JP2006211340A - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize that a nurse call system can play unwearied and properly fresh ringing tones through an automatic change in ringing tone style at regular intervals without a cumbersome operation performed by a clinical nurse or the like, for changing the ringing tone style of the nurse call system and besides even when not specifying the ringing tone style intentionally. <P>SOLUTION: A nurse call master device includes a ringing tone storing means for storing dated ringing tones and a ringing tone generating means for generating, when a call is generated from a nurse call slave device, the ringing tone read out of the ringing tone storing means based on data of the date when the call has been generated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

The present invention relates to a nurse call system, and in particular, a ringing tone or a ringing confirmation tone generated from a nurse call parent or slave unit is automatically controlled by an internal computer to be a music suitable for the season, It relates to a nurse call system that can be used to make a sound suitable for the day of the year.

Conventionally, a ringing tone emitted from a nurse call parent device is classified into a general call and an emergency call according to the urgency level of the call, and different types of ringing sounds are often used. For example, “Otome no prayer” is assigned as a general ringing sound corresponding to a normal call, and “electronic buzzer sound” is assigned as an emergency sound corresponding to an emergency call. It is possible to determine whether the call is an ordinary call or an emergency call.

The present invention relates to the type of general ringing tone corresponding to a normal call among the above two types of calls.

Generally, the music used for the general ringing tone is often determined by listening to the desire of the nurse or the like from the music prepared in advance at the time of installation of the nurse call system. The selected specific ringing tone is played from the parent machine each time a call is received from the patient.

Although many of these general ring tones can be changed to another melody after setting, it is possible for a user such as a nurse to re-set another melody. There may be no setting work, so it can be said that there is nothing.

Next, a description will be given of the related art related to the change in the type of ringing tone or ringing tone.
First,
When a call signal is sent from the slave unit, the station number of the slave unit is identified from the call signal, and the station number of the slave unit stored in the storage means is checked to correspond to the station number. It is described that a timbre ringing tone is generated. That is, the handset can be distinguished by the tone of the ringing tone.

Also,
In the case of assigning patients in charge by nurses, the type of ringing tone is changed for each nurse to be called, and nurses can distinguish the ringing tone and determine whether they are in charge. A nurse call device is described.

, The described invention is based on identifying the patient who is a caller by changing the ringing tone. In addition, According to the present invention, it is possible to specify a nurse or the like to be treated.

.... JP-A-63-155943 .... JP 2000-224320 A

According to the inventions described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, the convenience regarding the identification function that the caller or the receiver can be specified by identifying the type of the ringing tone is recognized, but the nursing environment and the patient environment are improved. Not intended. In addition, the kind of ringing tone once set is unique and unchanged for each patient or each nurse unless manually changed by the nurse, etc. Or foster a sense of mannerism.

The present invention is for eliminating the drawbacks of the ringing tone in such a conventional nurse call system, without requiring a troublesome operation for the nurse or the like to change the type of the ringing tone, and the intention. Even if you do not specify the type of ringing sound, the ringing type automatically changes after a day or a certain period of time so that you will not get bored and you can play a fresh ringing sound moderately. Let it be an issue.

Further, the present invention not only uses the ringing tone as a calling notification means, but also automatically selects and changes the type of ringing tone according to the season and the month and day, in conjunction with a built-in timer. Among them, the problem is to be able to skillfully incorporate seasonal information, month / day information, calendar information, and environmental information.

One aspect of the present invention is that the nurse call master unit stores a ring tone storage means for storing a ring-by-date ring tone, and the date data of the call occurrence date when a call is generated from the nurse call slave unit. And a ringing tone generating means for generating a ringing tone read from the previous ringing tone storage means.

In addition, one of the present invention is characterized in that in the previous ringing tone storage means, it is possible to store any one of the season, the date, the day of the week, the anniversary, such as a clause, or the designated day, or a combination thereof. It is said.

Further, according to one aspect of the present invention, a different designated ring tone is set for each nurse in charge for the same designated date, or by setting different performance conditions for a single designated ring tone, The feature is that it is possible to determine whether or not the call is from the patient who is responsible for the patient.

Furthermore, one of the present invention is characterized in that various ringing sounds generated in the parent device are transmitted as they are to the child device as a ringing confirmation sound.

According to the present invention, since the ringing sound suitable for the season or reminding of the anniversary is sounded according to the date on the calendar, the conventional ringing of the ringing sound can be avoided.

In addition, according to the present invention, the above ringing tone is used as it is as the ringing confirmation sound of the child machine, so that it stimulates seasonal senses such as long-term hospitalized patients who are in a hospital room and are not familiar with seasonal changes and calendar senses. And it can contribute to the healing.

