WO2017207229A1 - Method for dividing up a blister strip, and apparatus for implementing the method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for dividing up a blister strip (1). In order to avoid invalidating the use-by date, many blister-packed medicinal products are positioned in separate portions of a blister strip. For this purpose, the blister strip is cut up manually, and therefore in a cost-intensive and time-consuming manner. The method according to the invention provides a cost-effective and rapid solution to this problem. According to the invention, a blister strip (1) having a carrier panel (10) with a plurality of holders (12) for medicinal-product portions is provided, and a 3D-sensor device (20) generates an image (200) of the carrier panel (10), wherein this image (200) comprises depth information. The image is evaluated by a control device (30) using image analysis, and an arrangement of the holders (12) is determined with reference to analysis results, and, on the basis of this arrangement, control signals for a severing device (40) are generated. On the basis of the control signals, the blister strip (1) is then divided up into a plurality of blister-strip parts (15, 15', 16).

Description

A method for splitting a blister strip and apparatus for carrying out the method

The present invention relates to a method for

Parting a blister strip and a device for carrying out the method.

 A variety of medicines are in so-called

Blister strips (or blister packs or short blisters) shipped. These include a carrier plate with a

Plural formed from the support plate receptacles in the form of bulges, wherein formed in the recordings

Cavities individual drug portions are arranged. The support plate is to cover the recordings with a

Cover provided by which the individual

Medicinal portions can be removed or pressed for removal.

 Blister strips have the advantage that the individual

Pharmaceutical portions are stored separately, pollution is excluded and the separate and sealed storage, the durability of

 Medicinal portions against storage

for example, in conventional cans or bottles is increased (even if a blister strip is "broken", that is, one or more drug portions are removed, the shelf life of the remaining blistered drug portions does not change).

 The patient-specific blinding of

Medication portions according to medical requirements is particularly useful for nursing homes and in hospitals. However, a manual compilation and blistering of medicament portions is very cost-intensive, so that lately more and more blister machines are used, as described, for example, in WO 2013/034504. With appropriate blister machines is a qualitative high-quality, safe and at the same time economical blistering of solid medication portions possible. In a "blinding" with the help of an aforementioned

Blister machines, the drug portions in individual "bags" are packaged, all regularly

 Include drug portions of a patient's time of administration.

 To the largest possible number of different

Automatically dazzle drug portions,

modern blister machines include a large number of so-called "canisters" in which individual medicament portions are stored and with which they are stored according to the specifications of

Medicament compositions can be given isolated.

 In the canisters, however, are only such

 Pharmaceutical servings meaningful storable, which are frequently requested, have a long shelf life and opposite

Environmental influences are relatively stable. A distribution of drug portions to be stored in blister strips is usually not possible or practicable via the canisters.

 The aforementioned blister machines regularly comprise at least one so-called tray unit, via which

Medicament portions in special forms or in separate

Packaging can be supplied to the blistering process.

 According to the prior art, the blister strips are manually changed by a user into one or more

 Parts of medicament portions are divided into blister strip sections or parts, which are then transferred to the corresponding receptacles of the tray unit. The manual splitting of a blister strip is time consuming and therefore costly.

 Alternatively, the individual blister strip parts can also be used to provide patient-individual compilations according to the "single can system." For this purpose, one or more blister strip part (s) is packed in, for example, a transport bag, this transport bag

may include drug-related information. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus with which blister strips can be cut quickly and inexpensively.

 The object is achieved by a method for dividing a blister strip according to claim 1. In the

A method according to the invention initially provides a blister strip with a carrier plate which has a plurality of receptacles for medicament portions and with a cover layer for covering the receptacles. A 3D sensor device generates an image of the carrier plate with the images, the image comprising depth information.

 The image is then analyzed by image analysis with a control device, wherein (if necessary) a kind of depth map of the surface of the blister strip is created, and based on the analysis results is an arrangement of

Recordings are detected, i. it is determined where exactly the recordings are on the carrier plate. This for the

automatic splitting of the blister strip necessary

Information is not available at the beginning of the procedure and must therefore be determined as described.

