System for generating a humanly perceptible signal as a reminder for administration of a medical treatment

US6373787B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Fritz Breimesser · Nürnberg, DE
• Klaus Abraham-Fuchs · Erlangen, DE
• Thomas Birkhoelzer · Weisendorf, DE
• Alexander Herold · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 17, 2000
• Grant date: Apr 16, 2002
• Expiry date: Jul 17, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G04G13/00
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for generating a humanly perceptible signal at one or more predetermined points in time, at which one or more medications must be taken or a time-dependent medical procedure must be implemented, includes a control unit at which the time or times are stored, and which includes a time measuring unit which provides a signal upon the occurrence of the time or times, and at least one signaling device disposed remote from said control unit, which receives a signal via a communication system from the control unit and which emits a visually perceptible reminder upon receipt of the signal. The control unit and the signal device are disposed in a building which is occupied, or can be occupied at times, by a patient, and the communication system is integrated as a part of the building.