STOCK ARTICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20090134978A1
• Filed: 11/26/2008
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Beckman Coulter Incorporated (Danaher Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: IMAI, Naoya
• Application Number:
  US12/324,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20090134978A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.600
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00435 Refrigerated reagent storage
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00782 reprogrammmable code
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00851 process control parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00881 network configurations
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00732 Identification of carriers, materials or components in automatic analysers
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00871 Communications between instruments or with remote terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders

Abstract

An automatic analyzer transmits information about stock articles used in automatic analyzers provided in a plurality of facilities, respectively, to a management station through a network. The management station manages the stock articles in the plurality of facilities. Each facility includes an information exchanger on which stock articles each appended with an RFID tag are arranged; a first reader/writer exchanging, with the RFID tag, information about the stock articles, when the stock articles are arranged on the information exchanger; a second reader/writer provided in the automatic analyzer, wherein the second reader/writer exchanges, with the RFID tag, information about the stock articles, shares, with the first reader/writer, the information about the stock articles, when the stock articles are mounted on the automatic analyzer; and a processor that processes the information about the stock articles. The management station collectively manages in real time the stock articles in the facilities.

Claims

1. A stock article management system which transmits information about stock articles used in automatic analyzers provided in a plurality of facilities, respectively, to a management station through a network, and in which the management station manages the stock articles in the plurality of facilities, each of the facilities comprising:

an information exchanger on which stock articles each appended with an RFID tag are arranged;

a first reader/writer that exchanges, with the RFID tag, information about the stock articles, and is connected to the network, when the stock articles are arranged on the information exchanger;

a second reader/writer that is provided in the automatic analyzer, wherein the second reader/writer exchanges, with the RFID tag, information about the stock articles, shares, with the first reader/writer, the information about the stock articles, and is connected to the network, when the stock articles are mounted on the automatic analyzer; and

a processor that processes the information about the stock articles received by the first and second reader/writers, wherein

the management station collectively manages in real time the stock articles in the plurality of facilities.

2. The stock article management system according to claim 1, wherein

the automatic analyzer includes a display unit which displays management information of the stock articles.