JP6509042B2 - Wristband manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a device for manufacturing a wristband that is worn on a patient's wrist or ankle and used for patient identification in a hospital or the like.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a hospital or the like, a wristband on which a patient's name or the like is entered or printed has been worn on a patient's wrist or ankle in order to prevent a patient's mistake.
In this case, the doctor or nurse visually checks the patient's name displayed on the wristband and collates the patient's name with the chart and then performs treatment on the patient.
However, in the method of displaying the name on the wrist band and visually confirming it, it is not always possible to confirm with certainty, due to misreading of the name or the presence of a patient with the same name and the like.
In order to solve this problem, it has been proposed to print a barcode on a wristband and to perform patient verification by a barcode reader.
However, when checking barcodes, when reading a barcode, the barcode reader must be brought close to the barcode, ie, the wristband, but the patient's condition varies, for example, wearing the wristband on the arm When performing a check, the patient may be in a state where the arm can not move or can not move, and in such a case, there is a problem that the bar code reader can not be read close to the wristband. Furthermore, when treating a patient who is asleep at night, there arises a problem that the wristband must be illuminated with a flashlight or the like in order to read the barcode of the wristband.
As a wristband which solves the above-mentioned problem, a wristband which contains a wireless tag is proposed (patent documents 1).
However, the wristband with a built-in wireless tag can not be used for all patients because the unit price is high, and a wristband with a built-in wireless tag according to the patient's condition and a wristband for bar code identification are used properly. There is a problem that storage takes time and effort to use, and it is inconvenient.
In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, a wireless tag label that can be attached to a wrist band or the like has been proposed (Patent Document 2).

Patent No. 4443975 JP, 2013-109445, A

According to the above wireless tag label, for example, in the case of a wristband in the form of printing a bar code, in the case of a patient who can not easily move his arm due to injury etc according to the patient's condition, the wireless Tag labels are attached to enable non-contact patient matching, and for patients whose arms can be moved normally, a wrist band printed with a barcode is used as it is without attaching a wireless tag label to a patient who can move his arm normally. As a result, the wireless tag can be used for matching inexpensively as needed.
However, the above-mentioned conventional wristband is erroneously attached to the wristband since the radio tag label in which the patient identification number is stored is attached to the wristband printed with the patient identification number etc. in the form of a barcode. There is a problem that the wireless tag label may be stuck.
That is, there is a possibility that a mistake may occur that the wireless tag label storing the identification number of Mr. B is attached to the wristband on which the name and identification number of Mr. A are printed.
In order to prevent this, just before attaching the wireless tag label to the wristband, the bar code reader reads the information of the barcode printed on the wristband, and the patient identification information stored in the wireless tag label with the wireless tag reader There is a problem that the troublesome collation work of reading and collating both information is needed.
An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional wristband described above and to provide a wristband manufacturing apparatus capable of manufacturing the wristband inexpensively, simply, and reliably.

In order to achieve the above object, a wristband manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention is
A label mount roll formed by winding a mount having a label incorporating a wireless tag,
Printing and writing means configured to print patient information in the form of a bar code or characters on the surface of the RFID label on the mount, and to write the patient information of the patient on the IC chip of the RFID tag;
It is disposed downstream of the printing and writing means, and extends in a direction orthogonal to the traveling direction of the peeling plate for folding the backing of the label backing roll at an acute angle and the backing of the label backing roll, and is disposed directly under the peeling backing. Raw material wristband supply means,
A raw material wristband roll formed by winding a raw material wristband fed in a direction orthogonal to the advancing direction of the mount of the label mount roll by the raw material wristband supply means;
The printing and writing means write the identification information of the same patient on the wireless tag and print on the label surface in the form of a bar code and / or characters and then supply the printed and written label by the wrist band supply means The material is discharged onto a raw material wristband, and a label is attached to the raw material wristband to complete the wristband.
A pusher may be provided above the peeling plate to push the wireless tag label ejected from the peeling plate toward the raw material wristband.
Further, a pair of rollers sandwiching the raw material wristband from above and below is provided downstream of the peeling plate in the raw material wristband supply means, and the wireless tag label can be sufficiently adhered to the wristband by these rollers. it can.
The raw material wristband may be the same width over the entire length.

