Control system for apparatus repair information

• US 6,430,451 B1
• Filed: 02/26/1999
• Issued: 08/06/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Kazuo, Fukumoto, Tetsuo, Tachibana, Masatoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bahta, Kidest
• Application Number:
  US09/259,651
• Publication Number:
  US 20020026265A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 700/110, 700/180, 700/181, 700/182, 700/2, 700/17, 700/9, 700/159, 700/169, 700/174, 700/275, 700/3, 700/105, 700/108, 707/202, 707/207, 706/52, 706/45
• US Class Current: 700/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/00 Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data , e.g. computer output printersprinting or plotting combined with another operation, e.g. with conveying, G06K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2215/0085 Error recovery

Abstract

A machine repair information administering apparatus for administering information concerning repair for plural kinds of machines, is provided with a receiving device for receiving the information concerning repair for a machine, a memory for classifying and memorizing the information concerning repair for the machine for each kind of the machine; and a transmitting device for transmitting the information concerning repair for the machine which is memorized by the memory.

Claims

1. A medical machine repair information administrating system for administrating trouble information involved in an operation of medical machines, comprising:

an administrating center comprising;

a central communicating device to receive trouble information and to transmit counter measure information; and

a memory to store the counter measure information which includes possible causes of troubles of medical machines and counter measures correlated with the possible causes; and

a first local apparatus installed in a first hospital remote from the administrating center and comprising;

a first medical machine to conduct a medical operation; and

a first local communicating device to transmit trouble information regarding the first medical machine to the administering center and to receive the counter measure information from the administrating center; and

a second local apparatus installed in a second hospital remote from the administrating center and comprising;

a second medical machine being the same type of the first medicl machine and to conduc the same medical operation as the first medical machine;

a second local communicating device to transmit trouble information regarding the second medical machine to the administrating center and to receive the counter measure information from the adminstrating center;

wherein when the first local communicating device transmits trouble information reporting a trouble involved in an operation of the first medical machine, a cause of the trouble an an actual counter measure having taken to repair the trouble to the administrating center, the adminstrating center renews the counter measure informatioin stored in the memory so as to include the cause of the trouble and the actual counter measure taken in the first medical machine;

wherein the second local communicating device transmits trouble information reporting a trouble involved in an operation of the second medical machine to the administrating center, the second local communicating device receives the renewed counter measure information from the adminstrating center, and

wherein the renewed counter measure information includes the counter measure taken for the first medical machine.

2. The medical machine report information administrating system of claim 1, wherein the first and second medical machines comprise plural parts and the memory stores possible causes of possible troubles for each of the plural parts.

3. The medical machine repair information adminstrating system of claim 1, wherein the adminstrating center administrates plural different types of medical machines and wherein the memory stores possible causes of possible troubles and counter measures correlated with the possible causes for each type of medical machines.

4. The medical machine repair information adminstrating system of claim 1, wherein the memory comprises a repairing program for the first and second medical machines and the central communicating device transmits the repairing program to the first and second local apparatus.

6. The medical machine repair information system of claim 1, wherein the first and second medical machines are at least one of a laser imager for medical use, an automatic developing apparatus for medical use, a CT scan apparatus, an MRI apparatus, and a digital radiography apparatus.

5. The medical machine repair information administrating system for administering trouble information involved in an operating of medical machines, comprising:

an adminstrating center comprising;

a central communicating device to receive trouble information and to transmit counter measure information; and

a memory to store counter measure information which includes possible causes of troubles of medical machines and counter measures correlated with said possible causes; and

a first local apparatus installed in a first hospital remote from the administrating center and having a first medical machine to conduct a medical operation;

a second local apparatus installed in a second hospital remote from the adminstrating center and having a second medical machine which is the same type of the first medical machine and conducts a medical operation;

a portable communicating device conveyable to the first local apparatus or the second local apparatus and the portable communicating device to transmit trouble information to the adminstrating center and to receive the counter measure information from the adminstrating center;

wherein when the portable communicating device transmits trouble information reporting a trouble involved in an operation of the first medical machine, a cause of the trouble and an actual counter measure having taken to repair the trouble to the administrating center, the administrating center renews the counter measure information stored in the memory so as to include the cause of the trouble and the actual counter measure taken in the first medical machine;

wherein when the portable communicating device transmits trouble information reporting a trouble involved in an operation of the second medical machine to the adminstrating center, the portable communicating device receives the renewed counter measure information from the adminstrating center; and

wherein the renewed counter measure information includes the counter measure taken for the first medical machine.