneumatic telescopic rod 172 has a support base 1721 on its end face, and a rubber pad 1722 on its end face. The rear end of the rubber pad 1722 has several rubber strips 1723. The end of the rubber strip 1723 away from the rubber pad 1722 is fixedly connected to the end face of the support base 1721. The medicine box is pushed by the rubber pad 1722, and while pushing the medicine box, the rubber strips 1723 can be squeezed to provide cushioning, thus preventing the medicine box from deforming due to excessive impact.

[0028] Numbered labels are affixed sequentially to the end faces of the eight boxes 12; medicines are retrieved by viewing the corresponding label on the display screen 3.

[0029] Based on the above embodiments, the specific working principle is as follows: The medicine is put into the medicine inlet 4 and falls onto the upper conveyor belt 14 and is conveyed to the left. Then, the QR code on the end face of the medicine box is scanned by the scanner 171, and the medicine is pushed to fall into the medicine guide structure 18 and slide down into the medicine retrieval slot 11. When the upper medicine retrieval slot 11 is full of different patients' medicines, the upper conveyor belt 14 can convey the medicine to the left inclined conveyor belt 16, and then convey it down to the end face of the lower conveyor belt 15. Then, the QR code on the end face of the medicine box is scanned by the scanner 171, and the medicine box is pushed down into the empty medicine retrieval slot 11 by the pneumatic telescopic rod 172. After completing the medicine sorting and dispensing process, the patient's medicine retrieval information can be displayed on the display screen 3, so that the patient can open the corresponding box door 12 to retrieve the medicine according to the medicine retrieval number displayed on the display screen 3. This helps the staff to distribute the medicine, reduces the workload of the staff, and avoids patients having to wait for a long time to retrieve the medicine.

[0030] The pneumatic telescopic rod 172 pushes the medicine box through the rubber pad 1722. While pushing the medicine box, it can also be cushioned by squeezing the rubber strip 1723 to avoid the medicine box being deformed due to large impact force, thus ensuring that the medicine box will not be deformed or damaged during the sorting process.

[0031] Example 2: Please refer to Figures 6-7 The specific embodiments of the present invention are as follows: The drug guiding structure 18 includes a support frame 181 fixedly installed at the rear end of the drug dispensing trough 11. A guide tube 182 is installed in the middle of the support frame 181. A buffer plate 183 is provided at the bottom of the guide tube 182. A receiving plate 184 is provided at the upper end of the guide tube 182. The receiving plate 184 is aligned with the lower end face of the upper conveyor belt 14 and the lower conveyor belt 15. By attaching the receiving plate 184 to the bottom end of the upper conveyor belt 14 and the lower conveyor belt 15, the medicine box is prevented from falling from the end face of the guide tube 182 and the conveyor belt, so that the medicine can fall into the inside of the guide tube 182 and slide into the drug dispensing trough 11 to complete the drug sorting.

[0032] The buffer plate 183 includes a fixing plate 1831 bolted to the bottom of the guide tube 182. The fixing plate 1831 is connected to the top of the buffer plate 183. The bottom of the fixing plate 1831 is provided with five support bars 1832. The end of the support bar 1832 away from the buffer plate 183 is connected to the bottom of the guide tube 182. The buffer plate 183 supports the end face of the medicine box to slide down, so that the medicine box can slide down smoothly and avoid the medicine box being subjected to a large impact and breaking. At the same time, for the sliding of a heavy medicine box, the end face of the buffer plate 183 can be pressed down to squeeze the five support bars 1832 downward and deform it, so that the heavy medicine box slides down slowly, which protects the medicine inside the medicine box and prevents the medicine from breaking during the sorting process.

[0033] The buffer plate 183 is made of plastic, and the angle between the buffer plate 183 and the horizontal support is 30 degrees.

