JP6669405B2 - Automatic blood storage device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention has a storage main body for storing a blood pack in an internal storage space, a multi-stage rotary shelf provided in the internal storage space of the storage main body, and a plurality of exit doors corresponding to each stage of the rotary shelf. The present invention relates to an automatic blood storage device.

Since blood packs used for blood transfusion, etc. need to be supplied promptly when demand is generated, blood packs of various blood types are stored in low-temperature storage rooms installed in hospitals, etc., where they are used. Is desirably stored in a predetermined amount.
The user needs to remove exactly the required amount of blood packs from the stock, and the supplier needs to refill the used blood packs and check the long-term stored blood packs. And so on.
For this reason, it is known to provide a blood pack or a case for individually storing blood packs, which is provided with information storage means for packed blood, and which has a function of reading and managing the information in a storage (for example, Patent Reference 1 etc.).

Japanese Patent No. 4435181

The known automatic blood storage apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1 includes therein a multi-stage rotating shelf for storing a blood pack and a reading unit for acquiring information on the blood pack.
In addition, a door for entry and exit is provided, and after loading the blood pack from the door, while reading the information of the blood pack stored inside, at the time of exit, drive the rotating shelf that contains the necessary blood pack, It is configured to allow opening of the corresponding door.
The configuration of the door is one example. It consists of one door extending in the vertical direction, and a multi-stage rotating shelf is independently rotatable for each stage, so that the loading or unloading of the blood pack is performed only at a predetermined location of a predetermined stage. Has become.
Further, as another example, a plurality of rotating shelves are provided with a plurality of doors corresponding to each stage, and the rotating shelves rotate integrally with all the stages, and only one door can be opened, so that a blood pack can be stored or stored. Dispatch is performed only at a predetermined location in a predetermined stage.

In the known automatic blood storage apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is necessary to control the door and the rotating shelf even at the time of entry to replenish the blood pack, and one blood pack is opened one by one from the small front door. There is a problem that it has to be replenished and it takes time.
In addition, when performing maintenance of a rotating shelf or an internal mechanism, cleaning of the inside of a storage, or the like, it is necessary to disassemble a part or all of the apparatus, which requires a great deal of labor.

  The present invention is to solve the problem of the known automatic blood storage device, and it is possible to accurately remove the necessary blood packs from the stored large amount of blood packs exactly the required amount, It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic blood storage device in which a blood pack can be easily refilled, and maintenance of a rotating shelf and an internal mechanism and cleaning of the inside of a storage can be easily performed.

  The present invention provides a storage main body for storing a blood pack in an internal storage space, a multi-stage rotary shelf provided in the internal storage space of the storage main body, and a plurality of exit doors corresponding to each stage of the rotary shelf. The above problem is solved by the blood automatic storage device having the following structure, wherein the storage main body is provided on one side with a full-surface door having an opening area corresponding to the entire multi-stage rotating shelf. .

According to the automatic blood storage device of the first aspect, the storage main body is provided with a full-face door having an opening area corresponding to the entire multi-stage rotating shelf on one side, so that the entire surface is provided when the blood pack is stored. By opening the door, a plurality of blood packs can be quickly replenished to each stage of the rotating shelf, and at the time of taking out the blood pack, a plurality of exit doors are used to place the blood pack at a predetermined location in a predetermined stage. , And it is possible to exactly remove the required amount of blood packs from a large amount of blood pack stock.
Further, since the opening area of the entire door corresponds to the entire multi-stage rotating shelf, maintenance of the rotating shelf and the internal mechanism and cleaning of the inside of the storage can be easily performed.
In addition, the rotating shelf itself is modularized so that part or all of the automatic blood storage device can be removed from the entire door without disassembly, making maintenance of the rotating shelf and internal mechanisms and cleaning of the interior of the storage easier. In addition, it is possible to quickly replenish a large amount of blood packs after pulling out the rotating shelf.
Further, on the side of the internal storage space of the plurality of retrieval doors, access restriction means for allowing access to only one blood pack at the time of opening is provided, so that the outer shape when storing the blood pack is small or thin. Even if there is, the access restriction means can be set so that only one blood pack can be accessed, so that it is not necessary to reduce the size of the retrieval door itself, and the user can access the blood pack stored in the rotating shelf via the retrieval door. Work becomes easier.

