JPH11148933A - Health inspection system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recognize a self health state by one self at once, by detecting a predetermined chemical substance from excretions in a toilet with the use of a biosensor or the like, judging a health state and displaying or informing in a visual, auditory manner. SOLUTION: Through manipulation of a power source switch 1 and a switch 3 for every inspection item of a health inspection system 10, a biosensor in a Western toilet detects a predetermined chemical substance corresponding to the manipulation of the switch 3 from excretions in the toilet. A detection signal corresponding to a detection amount of the substance is output to a CPU 24 of a microcomputer 22. The CPU 24 judges a health state on the basis of the input detection signal and outputs a judgment signal corresponding to a result of the judgment to a display panel 4. The display panel 4 displays the health state visually by characters and images on the basis of the input judgment signal. When a management switch 2 for every person is manipulated, daily data for every person are recorded to a disk medium, so that one can diagnose the health state by one self or submit the data to a doctor.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention examines a chemical substance in the excrement from a human body at a stage in a toilet facility, and immediately judges a health condition or informs a person in the toilet facility. The present invention relates to a health examination system used for a medical examination.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to inspect a person's health condition, there are facilities and institutions such as a regular medical checkup and a medical checkup. With the early detection of the disease, the confirmation of health, and the advice to be aware of in everyday life, the results can be used in subsequent life.

[0003]

However, in such a conventional method for examining a health condition, no matter which method is selected, a person must go to a medical institution such as a hospital. However, there is a problem that the test result does not come out immediately and is kept waiting for a long time.

[0004] Even if a vehicle for examination does not need to come to a medical institution due to coming to a company or school, it is the same in that the examination result is kept waiting for a long time. If there is a disease while waiting for the test results for a long time, the disease progresses, and there is a problem that a person cannot take any measures against the progress of the disease.

[0005] In view of the above problems, the present invention is intended to allow a person to go to a medical institution such as a hospital from the excrement after the food which the human body has ingested from a daily meal is finally digested and absorbed. Without having to be able to perform tests in daily life without having to, and being able to know the test results immediately on the spot, it is possible to easily find out the status of disease discovery and recovery processes. It is an object to provide a health examination system.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems To solve the above problems, a health examination system according to the present invention uses the following means.

(1) Detecting means provided in a toilet of a toilet facility for detecting a predetermined chemical substance in excrement, and health condition is determined based on a detection signal from the detecting means provided in the toilet facility. Determining means, provided in the toilet facility, and display means for visually displaying a health condition by characters, images, or the like based on a determination signal from the determining means, and the detecting means provided in the toilet facility, An operation means for operating the operation of the determination means and the display means is provided.

(2) A detecting means provided in the toilet of the toilet facility for detecting a predetermined chemical substance in the excrement, and a health condition is determined based on a detection signal from the detecting means provided in the toilet facility. Determining means for performing, a sound means provided in the toilet facility and audibly informing of a health condition by voice based on a determination signal from the determining means, and the detecting means provided in the toilet facility,
An operation means for operating the operation of the judgment means and the sound means is provided.

According to the health examination system having the above-mentioned constitutions (1) and (2), by operating the operating means,
The detecting means detects a predetermined chemical substance from the excrement in the toilet of the toilet facility, and outputs a detection signal corresponding to the detected amount of the chemical substance to the determining means. The determining means determines a health condition based on the detection signal input from the detecting means,
A judgment signal corresponding to the judgment result is output to the display means or the sound means. The display means or the voice means visually displays the health condition by characters, images, or the like based on the determination signal input from the determination means, or notifies the person audibly by sound. Therefore, a person can immediately know about his / her health condition after using the toilet facility by seeing such a display or hearing such a sound.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 7
FIG. 1 is a diagram referred to for explaining a health examination system 10 according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing a Western style toilet 12 installed in a toilet room (toilet facilities, not shown). A water storage tank 16 is provided at an upper rear portion of a toilet seat 14 of the Western style toilet 12. ing. As shown in FIG. 3, on the water storage tank 16, as shown in FIG. 3, a power switch 1, a personal management switch 2, a test item switch 3, a notification means switch 8, an LCD (liquid crystal display panel), etc., which constitute the health examination system 10. Display panel 4 (display means), printer 5
Output point 5 of print (display means) from (see FIG. 1)
a, a disk insertion slot 6a for inserting and removing a disk medium (storage means, not shown) for individual management from the disk drive unit 6 (see FIG. 1), and a speaker 7 for audio output
A system unit 18 having (voice means) and the like is provided.

