Pharmaceutical packaging apparatus, method of determining remaining quantity of pharmaceutical packaging paper and pharmaceutical packaging paper roll

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10227153-B2
Application number	US-201615245074-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2016
Priority date	Mar 25, 2013
Publication date	Mar 12, 2019
Grant date	Mar 12, 2019

Abstract

Medicine packaging apparatuses and methods for accurately determining a remaining sheet amount of a medicine packaging sheet are described. The apparatus includes: a roll support section to which a core tube of a medicine packaging sheet roll is attached; a sensor disposed in the roll support section for outputting a count value according to a rotation amount; a wireless reader-writer unit for writing information to a core tube IC tag and reading said information; an information generation section for generating information to be written to the core tube IC tag; a remaining sheet amount estimation section for estimating a current amount of remaining sheet based on the information and dimensional information of the core tube; and a controller which selectively performs an operation if a reference time-point count value is not yet written to the core tube IC tag and another operation if the count value is already written thereto.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A medicine packaging sheet roll for use in a medicine packaging apparatus for packaging a medicine and making a print by using an ink ribbon roll and the medicine packaging sheet roll, the apparatus comprising:
a gap making section for making a first state in which a printing head and a backup section opposed thereto are spaced from each other, and a second state in which they are further spaced than in the first state;
a winding controller for controlling a winding of the ink ribbon to remove a slack in an ink ribbon in the ink ribbon roll in the second state; and
a controller for performing a control of the winding of the ink ribbon in the second state upon determination that there is a possibility for the medicine packaging sheet roll to be replaced, and the controller determining that there is a possibility for the medicine packaging sheet roll to be replaced if it becomes unable to read information from a storage medium through an information reading section which reads information from the storage medium,
wherein the medicine packaging sheet roll has the storage medium in a core tube.

2. The medicine packaging sheet roll according to claim 1 , wherein the storage medium stores dimensional information of the core tube.

3. The medicine packaging sheet roll according to claim 1 , wherein the core tube includes an inner tube portion and an outer tube portion, the storage medium being disposed in a gap between the inner tube portion and the outer tube portion.

Assignees

• Yuyama Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshina Katsunori
• Sugimoto Tomohiro
• Fujii Noriyoshi

Classifications

• B65H2553/52

  RFID sensor · CPC title

• B65H2511/114

  Remaining length of web roll · CPC title

• B65B57/02

  responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages · CPC title

• B65H43/00

  Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable · CPC title

• B65H2301/5111

  Printing; Marking · CPC title