LIVING BODY INFORMATION DETECTION APPARATUS AND BLOOD-PRESSURE METER

• US 20100292585A1
• Filed: 07/30/2010
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Inventors: Koizumi, Hiroshi, Mino, Shinji, Aihara, Kimihisa, Oguchi, Taisuke, Hayashida, Shoichi, Tatara, Naoe, Shimada, Junichi, UENISHI, Yuji, Naganuma, Kazunori, Sudo, Shouichi, Higurashi, Eiji, Tochikubo, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US12/847,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20100292585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/486
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/045 with a separable interface unit, e.g. for communication
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0238 Optical sensor arrangements for performing transmission measurements on body tissue
• 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 5/02208 using the Korotkoff method
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02225 using the oscillometric method
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6815 Ear
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6816 Ear lobe
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6817 Ear canal
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6838 Clamps or clips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7405 using sound

Abstract

A living body information detection apparatus for detecting living body information at an auricle of a human body. The living body information detection apparatus having a shape that follows a cartilage of the auricle in a periphery of a concha auriculae.

Claims

1. A living body information detection apparatus for detecting living body information at an auricle of a human body, wherein the living body information detection apparatus has a shape that follows a cartilage of the auricle in a periphery of a concha auriculae.

3. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shape that follows the cartilage of the auricle is a shape that follows an antihelix.

5. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shape that follows the cartilage of the auricle is a shape that follows an antihelix and a lamina of tragus.

8. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shape of the living body information detection apparatus also follows an outer surface of a lamina of tragus, and covers the tragus with an inside part and an outside part, wherein the inside part touches the tragus from the inside of the lamina of tragus and wherein the outside part touches the tragus from the outer side of the lamina of tragus.

10. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

a light-emitting element for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle; and

a light-receiving element for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue.

11. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

a pressure applying part for applying a pressure on a part of an auricle; and

a detection part for detecting a pulse wave at the part of the auricle.

12. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the pressure applying part includes a mechanism using an air pressure or an actuator.

13. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the detection part includes at least one of a photoelectric sensor including a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element, a pressure detection mechanism, a vibration sensor, and a Korotkov sound detection mechanism.

14. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

a cuff, provided in the inside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a light-emitting element, provided in the cuff, for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle;

a light-receiving element, provided in the cuff, for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue; and

an air pipe for supplying and releasing air in the cuff.

15. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

a cuff, provided in the outside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a light-emitting element, provided in the cuff, for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle;

a light-receiving element, provided in the outside part or in the cuff, for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue; and

an air pipe for supplying and releasing air in the cuff.

16. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

a cuff, provided in the outside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a light-emitting element, provided in the inside part, for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle;

a light-receiving element, provided in the inside part, for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue; and

an air pipe for supplying and releasing air in the cuff.

17. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

a cuff, provided in the outside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a light-emitting element, provided in the cuff, for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle;

a light-receiving element, provided in the inside part or in the cuff, for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue; and

an air pipe for supplying and releasing air in the cuff.

18. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

a cuff, provided in the outside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a light-emitting element, provided in the inside part or in the cuff, for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle;

a light-receiving element, provided in the cuff, for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue; and

an air pipe for supplying and releasing air in the cuff.

19. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

a cuff, provided in the inside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a light-emitting element, provided in the outside part, for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle;

a light-receiving element, provided in the outside part, for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue; and

an air pipe for supplying and releasing air in the cuff.

20. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

a first cuff, provided in the inside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a second cuff, provided in the outside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a light-emitting element for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle and a light-receiving element for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue, the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element being provided in the first cuff or in the second cuff; and

an air pipe for supplying and releasing air in the first cuff and the second cuff.

21. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

a first cuff, provided in the inside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a second cuff, provided in the outside part, for applying a pressure on the tragus;

a light-emitting element, provided in the first cuff or in the second cuff, for causing output light to enter a living body tissue of the auricle;

a light-receiving element, provided in another cuff, for receiving scattered light from the living body tissue; and

an air pipe for supplying and releasing air in the first cuff and the second cuff.

22. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the light-emitting element or the light-receiving element is fixed to an inner surface on the tragus side or an outer surface on the tragus side of the cuff, the first cuff or the second cuff.

23. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a fixing mechanism for suspending the living body information detection apparatus from the base of the auricle.

2. A living body information detection apparatus for detecting living body information at an auricle of a human body, wherein the living body information detection apparatus has a shape that follows the auricle in a periphery of a concha auriculae.

4. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the shape that follows the auricle is a shape that follows the concha auriculae and an antihelix.

6. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the shape that follows the auricle is a shape that follows the concha auriculae, a tragus, an antitragus and an antihelix.

7. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the shape that follows the auricle is a shape that follows the concha auriculae, a tragus, a crus helicis, a crus anthelicis, an antihelix, an antitragus and a cavity of the concha.

9. The living body information detection apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the shape of the living body information detection apparatus also follows an outer surface of the tragus, and covers the tragus with an inside part and an outside part, wherein the inside part touches the tragus from the inside of the tragus and wherein the outside part touches the tragus from the outer side of the tragus.