LIVING BODY INFORMATION DETECTION APPARATUS AND BLOOD-PRESSURE METER

• US 20100298722A1
• Filed: 07/30/2010
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Inventors: UENISHI, Yuji, Koizumi, Hiroshi, Mino, Shinji, Aihara, Kimihisa, Oguchi, Taisuke, Hayashida, Shoichi, Tatara, Naoe, Shimada, Junichi, Tochikubo, Osamu, Naganuma, Kazunori, Sudo, Shouichi, Higurashi, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US12/847,891
• Publication Number:
  US 20100298722A1
• 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 collecting apparatus with a part of the living body information collecting apparatus includes a shape composed of a cylinder, a cone, a prism, a pyramid, a truncated cone or a truncated pyramid. The living body information collecting apparatus further including a sensing part for collecting living body information.

Claims

1. A living body information collecting apparatus, wherein a part of the living body information collecting apparatus includes a shape composed of a cylinder, a cone, a prism, a pyramid, a truncated cone or a truncated pyramid, the living body information collecting apparatus comprising:

a sensing part for collecting living body information.

2. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, the living body information collecting apparatus including a hollow part, that is a route of sound, in the axial orientation of the cylinder, the cone, the prism, the pyramid, the truncated cone or the truncated pyramid.

3. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensing part includes a blood pressure sensor;

and

the blood pressure sensor includes at least a pair of an light-emitting element and a light-receiving element, and a pressure applying part.

5. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, the living body information collecting apparatus further comprising a hollow part that is a route of sound when the living body information collecting apparatus is worn in the external ear or the external auditory meatus.

7. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a drive control part for drive-controlling the sensing part and processing a signal from the sensing part.

8. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

a transmission part for transmitting information processed by the drive control part.

9. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 8, further comprising a power source part for supplying power to at least one of the sensing part, the drive control part and the transmission part.

10. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensing part includes at least one of a blood pressure sensor, a body temperature sensor, a pulse sensor, a posture sensor, an acceleration sensor, a blood oxygen levels sensor, and an electroencephalogram sensor.

11. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a suspension part for suspending the living body information collecting apparatus from the external ear.

12. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensing part includes a blood pressure sensor;

and

the blood pressure sensor includes a detection part for detecting a pulse wave and a pressure applying part.

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

14. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein the pressure applying part is provided with a concave part, around a member forming the shape, that is formed like a concentric circle with respect to an axis of the member, and provided with an air receiver composed of an elastic member placed at the concave part, wherein, when air is supplied and released in the air receiver via a pressure applying pipe, the elastic member is displaced to the outside in the diameter direction of the member forming the shape so that the elastic member pressurizes the meatal wall.

15. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 12, 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.

16. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the living body information collecting apparatus further comprises a speaker part.

17. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the living body information collecting apparatus further comprises means for causing the speaker part to generate measured living body information.

18. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the living body information collecting apparatus further comprises means for causing the speaker part to generate sound for reporting start of measurement of living body information to a subject.

19. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the living body information collecting apparatus further comprises means for causing the speaker part to generate sound for reporting, to a subject, information indicating that measurement of living body information is underway.

20. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the living body information collecting apparatus further comprises means for causing the speaker part to generate a music.

21. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the living body information collecting apparatus further comprises means for setting time at which the speaker part does not generate sound.

22. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the living body information collecting apparatus further comprises a volume control that can change a sound level of the sound generated by the speaker part.

23. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the living body information collecting apparatus further comprises:

means for measuring an external sound level; and

means for changing a sound level of the sound generated by the speaker part according to the external sound level.

4. A living body information collecting apparatus having a shape suitable for being worn in an external ear or an external auditory meatus of a human, comprising:

a sensing part for collecting living body information from the external ear or the external auditory meatus.

6. The living body information collecting apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the shape is formed based on a shape of the external ear or the external auditory meatus of the human.