LIVING BODY INFORMATION DETECTION APPARATUS AND BLOOD-PRESSURE METER

• US 20100298727A1
• 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: Koizumi, Hiroshi, Mino, Shinji, Aihara, Kimihisa, Oguchi, Taisuke, Hayashida, Shoichi, Tatara, Naoe, Shimada, Junichi, Tochikubo, Osamu, UENISHI, Yuji, Naganuma, Kazunori, Sudo, Shouichi, Higurashi, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US12/847,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20100298727A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/499
• 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 cuff including a base composed of a non-elastic member. The cuff further including an elastic member provided on one surface of the base. The cuff also including an air supplying pipe, where a pressing surface of the elastic member swells only on the one surface by supplying air from the air supplying pipe.

Claims

1. A cuff comprising:

a base composed of a non-elastic member;

an elastic member provided on one surface of the base; and

an air supplying pipe,

wherein a pressing surface of the elastic member swells only on the one surface by supplying air from the air supplying pipe.

2. The cuff as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base is plain-like or curved surface-like.

16. The cuff as claimed in claim 1, the cuff further comprising a light-emitting element, in the inside of the case, for emitting light from the inside of the cuff to the outside through the pressing surface, wherein the pressing surface is transparent or semitransparent for light emitted by the light-emitting element.

17. The cuff as claimed in claim 1, the cuff further comprising a light-receiving element, in the inside of the case, for receiving scattered light scattered in the outside of the cuff through the pressing surface, wherein the pressing surface is transparent or semitransparent for the scattered light received by the light-receiving element.

18. The cuff as claimed in claim 1, the cuff further comprising a light-emitting element for emitting light from the inside of the cuff to the outside through the pressing surface, and a light-receiving element for receiving scattered light emitted from the light-emitting element and scattered in the outside of the cuff through the pressing surface, the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element being provided in the case,

wherein the pressing surface is transparent or semitransparent for the light emitted by the light-emitting element and for the scattered light received by the light-receiving element.

3. A cuff comprising:

a case in which one face is open;

an elastic member that covers the open face to form a pressing surface on the face; and

an air supplying pipe provided to the case,

wherein the pressing surface swells by supplying air from the air supplying pipe into the inside of the cuff surrounded by the case and the elastic member.

4. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein an outer shape of the pressing surface is round, elliptic or rounded quadrangular.

5. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein the shape of the pressing surface is concave in relation to the outside of the cuff.

6. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein the shape of the pressing surface is convex to the outside of the cuff.

7. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein the shape of the pressing surface is flat.

8. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein the cuff includes slack between the pressing surface and the case in the elastic member for expanding or contracting a side part for supporting the pressing surface in a movement direction of the pressing surface.

9. The cuff as claimed in claim 8, wherein an expansion ratio of the pressing surface in the swelling direction of the pressing surface is less than an expansion ratio of the slack in the swelling direction.

10. The cuff as claimed in claim 8, wherein thickness of a part that forms the pressing surface in the elastic member is greater than thickness of a part of the slack.

11. The cuff as claimed in claim 8, wherein an elasticity of material of a part that forms the pressing surface in the elastic member is smaller than an elasticity of material of a part forming the slack.

12. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein the side part of the elastic member is fixed to an outer wall of the case by an elastic body.

13. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein the side part of the elastic member is fixed to an outer wall of the case by elasticity of the side part.

14. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein the side part of the elastic member is fixed to an outer wall of the case by thermocompression bonding.

15. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, wherein the material of the elastic member is a material having elasticity such as silicone resin, natural rubber and butyl rubber, or general plastic material such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, or copolymer of these, or airtight cloth or paper obtained by coating nonwoven fabric with polymer, wherein the material of the elastic member passes light.

19. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, comprising a light-emitting element on a surface of the cuff.

20. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, comprising a light-receiving element on a surface of the cuff.

21. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, comprising a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element on a surface of the cuff.

22. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, comprising a light-emitting element on a back surface of the cuff.

23. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, comprising a light-receiving element on a back surface of the cuff.

24. The cuff as claimed in claim 3, comprising a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element on a back surface of the cuff.