 If an absolute position of the images is required, this can be determined on the basis of, for example, a reference point, wherein the reference point can be predetermined, for example, via the 3D sensor device. Alternatively, you can create the blister strip before generating the image, for example, to a reference point (further possibilities for

The determination of an absolute position results from the exact procedure and from the structure (described below) of the method used to carry out the method

 Contraption) . Alternatively, it is also conceivable to calibrate the 3D sensor device used to generate the image with respect to the support surface on which the blister strips are deposited.

 Based on the image analytically determined arrangement of

Shoots are for a separator with at least one Separation control means calculates control signals, and the blister strip is divided into a plurality of Blisterstreifen parts based on these control signals.

 The inventive method can be fully automatic

be carried out, regardless of the exact

 Design or design of the blister strip, since it is determined in the course of the method according to the invention, in which

Areas of the blister strip the recordings are arranged. Based on the arrangement of the recordings control signals are calculated for a separator, wherein these control signals are calculated such that the images are not damaged in the division of the blister strips. The control signals thus provide separation instructions for the separator, the precise design and execution of the control signals depending on the nature of the separator, as will be explained later.

 As already mentioned, due to the fully automatic design, the method according to the invention is considerably faster than the manual splitting of the blister strips. Depending on the separator or the release agent is also the

Possibility to detach the individual blister strip parts from the blister strip in such a way that the shape of the blister strip parts provided is better suited for blistering (for example, by making the parts so

be removed that no corners are present).

 Which 3D sensor device is used in particular, for the purposes of the method is not essential, as long as the generation of the image depth information is included, the conclusion of the arrangement of the images on the

Allow blister strips.

 As a 3D sensor device, for example, a 3D camera can be used. 3D cameras are camera systems that use the

allow visual representation of distances of an entire scene. Under the concept of 3D cameras should here

the following systems in particular: - Stereo cameras in which the environment with two cameras is recorded simultaneously, with the distance of the

Camera lenses usually corresponds to the human eye distance. The resulting image pair can be processed in a computer (a control device) and so a

Depth map to be created.

 Triangulation systems in which a light source images a defined pattern on the object. A camera takes this pattern from a different angle and calculates the distance or a depth map from the distortion.

 - TOF cameras (time of flight cameras), which over

Run time measurement of the light to close the distance.

 - Interferometry system, which work with interference between a measuring and object beam.

 - Light field cameras, in which at the expense of the resolution with

Help of microlens arrays in addition to the brightness of a

Pixel also the light direction of the rays, which lead to a pixel, are recorded, from which data then a depth map can be calculated.

 Alternatively, 3D laser rangefinders may be used, with the use of a 3D camera system being regularly preferred due to the lower cost.

 Finally, it should be noted that the term "SD sensor device" as used herein is intended to be primarily defined by the result, i.e. the created map, which

 Depth information must include, based on which one can determine the location or arrangement of the images. The term of the SD sensor device is thus intended to include all optical devices that can create an image that

Depth information "regardless of whether this depth information is intrinsically present in the image or first, if necessary, with the aid of a control device, must be determined.The term of the 3D sensor device should therefore also include" ordinary "digital cameras whose images a picture editing and so determines the required depth information (see "Image translation for single-shot focal tomography ", Patrick Llull, Xin Yuan, Lawrence Carin, and David J. Brady; Optica, Vol. 2, Issue 9, pp 822-825 (2015);

https: // www. osapublishing. org / optica / fulltext.cfm? uri = optica-2 - 9-822 & id = 326856).

