US 12,465,554 B2
Chemical agent supply device and chemical agent supply method
Akira Kondo, Gunma (JP); and Hiroshi Hama, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to PHC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by PHC Holdings Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/108,399.
Application 18/108,399 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/031580, filed on Aug. 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-179599 (JP), filed on Oct. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0181426 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. A61J 7/00 (2006.01); B65B 1/30 (2006.01); B65B 61/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 7/0084 (2013.01) [B65B 1/30 (2013.01); B65B 61/025 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A drug supply device comprising:
a plurality of cassettes configured to eject a drug one by one, wherein the plurality of cassettes comprises a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of groups includes one or more cassettes, each of the plurality groups is configured to eject one type of drug, and the plurality of groups are configured to eject different types of drugs from each other;
a plurality of shelves storing the plurality of cassettes; and
a control device,
wherein the control device includes a program and a memory storing the program, when a medical prescription is input to the drug supply device, the control device is configured, by executing the program, to:
allocate cassettes for each drug in the medical prescription, and
input the medical prescription to an information table generated by the executed program,
wherein the medical prescription includes drug names and number of tablets of each drug,
wherein the information table generated by the executed program includes the drug names in the medical prescription, the number of tablets of each drug in the medical prescription, group number of each drug in the medical prescription, maximum number of cassettes for each drug in the medical prescription, number of allocated cassettes of each drug in the medical prescription, and an average value of tablets of each drug ejected by each of the allocated cassettes,
wherein in the information table, the number of allocated cassettes of each drug in the medical prescription is preset as 1 and the average value of tablets of each drug ejected by each of the allocated cassettes is the number of tablets of each drug in the medical prescription divided by the number of allocated cassettes of the corresponding drug in the medical prescription, and
wherein the control device is configured, by executing the program, to execute:
step (1) calculating the average value of tablets of each drug ejected by each of the allocated cassettes; and
step (2) sorting the plurality of groups in a descending order of the average value of tablets of each drug ejected by each of the allocated cassettes in the information table, such that first group in the information table has the largest average value of tablets among the plurality of groups.