Medical Device Display Sharing for Text Output
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical devices without a text display option cannot effectively output meaningful information to users, leading to increased costs and complexity when adding a text output feature to support multiple languages, especially for non-Latin alphabets, due to regulatory requirements.
Innovation Solution
A process where a medical device with a display option (type A) communicates with another device without a display (type B) to share its display for outputting textual information, using an information identifier to retrieve and display messages in the appropriate language from a database, allowing central alarm generation and language adaptation without upgrading the type B device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a text display option is added to simple medical devices, then information output capability is improved, but device costs and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication interface as an intermediary between the simple medical device (type B) and a complex medical device (type A) that has text display capabilities. The type B device transmits alarm messages and status information through this intermediary to the type A device, which then displays the information using its own display device. This allows the simple device to achieve text output capability without adding the complexity of a display system to it.
Solution Approach 2:
The display device of the complex medical device (type A) is made universal by allowing it to display not only its own information but also information from connected simple medical devices (type B). The communication interface enables the display device to serve multiple purposes: displaying alarms, status messages, and information from multiple different device sources, thereby reducing overall system complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple languages are supported in the text display, then adaptability to different countries is improved, but implementation complexity and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The complex medical device (type A) with text display capabilities serves as a universal platform that can display information in multiple languages. When a simple medical device (type B) connects to it, the type A device retrieves the appropriate language version of alarm messages and status information from its memory based on the selected language setting. This allows multiple languages to be supported without adding language processing complexity to the simple devices.
Data Source
AI summary
A process for the operation of a type A medical device (10) together with a type B medical device (12) includes connecting the medical devices (10, 12) communicatively to one another. The type A medical device (10) includes a display device (14) suitable for the display of texts in different languages. The type B medical device (12) has no text display features. The type B medical device (12) transmits a datagram (22) with an information identifier (44) to the type A medical device (10) for displaying a textual or at least partially textual piece of information (20). Upon receipt of an information identifier (44) from a medical device database (26), the type A medical device (10) loads a piece of information (20) consistent with the information identifier (44) and displays this piece of information with the display device (14) and for the type B medical device (12).