CUFFLESS BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR

• US 20120108985A1
• Filed: 09/23/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chung-Yuan Christian University
• Original Assignee: Chung-Yuan Christian University
• Inventors: SHYU, LIANG-YU, KAO, YAO Lin, TSAI, WEN Ya, HU, WEI-CHIH, WENG, CHING-SUNG
• Application Number:
  US13/242,368
• Publication Number:
  US 20120108985A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/485
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02116 of pulse wave amplitude A61B5/02225 takes precedence

Abstract

A cuffless blood pressure monitor is revealed. The cuffless blood pressure monitor includes a pressure detection module, a signal processing module and a display module. The pressure detection module detects blood pressure to generate a blood pressure pulse signal. The signal processing module processes the blood pressure pulse signal to generate a measurement result that is displayed by the display module. The cuffless blood pressure monitor measures continuous blood pressure pulse signals, processes the blood pressure pulse signals by the signal processing module, and calculates the measurement result for real-time measurement of blood pressure. A measurement point on the user is pressed by a soft pressure-transferring medium so that the user won'"'"'t feel uncomfortable. Moreover, the cuffless blood pressure monitor is compact and portable.

Claims

1. A cuffless blood pressure monitor comprising:

a pressure detection module having a pressure-transferring medium and a pressure sensor and the pressure-transferring medium covering a sensing end of the pressure sensor;

a signal processing module that is connected to the pressure sensor of the pressure detection module;

wherein the pressure sensor senses and sends a blood pressure pulse signal to the signal processing module to be processed so as to get a blood pressure direct current signal and a blood pressure alternating current signal and further calculate and obtain a measurement result according to the blood pressure direct current signal and the blood pressure alternating current signal; and

a display module that is connected to the signal processing module so as to display the measurement result calculated by the signal processing module.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pressure-transferring medium is made from silicone or other soft material.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the measurement result includes a diastolic pressure, a systolic pressure, and a mean blood pressure.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal processing module includes:

an analog signal processing circuit that receives the blood pressure pulse signal from the pressure sensor so as to get the blood pressure direct current signal and the blood pressure alternating current signal; and

a digital signal processing circuit that receives, digitalizes both the blood pressure direct current signal and the blood pressure alternating current signal, and calculates the measurement result according to the digitalized blood pressure direct current signal and the digitalized blood pressure alternating current signal.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the analog signal processing circuit includes

an amplifier unit that amplifies the blood pressure signal and then the blood pressure pulse signal is divided into the blood pressure direct current signal and the blood pressure alternating current signal;

and

a filter unit that receives the blood pressure alternating current signal and removes at least one noise from the blood pressure alternating current signal.

6. The device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the amplifier unit is a differential amplifier.

7. The device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the filter unit includes a high-pass filter and a low-pass filter.

8. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the digital signal processing circuit includes:

an analog-to-digital converter unit that receives both the blood pressure direct current signal and the blood pressure alternating current signal from the analog signal processing circuit, and digitalizes both the blood pressure direct current signal and the blood pressure alternating current signal; and

a microprocessor unit that receives both the digitalized blood pressure direct current signal and the digitalized blood pressure alternating current signal, retrieves multiple amplitude values of the digitalized blood pressure AC signal and checks whether these amplitude values exceed a threshold value;

then find out the corresponding blood pressure DC signal for those blood pressure AC signals that exceed the threshold value;

next rearrange the blood pressure values of the blood pressure DC signal from largest to smallest so that a curve of the rearranged blood pressure DC signal is a monotonously decline curve;

the so-called rearranged blood pressure DC signal is obtained;

wherein the microprocessor unit rearranges the digitalized blood pressure alternating current signal according to the order of the blood pressure values of the rearranged blood pressure direct current signal;

then the microprocessor unit finds out the maximum value of an amplitude of the rearranged blood pressure alternating current signal so as to get a blood pressure value corresponding to the maximum value of the amplitude and calculate the measurement result according to the characteristic ratio between the maximum amplitude and blood pressure amplitude at systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cuffless blood pressure monitor further includes:

a storage module that is connected to the signal processing module so as to store the blood pressure direct current signal, the blood pressure alternating current signal and the measurement result.

10. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the storage module is a flash memory.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cuffless blood pressure monitor further includes:

a transmission module that is connected to the signal processing module and is used for sending the blood pressure direct current signal, the blood pressure alternating current signal and the measurement result to a computer.

12. The device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the transmission module is a universal serial bus (USB) device.

13. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pressure sensor senses the press signal and sends the press signal to the signal processing module;

the signal processing module gets a pressure value according to the press signal and sends the pressure value to the display module;

the pressure value is displayed by the display module.