Pharmaceutical packaging apparatus, method of determining remaining quantity of pharmaceutical packaging paper, and pharmaceutical packaging paper roll
Provided are a pharmaceutical packaging apparatus, a method of determining the remaining quantity of pharmaceutical packaging paper, and a pharmaceutical packaging paper roll, whereby it is possible to accurately determine the remaining quantity of residual pharmaceutical packaging paper. The apparatus is provided with: a roll support part (2) on which is mounted a core tube (201) of a pharmaceutical packaging paper roll (200)； a sensor (24) furnished to the roll support part (2), for detecting a count value according to the amount of rotation； a wireless reader/writer (26) having an antenna (25) on the roll support part (2), and using this antenna (25) to write information to a core tube IC tag (202) furnished to the core tube (201), and to read information written thereto； an information generating unit (57a) for generating information to be written to the core tube IC tag (202)； a remaining paper quantity estimating unit (57) for estimating the current remaining paper quantity, on the basis of the aforementioned information and dimension information about the core tube (201)； and a controller (5) that selectively carries out a process to be performed in the event that a reference start point value has yet to be written to the core tube IC tag (202), or a process to be performed in the event that the value has been written.
