TABLET FEEDING DEVICE, TABLET TAKEOUT UNIT, TABLET FEEDING METHOD, AND TABLET FEEDING SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism capable of surely taking out a tablet, which is caught in aluminum foil of a tablet sheet in performing package removal action and from which removal of package is not completed.;SOLUTION: A tablet feeding device, which takes out tablets from a tablet sheet in which the tablets are encapsulated in tablet storage portions and feeds the tablets, comprises one or a plurality of tablet take-out units and a feeding unit which feeds the tablets taken out by the tablet take-out units. The tablet take-out unit has a mounting table on which the tablet sheet is mounted and a push-out mechanism which presses the tablet storage portions of the tablet sheet on the mounting table to take out the tablets. The tablet feeding device has a detection mechanism which detects whether or not the tablets were taken out from the tablet storage portions by pressing, and the push-out mechanism continues pressing of the tablet storage portions when the taken out tablet was not detected by the detection mechanism, and does not continue pressing of the tablet storage portions when the taken out tablet was detected.;SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1;COPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT