US 11,897,640 B2
Machine and process for preparing intravenous medicaments
Michele Minisini, Milan (IT)
Assigned to SWISSLOG ITALIA S.P.A., Milan (IT)
Filed by SWISSLOG ITALIA S.p.A., Milan (IT)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/469,460.
Application 17/469,460 is a continuation of application No. 16/082,660, granted, now 11,142,355, previously published as PCT/IB2017/051316, filed on Mar. 7, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 102016000023541 (IT), filed on Mar. 7, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0041309 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B65B 3/00 (2006.01); A61J 1/20 (2006.01); A61J 3/00 (2006.01); G07F 17/00 (2006.01); B65B 3/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 3/003 (2013.01) [A61J 1/20 (2013.01); A61J 3/002 (2013.01); G07F 17/0092 (2013.01); B65B 3/04 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A metering module for preparing intravenous medicaments, comprising:
at least one container support arrangement;
a rotating platform;
at least one syringe support/metering member arrangement;
at least one syringe weighing arrangement;
at least one bag weighing arrangement;
at least one needle unscrewing and/or syringe plugging arrangement; and
a motor, the rotating platform being operatively connected to the motor, the at least one syringe support/metering member arrangement being supported on the rotating platform and surrounded radically by the at least one container support arrangement, the at least one needle unscrewing and/or syringe plugging arrangement, the at least one syringe weighing arrangement and, in a lower position, the at least one bag weighing arrangement, the rotating platform being oriented in a vertical plane and the motor rotating the rotating platform in the vertical plane to periodically arrangement at the at least one container support arrangement, the at least one needle unscrewing and/or syringe plugging arrangement, the at least one syringe weighing arrangement and the at least one bag weighing arrangement.