Insulin Pump Having Triple Functions Which Enables Efficient Control of Blood Glucose Concentration and Insulin Injection System Comprising the Same

• US 20080208173A1
• Filed: 11/04/2005
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hee-Chan Kim, Hong-Kyu Lee
• Original Assignee: Hee-Chan Kim, Hong-Kyu Lee
• Inventors: Kim, Hee-Chan, Lee, Hong-Kyu
• Application Number:
  US11/667,168
• Publication Number:
  US 20080208173A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/890.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14276 specially adapted for implantation

Abstract

The present invention relates to an insulin pump having triple functions for the efficient regulation of a blood glucose concentration and an insulin injection system comprising the same. The insulin pump comprises an insulin syringe into which an insulin is stored, a pump to pressurize the insulin syringe in response to a programmed control signal, a control device that generates the programmed control signal to control the pump, a mode selection button to determine an insulin injection mode, and an operating button to command an insulin injection. The insulin injection mode is comprised of a base mode that continuously infuses the insulin at a basic rate to control a blood glucose concentration at a fasting, a food mode that infuses the insulin at a bulk to control the blood glucose concentration after food intake, and an activation mode that infuses the insulin in pulses for a predetermined time period. Preferably, the insulin pump complementarity cooperates with a physiological saline syringe pump that infuses physiological saline solution immediately after the infusion of the insulin at the activation mode.

Claims

1. An insulin pump, comprising:

a) an insulin syringe into which an insulin is stored;

b) a pump to pressurize the insulin syringe in response to a programmed control signal;

c) a control device that generates the programmed control signal to control the pump;

d) a mode selection button to determine an insulin injection mode; and

e) an operating button to command an insulin injection, wherein f) the control device is equipped with a memory to store a control program and a controller to generate the programmed control signal under control of the control program, g) the control program is comprised of a base mode that continuously infuses the insulin at a basic rate to control a blood glucose concentration at a fasting, a food mode that infuses the insulin at a bulk to control the blood glucose concentration after food intake, and an activation mode that infuses the insulin in pulses for a predetermined time period, h) mode selection among the three modes is carried out by the mode selection button, i) in response to activation of the operating button, the controller of the control device delivers to the pump the programmed control signal corresponding to the selected mode, and j) with action of the pump, the insulin syringe infuses the insulin in the selected mode.

2. The insulin pump as set forth in claim 1, wherein the activation mode infuses the insulin in pulses every 6-8 minutes for a period of 5-6 hours.

3. The insulin pump as set forth in claim 1, wherein the insulin is short acting insulin.

4. An insulin injection system, comprising a physiological saline syringe pump in combination with the insulin pump of claim 1.

5. The insulin injection system as set forth in claim 4, wherein the physiological saline syringe pump comprises a′

) a physiological saline syringe into which physiological saline solution is stored, b′

) a physiological saline pump to pressurize the physiological saline syringe in response to a programmed control signal, c′

) a control device that generates the programmed control signal to control the physiological saline pump, d′

) a selection button, e′

) a mount for housing the insulin pump, and f′

) an access port for the synchronization with the insulin pump.

6. The insulin injection system as set forth in claim 5, wherein a control signal generated from the control device of the insulin pump is delivered to the control device of the physiological saline syringe pump and the control device of the physiological saline syringe pump is activated with aid of the control signal.

7. The insulin injection system as set forth in claim 5, wherein the access port undergoes an electrical switching when the insulin pump is installed to the physiological saline syringe pump such that the insulin pump is controlled by the control device of the physiological saline syringe pump.

8. The insulin injection system as set forth in claim 7, wherein the control device of the physiological saline syringe pump is comprised of a memory to which a control program is stored and a controller to generate a control signal, and the control program is equipped with two functions:

one is to control the infusion of the insulin; and

the other is to control the infusion of the physiological saline solution.