 The image generated with the 3D sensor device according to the invention with the control device image analysis

evaluated and determined based on the analysis results, the arrangement of the images, based on this arrangement

Control signals are generated for the separator. These

Control signals are usually generated according to fixed specifications. For example, it may be specified that the control signals are always generated in such a way that a certain safety distance to the recordings is ensured, ie. H. For example, a distance of 2mm to a defined height of the receptacle is always maintained, this defined height being 5% of the example

Maximum height or the like may be. Furthermore, it can be determined that the control signals are calculated so that the

Blister strip is singled so that the individual parts each include only one shot.

 The design of the recordings for the

Medication portions may come from blister strips too

Blister strips vary, and indeed in the same

Type of drug. In a preferred embodiment of the method according to the invention, it is provided that the

 Control signals are calculated taking into account separation specifications. These separation specifications can be printed on the blister strip and read out with a suitable sensor. Alternatively, the separation specifications can also be generated on the basis of the depth information or the depth map. So it may be necessary or advantageous, for example

Shoots that are relatively flat to the center should provide a greater safety margin when calculating the control signals than is required when shooting with very steep sidewalls. Furthermore, it is conceivable that separation specifications for one or more blister strips be predetermined by a user. For example, it is conceivable to pretend that not only one receptacle per blister strip part, but several

be provided.

 Furthermore, it may be possible to adapt the control signals to a desired geometry of the blister strip parts.

If only a single blister strip part is to be blistered, the geometry of this part is more to be bleached with respect to potential damage

 Medicine portions not relevant; Here only the risk of affecting the blister packaging itself could be significant. In the event that the Blisterstreifen part, however, with other drug portions that without

Individual packaging should be blistered, blistered together, sharp corners should be avoided, so that as

For example, you can specify a separation specification that the

Blister strip parts without corners from the blister strip

to be triggered.

 In the method according to the invention is in the last

Process step of blister strips based on the

Control signals, divided into a plurality of Blisterstreifen parts. Depending on the size of the blister strips, it may be necessary to provide a plurality of release means in the separator to cover all areas of the

 To reach Blisterstreifen. To avoid one

It is therefore provided in a preferred embodiment of the method that the plurality of separating means

Blisterstreifen and the at least one release agent at

Splitting the blister strips are moved relative to each other. This can be done, for example, such that the release agent is moved in stationary Blisterstreifen. Alternatively, the blister strip can be moved with stationary release agent. This ensures that when using only one release agent all areas of the blister strip for

Dicing process can be achieved. According to the invention, an image of the carrier plate with the recordings is generated with a 3D sensor device. In order to limit the cost of the 3D sensor device, it may be necessary to use a 3D sensor device with only limited resolution. The limitation of the resolution of the 3D sensor device may make it unsuitable or able to produce an image of the entire blister strip with a "pick-up." In a preferred embodiment of the method, therefore, FIG

Generating the image generates a plurality of sub-images, which together form the image. In this way it is possible to use low-cost 3D sensor devices with only limited resolution.

 As already indicated above, it may be advantageous to move the blister strips relative to the release agent. However, if very rapid editing is required, the

Use only a release agent to be slow, so that it is provided in a preferred embodiment, that the separator comprises a plurality of release means, which are operated in parallel.

 Depending on the release agent used or the separator used may be in the cutting of the

Blister strip locally a heat transfer to the

Carrier plate of the blister strip take place (for example, when using a laser separator). At a

preferred embodiment of the method according to the invention, it is therefore provided that the blister strip is applied during the cutting with a cooling fluid. The introduced during cutting heat can be dissipated so quickly, a

Impairment of the often very temperature sensitive

Medicament portions can be effectively avoided.

 The above object is further achieved by a device for splitting blister strip according to claim 9. The device according to the invention comprises a 3D sensor device for generating an image of a

Blister strip, wherein the blister strip is a carrier plate comprising a plurality of receptacles, and wherein the mapping includes depth information about the blister strip. The device according to the invention further comprises a

Separating device with at least one separating means for dividing the blister strip into a plurality of blister strip parts and a controller coupled to the 3D sensor device and the separating device. According to the invention

Control device designed such that the generated

Image evaluated with the control device image analysis and based on the analysis results, an arrangement of the images in the support plate of the blister strip is determined, and that based on the arrangement of the images control signals are calculated for the separator on the basis of the

Blister strip is divided into a plurality of Blisterstreifen parts. With regard to the exact configuration of the individual components of the device according to the invention, reference is made to the comments on the method according to the invention.

