Support system using data carrier system

• US 6,960,986 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2001
• Issued: 11/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Riken
• Original Assignee: Riken
• Inventors: Kurabayashi, Daisuke, Asama, Hajime
• Primary Examiner(s): Holloway, III, Edwin C.
• Application Number:
  US09/851,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20010052842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,636 Days
• Field of Search: 340/10.41, 340/539.1, 340/573.1, 340/521, 340/7.5, 340/539.14, 340/325.49, 340/10.34, 340/10.5, 340/10.1, 340/539.13, 340/690, 340/573.4, 340/825.36, 340/286.06, 379/37, 455/404.1, 455/404.2, 541/4, 235/375, 187/390, 187/391
• US Class Current: 340/10.41
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/369 Electroencephalography [EEG] devices for psychotechnics A61B5/16
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 33/00 Devices for allowing seemingly-dead persons to escape or draw attention; Breathing apparatus for accidentally buried persons
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/825 with exchange of information between interrogator and responder

Abstract

To provide a support system using a data carrier system by which an activity or a work operation by means of human beings and robots may be supported in a variety of environments. The support system comprises at least one tag being a data carrier that is disposed at a predetermined position; and at least one reader/writer that communicates with the tag; the tag being provided with an input/output means, a predetermined device being connected to the input/output means, and the predetermined device being operated by information output from the reader/writer.

Claims

1. A support system using a data carrier system for use in an emergency rescue comprising:

at least one tag provided in structures prior to an emergency situation and being inactive before an emergency, said at least one tag being a data carrier that is disposed at a fixed predetermined position; and

at least one mobile reader/writer that communicates with said tag in an emergency situation, wherein communication is made possible between trapped people and said reader/writer in an emergency by the presence of the tags in the structure;

said tag being provided with an input/output means, predetermined devices being connected to said input/output means, and said predetermined devices being operated by information output from said reader/writer;

wherein said predetermined devices are comprised of at least a microphone and a speaker.

2. A support system using a data carrier system as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said tag is started up in response to a supply of electromagnetic waves from an outside source.

3. A support system using a data carrier system as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

a plurality of said tags is disposed in a living environment of human being; and

said predetermined device is a device for detecting a presence of human beings.

4. A support system using a data carrier system as claimed in claim 2 wherein:

a plurality of said tags is disposed in a living environment of human being; and

said predetermined device is a device for detecting a presence of human beings.