US 12,354,733 B2
Management of the distribution of gas cylinders in a hospital facility
Federica Bellingeri, Paris (FR); Stephane Popovic, Gentilly (FR); Adrien Campagnac, Paris (FR); and Adrien Mas, Paris (FR)
Assigned to L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, Paris (FR)
Filed by L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude, Paris (FR)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/672,408.
Claims priority of application No. 2101576 (FR), filed on Feb. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0262501 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G01F 23/18 (2006.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); H04Q 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 40/20 (2018.01) [G01F 23/18 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); H04Q 9/00 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/40 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing mobile gas cylinders within a hospital facility comprising multiple care departments between which gas cylinders travel and in which said gas cylinders are used, wherein:
a. each gas cylinder is equipped with a gas distribution valve comprising an electronic device configured so as to determine and supply at least one item of information about the amount of gas in the gas cylinder under consideration, and furthermore comprising a wireless communication module configured so as to transfer said at least one item of gas amount information, via a wireless communication protocol, and
b. the hospital facility is equipped with a plurality of receivers arranged at least in the care departments and configured so as to receive said at least one item of gas amount information transmitted by each gas cylinder present in said care departments and to transmit said at least one item of gas amount information to data processing means,
wherein the data processing means is:
i. processing said at least one item of gas amount information transmitted for each gas cylinder, and deducing therefrom whether each gas cylinder is a full gas cylinder or an empty gas cylinder and/or possibly a cylinder currently being used, and
ii. commanding, on at least one display screen, a display, for one or more care departments, of at least:
the number of full gas cylinders present in the one or more care departments under consideration, and
the number of empty gas cylinders present in the one or more care departments under consideration,
and
the number of gas cylinders currently being used present in the one or more care departments under consideration and/or
the total number of gas cylinders present in the one or more care departments under consideration.