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 20100287005A1
• Filed: 07/22/2010
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nutrition Act Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nutrition Act Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Sano, Kayo, Ishikawa, Masahito
• Granted Patent: US 8,666,767 B2
• 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

1-58. -58. (canceled)

59. 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 nutrient requirement amount calculating unit for calculating nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined from said response to said medical inquiry;

a nutritional supplement suggesting unit for suggesting a blend of said nutritional supplement based on said nutrient requirement amount of said person to be examined; and

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

60. A blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement as claimed claim 59, further comprising a preparation request receiving unit for receiving a preparation request of said nutritional supplement based on 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.

61. (canceled)