Clothing means having a sensor element for detecting a left position

• US 20090045966A1
• Filed: 07/18/2008
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Rocznik, Marko
• Application Number:
  US12/218,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20090045966A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.700
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1281 with incorporated means for medical monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/02 Foetus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1116 Determining posture transitions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6805 Vests

Abstract

A clothing arrangement or device having a sensor element for detecting a left position, which includes a housing, at least one position sensor, a chip (IC) having an integrated evaluation circuit, and a current-supply and charge unit, the position sensor being a monoaxial acceleration sensor, the current-supply and charge unit including two high-capacity capacitors, a coil and a diode, and the sensor element being coupled to an external receiver unit. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of a clothing arrangement or device to avoid the supine hypotensive syndrome in pregnant women.

Claims

1. A clothing device comprising:

a sensor element for detecting a left position, including a housing, at least one position sensor, a chip having an integrated evaluation circuit, and a current-supply and charge unit;

wherein the sensor element is a monoaxial acceleration sensor, the current-supply and charge unit includes two high-capacitance capacitors, a coil, and a diode, and the sensor element is assigned to an external receiver unit.

2. The clothing device of claim 1, wherein signal acquisition, signal analysis, and evaluation of the position is performed inside the sensor element.

3. The clothing device of claim 1, wherein, for a detected deviation from the left position, a radio signal is transmitted to the external receiver unit, and the receiver unit generates at least one of an acoustic alarm signal, a tactile alarm signal, and an optical alarm signal.

4. The clothing device of claim 1, wherein an external voltage supply for the current-supply and charge unit of the sensor element is integrated in the receiver unit.

5. The clothing device of claim 1, wherein the housing is made of a casting compound.

6. The clothing device of claim 1, wherein a form of the housing constitutes a final outer form of the clothing device.

7. The clothing device of claim 6, wherein the housing has a button shape.

8. A clothing device to avoid a supine hypotensive syndrome in pregnant women, comprising:

a sensor element for detecting a left position, including a housing, at least one position sensor, a chip having an integrated evaluation circuit, and a current-supply and charge unit;

wherein the sensor element is a monoaxial acceleration sensor, the current-supply and charge unit includes two high-capacitance capacitors, a coil, and a diode, and the sensor element is assigned to an external receiver unit.

9. A monoaxial acceleration sensor arrangement for use in a device for avoiding a supine hypotensive syndrome in pregnant women, comprising:

a monoaxial acceleration sensor arrangement for detecting a left position;

wherein the device includes the sensor arrangement for detecting the left position, and the sensor arrangement includes a housing, at least one position sensor, a chip having an integrated evaluation circuit, and a current-supply and charge unit, and

wherein the current-supply and charge unit includes two high-capacitance capacitors, a coil, and a diode, and the sensor arrangement is assignable to an external receiver unit.