[0034] Based on the above embodiments, the specific working principle is as follows: The receiving plate 184 is attached to the bottom of the upper conveyor belt 14 and the lower conveyor belt 15 to prevent the medicine box from falling from the end face of the guide tube 182 and the conveyor belt. This allows the medicine to fall into the inside of the guide tube 182 and slide down. Then, the buffer plate 183 supports the end face of the medicine box to slide down smoothly, preventing the medicine box from being broken due to a large impact. In addition, for heavier medicine boxes, the five support bars 1832 can be deformed by pressing down on the end face of the buffer plate 183, allowing the heavier medicine box to slide down slowly, which protects the medicine inside the medicine box and prevents the medicine from breaking during the sorting process.

[0035] The technical features of the above embodiments can be combined in any way. For the sake of brevity, not all possible combinations of the technical features in the above embodiments are described. However, as long as there is no contradiction in the combination of these technical features, they should be considered to be within the scope of this specification.

[0036] Therefore, the embodiments should be considered exemplary and non-limiting in all respects, and the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description. Thus, all variations falling within the meaning and scope of equivalents of the claims are intended to be included within the invention. No reference numerals in the claims should be construed as limiting the scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device, comprising a housing (1), a control module (2) on the left side of the housing (1), a display screen (3) on the top of the housing (1), and a drug inlet (4) on the top right side of the housing (1), characterized in that: The front end of the inner shell (1) is provided with eight medicine dispensing slots (11). Each of the eight medicine dispensing slots (11) is provided with a door (12) at the front end. The door (12) is in movable cooperation with a magnetic lock (13) installed on the right side of the medicine dispensing slot (11). The rear end of the inner shell (1) is provided with an upper conveyor belt (14) and a lower conveyor belt (15). An inclined conveyor belt (16) is provided between the upper conveyor belt (14) and the lower conveyor belt (15). The upper conveyor belt (14), the lower conveyor belt (15), and the inclined conveyor belt (16) are driven by a servo motor (10). The rear ends of the upper conveyor belt (14) and the lower conveyor belt (15) are respectively provided with four scanning devices (17). The rear ends of the inner shell (11) are provided with a medicine guiding structure (18). The bottom end of the inner shell (1) is provided with a cylinder (19). The cylinder (19) is connected to the eight medicine guiding structures (18) respectively.

2. The hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The scanning device (17) includes four support arms (173) bolted inside the housing (1). The four support arms (173) are fixedly connected to the scanner (171). The scanner (171) has a pneumatic telescopic rod (172) at the bottom of its front end. The bottom of the four pneumatic telescopic rods (172) at the upper end is flush with the end face of the upper conveyor belt (14), and the four pneumatic telescopic rods (172) at the lower end are flush with the end face of the lower conveyor belt (15).

3. The hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device according to claim 2, characterized in that: The pneumatic telescopic rod (172) has a support seat (1721) on its end face, and a rubber pad (1722) is provided on the end face of the support seat (1721). The rear end of the rubber pad (1722) is provided with several rubber strips (1723). The end of the rubber strip (1723) away from the rubber pad (1722) is fixedly connected to the end face of the support seat (1721).

4. The hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: Numbered labels are affixed to the end faces of the eight boxes (12) in sequence; medicines are retrieved by viewing the box (12) with the corresponding label of the medicine retrieval number on the display screen 3.

5. A hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The drug delivery structure (18) includes a support frame (181) fixedly installed at the rear end of the drug dispensing trough (11). A guide pipe (182) is installed in the middle of the support frame (181). A buffer plate (183) is provided at the bottom of the guide pipe (182). A receiving plate (184) is provided at the upper end of the guide pipe (182). The receiving plate (184) is aligned with the lower end face of the upper conveyor belt (14) and the lower conveyor belt (15).

6. A hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device according to claim 5, characterized in that: The buffer plate (183) includes a fixing plate (1831) bolted to the bottom of the feed tube (182). The fixing plate (1831) is connected to the top of the buffer plate (183). The bottom of the fixing plate (1831) is provided with five support bars (1832). The end of the support bar (1832) away from the buffer plate (183) is connected to the bottom of the feed tube (182).

7. A hospital pharmaceutical drug sorting device according to claim 5, characterized in that: The buffer plate (183) is made of plastic, and the angle between the buffer plate (183) and the horizontal support is 30 degrees.

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