According to the configuration described in claim 2, since the plurality of exit doors are provided on the entire door, the plurality of exit doors and the full door can be accessed from one side of the automatic blood storage device. In addition, restrictions on the installation space are reduced, and the loading and unloading, maintenance, cleaning, etc. of the blood pack are facilitated.
According to the configuration described in claim 3, access restrictions means that it has a limiting wall having an opening accessible form only one blood pack, construction of access restriction means is simplified At the same time, even if the shape of the blood pack and the storage form (vertical, horizontal, etc.) in the rotating shelf are different, it is possible to cope by changing only the limiting wall portion having a simple configuration.
According to the automatic blood storage device of the fourth aspect, the storage main body is provided with a full-surface door having an opening area corresponding to the entire multi-stage rotating shelf on one side, so that the entire surface is provided when the blood pack is stored. By opening the door, a plurality of blood packs can be quickly replenished to each stage of the rotating shelf, and at the time of taking out the blood pack, a plurality of exit doors are used to place the blood pack at a predetermined location in a predetermined stage. , And it is possible to exactly remove the required amount of blood packs from a large amount of blood pack stock.
Further, since the opening area of the entire door corresponds to the entire multi-stage rotating shelf, maintenance of the rotating shelf and the internal mechanism and cleaning of the inside of the storage can be easily performed.
In addition, the rotating shelf itself is modularized so that part or all of the automatic blood storage device can be removed from the entire door without disassembly, making maintenance of the rotating shelf and internal mechanisms and cleaning of the interior of the storage easier. In addition, it is possible to quickly replenish a large amount of blood packs after pulling out the rotating shelf.
In addition, the information acquisition unit has a plurality of fixed sensors installed in the internal storage space of the storage body corresponding to each step of the rotating shelf, so that a large amount of blood packs can be stored at once. In addition, it is possible to quickly obtain information on the blood pack in each stage simply by rotating the rotating shelf.

According to the configuration described in claim 5 , the storage processing unit rotates the rotating shelf when the entire door is closed, and information on each blood pack held on the rotating shelf, and information on each blood pack. By acquiring the holding position information on the rotating shelf, even when replenishing a large amount of blood packs, it is sufficient to simply close the entire door after storing in a vacant position without being aware of the storing position, and in a short time Replenishment becomes possible.
Further, even when the replenishment operation is performed with the entire front door opened, replenishment can be performed in a short time, so that the influence on the internal environment can be reduced, and the burden of the replenishment operation can be reduced.
According to the configuration of the sixth aspect, even if the blood pack is randomly held on the rotating shelf and the relationship between the contents of the blood pack and the exit door cannot be fixed, the user can reliably remove only the desired blood pack. It becomes possible.
In addition, the retrieval rotation control unit controls the retrieval of a plurality of blood packs that meet the retrieval request condition such that the one with the higher retrieval priority is taken out of the plurality of blood packs that match the retrieval request condition, based on the held information of each blood pack. Sometimes it is possible for the consumer to take out the blood pack without instructing other conditions such as the storage period, and the burden of managing the inventory such as the storage period is reduced.
According to the configuration described in claim 7, the retrieval door control unit controls the display state of the retrieval display unit, whereby the blood pack is randomly held on the rotating shelf, and the relationship between the contents of the blood pack and the retrieval door. Can be easily accessed by notifying the customer of the exit door.
In addition, when a plurality of blood packs are requested to be taken out, there are cases in which the same exit door is used multiple times, and cases in which a plurality of blood packs are issued through different exit doors. improves.

