PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicine dispensing device which can collect a medicine from a medicine accommodating unit and dispense the medicine to a medicine collecting unit rapidly further.SOLUTION: A medicine dispensing device comprises: a device body 3 a medicine accommodating unit 4 capable of dispensing a medicine a medicine receiving unit 5 movably provided in the device body for receiving the medicine dispensed from the medicine accommodating unit and discharging the received medicine a medicine storage member 32 for storing the medicine discharged from the medicine receiving unit and a control unit which executes a medicine receiving process of moving the medicine receiving unit on the basis of prescription data to receive the medicine from the medicine accommodating unit, executes a medicine dispensing process of making the medicine storage member discharge the medicine to dispense the medicine stored in the medicine storage member to a medicine collecting container 34, and can independently execute the medicine receiving process and the medicine dispensing process.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1COPYRIGHT: (C)2018,JPO&INPIT【課題】薬剤収容ユニットからの薬剤の回収と、薬剤回収ユニットへの薬剤の払出とをより一層迅速に行う薬剤払出装置を提供する。【解決手段】薬剤払出装置は、装置本体3と、薬剤を払出可能な薬剤収容ユニット4と、装置本体に移動可能に設けられ、薬剤収容ユニットから払い出された薬剤を受け取り、受け取った薬剤を排出する薬剤受取ユニット5と、薬剤受取ユニットから排出された薬剤を貯留する薬剤貯留部材32と、処方データに基づいて、薬剤受取ユニットを移動させて、薬剤収容ユニットから薬剤を受け取る薬剤受取処理を実行し、薬剤を薬剤貯留部材に排出させ、薬剤貯留部材に貯留された薬剤を薬剤回収容器34に払い出す薬剤払出処理を実行し、薬剤受取処理と薬剤払出処理とは独立して実行可能とする制御ユニットと、を備えている。【選択図】図1
