BLOOD PRESSURE MEASURING DEVICE

• US 20080146947A1
• Filed: 12/13/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kojima, Takeshi, Fumuro, Shinichi, Kanetsuna, Yoshitoshi, Yuasa, Tsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US11/956,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20080146947A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/490
• 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 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers

Abstract

The blood pressure measuring device comprises a main device 1, and a separate device 2 capable of being used separately from the main device 1. The main device and the separate device have a wireless communication means 11 and 12, respectively. At least one device of the main device and the separate device has a power switch, and one device having the power switch is activated when the power switch is operated, and then the one device transmits a start signal to the other device by the wireless communication. The other device shifts periodically from a power-off state to a power-on state on its own when in the power-off state to check the start signal, and it is activated if it receives the start signal when it shifts to the power-on state. The one device transmits the start signal continuously over a period longer than a period during which the power switch is operated to activate the one device.

Claims

1. A blood pressure measuring device comprising:

a main device;

said main device having a pressurizing means for inflating a cuff, a control means for controlling said pressurizing means to measure a blood pressure of a user, and a wireless communication means;

a separate device capable of being used separately from said main device;

said separate device having a wireless communication means for performing a wireless communication with said wireless communication means of said main device, and at least one of a display means for displaying data received from said main device via the wireless communication and an operation means for operating said main device via the wireless communication,

wherein

at least one device of said main device and said separate device has a power switch,

one device having said power switch being activated when said power switch is operated when it is in a power-off state, and then it transmitting a start signal to the other device by the wireless communication,

the other device shifting periodically from a power-off state to a power-on state on its own when it is in the power-off state in order to check said start signal, and it being activated if it receives said start signal when it shifts from the power-off state to the power-on state, and it returning to the power-off state if it does not receive said start signal when it shifts from the power-off state to the power-on state,

said one device transmitting said start signal continuously over a period longer than a period during which said power switch is operated to activate said one device.

2. The blood pressure measuring device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said one device starts to transmit said start signal at the same time when said power switch is operated to activate the device, and it continuously transmits said start signal over a period during which said power switch is operated, and it continuously transmits said start signal over a predetermined period after completion of the operation of said power switch.

3. The blood pressure measuring device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said the other device transmits an acknowledgment signal when it receives the start signal,

said one device starting to transmit said start signal at the same time when said power switch is operated to activate the device, and it stopping transmitting said start signal when it receives the acknowledgment signal from the other device.