1 is a perspective view of a part of an automatic blood storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is cut. 1 is a front view of an automatic blood storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The side view which cut out one part of the automatic blood storage device which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. Explanatory drawing of the AA cross section of FIG. The conceptual diagram of the control unit of the automatic blood storage apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

An automatic blood storage apparatus 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the automatic blood storage device 100 internally stores a blood pack (including a pack holding case that individually holds blood packs. All “blood packs” in this specification are the same). It has a storage main body 110 for storing in the space 111, four stages of rotating shelves 120 provided in the internal storage space 111 of the storage main body 110, and four exit doors 131 corresponding to each stage of the rotating shelves 120. ing.
The storage main body 110 has a rectangular parallelepiped internal storage space 111, and a cooling device 112 is provided above the internal storage space 111.
The storage main body 110 has an opening area corresponding to the four levels of rotating shelves 120, and has a full door 130 that can open one side of the internal storage space 111, and four exit doors 131 are provided on the full door 130. Have been.
A cooling device 112 is provided above the internal storage space 111 of the storage main body 110 so that the blood pack stored in the rotating shelf 120 in the internal storage space 111 can be stored with low sound.

In the present embodiment, the rotating shelf 120 is modularized, and the rotating shaft 123 is driven to rotate by the lower rotating shelf drive unit 122, and the blood packs are vertically arranged radially in four stages in the height direction of the rotating shaft 123. It is configured to be possible.
Further, the entire door 130 including the rotary shelf drive unit 122 can be accessed by opening the entire door 130.
This allows a plurality of blood packs to be quickly replenished to each stage of the rotating shelf 120, and facilitates maintenance of the rotating shelf 120 and internal mechanisms and cleaning of the internal storage space 111.
Further, by making the entire rotating shelf 120 capable of being taken out to the outside, it is possible to quickly replenish a large amount of blood packs after pulling out the rotating shelf 120, and further to perform maintenance and cleaning of the internal storage space 111. It will be easier.

On the side of the internal storage space 111 of the four exit doors 131, a restricting wall 132 is provided as an access restricting means having an opening having a shape capable of accessing only one blood pack when opened.
In the present embodiment, the exit door 131 has an opening through which the entire arm of the user can be inserted, whereas the opening in the horizontal direction is limited near the rotating shelf 120 of the limiting wall portion 132, and the user is required It is formed in a shape that can hold only one blood pack stored in the other.
Even when the shape and storage posture of the blood pack are different, it is possible to access only one blood pack without changing the design of the exit door 131 simply by changing the opening shape of the restriction wall 132 in the vicinity of the rotating shelf 120. can do.
Note that the access restricting means may be a movable type that operates at the time of taking out the blood pack, and may be provided on the rotating shelf 120 instead of the front door 130.

The blood pack is provided with a recording medium such as a barcode on which information for identifying blood is recorded, a two-dimensional code, an RFID tag, an IC tag, and the like. 150 is provided adjacent to the rotating shelf 120.
The information acquisition unit 150 has a plurality of fixed sensors corresponding to each stage of the rotating shelf 120, and accommodates in each shelf by rotating the rotating shelf 120 without having a movable part in the information acquiring unit 150. It is configured to read the information of the performed blood pack.
The full door 130 is provided with an outgoing display unit 133 beside each of the outgoing doors 131, and is configured to notify the outgoing door 131 to be accessed when a user needs to unload a required blood pack. I have.

