Measuring device

• US 10,085,693 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2014
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Life Science Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sharp Life Science Corporation
• Inventors: Yamanaka, Mikihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): WEHRHEIM, LINDSEY GAIL
• Application Number:
  US14/774,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20160022214A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,383 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1455 using optical sensors, e.g. spectral photometrical oximeters
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6826 Finger
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6843 Monitoring or controlling sensor contact pressure

Abstract

A measuring device that can obtain a stable measurement result is realized. The measuring device includes a measuring portion (14) that is arranged in one of a placing portion (12) where a fingertip portion (A) is placed, and an interposing portion (11) facing the placing portion (12), and interposing, together with the placing portion, the fingertip portion (A), emits excitation light and receives fluorescence, and a fixing force supply portion (13) that supplies, to the fingertip portion (A) through the interposing portion (11), force which is capable of fixing a relative positional relationship between the fingertip portion (A) and the measuring portion (14).

Claims

1. A measuring device measuring an amount of a fluorescent material, based on an intensity of fluorescence that is generated from the fluorescent material within a living body excited by excitation light with which a measurement target region of the living body is irradiated, the device comprising:

a placing portion where the measurement target region is placed;

an interposing portion that faces the placing portion, the measurement target region being interposed between the placing portion and the interposing portion;

an emitting portion that is arranged in one of the placing portion and the interposing portion, and emits the excitation light;

a light-receiving portion that is arranged in one of the placing portion and the interposing portion, and receives the fluorescence; and

a fixing force supply portion that supplies, to the measurement target region through the interposing portion, force which is capable of fixing a relative positional relationship between the measurement target region and the light-receiving portion.

2. The measuring device according to claim 1,

wherein the placing portion and the interposing portion have facing faces which face each other in a state of interposing the measurement target region therebetween, and

the light-receiving portion protrudes from the facing face of the placing portion or of the interposing portion.

3. The measuring device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an outer edge portion that is formed on a periphery of the light-receiving portion,

wherein the outer edge portion has an outer edge contact face which contacts with the measurement target region.

4. The measuring device according to claim 3,

wherein the light-receiving portion has a light-receiving face which receives the fluorescence, and

a concave portion is formed by positioning the light-receiving face at a position which is deeper than the outer edge contact face.

5. The measuring device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a mirror face portion provided on a side face within the concave portion, wherein the mirror face portion reflects portions of the fluorescence which are incident on the mirror face portion.

6. The measuring device according to claim 3,

wherein a detachable light-transmitting member is arranged on the outer edge contact face.

7. The measuring device according to claim 4,

wherein a detachable light-transmitting member is arranged on the outer edge contact face.

8. The measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a fixing force sensor that measures a value of force which is applied by the fixing force supply portion; and

a fixing force control portion that controls the fixing force supply portion such that the force which is applied by the fixing force supply portion is a predetermined value or more, depending on a measurement result by the fixing force sensor.

9. The measuring device according to claim 1,

wherein the measurement target region is a fingertip.