EP2500287A1 - Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Prüfen der Anwesenheit eines Abstandshalters in einer Verpackung - Google Patents

Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Prüfen der Anwesenheit eines Abstandshalters in einer Verpackung Download PDF

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EP2500287A1
EP2500287A1 EP12157851A EP12157851A EP2500287A1 EP 2500287 A1 EP2500287 A1 EP 2500287A1 EP 12157851 A EP12157851 A EP 12157851A EP 12157851 A EP12157851 A EP 12157851A EP 2500287 A1 EP2500287 A1 EP 2500287A1
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base wall
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Keiichi Nonogaki
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material
    • B65B9/045—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material for single articles, e.g. tablets

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  • the present invention relates to a device for checking a box housing therein at least a packaging element comprising at least a conductive portion, and also housing at least a spacer element spacing at least a part of said packaging element from an inner face of a base wall of said box.
  • blister it is meant a packaging element for one or more products, in particular drugs, comprising at least a conductive portion, in particular a portion with a metal foil or coating or a conductive membrane or film.
  • the known checking devices comprise non contact sensors using UV beams which are reflected by the paper of the manual contained in the box, and means for determining on the basis of said reflection, whether or not in said box there is a paper manual.
  • the known devices may be used only when the boxes to be checked are open and contain manuals made of paper which is reflective with respect to UV beams.
  • a further object is to provide a device for checking closed boxes housing one or more blisters containing, in turn, pharmaceutical products, and with a spacer element formed of a paper manual relating to said pharmaceutical products, with said manual made in any possible paper material.
  • the box 3 to be checked houses a plurality of conventional blisters 1, each comprising an aluminium foil or coating, and a paper manual 2 wrapped around a part 1 B ( Fig. 1 ) of said blister 1.
  • Said box 3 comprises a base wall 3A, on an inner face 3B of which a part 2A of said paper manual 2 rests (as shown in figure 1 ) and on which also a part of the blister might rest.
  • the boxes are moved in a direction A ( fig. 2A ), through a conventional conveyor 4 (for example a belt conveyor) with their base wall 3A resting on an upper face 4B of said conveyor.
  • a conventional conveyor 4 for example a belt conveyor
  • the blisters 1 are housed upside-down in the box 3 when it is placed on the conveyor 4, i.e., as shown in the Figures, with the aluminium foil portion 1A of the blister which is the closest to the base wall 3A of the box 3 not in contact with the portion 2A of paper manual 2 resting on said base wall 3A.
  • the blister 1 is of a conventional type, comprising a plastic body provided with a plurality of separate seats, each for a pill, and a aluminium portion or foil 1A closing said seats and completely covering the top planar side of the body of the blister.
  • the device according to the invention comprises:
  • the non contact means 6 are located below the conveyor 4 and are fixed to conventional support means 7.
  • the non contact means 6, are located as closed as possible to the lower face 4A ( Fig. 1 ) of the conveyor 4, for example at a distance D1 ( Fig. 1 ) between 1 and 5 mm and at a distance D2 between 3 and 10 mm from its upper side 4B of the conveyor.
  • the thickness of the base wall 3A of the pharmaceutical box 3 is about between 0,5 and 2 mm and the thicknesses of the paper manual and each of blisters 1, are respectively, between 0,5 and 3 mm and about 3 to 10 mm.
  • the sensor 6 is therefore preferably located at the following distances:
  • the non contact means 6 capable of generating a signal corresponding to the measurement of the distance between said emitting face 6A of the non contact means and said conductive portion, are able to generate such a signal with an error for said distance which is at least less than +/- 0.5 mm, and preferably less than +/- 0.2 mm with the aluminium foiled portion 1A of the blister at a distance between 7 and 25 mm from said non contact means.
  • the non contact means 6, comprise an eddy current sensor preferably acting with alternative magnetic filed.
  • the eddy current sensor is of the type described in W02009/025105 , comprising a receiver separated from the exciter and placed on a side of a vertical portion of the core of said exciter and with the core of said receiver inclined with respect to said vertical portion.
  • the eddy current sensor 8 is installed beneath the conveyor 4 in such a way that its emitting axis is not overlapping the box centre line C.
  • the sensor is located in correspondence of this side S, and its sensing axis Z1 is parallel to the centre axis C1 of the box but is offset from it.
  • the senor is placed in such a way that during the sensing phase, the receiver face 10 is provided inside the base wall 3A and the corresponding portion of the paper manual 2 of the box and the exciter face 11 is provided outside said base wall, or the receiver face 10 is provided underneath a wider portion of said base wall than the corresponding portion of said wall, underneath which the exciter side 11 is positioned (see figure 2B ).
  • the non contact means 6 may work with the box travelling on the conveyor 4 on a constant speed or also when the box is temporarily stopped over said non contact means.
  • the non contact means have a sensing face size less than 1000 mm 2 and preferably of about 22 X 28 mm
  • the eddy current sensor is such that its distance resolution (i.e. the output voltage difference for the same target placed at two different distances) is about 0,2V for a first distance of 19 mm and a second distance of 20 mm with an aluminium foiled blister of abouth 38 X 95 mm and about 1.0V for a distance from 9 to 10 mm with the same blister (with an output voltage error within 0.02V)
  • the eddy current sensor is such that its distance resolution is more than 0,5V from 9 to 10 mm distance with an aluminium foiled blister having a surface between 3000 mm 2 and 4000 mm 2 and with an output voltage error within 0.02V
  • the invention has been hitherto described with reference to pharmaceutical boxes containing blisters and paper manuals relating to the drugs contained in such blisters.
  • the invention may be used in connection with any conventional box able to house:
  • the non contact means 6 are connected to a conventional control unit 9 (for a example a computer based unit) for determining on the basis of the signal generated by said non contact means whether or not the box comprises a spacer inside, and in particular a paper manual 2.
  • a conventional control unit 9 for a example a computer based unit
  • the invention also relates to a method for checking if a closed packaging box 3, houses therein: at least one packaging element 1 comprising at least a conductive portion 1A, and at least one spacer element 2 for space at least a part 1 B of said packaging element 1 from an inner face 3B of a base wall 3 of said box; the method according to the invention being characterised by comprising:

