Wireless sensing device and method with capability of short range radio frequency transmissions

• US 20050148883A1
• Filed: 02/07/2005
• Published: 07/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Peter V Boesen
• Original Assignee: Peter V Boesen
• Inventors: Boesen, Peter V.
• Application Number:
  US11/052,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20050148883A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/485
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/04 Electric stethoscopes microphones, acoustic transducers therefor H04R

Abstract

A device and a method of sensing and transmitting physiological pressures and body temperatures are disclosed. The device includes a transducer and a transmitter. The transmitter is adapted to broadcast a signal which is modulated by the output of a transducer. The transmitter is also adapted to limit the power of the output signal. The method includes transducing a physiological parameter and broadcasting a signal which is modulated by the transduced parameter. The power of the output signal is limited so that the signal will attenuate within a predetermined distance.

Claims

1-29. -29. (canceled)

30. A wireless device for monitoring one of a plurality of physiological pressures associated with a patient, comprising:

a housing for protecting the device, the housing having a first planar surface adapted for placement on the patient;

at least one pressure transducer integral with the housing and adapted for placement on the patient;

a transmitter in operative communication with the at least one pressure transducer and operatively connected to the housing, the transmitter adapted to broadcast a signal containing pressure transducer information;

a display secured to the housing and operatively connected to the at least one pressure transducer for displaying a representation of output from the at least one pressure transducer.

31. The wireless device of claim 30 further comprising a memory disposed within the housing and operatively connected to at least one pressure transducer for storing an audio representation of the output signal.

32. The wireless device of claim 30 wherein the at least one pressure transducer includes a bell portion and a diaphragm portion disposed along said first surface.

33. The wireless device of claim 32 further comprising a switch for selecting either an output of the bell or the diaphragm as the output signal.

34. The wireless device of claim 30 further comprising a temperature sensor and wherein the display is further adapted to display a representation of output from the temperature sensor.

35. A device for monitoring one of a plurality of physiological pressures associated with a patient, comprising:

a housing for protecting the device, the housing having a first planar surface adapted for placement on the patient;

at least one pressure transducer including a bell portion and a diaphragm portion disposed along said first planar surface.

36. The device of claim 35 further comprising a switch for selecting either an output of the bell or the diaphragm as an output signal.

37. The device of claim 36 further comprising a display secured to the housing and operatively connected to the at least one pressure transducer for displaying a representation of output from the at least one pressure transducer.

38. The device of claim 37 further comprising a pulse sensing transducer, wherein the switch selects the output of the bell portion, the output of the diaphragm portion, or an output of the pulse sensing transducer as the output signal, and wherein the display is further adapted to display a representation of the output from the pulse sensing transducer.

39. The device of claim 35 further comprising a transmitter in operative communication with the at least one pressure transducer and disposed with the housing, the transmitter adapted to broadcast a signal containing pressure transducer information.

40. The device of claim 35 further comprising a memory disposed within the housing and operatively connected to the at least one pressure transducer for storing an audio representation of an output signal from the at least one pressure transducer.