Shielded enclosure comprising modular containers

    公开(公告)号:US12207454B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-21

    申请号:US18322551

    申请日:2023-05-23

    Abstract: A modular system of medical article containers is used to form enclosures of selectable storage space. The containers are each RF shielded and include an interconnect wall for connecting to another container to form the enclosure. The interconnect walls have a complementary design. The interconnect seam of two containers includes an electrically conductive component that also interconnects the RF shields of the two containers together. The interconnect seam also includes a tortuous path seal for greater RF shielding of the enclosure. The walls of the containers include a substrate of non-electrically conductive material for weight reduction and an electrically conductive element that is coextensive with the substrate. One embodiment is a plastic substrate with a metallic mesh. The enclosure provides a Faraday cage about the interconnected containers. Enclosures of differing heights and sizes can be made, and they may be stacked or otherwise assembled.

    Medical inventory management of storage container

    公开(公告)号:US10360350B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-23

    申请号:US15413278

    申请日:2017-01-23

    Abstract: An inventory system for wirelessly taking inventories of mobile medical dispensing carts comprises an easily assemblable and disassemblable enclosure comprising interconnected electrically conductive walls to form a Faraday cage. The interior space defined by the walls is large enough to accept the mobile carts. RFID readers are placed within the enclosure directed at the mobile cart to excite and read the RFID tags disposed on the medical articles within the cart. The walls of the enclosure are flexible and one of the walls is rolled up and down to act as a door to the interior space. A host computer stores the inventory of the cart and compares it against a previous inventory existence for resupply purposes. The host computer also detects expired and recalled medical articles in the cart. If a recalled article is detected, the host computer determines if a substitute article exists.

    MEDICAL ARTICLE STORAGE CONTAINER HAVING RF SHIELD AND TORTUOUS PATH SEAL

    公开(公告)号:US20190104652A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-04

    申请号:US16174208

    申请日:2018-10-29

    Abstract: A modular system of plastic walls having embedded and coextensive electrically conductive components configured to electrically connect with each other when the walls are mated. The walls have joining edges that form joint seams with other walls when joined together to create an enclosure. When enough walls are used to surround a storage space, a Faraday cage is created. The walls additionally have portions of tortuous paths at each joining edge that mate with a complementary portion of a tortuous path of another wall when the walls are joined together. A torturous path seal is thereby created at each joint seam. The plastic walls can be configured in a multiplicity of combinations to create various enclosures necessary for RFID-enabled storage and tracking of medical articles. Containers, enclosures, cabinets, and drawers of differing heights and sizes can be made and they may be stacked or otherwise assembled.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A MEDICAL CONTAINER

    公开(公告)号:US20170270402A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-21

    申请号:US15451310

    申请日:2017-03-06

    CPC classification number: G06K19/07786 A61J2205/60

    Abstract: A wireless identification system and method used for identifying medical vials having a metallic crimp includes an RFID tag having a first antenna element located at the crimp so as to be capacitively coupled to the crimp to increase the effective surface area of the RFID antenna, and a second antenna element mounted to the side of the vial between the ends of the labeling mounted on the vial so as to not mask any visually readable information of the labeling. Dielectric adhesive is used in one embodiment to couple the antenna element to the crimp. The invention is particularly useful for small vials. A manufacturing method in which the wireless tag is an integral part of the container is disclosed.

    BULK ENCODING OF MEDICAL ITEMS USING RFID TAGS
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    发明申请
    BULK ENCODING OF MEDICAL ITEMS USING RFID TAGS 有权
    使用RFID标签对医疗项目进行大量编码

    公开(公告)号:US20170053071A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-23

    申请号:US15241026

    申请日:2016-08-18

    Inventor: Jimmy C. Caputo

    Abstract: A system and method for bulk encoding medical items in a tracking system in a healthcare facility comprises attaching to each of a plurality of identical medical items a blank RFID tag. When activated simultaneously, the serial numbers of all RFID tags on all the identical medical items are read and their serial numbers are associated with the pre-stored characteristics of the medical item in a data base. The RFID tags are blank in that they include no human-readable data concerning the medical article to which the RFID tag is attached. A data mining system and method are provided for mining the database.

    Abstract translation: 用于在卫生保健设施的跟踪系统中批量编码医疗物品的系统和方法包括将多个相同的医疗物品附接到空白的RFID标签。 当同时激活时,读取所有相同医疗项目上所有RFID标签的序列号,并将其序列号与数据库中医疗项目的预先存储的特征相关联。 RFID标签是空白的,因为它们不包括关于RFID标签附着的医疗用品的人类可读数据。 提供数据挖掘系统和方法来挖掘数据库。

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