JPH0746184A - Dental treatment system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To read required treatment data in the neighborhood of a dental treatment instrument at need by using a cart unit without using a cable to connect every kind of computer installed in a dental medical office. CONSTITUTION:This system is comprised of a movable cart unit 6 on which the computer 16 equipped with a display device and an input device 19 to manage dental treatment data are loaded, the dental treatment instrument 2 equipped with a chair 1 for dental treatment, and a host computer 5 equipped with a large capacity storage 3, and data can be transmitted in infrared rays 46 between data transmission equipment 12a and 12b provided at the host computer 5 and the cart unit 6 as the ones.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present application relates to a dental treatment system for exchanging data between computers for dental treatment provided in various places of a dental clinic.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a dental clinic, dental treatment in a dental treatment chair and processing of treatment data such as an X-ray photograph in an X-ray room are performed at different places. Doctors and assistants have to move to various places in the clinic each time to obtain various data necessary for
It was inefficient.

By the way, in recent years, information processing by a computer has been advanced, and a computer terminal or a desktop computer is placed in a dental treatment apparatus or its vicinity, and medical treatment data or medical office data is used as an input device on the spot between treatments. By inputting data, it has been desired to enable information transmission of various data online with a host computer in the clinic.

As a system replacing the X-ray film, a computer which digitizes an X-ray image and displays it on a display device has been developed in recent years. However, since this system is filmless, it is installed in an X-ray photographing room. Filing the X-ray image obtained from the installed X-ray device to the host computer, or displaying the X-ray image by placing the display near the dental treatment device for treating the patient. There is a growing demand for means for transmitting image data information to achieve this.

Further, today, in dental treatment, a CCD camera for capturing the inside of the oral cavity to observe the inside of the oral cavity,
A monitor display such as a CRT for displaying the image and a cart incorporating a device for operating, editing, and storing the image are also used, but these image data are stored in an auxiliary storage device such as a floppy disk or VT.
Since it is only stored in the R or the like, it is also desired to transmit the data as an image data that can be processed by a computer together with medical data and an external device.

Furthermore, in recent years, in the examination of the distribution state of the occlusal force, sufficient data cannot be obtained by the conventional measurement with carbon or wax. Therefore, the measurement pressure obtained from the pressure measurement film or the like is read by a scanner, A device that inputs information to a computer and outputs a three-dimensional waveform of occlusal force on a display has also been developed, and it is desirable to manage the obtained image data as a patient management file together with other data. Is starting to appear.

[0007]

However, a computer provided near the host computer and the dental treatment device, a computer for capturing an X-ray image, and the like for various data necessary for dental treatment are connected online by a cable for data transmission. In order to connect with each other, it is necessary to lay a cable under the floor of the clinic in advance, or to lay the cable on the floor surface. In the former case, not only the laying work is troublesome, but also It is inconvenient when rearranging dental treatment equipment, etc., and in the latter case it not only interferes with treatment by tripping, but also interferes with the movement of chairs and carts, and also on the cable. Dust collects and stains easily, which is unsanitary. Furthermore, incorporating a display and an input device for displaying the above-mentioned various data into the dental treatment device not only makes the medical treatment space narrower when they are not needed, but also increases the size of the device. There is an inconvenience such as high cost of the treatment device.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned inconveniences of the conventional ones, the present invention proposes a movable cart unit equipped with a computer equipped with a display device and an input device for managing dental treatment data. The present invention provides a dental treatment system characterized in that the computer enables data transmission with other computers in a medical examination room by optical communication means or wireless communication means. As another computer in the above, a computer provided in a dental treatment apparatus and capable of transmitting various data such as dental treatment data and / or data for setting conditions necessary for treatment work such as a treatment posture of a dental treatment chair, Host computer equipped with a large storage device for storing various dental care data, X There is an X-ray image processing computer for processing an image. In addition, the cart unit is equipped with a rechargeable drive power supply unit, and various dental data include image data of the oral cavity taken, and the cart unit is equipped with a camera for capturing images of the oral cavity. Further, a voice recognition device and an inspection device for diagnosing an occlusal contact state are incorporated in the computer of the cart unit.