 In a preferred embodiment, the

Device a movement device which causes a relative movement between the at least one release agent and the blister strip. Such a trained device can for

Processing of blister strips of any size can be used. Furthermore, a device with only one

Release agents are also used for processing large blister strips. With regard to the relative movement between the at least one release agent and the blister strip, it is provided in a structurally particularly simple design device that the at least one release agent is movably attached to a carriage which itself is vertical to the

Release agent is movable. In this way, a kind of X-Y table is generated in which the release agent is moved freely, so that a processing of a blister strip of any shape and size is possible.

The division of the blister strip itself can be done for example with a laser separator, which in the division with the laser beam a certain amount of heat in the carrier plate of the blister strip. In order to avoid that the introduced heat those arranged in the receptions

Damages medication, it is provided in a preferred embodiment that the device a

Cooling device comprises, with which a cooling fluid on the

Blister strip can be applied.

 The exact configuration of the separator is not relevant to the invention as such, it is only

ensure that with the separator of the

Blister strip can be divided into a plurality of blister strip parts, this "cutting" should also include the case that from the blister strip as such a plurality of blister strip parts is cut out and a frame remains, from which all recordings (together with surrounding support plate ) are dissolved out.

 In order to provide the device according to the invention as inexpensively as possible, it is in preferred

Embodiments provided that the separating device by a laser cutting device, a

Water jet cutting device or a punching device is provided. Alternatively, a

 Cutting device can be used with at least one knife or the like. Depending on the used

Separating device may be provided a fixing device for fixing the blister strip on the support.

 In the event that a laser cutting device or a water jet cutting device is used, the laser beam or the water jet, a calculated average curve or cutting line traced, which of the

Control signals are given. Based on the control signals, the separator (laser separator or

Water jet separator) or a corresponding

Release agent moves so that a suitable cutting curve or cutting line can be traversed with the actual release agent. When moving off the cutting line or - curve finds the actually splitting the blister strips instead. Alternatively, the blister strip can be moved.

 When using a punching give the

Control signals no cutting line or curve before, but only coordinates in which a recording together with

punch out surrounding support plate is.

 Since the recordings are regularly space-optimized and adapted to the shape of the stored medicament portions, it is provided in a preferred embodiment that the

Punching means comprises a plurality of punching means which can be used in dependence on the determined control signals. The different punching means have different radii and shapes, so that depending on the shape and size of the images that are used in the determination of the control signals, the appropriate punching means can be selected.

 Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings

described in which

 Figures la and lb show side and top views of a blister strip;

 Figures 2a and 2b show a plan view and a side view of a first embodiment of the device according to the invention;

 Figure 3 shows a second embodiment of the device according to the invention;

 Figures 4a and 4b show analysis results of image-analytical processing of an image of a blister strip;

 Figures 5a and 5b show top views of a blister strip with indicated cut lines or curves; and

 FIG. 6 shows a third embodiment of the invention

Device shows.

Figures la and lb show a side and top view of a blister strip 1 with a support plate 10, which has a plurality of receptacles 12. The carrier plate and the receptacles are provided with a covering layer 13 which covers cavities 11 formed by the receptacles 12. In the cavities 11 are Usually not shown here drug portions arranged. The illustrated in Figures la and lb

Blister strip represents a common embodiment of a so-called blister strip (or simply blister).

 In figure lb are in the lower portion of the support plate

Information 14 applied, with a corresponding

Reading device can be detected. This information may contain references to, for example, the distribution of the recordings on the carrier plate, information about the medicine portions in the recordings or information on the design of the device

 Recordings themselves, for example, whether the side walls are rather flat or steep.