The automatic blood storage device 100 includes a control unit 140 for controlling the rotating shelf 120, the retrieval door 131, the retrieval display unit 133, the information acquisition unit 150, and the like, and an input device 141 for issuing a retrieval instruction to the control unit 140. Have been.
FIG. 5 conceptually shows the control unit 140.
The control unit 140 may be physically constituted by a single functional unit or may be constituted by a plurality of functional units, and some or all of the functional units are arranged outside the automatic storage device 100. It may be controllable by communication.
Further, the control unit 140 may be capable of communicating with a host system such as a hospital management system, or the host system may directly control the automatic storage device 100 as a functional unit of the control unit 140.
The input device 141 for instructing retrieval is capable of wirelessly communicating with the control unit 140 so that the retrieval operator can easily operate any position or posture near the automatic blood storage device 100, and displays various information. Also, a tablet terminal or the like that can perform the above is preferable.

The control unit 140 has a storage processing unit and a storage processing unit.
The warehousing processing unit rotates the rotating shelf 120 when the full door 130 is closed, reads information of each blood pack held on the rotating shelf 120 by the information acquisition unit 150, and obtains information of each blood pack, and It is configured to acquire holding position information of each blood pack on the rotating shelf 120.
The acquired information is stored in a storage unit (not shown) or transferred to a higher-level system, and is used for inventory management and inventory processing.
The retrieval processing unit includes a retrieval instruction unit that receives a retrieval request for a desired blood pack from the input device 141 or a host system, and a retrieval rotation control that rotates the rotary shelf 120 to move the desired blood pack to a position where the desired blood pack can be retrieved from the retrieval door 131. And an exit door control unit that opens or unlocks the exit door 131 corresponding to the desired blood pack.

The operation of loading and unloading a blood pack into and from the automatic blood storage apparatus 100 configured as described above will be described in further detail.
First, when a blood pack is stored in the automatic blood storage apparatus 100, the front door 130 is unlocked by an instruction from the input device 141, an instruction from a higher system, or a physical key operation. Opens the full door 130 to refill the blood pack.
In this operation, the rotating shelf 120 is manually rotatable in conjunction with the unlocking of the full door 130.
Thus, the operator can store the blood pack at an arbitrary position in an arbitrary stage, and since the opening area of the full-surface door 130 is large, the operator can quickly replenish the blood pack in a large amount.

When the replenishment of the blood packs by the operator is completed and the full door 130 is closed, the storage processing unit of the control unit 140 rotates the rotating shelf 120, and information on each blood pack held on the rotating shelf 120, and The holding position information of the blood pack on the rotating shelf 120 is obtained, and the obtained information is stored in the storage means or transferred to the host system.
Since the information of each blood pack and the holding position information of each blood pack on the rotating shelf 120 are automatically acquired after the replenishment, the operator need only randomly store the blood pack in a vacant position. The burden on the user is extremely small, the time during which the entire door 130 is opened is short, and the influence on the environment such as the temperature and humidity of the internal storage space 111 is small.
In addition, when the storage processing unit of the control unit 140 rotates the rotating shelf 120, the inside of the internal storage space 111 can be agitated. The environment such as the temperature and humidity of the housing space 111 can be quickly stabilized.

When taking out a blood pack from the automatic blood storage apparatus 100, the take-out instruction unit receives a take-out request including information such as the type and quantity of the necessary blood pack input to the input device 141 by the operator.
These pieces of information may be transmitted directly from the upper system to the retrieval instruction unit.
The retrieval instruction unit transfers information such as the type and quantity of blood packs required for the retrieval rotation control unit, and the retrieval rotation control unit that receives the information transmits the information of each blood pack from the storage unit or the host system, and The holding position information of the blood pack on the rotating shelf 120 is acquired, and the rotating shelf 120 is rotated to move the matching blood pack to a position where the matching blood pack can be taken out from the exit door 131.
At this time, if there are a plurality of blood packs that meet the condition of the retrieval request, the retrieval rotation control unit considers the storage period or the like based on the information of each stored blood pack and has a higher retrieval priority. Control things to be taken out.
The exit door control unit receives the notification of the stage corresponding to the completion of rotation from the exit rotation control unit, opens or unlocks the exit door 131 corresponding to the desired blood pack, and displays the exit corresponding to the exit door 131. The unit 133 (display lamp in the present embodiment) is turned on.
The operator takes out the blood pack from the exit door 131 indicated by the exit display section 133.

