Fluid injection system

• US 9,101,714 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2013
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: 138 East LCD Advancements Limited (Vector Capital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Hajime, Hirabayashi, Atsuya, Hashimoto, Yasuharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Lucchesi, Nicholas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chander, Diva K
• Application Number:
  US13/939,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20130296775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 604/66
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/35 Communication
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3576 with non implanted data transmission devices, e.g. using external transmitter or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/63 Motion, e.g. physical activity
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/168 Means for controlling media flow to the body or for metering media to the body, e.g. drip meters, counters ; Monitoring media flow to the body flow control in general G05D7/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16804 Flow controllers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00

Abstract

A fluid injection system includes: a first apparatus which is attached to a human body and injects a fluid into the human body; and a second apparatus which is attached to a wrist of the human body and remotely controls the first apparatus, wherein the second apparatus includes an entry section accepting an entry of an operation command to the first apparatus and a first communicating section transmitting the operation command to the first apparatus, and the first apparatus includes a second communicating section receiving the operation command, a storing section storing the fluid, and a transporting section transporting the fluid from the storing section and injecting the fluid into the human body based on the operation command.

Claims

1. A fluid injection apparatus, comprising:

a fluid injection unit which is adapted to be attached to a human body and injects medical fluid into the human body in response to an operation command, wherein the fluid injection unit includes;

a first wireless communicating section configured to receive an operation command and transmit a transportation amount of the medical fluid injected by the fluid injection unit, and

a storing section co9nfigured to store the medical fluid, and

a control unit that remotely controls the fluid injection unit, wherein the control unit is adapted to be attached to the human body and wherein the control unit includes;

an entry accepting section configured to receive the operation command while the control unit is attached to the human body;

an abnormality determining section determining an abnormality with the fluid injection unit based upon whether there is a correspondence between the operation command and the transportation amount, and

a second wireless communicating section configured to transmit the operation command to the first wireless communicating section while the control unit is attached to the human body.

2. The fluid injection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation command includes a command to start the fluid injection and a command to stop the fluid injection.

3. The fluid injection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the medical fluid is an antidiabetic drug.

4. The fluid injection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises a first monitoring section.

5. The fluid injection apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the fluid injection unit comprises a controller and a second monitoring section.

6. The fluid injection apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the second monitoring section monitors the controller and wherein the first monitoring section monitors the controller.

7. The fluid injection apparatus according to claim 6, wherein an alert is issued when the first monitoring section or the second monitoring section detects an abnormality in the controller.

8. The fluid injection apparatus of according to claim 5, wherein the control unit includes an alert issuing section.

9. The fluid injection apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the alert issuing section issues an alert based upon the abnormality determining section determining the abnormality with the fluid injection unit.

10. The fluid injection apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the alert issuing section issues an alert based upon an abnormality detected by the second monitoring section.