Automatic medicine packing system

Abstract

An automatic medicine packing system includes a packing envelope roll, a medicine supply unit that supplies a medicine dispensed from a tablet cassette according to prescription data, a sealing unit that heat seal a packing envelope, a database that stores prescription data, user data, and status data of the system, an wireless communication unit, an authentication unit that that authenticates the user data, a control unit, and a wireless terminal. The authentication unit includes multi-level user permission, and the authentication unit set particular level user permission according to the authentication result of the user. The multi-level user permission includes an administrator level, a packing operation user level and a monitoring operation user level. The wireless terminal includes a smart chip that contains user's authentication data.

1 . An automatic medicine packing system having a plurality of tablet cassettes, comprising: 
 a) a packing envelope roll that is adapted to hold packing envelopes;    b) a medicine supply unit that is adapted to supply a medicine dispensed from a tablet cassette according to prescription data;    c) a sealing unit that is adapted to heat seal a packing envelope that contains the medicine supplied by the medicine supply unit;    d) a database that stores prescription data, user data, and status data of the automatic medicine packing system;    e) an wireless communication unit, wherein the wireless communication unit receives and transmits the prescription data, the user data and the status data, wherein the wireless communication unit exchanges data with the database;    f) an authentication unit that authenticates the user data communicated by the wireless communication unit; and    g) a control unit that controls the system to be operated according to the authentication result by the authentication unit, and to pack the medicine according to the prescription data.    
   
   
       2 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 1 , wherein the authentication unit includes multi-level user permission, and the authentication unit sets particular level user permission according to the authentication result of the user.  
   
   
       3 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 2 , wherein the multi-level user permission comprises an administrator level, a packing operation user level and a monitoring operation user level, wherein the administrator level can set and monitor every state of the automatic medicine packing system and can adjust permission of other users, wherein the packing operation user level can command packing of medicine, wherein the monitoring operation user level can monitor the operation status of the automatic medicine packing system.  
   
   
       4 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 1 , wherein the prescription data, the user data and the status data are transmitted in encrypted state.  
   
   
       5 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 4 , wherein public key and private key are used in encrypting.  
   
   
       6 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 1 , further comprising a wireless terminal, wherein the wireless terminal communicates with the wireless communication unit.  
   
   
       7 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 6 , wherein the wireless terminal comprises one of notebook computer, PDA, smart phone and cellular phone.  
   
   
       8 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 6 , wherein the wireless communication unit comprises one of wireless LAN, bluetooth, Zigbee and RF module.  
   
   
       9 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 6 , wherein the authentication unit includes multi-level user permission, and the authentication unit set particular level user permission according to the authentication result of the user.  
   
   
       10 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 9 , wherein the multi-level user permission comprises an administrator level, a packing operation user level and a monitoring operation user level, wherein the administrator level can set and monitor every state of the automatic medicine packing system and can adjust permission of other users, wherein the packing operation user level can command packing of medicine, wherein the monitoring operation user level can monitor the operation status of the automatic medicine packing system.  
   
   
       11 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 6 , wherein the prescription data, the user data and the status data are transmitted in encrypted state.  
   
   
       12 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 6 , wherein the wireless terminal embeds a smart chip that contains user's authentication data.  
   
   
       13 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 12 , wherein the wireless terminal comprises a socket that receives the smart chip.  
   
   
       14 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 6 , wherein the wireless terminal comprises a smart chip that is detachably attached to the wireless terminal.  
   
   
       15 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 14 , wherein the wireless terminal comprises a slot that receives a memory card in which the smart chip is embedded.  
   
   
       16 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 15 , wherein the database stores history of the prescription data, the user data and the status data.  
   
   
       17 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 16 , wherein the wireless communication unit transmits data stored in the database to the wireless terminal.  
   
   
       18 . The automatic medicine packing system  claim 1 , wherein the database stores history of the prescription data, the user data and the status data.