[0009]

When treating a patient, the doctor pulls the cart unit near the dental treatment chair and operates the input device to communicate with other computers in the clinic by optical communication means or wireless communication means. Various kinds of data are transmitted between the two, and the dental treatment is performed on the spot while displaying those data on the display device.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a dental care system according to the present invention, which comprises a dental treatment apparatus 2 having a chair 1 for dental treatment, and a large-capacity recording apparatus 3.
The desk computer 4 includes a host computer 5 for storing various data and a cart unit 6 for dental treatment which is movable in the examination room.

The dental treatment apparatus 2 includes a dental treatment chair 1 whose treatment position is adjustable, a bracket provided with various dental instruments such as a dental handpiece, a scaler and a syringe supported by an arm 7 and a cup water supply device. Table 8
And a dental lighting device 10 supported by the columns 9.

The host computer 5 stores in the large-capacity storage device 3 data relating to dental treatment such as treatment data for each patient, image data, insurance data, the treatment posture of the dental treatment chair 1, the rotation speed of the dental handpiece, and the like. Water injection amount, illumination degree, scaler output setting, syringe spray condition,
It is possible to store a large amount of data for setting various conditions necessary for medical treatment work such as a cup water supply condition and illuminance setting of a lighting device, and a cable such as infrared light is provided above the display 11 mounted on the main body. There is provided a data transmission device 12a capable of communicating dental data with another computer's data transmission device via the communication means.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the cart unit 6 for dental treatment as a whole. The cart unit 6 for dental treatment is shown in FIG.
Is a stand 14 having casters 13 arranged on the lower surface thereof, and a vertically movable columnar body 15 is erected on the base 14, and a small computer 16 and a peripheral circuit section 17, a display 18 including a CRT, a liquid crystal, etc. A base portion 20 provided with an input device 19 with a display for performing an operation is provided, and a handle is provided on the back of the base portion 20, and the cart unit 6 can be freely moved by using the handle. Can be moved to.

Further, in the cart unit 6, an intraoral observation CCD camera 21 is held by a tiltable hanger 21a so as to be pulled out, and an image of the oral cavity is taken by the intraoral observation CCD camera 21. The obtained image data is displayed on the display 18 and transmitted to the data transmission device 12a of the host computer 5 via the data transmission device 12b. Also,
By operating the input device 19 with a display in the cart unit 6, various types of dental medical treatment such as past intraoral observation images stored in the host computer 5, treatment data, and data for setting various conditions necessary for treatment work. It is also possible to read data from the host computer 5 into the small computer 16 via the data transmission devices 12a and 12b and display it on the display 18.

Furthermore, the cart unit 6 is provided with a microphone 22 for enabling the creation of a medical chart or the like by voice input by a doctor and the data required for treatment being called by voice. The cart unit 6 configured as described above includes a driving power supply unit 23 that is charged by, for example, a charging device.

As shown in FIG. 3, the circuit configuration of the system of the present application is such that the computer control unit 2 in the peripheral circuit unit 17 is
A superimpose image control circuit 26 and an audio input / output circuit 27 are connected to the bus line 25 of No. 4, and an expansion connector 27 for expanding the system is also provided. The superimpose image control circuit 26 outputs the VGA output from the VGA control circuit in the computer control section 24 and the N output from the CCD camera 21 for intraoral observation.
The TSC video signal is input, and the superimpose image control circuit 26 is configured to display both the graphic screen from the computer and the image from the camera on the display 18, and is connected to the audio input / output circuit 27. The sound from the doctor 22 is automatically recognized by the sound from the microphone 22 and the computer control unit 24
It is configured to be able to control.

Further, a scanner 28 is connected to the input / output port of the computer control unit 24, and an occlusal contact state is read by inputting an information source such as an occlusal diagnosis film to the scanner 28. Analyze and display 3D waveform of occlusal force 1
8 can be displayed, and these data are sent to the data transmission device 12b by the serial input / output signal 30 from the computer control unit 24 by the input of the input circuit unit 29 and the microphone 22, and are then connected to the host computer 5. Data is spatially transmitted to the transmission device 12a.

The electric power for driving the equipment mounted on the cart unit 6 has a power source section 31 equipped with a power storage section mounted on the cart unit 6 and a charging connection male section 32 at the tip.
Charging station 3 via C / DC converter 33
Supplied from No. 4. Charging station 34 is code 3
5, a charging power supply circuit 37 to which a power plug 36a is connected, and a convex portion 38 provided on the charging connection male portion 32.
Is connected to the concave portion 40 of the charging connection female portion 39, whereby charging is achieved by a commercial power source.

