Measuring apparatus

• US 9,451,907 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2012
• Issued: 09/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Original Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Bryan
• Application Number:
  US13/531,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20120330617A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• Field of Search: 702/187
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157 disposable multilayered or laminated electrodes G01N27/307; details of handling chemical test elements G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48792 Data management, e.g. communication with processing unit for in vivo diagnostics A61B5/0002; transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

In a measurement situation information storage unit, a plurality of sets of measurement situation information for identifying a measurement situation in which predetermined measurement is performed on a measurement target are stored in association with time periods. A measurement processing unit executes measurement on the measurement target. A display unit selects, from among the plurality of sets of measurement situation information, a set of measurement situation information corresponding to the measurement operation timing based on the time of the measurement operation timing or based on processing results obtained as a result of execution of measurement by the measurement processing unit, and causes a display to show the selected set of measurement situation information in a manner distinguishable from other measurement situation information.

Claims

1. A measuring apparatus comprising:

a measurement situation information storage unit in which a plurality of sets of measurement situation information for identifying a measurement situation in which a predetermined measurement is performed on a measurement target are stored in association with time periods;

a measurement processing unit that executes measurement on the measurement target;

a display unit that, at a measurement operation timing at which an operation for performing measurement on the measurement target is executed, selects a set of measurement situation information corresponding to the measurement operation timing from among the plurality of sets of measurement situation information stored in the measurement situation information storage unit based on the time of the measurement operation timing or based on processing results obtained as a result of execution of measurement by the measurement processing unit, and causes a display to display the selected measurement situation information in a manner distinguishable from other measurement situation information;

an operation unit;

a deciding unit that decides measurement situation information that is displayed on the display as the measurement situation information finally corresponding to the measurement operation timing, based on an input by an operation of the operation unit;

a storage unit that stores therein the measurement situation information finally corresponding to the measurement operation timing, which is decided by the deciding unit;

a measurement information storage unit that stores therein information regarding the time of the measurement operation timing and the measurement situation information decided by the deciding unit each time measurement is executed on the measurement target; and

a frequency determining unit that determines frequencies of time periods to which the times of the measurement operation timing belong for each type of measurement situation information based on the information stored in the measurement information storage unit,

wherein the display unit is capable of changing a selection of measurement situation information based on, in addition to the time of the measurement operation timing, the resulting frequencies determined by the frequency determining unit.

2. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein information for identifying a before-meal measurement situation and information for identifying an after-meal measurement situation are stored in the measurement situation information storage unit as the measurement situation information.

3. The measuring apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein, when the before-meal measurement situation information was decided by the deciding unit as the measurement situation information corresponding to a previous measurement operation timing and a current measurement operation timing falls in a time period corresponding to the before-meal measurement situation information that had already been decided on the same day as the day of the current measurement operation timing, the display unit causes the display to display the after-meal measurement situation information as the measurement situation information.

4. The measuring apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein at least information for identifying a before-breakfast measurement situation, information for identifying an after-breakfast measurement situation, information for identifying a before-lunch measurement situation, information for identifying an after-lunch measurement situation, information for identifying a before-evening meal measurement situation, and information for identifying an after-evening meal measurement situation are stored in the measurement situation information storage unit as the measurement situation information.

5. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a sensor connection portion to which a sensor is connected,

wherein the display unit determines a timing at which the sensor containing a sample as the measurement target was connected to the sensor connection portion as the measurement operation timing.

6. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the measurement target is blood, and the measurement processing unit performs processing of measuring the blood and calculating a blood sugar level.

7. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a processing result storage unit that stores therein the measurement situation information decided by the deciding unit and a processing result obtained as a result of execution of measurement by the measurement processing unit; and

a graph display unit that causes the display to display a time series transitive graph showing the processing results for each type of measurement situation information in a distinguishable manner based on the content stored in the processing result storage unit.

8. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a mode determination processing unit that determines whether a measurement mode which has been set based on an external operation is a normal measurement mode or the measurement mode is a special measurement mode, and executes processing based on the determined measurement mode,

wherein measurement is performed one time in the normal measurement mode, measurement is performed a plurality of times in the special measurement mode.

9. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, after the display of the selected measurement situation information in the manner distinguishable from other measurement situation information, the operation unit is configured to receive a user input and transmit a signal corresponding to the user input that results in changing the display on the display unit from the display of the selected measurement situation information to a display of a user-determined measurement situation information based on the input by the operation of the operation unit.