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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8082720 | Tablet packing device In a conventional tablet packing device, a tablet discharged from a tablet case is supplied to a medicine packing unit through a common path such as a hopper. Thus, in the conventional tablet packing device, a large number of types of tablets are collected through t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7584589 | Robotic multi-product case-packing system A case packing system concurrently accumulates a plurality of different product ensembles and sequentially packs cases thereof, generally by way of (a) concurrently accumulating a plurality of different product ensembles utilizing a plurality of product conveyer lin... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7555875 | Medicine management system and processing method thereof A medicine management system includes a medicine storage unit, keeping at least one new cassette in which medicines are accommodated; a robot unit including a gripper for gripping the new cassette; an automatic medicine packing apparatus, dispensing and packing medi... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7451583 | Automatic medicine packaging machine with door lock unit An automatic medicine packaging machine with door lock unit that prevents the supplement and outflow of tablets by an unauthorized person and makes tablets kept and treated more safely is disclosed. The automatic medicine packaging machine comprising a plurality of ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7428806 | Semi-automatic medicine packaging machine with cassette lock unit Disclosed is a semi-automatic medicine packaging machine with cassette lock unit that improves packaging efficiency and speed by supplying an automatic supply unit and prevents an unauthorized person from supplement and outflow of tablets by fixing tablet cassettes ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7360668 | Tablet packing apparatus A tablet packing apparatus having a tablet feeding section and storage shelves for storing tablet vessels in which tablets fed from the tablet feeding section are packed. The storage shelves include a plurality of container chambers in which the tablet vessels which... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7322848 | Paperless picking system A paperless picking system for use in a product distribution center includes multiple bays of product supports and operator interfaces, at least one of which is at the bays. The product supports include case flow racks, pallet racks and/or product shelving. The oper... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317966 | Tablet feeder Tablets are delivered from a tablet storage case (3) mounted on a case support table (4), and when the tablets are passed through a delivery passage (9), formed in the case support table (3), quantity of the passed tablets is counted by a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7313898 | Container carrying system and method for use in an automated filling process In a container carrier system and method for use in an automated process for filling containers of multiple sizes, pucks of various sizes are inserted into compartments of container pallets to allow containers of different sizes to be held in the compartments. A puc... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305279 | Information input device for tablet automatic packing machine Disclosed is an information input device for a tablet automatic packing machine capable of easily and directly storing tablet information in a memory chip and updating/reading the tablet information in/from the memory chip at a user side. The information input devic... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293672 | Chemical feeding device In a medicine supply apparatus having a plurality of tablet cases equipped in a case accommodating portion of a main body, each tablet case containing medicines, chutes into which medicines discharged from the respective table cases fall, a hopper equipped in corres... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7281361 | Method of article portioning A method for detecting and discriminating articles that are within a predetermined range of a specification into lots feeds a plurality of articles into an article portioning system having a counting head assembly that includes an article detecting unit located abov... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277776 | Information input device for tablet automatic packing machine Disclosed is an information input device for a tablet automatic packing machine capable of easily and directly storing tablet information in a memory chip and updating/reading the tablet information in/from the memory chip at a user side. The information input devic... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7228673 | Seasoning treatment system The present invention provides a seasoning processing system capable of uniform seasoning and, moreover, having superior cleanability. A seasoning processing system (2) according to the present invention comprises a seasoning dispersion apparatus (20) ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228988 | Medicine supply apparatus A medicine supply apparatus to discharge a medicine into packing paper having a nozzle for discharging a medicine from a tablet case and a shutter rotatably provided in the nozzle for opening/closing a medicine drop path. The shutter includes a first rotatable shutt... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225053 | Information input device for tablet automatic packing machine Disclosed is an information input device for a tablet automatic packing machine capable of easily and directly storing tablet information in a memory chip and updating/reading the tablet information in/from the memory chip at a user side. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7186429 | Food product marking apparatuses and methods A method and apparatus for marking, imprinting or applying a pattern, design or mark to a plurality of individual pieces of food product to be divided from a sheet of food product is described. In one aspect of the invention, a method may include the steps of supply... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185476 | Automated solid pharmaceutical product packaging machine A fully automated pharmaceutical product packaging machine is capable of selectively depositing one or more different solid pharmaceutical products into an individual cavity for each of a plurality of individual patient product package cavities. The system employs a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7174693 | Article portioning head system A system and an apparatus and method for detecting and discriminating articles that are within a predetermined range of a specification into lots. A counting head assembly includes at least an article detecting unit located above diverting gates which control the pa... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7152386 | Envelope-filling machine In an envelope-filling machine, a clear and simplified construction of the drive system is achieved for the enclosure-collating path, for the enclosure-feeding stations and for the parts of the envelope-filling station, in that a drive motor and a step-down gear mec... