MEASURING ANALYZER

• US 20080033688A1
• Filed: 08/01/2007
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Draeger Medical Incorporated (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Drager Medical AG & Co KG (Dragerwerk AG)
• Inventors: SCHERMEIER, Olaf, GERDER, Henning
• Application Number:
  US11/832,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20080033688A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/131
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0443 Modular apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/022 having an ideal characteristic, map or correction data stored in a digital memory
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 3/024 for range change; Arrangements for substituting one sensing member by another
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/02 Means for indicating or recording specially adapted for thermometers
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 13/20 Clinical contact thermometers for use with humans or animals

Abstract

A measuring analyzer for analyzing physiological sensor data provided by sensors (4, 4′) with an analyzing unit (2), which generates measured data from the sensor data according to a mathematical relationship, with a display unit (3) for displaying the measured data, wherein an adaptation means (5) is provided, in which the sensor data are processed such that they are made available to the analyzing unit (2) in a form necessary for direct analysis.

Claims

1. A measuring analyzer for analyzing physiological sensor data, the measuring analyzer comprising:

a sensor for providing physiological sensor data;

an analyzing unit for generating measured data from said sensor data having a form for direct analysis, said analyzing unit including analyzing means for generating said measured data according to a mathematical relationship between sensor data having a form for direct analysis and measured data, said analyzing unit including a display unit for displaying the measured data; and

an adaptation means for receiving said sensor data and processing said sensor data to provide sensor data having a form for direct analysis to said analyzing unit.

2. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 1, wherein said adaptation means includes conversion means for conversion of sensor data of different types of said sensor for the detection of measured data of the same kind into analyzed data, which are made available as standardized variables to said analyzing unit and/or to said display unit of said analyzing unit.

3. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 1, wherein said adaptation means includes conversion means for converting sensor data of said sensor, which operate according to different characteristics, into measured data, which can be processed in said analyzing unit with said analyzing means.

4. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 1, wherein said adaptation means comprises:

an adaptation means sensor input;

a power supply unit for supplying power to said sensor connected to said adaptation means sensor input; and

a computing unit for calculating one of sensor data having a form for direct analysis from the sensor data and measured data from the sensor data.

5. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 4, wherein said computing unit of said adaptation means comprises computing means for converting voltage and/or current values representing sensor data into resistance values, which are made available as analysis data to said analyzing unit.

6. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 4, wherein said computing unit of said adaptation means produces measured data by analyzing and converting sensor data according to a calculation relationship to make converted sensor data available to said display unit as measured data.

7. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 1, wherein said display unit is connected to an output of said adaptation means and said display unit comprises at least one display screen.

8. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 4, wherein said adaptation means comprises a converting unit in which the measured data calculated in said computing unit are simulated in a form that can be displayed on an output side of said display unit.

9. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

said sensor comprises a sensor unit with a transmitting/receiving unit; and

said adaptation means has a transmitting/receiving unit which cooperates with said transmitting/receiving unit of said sensor unit for wireless communication between said adaptation means and said sensor unit.

10. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 4, wherein a core temperature of a human is calculated as a measured variable in said computing unit and/or said analyzing unit.

11. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 1, further comprising an additional sensor connected directly to said analyzing unit via said adaptation means, said additional sensor being a temperature sensor for measuring the skin temperature.

12. A measuring analyzer in accordance with claim 1, wherein said adaptation means comprises an electromechanical signal collecting distributor for additional medical sensors.

13. A measuring analyzer system for analyzing physiological sensor data, the system comprising:

physiological sensors providing physiological sensor data in a sensor data format;

an analyzing unit for generating measured data from sensor data having a form for analysis based on a mathematical relationship, said analyzing unit including a display unit for displaying the measured data; and

an adaptation means for receiving said sensor data in a sensor data format and processing said sensor data in a sensor data format to provide to said analyzing unit sensor data having a form for analysis based on said mathematical relationship.

14. A measuring analyzer system in accordance with claim 13, wherein said adaptation means includes at least one of conversion means for conversion of sensor data of different types of said sensors for the detection of measured data of the same kind into analyzed data, which are made available as standardized variables to said analyzing unit and/or to said display unit of said analyzing unit and conversion means for converting sensor data of said sensors, which operate according to different characteristics, into measured data, which can be processed in said analyzing unit with said analyzing means.

15. A measuring analyzer system in accordance with claim 13, wherein said adaptation means comprises:

an adaptation means sensor input;

a power supply unit for supplying power to said sensor connected to said adaptation means sensor input; and

a computing unit for calculating one of sensor data having a form for direct analysis from the sensor data and measured data from the sensor data.

16. A measuring analyzer system in accordance with claim 15, wherein said computing unit of said adaptation means comprises computing means for converting voltage and/or current values representing sensor data into resistance values, which are made available as analysis data to said analyzing unit.

17. A measuring analyzer system in accordance with claim 15, wherein said computing unit of said adaptation means produces measured data by analyzing and converting sensor data according to a calculation relationship to make converted sensor data available to said display unit as measured data.

18. A measuring analyzer system in accordance with claim 15, wherein said adaptation means comprises a converting unit in which the measured data calculated in said computing unit are simulated in a form that can be displayed on an output side of said display unit.

19. A measuring analyzer system in accordance with claim 15, wherein:

said sensor comprises a sensor unit with a transmitting/receiving unit; and

said adaptation means has a transmitting/receiving unit which cooperates with said transmitting/receiving unit of said sensor unit for wireless communication between said adaptation means and said sensor unit.

20. A measuring analyzer system in accordance with claim 13, further comprising an additional sensor connected directly to said analyzing unit via said adaptation means, said additional sensor being a temperature sensor for measuring the skin temperature.