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Title:
LIQUID FLOW RATE DETECTION INFORMING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH04288166
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To reduce in-service of a nurse by informing of the completion of dosing a liquid medicine to a nurse station wireless when a dripping is performed to a patient.

CONSTITUTION: A medicine liquid is fed to a dripping needle 10 at the tip of a tube 9 therethrough from the bottom of a bottle 5 holding a medicine 4 for dripping. The bottle 5 is hung on a stand 11 through a weight detection sensor 7 to detect the presence of a medicine liquid by a change in the weight thereof and the results are sent by a wireless signal to a nurse station together with identification information. A detection sensor 7 is provided with a spring and a metal needle provided at the tip thereof and as the tip of the metal needle moves with a change in the weight of medicine liquid, when the tip of the metal needle reaches a specified position, it contacts a metal plate to run a current and a change in the weight of the medicine liquid is detected. Thus, burden of a nurse is reduced and the dripping needle 10 can be pulled off immediately after the completion of the dosing thereby enabling a reduction in pains of a patient.


Inventors:
ITO SADAO
Application Number:
JP7679991A
Publication Date:
October 13, 1992
Filing Date:
March 15, 1991
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
IWATSU ELECTRIC CO LTD
International Classes:
A61M5/00; (IPC1-7): A61M5/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kozo Uchida (1 person outside)