Furthermore, according to the present invention, since different ringing sounds are generated for each nurse in charge, it is possible to distinguish whether or not the call is from the patient in charge by listening to the ringing sound.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a nurse call system in one embodiment of the present invention.
A nurse call master device 1 installed in a nurse center or a management center has a call means 2 and a liquid crystal screen 3 with a touch panel, and an individual information corridor lamp 4 installed at each entrance of a hospital room is connected.

Each individual information corridor lamp 4 has a representative lamp 5 and a liquid crystal screen 6 with a touch panel, and a plurality of nurse call slaves 7 having call and call functions are connected according to the number of beds in the hospital room. In the example shown in the figure, a grip button 8 dedicated to calling and a hand slave unit 9 for calling are provided that can be operated while the patient is lying on the bed.

Reference numeral 10 denotes an I / O unit installed at the entrance / exit of a shared toilet, etc. A required number of hall lights 11, restoration buttons 12 and push buttons 13 are connected to the I / O unit.

The wireless main unit 14 connected to the nurse call base unit 1 has a plurality of wireless units 15a, 15b,... A base station 15 is connected, and the radio base station 15 and the portable terminal 16 can perform radio communication with 16a, 16b, and 16c.

Next, the schematic operation of the nurse call system shown in FIG. 1 will be described.
First, when a patient in a hospital room pushes the grip button 8 of the nurse call slave unit 7 or the push button of the hand slave unit 9, a call signal is transmitted to the individual information corridor lamp 4, the representative lamp 5 is turned on, and the liquid crystal screen 6 The call screen is displayed. Further, a call signal is sent to the nurse call master unit 1, and a call screen is displayed on the liquid crystal screen of the master unit 1 and a ringing tone is generated.

At the same time, the calling signal is transmitted from the base unit 1 to each radio base station 15 via the radio main unit 14.
When the radio wave transmitted from the radio base station 15 is received, a ringing tone sounds from the required portable terminal 16 and a nurse call screen is displayed.

Next, when a response operation is performed on the nurse call master unit 1 or the portable terminal 16 in the above-described calling state, the ringing tone stops and a call can be made with the nurse call slave unit.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the nurse call master according to the present invention.
Reference numeral 17 denotes a control unit including a CPU. The control unit 17 includes a communication I / F 18 connected to the individual information corridor lamp, a wireless main device I / F 19 connected to the wireless main device, and a network I / F 20. And are connected. When the nurse call master unit is linked to the ordering system or the nursing support system, it is linked via this network I / F.

21 is a display unit with a touch panel comprising an LCD 22 and operation keys 23, 24 is a ringing tone generating means comprising a speaker 25 and a sound source IC 26, and 27 is a call control unit for controlling a call microphone 28 and a receiver 29. And each is connected to the control unit 17.

Further, a memory 30 having a ROM and a RAM is connected to the control unit 17.
In addition to the program for controlling the overall operation, the memory 30 includes ringing tone setting data, ringing tone storage means 31 including ringing tone data, slave unit data including a slave unit ID, and image memory.

The control unit 17 is connected to calendar means 32 that holds date data.

Next, the operation of the nurse call master unit will be described with reference to FIG.
First, the call signal generated by the call button operation of the nurse call slave unit is taken into the control unit 17 via the communication I / F 18, and the slave unit data such as the call type and the slave unit number included in the call signal are stored. Decrypted. The result is displayed on the display unit 21 with a touch panel.

At the same time, ringing tone setting data and ringing tone data stored in the ringing tone storage unit 31 are read based on the date data obtained from the calendar unit 32, and the ringing tone generating unit is linked to the read data. The sound source IC 26 constituting the reference numeral 24 is driven, and a designated ringing tone is emitted from the speaker 25.

Further, the call signal from the nurse call slave is processed for wireless calling by the control unit and transmitted from the wireless main unit 19 to the outside.

Next, when the nurse call master unit performs a response operation such as picking up the handset, the ringing tone generating means 24 is controlled to be in a call stop state, and a response signal is transmitted to the nurse call slave unit via the communication I / F 18. The nurse call master unit and the nurse call slave unit are in communication with each other.

FIG. 3 shows an example of ringing tone setting data constituting the ringing tone storage means.
In the figure, the ringing tone calendar is composed of items of date, date flag, day of the week, day of week flag, season, season flag, and default sound.

In the above, the date item includes a permutation of dates including the year, and the date flag indicates whether or not an individual ring tone is set for each date. Similarly, the day of the week flag indicates whether a specific ringing tone is set for each day of the week. The same applies to the season flag.
The default sound indicates whether a default ringing tone is set.

The setting table for each date, the setting table for each day of the week, and the setting table for each season are tables indicating the designated sound name or code of the date, day of the week, and season for which a specific ringing tone is set, respectively.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the ringing tone generation.
First, when a call signal is received from the nurse call slave unit, the call type is determined. As call types, there are usually general calls, emergency calls, toilet calls, drip calls, etc., but in the flow diagram, they are classified into general and others.