The various switches 1, 2, 3, 8 and the CPU 24 of the microcomputer 22 (see FIG. 1).
Constitutes operation means. FD (Floppy Disk), CD
(Compact disc) or MD (Mini disc)
Etc., but other types of disk media may be used.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a biosensor 20 (detection means) is provided in the Western toilet 12 inside the toilet seat 14, and the biosensor 20 is provided in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, it is electrically connected to a CPU 24 (determining means) of a microcomputer 22 provided in the system unit 18.

As shown in FIG. 1, the CPU 24 of the microcomputer 22 includes, in addition to the biosensor 20,
Various switches 1, 2, 3, 8, a display panel 4, a printer 5, a disk drive unit 6, and a speaker 7 are connected, and the CPU 24 exchanges signals with them to supervise and control their operations. It has become. Also C
The RAM 24 in the microcomputer 22 used for temporarily storing personal data to be stored in the disk medium set in the disk drive unit 6 is connected to the PU 24.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the biosensor 20 has a plurality of sensors 20a, 20b,..., Which use, for example, an enzyme or a microorganism as a molecular recognition element. The same biosensor as described above can be used.

That is, as shown in FIG. 8, a conventional biosensor 50 has, for example, an enzyme 5 around its electrode 50a.
2 is constituted by a transducer (physical chemical device), which selectively reacts only with a specific chemical substance 54 and converts it into a change in an electric signal, thereby determining whether or not the chemical substance 54 exists. The amount can be detected. Some biosensors using such enzymes 52, microorganisms and the like as molecular recognition elements have already been put to practical use.

As described above, the plurality of sensors 20a, 20b,... Of the biosensor 20 can detect the presence or absence and the amount of various chemical substances based on the same principle as the above-described conventional biosensor 50. It has become.

The molecular recognition element used for the transducer of the biosensor 20 includes an antibody, a receptor, an organelle, animal and plant cells, animal and plant tissues, in addition to enzymes and microorganisms. Then, at the center of the biosensor 20, the stool occult blood reaction sensor 2
1 can be provided.

According to the health examination system 10 according to the present embodiment, by operating the power switch 1 of the operation means and the switch 3 for each examination item, the biopsy can be performed from the excrement in the Western toilet 12 in the toilet room. Sensor 20
Detects a predetermined chemical substance corresponding to the operation of the switch 3 for each inspection item, and outputs a detection signal corresponding to the detected amount of the chemical substance to the CPU 24 of the microcomputer 22.

CPU 24 of microcomputer 22
Determines a health condition based on the input detection signal and displays a determination signal corresponding to the determination result on the display panel 4.
Output to The display panel 4 visually displays the health status by characters or images based on the input determination signal.
By looking at this display, a person can immediately know his / her health condition after using the toilet room.

As a display method of the display panel 4, in addition to displaying the expected disease name, cause, and the like in characters, the normal state and the emergency state are divided into a plurality of steps, and the states are classified by numerals and alphabets. And may be displayed stepwise, or may be displayed stepwise in any method such as the length and size of a figure such as a line or a circle.

By operating the notification means-specific switch 8, it is possible to notify a person of a health condition by using a printer 5 or a speaker 7 for voice output instead of the display panel 4. As the notification method by voice, any notification method may be used, such as presence or absence of a simple sound, its level, or an announcement in words.

By operating the individual management switch 2, data of one's own when using the toilet room on a daily basis is recorded on a disk medium for each individual, and is printed out from a print output portion 5 a by the printer 5 as needed. Then, the user can diagnose the health condition by himself / herself from the recorded contents of the print, or can present a print of the recorded contents to a doctor.

The chemical substances contained in urine include proteins, urine sugar, urea, uric acid, urobilinogen, vanillandelic acid, hydroxyindoleacetic acid, uroporphyrin, coproporphyrin, calcium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, creatine, creatinine, amylase, Hydroxycorticosteroids, ketosteroids,
There are adrenaline, noradrenaline, etc., but there is a possibility that they will be newly discovered due to future technological innovation and increase in others. In addition to such chemical substances to be tested, urine acidity (PH), specific gravity, and the like can also be powerful test objects, and a sensor suitable for them can be used.

