公开(公告)号：US20120228083A1

公开(公告)日：2012-09-13

申请号：US13415668

申请日：2012-03-08

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： B65G47/24

CPC分类号： G07F11/62 ,  G07F11/002 ,  G07F11/70 ,  G07F17/0092

摘要： A linear dispensing system is provided that includes a plurality of channels, a pair of parallel rails, a plurality of carriers and a plurality of linear motor modules. The channels are configured to hold inventory products at an orientation. The pair of parallel rails is disposed at a bottom portion of the channels. The carriers are slidably disposed on the rails and have a conveyor unit configured to pick the inventory product from the channels while substantially maintaining the same geometric orientation as in the channel. The linear motor modules are disposed between the parallel rails and aligned end to end. The linear motor modules are coupled with the carriers and configured to pass the carriers to an adjacent linear motor module. Each carrier delivers a plurality of selected products of varying shapes to a universal escapement structure where the products are labeled, imaged, verified and dispensed.

摘要翻译： 提供线性分配系统，其包括多个通道，一对平行导轨，多个载体和多个线性电机模块。 渠道被配置为保持库存产品的方向。 一对平行轨道设置在通道的底部。 托架可滑动地设置在轨道上，并且具有构造成从通道中拾取库存产品的输送单元，同时基本上保持与通道相同的几何取向。 线性电动机模块设置在平行轨道之间并且端对端排列。 线性电动机模块与载体联接并且被配置成将载体传递到相邻的线性电动机模块。 每个载体将多个不同形状的选定产品输送到通用擒纵机构，其中产品被标记，成像，验证和分配。

公开(公告)号：US20110146212A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-23

申请号：US13059959

申请日：2009-08-21

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： B65B7/00 ,  G06F19/00

CPC分类号： A61J7/0084 ,  A61J7/02 ,  B65B5/103 ,  B65B7/2807 ,  B65B7/2835 ,  B65B35/08 ,  B65B37/02 ,  B65B57/06 ,  B65B57/20 ,  B65B65/08 ,  B65D5/103

摘要： A multi-pharmaceutical dispensing station includes a circular platform around which a plurality of individual dispensers is arrayed at a convenient loading height. Each dispenser accepts a single bulk canister containing one pharmaceutical. Cylindrical, empty prescription containers carry labels bearing indicia of the patient and pharmaceutical to be dispensed into each container. Sensors detect the indicia and direct the containers to the proper dispenser which fills them with the type and quantity of a pharmaceutical according to the indicia. Incident containers first drop into a dispersion wheel which translates them around the circular station and aligns them with a vertical chute leading to the correct dispenser. After filling, the containers are urged onto a moving, circular table which conveys them to automatic closing and sealing apparatus. Once closed and sealed, the containers exit the dispenser station through pneumatic tubing which conveys them to verification, sorting and shipping stages.

摘要翻译： 多药物分配站包括圆形平台，多个单独分配器围绕该圆形平台以方便的装载高度排列。 每个分配器接受含有一种药物的单个散装罐。 圆柱形的空处方容器携带带有患者标记的标签和要分配到每个容器中的药物。 传感器检测标记，并将容器引导到适当的分配器，根据标记填充药物的类型和数量。 事件容器首先落入一个分散轮，将它们围绕圆形工位转动，并将它们与通向正确分配器的垂直滑槽对齐。 填充后，将容器推到移动的圆形台上，将其传送到自动关闭和密封装置。 一旦关闭和密封，容器通过气动管道离开分配站，将其传送到验证，分拣和运输阶段。

公开(公告)号：US08973338B2

公开(公告)日：2015-03-10

申请号：US13059976

申请日：2009-08-20

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： B65B43/44 ,  B65G51/24 ,  B65G51/20 ,  B65G51/30

CPC分类号： B65G51/24 ,  B65G51/20 ,  B65G51/30

摘要： A pneumatic container transport system conveys specialized, cylindrical containers between stations within an automated container filling system. Low-pressure, high-velocity air moving through plastic tubing propels the containers through switching gates, air impellers and deceleration devices from one station to another. Annular ridges around the circumference of the containers minimize contact with the inside tube walls and deter scuffing of paper labels which carry machine readable indicia upon which the container filling system relies for directing the containers. The air impellers include at least one aperture for adjusting the air pressure and velocity. Actuator-operated gates in the tubing system respond to control signals from management software to direct each container to its next station. At selected stations, decelerators slow the containers upon arrival to cushion their impact upon arrival and to protect the contents from damage due to jarring.

