BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASURING APPARATUS
First Claim
1. Bioelectrical impedance measuring apparatus for determining composition data of a human body, said apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of electrodes;
measuring circuitry including alternating current sources, voltage measuring circuits, and a control and analysis unit,said control and analysis unit being configured to inject an alternating current from one of the alternating current sources, based on predetermined measuring programs, through two electrodes into the body, which electrodes are specific for the specific measuring program, and to determine with two other electrodes on different limbs the resulting voltages using the voltage measuring circuits, and to determine therefrom the impedance of body segments; and
two hand contact bodies, each of which is shaped in such a manner and provided with two electrodes in such a manner that a user, when contacting the hand contact bodies with hands, comes into contact with two electrodes for each hand on each respective hand contact body,each hand contact body including a hand seating surface for placement of a hand inner surface thereon,each hand seating surface including an electrically insulating separating wall extending over a part of the length of the hand seating surface,said separating wall being configured to project into a space between middle and ring finger when a hand is placed on the hand seating surface,selected ones of said electrodes being disposed on each side of the separating wall such that, when a hand is placed on the hand seating surface, one electrode comes into contact with the small finger and/or ring finger and the other electrode comes into contact with middle finger and/or index finger.
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Abstract
The present invention provides bioelectrical impedance measuring apparatus for determining composition data of a human body, the apparatus including a plurality of electrodes and measuring circuitry which inject, through two electrodes, alternating current into the body, and which determine, with two other electrodes on different limbs, the resulting voltages, and which determine therefrom the impedance of body segments. In one apparatus, two hand contact bodies are disclosed, each of which is shaped in such a manner and provided with two electrodes in such a manner that a user when contacting the hand contact bodies with his hands comes into contact with two electrodes for each hand at the respective hand contact body. Each hand contact body includes a hand seating surface for placement of a hand inner surface thereon, each hand seating surface includes an electrically insulating separating wall extending over a part of the length of the hand seating surface, the separating wall being adapted to project into the space between middle and ring finger when a hand is placed on the hand seating surface, and on both sides of the separating wall an electrode is included such that, when a hand is placed on the hand seating surface, one electrode comes into contact with the small finger and/or ring finger at the other electrode comes into contact with middle finger and/or index finger.
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5 Claims
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1. Bioelectrical impedance measuring apparatus for determining composition data of a human body, said apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of electrodes; measuring circuitry including alternating current sources, voltage measuring circuits, and a control and analysis unit, said control and analysis unit being configured to inject an alternating current from one of the alternating current sources, based on predetermined measuring programs, through two electrodes into the body, which electrodes are specific for the specific measuring program, and to determine with two other electrodes on different limbs the resulting voltages using the voltage measuring circuits, and to determine therefrom the impedance of body segments; and two hand contact bodies, each of which is shaped in such a manner and provided with two electrodes in such a manner that a user, when contacting the hand contact bodies with hands, comes into contact with two electrodes for each hand on each respective hand contact body, each hand contact body including a hand seating surface for placement of a hand inner surface thereon, each hand seating surface including an electrically insulating separating wall extending over a part of the length of the hand seating surface, said separating wall being configured to project into a space between middle and ring finger when a hand is placed on the hand seating surface, selected ones of said electrodes being disposed on each side of the separating wall such that, when a hand is placed on the hand seating surface, one electrode comes into contact with the small finger and/or ring finger and the other electrode comes into contact with middle finger and/or index finger. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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