Medical tablet, and manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus for medical tablet

Abstract

An object is to provide a tablet manufacturing apparatus capable of supplying an IC chip to a desired position of pharmaceutical powder with a high accuracy and suppressing a positional displacement. The IC chip is supported by a positioning guide with a chip main body in a downward manner, and is held in a state of being positioned above pharmaceutical powder filled in a die hole before compression. The IC chip is supplied by a pusher.

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         8 . A method, comprising:
 disposing an integrated circuit (IC) chip member equipped with an IC therein such that a convex portion of the IC chip member and a first side of a disk-shaped base film of the IC chip member contact a first pharmaceutical powder;   disposing a second pharmaceutical powder onto the IC chip member such that the second side of the disk-shaped base film contacts the second pharmaceutical powder; and   compressing the first pharmaceutical powder, the second pharmaceutical powder, and the IC chip member to form a medical tablet, the compressing including:
 defining an engraved stamp or cleavage line in a first surface of the medical tablet, the medical tablet having a second surface opposite the first surface, the convex portion of the IC chip member arranged within the medical tablet to extend more towards the second surface than the first surface relative to the disk-shaped base film, and 
 one of not defining an engraved stamp or cleavage line in the second surface or defining an engraved stamp or cleavage line in the second surface shallower than the engraved stamp or cleavage line in the first surface. 
   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein defining the engraved stamp or cleavage line in the first surface includes forming the engraved stamp or cleavage line with an upper pestle.