TABLET INSPECTION DEVICE, TABLET PACKAGING APPARATUS, TABLET INSPECTION METHOD, AND TABLET PACKAGING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tablet inspection device capable of recognizing a different kind of a tablet, without fail, even if near-infrared rays are used with respect to, for example, a tablet having an external element, such as sugar-coated tablet. SOLUTION: The tablet inspection device 100 is constituted of a near infrared ray irradiation unit 11, a transmitted light detection unit 17 a database 32 and a comparative operation unit 31. A sample tablet 13 is irradiated with near infrared rays 12, which include a light component with a predetermined wavelength for specifying the internal component 13i of the sample tablet 13, from the near-infrared ray irradiation unit 11 and the transmitted light 16 from the sample tablet 13 is detected by the transmitted light detection unit 17. Then, in the comparative operation unit 31, the transmission characteristics of the sample tablet 13 obtained, on the basis of the detection result of the transmitted light 16 in the transmitted light detection unit 17 are compared with the transmission characteristics of the corresponding reference tablet that is housed in the database 32, in advance, to recognize whether the sample tablet 13 is the same kind as the reference tablet. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT