Drug Discharge Device Adjacent Recessed Portion Grouping
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing manual distribution devices for drugs require careful operation to ensure that drugs are packaged in the correct order for multiple patients, leading to a heavy mental burden on pharmacists and increased complexity in sorting drugs by dosing timing.
Innovation Solution
A drug discharge device with a manual distribution member and a control device that assigns the same drug to adjacent recessed portions based on prescription information, allowing for intensive distribution of the same drug in grouped regions and simplifying the operation by discharging drugs in a predetermined order.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If drugs are manually distributed one by one in the order of dosing timing, then the drug packaging accuracy is improved, but the operational complexity and mental burden on pharmacists increases
Solution Approach 1:
The manual distribution member is divided into multiple recessed portions arranged in a matrix pattern, with each recessed portion designated for a specific drug type. This segmentation allows drugs of the same type to be grouped together in adjacent recessed portions, enabling pharmacists to efficiently distribute multiple identical drugs without complex sorting operations while maintaining accurate dosing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-arranges multiple recessed portions for the same drug type in adjacent positions before the distribution process begins. Prescription information is used to predetermined which recessed portions should contain which drugs, so that when pharmacists distribute drugs, they simply place them in the pre-designated adjacent recessed portions rather than having to calculate and determine the correct position for each drug individually.
2Ease of operation
If the same drug is assigned to adjacent recessed portions, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The manual distribution member is segmented into multiple recessed portions arranged in a systematic matrix pattern. Each recessed portion is specifically designed to accommodate a single drug, and multiple recessed portions are allocated for the same drug type in adjacent positions. This segmentation structure simplifies the distribution operation by providing dedicated, pre-positioned spaces for each drug type.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates multiple identical recessed portions (copies) for the same drug type in adjacent positions on the manual distribution member. Instead of using a single complex sorting mechanism, the design replicates the same functional space multiple times in a regular pattern, allowing pharmacists to efficiently distribute multiple units of the same drug by simply placing them in the corresponding adjacent recessed portions.
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AI summary
To provide a drug discharge device capable of reducing complexity when distributing a drug into a manual distribution device. A drug discharge device includes a manual distribution member 15 that includes a plurality of recessed portions 20 in which a solid drug is distributed, discharge means that discharges the drug distributed in the recessed portions 20 to a downstream side directly or via another member, and a control device that controls the discharge means, in which the discharge means is capable of individually discharging a drug corresponding to a predetermined recessed portion 20, the control device assigns the same drug to the recessed portions 20 in adjacent regions based on prescription information including information on a drug to be provided to a plurality of patients or one patient, and the discharge means discharges the drugs in a predetermined order.