US 12,303,467 B2
Tablet receptacle and drug dispensing device
Koji Yamashita, Osaka (JP); and Yoshinori Taniguchi, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/996,336
Filed by YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 14, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/015514
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/210624, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-074442 (JP), filed on Apr. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0190583 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. A61J 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 7/02 (2013.01) [A61J 2205/60 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tablet receptacle which receives tablets discharged to a tablet dropping passage below a plurality of mounting parts in a drug dispensing device in which the mounting parts on which tablet cassettes are mounted are arranged, and the tablets are packaged by being discharged from the tablet cassettes to the tablet dropping passage, the tablet receptacle comprising:
a receiving port that receives the tablets discharged to the tablet dropping passage when inserted into the tablet dropping passage,
wherein tablet receptacle further comprising a tablet guide extending obliquely downward from a bottom portion of the receiving port toward an inside of the tablet receptacle.