PORTABLE SMART STETHOSCOPE FORMED OF SMART MOBILE DEVICE AND CASING ASSEMBLY

• US 20140163422A1
• Filed: 12/11/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong RUI DING Electrical Technology Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong RUI DING Electrical Technology Limited
• Inventors: Poplaw, Barry Poplaw
• Granted Patent: US 9,042,568 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/586
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/02 Details of sensors specially adapted for in-vivo measurements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/72 Signal processing specially adapted for physiological signals or for diagnostic purposes character recognition, recognising digital ink, document-oriented image-based pattern recognition G06V30/00; recognition or understanding of postal images G06V30/424
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/04 Electric stethoscopes microphones, acoustic transducers therefor H04R
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 Details of the structure or mounting of specific components

Abstract

A smart portable stethoscope is formed of a smart mobile device and a casing assembly for the mobile device. The casing assembly comprises a casing member, a diaphragm holder member configured to securely and effectively retain a diaphragm, and a vibrator-transducer member. The casing member includes a diaphragm connector part configured to securely fasten the diaphragm holder member to the casing member. The vibrator-transducer member is configured to be securely fastened to diaphragm holder member or casing member in such a manner that its vibrator is disposed to interconnect with the diaphragm and effectively duplicate vibrations captured by the diaphragm so as to deliver medical-grade auscultation electronic signal based on the duplicated vibrations to the mobile device through an audio plug plugged into a microphone jack thereof.

Claims

1. A smart portable stethoscope comprising:

a smart mobile computing device having;

a microphone jack configured to receive audio electronic signal through an audio plug;

a processor executing a software application, said application receive the audio electronic signal an input through a microphone jack;

a casing assembly housing the smart mobile device, said casing assembly having;

a diaphragm holder member configured to securely retain a diaphragm in such a manner that enables diaphragm to vibrate effectively to capture vibrations from a targeted source of auscultation data;

a casing member configured to house the smart mobile device, said casing member having;

a back section; and

a diaphragm connector part integrally joined to the section and configured to fasten the diaphragm holder member to the back section; and

a vibrator-transducer member having a vibrator, a traducer and a traducer wire, the vibrator-transducer member configured to be fastened to at least one of the diaphragm holder member or casing member such that the vibrator is disposed to be interconnected with the diaphragm through one or more channels so as to effectively capture vibrations captured by the diaphragm, the transducer wire electrically coupled to the audio plug to deliver an audio electronic signal converted from the vibrations captured by the vibrator by the transducer;