BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION DETECTOR AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASURING DEVICE

• US 20120078116A1
• Filed: 09/09/2011
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: YAMASHITA, Hideto
• Application Number:
  US13/229,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20120078116A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/476
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02427 Details of sensor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices

Abstract

A biological information detector includes a light-emitting part for emitting light in an emission wavelength band that includes a wavelength of interest, a light-receiving part for receiving light R1′ having biological information; a reflecting part for reflecting the light R1′ having the biological information at a reflecting surface towards the light-receiving part; and a filter for transmitting the wavelength of interest, the filter being provided between a detection site and the light-receiving part. The filter inhibits light in a wavelength band from a maximum wavelength of incident light to at least a maximum wavelength in the reception wavelength band, and the reflecting surface is configured so that only light having an angle of incidence that is equal to or less than the predetermined angle reaches the light-receiving part.

Claims

1. A biological information detector, comprising

a light-emitting part that emits light in an emission wavelength band that includes a wavelength of interest, the light being emitted towards a detection site of a test subject;

a light-receiving part that receives light having biological information, the light being light emitted by the light-emitting part and reflected at the detection site, the light-receiving part having sensitivity in a reception wavelength band that includes the emission wavelength band;

a reflecting part having a reflecting surface, the light having the biological information being reflected at the reflecting surface towards the light-receiving part; and

a filter that transmits the wavelength of interest, the filter being provided between the detection site and the light-receiving part;

wherein

when an angle of incidence of incident light on the filter is a predetermined angle, a maximum wavelength of the incident light passing through the filter is higher than the wavelength of interest, and the filter inhibits light that is within a wavelength band from the maximum wavelength of the incident light to at least a maximum wavelength of the reception wavelength band; and

the reflecting surface is configured so that only light having an angle of incidence that is equal to or less than the predetermined angle reaches the light-receiving part.

2. The biological information detector according to claim 1, wherein

the filter is a dielectric multilayer filter.

3. The biological information detector according to claim 1, further comprising

a substrate formed from a material that is transparent with respect to the wavelength of interest, the light-emitting part being arranged on a first surface, and the light-receiving part being arranged on a second surface disposed opposite the first surface;

and

a contact part arranged on a side towards the first surface in relation to the substrate, the contact part being formed from a material that is transparent with respect to the wavelength of interest, and the contact part having a surface that comes into contact with the test subject;

wherein

the reflecting part is arranged on a side towards the second surface in relation to the substrate.

4. The biological information detector according to claim 3, wherein

the filter is provided to at least one of the substrate, the light-receiving part, the reflecting part, and a surface of the contact part other than the contact surface.

5. The biological information detector according to any of claim 1, wherein

the maximum wavelength of the incident light is a wavelength corresponding to a point of change at which characteristics of an increase in the intensity of external light propagating through the test subject between a peripheral side of the detection site and a center side of the detection site shift from a first incline to a second incline that is steeper than the first incline.

6. The biological information detector according to claim 5, wherein

the wavelength of the point of change is in a range of 565 nm to 595 nm.

7. A biological information measuring device, comprising

the biological information detector according to claim 1,

a biological information measuring part that measures, from a light reception signal generated in the light-receiving part, the biological information;

wherein

the biological information is a pulse rate.