摘要翻译： 气动容器运输系统在自动化容器填充系统内的站之间传送专门的圆柱形容器。 通过塑料管道移动的低压，高速空气通过开关门，空气叶轮和减速装置将容器从一个站移动到另一个站。 围绕容器圆周的环状脊最小化与内壁壁的接触，并阻止纸标签的磨损，纸标签带有容器填充系统所依赖的用于引导容器的机器可读标记。 空气叶轮包括用于调节空气压力和速度的至少一个孔。 管道系统中的致动器操作的门响应来自管理软件的控制信号，以将每个容器引导到其下一个站。 在选定的车站，减速机抵达时减速集装箱缓冲其到达时的冲击力，并保护内容物免受刺激的损坏。

公开(公告)号：US08745961B2

公开(公告)日：2014-06-10

申请号：US13059959

申请日：2009-08-21

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： A61J7/00 ,  A61J7/02 ,  B65B5/10 ,  B65B37/02 ,  B65B57/06 ,  B65B57/20 ,  B65B65/08 ,  B65D5/10

CPC分类号： A61J7/0084 ,  A61J7/02 ,  B65B5/103 ,  B65B7/2807 ,  B65B7/2835 ,  B65B35/08 ,  B65B37/02 ,  B65B57/06 ,  B65B57/20 ,  B65B65/08 ,  B65D5/103

摘要： A multi-pharmaceutical dispensing station includes a circular platform around which a plurality of individual dispensers is arrayed at a convenient loading height. Each dispenser accepts a single bulk canister containing one pharmaceutical. Cylindrical, empty prescription containers carry labels bearing indicia of the patient and pharmaceutical to be dispensed into each container. Sensors detect the indicia and direct the containers to the proper dispenser which fills them with the type and quantity of a pharmaceutical according to the indicia. Incident containers first drop into a dispersion wheel which translates them around the circular station and aligns them with a vertical chute leading to the correct dispenser. After filling, the containers are urged onto a moving, circular table which conveys them to automatic closing and sealing apparatus. Once closed and sealed, the containers exit the dispenser station through pneumatic tubing which conveys them to verification, sorting and shipping stages.

摘要翻译： 多药物分配站包括圆形平台，多个单独分配器围绕该圆形平台以方便的装载高度排列。 每个分配器接受含有一种药物的单个散装罐。 圆柱形的空处方容器携带带有患者标记的标签和要分配到每个容器中的药物。 传感器检测标记，并将容器引导到适当的分配器，根据标记填充药物的类型和数量。 事件容器首先落入一个分散轮，将它们围绕圆形工位转动，并将它们与通向正确分配器的垂直滑槽对齐。 填充后，将容器推到移动的圆形台上，将其传送到自动关闭和密封装置。 一旦关闭和密封，容器通过气动管道离开分配站，将其传送到验证，分拣和运输阶段。

公开(公告)号：US08734061B2

公开(公告)日：2014-05-27

申请号：US13059975

申请日：2009-08-21

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： B65G51/20

CPC分类号： B65G51/24 ,  B65G51/20 ,  B65G51/30

摘要： Cylindrical prescription containers are propelled through a pneumatic transport system at high speeds by low pressure, high-velocity air. Upon arrival at destination stations within the transport system, curvilinear decelerators slow them by directing them through a plurality of curved paths where they dissipate momentum. Once slowed, the containers are deposited upon a moving conveyor to be staged into the next processing station at an even pace. The decelerators comprise curved vanes surrounding the container path, the vanes being held in a fixed, curvilinear relation to each other and the container by a series of yokes surrounding and engaging the vanes. The conveyor is driven by a servo motor controllable by the transport system to pace containers as needed by the next processing station.

摘要翻译： 圆柱形处方容器通过低压高速空气通过气动输送系统高速推进。 在到达运输系统内的目的地车站时，曲线减速器通过将它们引导通过多个弯曲的路径来减缓它们的消耗动量。 一旦减速，容器就会沉积在移动的输送机上，以便以均匀的速度进入下一个加工站。 减速器包括围绕容器路径的弯曲叶片，叶片通过围绕和接合叶片的一系列轭保持彼此固定的曲线关系。 输送机由可由运输系统控制的伺服电机驱动，以按照下一个加工站的需要对容器进行调速。

