Drug interaction system

• US 3,979,839 A
• Filed: 12/18/1974
• Issued: 09/14/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Paul Marie Michel Jean Blanie
• Original Assignee: Paul Marie Michel Jean Blanie
• Inventors: Blanie, Paul Marie Michel Jean
• Primary Examiner(s): Skogquist, Harland S.
• Application Number:
  US05/533,819
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 35/17, 235/61.12 R, 235/61.12 N, 235/61.12 C, 235/61.12 M
• US Class Current: 434/262
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06 characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2019/06225 using wavelength selection, e.g. colour code
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2019/06271 Relief-type marking
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 21/04 in which coincidence of markings is sensed optically, e.g. peek-a-boo system

Abstract

A device for determining the nature of relationships between on the one hand data peculiar to one unit or a group of separate units, and on the other hand data of another unit or another group of separate units pertaining to the same assembly, includes a transparent support corresponding to each unit or group of units, each support being arranged by means of a matrix of addresses, wherein on the support corresponding to each unit or groups of separate units are inscribed, at any address, corresponding to the data peculiar to the other units or group of separate units, one or more symbols distinctive of each nature of relationship between the data peculiar to the unit or groups of separate units corresponding to each support and the data peculiar to the other units or groups of units of the assembly. This permits the symbols to be simultaneously read when superimposing the cards corresponding to the relationship to be studied.

Claims

1. Device for determining the nature of relationships between on the one hand data peculiar to one unit or a group of separate units, and on the other hand data of another unit or another group of separate units pertaining to the same assembly, comprising a transparent support corresponding to each unit or group of units, each support being arranged by means of a matrix of addresses, wherein on the support corresponding to each unit or groups of separate units are inscribed, at any address, corresponding to the data peculiar to the other units or group of separate units, one or more symbols distinctive of each nature of relationship between the data peculiar to the unit or groups of separate units corresponding to each support and the data peculiar to the other units or groups of units of the assembly, so that the symbols may be simultaneously read when superimposing the cards corresponding to the relationship to be studied.

2. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein at the addresses corresponding to the data peculiar to the unit or group of units corresponding to said support, circular signs centered on the point of intersection of the matrix corresponding to the address are carried distinctive of these peculiar data.

3. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein all the distinctive signs correspond to altitudes which are a function of the nature of the relationships.

4. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the address is two-dimensional and the address/altitudes assembly is at least three-dimensional.

5. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the distinctive signs consist of symbols divided into several zones each corresponding to a one dimensional series of altitudes.

6. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the symbols are materialized by colored signs corresponding to a predetermined code.

7. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the supports corresponding to the data or groups of data the characteristics of which are to be compared may be superimposed so that the homologeous addresses of each card coincide and comparison may simultaneously be made address by address and altitude by altitude of the symbols liable to coincide.

8. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data pertains to medical prescriptions.

9. Device as claimed in claim 1, applied to the determination of interactions between active components of specialties comprising one card peculiar to each speciality or to each active consituent, each card being arranged by means of a system of addresses common to the assembly of cards, wherein on each card is reproduced a common matrix on which one address is assigned to each active substance to be considered, a first symbolic sign indicating for each constituent corresponding to the card the corresponding address, a series of symbolic coded signs representing, at all or part of the other addresses of the common matrix, any interactions between the components corresponding to the card and those corresponding to said other addresses.

10. Device as claimed in claim 9 wherein the cards are rectangular.

11. Device as claimed in claim 9 wherein the addresses of the active constituents are grouped by zones corresponding to the families of active constituents.

12. Device as claimed in claim 11, wherein each matrix line corresponding to a given ordinate is attributed to one family of active substances.

13. Device as claimed in claim 10, wherein when one card corresponds to a speciality comprising several active substances, and the symbolic signs corresponding to each of the constituents and to its interactions are of a color peculiar to said constituent.

14. Device as claimed in claim 13, wherein colors are issued to the components carried on any one card in accordance with a code corresponding to the order of listing of the components carried on said card.

15. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the diameter of said circular sign is at most equal to the distance between two consecutive points of intersection of the common matrix.

16. Device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the other symbolic signs corresponding to interactions are right segments centered on said points of intersection, the length of which corresponds substantially to the diameter of said circular signs and the position of which corresponds to a predetermined code.

17. Device as claimed in claim 9, wherein at least one zone of the addresses of the matrix is reserved for secondary effects.

