Automatic deploying system for single-ingredient pellet formulas of traditional Chinese medicines

The single-ingredient pellet formulas of traditional Chinese medicines have been accepted by the patients and have great market in hospitals recently. As information-based equipment for deploying single-ingredient pellet formulas of traditional Chinese medicines, the automatic deploying system is in great demand in hospitals. An automatic deploying system for single-ingredient pellet formulas of traditional Chinese medicines is developed in this paper. It includes the package unit, transmission unit, medicine weighing and dispensing unit, human interface unit and drying unit. The article introduces the structure, control program and databases of the automatic deploying system. With this system, as long as the worker inputs the prescription, it can deploy medicines automatically. Weighing experiments to estimate the precision are conducted and its results show that the system has higher weighing precision compared to the method of volume-weighing used in other deploying system.