Electronic appliance

• US 20030072058A1
• Filed: 07/10/2002
• Published: 04/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
• Original Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
• Inventors: Jespersen, Soren Kragh
• Application Number:
  US10/194,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20030072058A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 398/139
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0017 transmitting optical signals transmission by light H04B10/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0031 Implanted circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/178 Syringes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/30 Syringes for injection by jet action, without needle, e.g. for use with replaceable ampoules or carpules

Abstract

A portable electronic appliance such as a medication delivery device for administering a fluid medication to a mammal body, which electronic appliance comprises an optical communication unit for optical communication with another electronic device. The optical communication unit is provided inside the housing and transmits optical signals through an optical transparent window provided in an operating button which operating button operates a function which is normally not activated when the communication unit receives or transmits optical signals.

Claims

1. A portable electronic appliance (8) comprising a housing (3), an optical transparent part (9) and an optical communication unit (2) such as a transmitter, a receiver or a transceiver (2) for receiving and/or transmitting optical signals (5, 6) through the optical transparent part (9), characterized in that, said housing (3) further comprises an operating button (1), which operating button (1) is provided with the optical transparent part (9).

2. A portable electronic appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the optical transparent part (9) is an optical transparent window (11).

3. A portable electronic appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the entire operating button (1) is the optically transparent part (9).

4. A portable electronic appliance according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the optical transparent window (11) or the operating button (1) is made from a material which allows passage of infrared waves.

5. A portable electronic appliance according to claim anyone of the preceding claims, characterized in that the operating button (1) operates a function of the portable electronic appliance (8), which is normally not activated, when the communication unit (2) receives and/or transmits signals (5, 6).

6. A portable electronic appliance according to anyone of the preceding claims, characterized in that, the electrical appliance 8 is an apparatus for measuring and/or monitoring blood glucose levels.

7. A portable electronic appliance according to anyone of the preceding claims, characterized in that, the electrical appliance (8) is a medication delivery device for administering medication to a mammal body, such as an injector, a jet injector, a syringe, a medication pump an inhaler, a spray or the like.

8. A portable electronic appliance according to anyone of the preceding claims, characterized in that, the electrical appliance (8) is a combined injection device and blood glucose monitor

9. A portable electronic appliance according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that, the operating button (1) carrying the optical transparent part is the injection button.