The wristband manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention prints a patient information in the form of a bar code or characters on the surface of a label mount roll formed by winding a mount having a label incorporating a wireless tag, and the wireless tag label on the mount. Printing and writing means configured to write the patient information of the patient in the IC chip of the wireless tag, and peeling downstream of the printing and writing means, folding back the backing of the label backing roll to an acute angle A raw material wristband supply unit which extends in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the plate and the mount of the label mount roll, and directly below the release plate; and a mount of the label mount roll by the raw material wristband supply. A raw material wristband roll formed by winding a raw material wristband sent in a direction orthogonal to the traveling direction, the printing and writing means comprising The same patient identification information is written on the wireless tag and printed in the form of barcodes and / or characters on the label surface, and then the printed and written label is discharged onto the raw material wristband supplied by the wristband supply means Then, since the raw material wristband is labeled to complete the wristband, the information printed on the label surface and the information written on the wireless tag do not become different patient information. In addition, the raw material wristband supply means extending in the direction orthogonal to the advancing direction of the label roll is disposed to pass immediately below the peeling plate, whereby the label peeled off by the peeling plate after printing and writing is the raw material wristband Since it is dropped onto the raw material wristband and pasted, troublesome pasting work is unnecessary.
As described above, according to the wristband manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, the information written on the wireless tag label and the information printed on the label do not match, without requiring a troublesome attachment operation to be performed by a person. There is an effect that it is possible to automatically write the same patient's information on the wireless tag and to manufacture a wristband displayed in the form of a bar code and / or characters.
Also, by providing a pusher for pressing down the RFID label jumping out of the peeling plate toward the raw material wristband above the peeling plate, it is possible to more reliably attach the label to an appropriate position of the raw material wristband become.
Further, a pair of rollers sandwiching the raw material wristband from the upper and lower sides is provided downstream of the peeling plate in the raw material wristband supply means, and these rollers press the RFID label against the raw material wristband to sufficiently adhere. There is no need to press the label on the wristband with a finger.
Furthermore, according to the wristband manufacturing apparatus of the present invention, raw material wristband supply means extending in the direction orthogonal to the advancing direction of the label roll is provided immediately below the peeling plate, and the raw material wristband supply means supplies Since the printed and written label is dropped on the raw material wristband and the label is attached to the raw material wristband, the label does not protrude from the raw material wristband at the time of attachment, and as a result, the raw material It is possible to apply the label accurately without making the label attaching part in the wristband thick and thick. This makes it possible to manufacture the wristband in the same width over the entire length, so that the material of the raw material wristband is not wasted and the manufacturing cost can be reduced, and the thick part is eliminated from the wristband to achieve the whole. Thus, it is possible to further reduce the sense of discomfort when worn.

It is a schematic side view of the wristband manufacturing device concerning the present invention. It is a schematic top view of a label mount roll. It is a schematic front view of the wristband manufacturing apparatus shown in FIG. It is a schematic top view of the wristband manufacturing apparatus which shows the positional relationship of the label mount shown in FIG. 1, a label, and a raw material wristband. It is a figure which shows the completed wristband. (A)-(c) is the side view and top view which show operation | movement of a label mount, a label, and a raw material wristband. It is a schematic front view which shows another Example of a wristband manufacturing apparatus.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a wristband manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the attached drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a wristband manufacturing apparatus 1 according to the present invention.
In the figure, the code | symbol 2 has shown the label mount roll which wound the mount 3 in which the label L provided with RF tag was provided.
As shown in FIG. 2, the label L provided on the backing sheet 3 is internally provided with a wireless tag inlay consisting of an IC chip L1 and an antenna L2.
The mount 3 wound around the mount roll 2 is fed from the mount roll 2 by the rotation of the drive rollers 4 and 5 and the winding roller 6. Predetermined information is printed in the form of a bar code and / or characters by the printing means 7 on the upper surface of the label L of the mounted base 3 that has been drawn out, and simultaneously or subsequently, the IC chip L1 provided on the label L is written Predetermined information is written by the loading means 8.
Here, the predetermined information to be printed is patient identification information, and the predetermined information written to the IC chip L1 is also patient identification information of the same patient. The patient identification information may be any information as long as it can identify a patient, and may be, for example, a patient ID or a sample ID linked to the patient ID. The patient identification information printed in characters on the label surface may be, for example, the patient's name.
After being fed from the base paper roll 2 and passing through the printing means 7 and the writing means 8, the base paper 3 is configured to be bent at an acute angle by the peeling plate 9 and taken up by the take-up roller 6.
In the drawings, reference numerals 10, 11 and 12 denote guide rollers.
Each component described above is housed inside the housing 15.

