Measurement Patch Device

• US 20160198972A1
• Filed: 01/09/2016
• Published: 07/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shuenn-Yuh Lee
• Original Assignee: Shuenn-Yuh Lee
• Inventors: Chiou, Jia-Ren, Lee, Shuenn-Yuh
• Granted Patent: US 10,631,747 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0412 Low-profile patch shaped housings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0443 Modular apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/164 the sensor is mounted in or on a conformable substrate or carrier
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/053 Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of a portion of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/24 Detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/282 Holders for multiple electrodes for introduction into the body A61B5/287
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/296 for electromyography [EMG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/398 Electrooculography [EOG], e.g. detecting nystagmus; Electroretinography [ERG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6832 using adhesives A61B5/259 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6833 Adhesive patches

Abstract

A measurement patch device may change length according to somatotype of a user, and may be joined with another measurement patch device integrally according to the need of different physiological lead measurement. Moreover, the two joined measurement patch devices may rotate with respect to each other, such that multi-channel or multi-lead physiological signal may be measured to save measurement time of physiological signal.

Claims

1. A measurement patch device having a first electrode and a second electrode attached to a first site and a second site on a human body, respectively, for measuring a physiological signal, comprising:

a device body having a guide rail formed thereon and having a first electrode bonding portion and a first signal transfer layer;

the first electrode bonding portion bonding the first electrode and connecting electrically the first electrode and the first signal transfer layer;

a slipping body provided on the guide rail of the device body in a slipping manner for slipping on the device body, the slipping body having an accommodation space formed therein and having a second electrode bonding portion and a second signal transfer layer;

the second electrode bonding portion bonding the second electrode and connecting electrically the second electrode and the second signal transfer layer; and

a signal process module accommodated in the accommodation space, acquiring the physiological signal measured by the first, second electrode through the first, second signal transfer layer, respectively, and processing, analyzing and wirelessly communicating the acquired physiological signal.

2. The measurement patch device according to claim 1, wherein the device body further has a first joining portion;

the first joining portion is used to join the slipping body of another set of measurement patch devices for the first signal transfer layer of the device body to be in electrical connection with the second signal transfer layer of the slipping body of the another set of measurement patch devices.

3. The measurement patch device according to claim 2, wherein the slipping body further has a second joining portion;

the second joining portion is used to join the first joining portion of another set of measurement patch devices for the second signal transfer layer of the slipping body to be in electrical connection with the first signal transfer layer of the another set of measurement patch devices.

4. The measurement patch device according to claim 3, wherein the first, second joining portions may be an elastic tenon and an engagement hole with fitting structure, respectively.

5. The measurement patch device according to claim 1, wherein the first, second electrode bonding portions are bonded with the first, second electrodes in a manner selected from the group of lock joint, fastening, magnetism and adhesion, respectively.

6. The measurement patch device according to claim 1, wherein the device body and the slipping body have a first identification mark and a second identification mark, respectively, for identifying an overlapping level of the slipping body on the device body.

7. The measurement patch device according to claim 1, wherein the device body has multiple positioning portions equidistantly for positioning the slipping body on the device body.

8. The measurement patch device according to claim 1, wherein the signal process module has an analog front-end signal detection unit, a digital signal processor, a digital controller, a storage unit and a wireless transceiver.

9. The measurement patch device according to claim 8, wherein the analog front-end signal detection unit is used to acquire the physiological signal, and the digital signal processor is employed as feature extraction and classification of the physiological signal for processing and analyzing the physiological signal to convert the physiological signal into digital physiological information.

10. The measurement patch device according to claim 9, wherein the digital controller is used to provide communication between the digital signal processor and the wireless transceiver, the storage unit is used to store the acquired physiological signal and the processed and analyzed physiological information, and the wireless transceiver is used to communicate a monitoring device by using a wireless communication technology.

11. The measurement patch device according to claim 1, wherein the acquired physiological signal is an electrocardiographic signal, an electromyographic signal, an electrooculographic signal, a temperature signal, a blood pressure signal, a impedance signal and/or a nerve conduction signal.

12. The measurement patch device according to claim 1, further having an electrically conductive elastomer provided between the device body and the slipping body, two ends keeping in electrical contact with the signal process module and the second signal transfer layer, respectively, by means of elastic deformation.