 In the illustrated blister strip, the receptacles 12 are arranged in a kind of matrix. In other embodiments of a blister strip, these may for example also be arranged in the form of an oval or the like.

 Figure 2a shows a plan view of a first

Embodiment of a device according to the invention for

Parting blister strips. The device comprises a rectangular support structure 50, 51, which is arranged on legs 56 (shown in FIG. 2b). The support structure 50, 51 together with the legs 56 form a kind of table with a

Support 55. The two lateral (vertically shown) support members 51 spans a carriage 52 which is vertically movable, as indicated by the arrow labeled Y. The mechanism necessary for moving the carriage is omitted, so as not to complicate the presentation unnecessarily. The structure and functioning of a

corresponding mechanics are known in the art and therefore need not be further detailed here.

 The carriage 52 is connected to a control device 30

connected, which can send out control signals for moving the carriage in the Y direction. Attached to the carriage 52 are an SD sensor device 20, a separator 40, and a sensor 60, all of which may be coupled to the controller 30 via conduits (not shown). The 3D Sensor device 20 and the separator 40 are in the embodiment shown on the carriage in the X direction (here orthogonal to the Y-direction of movement of the carriage)

traversable. On the support 55, a drug package or a blister strip 1 is placed, in alignment with a position sensor 57. The blister strip is with a

Fixing device 58 fixed on the support itself, with a corresponding fixation especially in such

Separating devices applies application that exerts a force on the carrier plate and thus could cause a movement of the blister strip. Depending on the exact configuration of the fixing device, it is also possible to use a plurality of such devices. In an alternative embodiment, the function of the position sensor can also by the

Fixing device 58 are adopted, i. the positioning and fixation of one and the same component are taken over.

 Figure 2b shows a side view of the first

Embodiment, wherein in particular the more accurate configuration of the carriage 52 can be seen, which is movable with two legs 53 on the lateral support members 51. In the side view shown in FIG. 2b, the separating device 40, which in the embodiment shown comprises a separating means 41, is moved to the right-hand edge of the carriage. This allows that launched on the pad 55

 Blister strip 1 in the X direction with the 3D sensor device run over and so an image of the blister strip can be generated. In the embodiment shown, due to the design of the 3D sensor device is a departure of the

Blister strip necessary because the actual 3D sensor means 21 of the 3D sensor device is formed so that only a portion of the blister strip can be detected. In other embodiments, for example, a 3D sensor device with a larger 3D sensor means or more 3D sensor means can be used, whereby overrunning the

Blister strip can be avoided. In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 2a and 2b, the movement of the carriage, the separating and the SD sensor device causes a relative movement between the carriage

Blister strip and the aforementioned components causes. As stated, the process of generating an image of the blister strips with a suitable design of the SD sensor device can also be performed without a relative movement between

Blister strips and 3D sensor device are performed. Alternatively, it is also possible to move the blister strips under a non-movable 3D sensor device or a non-movable separating device, as indicated by the movement arrows X, Y in the second embodiment shown schematically in Figure 3. The mechanism necessary to move the blister strips is not

illustrated, but this may for example be formed similar to the carriage 52. Depending on the exact structural design of the 3D sensor device and / or the separator, it may also be sufficient that the

Blister strip is only moved in one direction,

for example, along its longitudinal axis in the X direction.

 Hereinafter, an embodiment of the

inventive method described with reference to some figures of the drawing. According to the invention, initially a blister strip is provided on a support 55 of a device described, for example, in FIGS. 2a and 2b. Subsequently, a picture of the blister strip comprising depth information is generated with a 3D sensor device or a sensor device of the 3D sensor device. For this it is of course essential that the blister strip is aligned with the recordings towards the 3D sensor device.

 In Figure 4a, a portion of an image generated with the SD sensor device is shown schematically, wherein a plurality of lines 201, 202, 203, 204, etc. of the figure are shown simplified. The picture, how

already contains depth information (in Z- Direction), as can be seen by the difference of lines 202 and 203.