In this example, the AC / DC converter 33 is used so that the power source section 31 can be directly charged by the commercial power source.
The case where the power plug 36b is connected to is shown.

As shown in FIG. 4, in the data transmission device 12, the serial input / output control circuit 42 outputs only the serial input / output signal 30 output from the computer control section 24 of the cart unit 6 by the encoder 43. The infrared light emitting diode 45 is driven through an amplifier 44 by being modulated and coded, and infrared light 46 is emitted.

The infrared light 46 emitted by the above is transmitted to the data transmission device 12 provided in the host computer 5.
The signal is received by the photodiode 47 of the data transmission device 12 having the same configuration as the above and is amplified by the amplifier 48. The amplified signal is demodulated by the decoder 49, the waveform is shaped and reproduced by the waveform shaping circuit 50, and input and stored by the host computer 5 as the serial data signal 30.

Image data such as an image of the oral cavity and a three-dimensional waveform image of occlusal force are also emitted as infrared data from the data transmission device 12a as serial data in the same manner as above. In the above, the infrared light emitted by the data transmission device 12a is diffusedly reflected to the ceiling W or the like so that it can be transmitted even if there is an obstacle between the data transmission devices 12, and the infrared light is transmitted to the data transmission device 12a. The transmission device 12 has a wide emission angle and reception angle of infrared light, and past intraoral observation images and medical chart data stored in the host computer 5 are input devices of the cart unit 6 for dental treatment. By operating 19 the cart unit 6 can be called and these data can be displayed on the display 18.

Therefore, the doctor sits on the chair 52 and pulls the cart unit 6 for dental treatment near the dental treatment apparatus 2 when treating the patient. In addition to setting the treatment position of the dental treatment chair 1, the number of rotations of the dental handpiece, the amount of water injection, the degree of illumination, the output of the scaler, the spray conditions of the dental syringe, the amount of water supplied to the cup, and the illuminance of the illumination device are used for treatment. Various conditions necessary for the work are set, and these data and the image data obtained by photographing the image of the oral cavity using the CCD camera 21 for observing the oral cavity are displayed on the display 18 of the cart unit 6 for medical treatment. The data transmission device 1 shown in FIG.
It is transmitted to the host computer 5 via infrared light between the two 2a and 12b and stored in the mass storage device 3. In addition, the scanner 28 is operated to read the occlusal diagnostic film and display it on the display 18 of the cart unit 6 for medical examination, and the required data is transmitted to the host computer 5 by infrared light as described above to store a large amount of data. Stored in device 3.

As described above, a large amount of various data for dental treatment stored in the mass storage device 3 of the host computer 5 is also retrieved from the host computer 5 by operating the input device 19 with a display in the cart unit 6. The extracted various data for dental treatment are displayed on the display 18 via infrared light, and various conditions necessary for treatment work are set. Therefore, in the dental treatment, the treatment posture of the treatment chair is automatically set, and the treatment can be performed while displaying the past treatment data of the patient on the display 18.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the case where infrared light is used as the cableless transmission means has been exemplified. However, instead of the above-mentioned data transmission by infrared light, data transmission is performed by radio communication means using radio waves. In this case, instead of the configuration of the data transmission device 12, a wireless data transmission circuit 51 is used as shown in FIG. That is, the serial input / output signal 30 output from the computer control unit 24 on the cart unit 6 side is encoded by the serial input / output control circuit 53 by the encoder 54 and then modulated by the modulation circuit 55 to perform code processing. It is a thing. The circuit 55 is provided with a changeover switch 56 for selecting a specific station among a plurality of receiving stations. By switching the changeover switch 56, a transmission frequency can be arbitrarily selected and a specific station can be designated. You can Therefore, by switching the changeover switch 56, the specific station is designated and the coded data is transmitted from the antenna 57a of the wireless device 57 to the specific station.

On the other hand, in the host computer 5, a specific station selects and an antenna 57 of the same wireless data transmission circuit 51 installed in the host computer 5 as described above.
The signal is received by the wireless device 57 via a, is demodulated by the demodulation circuit 58, is amplified by the amplifier 59, is waveform-shaped by the band pass filter 60 to restore the original signal, and is sent to the decoder 61. . The decoder 61 reproduces the transmission data that has been decoded in order to input it as serial data to the serial data input / output terminal of the host computer 5. In this way, the data is stored in the mass storage device 3 provided in the host computer 5.

