BLOOD PRESSURE INFORMATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE CUFF AND BLOOD PRESSURE INFORMATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE PROVIDED THEREWITH

• US 20120316449A1
• Filed: 08/23/2012
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Inventors: Uesaka, Chisato, Sawanoi, Yukiya
• Granted Patent: US 9,788,736 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/499
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02233 Occluders specially adapted therefor tourniquets A61B17/132

Abstract

A cuff includes a fluid bladder, an outer cover that contains the fluid bladder toward one end portion, a surface fastener, and another surface fastener. The outer cover includes, in an area of the outer cover that includes a region in which the other surface fastener is provided, a first wide portion in which the width of the outer cover is greater than a width of an area of the outer cover that includes a region in which the surface fastener is provided. The other surface fastener includes a second wide portion in which the width of the other surface fastener is greater than the width of the surface fastener. The cuff can be fitted to a measurement area with certainty.

Claims

1. A blood pressure information measurement device cuff comprising:

a fluid bladder that applies pressure to a body;

an outer cover, comprising a first main surface and a second main surface, that contains the fluid bladder toward one end portion;

a first fastening member provided toward the one end portion on the first main surface; and

a second fastening member provided toward another end portion on the first main surface or toward the other end portion on the second main surface,

wherein the outer cover is wrapped around the body in a ring shape;

the first fastening member and the second fastening member hold the wrapped outer cover on the body in a secured state;

the outer cover comprises, in an area of the outer cover that comprises a region in which the second fastening member is provided, a first wide portion in which the width of the outer cover is greater than a width of an area of the outer cover that comprises a region in which the first fastening member is provided; and

the second fastening member comprises a second wide portion in which the width of the second fastening member is greater than a width of the first fastening member.

2. The blood pressure information measurement device cuff according to claim 1, wherein the first wide portion in the outer cover and the second wide portion in the second fastening member have approximately arc shapes in which the widths gradually increase outward in the width direction as the outer cover progresses from the one end portion toward the other end portion.

3. The blood pressure information measurement device cuff according to claim 1, wherein the first wide portion in the outer cover and the second wide portion in the second fastening member have shapes in which the widths increase outward on both sides in the width direction as the outer cover progresses from the one end portion toward the other end portion.

4. The blood pressure information measurement device cuff according to claim 1, wherein the first wide portion in the outer cover and the second wide portion in the second fastening member can be bent toward the first main surface or the second main surface.

5. The blood pressure information measurement device cuff according to claim 1, wherein openings that pass through from the first main surface to the second main surface are provided in the second fastening member and in the area of the outer cover that comprises the region in which the second fastening member is provided, respectively.

6. A blood pressure information measurement device comprising:

the blood pressure information measurement device cuff according to claim 1;

an inflation/deflation mechanism that inflates/deflates the fluid bladder; and

a blood pressure information obtainment unit that obtains blood pressure information.

7. A blood pressure information measurement device cuff comprising:

a fluid bladder that applies pressure to a body;

a first outer cover that contains the fluid bladder;

a first fastening member provided in the first outer cover;

a second outer cover;

a second fastening member provided in the second outer cover; and

a connecting member that connects another end portion of the first outer cover to one end portion of the second outer cover in a pivotable state,

wherein the first outer cover and the second outer cover are wrapped around the body in a ring shape while being connected to each other by the connecting member; and

the first fastening member and the second fastening member hold the wrapped first outer cover and second outer cover on the body in a secured state.