Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146753 | Medicine cart A medicine cart (1) is provided which includes a plurality of cassettes (10) which are upwardly open and each accommodate a plurality of medicine containers in an upright state in a row. The plurality of cassettes (10) are placed on a shelf plat... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8099928 | Tablet filling device A tablet filling device that allows the device to be smaller since a driving range of an arm for holding vials is greatly decreased includes: a tablet supply unit 16; a first vial delivery arm unit 17; and a second vial delivery arm unit 18. The... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8082957 | Tablet storage and take-out apparatus A device (1) for containing and dispensing tablets, wherein vial bottles (3) filled with tablets wait in waiting spaces (701a, b, c) and the vial bottles (3) are taken out from the waiting spaces (701a, b, c). A plura... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073238 | Mixed injection inspection system Provided is a system for reducing burden on an inspector by making it possible to evaluate the operation of a mixed injection worker which is difficult to evaluate numerically at a place remote from the mixed injection work place. Provided is a mixed injection inspe... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069993 | Medicine cart A medicine cart (1) having excellent workability in filling and returning a medicine, comprising an upwardly opening cassette (10) storing a plurality of medicines (15a, 15b, 15c) arranged in a row in an uprigh... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8047352 | Vial supply device A vial supply device 11 having a receiving section with a large capacity and capable of reliably discharging the vials includes: a receiving section 101 for receiving many empty vials 4; a conveyance unit 105 having a horizontal endless m... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041102 | Tablet storage and take-out apparatus A tablet storing/retrieving device which stores a plurality of kinds of medicines, and delivers as many tablets of such descriptions as designated by prescription data into a vial (3) and retrieves it. An imaging device (400) is provided for photograph... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8020725 | Medicine dispensing apparatus A medicine dispensing apparatus which allows a prescribed quantity of medicines to be reliably taken out based on prescription data. The medicine dispensing apparatus includes a plurality of cassettes (3) which contain medicines in alignment, a pressing devic... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020356 | Medicine packaging apparatus and method of packaging medicine There is provided a medicine packaging apparatus, which is capable of rapidly coping with errors occurring during processes. The medicine packaging apparatus includes: a medicine supply means 1 for supplying a medicine according to prescription data; a medici... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8011395 | Tablet feeding device The present invention relates to a tablet feeding device for supplying tablets accommodated in a tablet feeder to vials by supplying a power source from a surface side of the tablet feeder to a rotor of the tablet feeder and further allowing many tablet feeders to b... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7992477 | Medicine feeding device A medicine feeding device including a support portion (32) for supporting a seal surface side of a press through pack (5), a press section (33) for pressing the housing recess portions (9) from one side other than the seal surface of the ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7964805 | Medicine weighing device that changes between an inspection mode and a weighing mode whenever a removable program storage device is attached or removed A medicine weighing device that includes, not only a weighing function, but also an inspection function. The medicine weighing device has a compact structure capable of displaying a weighed value and an inspection result on the same screen, and which can execute ins... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957929 | Drug dispensing apparatus A drug dispensing apparatus including a cassette for containing drugs in an aligned state, a rotor disposed at one open end of the cassette, a pushing unit for pushing the drugs toward the rotor, a drive mechanism for pivoting the rotor alternately between a dispens... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954531 | Labeling apparatus A labeling apparatus of the present invention is constituted by: at least three support rollers which come into contact with the outer surface of the vial to rotate; an arm for rotatably supporting the support rollers; a rotation unit (rotation rollers) for rotating... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7950202 | Medicine packing device There is provided a medicine packing device, which prevents a free end of a bottom plate of a tablet dispensing measure from tilting due to its own weight. A bottom plate 43 is provided at a lower opening of a tablet dispensing measure 42. The bottom p... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7934356 | Machine for filling bag with medicine To quickly fill a bag with medicine containers without damaging the containers, a machine for filling a bag with medicine containers includes: a bag positioning member (4) for positioning and opening a bag (13); a first moving member (37) that r... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933683 | Partition plate usable for V-measure in medicine holding machine Embodiments of the invention provide a partition plate capable of efficiently cleaning a medicine remaining in a V-measure. The partition plate comprises: a slide member (8) which is installed so as to be capable of reciprocating along side plates and has a g... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930060 | Medicine supply system A medicine supply system including a cart supply line (48) on which a plurality of carts (8) are disposed and aligned; a first transport unit for transporting the plurality of carts (8) on the cart supply line (48); a tray discharge unit ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7845144 | Medicine storing and dispensing apparatus There is provided a medicine storing and dispensing apparatus, which is capable of filling medicines dispensed from a medicine feeder into a container generally evenly regardless of location to thereby effectively utilize an internal space of the container. The medi... