MEDICAL DETECTION DEVICE FOR THE DETECTION OF SLEEP APNEA AND/OR SLEEP HYPOPNEA

• US 20110184302A1
• Filed: 01/30/2009
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Pauls-Von Heyden, Angelika, Eschler, Johannes, Baehren, Thomas, Ladstaetter, Ulrich
• Application Number:
  US12/736,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20110184302A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/529
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/08 Detecting, measuring or recording devices for evaluating the respiratory organs A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4818 Sleep apnoea
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/56 Devices for preventing snoring by influencing the respiratory system by gas treatment A61M16/00

Abstract

A medical detection device for detecting breathing disruptions during sleep includes a fastening arrangement for attaching a detecting arrangement to the human body, having at least one microphone for detecting breathing sounds and a logic arrangement configured to evaluate the breathing sounds.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A medical detection device for detecting breathing disruptions during sleep, comprising:

a detecting arrangement having at least one microphone for detecting breathing sounds and having a logic arrangement configured to evaluate the breathing sounds; and

a fastening arrangement for securing the detecting arrangement to the human body.

12. The detection device of claim 11, wherein the fastening arrangement includes an adhesive tape.

13. The detection device of claim 11, wherein the logic arrangement is configured to evaluate the breathing sounds in terms of occurrence of at least one of an apnea and a hypopnea lasting longer than a minimum period of time.

14. The detection device of claim 13, wherein the logic arrangement is configured to consider cardiac activity, in particular the heart rate, to perform a plausibility check of breathing disruption, in particular cessation of breathing.

15. The detection device of claim 13, wherein the logic arrangement is configured to monitor the cardiac activity on the basis of heart sounds detected via the microphone.

16. The detection device of claim 13, wherein the logic arrangement is configured to count the breathing disruptions verified by a plausibility check lasting a minimum period of time.

17. The detection device of claim 11, wherein an output arrangement is assigned to the logic arrangement for outputting an evaluation result.

18. The detection device of claim 17, wherein the output arrangement is configured to display an evaluation result based on an electrochemical reaction.

19. The detection device of claim 11, further comprising:

a voltage source, including at least one capacitor.

20. The detection device of claim 11, wherein the microphone is situated so that in the case of a detection arrangement attached to the body, the microphone rests directly on the skin.

21. The detection device of claim 11, wherein the microphone is situated so that in the case of a detection arrangement attached to the body, the microphone rests directly on the neck.

22. The detection device of claim 11, wherein the microphone is situated so that in the case of a detection arrangement attached to the body, the microphone rests directly on at least one of the neck close the carotid artery and the thorax.