Portable health check apparatus and expiration analysis service method using the same

• US 20060058697A1
• Filed: 03/02/2005
• Published: 03/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Uchiyama, Hiroyuki, Sugawara, Toshiki, Kokubo, Masaru, Mochizuki, Kazuhiro, Shirai, Masataka
• Application Number:
  US11/068,868
• Publication Number:
  US 20060058697A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/532
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/082 Evaluation by breath analysis, e.g. determination of the chemical composition of exhaled breath A61B5/083, A61B5/091 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS

Abstract

A portable health check apparatus incorporating a highly sensitive and compact expiration analysis sensor and an expiration analysis service offered to a specified user at a specified time. Hydrogen is detected using tungsten oxide produced through metalorganic chemical vapor deposition process. The apparatus has a unit for performing personal authentication by using, for example, a voiceprint of a user. The apparatus is also arranged to call up a user at a predetermined time through a cellular phone. Further, a center server receives detection information of an expiration component via a communication circuit, analyzes or statistically processes the detection information, collates a result of the analysis or statistic process with advice information stored in a database and transmits advice information based on a result of the collation from the server to the cellular phone of the user.

Claims

1. A portable health check apparatus comprising:

a mobile radio terminal; and

a gas sensor mounted to said mobile radio terminal at least internally and externally thereof, said gas sensor including a hydrogen sensor,

wherein information concerning the health of human body to which a sense object of said gas sensor belongs is displayed on said mobile radio terminal on the basis of a result of sensing by said gas sensor.

2. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said sense result is processed inside said mobile radio terminal and the thus processed sense result is displayed.

3. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said sense result is processed in a center server connected to said mobile radio terminal via a communication circuit and said mobile radio terminal receives the thus processed sense result directly or indirectly from said center server to display it.

4. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said hydrogen sensor includes, as a hydrogen detectable material, tungsten oxide produced through a metalorganic chemical vapor deposition process.

5. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising means for functioning to authenticate a user utilizing a service relating to sensing by said gas sensor.

6. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said authentication is carried out on the basis of a voiceprint accompanying utterance by said user.

7. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said authentication is carried out on the basis of inputting of a password of said user.

8. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said authentication is so defined as to be omissible through an authentication omissible procedure, either pre-registered by the user in advance or taken by said user before each expiration analysis.

9. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising means for urging said user to utter at a predetermined time point.

10. A portable health check apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said urging means has the function to give at least one of call-up sound and vibration to said user.

11. An expiration analysis service method comprising the steps of:

receiving, at a center server from said portable health check apparatus via a communication circuit, detection information concerning an expiration component exhaled by a user of a portable health check apparatus and detected by said portable health check apparatus;

applying an information process to said detection information at said center server;

collating a result of said information process with a plurality of pieces of advice information stored in a database accessible by said center server; and

transmitting, from said center server, device information selected from said plurality of advice information pieces on the basis of a result of said collation directly or indirectly to said portable health check apparatus belonging to said user,

wherein said portable health check apparatus includes;

a mobile radio terminal; and

a gas sensor mounted to said mobile radio terminal at least internally and externally thereof, said gas sensor including a hydrogen sensor,

wherein information concerning the health of human body to which a sense object of said gas sensor belongs is displayed on said mobile radio terminal on the basis of a result of sensing by said gas sensor.

12. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 11 further comprising the step of distributing said portable health check apparatus to said user.

13. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 11, wherein said information process includes at least one of analytic and statistic processes applied to said detection information.

14. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 11, wherein said sense result is processed inside said mobile radio terminal and a processed sense result is displayed.

15. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 11, wherein said sense result is processed at said center server connected to said mobile radio terminal via the communication circuit and said mobile radio terminal receives a processed sense result directly or indirectly from said center server to display the received, processed sense result.

16. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 11, wherein said hydrogen sensor includes, as a hydrogen detectable material, tungsten oxide produced through a metalorganic chemical vapor deposition process.

17. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 11 further comprising functioning to authenticate a user utilizing a service relating to sensing by said gas sensor.

18. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 17, wherein said authentication is carried out on the basis of a voiceprint accompanying utterance by said user.

19. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 17, wherein said authentication is carried out on the basis of inputting of a password of by said user.

20. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 17, wherein said authentication is so defined as to be omissible through a authentication omissible procedure, either pre-registered by the user or taken by said user before each expiration analysis.

21. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 11, wherein said portable health check apparatus includes means for urging said user to utter at a predetermined time.

22. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 21, wherein said urging means has the function to give at least one of call-up sound and vibration to said user.

23. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 11 further comprising the steps of:

deciding whether information indicative of emergency is contained in said detection information;

when information indicative of emergency is determined as being contained in said detection information, informing a hospital registered in advance, from said center server through said communication circuit, of said detection information and position information concerning a location position of said portable health check apparatus;

confirming a doctor in charge of said utilizer in said hospital registered in advance and receiving information including said detection information and the position information concerning the location position of said portable health check apparatus;

causing said doctor in charge to confirm said detection information and the position information concerning the location position of said portable health check apparatus;

causing said doctor in charge to designate a hospital to which said user is to go; and

transmitting, to said health check apparatus, information relating to a location of the hospital to which said user is to go and displaying the information on the screen of said portable health check apparatus.

24. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 23, wherein said hospital registered in advance is a hospital said user attends usually.

25. An expiration analysis service method according to claim 23, wherein the information relating to a location of the hospital to which said user is to go includes at least an address of said hospital and its map.