Biological information acquisition device and electronic device

• US 10,265,003 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2015
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Eguchi, Tsukasa, Ishiguro, Hideto
• Primary Examiner(s): Winakur, Eric F
• Application Number:
  US14/818,605
• Publication Number:
  US 20160058339A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,357 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02007 Evaluating blood vessel condition, e.g. elasticity, compliance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• 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 5/489 Blood vessels
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/633 comprising polycyclic condensed aromatic hydrocarbons as substituents on the nitrogen atom
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/656 comprising two or more different heteroatoms per ring H10K85/652 takes precedence

Abstract

A small biological information acquisition device that can noninvasively acquire biological information is provided. The biological information acquisition device includes a first light emitting element 30A serving as a first infrared light source that is used for acquiring positional information of blood vessels and emits infrared light having a peak wavelength λ1, and a second light emitting element 30B serving as a second infrared light source that is used for spectral analysis and emits infrared light having a peak wavelength λ2 different from the peak wavelength λ1.

Claims

1. A biological information acquisition device comprising:

a first infrared light source that emits infrared light having a peak wavelength λ

1;

a second infrared light source that emits infrared light having a peak wavelength λ

2 different from the peak wavelength λ

1;

a light source substrate having a front surface and a back surface, one of the first infrared light source and the second infrared light source being disposed on the front surface of the light source substrate and the other one of the first infrared light source and the second infrared light source being disposed with respect to the light source substrate;

a light receiving portion that receives infrared light emitted by the first infrared light source or the second infrared light source; and

a light receiving portion substrate having a front surface and a back surface, the light receiving portion being disposed on the front surface of the light receiving portion substrate,

the light source substrate and the light receiving portion substrate being stacked with each other, with the back surface of the light source substrate and the front surface of the light receiving portion substrate facing each other, and

the light receiving portion being disposed on a side opposite to a direction in which infrared light is emitted by the first infrared light source or the second infrared light source.

2. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 1,

wherein the peak wavelength λ

1 is in a range of greater than 700 nm to 900 nm or less.

3. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 1,

wherein the peak wavelength λ

2 is in a range of greater than 900 nm to 2000 nm or less.

4. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 1,

wherein the first infrared light source is configured to acquire positional information of blood vessels.

5. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 1,

wherein the second infrared light source is configured to acquire an amount of a specific component contained in blood.

6. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 1,

wherein both of the first infrared light source and the second infrared light source are disposed on the front surface of the light source substrate.

7. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 6,

wherein the first infrared light source includes a plurality of the first infrared light sources and the second infrared light source includes a plurality of the second infrared light sources, and

the second infrared light sources are larger in number than the first infrared light sources.

8. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 1,

wherein one of the first infrared light source and the second infrared light source is disposed on the front surface of the light source substrate, with the other one of the first infrared light source and the second infrared light source being disposed around the front surface of the light source substrate.

9. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 8,

wherein the second infrared light source includes a plurality of the second infrared light sources, and

each of the plurality of second infrared light sources has a different peak wavelength λ

2.

10. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 9,

wherein the second infrared light sources are LED elements.

11. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 1,

wherein at least one of the first infrared light source and the second infrared light source is an organic electroluminescent element.

12. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 1, comprising:

a variable band pass filter configured to change a spectral distribution of infrared light that is incident on the light receiving portion.

13. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 12, further comprising

a controller configured to control the variable band pass filter such that infrared light having the peak wavelength λ

1 and infrared light having the peak wavelength λ

2 are incident on the light receiving portion in different time periods.

14. The biological information acquisition device according to claim 12, further comprising

a controller configured to control the variable band pass filter such that infrared light having peak wavelengths λ

2 of different values is incident on the light receiving portion in different time periods,

wherein the second infrared light source is a wide-band infrared light source that emits light having a wavelength of 900 nm or more to 2000 nm or less.

15. An electronic device comprising the biological information acquisition device according to claim 1.