INCLUSION MANAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF INCLUSION MANAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF INCLUSION MANAGING DEVICE, AND INCLUSION MANAGING METHOD

• US 20100066509A1
• Filed: 01/08/2008
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Okuizumi, Seiji, Kamijo, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US12/450,445
• Publication Number:
  US 20100066509A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.500
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/035 Blister-type containers blisters in general B65D75/36
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/10 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/60 using magnetic or electronic identifications, e.g. chips, RFID, electronic tags
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/04 Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/10 Transponders
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 55/028 initial opening or unauthorised access being indicated by the presence or absence of an audible or electrical signal
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07798 part of the antenna or the integrated circuit being adapted for rupturing or breaking, e.g. record carriers functioning as sealing devices for detecting not-authenticated opening of containers electronic seals G09F3/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

Whether a patient actually takes medicine or not is traced and recorded. The used state of a packaged object is traced and recorded. Specifically, a passive wireless tag and an antenna are attached to a packaged object management device. The passive wireless tag is disposed on the package containing a packaged object, and power is generated in the passive wireless tag by electromagnetic induction (contactless power transmission) through a radio wave from a reader, and the passive wireless tag receives/transmits a radio wave to transmit/receive information. The antenna is disposed in a region (take-out opening) for taking out the packaged object from the package so that the antenna can be broken when the packaged object is taken out and is used to inform the passive wireless tag of the take-out of the packaged object. The gap between the boundary of the region (take-out opening) for taking out the packaged object and the antenna is smaller than the minimum width large enough to take out the packaged object.

Claims

1. An inclusion managing device comprising:

a passive type wireless tag arranged on packages for packing inclusions and configured to generate a voltage through electromagnetic induction (contactless power transmission) caused by radio wave from a reader and to transmit/receive information by emitting/receiving radio wave; and

antennas arranged at regions for removing said inclusions (ejection ports) on said packages which that said antennas are broken at remove of said inclusions from said packages and configured to notify said passive type wireless tag of remove of said inclusion,

wherein gaps between said antennas and borders of said regions for removing said inclusions (ejection ports) are smaller than minimum width required to remove said inclusions.

2. The inclusion managing device according to claim 1, wherein said reader specifies, based on change in frequency corresponding to change in length of antenna caused by break, a location of an inclusion corresponding to said broken antenna.

3. The inclusion managing device according to claim 1, wherein said antennas correspond to said inclusions in one-to-one relation and are arranged independently and individually for respective inclusions packed in said packages, and

independent individual antennas respectively use different frequencies.

4. The inclusion managing device according to claim 1, wherein said antennas are arranged at connecting portions between said packages and are configured to break when said packages are separated, and

said passive type wireless tag detects, based on change in frequency corresponding to change in length of antenna caused by break, a number of connected packages.

5. The inclusion managing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

lids which are arranged to seal said regions for removing said inclusions (ejection ports) and adhere to said antennas such that said antennas are removed from said packages at opening.

6. An inclusion managing device comprising:

packages for packing inclusions; and

two-dimensional barcodes which correspond to said inclusions in one-to-one relation, include information with regard to said inclusions, are displayed to cover regions for removing said inclusions (ejection ports) on said packages and are configured to be loss at remove of said inclusions from said packages.

7. An inclusion managing device comprising:

packages for packing inclusions; and

two-dimensional barcodes which correspond to said inclusions in one-to-one relation, include information with regard to said inclusions, are displayed in said packages which that said two-dimensional barcodes are concealed by said inclusions and are configured to become recognizable when said inclusions are removed from said packages.

8-21. -21. (canceled)

22. An inclusion managing method comprising:

notifying a passive type wireless tag on packages of remove of inclusions when antennas, which arranged at regions for removing said inclusions (ejection ports) on said packages, are broken at remove of said inclusions from said packages; and

specifying a location of an inclusion corresponding to a broken antenna based on change in frequency corresponding to change in length of antenna caused by break.

23. The inclusion managing method according to claims 22, further comprising:

communicating at respectively different frequencies with antennas which correspond to said inclusions in one-to-one relation and are arranged independently and individually for respective inclusions packed in said packages; and

specifying a location of an inclusion corresponding to a broken antenna based on differences in frequency corresponding to respective antennas.

24. The inclusion managing method according to claim 22, further comprising:

detecting said passive type wireless tag periodically;

detecting remove of said packages;

detecting return of said packages;

detecting locations of inclusions packed in said packages by communicating with said passive type wireless tag and by obtaining information stored in said passive type wireless tag when return of said packages are detected; and

recording used amount of inclusions packed in said packages.

26. The inclusion managing method according to claim 24, further comprising:

obtaining used-number information from said passive type wireless tag; and

calculating quantity to be used in a future from remaining quantity based on use history information generated by summarizing used-number information.