Medicine Packing Error Detection Rotary Path Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The reliability of automatic tablet medicine packing is compromised due to the possibility of tablets being packed in incorrect combinations, leading to waste and inefficiency caused by blockages and congestion during transfer from tablet cassettes to the hopper.
Innovation Solution
An error identifying device is introduced below the tablet cassettes, featuring a tablet assembly space, error detecting unit, first and second paths, and a path selecting unit with a rotary plate and driving motor, which directs tablets to separate paths based on prescription accuracy, and includes a locking mechanism for secure containment of misaligned tablets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If tablets are transferred automatically from tablet cassettes to the hopper, then productivity is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to blockage and congestion causing incorrect tablet combinations
Solution Approach 1:
The error detecting unit performs preliminary detection of tablet combinations before they are packed. The system identifies incorrect combinations in advance and redirects them through the second path, preventing erroneous tablets from being packed and ensuring only correct combinations proceed to the packing unit.
Solution Approach 2:
The path selecting unit acts as an intermediary between the tablet assembly space and the packing unit. It receives detected error information and selectively redirects tablets through different paths, serving as a control mechanism that separates correct and incorrect tablet combinations before final packing.
2Reliability
If error detection and path selection mechanisms are added, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into distinct functional modules: error detecting unit, path selecting unit, first path, and second path. This modular segmentation allows each component to perform a specific function, making the complex error prevention system manageable and maintainable while ensuring reliable operation.
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AI summary
An error identifying device of a tablet medicine packing apparatus is disclosed. The error identifying device according to an exemplary embodiment of the inventive concept, which is prepared below a plurality of tablet cassettes containing each different kind of tablet, includes a tablet assembly space where tablets discharged from at least a part of the plurality of the tablet cassettes assembles, an error detecting unit detecting whether the kind and the number of the tablets assembled in the tablet assembly space are in accordance with a prescription or not, a first path and a second path guiding the tablets assembled in the tablet assembly space into each different direction, and a path selecting unit guiding the tablets assembled in the tablet assembly space into the first path if the kind and the number of the tablets are in accordance with the prescription, if not, guiding the tablets assembled in the tablet assembly space into the second path.