Patent
Automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system
| العنوان: | Automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system |
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| Patent Number: | 9,733,157 |
| تاريخ النشر: | August 15, 2017 |
| Appl. No: | 14/117653 |
| Application Filed: | May 18, 2011 |
| مستخلص: | The present invention provides an automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system which can reduce the reading mistake of the information of the RFID tags by selectively taking out a blood-sampling tube required to an examination of a patient according to a doctor's instruction information from the blood-sampling tube containing section, writing the patient examination information on a RFID tag of the taken out tube on the basis of the instruction information, reading simultaneously all patient examination information from all RFID tags contained in the prepared container for every patient, and comparing the information read from the RFID tags with the instruction information to ensure accuracy. |
| Inventors: | Matsumoto, Toshikazu (Yokohama, JP); Hirasawa, Yoshimi (Yokohama, JP); Nakano, Yasushi (Yokohama, JP); Wada, Yusuke (Kawasaki, JP); Nakamura, Ichiro (Kawasaki, JP) |
| Assignees: | TECHNO MEDICA CO., LTD. (Yokohama-shi, JP) |
| Claim: | 1. An automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system comprising: at least two blood-sampling tube containing sections, each section being intended to contain blood-sampling tubes of a same type, a tube transferring device positioned to selectively remove a blood-sampling tube required for use in the examination of a blood sample of a patient by a doctor from one of the blood-sampling tube containing sections and transfer the removed blood-sampling tube, a writing device positioned to receive blood-sampling tubes from the tube transferring device and write patient examination information onto an RFID tag disposed on the blood-sampling tubes, a discharge conveyor positioned to receive said blood-sampling tubes from the writing device and discharge said blood-sampling tubes to a container positioned on a blood-sampling tube recovery device, the blood-sampling tube recovery device including the container which is configured to receive the blood-sampling tubes per each patient and travel along a transferring path of the blood-sampling tube recovery device, a reading device which is arranged along the transferring path of the blood-sampling tube recovery device which is constituted to read simultaneously all patient examination information from all the RFID tags of the blood-sampling tubes contained in the container in which the blood-sampling tubes have been received per each patient while the container is transferred by the blood-sampling tube recovery device, a control device which is constituted to receive instruction information by a doctor in which the patient examination information for each patient is included, control the operation of the tube transferring device, the writing device, the blood-sampling tube recovery device and the reading device, and compare the patient examination information read from the RFID tags by the reading device with the instruction information to determine whether the patient examination information matches the instruction information, characterized in that the control device is programmed to control the operation of the blood-sampling tube recovery device to make the container move so as to change or alter the state/orientation of the tubes and therefor the RFID tags attached to those tubes contained in the container in response to the control device determining that the patient examination information read from the RFID tags does not match the instruction information, and then the control device controls the reading device to read the patient examination information from the RFID tags contained in the container again, and then the control device compares the patient examination information and the instruction information; and wherein said automatic blood sampling tube recovery device includes either a lifting device to lift said container and/or at least one conveyor for transferring said container; whereby the control device controls the lifting device such that only a part of the container is lifted by the lifting device so as to change or alter the state/orientation of the tubes and therefor the RFID tags attached to those tubes contained in the container; and/or whereby the control device controls the conveyor such that the conveyor rapidly starts to move in a first direction and then either moves in a second direction and/or rapidly stops so as to change or alter the state/orientation of the tubes and therefor the RFID tags attached to those tubes contained in the container. |
| Claim: | 2. The automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system according to claim 1 , wherein the automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system further comprises an instruction paper issuing device which is constituted to make a pasting label with a RFID tag onto which the patient examination information is written and then discharges the pasting label with the RFID tag to the container, said container contains the blood-sampling tubes with the RFID tag onto which the patient examination information has been written as well as the pasting label with the RFID tag to which the patient examination information has been written, said reading device reads simultaneously all patient examination information from the blood-sampling tube and the pasting label with the RFID tag, and said control device compares the patient examination information read from the blood-sampling tube and the pasting label with the RFID tag with the instruction information. |
| Claim: | 3. The automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system according to claim 1 , wherein the automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system further comprises a pasting roller which is constituted to automatically paste the RFID tag on the blood-sampling tube transferred by said tube transferring device and said writing device is constituted to write the patient examination information onto the RFID tag. |
| Claim: | 4. The automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system according to claim 3 , wherein the automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system further comprises a printer which is constituted to print the patient examination information on a surface of the RFID tag. |
| Claim: | 5. The automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system according to claim 1 , wherein the automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system further comprises an instruction paper issuing device which is constituted to make a pasting label with a RFID tag onto which the patient examination information is written and then discharges the pasting label with the RFID tag to the container. |
| Claim: | 6. The automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system according to claim 2 , wherein the automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system further comprises a pasting roller that is constituted to automatically paste the RFID tag on the blood-sampling tube transferred by said tube transferring device and said writing device is constituted to write the patient examination information onto the RFID tag. |
| Claim: | 7. The automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system according to claim 2 , wherein the automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system further comprises a printer that is constituted to print the patient examination information on a surface of the RFID tag. |
| Claim: | 8. The automatic blood-sampling tube preparation system according to claim 2 , wherein said instruction paper issuing device is constituted to write the patient examination information onto the pasting label with the RFID. |
| Patent References Cited: | 2003/0207456 November 2003 Ostgaard 2005/0159982 July 2005 Showalter 2007/0013541 January 2007 Harazin 2010/0018330 January 2010 Marty 2010/0159603 June 2010 Hamada 2834595 December 1998 2004-347376 December 2004 2004347376 December 2004 2005-121558 May 2005 2005121558 May 2005 2008-220995 September 2008 2009077795 April 2009 |
| Other References: | International Search Report (in Japanese with English translation) for PCT/JP2011/061379, mailed Aug. 30, 2011; ISA/JP. cited by applicant |
| Assistant Examiner: | Whatley, Benjamin |
| Primary Examiner: | Warden, Jill |
| Attorney, Agent or Firm: | Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edspgr.09733157 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | USPTO Patent Grants |
| الوصف غير متاح. |