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7873435 | Dispensing support device and dispensing support method To permit a plurality of pharmacists to perform dispensing efficiently and simultaneously despite of simple, low-cost configuration. There are provided: responsible a pharmacist identification means 7 which is provided at each container 14 of a ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7871234 | Cart transport apparatus A cart transport apparatus for automatically transporting carts in which trays with medicine contained therein can be stored. The carts have a plurality of support panels (38) juxtaposed to each other, a lower connection member (41) connecting lower en... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7861495 | Distributed medicine supplying device and medicine packaging device There is provided a distributed medicine supplying device, which allows medicines to be distributed at a time relative to a plurality of prescription data and to be distributed appropriately in response to various types of requests. The distributed medicine supplyin... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861492 | Tablet filling device Provided is a tablet filling device capable of continuing an operation without stopping the supply of the tablet container, filling with tablets, etc. even when the prescribed operations cannot be performed at the operating positions. The tablet filling device inclu... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7857163 | Drug dispenser A drug dispenser which can push a drug package in a stable state and discharge it. The drug dispenser includes a drug case (1) for containing a plurality of drug packages (100) stacked in a vertical direction, each of the plurality of drug packages ( | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857162 | Tablet feeder A tablet feeder including a tablet accommodating section (4) capable of accommodating a multiplicity of tablets A; a tablet array member (8) which is disposed in the tablet accommodating section (4) and which, while being driven and rotated, ret... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7823748 | Drug dispenser and drug filling apparatus incorporating the same A drug filling apparatus capable of preventing drugs from being bridged to each other and reducing troubles. The drug filling apparatus functions to select specific tablets from various types of tablet groups and fill the selected tablets into a vial, and includes a... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822505 | Article dispensing device and method To dispense an article in a limited space within a tray appropriately with no useless operation, the present invention provides an article dispensing device, including a control means (61) which calls, from a storage means (64), an article map of an ar... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7806644 | Tray discharge device A tray discharge apparatus which is capable of automatically discharging and storing medicine-filled trays in carts and aligning the carts. The apparatus includes a cart standby portion (13) for putting a cart (8) transported from a cart supply line ( | 10/05/2010 |
| 7775756 | Bucket transfer apparatus A bucket carrier for carrying buckets (2) to store them in each storage shelf of a cart (4), the bucket carrier comprising a holding means (20) for holding buckets (2), and carrier means (28) for carrying the buckets (2) hel... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7770357 | Tablet filling device A tablet filling device for supplying a vial container of desired size certainly with no mistake comprising a plurality of containing means containing vial containers by size, a means for taking out a vial container from the containing means based on prescription da... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7731473 | Medicine tray supply apparatus A medicine tray storage member (100) capable of storing medicine trays (7) in a stacked condition includes: a tray support member (101) for supporting the medicine trays (7); a tray transport member (102) having a transport mechani... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7694846 | Medicine storing and dispensing apparatus A medicine storing and dispensing apparatus includes: a cap container (501) storing a plurality of caps (2) for closing openings of vial bottles (3) and having a plurality of slits (508) formed on the bottom surface thereof; a plurality o... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7686184 | Medicine dispensing device A medicine dispensing device capable of appropriately dispensing medicines independent of their form and having a compact structure. The medicine dispensing device has a device body (1) and a medicine conveyance member (3) for conveying, on one by one ... | 03/30/2010 |
| D605210 | Component for opening package sheets for drug packaging machines | 12/01/2009 |
| 7603197 | Medicine packing apparatus A medicine packing apparatus having a memory (5) that stores shelf numbers of the respective shelf sections the respective kinds of medicines housed in medicine containers. A control unit (6) allows the memory (5) to store the corresponding rela... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7592553 | Medicine weighing device A medicine weighing device that includes, not only a weighing function, but also an inspection function. The medicine weighing device has a compact structure capable of displaying a weighed value and an inspection result on the same screen, and which can execute ins... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7562791 | Tablet filling device To automatically eliminate clogging of tablets, a tablet filling device provides a cassette body including a tablet cassette, having tablets, a rotor having a groove for holding a tablet, and a discharge port for discharging the tablet held by the groove. The casset... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7549266 | Device for containing and dispensing tablets A compact tablet storage and take-out apparatus capable of quickly discharging and filing tablets. The tablet storage and take-out apparatus includes: a cylindrical drum; a drum driving device; a plurality of tablet cassette mounting bases fitted to an outer surface... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7500337 | Medicine packaging device A medicine packing apparatus in which a packing sheet (7) can be printed with predetermined information by a printing device (5). In the apparatus medicine can be fed into the packing sheet (7) by a medicine feeder (2, 3), and the packing... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7455163 | Tablet packaging device A tablet packing apparatus arranged to prevent tablets from bouncing in a tablet drop guide path so that dropping time of the tablets can be shortened so as to be ready in time for packing. The tablet packing apparatus is provided with a tablet drop guide path (1... | 11/25/2008 |