Biological information processing and automatically displaying apparatus

• US 5,265,616 A
• Filed: 02/25/1992
• Issued: 11/30/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Hoshino, Nobuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Cohen, Lee S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jastrzab, Jeffrey R.
• Application Number:
  US07/841,595
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 128/696, 128/709, 128/710, 128/712, 128/672, 128/688, 128/670, 128/671, 128/736, 128/630, 128/632, 128/639, 128/905
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/905 Feedback to patient of biological signal other than brain electric signal

Abstract

It is an object to project an alarm display device from a retracted position in the body of a biological information processing apparatus when it is determined that such a display is necessary according the results of date processed. The alarm display unit is set on the upper part of the apparatus. It is engaged to an enclosure so that there are two states; retracted/stored and projected. This alarm display unit comprises four alarm display devices, set in a line on the tip of the projected alarm display unit, which perform the displays indicating emergency in the case where it is projected. The alarm display unit is automatically projected when emergency has occurred on the subject and the condition is displayed by the alarm display device.

Claims

1. A biological information processing apparatus, comprising:

information collecting means for collecting biological information from a subject;

analysis processing means for processing an analysis of the collected biological information by said information collecting means;

determination means for determining whether or not a result of the analysis by said analysis processing means is within a predetermined range;

alarm display means for displaying an alarm of the analysis; and

means for attaching the alarm display means to an outer surface, except a bottom surface, of the apparatus, the alarm display means being retracted into the apparatus through the outer surface when no alarm of analysis is displayed, and being capable of automatically projecting from the apparatus through the outer surface when the alarm display means displays the alarm of the analysis, and said alarm display means including at least one display means capable of indicating a status of the result of the analysis.

2. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said alarm display means is mounted on a top portion of the apparatus.

3. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said alarm display means is prohibited to display indicating the result when the display means is stored in the apparatus and said alarm display means indicates that measured information by said determination means is out of the predetermined range when it is projected.

4. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

display device control means for controlling the alarm display means to be projected from the apparatus when said determination means determines that measured information is out of the predetermined range.

5. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a first control mode in which said display device control means controls the alarm display means to be projected from the apparatus when said determination means determines that the measured information is out of the predetermined range; and

a second control mode in which the display device control means controls said alarm display means not to display when said alarm display means is stored in the apparatus and controls to indicate that the measured information is out of the predetermined range when the alarm display means is being projected.

6. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 5, comprising:

assignment means capable of inputting an instruction to assign a control mode selecting from the first control mode and the second control mode so that the apparatus is operated in said control mode.

7. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said alarm display means is capable of displaying in a plurality of colors and, when said determination means determines that a measured information is out of the predetermined range, a display color of a measured object of the subject is changed.

8. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said alarm display means is capable of changing a timing of flash and when said determination means determines that measured information is out of the predetermined range, a flashing frequency on the alarm display means is changed according to a measured object of the subject.

9. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said alarm display means is capable of flashing synchronous with a QRS detection of an electrocardiogram signal.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information collecting means collects information at least on electrocardiogram, temperature, number of respirations per minute, and blood pressure.

11. The biological information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said determination means is capable of performing analysis using different predetermined range values according to an information object to be collected.

12. A biological information processing apparatus, comprising:

information collecting means for collecting biological information from a subject;

analysis processing means for processing an analysis of the collected biological information by said information collecting means;

determination means for determining whether or not a result of the analysis by said analysis processing means is within a predetermined range;

alarm display means for displaying an alarm of the analysis;

means for attaching the alarm display means to an outer surface, except a bottom surface, of the apparatus, the alarm display means being retracted into the apparatus, the alarm display means being retracted into the apparatus through the outer surface and being capable of being projected from the apparatus through the outer surface, and said alarm display means including at least one display means capable of indicating a status of the result of the analysis; and

display control means for operating in a first control mode which controls the alarm display means from a retracted position to a projected position when said determination means determines that measured information is out of a predetermined range, and a second control mode which controls said alarm display means not to display when said alarm display means is in the retracted position and controls said alarm display means to display when said measured information is out of a predetermined range and when the alarm display means is in the projected position.