PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically read medicine display codes for medicines carried by carriers.SOLUTION: The medicine display code automatic reader includes a carrier transport mechanism 14 receiving and dispatching carriers 30 storing a plurality of dividing vessels 31 storing medicines 40 bearing display codes 41 which are arranged in a row at the inside bottom, many small vessels 20 incorporating shaft rotation roller members 21 at the bottoms, a medicine carrying mechanism 12 continually circulating the small vessels 20 in a circling transport route, readers 11 provided in a state of fronting on the transport route and capable of reading the medicine display codes 41, a first transfer device 13 taking out the medicines 40 from the carriers 30 for every dividing vessel 31, and putting the medicine in some of the small vessels 20 which head for the readers 11, and a second transfer device 15 taking out the medicines 40 from some of the small vessels 20 which pass by the readers 11 and returning them to the dividing vessels 31 in the carriers 30.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】搬器にて搬送されている薬品を対象として薬品表示コードの自動読取を行う。【解決手段】表示コード41を付された薬品40を収容した区分容器31を内底に複数並べて収納している搬器30を受け入れて送り出す搬器搬送機構14と、底部に軸回転するローラ部材21が組み込まれた多数の小容器20と、一巡する搬送路に小容器20を連ねて循環させる薬品搬送機構12と、その搬送路に臨んで設けられ薬品表示コード41を読み取る読取装置11と、搬器30から区分容器31単位で薬品40を取り出して小容器20のうち読取装置11の方へ向かうものに入れる第1移載装置13と、小容器20のうち読取装置11を通り過ぎたものから薬品40を取り出して搬器30内の区分容器31に戻す第2移載装置15とを備える。【選択図】 図1
