Disease Diagnostic System

• US 20080091085A1
• Filed: 10/26/2005
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Seems, Inc.
• Inventors: Urushihata, Naoki, Tanemura, Hideki, Hirohama, Syuji, Tajima, Yukinobu
• Granted Patent: US 8,641,611 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0038 Devices for taking faeces samples; Faecal examination devices anal receptacles A61F5/451
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0045 Devices for taking samples of body liquids devices for taking blood samples A61B5/15
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0064 for taking sweat or sebum samples measuring sweat production A61B5/4266
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/007 for taking urine samples measuring urological functions A61B5/20; genital receptacles A61F5/451; urinals for bed-ridden persons A61G9/006
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2010/0087 Breath samples
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• 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: G01N 33/497 of gaseous biological material, e.g. breath
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/57423 of lung

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a disease diagnostic system capable of diagnosing with high accuracy whether a subject is afflicted with a disease, without inflicting pain on the subject.

[Means for Resolution] The disease diagnostic system includes collecting means (5) for collecting a substance (e.g., aspiration, sweat, human waste or urine) emitting an odor (e.g., mouth odor, body odor or underarm odor) and storing the same therein, measuring means (10) for measuring whether an indicated substance indicative of the existence of a disease is contained in the odor-emitting substance stored in the collecting means (5), and control means (20) for processing a signal indicative of a result of measurement by the measuring means (10) to determine whether the subject (2) is being afflicted with a disease.

Claims

1. A disease diagnostic system comprising:

collecting means for collecting an odor-emitting substance from a subject and storing the same therein;

measuring means for measuring whether an indicated substance indicative of the existence of a disease is contained in the odor-emitting substance stored in the collecting means; and

control means for processing a signal indicative of a result of measurement by the measuring means to thereby determine whether the subject is afflicted with the disease.

2. The disease diagnostic system according to claim 1, wherein the measuring means is provided in the form of plural types, and the control means is constructed so as to perform processing for setting axial lines extending radially in arbitrary directions with an origin as a center on the same plane by the same number as the types of the measuring means, associating the respective axial lines with the plural types of measuring means in a 1:

1 relationship arbitrarily, plotting the results of measurement by the measuring means on the associated axial lines, and determining according to each of graphic forms defined by plural plots whether an indicated substance indicative of the presence of a disease exists.

3. The disease diagnostic system according to claim 1, wherein each of the measuring means is constructed to be capable of sensing only an indicated substance showing the existence of a disease to be detected and detecting the concentration of the indicated substance.

4. The disease diagnostic system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the collecting means and the measuring means are provided in the same place, the control means is provided in a place spaced away from the collecting means and the measuring means, the collecting means and the measuring means, and the control means are connected to one another by an information network, and a signal indicative of a result of measurement by said each measuring means is transmitted to the control means via the information network.