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7117653 | Flavoring system and method A flavoring system has a portioning device such as a weigher for receiving unflavored food items and sequentially supplying batches of a specified quantity of them, dispenses measured quantities of a flavoring material with a dispenser, applies these measured quanti... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7065936 | Fill and packaging apparatus An apparatus is provided for filling food product drafts into packages. A supply of open top containers are arranged in rows and carried by an elongated web of film and are movable by the web into a fill station. A shuttle conveyor has a retractable and extendable c... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062893 | System and method for accommodating atypical customer requirements in a mass customization A build cell is utilized to manufacture computers and load data into the computers according to customer orders. The build cell may include a build station at which components are assembled into a computer and a first network connection that links the computer with ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7059098 | Automatic medication dispensing and packaging system An automatic medication dispensing and packaging system comprising a medication dispensing unit having base and door cabinets, the door cabinet rear portion correspondingly and detachably engaged to the base cabinet rear portion, the base cabinets distanced from eac... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054704 | Method, system and facility for controlling resource allocation within a manufacturing environment A method and system provide for the control of resource allocation within a build-to-order manufacturing environment. One example embodiment of a method according to the present disclosure includes an operation for monitoring a work-in-process (WIP) profile that rep... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7040070 | Tablet packing apparatus A tablet packing apparatus in which there is no risk that next tablets will be mixed into tablets previously discharged. The packing apparatus includes a plurality of feeder vessels (36) containing the tablets, a plurality of mounting bases (32) on whi... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6957126 | Tablet cassette control method of medication dispensing and packaging system A tablet cassette control method of a medication dispensing and packaging system having a microcomputer, a medication dispensing unit with a plurality of tablet cassettes each mounted on a cassette rack, and a medication packaging unit disposed below the dispensing ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6950714 | Method, system and facility for controlling resource allocation within a manufacturing environment A method and system provide for the control of resource allocation within a build-to-order manufacturing environment by monitoring a work-in-process (WIP) profile that represents dynamic attributes of an area in a manufacturing facility. A user interface in a contro... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6931815 | Machine for packaging a product with a pamphlet A packaging machine comprises a transfer device for inserting a product into a package and a circulating leaflet supply device comprising a plurality of tong-like holders which are sequentially disposed, each for receiving one leaflet and for bringing that leaflet i... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928789 | Assembly for collecting together different goods Assembly and method for collecting together different goods to form a pack and to pack these in an outer packaging. Streams of goods are always fed to a collection conveyor with feed conveyors. Each stream consists of the same goods and these are buffered at the dis... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6925774 | Compact structure for automatically filling solid pharmaceutical product packages An automated solid pharmaceutical product packaging machine includes a plurality of temporary storage members for receiving a plurality of solid pharmaceutical products in a plurality of cavities. The use of the temporary storage cavities enables the machine to proc... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6898919 | Automatic tablet dispensing and packaging system An automatic tablet dispensing and packaging system includes a tablet packaging unit and a tablet dropping unit that have door cabinets and slider cabinets. The packaging system comprises a front hopper for the door cabinets, and rear hoppers detachably mounted in t... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6874299 | High speed bagging system and method A high speed bagging system and a method for placing a liquid product into a bag and placing at least two of these bags into a pouch is described. The system comprises at least two bag fillers housed in a common filler housing and operating simultaneously to place t... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6810645 | Stabilization of bottles on a conveyor This invention relates to stabilizing the movement of containers on a conveyor and indexing the movement of the containers with respect to the movement of the conveyor. The stabilization minimizes the problem of the containers tipping over or pushing too hard agains... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6779319 | Real-time intelligent packet-collation systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for operating an inserter having hoppers from which inserts may be selected to include with a mail item. The mail item is moved sequentially, such as with a conveyor, to positions that correspond with the hoppers. At each position fo... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6772907 | Automatic tablet dispensing and packaging system An automatic tablet dispensing and packaging system comprises a tablet dropping unit and a tablet packaging unit. The tablet dropping unit has door cabinets serving as a front double door of the system and slider cabinets horizontally aligned in rear of the door cab... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6690998 | Medication packing apparatus In the present invention, in order to reliably smoothly recover different kinds of medicines separately and pack them, the apparatus is provided with hoppers 18, 19 with at least two separated passages, and wherein each hopper 18, 19 can feed a different ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6640523 | Article gauge and proportional shifter system A system for continuously packaging or sorting fragile articles having varying thicknesses in a stack includes a plurality of proportional shifters coupled to each of a plurality of stripping devices in an article infeed assembly. Each proportional shifte... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6612100 | Sheet package production system A protective cover that is pre-folded by a protective cover pre-folding apparatus is supplied to a pack producing apparatus. After sheets are stacked on the protective cover, the protective cover is fully folded onto the sheets to produce a pack, which is... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6585132 | Tablet cassette assembly with slider cabinets for automatic tablet dispensing and packaging system A tablet supplying and packaging system comprises a tablet packaging unit having an upper portion, a base cabinet on top of the upper portion. The base cabinet defined by front, rear surfaces and side ends. One of the side ends is swingably engaged to the... | 07/01/2003 |