FIG. 6 shows another embodiment in which a plurality of cart units 6 and 6 are used to transmit data between them and the host computer 5. In this embodiment, each cart unit 6 and 6 is used. 6 for host computer 5
Various data for dental treatment stored in the mass storage device 3 on the side can be freely extracted, or the data can be added and changed and stored again in the host computer 5. In the transmission method using infrared light, send the data specifying the first receiving station of data transmission, and if it judges that this data specifies its own station, it returns a response signal and starts communication. , The data that follows it can be received. In addition, it is possible to communicate by changing the transmission frequency in the transmission means using radio waves.

FIGS. 7 and 8 are configuration diagrams for explaining another embodiment, which is an example in which a wireless microphone 62 is used in place of the microphone 22 provided in the cart unit 6, and the wireless microphone 62 is It is attached to the collar of a doctor or an assistant, and the cart unit 6 is provided with a wireless reception antenna 63, and a microphone frequency 64 using a frequency different from the frequency used for data transmission is used.
Then, the voice that has entered the wireless microphone 62 is transmitted by the wireless transmission antenna 66.

A wireless transmission circuit 65 is attached to the wireless microphone 62, and signals are transmitted from the wireless transmission antenna 66 to the wireless reception antenna 63. The received audio signal is input to the audio input / output circuit 27 via the wireless reception circuit 67, and therefore the microphone can be used even in a place away from the cart unit 6, so that the doctor can sit on the dental treatment chair 1. A medical chart can be created by transmitting and talking to the patient while diagnosing the oral cavity of the patient.

FIG. 9 shows an X-ray image processing computer 69 of the dental X-ray device 68 and a small computer 16 mounted on the cart unit 6 in which the dental X-ray device 68 is further installed in the clinic in the above-mentioned embodiment. Another embodiment of the present application in the case of exchanging data between the host computer 5 and the host computer 5 by means of communication means using infrared light will be described.
An X-ray imaging apparatus 71 is installed in the X-ray imaging room 70, and an X-ray image processing computer 69 is installed outside the X-ray imaging room 70.
Reference numeral 9 is for capturing the X-ray image data photographed by the X-ray photographing device 71 as digital data and displaying it on the X-ray image display 72.

Above the X-ray image display 72,
The data transmission device 12b provided on the cart unit 6 and the data transmission device 12a provided on the upper end of the column 9 provided on the desk 4 and the data transmission device 12c capable of mutually transmitting are provided.

Then, the X-ray image processing computer 6
The X-ray image data created in 9 is the data transmission device 12
The data is transmitted from c to the data transmission device 12a via infrared light, taken into the host computer 5, stored in the mass storage device 3, and displayed on the X-ray image display 72. Similarly, the X-ray image data created by the X-ray image processing computer 69 is transmitted from the data transmission device 12c to the data transmission device 12b via infrared light, and is taken into the small computer 16 to be displayed on the cart unit 6. It is also displayed at 18, so that the doctor can refer to the X-ray image of the patient during treatment in the dental chair 1.

When the past X-ray image data of the patient to be treated is received from the host computer 5, the past X-ray image data stored in the host computer 5 is extracted and the image data is data. The data is transmitted from the transmission device 12a to the data transmission device 12b via infrared light, taken into the small computer 16 and displayed on the display 18 of the cart unit 6.

FIG. 10 shows that the data transmission device 12 has a wireless LA.
This is an embodiment using N connection devices, and as shown in FIG. 11, a LAN board 81 connected to an expansion connector 27a directly connected to the bus line 25 of each computer without using the serial input / output signal 30. Terminal interface 82 (10BASE5, 10BASE7, etc.)
The data transmission device 12 is attached to the. In addition, an information receiving / transmitting device 80 for relaying wireless data is set on the ceiling in the treatment room, and an Ethernet LAN is configured with the data transmission device 12 connected to each computer, and various information is transmitted in the same manner as described above. Data is exchanged.

In FIG. 12, the dental treatment apparatus 2 is further provided with a control computer 73 for controlling the posture of the dental treatment chair 1 and adjusting the illuminance of the dental lighting apparatus 10, and data is provided on the control computer 73. In yet another embodiment in which a transmission device 12d is provided, the input device with display 19 mounted on the cart unit 6 for dental treatment having the terminal function of the control computer 73 is operated to operate the cart from the host computer 5 to the cart. The patient code is identified based on the dental treatment data transmitted to the unit 6, the treatment condition of the patient is set based on the past treatment contents of the patient, and the set treatment condition is set in the cart unit 6
It is possible to automatically set the treatment postures of the dental lighting device 10 and the dental treatment chair 1 by the processing of the control computer 73 from the data transmitted from the dental treatment device 2 to the dental treatment device 2.