公开(公告)号：US20090218363A1

公开(公告)日：2009-09-03

申请号：US12396417

申请日：2009-03-02

申请人： ROBERT TERZINI

发明人： ROBERT TERZINI

IPC分类号： B65D83/04

CPC分类号： B65B5/103 ,  A61J7/02 ,  B65B35/08 ,  B65B57/20

摘要： A small object dispenser adapted to receive a canister of objects such as pills, the canister being coupled atop it through a secure, bar-code matched gate operated by a central controller. A hopper below the gate directs smaller quantities of objects into a charge block adapted to measure out a select number of objects into an angularly disposed, circular counter where they accumulate atop a movable plate forming the bottom of the counter. The plate bears slots around its perimeter adjacent the cylindrical walls of the counter. As the central controller operates a servo motor to rotate the plate in measured increments, it urges a precise count of objects from the bottom of the counter to a port through which they fall one at a time into a receptacle such as a prescription bottle. Orientation means on the interior of the walls orient objects so that only a single object may fall into each slot, thereby preventing overfilling. A separate sensor counts the objects as they fall to verify quantity and guard against underfilling due to empty slots.

摘要翻译： 适于接收诸如药丸的物体的罐的小物体分配器，所述罐通过由中央控制器操作的安全的条形码匹配门连接在其上。 门下方的料斗将较少量的物品引入充电块，该充电块适于将选定数量的物体排出成角度布置的圆形计数器，其中它们积聚在形成柜台底部的可移动板的顶部。 平板围绕计数器的圆柱形壁围绕其周边。 由于中央控制器操作伺服电动机以测量的增量旋转板，所以它敦促从计数器的底部到一个端口的精确计数，通过该端口它们一次一个地插入诸如处方瓶的容器中。 方向意味着墙壁的内部定向物体，使得只有一个物体可能落入每个槽，从而防止过度填充。 一个单独的传感器会在物体落下时对物体进行计数，以验证数量并防止由于空的槽而造成的未充足的填充。

公开(公告)号：US20110153066A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-23

申请号：US13059972

申请日：2009-08-21

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： B65B5/103 ,  B65B7/2807 ,  B65B7/2835 ,  B65B35/08 ,  B65B43/50 ,  B65B57/20 ,  B65G29/00

摘要： A multi-pharmaceutical dispensing station includes a circular platform around which a plurality of individual dispensers is arrayed at a convenient loading height. Cylindrical, empty prescription containers bearing indicia of the patient and pharmaceutical to be dispensed into each container. Incident containers first enter an entraining column, where sensors detect the indicia and determine the proper dispenser to which to direct the container. The containers then drop into a dispersion wheel which translates them around the circular station and aligns them with a vertical chute leading to the designated dispenser. Slidable gates cover the chutes until the transport system determines they are above the proper dispenser, then open to drop the containers into the designated dispenser. The dispersion wheel may be used in other applications, such as container content verification, and may include container processing stations along its perimeter for processing the containers before sending them on.

摘要翻译： 多药物分配站包括圆形平台，多个单独分配器围绕该圆形平台以方便的装载高度排列。 带有患者标记的圆柱形空处方容器和要分配到每个容器中的药物。 事件容器首先进入夹带，传感器检测标记并确定用于引导容器的合适的分配器。 然后，容器落入分散轮中，该分散轮将它们围绕圆形台转动，并将它们与通向指定分配器的垂直滑槽对齐。 可滑动的门覆盖滑槽，直到运输系统确定它们在适当的分配器上方，然后打开以将容器放入指定的分配器中。 分散轮可以用于其他应用，例如容器内容验证，并且可以包括沿其周边的容器处理站，用于在发送之前处理容器。

公开(公告)号：US20110146835A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-23

申请号：US13060255

申请日：2009-08-23

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： B65B1/04

CPC分类号： G06Q50/22 ,  B65B5/103 ,  B65B35/08 ,  B65B57/20 ,  G06Q10/087

摘要： An intake to exit security system for high-volume pharmacies provides maximum security from tampering and assures accuracy. The system immediately assigns bar codes to shipments upon arrival and then tracks them through warehousing, bulk distribution, prescription dispensing and shipping to patients, hospitals and drugstores. Bar-coded lock neck devices secure bulk drug canisters to bar-coded dispensing machines at specified dispensing stations where the machines dispense drugs into pre-labeled prescription bottles according to prescription indicia on the labels. Bottles then undergo content analysis and certification before packaged and shipped to customers. A Ramon laser spectral analysis contrasts the bottle contents to a library of known spectral signatures of drugs, and the pharmacist is alerted to any detected difference. A simultaneously captured visual image of the pills enables the pharmacist visually to compare the contents to a library of known visual appearances of the drugs. Both analyses are recorded for prescriptions certified and forwarded to customers. Deviations are excised without disrupting flow of other prescriptions, and the system automatically reassigns an incorrectly filled prescription to another bottle which starts anew through the system. Full bottles of commonly used drugs and specialized containers for irregularly shaped objects, creams and ointments may be pre-filled and inventoried for later collation with prescription bottles at the packaging and shipping stage.

