PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicament delivery apparatus which achieve the efficient delivery of a medicament.SOLUTION: The medicament delivery apparatus 10 includes containers 21 and 61 which are arranged side by side in a shelf in which two or more stages are arranged and in which the medicaments are held, a delivery mechanism which performs delivery operation which is operation of taking out the medicaments from the containers 21 and 61, and a memory unit storing the layout of medicaments which represents the kinds of medicaments held in the containers 21 and 61, and a container delivery history containing the execution time of the newest delivery operation of each of the containers 21 and 61. A controller 111 searches for the medicament, in which delivery is demanded by prescription information, based on the medicament layout and preferentially assigns the delivery of the medicament to one of these containers which performs the delivery on the earliest occasion based on the container delivery history when there are the two or more containers 21 and 61, which hold the medicaments in which the delivery is demanded, in the shelf.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】効率的な薬剤の払出しを実現する薬剤払出し装置を提供する。【解決手段】薬剤払出し装置10は、複数段配置された棚に複数個並んで配置されてそれぞれ薬剤が収容された容器21,61、容器21,61から薬剤を取り出す動作である払い出し動作を実行する払出し機構、各容器21,61に収容された薬剤の種類である薬剤レイアウトと各容器21,61の最新の前記払い出し動作の実行時刻を含む容器払出し履歴とを記憶した記憶部を備える。コントローラ111は、処方箋情報で払出しが要求されている薬剤を薬剤レイアウトに基づいて検索し、棚に払出しが要求されている薬剤が収容された容器21,61が複数あれば、容器払出し履歴に基づいてそれらの容器のうち最も以前に払い出しを実行したものに優先して薬剤の払い出しを割り付ける。【選択図】図1