[0036]

As described above, according to the present application, a cart unit for dental treatment equipped with a computer equipped with a display device and an input device for managing dental treatment data is provided. In order to connect them, it is possible to transmit data by optical means or wireless communication means with other computers in
Since there is no need to cradle the cable on the floor or lay the cable under the floor, dental treatment work can be performed easily, and the cart unit can be moved to the vicinity of the dental treatment device only when needed. Since the required operation can be performed, the space in the medical office is not unnecessarily narrowed, and the dental treatment device can be prevented from becoming large. In addition, necessary data can be easily read near the patient being treated, which is extremely effective for the treatment work. Further, according to the present application, it is possible to display an X-ray image and an image of the oral cavity on the display without moving a doctor or an assistant, and it is possible to create a medical record by voice input from a dentist, and data necessary for treatment. Etc. can be called up by voice, the occlusal contact state can also be diagnosed, the dental lighting device incorporated in the dental treatment apparatus, suitable treatment work conditions in the dental treatment instrument can be automatically set, etc. Have advantages.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the present dental treatment system.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a cart unit for dental treatment.

FIG. 3 is a circuit configuration diagram of the present system.

FIG. 4 is a circuit configuration diagram of a data transmission device.

FIG. 5 is a circuit configuration diagram of another data transmission device.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a dental examination system having a plurality of carts.

[Fig. 7] Configuration diagram when a wireless microphone is used

FIG. 8 is a circuit configuration diagram when a wireless microphone is used.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of a dental treatment system including an X-ray image processing computer.

FIG. 10 is a diagram of another embodiment corresponding to FIG.

11 is a circuit configuration diagram of FIG.

FIG. 12 is a conceptual diagram of a dental treatment system including a control computer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Dental Treatment Chair 2 Dental Treatment Device 3 Storage Device 5 Host Computer 6 Cart Unit 10 Dental Illumination Device 11, 18 Display 12 Data Transmission Device 16 Small Computer 17 Peripheral Circuit 18 Display Device 19 Input Device 21 Oral Observation Camera 22 Microphone 23 Driving power supply unit 24 Computer control unit 33 Charging station 46 Red light emission 51 Wireless data transmission circuit 62 Wireless microphone 63 Wireless reception antenna 66 Wireless transmission antenna 69 X-ray image processing computer 80 Transmission / reception device

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Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. A movable cart unit equipped with a computer equipped with a display device and an input device for managing various data for dental treatment, the optical communication between the computer and another computer in the clinic. A dental treatment system characterized by enabling data transmission by means. 2. The dental treatment system according to claim 1, wherein the optical communication means is means utilizing infrared light. 3. A mobile cart unit equipped with a computer equipped with a display device and an input device for managing various data for dental treatment, the computer being wirelessly communicated with another computer in the clinic. A dental treatment system characterized by enabling data transmission by means. 4. Another computer in the clinic is provided in the dental treatment apparatus and stores various data such as dental treatment data and / or data for setting various conditions necessary for the treatment work such as the treatment posture of the dental treatment chair. The dental treatment system according to claim 1, wherein the dental treatment system is a computer capable of transmission. 5. The dental treatment system according to claim 1, 2, 3 or 4, wherein the other computer in the examination room is a host computer provided with a large-sized storage device for storing various data for dental treatment. 6. The dental treatment system according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, wherein the other computer in the clinic is an X-ray image processing computer that processes X-ray images. 7. The dental treatment system according to claim 1, wherein the cart unit is provided with a rechargeable power source for driving. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein various data for dental treatment include image data of an image of the inside of the oral cavity, and a cart unit is equipped with a camera for capturing an image of the inside of the oral cavity.
The dental treatment system according to 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7. 9. The cart unit computer has a voice recognition device incorporated therein.
The dental treatment system according to 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8. 10. The computer of the cart unit,
The dental treatment system according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9, which incorporates an inspection device for diagnosing an occlusal contact state. 11. The dental treatment system according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 comprising a plurality of cart units.