System for tutoring users of a medical apparatus on the operation of that medical apparatus

• US 20060014126A1
• Filed: 06/14/2005
• Published: 01/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Heating Solutions, LLC
• Original Assignee: Heating Solutions, LLC
• Inventors: Esposito, Michael, Galloway, Richard E.
• Application Number:
  US11/152,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20060014126A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/262
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine

Abstract

A system for providing instantaneous tutoring to a user of a medical apparatus how to operate the medical apparatus. The system includes the medical apparatus in combination with a tutorial component that provides instructions on use and operation of the medical apparatus. The system further includes an input instrument that a user activates to start receiving instructions. When the user has activated the input instrument, the instrument sends a signal to a processing agent which activates the instructions stored in data storage and causes the instructions to be broadcast through an output instrument.

Claims

1. A system for providing instantaneous tutoring to users of a medical apparatus on the operation of the medical apparatus, comprising in combination:

a medical apparatus; and

a tutorial component providing instructions on use and operation of the medical apparatus.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the tutorial component is incorporated within the medical apparatus.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the tutorial component is physically separate from the medical apparatus.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical apparatus is a therapeutic mattress.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the tutorial component further comprises an input instrument, a processing agent, instructions located within a data storage, and an output instrument, wherein the input instrument sends a signal to the processing agent that causes the processing agent to engage the instructions located within the data storage, and wherein the processing agent causes the instructions to be presented through the output instrument.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the input instrument is selected from the group comprising a button, a switch, a receiver and a touch-sensitive screen.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein the processing agent is a microcontroller.

8. The system of claim 5 wherein the processing agent is an embedded processor.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the data storage further comprises logic for managing the instructions stored within the data storage.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the instructions stored in the data storage are broken into segments.

11. The system of claim 9 and 10, wherein the logic allows for skipping between segments of the instructions stored in the data storage.

12. The system of claim 5, wherein the output instrument is a speaker.

13. The system of claim 5, wherein the output instrument is a screen.

14. A system for providing instantaneous tutoring to users of a medical apparatus on the operation of the medical apparatus, comprising in combination:

a medical apparatus; and

a tutorial component in coordination with the medical apparatus, wherein the tutorial component is arranged to house an input instrument that sends a signal to a processing agent when the user of the medical apparatus activates the input instrument, the processing agent engages instructions located in a data storage, and an output instrument presents the instructions to the user of the medical apparatus.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the medical apparatus is a therapeutic mattress.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the input instrument is a button.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the input instrument is a switch.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the input instrument is a receiver.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the input instrument is a touch-sensitive screen.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the tutorial component is incorporated within the medical apparatus.

21. The system of claim 14, wherein the tutorial component is physically separate from the medical apparatus.

22. The system of claim 14 wherein the processing agent is a microcontroller.

23. The system of claim 14 wherein the processing agent is an embedded processor.

24. The system of claim 14, wherein the data storage further comprises logic for managing the instructions stored in the data storage.

25. The system of claim 14, wherein the instructions stored in the data storage are broken into segments.

26. The system of claims 24 and 25, wherein the logic allows for skipping between segments of the instructions stored in the data storage.

27. The system of claim 14, wherein the output instrument is a speaker.

28. The system of claim 27 further comprising a control for adjusting the broadcast of the instructions through the speaker.

29. The system of claim 14, wherein the output instrument is a screen.