Biosensing device

• US 20080078676A1
• Filed: 10/01/2007
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EPS Bio Technology Corp.
• Original Assignee: EPS Bio Technology Corp.
• Inventors: Yuan, Wen Ching, Chiu, Murphy
• Application Number:
  US11/905,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20080078676A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 204/403.01
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00782 reprogrammmable code
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00722 Communications; Identification

Abstract

A biosensing meter includes: a routing matrix including a plurality of switching units and a plurality of connecting ends; a sensors and actuators group, coupled to a plurality of connecting ends of the wire matrix; an RFID reader, for reading an RFID tag to obtain a parameter related to an application software, and a processing module, coupled to the switching units of the wire matrix and the RFID reader, the processing module including: a storage device, for storing the application software; and a processing unit, coupled to the storage device, for executing the application software according to the parameter to control the switching units to change the coupling condition between the sensors and actuators group and the processing module to measure a testing piece and obtain a measurement result.

Claims

1. A biosensing device, for performing a measurement operation on a testing strip to generate a measurement result, the biosensing device comprising:

a routing matrix, comprising a plurality of connecting ends and a plurality of switch devices;

a sensors and actuators group, coupled to a plurality of connecting ends of the plurality of connecting ends of the routing matrix;

an RFID reader, for reading an RFID tag to obtain at least one related parameter related to application software; and

a processing module, coupled to the RFID reader and a plurality of connecting ends of the plurality of connecting ends of the routing matrix, the processing module comprising;

a storage device storing the application software; and

a processing unit, coupled to the storage device;

for executing the application software according to the at least one parameter to control the plurality of switch devices inside the routing matrix to change electrical connections among the sensors and actuators group and the processing module such that the measuring operation is performed and the measurement result is obtained.

2. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the sensors and actuators group comprises an exciting voltage source, a sensing amplifier, a temperature sensor, and an analog-to-digital converter, respectively electrically connected to the connecting ends of the routing matrix;

wherein the processing unit executes the application software according to the at least one parameter, obtained by the RFID reader, to control the exciting voltage source to trigger a testing strip to generate a reaction result, to control the sensing amplifier and the analog-to-digital converter to transform the reaction result into a digital signal, to control the temperature sensor and the analog-to-digital converter to generate a digital temperature signal, and to process the digital signal and the digital temperature signal to generate the measurement result.

3. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the processing unit is a microprocessor.

4. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the storage device is a memory.

5. The biosensing device of claim 4, wherein the memory is a read-only memory (ROM) or a random access memory (RAM).

6. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the routing matrix comprises a fixed circuit.

7. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the routing matrix is implemented by jumper wires.

8. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the routing matrix is a programmable routing matrix.

9. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the switch devices are capable of being implemented by transistors, transmission gates, or relays.

10. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the RFID tag is embedded inside the testing strip.

11. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the RFID tag is in an independent identification card.

12. The biosensing device of claim 1, wherein the processing unit further stores the at least one parameter obtained by the RFID reader into the storage device and executes the application software according to the at least one parameter stored inside the storage device.

13. A biosensing device for performing a measuring operation on a testing strip to generate a measurement result, the biosensing device comprising:

a bus;

a sensors and actuators group, coupled to the bus;

an RFID reader, for reading an RFID tag to obtain at least one parameter related to an application software; and

a processing module, coupled to the bus and the RFID reader, the processing module comprising;

a storage device storing the application software; and

a processing unit, coupled to the storage device, for executing the application software according to the at least one parameter, obtained by the RFID reader, to control the sensors and actuators group to perform the measuring operation such that the measurement result is obtained.

14. The biosensing device of claim 13, wherein the sensors and actuators group comprises:

an exciting voltage source, coupled to the biosensing strip and the bus;

a sensing amplifier, coupled to the biosensing strip, for sensing a reaction result of the testing strip;

a temperature sensor, for sensing surrounding temperature and generating a temperature sensing result;

a first analog-to-digital converter, coupled to the sensing amplifier and the bus, for converting the reaction result into digital data; and

a second analog-to-digital converter, coupled to the temperature sensor, for converting the temperature sensing result into digital temperature data;

wherein the processing unit executes the application software according to the at least one parameter of the RFID reader to control the exciting voltage source to trigger a testing strip to generate a reaction result, to receive the digital data and the digital temperature data from the bus to perform a calculation on the digital data and the digital temperature data such that the measurement result is generated.

15. The biosensing device of claim 13, wherein the processing unit is a microprocessor.

16. The biosensing device of claim 13, wherein the storage device is a memory.

17. The biosensing device of claim 16, wherein the memory is a read-only memory (ROM) or a random access memory (RAM).

18. The biosensing device of claim 13, wherein the RFID tag is embedded inside the testing strip.

19. The biosensing device of claim 13, wherein the RFID tag is in an independent identification card.

20. The biosensing device of claim 13, wherein the processing unit further stores the at least one parameter obtained by the RFID reader into the storage device and executes the application software according to the at least one parameter stored inside the storage device.