Single use device for transmitting information

• US 20040171982A1
• Filed: 10/16/2003
• Published: 09/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Promepla Sam
• Original Assignee: Promepla Sam
• Inventors: Danchin, Marc
• Application Number:
  US10/686,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20040171982A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/65
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/90 Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/98 using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3561 local, e.g. within room or hospital

Abstract

This invention relates to a single use device for transmitting information, allowing either identification of a circulating product, or management of the dispensing/aspiration of a product, by means of a product dispensing machine, in a patient, characterized in that it integrates a transponder emitting said information by radio-frequencies.

The device is advantageously either a medical tool or a tube connecting said machine to a patient.

Claims

1. A medical device integrating information transmission means allowing management of the parameters of dispensing/aspiration of a product, by means of a machine for dispensing or aspirating a product, in a patient, and a transponder emitting said information by radio-frequency,

wherein said device is used once only,

it allows a circulating product to be identified, and

it consists of a tube connecting said product dispensing or aspiration machine to a patient.

3. The device of claim 1 or 2, wherein said product is a fluid, particularly a gas.

4. The device of one of the preceding Claims, wherein the transponder integrates a sensor for determining in real time or for recording parameters relative to said circulating product, particularly the pressure, temperature or flowrate of said circulating product.

5. An assembly for the transmission of information comprising the medical device of one of the preceding Claims, wherein it further comprises a radio-frequency receiver for the transmission of information.

6. The assembly of claim 5, wherein it comprises an electronic manager for said machine to which is transmitted said information coming from the radio-frequency receiver and which modifies the setting of the mode of operation of said machine as a function of the information received.

7. The assembly of claim 5 or 6, wherein it comprises an outside computer to which the information emitted by the transponder is sent by computer link after it has been received by the receiver.

8. The assembly of one of claims 5 to 7, wherein it comprises a printer on which the information emitted by the transponder is retranscribed.

2. A medical device integrating information transmission means allowing management of the parameters of dispensing/aspiration of a product, by means of a product dispensing or aspiration machine, in a patient, and a transponder emitting said information by radio-frequency,

wherein said device is used once only,

it allows a circulating product to be identified, and

it consists of a medical, particularly surgical, tool.