| abstract |
A medicine supply apparatus which comprises, in a case accommodating section (8), a plurality of tablet cases (3) for accommodating medicine and charges or supplies medicine into a bag (72), which medicine has been discharged from each tablet case (3) based on a prescription. An identification code (26) is provided for each of the tablet cases (3) and read by an optical sensor (33) provided inside the case accommodating section (8), whereby discharge of medicine is controlled. A motor (14) for driving a discharge drum for the table case (3) is checked for disconnection by being regularly energized. The operating time and the frequency of operations of wear-out parts such as the motors are stored for use in failure prediction. Time slots in which medicine should be taken are printed, each in a different color, by a color printing mechanism (73) on the bag (72) into which medicine is charged. |