SPHYGMOMANOMETER AND CHIP CARD THEREFOR

• US 20090131808A1
• Filed: 11/07/2008
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kaz USA Incorporated (Helen of Troy Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kaz USA Incorporated (Helen of Troy Limited)
• Inventors: Giersiepen, Martin, Schnak, Fred, Kressmann, Frank, Freund, Dirk, Harttmann, Brigitte, Roenneberg, Gerrit, Hollinger, Stefan, Wunder, Dieter, Heck, Ulrich
• Application Number:
  US12/266,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20090131808A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/490
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0475 Special features of memory means, e.g. removable memory cards
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/721 using a separate sensor to detect motion or using motion information derived from signals other than the physiological signal to be measured

Abstract

A sphygmomanometer and a chip card for use therein. The sphygmomanometer includes a measuring device for determining blood pressure data and a control device. The control device has a chip card reader operable to read an insertable control chip card. The chip card includes data which is read by the chip card reader. A control function of the sphygmomanometer is carried out as a result of the data being read by the chip card reader.

Claims

1. A sphygmomanometer comprising:

a measuring device for determining blood pressure data; and

a control device including a chip card reader operable to read an insertable control chip card,

wherein at least one control function of the control device is carried out by data read via the chip card reader.

2. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, wherein a control process operable to execute the at least one control function is provided in the control device.

3. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, wherein a control processoperable to execute the at least one control function is provided on the chip card and the control device is operable to access the control process stored on the chip card.

4. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one control function comprises triggering an alarm.

5. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one control function comprises evaluating a position-determining device.

6. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one control function comprises evaluating a movement-detection device.

7. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one control function comprises evaluating the determined blood pressure data and controlling a display of the sphygmomanometer.

8. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, wherein the chip card reader comprises a read/write device operable to write data from the control device onto the chip card (12).

9. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, wherein the control device is operable to store blood pressure data on the chip card.

10. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1 further comprising a chip card accommodating device operable to hold a chip card that is standardized in accordance with ISO/IEC 7816 and/or ISO7810.

11. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 8, wherein the read/write device is operable to write blood pressure data in memory tags of an ISO/IEC 7816 and/or ISO7810 chip card.

18. The sphygmomanometer recited in claim 1, further comprising the chip card.

12. A chip card for a sphygmomanometer, comprising control data operable to carry out a control function of the sphygmomanometer when the control data is read by a card reader of the sphygmomanometer.

13. The chip card recited in claim 12, wherein the chip card is constructed in accordance with at least one of ISO/IEC 7816 and ISO7810.

14. The chip card recited in claim 12, further comprising a control process operable to trigger an alarm of the sphygmomanometer.

15. The chip card recited in claim 12, further comprising a control process operable to evaluate at least one of a position detector and a movement detector.

16. The chip card recited in claim 12, further comprising a control process operable to evaluate blood pressure data and to control a display of the sphygmomanometer for displaying information related to a blood pressure evaluation.

17. The chip card recited in claim 12, further comprising a memory operable to store blood pressure data.