Bio-information measuring apparatus

• US 20050234312A1
• Filed: 03/22/2005
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Moriya, Akihisa, Suzuki, Takuji, Ouchi, Kazushige, Kameyama, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US11/085,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20050234312A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/222 Electrical cables or leads therefor, e.g. coaxial cables or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/103 Detecting, measuring or recording devices for testing the shape, pattern, colour, size or movement of the body or parts thereof, for diagnostic purposes A61B5/08 takes precedence; measuring aids for tailors A41H1/00; measuring instruments specially adapted for dentistry A61C19/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14552 Details of sensors specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4806 Sleep evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence; devices for inducing sleep A61M21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4809 Sleep detection, i.e. determining whether a subject is asleep or not
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6825 Hand
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6826 Finger
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6838 Clamps or clips

Abstract

A bio-information measuring includes a detector including a light source emitting light to a hand of an examinee and an optical receiver receiving the light emitted from the light source; and a supporter bent to clamp a paddle between fingers of the examinee. The clamping portion of the supporter is provided with the detector. The bio-information measuring apparatus also includes a measurer worn on the examinee, measuring bio-information based on pulse wave data obtained from the optical receiver; and a puller pulling the support member toward the measurer.

Claims

1. A bio-information measuring apparatus, comprising:

a detector including a light source emitting light to a hand of an examinee and an optical receiver receiving light transmitted through the hand from the light source;

a supporter bent to clamp a paddle between fingers of the examinee, a clamping portion of the supporter being provided with the detector;

a measurer worn on the examinee, measuring bio-information based on pulse wave data obtained from the optical receiver; and

a puller pulling the support member toward the measurer.

2. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the supporter is made of a resin that is formed in a bent shape along the paddle.

3. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the puller includes a cable connecting the supporter to the measurer, and a winder winding the cable.

4. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the winder is disposed in the measurer.

5. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the winder is disposed in an end portion of the clamping portion.

6. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the cable includes a first signal line where a signal for driving the light source is transmitted from the measurer, and a second signal line where a signal received by the optical receiver is transmitted to the measurer.

7. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the puller connects the supporter to the measurer and is elastic.

8. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the puller connects the supporter to the measurer and is elastic.

9. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the cable includes a first signal line where a signal for driving the light source is transmitted from the measurer, and a second signal line where a signal received by the optical receiver is transmitted to the measurer.

10. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the supporter has a cushion that is provided around at least one of the light source and the optical receiver, the cushion being in contact with the examinee.

11. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the supporter has a cushion that wraps the light source and the optical receiver.

12. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the clamping portion is formed to be made wider from the detector toward a wrist of the examinee.

13. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the supporter has a first length from a top of a bent portion of the supporter to an end of the clamping portion at a back side of the hand, and a second length from the top of the bent portion to another end of the clamping portion at a palm side, the second length being different from the first length.

14. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one of the light source and the optical receiver is disposed in the clamping portion at a back side of the hand, another is disposed in the clamping portion at a palm side.

15. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the supporter has a first length from the optical receiver to an end of the clamping portion at a wrist side and a second length from the optical receiver to another end of the clamping portion at the wrist side, the second length being different from the first length.

16. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the light source and the optical receiver are both disposed in the clamping portion at one of a back side and a palm side of the hand, the optical receiver receives light emitted from the light source and then reflected in the hand.

17. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the supporter includes a rotating member rotating along the paddle at a position where the detector is provided.

18. A bio-information measuring apparatus comprising:

a parameter calculator calculating parameter indicating a state of the autonomic nerve activation based on a pulse wave;

a body motion measurer measuring body motion information indicating a body motion of an examinee;

a sleep/awake determiner determining whether the examinee is awakening or sleeping based on the body motion information;

a body motion determiner determining whether the examinee is moving based on the body motion information when the sleep/awake determiner determines that the examinee is awakening;

a first communication interface transmits the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator to an external device via a network when the body motion determiner determines that the examinee is not moving;

a sleeping state determiner determining sleeping state information indicating a depth of sleeping from the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator when the sleep state determiner determines that the examinee is sleeping;

a state change determiner determines whether the sleeping state information is changed compared with sleeping state information that has been determined by the sleeping state determiner; and

a second communication interface transmits the sleeping state information to the external device via the network when the state change determiner determines that the sleeping state information is changed.

19. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the sleep state determiner determines that the examinee is awakening when the body motion information satisfies a first condition, and determines that the examinee is sleeping when the body motion information does not satisfy the first condition.

20. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the body motion determiner determines that the examinee is moving when the body motion information satisfies a second condition, and determines that the examinee is not moving when the body motion information does not satisfy the second condition.