At a position corresponding to the peeling plate 9 on the front surface 15 a of the housing 15, a label discharge slit (no reference numeral) is formed. Since the label L is harder than the backing sheet 3, when the backing sheet 3 is bent at an acute angle by the peeling plate 9, the label L on which patient identification information is printed and written is peeled off from the backing sheet 3 and goes straight and protrudes from the label discharge slit .
By the way, immediately below the peeling plate 9 in front of the housing 15, a raw material wrist band supply means 20 is disposed.
As shown in FIG. 3, the raw material wrist band supply means 20 includes a raw material wrist band guiding means 21 extending in a direction orthogonal to the advancing direction of the mount 3 of the label mount roll 2, and a pair of upper and lower pairs disposed downstream of the guiding means 21. Drive pressure rollers 22 and 23 of FIG.
The raw material wristband supply means 20 configured as described above draws the raw material wristband 24 from the raw material wristband roll 25 formed by winding the raw material wristband 24 by the drive pressure-bonding rollers 22 and 23. Then, the raw material wristband 24 is stopped at a predetermined position on the guiding means 21 passing immediately below the peeling plate 5 by the drive pressure-bonding rollers 22 and 23, and the label L is stuck there.

  As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, a pusher 26 is provided immediately above the peeling plate 5. The pusher 26 is configured to drive up and down, and is moved so as to push down the label ejected from the peeling plate 5 downward.

The components of the wristband manufacturing apparatus configured as described above are driven by the control device 30.
Hereinafter, the operation of the wristband manufacturing apparatus configured as described above will be described.
The control device 30 is sent information from the host computer regarding the patient to issue the wristband.
The control device 30 drives the drive rollers 4 and 5 and the take-up roller 6 to place the mount 3 from the label mount roll 2 until the non-printing, non-writing label is positioned below the printing unit 7 and the writing unit 8. Unroll.
At this position, the control device 30 drives the printing means 7 and the writing means 8 to print patient identification information on the surface of the label L, and the same patient as the IC chip L1 of the wireless tag inlay provided on the label L Write patient identification information for
After printing and writing on the label L are completed, the control device 30 drives the drive rollers 4 and 5 and the winding roller 6 again to advance the mount 3 forward. Although the backing sheet 3 is bent at an acute angle by the peeling plate 9 and travels toward the winding roller 6 (FIG. 6A), at this time the label L is harder than the backing sheet 3 and peeled off from the backing sheet 3 to advance forward (FIG. 6) (B).
The control device 30 drives the drive pressure rollers 22 and 23 to pull out the raw material wristband 24 from the raw material wristband roll 25 while driving the drive rollers 4 and 5 and the winding roller 6 and the like. The raw material wristband 24 is stopped at a predetermined position on the guiding means 21 passing immediately below the peeling plate 5. This position is a position where the label attaching position 24 a (see FIG. 5) in the raw material wristband 24 is directly below the peeling plate 9.
The control device 30 drives the drive rollers 4 and 5 and the take-up roller 6 so that the printed and written label L is rapidly ejected from the peeling plate 9 (FIG. 6 (b)). In this state, when the control device 30 drives the pusher 26 downward, the pusher 26 pushes the label L ejected from the peeling plate 9 downward, that is, toward the raw material wristband 24. (FIG. 6 (c)).
As a result, the label L after printing and writing is placed on the label application position 24 of the raw material wristband 24, and it is in a state of being temporarily adhered by the adhesive surface of the label L.
Thereafter, the control device 30 drives the drive pressure-bonding rollers 22 and 23 to further draw out the raw material wristband 24 and passes between the drive pressure-bonding rollers 22 and 23, and then stops the rollers 22 and 23.
The label L is completely adhered to the wristband 24 as it passes between the drive pressure rollers 22 and 23.
In the raw material wrist band roll 25, a cutting line is formed for each wrist band, and the wrist band 24 to which the label L is adhered can be cut off from the cutting line and used.