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EP12157851A 2011-03-14 2012-03-02 Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Prüfen der Anwesenheit eines Abstandshalters in einer Verpackung Withdrawn EP2500287A1 (de)

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JP2015147614A (ja) * 2014-02-10 2015-08-20 日清食品ホールディングス株式会社 内容物検出装置、内容物検出方法および包装品製造方法

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EP0465437A1 (de) * 1990-06-07 1992-01-08 I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.p.A. Apparat zum Überführen, Zuführen und Einbringen von Blisterpackungen in einen Karton
EP0957028A1 (de) * 1998-05-14 1999-11-17 MARCHESINI GROUP S.p.A. Verfahren zum Verpacken von Gegenständen in Behälter
EP1561689A1 (de) * 2004-02-04 2005-08-10 UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEME GmbH & Co. KG Verfahren zur Prozesskontrolle und Dokumentation an einer Kartoniermaschine
WO2009025105A1 (ja) 2007-08-21 2009-02-26 Keiichi Nonogaki 渦電流探傷方法とその装置

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EP0465437A1 (de) * 1990-06-07 1992-01-08 I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.p.A. Apparat zum Überführen, Zuführen und Einbringen von Blisterpackungen in einen Karton
EP0957028A1 (de) * 1998-05-14 1999-11-17 MARCHESINI GROUP S.p.A. Verfahren zum Verpacken von Gegenständen in Behälter
EP1561689A1 (de) * 2004-02-04 2005-08-10 UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEME GmbH & Co. KG Verfahren zur Prozesskontrolle und Dokumentation an einer Kartoniermaschine
WO2009025105A1 (ja) 2007-08-21 2009-02-26 Keiichi Nonogaki 渦電流探傷方法とその装置
EP2182346A1 (de) * 2007-08-21 2010-05-05 Keiichi Nonogaki Wirbelstromfehlernachweisverfahren und -vorrichtung

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JP2015147614A (ja) * 2014-02-10 2015-08-20 日清食品ホールディングス株式会社 内容物検出装置、内容物検出方法および包装品製造方法

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