JPH11308379A - Health abnormality reporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To judge any abnormality in the health of a resident by detecting the door opening/closing of a normally used refrigerator when any abnormality occurs in the life of a general home and reporting the abnormality by automatically originating a call to a telephone at the destination to report while using the dial number of the destination to report when the door is not opened or closed after the lapse of a fixed time. SOLUTION: When the door of a refrigerator is not opened or closed after the lapse of a fixed time, a door non-used detecting circuit 3 provided on an alarm 200 reports abnormality to a door opening/closing I/F 4. When any abnormality is detected, the abnormality is reported to a telephone set 9 at the destination to report by automatically performing dialing from a telephone network I/F 7 to a telephone network 8 through a first dial signal registered in a report destination dial memory 3 from a dial signal sending circuit 6. When the telephone set 9 at the destination to report answers, the abnormality is reported in voice from an audio signal sending circuit 10.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a health abnormality reporting device for automatically detecting and reporting a health change of a resident from a door opening / closing pattern of a refrigerator.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As this kind of notification system, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
Conventionally, it is known from Japanese Patent Publication No. 196662 that life abnormalities are judged based on an electric signal from a water meter to determine whether there is an abnormality in the water use pattern. It is determined that an abnormality has occurred. Also,
Although the completion of the report is known from Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-74954, it does not correspond to giving the resident a sense of mental security by voice response to the resident merely by confirming that the report process has been performed.

[0003]

According to the conventional technology, a resident having a water supply facility such as an urban water supply facility, a municipal water supply facility, or a municipal water supply facility that supplies water to a single resident through a water meter. It was limited and was an obstacle to its spread. In addition, the abnormal input of life from the water meter to the notification device is connected by wire, and wiring work is required. Report completion was only reception of a completion signal from the report destination, and the report destination could not respond to the resident by the situation around the reporting device or by voice to the resident.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention focuses on the use state of a refrigerator, which is always provided in a kitchen of a general household, and changes the frequency of opening and closing of the refrigerator door. It is a first object of the present invention to provide a notification device that determines that an abnormality has occurred in a person's health and reports the abnormality.

[0005] Further, the refrigerator door opening / closing frequency detecting section and the notification device are connected by a method using weak radio or low-power radio, so that wiring work is unnecessary and a room where a resident is always living (living room). It is a second object of the present invention to provide a reporting device that can be easily attached to a living room, a bedroom, etc. and can be easily moved.

Further, a function of discriminating a personal identification number is provided in the reporting device. When a personal identification number and a signal of a control function are received from a report destination telephone, a function of calling a resident is provided. It is a third object of the present invention to provide a reporting device having a function of receiving surrounding sounds provided by the reporting device.

In order to achieve the above object, a report destination dial number of a report destination telephone is registered in advance in a report destination dial memory, and an open / closed state of a refrigerator door is detected. By not using the report destination dial number, automatically reporting to the report destination telephone and making an error report, and making the PIN transmitted from the report destination telephone complete the report by the circuit that determines the password, The control function signal transmitted next activates the function of switching between calling to the resident and receiving the surrounding sound provided by the resident's notification device.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a health abnormality notification device according to the present invention includes a refrigerator door switch 1 composed of a reed switch and a magnet (the switch configuration is not limited to this), and a door open / close detection circuit 2 for detecting the open / closed state of the door. Are linked, and are input to the door non-use circuit 3 when the door is opened and closed. The door non-use circuit 3 notifies the door opening / closing I / F 4 of an abnormality when the door has not been opened / closed even after a certain period of time has elapsed.

When an abnormality is detected, the first dial number registered in the report destination dial memory 3 is sent from the dial signal transmitting circuit 6 to the telephone network 8 from the telephone network I / F 7.
Dialing is automatically performed to notify the destination telephone 9 of the abnormality. When the report destination telephone 9 responds, the voice signal transmission circuit 10 makes a voice report of the abnormality. Upon receiving the signal of the code number of the report completion from the report destination telephone 9 which received the abnormality report, the contents decoded by the code number decoding circuit 13 are compared with the contents registered in the code number memory 11, and the code numbers are matched. If it is, it is stored in the notification completion memory 12, and the completion of the abnormality notification operation is recognized.

If the passwords do not match, the same notification operation as that of the first dial number is performed on the second registered dial number, and the notification operation is continued until the passwords match and are stored in the notification completion memory 12. repeat. Further, after receiving the personal identification number, by receiving a predetermined control signal, the receiver / interrogation switching circuit 14 activates an interrogation circuit (speaker) 15 when the control signal is an interrogation, and the resident side sends a notification destination. The voice response from the telephone 9 can be heard. Conversely, when the control signal is reception, the reception circuit (microphone) 16 is activated, and the sound around the notification device 200 on the resident side can be transmitted to the notification destination telephone 9. Also, in addition to the door opening / closing I / F 4, the emergency push button 17 is pressed, and the emergency push button I / F is pressed.
There is also a means for detecting at 18 and reporting to the report destination telephone 9, so that the resident can directly report an abnormality to the report destination telephone.

The CPU 19 is a microcomputer for controlling these functions. The input setting circuit 20 sets a dial number, a password and the like of a report destination. Further, the refrigerator door opening / closing frequency detection unit 100 and the notification device 2
Although the signal between the door opening / closing I / F 4 of 00 has been described in a wired manner, there are other methods such as an electric power line carrier system and a wireless system, and there are weak wireless or low power wireless as types of wireless.

[0012]

As described above, the present invention can be easily spread by reporting an abnormality to the outside according to the open / closed state of a refrigerator door, which has a high penetration rate in general households. Since the refrigerator and the notification device are connected wirelessly, wiring and installation work is not required.

In addition, the report destination telephone can notify the resident of the completion of the report by sending the personal identification number, and at the same time, sends the control signal for switching the calling or receiving function to the report device, thereby setting the report device. Since it is possible to confirm the surrounding state by sound and to send a voice to the notification device, it is possible to give the resident a sense of security. Although the sound of the resident can be heard, the privacy of the resident can be protected because the password system is used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a health abnormality notification device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Refrigerator door switch, 2 ... Door opening / closing detection circuit, 3 ... Door non-use detection circuit, 4 ... Door opening / closing I / F, 5 ... Notification destination dial memory, 6 ... Dial number transmission circuit, 7 ... Telephone network I /
F, 8: telephone network, 9: destination telephone, 10: voice signal transmission circuit, 11: password memory, 12: notification completion memory, 13: password decryption circuit, 14: receiving / call switching circuit, 15: calling Circuit (speaker), 16: receiving circuit (microphone), 17: emergency push button, 18: emergency push button I / F, 19: CPU, 20: input setting circuit,
100: refrigerator door opening / closing frequency detection unit; 200: notification device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A function to store a plurality of report destination dial numbers of a report destination telephone 9 in a report destination dial memory 12 which can be registered. In the reporting device,
Detecting the open / close state of the door of the refrigerator for daily use, the door is not opened / closed even after a certain period of time or more, and automatically sends an error notification to the call destination telephone using the call destination dial number to issue an abnormality report. A health anomaly reporting device characterized by performing.