ABSTRACT
Based on the overall situation of global pharmaceutical equipment patents, featuring traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical equipment, the key technology areas of traditional Chinese medicine pharmaceutical processing, pelleting, and drying related equipment were in-depth analyzed. The core technical field of pharmaceutical equipment and its development trend were studied by the social network analysis method. The analysis results showed that the global pharmaceutical equipment industry had entered a period of rapid technological development. The technology and market of processing equipment are highly concentrated in China, but the technological innovation of the most characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine processing equipment is very weak. Tasly is the most important main body of technological innovation of dripping pills equipment. Tasly uses the vibrating dripping system process improvement as a breakthrough point, which has driven the innovation of dripping equipment technology. The competition in drying equipment technology is fierce, and well-known companies are from Denmark, Germany, and other countries. Pharmaceutical equipment such as drying, crushing and sieve analysis are the current core technology fields. It is recommended that domestic applicants strengthen the original innovation of the traditional Chinese medicine processed equipment, strengthen the innovation oftraditional Chinese medicine and pharmaceutical technology to realize the innovative research and protection model of product-process-equipment, grasp the green and intelligent development direction and strengthen the core field technology innovation.