When a plurality of blood packs are requested to be taken out together, when the worker takes out one blood pack and closes the delivery door 131, the above processing is repeated for the next blood pack.
The taken blood pack may be read by an external reading device to confirm the completion of the delivery of each blood pack and to check that the correct blood pack has been correctly taken out. An input device 141 including a tablet terminal may be used as the reading device.
Further, the retrieval display section 133 may be a graphic display device such as a liquid crystal panel. In this case, the progress of the retrieval process from the time of the retrieval request and the information on the scheduled retrieval door 131 may be sequentially displayed. Similar information may be displayed on the input device 141 including a tablet terminal.
Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, the plurality of exit doors 131 and the exit display unit 133 are provided on the full door 130, but the plurality of exit doors and the exit display unit may be provided independently of the full door, A plurality of exit doors and exit display sections, and an entire door may be provided on different side surfaces of the storage main body.

100 · · · Automatic blood storage device 110 · · · Storage main body 111 · · · Internal storage space 112 · · · Cooling device 120 · · · Rotating shelf 121 · · · Housing unit 122 · · · Rotating shelf drive unit 123 · ··· Rotating shaft 130 ··· Full door 131 ··· Outgoing door 132 ··· Restricted wall (access restriction means)
133 ··· Outgoing display unit 140 ··· Control unit 141 ··· Input device 150 ··· Information acquisition unit

Claims (7)

An automatic blood storage system having a storage main body for storing a blood pack in an internal storage space, a multi-stage rotary shelf provided in the internal storage space of the storage main body, and a plurality of exit doors corresponding to each stage of the rotary shelf. A storage device,
The storage main body is provided on one side with an entire door having an opening area corresponding to the entire multi-stage rotating shelf ,
An automatic blood storage device , wherein an access control unit that allows access to only one blood pack when opened is provided on the internal storage space side of the plurality of retrieval doors .   The automatic blood storage device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of exit doors are provided on the front door. 3. The automatic blood storage apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the access restriction unit has a restriction wall having an opening having a shape accessible to only one blood pack. An automatic blood storage system having a storage main body for storing a blood pack in an internal storage space, a multi-stage rotary shelf provided in the internal storage space of the storage main body, and a plurality of exit doors corresponding to each stage of the rotary shelf. A storage device,
The storage main body is provided on one side with an entire door having an opening area corresponding to the entire multi-stage rotating shelf,
The blood automatic storage device has an information acquisition unit that acquires information of a blood pack, and a control unit that controls the rotating shelf, the exit door, and the information acquisition unit,
The automatic blood storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information acquisition unit includes a plurality of fixed sensors installed in an internal storage space of the storage main body corresponding to each stage of the rotating shelf. The control unit has a storage processing unit,
The storage processing unit, by rotating the rotary shelf when the entire door is closed, the information of each blood pack held on the rotary shelf, and the holding position information of each blood pack on the rotary shelf. The automatic blood storage device according to claim 4, wherein the automatic blood storage device is acquired. The control unit has a shipping processing unit,
The delivery processing unit includes a delivery instruction unit that receives a delivery request for a desired blood pack, a delivery rotation control unit that rotates the rotating shelf to move a desired blood pack to a position where the desired blood pack can be removed from the delivery door, and a desired blood pack. A release door control unit that opens or unlocks the release door corresponding to
Wherein said unloading rotation control unit, which based on the information of each blood pack held, and controlling so that is taken as a high unloading priority among the plurality of blood packs that matches the goods issue requirements An automatic blood storage device according to claim 4 or 5 . The entire door has a delivery display unit,
The automatic blood storage device according to claim 6 , wherein the retrieval door control unit further controls a display state of the retrieval display unit.

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