APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT AMOUNT, AN APPARATUS FOR SUGGESTING A NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT, A BLENDING APPARATUS OF A NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT AND A BLENDING SYSTEM OF A NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT

• US 20100287003A1
• Filed: 07/22/2010
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nutrition Act Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nutrition Act Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Sano, Kayo, Ishikawa, Masahito
• Application Number:
  US12/841,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20100287003A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3674 involving authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

It is provided with a medical inquiry processing unit for acquiring the response to a medical inquiry presenting medical inquiry items to a person to be examined, a nutrient requirement amount calculating unit for calculating the nutrient requirement amount of the person to be examined from the response to the medical inquiry, a nutritional supplement suggesting unit for suggesting the blend of a nutritional supplement based on the nutrient requirement amount of the person to be examined and a nutritional supplement blending unit for blending nutrients to prepare the nutritional supplement based on the blend of the nutritional supplement.

Claims

1-50. -50. (canceled)

51. A blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement for blending nutrients to prepare said nutritional supplement based on a result of checking a nutritional condition of a person to be examined, comprising:

a medical inquiry processing unit for presenting a medical inquiry item to said person to be examined and acquiring a response to a medical inquiry;

a nutritional supplement blend acquiring unit for acquiring blend information indicating a blend of said nutritional supplement corresponding to said person to be examined by using said response to said medical inquiry;

and a nutritional supplement blending unit for blending nutrients to prepare said nutritional supplement based on said blend information.

52. A blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement as claimed in claim 51, further comprising a customer authentication inputting unit for acquiring customer identification information to identify said person to be examined from an outer part,

wherein said response to said medical inquiry, which corresponds to said person to be examined, is renewed by using said customer identification information and said response to said medical inquiry.

53. A blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement as claimed in claim 51, further comprising a preparation request receiving unit for receiving a preparation request of said nutritional supplement based on said blend information from said person to be examined,

wherein said preparation request receiving unit allows said nutritional supplement blending unit to blend nutrients to prepare said nutritional supplement, in case said person to be examined receives said preparation request.

54. A blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement as claimed in claim 51, wherein said nutritional supplement blend acquiring unit acquires information about a taste designated by said person to be examined from an outer part, and

said nutritional supplement blending unit adds an ingredient, which adjusts a taste of said nutritional supplement based on said information about said taste designated by said person to be examined, to said nutritional supplement.

55. A blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement as claimed in claim 51, wherein said nutritional supplement blend acquiring unit acquires information about a color designated by said person to be examined from an outer part, and

said nutritional supplement blending unit adds an ingredient, which adjusts a color of said nutritional supplement based on said information about said color designated by said person to be examined, to said nutritional supplement.

56. A blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement as claimed in claim 51, wherein said nutritional supplement blend acquiring unit acquires information about a smell designated by said person to be examined from an outer part, and

said nutritional supplement blending unit adds an ingredient, which adjusts a smell of said nutritional supplement based on said information about said smell designated by said person to be examined, to said nutritional supplement.

57. A blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement as claimed in claim 51, wherein said nutritional supplement blend acquiring unit acquires information about a shape designated by said person to be examined from an outer part, and

said nutritional supplement blending unit selects a shape of said nutritional supplement based on said information about said shape designated by said person to be examined.

58-61. -61. (canceled)