EQUIPMENT MOUNTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING EQUIPMENT MOUNTING APPARATUS

• US 20150190567A1
• Filed: 03/19/2015
• Published: 07/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha (Terumo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha (Terumo Corporation)
• Inventors: ASAMA, Koichiro, KATOU, Shinji, TOUNOOKA, Yuuya
• Granted Patent: US 9,987,415 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/60 with identification means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6018 providing set-up signals for the apparatus configuration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6054 Magnetic identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1415 Stands, brackets or the like for supporting infusion accessories
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1417 Holders or handles for hanging up infusion containers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1418 Clips, separators or the like for supporting tubes or leads
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/00 Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means medals or badges A44C3/00; making labels B31D1/02; sheets temporarily attached together B42F; labelling B65C; labels on record carriers G11B23/38, G11B23/40; Seals; Postage or like stamps
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage

Abstract

An equipment mounting apparatus on which a plurality of equipment devices are mountable, each equipment device having, in a memory thereof, drug dosage information associated with drug usage location information, includes a main body having a plurality of installation portions, each installation portion being configured to receive one of the equipment devices. Each of the equipment devices is configured such that, when the drug usage location information is specified, the equipment device displays the related drug dosage information based on the drug usage location information that is specified. The equipment mounting apparatus is configured to set a standard specifying drug usage location information and to use the standard specifying drug usage location information to cause the drug usage location information of each of the plurality of equipment devices to coincide with the standard specifying drug usage location information.

Claims

1. An equipment mounting apparatus on which a plurality of equipment devices are mountable, each equipment device having, in a memory thereof, drug dosage information associated with drug usage location information, the apparatus comprising:

a main body having a plurality of installation portions, each installation portion being configured to receive one of the equipment devices,

wherein each of the equipment devices is configured such that, when the drug usage location information is specified, the equipment device displays the related drug dosage information based on the drug usage location information that is specified, and

wherein the equipment mounting apparatus is configured to set a standard specifying drug usage location information and to use the standard specifying drug usage location information to cause the drug usage location information of each of the plurality of equipment devices to coincide with the standard specifying drug usage location information.

2. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the equipment mounting apparatus is configured such that, after the standard specifying drug usage location information is used to cause the drug usage location information of each set of the equipment devices to coincide with the standard specifying drug usage location information, when there is a change in the drug usage location information of one of the plurality of the equipment devices to a post-change drug usage location information, the equipment mounting apparatus changes the drug usage location information of the other or others of the plurality of equipment devices is changed to coincide with the post-change drug usage location information.

3. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the equipment mounting apparatus is configured to set the standard specifying drug usage location information as the drug usage location information of a first mounted equipment device among the equipment devices.

4. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the equipment mounting apparatus is configured to set the standard specifying drug usage location information as a specified drug usage location information associated with the equipment mounting apparatus.

5. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the specified drug usage location information associated with the equipment mounting apparatus is preloaded in the equipment mounting apparatus.

6. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the standard specifying drug usage location information is the drug usage location information of an equipment device mounted in a predetermined one of the installation portions.

7. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the installation portions are mounted one above the other, and the predetermined one of the installation portions is a top one of the installation portions.

8. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the equipment mounting apparatus is configured to set the standard specifying drug usage location information as the drug usage location information of a first mounted equipment device among the equipment devices.

9. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the equipment mounting apparatus is configured to set the standard specifying drug usage location information as a predetermined drug usage location information associated with the equipment mounting apparatus.

10. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the specified drug usage location information associated with the equipment mounting apparatus is preloaded in the equipment mounting apparatus.

11. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the standard specifying drug usage location information is the drug usage location information of an equipment device mounted in a predetermined one of the installation portions.

12. The equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the installation portions are mounted one above the other, and the predetermined one of the installation portions is a top one of the installation portions.

13. A method of controlling an equipment mounting apparatus on which a plurality of equipment devices are mountable, each equipment device having, in a memory thereof, drug dosage information associated with drug usage location information, the method comprising:

determining whether a first equipment device is installed in the equipment mounting apparatus;

determining whether a second equipment device is installed in the equipment mounting apparatus;

comparing a standard specifying drug usage location information with a drug usage location information of the second equipment device; and

when the standard specifying drug usage location information and the drug usage location information of the second equipment device are not the same, changing the drug usage location information of the second equipment device to match the standard specifying drug usage location information.

14. The method of controlling an equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising:

acquiring a drug usage location information of the first equipment device; and

storing the drug usage location information of the first equipment device as the standard specifying drug usage location information.

15. The method of controlling an equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the first equipment device is an equipment device that is installed in the equipment mounting apparatus before the second equipment device is installed in the equipment mounting apparatus

16. The method of controlling an equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the first equipment device is an equipment device that is installed in a predetermined installation portion of the equipment mounting apparatus.

17. The method of controlling an equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the standard specifying drug usage location information is a predetermined drug usage location information associated with the equipment mounting apparatus.

18. The method of controlling an equipment mounting apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising, after a drug usage location information of each of the plurality of equipment devices is changed to match the standard specifying drug usage location information, when there is a change in the drug usage location information associated with one of the plurality of equipment devices to a post-change drug usage location information, changing the drug usage location information associated with each of the others of the plurality of equipment devices to match the post-change drug usage location information.