18. Device as claimed in claim 17, wherein some addresses of said zones are reserved for indicating if the constituents can belong to other families in addition to their own address.

19. Device as claimed in claim 17, wherein said reserved zones are situated in the immediate vicinity of the zones corresponding to the addresses of the active constituents of said family.

20. Device as claimed in claim 17, wherein each component in said reserved zones is represented by a symbol of the color chosen for the composition considered.

21. Device as claimed in claim 12, wherein other addresses are reserved for environmental conditions of the subjects to be treated and for corresponding interactions and secondary effects.

22. Device as claimed in claim 21, wherein certain addresses are reserved for products of the beverage, food and tobacco type, or to their constituents, and to the corresponding interactions and secondary effects.

23. Device as claimed in claim 21, wherein certain addresses are reserved for modifications induced in biological analyses and paraclinical tests.

24. Device as claimed in claim 21, wherein other addresses are reserved for characteristics peculiar to subjects.

25. Device as claimed in claim 21, wherein other addresses are reserved for side effects.

26. Device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the symbolic signs of the secondary effects of the constituents corresponding to the considered card are carried at the addresses of said reserved zones.

27. Device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the symbolic signs consist of patterns of a type comprising ideograms and letters of the alphabet.

28. Device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the symbolic signs are coded according to the characteristics of the speciality considered.

29. Device as claimed in claim 28, wherein the code for the symbolic signs is a function of the pharmaceutical form of the speciality considered.

30. Device as claimed in claim 29, wherein the code for the symbolic signs is a function of the particular dosage of the active constituents of the speciality considered.

31. Device as claimed in claim 28, wherein the code for the symbolic signs is a function of the way of dispensing of the speciality considered.

32. Device as claimed in claim 28, wherein the code for the symbolic signs is a function of the posology of the speciality considered.

33. Device as claimed in claim 32, wherein the posology comprises an indication as to whether the dosage of the specialty considered are simultaneous or otherwise with those of other specialities.

34. Device as claimed in claim 29, in which the coded symbolic signs are the first symbolic sign corresponding to the address of each active constituent of the speciality, the first symbolic being a circular sign centered on the point of intersection of the matrix corresponding to said constituent wherein one portion of this circular sign is of a color different from the color peculiar to said constituent, this portion of the circular sign being defined in accordance with the characteristics of the speciality considered.

35. Device as claimed in claim 28, in which the symbolic signs are the first symbolic sign corresponding to the address of each active constituent of the speciality, this first symbolic sign comprising a circle centered on the point of intersection of the matrix corresponding to said address, this first circle having a color peculiar to said constituent, wherein a second circle centered as the first circle but of a diameter at the most equal to the diameter of this first circle comprises at least one portion of a color different from the color peculiar to said constituent, said portion of the circle being defined in accordance with the characteristics of the speciality considered.

36. Device as claimed in claim 28, in which the coded symbolic signs are those corresponding to interactions, these symbolic signs being right segments centered on said points of intersection, the length of which corresponds substantially to the diameter of said circles and the position of which corresponds to a predetermined code, wherein one portion of this segment is of a color different from the color peculiar to said constituent, this portion of the segment being defined in accordance with the characteristics of the speciality considered.

37. Device as claimed in claim 28, in which the coded symbolic signs are those corresponding to interactions, these symbolic signs being the first right segments, of color peculiar to said constituent, centered on said points of intersection, the length of which corresponds substantially to the diameter of the circles and the position of which corresponds to a predetermined code, wherein second segments parallel to the first right segments and of like length comprise at least one portion of a color different from the color peculiar to said constituent, this portion of segment being defined in accordance with the characteristics of the speciality considered.

38. Device as claimed in claim 28, in which the addresses of the active constituents are grouped by zones, corresponding to families of active constituents, wherein the matrix common to the assembly of cards comprises several regions which group together a collection of zones corresponding to families of active constituents.

39. Device as claimed in claim 26, wherein addresses of said zone reserved for secondary effects indicate that the components may belong to other families in addition to their own address.

40. Device as claimed in claim 38, wherein signs symbolic of secondary effects of the constituents corresponding to the considered card are carried at the addresses of said reserved zones.

41. Device as claimed in claim 26, wherein at least part of the cards is such that each card of this part is relative to one class of specialties or active constituents.

42. Device as claimed in claim 26, wherein at least part of the cards is such that each card of this part is relative to a determined type of subject.