CUFF FOR BLOOD PRESSURE INFORMATION MEASURING DEVICE AND BLOOD PRESSURE INFORMATION MEASURING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME

• US 20110112412A1
• Filed: 06/18/2009
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Takahide, Uesaka, Chisato, Ariga, Hiroyasu, Onishi, Yoshihide, Sano, Yoshihiko
• Application Number:
  US13/002,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20110112412A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/499
• 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 5/02233 Occluders specially adapted therefor tourniquets A61B17/132

Abstract

A cuff for a blood pressure information measuring device configured to be mounted on a measurement site for measuring blood pressure information has a fluid bag for compressing the measurement site, a flexible curved elastic plate located outside the fluid bag while the fluid bag is wrapped around the measurement site, and annular or arc-shaped to extend along the measurement site, an inflation and deflation mechanism secured to the curved elastic plate and inflating and deflating the fluid bag, and a bag-shaped cover body encapsulating the fluid bag, the inflation and deflation mechanism, and the curved elastic plate.

Claims

1. A cuff for a blood pressure information measuring device configured to be mounted on a measurement site for measuring blood pressure information comprising:

a fluid bag for compressing the measurement site;

a flexible curved elastic plate located outside said fluid bag while said fluid bag is wrapped around the measurement site, and annular or arc-shaped to extend along the measurement site;

an inflation and deflation mechanism secured to said curved elastic plate and inflating and deflating said fluid bag; and

a bag-shaped cover body encapsulating said fluid bag, said inflation and deflation mechanism, and said curved elastic plate.

2. The cuff for a blood pressure information measuring device according to claim 1, wherein

said inflation and deflation mechanism is disposed on a main surface of said curved elastic plate, and

said main surface is opposite to a main surface of said curved elastic plate that faces said fluid bag.

3. The cuff for a blood pressure information measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising a protection member covering an exposed surface of said inflation and deflation mechanism.

4. The cuff for a blood pressure information measuring device according to claim 1, wherein said inflation and deflation mechanism includes a pressurizing pump and an exhaust valve.

5. The cuff for a blood pressure information measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a power supply unit supplying electric power for driving said inflation and deflation mechanism,

wherein said power supply unit is encapsulated in said bag-shaped cover body.

6. The cuff for a blood pressure information measuring device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pressure detection unit for detecting an internal pressure of said fluid bag,

wherein said pressure detection unit is encapsulated in said bag-shaped cover body (12).

7. A blood pressure information measuring device comprising:

the cuff for the blood pressure information measuring device as recited in claim 1; and

an associated unit provided separately and independently of said cuff for the blood pressure information measuring device,

wherein said associated unit is provided with a display portion for displaying blood pressure information as a result of measurement.

8. The blood pressure information measuring device according to claim 7, wherein said associated unit is provided with an operation portion for entering an instruction to drive said inflation and deflation mechanism.

9. The blood pressure information measuring device according to claim 7, further comprising a communication unit enabling radio communication to be performed between said cuff for the blood pressure information measuring device and said associated unit.