Device for measuring human body-adipose

• US 20020198662A1
• Filed: 06/20/2001
• Published: 12/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chih-Yuh Chen
• Original Assignee: Chih-Yuh Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Chih-Yuh
• Application Number:
  US09/884,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20020198662A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/05 Detecting, measuring or recording for diagnosis by means of electric currents or magnetic fields; Measuring using microwaves or radio waves impedance plethysmography A61B5/0295; measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof A61B5/11; detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof A61B5/24
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4872 Body fat

Abstract

A device for measuring a man'"'"'s body-adipose includes two pairs of electrodes. Two contacting points of the two pairs of electrodes are formed into four circuits. The resistances measured out are input in a CPU for operation and the resistances measured between fingers of two hands are eliminated by the CPU so that the resistance of one'"'"'s body is not affected by different conditions of a man'"'"'s fingers, dry or damp degrees, rough or smooth degrees and large or small contacting dimensions, thus, possible to get a correct body resistance and accordingly to measure out an accurate value of a man'"'"'s body adipose.

Claims

1. A device for measuring human body-adipose comprising a housing provided with an input-key for putting-in related data, an LCD display fixed on an upper surface of said housing for showing said input data and a measured result, with said input data stored temporarily in a memory, four electrodes fixed in said housing, said four electrodes contacted respectively by a thumb and another finger of a left hand and by a thumb and another finger of a right hand, data obtained between said four electrodes and said thumbs and said other fingers transmitted to a CPU to carry on programmed operation;

characterized by said four electrodes functioning as measuring electrodes in circuits formed by said four electrodes and the fingers of two hands, said four electrodes formed into four circuits when the thumbs and the other fingers contact said electrodes, said four circuits including a first circuit (1) from the thumb to the other fingers of the left hand, a second circuit (2) from the thumb to the other finger of the right hand, a third circuit (3) from the thumb of said left hand through a body to the other fingers of said right hand 4, a fourth circuit (4) from the other finger of said left hand through said body to the thumb of said right hand, measured resistances putting in said CPU through said circuits for operation to get an accurate R_B value of a man'"'"'s body, said CPU calculating out the user'"'"'s body-adipose correctly.

3. The device for measuring body-adipose as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein said device can be made in a bathroom scale shape for measuring an R_B value of a lower half portion of a user'"'"'s body and then getting an accurate value of the user'"'"'s body-adipose through the operation of said CPU.

2. A device for measuring human body-adipose comprising a housing provided with an input-key for putting-in related data, an LCD display fixed on an upper surface of said housing for showing the input data and a measured result, said input data temporarily stored in a memory, and four electrodes fixed in said housing, said four electrodes contacted respectively by a thumb and another finger of a left hand and by a thumb and another finger of a right hand, the data obtained between said thumbs and said other fingers and said electrodes, said data transmitted to a CPU to carry calculation;

characterized by one pair of said electrodes connected in series by a preset resistance Rx, one of said electrodes formed into an unreal contacting point and the other electrodes functioning as a measuring electrodes in their circuits, four circuits formed among said four electrodes when said two thumbs and said other fingers of two hands contacting respectively said electrodes, said four circuits including a first circuit (1) from a thumb to the other fingers of a left hand, a second circuit (2) from a thumb to another finger of a right hand, a third circuit (3) from the thumb through a body to the other finger of said right hand, fourth circuit (4) from another finger of the left hand through the body to the thumb of said right hand, the measured resistances by means of said four circuits put in said CPU for calculation to get an accurate R_B value of a man'"'"'s body and then calculate correctly the body-adipose.