Sphygmomanometer Of Multi Functional

• US 20080091111A1
• Filed: 07/07/2005
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jae Shin
• Original Assignee: Jae Shin
• Inventors: Shin, Jae
• Application Number:
  US11/658,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20080091111A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/484
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0225 the pressure being controlled by electric signals, e.g. derived from Korotkoff sounds
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0806 by whole-body plethysmography measuring blood flow using plethysmography A61B5/0295; impedance plethysmography A61B5/053; measuring volume of the body or parts thereof A61B5/1073
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0816 Measuring devices for examining respiratory frequency measuring frequency of electric signals G01R23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence

Abstract

Disclosed is a multifunctional sphygmomanometer. The multifunctional sphygmomanometer comprises a blood pressure measurement pressing part provided around the arm of a human body and receiving air, thereby measuring blood pressure; a respiration measurement pressing part provided around the abdomen of the human body and receiving air, thereby measuring respiration and enabling blood pressure reduction training; and a main body capable of supplying and exhausting air to the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part, displaying the measured blood pressure or respiration or pulse, and controlling the respiration measurement pressing part to be changed for the blood pressure reduction training. Accordingly, it is possible to measure blood pressure and implement blood pressure reduction training in a simple and easy way at the same time since it is possible to measure blood pressure and respiration by using a pressing part connector and a pressure measurement method used in a conventional arm-type sphygmomanometer as they are, and it is possible to measure blood pressure and implement blood pressure reduction training with a minimum additional cost since a separate amplifying circuit or sensor for measuring respiration is not needed at all by using a motor pump and a valve provided to a conventional sphygmomanometer.

Claims

1. A multifunctional sphygmomanometer comprising:

a blood pressure measurement pressing part provided around the arm of a human body and receiving air, thereby measuring blood pressure;

a respiration measurement pressing part provided around the abdomen of the human body and receiving air, thereby measuring respiration and enabling blood pressure reduction training; and

a main body capable of supplying and exhausting air to the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part, displaying the measured blood pressure or respiration or pulse, and controlling the respiration measurement pressing part to be changed for the blood pressure reduction training.

2. The multifunctional sphygmomanometer according to claim 1, wherein the main body includes:

a power part supplying power to the main body;

an input part capable of setting and selecting an operational function of the main body;

an output part displaying blood pressure and respiration measured by the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part, and a blood pressure reduction training time and an operational function mode inputted by the input part;

a tube connector connecting a tube of the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part;

an internal motor pump supplying air to the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part;

a pressure sensor measuring a change of air pressure inside the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part and converting the same into an electric signal;

an exhaust valve capable of exhausting air inside the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part; and

a control part controlling opening/closing of the exhaust valve and an operation of the motor pump according to a function selected by the input part, receiving a measurement value of the air pressure change from the pressure sensor and transmitting the received measurement value to the output part to output the same.

3. The multifunctional sphygmomanometer according to claim 2, wherein the output part is provided with any one between a display window for visually displaying the operational function of the main body inputted by the input part and the measurement value of the air pressure change transmitted by the control part and a speaker for auditory indication thereof.

4. The multifunctional sphygmomanometer according to claim 1, wherein the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part includes:

a pressing part filled with air injected via the tube connector;

a tube connecting the tube connector and the pressing part, thereby supplying or exhausting air; and

a belt enabling the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part to be provided around the arm or abdomen of the human body.

5. The multifunctional sphygmomanometer according to claim 2, wherein an amplifier amplifying a signal of the pressure sensor to transmit the same to the control part is further provided between the pressure sensor and the control part.

6. The multifunctional sphygmomanometer according to claim 2, wherein the motor pump and the exhaust valve are provided to be capable of supplying or exhausting air by a manual operation selectively.

7. The multifunctional sphygmomanometer according to claim 2, wherein the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part includes:

a pressing part filled with air injected via the tube connector;

a tube connecting the tube connector and the pressing part, thereby supplying or exhausting air; and

a belt enabling the blood pressure measurement or respiration measurement pressing part to be provided around the arm or abdomen of the human body.