According to the wristband manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention, as described above, a wristband on which patient identification information is printed and written automatically can be manufactured without any human intervention, so the wristband can be easily made. It will be possible to prepare easily. Further, since the patient identification information is printed and written on the same label L for the same patient in the printing means 7 and the writing means 8, the printed information and the written information do not deviate from each other, and the information can be surely matched. The effect of being able to
Furthermore, the wristband manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention drops the label L on which the patient identification information is printed and written on the raw material wristband immediately below the peeling plate 9 by peeling it off from the backing 3. Since the label L is attached to the raw material wristband, even if the wristband is thin, the label can be attached accurately. Therefore, it becomes possible to manufacture the wristband with the same width over the entire length as in the wristband according to the present embodiment, and the manufacturing cost of the wristband is lowered, and furthermore, there is no thick part in the wristband. There are few parts that the wristband hits when worn on the arm or foot, and the burden on the wearer can be greatly reduced.

  According to the above-described embodiment, the raw material wrist band roll 25 is arranged in a straight line on the guide means 21. However, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment. For example, as shown in FIG. The wrist band roll 25 may be disposed in a direction perpendicular to the guide means 21 and wound around the guide rod 27 or the like so that the direction is changed by 90 degrees toward the guide means 21. With this configuration, the raw material wrist band roll 25 can be disposed along the side surface of the housing 15, so that the size of the entire apparatus can be reduced. FIG. 7 is a schematic front view corresponding to FIG. 3 of another embodiment of the wristband manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention, and the same or corresponding components are denoted by the same reference numerals.

L label
L1 IC chip
L2 antenna


DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Wristband manufacturing apparatus 2 Label mount roll 3 Mount 4 Drive roller 5 Drive roller 6 Take-up roller 7 Printing means 8 Writing means 9 Peeling plate 10 Guide roller 11 Guide roller 12 Guide roller

15 Housing 15a Front

20 Raw Material Wrist Band Supply Means 21 Guide Means 22 Drive Crimp Roller 23 Drive Crimp Roller 24 Raw Material Wrist Band 24a Labeling Position 25 Raw Material Wrist Band Roll 26 Pusher

30 control unit

Claims (2)

A label mount roll formed by winding a mount having a label incorporating a wireless tag,
Printing and writing means configured to print patient information in the form of a bar code or characters on the surface of the RFID label on the mount, and to write the patient information of the patient on the IC chip of the RFID tag;
A release plate disposed downstream of the printing and writing means, for folding the backing of the label backing roll at an acute angle;
A raw material wristband supply unit which extends in a direction orthogonal to the direction of movement of the base of the label mount roll and is disposed immediately below the release plate;
A raw material wristband roll formed by winding a raw material wristband fed in a direction orthogonal to the advancing direction of the mount of the label mount roll by the raw material wristband supply means ;
Above the peeling plate, a pusher is provided to push the wireless tag label ejected from the peeling plate toward the raw material wristband, and
A pair of rollers sandwiching the raw material wristband from above and below is provided downstream of the peeling plate in the raw material wristband supply means,
The printing and writing means write the identification information of the same patient on the wireless tag and print on the label surface in the form of a bar code and / or characters and then supply the printed and written label by the wrist band supply means Discharged onto the raw material wristband ,
After pushing down the RFID label jumping out from the peeling plate by the pusher toward the raw material wrist band, the RFID label is pressed to the wrist band by the pair of rollers and sufficiently adhered.
A wristband manufacturing apparatus characterized in that a label is attached to a raw material wristband to complete the wristband. The wristband manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the raw material wristband has the same width over the entire length.

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