 The exact information content of an image generated with an SD sensor device depends on the recording method used; in some of the methods mentioned above, the depth information is already there

inherent in the figure as such, d. H. it is not necessary to use the illustration to "uncover" the

Depth information to further edit, in others

If necessary, it may be necessary for the recording method to process the information acquired with the SD sensor device for generating a picture with depth information (if

for example, a stereo camera is used).

 After creating the image with the

Depth information becomes the picture with a

 Control device evaluated by image analysis, in the

With regard to the position and configurations of the recordings in the carrier plate. In the image analysis evaluation is

determines where the shots are arranged in detail, and which dimensions include the shots, these

 Information can be determined based on the depth information.

 Control signals for a separator are then calculated based on the location and size of the images, and subsequently the blister strip is scanned with the

 Dividing means or a separating means of the separating device on the basis of the control signals generated in a plurality of blister strip parts divided, wherein the blister strip is optionally to fix with appropriate fixing means on the support. The control signals themselves are dependent on the type of release agent used to break the blister strip.

 First, this will be described by means of a laser separator. A laser separating device comprises at least one laser separating means, which via a special optics

Laser beam emits, with which, with appropriate Performance, the support plate can be cut together with cover layer. This is a specific with the laser beam

Tracing the cutting curve or cutting line, wherein the

traceable intersection curves or lines on the basis of

Separation specifications are determined.

 FIG. 4b shows two such sectional curves 210. The control signals will, depending on the exact

Configuration of the device used, calculated so that the cutting curve 210 can be traced with the laser beam. For this purpose, the control signals comprise signals for, for example, a carriage to be moved in the Y direction and / or a separating device to be moved in the X direction. For others

Embodiments may provide the control signals for the signals

Include movement of the blister strips themselves.

 The exact design or the exact structure of

 Control signals are therefore dependent on the exact structural

Embodiment of a device with which the blister strip is cut.

 When using a laser separator, it would also be possible to use a plurality of laser beam

 Control mirror arrangements and thus follow the cutting curves or cutting lines. The control signals could then also relate to a movement or adjustment of the mirrors.

 The control signals can also be dependent on separation specifications. In FIG. 5a, for example, it is indicated that each receptacle is divided out of the blister strip one by one. For this purpose, control signals for a plurality of average curves 210 which surround the individual receptacle 12 are determined. According to the cutting curves a plurality of blister strip parts 15 are removed from the support plate 10.

 In FIG. 5b it is indicated on the left side that each blister strip part 15 'comprises two receptacles. The

Cut curves 210 '(and thus the control signals) are

adjusted accordingly. While in Figures 5a and 5b (left) parts are removed from the blister strip it may alternatively be provided, the blister strips in a number from Blisterstreifen parts to divide. This is indicated in Figure 5b, right side. Give the control signals

"Cut curves" in the form of cutting lines 220, 221 before, according to which the blister strip is divided into parts 16.

 Alternatively, a blister strip with a

 Water jet separator are divided, the

Is similar to process management; Even in such a case, cutting curves or lines should be cut off with the actual separating jet.

 When using a punching separator are the

 Control signals to determine otherwise, since with a punching device no average curve is nachzufahren, but only a coordinate for the positioning of the punching device or the punching means of the punching device is to be determined. In Figure 4b, a corresponding coordinate 230 is indicated. Also the

 Coordinates for the punching device are determined by the arrangement (and size) of the images; depending on the size / shape of the recordings can then still a specific

Punching means are selected.

 Finally, FIG. 6 shows a side view of a third one

Embodiment of a device according to the invention, in which the separating device 40 comprises a first and a second separating means 41, 42, both here as a laser separating means

are formed. FIG. 6 shows the device after generation of the image, image-analytic evaluation of the image and determination of the control signals during the cutting of a

Blister strip 1 by means of two laser beams 45 which are generated by the laser separating means 41, 42.