The chemicals contained in the stool include:
There are proteins, bilirubin, urobilinogen, blood, etc., but there is a possibility that they will be newly discovered due to technological innovation in the future and increase in others.

The physical condition of a human body is often found by examining urine and stool, which are excretions from the body, and the health examination system 10 according to the present embodiment is placed in a toilet room.
By measuring the above-mentioned chemical substances contained in urine and stool by the biosensor 20, various diseases such as liver, kidney, and digestive system can be detected at an early stage.

In the above-described embodiment, the health inspection system 10 is used for the Western-style toilet 12, but the health inspection system of the present invention can be applied to any type of toilet, such as a Japanese-style toilet or a male urinal. It goes without saying that it can be used.

In the above embodiment, the health test system 10 uses the electrode-type biosensor 20. However, the health test system of the present invention performs an enzyme reaction and a chemiluminescence reaction in addition to the electrode-type biosensor. A coupled photobiosensor, an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor that measures PH, a biosensor that uses a crystal oscillator as a transducer that can measure a small change in mass, or the like may be used. Since the change always accompanies, a bio thermistor which detects this by a thermistor can also be used.

In addition, toilet facilities are not only at home,
It may be installed in a workplace, hospital, public facility, department store, or any other location. In addition, by carrying a disk medium for storage by a person, data can be recorded on the disk medium without leaking individual data in toilet facilities at any place.

Further, in the above embodiment, the system unit 18 is arranged at the upper rear part of the Western style toilet 12.
It may be thinned and installed on a wall in the toilet, or may be embedded in the wall of the toilet at the time of construction.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been specifically described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and may be variously modified based on the technical idea of the present invention. Can be changed.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since a person can immediately know his / her health condition after using the toilet facilities, it is possible to carry out tests in daily life without having to go to a medical institution such as a hospital. As a result, the test result can be immediately known, so that the treatment can be started early.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram showing a schematic configuration of a health examination system 10 according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of a Western toilet 12 to which the health examination system 10 of FIG. 1 is attached.

FIG. 3 is a view of the Western style toilet 12 in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a view of the Western style toilet bowl 12 in FIG.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the Western style toilet 12 in FIG. 3 taken along line VV.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged perspective view of the biosensor 20 in FIG.

7 is a VII-V of the biosensor 20 in FIG.
FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line II.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating the operation of a conventional biosensor 50.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Power switch 2 Individual management switch 3 Inspection item switch 4 Display panel 5 Printer 5a Output part 6 Disk drive part 6a Disk insertion slot 7 Audio output speaker 7 8 Notification means switch 10 Health examination system 12 Western style toilet 14 Toilet seat 16 Water Storage Tank 18 System Unit 20 Biosensor 20a, 20b Sensor 21 Occult Blood Reaction Sensor 22 Microcomputer 24 CPU 26 RAM 50 Biosensor 50a Electrode 52 Enzyme 54 Chemical Substance

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A detecting means provided in a toilet of a toilet facility for detecting a predetermined chemical substance in excrement, and a health condition is determined based on a detection signal from the detecting means provided in the toilet facility. Determination means; display means provided in the toilet facility for visually displaying a health condition by characters or images based on a determination signal from the determination means; and detection means provided in the toilet facility. A health examination system, comprising: operation means for operating the operation of the means and the display means. 2. A detecting means provided in a toilet of a toilet facility for detecting a predetermined chemical substance in excrement, and a health condition is determined based on a detection signal from the detecting means provided in the toilet facility. Determining means; provided in the toilet facility; voice means for audibly informing of a health condition based on a determination signal from the determining means; and detecting means provided in the toilet facility, determining means, and voice. A health examination system, comprising: operation means for operating the operation of the means. 3. The health examination system according to claim 1, wherein a biosensor is used as the detection unit. 4. The health examination system according to claim 1, wherein a CPU of a microcomputer is used as the determination unit. 5. The health examination system according to claim 1, wherein a liquid crystal display panel is used as said display means. 6. The health examination system according to claim 1, wherein a printer is used as the display unit. 7. A storage means for storing a result of the determination by the determining means each time the toilet facility is used, wherein the result of the determination stored in the storing means is displayed by the display means at any time or notified by the audio means. The health examination system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the health examination system can be used. 8. The health examination system according to claim 7, wherein a disk-type storage medium is used as said storage means.