BLOOD PRESSURE METER

• US 20100076327A1
• Filed: 09/21/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: KOJIMA, Takeshi, MIZUUCHI, Akihiro, KANBAYASHI, Tadashi, OGURI, Kazuya, FUMURO, Shinichi, YUASA, Tsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/563,344
• Publication Number:
  US 20100076327A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/494
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0431 Portable apparatus, e.g. comprising a handle or case
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02141 Details of apparatus construction, e.g. pump units or housings therefor, cuff pressurising systems, arrangements of fluid conduits or circuits A61B5/02233, A61B5/0235 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers

Abstract

A blood pressure meter includes: a cuff; a case main body that has a cuff storing recess capable of storing the cuff at a back-side position of the case main body; a main block that is provided in the case main body at a front-side position and that has a display unit and an operation unit; a cover that is joined to a portion on the back side of the case main body to open and close freely by way of a hinge and that can cover the upper portion the case main body; and a lift-up portion that can lift the cuff upward from the cuff storing recess.

Claims

1. A blood pressure meter, comprising:

a cuff;

a case main body that has a cuff storing recess capable of storing the cuff;

a main block that is provided in the case main body and that has a display unit and an operation unit; and

a cover that is joined to the case main body to open and close freely by way of a hinge and that can cover an upper portion of at least the cuff storing recess of the case main body,

in the case main body, the cuff storing recess being provided at a position on a hinge side, and the main block being provided at a position on a side opposite the hinge,

the blood pressure meter further comprising a lift-up portion capable of lifting the cuff upward from the cuff storing recess in response to a cover opening operation, or after the cover opening operation.

2. The blood pressure meter according to claim 1, wherein the lift-up portion is a rib capable of scooping the cuff up in response to the cover opening operation.

3. The blood pressure meter according to claim 1, comprising an actuating operation unit that actuates the lift-up portion, wherein

after the cover opening operation, an operation of the actuating operation unit causes the lift-up portion to lift the cuff upward from the cuff storing recess.

4. The blood pressure meter according to claim 3, wherein the lift-up portion is a solenoid to be actuated through the operation of the actuating operation unit.

5. The blood pressure meter according to claim 4, wherein

the solenoid has a plunger capable of protruding towards the cuff storing recess so as to push up the cuff stored in the cuff storing recess according to the operation of the actuating operation unit.