Biological sample measurement device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9625441-B2
Application number	US-201213985734-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2012
Priority date	Mar 31, 2011
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

A biological sample measurement device includes a biological sample measuring instrument and measurement-related information supply instrument which supplies measurement-related information. Measurement-related information supply instrument has reading unit which reads the measurement-related information, first storage unit which stores identification information of measurement-related information supply instrument, and transmission unit which transmits the measurement-related information and the identification information of measurement-related information supply instrument to the biological sample measuring instrument. The biological sample measuring instrument has a main body case which has a mounting portion of a biological sample detection sensor and a display unit, a measurement unit which is connected to the mounting portion inside the main body case, a control unit which is connected to the measurement unit, and a reception unit which is connected to the control unit and receives the measurement-related information and the identification information of the measurement-related information supply instrument transmitted from the transmission unit of the measurement-related information supply unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A biological sample measurement device comprising:
a biological sample measuring instrument, the biological sample measuring instrument for holding a biological sample of a patient; and
a measurement-related information supply instrument which supplies measurement-related information to the biological sample measuring instrument, the measurement-related information supply instrument supplied to each measurer,
wherein the measurement-related information supply instrument has:
a thin plate-shape,
a plate-shaped surface on which a name of an individual measurer that the measurement-related information supply instrument is supplied is printed,
a reading unit which is provided on a central portion of the plate-shaped surface and reads the measurement-related information from an IC tag by proximity communication using electric waves,
a first storage unit which stores a measurer identification information identifying the individual measurer with the name printed on the plate-shaped surface, and
a transmission unit which adds the measurer identification information identifying the individual measurer that the measurement-related information supply instrument is supplied to various types of measurement-related information read from IC tags and transmits the measurer identification information and the various types of measurement-related information to the biological sample measuring instrument through RFIP transmission, and
the biological sample measuring instrument has
a main body case which has a mounting portion for a separately housed biological sample detection sensor,
a display unit,
a measurement unit which is connected to the mounting portion inside the main body case,
a control unit which is connected to the measurement unit, and
a reception unit which is connected to the control unit and receives the various types of measurement-related information and the measurer identification information of the measurement-related information supply instrument transmitted from the transmission unit of the measurement-related information supply unit.

2. The biological sample measurement device of claim 1 ,
wherein the first storage unit of the measurement-related information supply instrument stores the measurement-related information read by the reading unit, and
the measurement-related information stored in the first storage unit is erased after the measurement-related information is transmitted to the reception unit of the biological sample measuring instrument by the transmission unit.

3. The biological sample measurement device of claim 1 ,
wherein the measurement-related information supply instrument further has a power switch, and
the power switch is provided near an outer edge portion of the measurement-related information supply instrument having the plate-shaped surface.

4. The biological sample measurement device of claim 3 ,
wherein the power switch of the measurement-related information supply instrument is a pressure-sensitive switch, and
the pressure-sensitive switch is configured to supply power to the measurement-related information supply instrument only in a pressure-sensitive state.

5. The biological sample measurement device of claim 1 ,
wherein the biological sample measuring instrument further has
a second storage unit which stores the measurement-related information and the measurer identification information transmitted from the measurement-related information supply instrument, and
a connection terminal which is connected to the control unit for providing information stored in the second storage unit to an external device.

6. The biological sample measurement device of claim 5 ,
wherein the second storage unit of the biological sample measuring instrument stores a measured value detected by the biological sample detection sensor.

7. The biological sample measurement device of claim 5 ,
wherein the second storage unit of the biological sample measuring instrument stores identification information of the biological sample measuring instrument.

8. The biological sample measurement device of claim 7 ,
wherein the reception unit is provided on a surface of the main body case of the biological sample measuring instrument.

Assignees

• Watanabe Takahiro
• Aono Masumi
• Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co Ltd

Inventors

• Watanabe Takahiro
• Aono Masumi

Classifications

• A61B5/157

  {Devices} characterised by integrated means for measuring characteristics of blood · CPC title

• G06F19/3418

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01N33/48 Primary

  Biological material, e.g. blood, urine (G01N33/02, G01N33/26, G01N33/44, G01N33/46 take precedence); Haemocytometers (counting blood corpuscules distributed over a surface by scanning the surface G06M11/02) · CPC title

• A61B5/150358

  Strips for collecting blood, e.g. absorbent · CPC title

• G01N2035/00881

  network configurations · CPC title