摘要翻译： 为大批量药房退出安全系统的入场提供最大的安全性，以防止篡改并确保准确性。 系统在到达时立即将货物条码分配给货物，然后通过仓储，散装，处方配送和运送给患者，医院和药房进行跟踪。 条形码锁定颈部装置将批量药物罐固定到指定分配站处的条形码分配机，其中机器根据标签上的处方标记将药物分配到预先标记的处方瓶中。 然后在包装和运送给客户之前对瓶进行内容分析和认证。 Ramon激光光谱分析将瓶子内容与已知的药物光谱特征库进行对比，并向药剂师提供任何检测到的差异。 药物的同时捕获的视觉图像使得药剂师在视觉上将内容与药物的已知视觉外观的图书馆进行比较。 记录两种分析方案，并经过认证并转发给客户。 偏差被切除，而不会中断其他处方的流动，系统会自动将不正确填写的处方重新分配给另一个通过系统重新启动的瓶子。 可以预先填充和储存用于不规则形状的物体，霜剂和软膏的全套常用药物和专用容器，以便在包装和运输阶段随后与处方瓶进行整理。

公开(公告)号：US20110146213A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-23

申请号：US13058795

申请日：2009-08-11

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： B65B1/04

CPC分类号： B65B5/103 ,  A61J7/02 ,  B65B35/08 ,  B65B57/20

摘要： An automated dispenser receives a canister of small objects secured atop the dispenser using a bar-code matched gate operated by a central controller. A hopper below the gate directs small quantities of objects into a charge block which urges them into a circular counter and atop a movable plate forming the bottom of the counter. The plate bears slots around its perimeter adjacent the cylindrical walls of the counter. The central controller operates a servo motor to rotate the plate in measured increments, urging a precise count of objects into a port through which they fall one at a time into a receptacle. Means on the cylinder walls orients objects so that only a single one at a time may fall into each slot, thereby preventing overfilling. An exit sensor counts the objects as they fall to verify quantity and guard against under-filling.

摘要翻译： 使用由中央控制器操作的条形码匹配的门，自动分配器接收固定在分配器上方的小物体的罐。 门下方的料斗将少量物品引入充电块，将其推入圆形计数器，并在形成柜台底部的活动板的顶部。 平板围绕计数器的圆柱形壁围绕其周边。 中央控制器操作伺服电动机以测量的增量旋转板，促使物体精确计数到通过它们一次一个入口的端口中。 气缸壁上的装置指向物体，使得一次只能有一个可能落入每个槽，从而防止过度填充。 出口传感器在物体下落时对物体进行计数，以验证数量并防止欠灌装。

公开(公告)号：US20110142554A1

公开(公告)日：2011-06-16

申请号：US13059974

申请日：2009-08-22

申请人： Robert Terzini

发明人： Robert Terzini

IPC分类号： B65G51/04

CPC分类号： B65G51/06 ,  B65D2203/02

摘要： In a pneumatic container transport system, specialized cylindrical containers move between processing stations through cylindrica conduits propelled by low-pressure, high-velocity air. Annular ridges around the circumference of the containers minimize contact with the inside conduit walls and deter scuffing of labels which carry machine-readable indicia upon which the container transport system relies for directing the containers. In a preferred embodiment, the containers are bottles having a coaxial mouth closed by threaded caps, the caps still preferably including a transparent window to allow visual and spectroscopy analysis of the bottle contents. In an alternate embodiment, the containers are longitudinally symmetrical clamshells for irregularly shaped objects, the clamshells opening through a longitudinal mouth along one side and sealable with tamper-proof labels.

摘要翻译： 在气动容器运输系统中，专门的圆柱形容器通过由低压，高速空气推动的圆柱形导管在加工站之间移动。 围绕容器圆周的环状脊最小化与内部导管壁的接触，并且阻止标签的磨损，该标签携带机器可读标记，容器运输系统依靠该标记指导容器。 在优选实施例中，容器是具有由螺纹盖封闭的同轴口的瓶子，帽子还优选地包括透明窗口，以允许瓶内容物的视觉和光谱分析。 在替代实施例中，容器是用于不规则形状的物体的纵向对称的蛤壳，蛤壳通过沿着一侧的纵向口开口并且可与防篡改标签密封。