DISPLAY FOR PUMP

• US 20120013625A1
• Filed: 09/23/2011
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tandem Diabetes Care Incorporated
• Inventors: Blomquist, Michael, Bresina, Timothy, Bynum, Gail, Welsch, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/242,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20120013625A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/520
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/08 Biomedical applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2003 Display of colours specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/344 based on particles moving in a fluid or in a gas, e.g. electrophoretic devices electrophoretic devices per se G02F1/167
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3466 based on interferometric effect
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use

Abstract

This document discusses, among other things, an apparatus comprising a pump configured to deliver insulin, a processor, and a user interface including a bistable display. A display element of the bistable display is placed in one of two stable orientations upon application of a biasing voltage and stays in the stable orientation when the biasing voltage is removed. The processor includes a display module configured to display a non-blank reversion display screen on the bistable display when no input is received at the user interface after a specified time duration, and to recurrently change the reversion display screen until input is received at the user interface.

Claims

1. A system comprising a pump device and a display device, wherein the pump device includes:

a pump;

a user interface;

a communication port; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the pump, the user interface, and the communication port, wherein the processor includes a display data module configured to;

communicate display information from the pump device to the display device via the communication port;

convert input received via the user interface into changes to a display; and

communicate updated display information according to the received input to the display device, and

wherein the display device includes;

a communication port;

a monitor; and

a second processor communicatively coupled to the communication port and the monitor, wherein the second processor is configured to receive display information via the communication port and to display a user menu for the pump device on the monitor.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitor is a video monitor, and wherein the display device includes a video adapter communicatively coupled to the second processor and the video monitor to convert the received display information to a video format for display on the video monitor.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the display data module is configured to communicate, for display on the display device, at least one of an indication of status of the pump device, a prompt to initiate a task by the insulin pump device, or an operation parameter of the insulin pump device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the display data module is configured to communicate, for display on the display device, instructions for using the pump device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor includes a report module configured to generate a device report, and wherein the display data module is configured to communicate the device report to the display device for display.

6. The system of claim 1, including a second user interface communicatively coupled to the second processor, wherein the second processor is configured to manipulate the user menu for the pump device on the monitor according to input received via the user interface.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the second processor is configured to change, according to input received via the second user interface, at least one of:

a contrast of the user menu for the pump device displayed on the monitor,

a size of the user menu for the pump device displayed on the monitor, or

a color used in the displaying the user menu for the pump device on the monitor.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the second processor is configured to display an enlarged version of the user menu for the pump device on the monitor.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the display information includes a report generated by the pump device, and wherein the second processor is configured to display the report on the monitor.