US 12,065,323 B2
Pharmaceutical packaging apparatus, method of determining remaining quantity of pharmaceutical packaging paper and pharmaceutical packaging paper roll
Katsunori Yoshina, Osaka (JP); Tomohiro Sugimoto, Osaka (JP); and Noriyoshi Fujii, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/051,091.
Application 16/262,588 is a division of application No. 15/245,074, filed on Aug. 23, 2016, granted, now 10,227,153, issued on Mar. 12, 2019.
Application 18/051,091 is a continuation of application No. 17/076,589, filed on Oct. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,518,637.
Application 17/076,589 is a continuation of application No. 16/262,588, filed on Jan. 30, 2019, granted, now 10,843,835, issued on Nov. 24, 2020.
Application 15/245,074 is a continuation of application No. 14/780,453, granted, now 9,457,924, issued on Oct. 4, 2016, previously published as PCT/JP2014/057405, filed on Mar. 18, 2014.
Claims priority of application No. 2013-061923 (JP), filed on Mar. 25, 2013; and application No. 2013-105104 (JP), filed on May 17, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2023/0089111 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B65H 16/04 (2006.01); B65B 57/04 (2006.01); B65H 16/02 (2006.01); B65H 18/28 (2006.01); B65H 26/06 (2006.01); B65H 43/00 (2006.01); B65H 75/18 (2006.01); G01N 33/34 (2006.01); B65B 57/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 16/04 (2013.01) [B65B 57/04 (2013.01); B65H 16/02 (2013.01); B65H 18/28 (2013.01); B65H 26/06 (2013.01); B65H 43/00 (2013.01); B65H 75/182 (2013.01); G01N 33/346 (2013.01); B65B 57/02 (2013.01); B65H 2301/5111 (2013.01); B65H 2511/114 (2013.01); B65H 2513/11 (2013.01); B65H 2553/52 (2013.01); B65H 2801/81 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medicine packaging apparatus with a medicine packaging sheet roll having a core tube provided with a storage medium,
the medicine packaging apparatus comprising:
a rotation amount information outputting section for an output of rotation amount information as an indication of a rotation amount of a rotating shaft portion to which the medicine packaging sheet roll is attached;
an information reading section for writing information to and reading the written information from the storage medium provided inside the core tube of the medicine packaging sheet roll;
an information generation section for generating, as information writable to the storage medium, based on the rotation amount information output from the rotation amount information outputting section: rotation amount information as of reference sheet-remaining amount timing which is the rotation amount information upon unwinding of a packaging sheet by a predetermined length from the medicine packaging sheet roll attached to the rotating shaft portion at a reference time-point; one or a plural pieces of rotation amount information as of individual current sheet-remaining amount obtaining timings each of which is the rotation amount information upon unwinding of the packaging sheet by the predetermined length from the medicine packaging sheet roll at a packaging sheet in-use time-point after the reference time-point; and an amount of sheet use from the reference time-point through the packaging sheet in-use time-point; and
a remaining sheet amount estimation section for estimation of a current amount of remaining sheet based on the rotation amount information as of reference sheet-remaining amount timing, the rotation amount information as of individual current sheet-remaining amount obtaining timing, the amount of sheet use from the reference time-point through the packaging sheet in-use time-point, and dimensional information of the core tube.