When the call type is other than the general call, the designated sound is read from the call type table set in advance according to each call type and set as the ringing tone. The nurse call base unit rings with the set designated ring tone.

Unlike the above, when the call type is a general call, the date data of the call date is read from the ring tone calendar of FIG. On this date, the date flag = 1, and it can be seen that a specific ringing tone is set. When the date flag = 1, the process jumps to the date setting table of FIG. 3 and sets the ringing tone name or ringing tone name code called ringing tone A, which is the designated sound of 1/1, as the ringing tone to be played.

According to the ringing tone calendar of FIG. 3, since the date is the minimum unit and the date flag of the minimum unit is 1, the setting values of the day of the week flag, the season flag, and the default sound flag corresponding to the upper unit are ignored. Is done.

Next, when the date flag = 0 in the ringing tone calendar of FIG. First, “Sunday” day of the week is acquired as the day of the week, and since the day flag = 1, it moves to the setting table for each day of the week in FIG. 3 and the ringing tone O is acquired as the designated sound for Sunday. When the day of the week flag = 1 as in the example of 2005/1/2, the state of the subsequent season flag and the default sound flag is ignored.
Further, when the date flag = 0 and the day of the week flag = 0 as in the date (2005/1/3), the process proceeds to the season flag determination step.

In the example of 2005/1/3, since the season is winter and the season flag = 1 from the ring tone calendar of FIG. 3, the winter ring tone Y is also read from the seasonal table of FIG. 3 and set as the designated tone. .

Further, when all of the date flag, day of the week flag, and season flag are set to “0” as in 2005/1/4 in the ringing tone calendar of FIG. The default sound set as the ringing tone is used as the ringing tone.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a ringing tone setting method. In this embodiment, the ringing tone setting menu can be displayed on the display unit with a touch panel 21 described above.

First, a period or day to be set is selected on the ringing tone setting menu screen.
For example: After selecting the item of season (spring, summer, autumn, winter), the season to be specified, for example, “spring” is selected. Then, since three types of ringing sounds are displayed, which are suitable for the spring season, in the example shown, ringing tone 1, ringing tone 2, and ringing tone 3, for example, an arbitrary ringing tone 1 is selected.

Next, when “Yes” is selected in the ringing tone setting confirmation menu, the ringing tone 1 is set as the spring ringing tone, and the screen returns to the first menu screen. If “No” is selected on the ringing tone setting confirmation menu, the screen returns to the first menu screen, so that it is possible to select whether to end the ringing tone setting menu as it is or to start setting the ringing tone again.

In the illustrated example, a single ringing tone can be set for each day or period, but a plurality of ringing sounds can be set for each day or period. That is, on the same day or period, it is possible to assign individual ringing sounds corresponding to nurses in charge. In this case, the music itself can be changed according to the nurse in charge, etc., or the same music can be distinguished by musical instruments such as piano performance for nurse A and flute ensemble for nurse B. However, it can also be distinguished by changing the rhythm.

In the present embodiment, an example of setting a ringing tone for each date in the nurse call master unit has been shown. However, as a ringing tone, a different ringing tone is stored in the ROM in advance in accordance with the season, clause date, etc. It can also be installed in the nurse call master before installation.

In addition, according to the present invention, if the ringing tone generated by the ringing tone generating means 24 is distributed and transmitted to the nurse call slave unit as a call confirmation tone, the call confirmation tone output from the nurse call slave unit is transmitted. Thus, calendar information such as seasonal changes and anniversaries can be transmitted to patients without special means.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a nurse call system in one embodiment of the present invention. The block diagram of the nurse call parent machine in one Example of this invention. The ringing tone setting data example in one Example of this invention. The flowchart of ringing tone generation in one example of the present invention. The ringing tone setting flowchart in one Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Nurse call main | base station 2 Calling means 3 Liquid crystal screen 4 Individual information corridor lamp 10 I / O unit 14 Radio | wireless main apparatus 15 Radio base station 16 Portable terminal

Claims (4)

In a nurse call system having a nurse call cordless handset installed at the bedside of a hospital room and a nurse call master set capable of making a call between the nurse call cordless handset, the nurse call master set includes a ringing tone for each date. And a ringing tone generation means for generating a ringing tone read from the previous ringing tone storage unit based on the date data of the call occurrence date when a call is generated from the nurse call cordless handset And a nurse call system. 2. The nurse call according to claim 1, wherein said ringing tone storing means can store any one of a combination of a season, a date, a day of the week, a memorial day such as a clause, or a designated day, or a combination thereof. system. Set different designated ring tones for each nurse in charge on the same designated date, or set different performance conditions for a single designated ring, so that the call from the patient in charge can be made with the difference in ring tone. The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein it is possible to determine whether or not. The nurse call system according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the ringing sound of the nurse call master unit can be transmitted to the nurse call slave unit as a ringing confirmation sound. .