21. A bio-information measuring apparatus comprising:

a parameter calculator calculating parameter indicating a state of the autonomic nerve activation based on a pulse wave;

a body motion measurer measuring body motion information indicating a body motion of an examinee;

a sleep/awake determiner determining whether the examinee is awakening or sleeping based on the body motion information;

a body motion determiner determining whether the examinee is moving based on the body motion information when the sleep/awake determiner determines that the examinee is awakening;

a first communication interface transmits the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator to an external device via a network when the body motion determiner determines that the examinee is not moving;

a sleeping body motion determiner determining whether the examinee is moving in sleep based on the body motion information when the sleep/awake determiner determines that the examinee is sleeping;

a sleeping state determiner determining sleeping state information indicating a depth of sleeping from the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator when the body motion determiner determines that the examinee is moving; and

a second communication interface transmits the sleeping state information to the external device via the network.

22. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the sleep state determiner determines that the examinee is awakening when the body motion information satisfies a first condition, and determines that the examinee is sleeping when the body motion information does not satisfy the first condition.

23. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the body motion determiner determines that the examinee is moving when the body motion information satisfies a second condition, and determines that the examinee is not moving when the body motion information does not satisfy the second condition.

24. The bio-information measuring apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the sleeping body motion determiner determines that the examinee is moving in sleep when the body motion information satisfies a third condition, and determines that the examinee is not moving in sleep when the body motion information does not satisfy the third condition.

25. A bio-information measuring apparatus, comprising:

a detector including a light source emitting light to a hand of an examinee and an optical receiver receiving light transmitted through the hand from the light source;

a supporter bent to clamp a paddle between fingers of the examinee, a clamping portion of the supporter being provided with the detector;

a measurer worn on the examinee, measuring bio-information based on pulse wave data obtained from the optical receiver; and

a puller pulling the support member toward the measurer,

wherein the measurer includes

a parameter calculator calculating parameter indicating a state of the autonomic nerve activation based on the pulse wave data;

a body motion measurer measuring body motion information indicating a body motion of the examinee;

a sleep/awake determiner determining whether the examinee is awakening or sleeping based on the body motion information;

a body motion determiner determining whether the examinee is moving based on the body motion information when the sleep/awake determiner determines that the examinee is awakening;

a first communication interface transmits the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator to an external device via a network when the body motion determiner determines that the examinee is not moving;

a sleeping state determiner determining sleeping state information indicating a depth of sleeping from the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator when the sleep state determiner determines that the examinee is sleeping;

a state change determiner determines whether the sleeping state information is changed compared with sleeping state information that has been determined by the sleeping state determiner; and

a second communication interface transmits the sleeping state information to the external device via the network when the state change determiner determines that the sleeping state information is changed.

26. A bio-information measuring apparatus, comprising:

a detector including a light source emitting light to a hand of an examinee and an optical receiver receiving light transmitted through the hand from the light source;

a supporter bent to clamp a paddle between fingers of the examinee, a clamping portion of the supporter being provided with the detector,

a measurer worn on the examinee, measuring bio-information based on pulse wave data obtained from the optical receiver; and

a puller pulling the support member toward the measurer,

wherein the measurer includes

a parameter calculator calculating parameter indicating a state of the autonomic nerve activation based on the pulse wave data;

a body motion measurer measuring body motion information indicating a body motion of the examinee;

a sleep/awake determiner determining whether the examinee is awakening or sleeping based on the body motion information;

a body motion determiner determining whether the examinee is moving based on the body motion information when the sleep/awake determiner determines that the examinee is awakening;

a first communication interface transmits the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator to an external device via a network when the body motion determiner determines that the examinee is not moving;

a sleeping body motion determiner determining whether the examinee is moving in sleep based on the body motion information when the sleep/awake determiner determines that the examinee is sleeping;

a sleeping state determiner determining sleeping state information indicating a depth of sleeping from the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator when the body motion determiner determines that the examinee is moving; and

a second communication interface transmits the sleeping state information to the external device via the network.

27. A bio-information measuring apparatus, comprising:

a detector including a light source emitting light to a hand of an examinee and an optical receiver receiving light transmitted through the hand from the light source;

a supporter bent to clamp a paddle between fingers of the examinee, a clamping portion of the supporter being provided with the detector;

a measurer worn on the examinee, measuring bio-information based on pulse wave data obtained from the optical receiver; and

a puller pulling the support member toward the measurer,

wherein the measurer includes

a parameter calculator calculating parameter indicating a state of the autonomic nerve activation based on the pulse wave data;

a body motion measurer measuring body motion information indicating a body motion of the examinee;

a sleep/awake determiner determining whether the examinee is awakening or sleeping based on the body motion information; and

a sleeping state determiner determining sleeping state information indicating a depth of sleeping from the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator when the sleep/awake determiner determines that the examinee is sleeping.