In the embodiment shown, the two laser-separating means in the X direction on the carriage 52 are movable. In order to ensure sufficient space for a method of laser release agent, the SD sensor device 20 is completely moved to the left at this stage of the process. In the embodiment shown, the apparatus further comprises a cooling device 70 which is attached to the separator 40. With this, the blister strip with a coolant 71 be charged. The second laser separating means 42 may also be combined with a corresponding cooling device.

Claims

EXPECTATIONS 1. Method for dividing a blister strip (1), wherein a blister strip (1) comprising a carrier plate (10) with a plurality of receptacles (12) for drug portions and a cover layer (13) for covering the receptacles (12) is provided , an image (200) of the carrier plate (10) with the recordings (12) is generated with a 3D sensor device (20), the image (200) comprising depth information, the illustration with a control device (30) is evaluated image analytically and based on An arrangement of the recordings (12) is determined from the analysis results, based on the arrangement of the receptacles (12), control signals for a separating device (40) with at least one separating means (41) are calculated, and the blister strip (1) is divided into a plurality of blister strip parts (15, 15 16) based on the control signals. 2. Method for dividing a blister strip (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the control signals are calculated taking separation specifications into account. 3. A method for dividing a blister strip (1) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the Separation specifications the number of recordings per blister strip part and / or a distance specification regarding the recordings include. 4. A method for dividing a blister strip (1) according to one of claims 1 - 3, characterized in that information (14) applied to the blister strip is connected to a sensor (60) are recorded and, at least partially, used as separation specifications. 5. A method for dividing a blister strip (1) according to one of claims 1 - 4, characterized in that the Blister strips (1) and the at least one separating means (41) are moved relative to one another when the blister strips are divided. 6. A method for dividing a blister strip (1) according to one of claims 1 - 5, characterized in that Generating the image a plurality of sub-images are generated, which together form the image. 7. A method for dividing a blister strip (1) according to one of claims 1 - 6, characterized in that Separating device (40) comprises a plurality of separating means (41, 42), wherein when the blister strip (1) is divided into a plurality of blister strip parts (15, 15 16) based on the control signals, the plurality of separating means can be operated in parallel. 8. A method for dividing a blister strip (1) according to one of claims 1 - 7, characterized in that a blister strip is dividing with a cooling fluid is applied. 9. Device (100) for cutting blister strips (1), comprising a 3D sensor device (20) for generating an image of a blister strip, the blister strip (1) being a Carrier plate (10) and a plurality of receptacles (12) and wherein the image includes depth information, a separating device (40) with at least one separating means (41) for dividing the blister strip into a plurality of blister strip parts (15, 15, 16), and a control device (30) coupled to the 3D sensor unit (20) and the separating device (40), the Control device (30) is designed such that that the generated image is evaluated using image analysis and an arrangement of the recordings (12) in the carrier plate (10) of the blister strip (1) is determined based on the analysis results and that based on the arrangement of the recordings (12) Control signals for the separating device (40) are calculated, on the basis of which the blister strip (1) is divided into a plurality of blister strip parts (15, 15, 16). 10. Device (100) for cutting blister strips (1) according to claim 9, characterized in that the device comprises a movement device (52, 53) which has a Relative movement between the at least one separating means (41) and the blister strip is caused. 11. Device (100) for cutting blister strips (1) according to claim 10, characterized in that the at least one separating means (41) is movably attached to the movement device (52, 53). 12. Device (100) for cutting blister strips (1) according to one of claims 9 - 11, characterized in that the device comprises a cooling device (70) with which a cooling fluid can be applied to the blister strip (1). 13. Device (100) for cutting blister strips (1) according to one of claims 9 - 12, characterized in that the separating device (40) is provided by a laser cutting device, a water jet cutting device, a punching device or a cutting device with at least one knife is provided. 14. Device (100) for cutting blister strips (1) according to claim 13, characterized in that Separating device (40) is provided by a punching device and comprises a plurality of punching means which are in Dependence on the determined control signals can be used.