Tabletting machine

US7014443B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FETTE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Hinzpeter · Schwarzenbek, DE
• Ingo Schmidt · Schwarzenbek, DE
• Jörg Gaedecke · Geesthacht, DE
• Ulrich Gathmann · Hamburg, DE
• Joachim Greve · Pogeez, DE
• Enrico Gand · Bergneustadt, DE
• Klaus-Peter Preuss · Eckernförde, DE
• Alexander Oldenburg · Schwarzenbek, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 21, 2003
• Grant date: Mar 21, 2006
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B30B15/26
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Tabletting machine in the form of a rotary press, includes a rotor accommodating top and bottom stamping dies that cooperate with molds of a mold plate, rotor associated cam segments, and pressure rollers for actuating the stamping dies, a filling equipment, a stripping device for tablets knocked out of the mold and a computing system for controlling the tabletting machine following a predetermined program and for processing data provided by signal transmitters of the tabletting machine, and for monitoring the machine functions. At least a part of the components and/or subassemblies features a transponder having at least one stored identity number, characterizing the components and/or subassemblies. At least one read head connected with the computing system permits the transponder of the component and/or subassembly to be wirelessly read out even in the assembled state. The read-out data can be compared with a predetermined program for the arrangement and/or function of the components and/or subassemblies in the computing system.