PULSE-WAVE MEASURING MODULE, BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION MEASURING MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20160242659A1
• Filed: 02/16/2016
• Published: 08/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Yamashita, Hideto, Hasei, Hironori
• Application Number:
  US15/044,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20160242659A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0238 Optical sensor arrangements for performing transmission measurements on body tissue
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7217 of noise originating from a therapeutic or surgical apparatus, e.g. from a pacemaker

Abstract

A biological-information measuring device functioning as a pulse-wave measuring module includes a light emitter configured to emit light to a test object and a light receiver configured to receive reflected light from the test object. The light receiver includes a light detector (a light receiving element) configured to detect the reflected light and an optical filter disposed on the light detector (the light receiving element) and configured by a plurality of layers. A layer most distant from the light detector (the light receiving element) among the plurality of layers of the optical filter is formed by a silicon oxide layer made of silicon oxide.

Claims

1. A pulse-wave measuring module comprising:

a light emitter configured to emit light to a test object; and

a light receiver configured to receive reflected light from the test object, wherein

the light receiver includes;

a light detector configured to detect the reflected light; and

an optical filter disposed on the light detector and configured by a plurality of layers, and

a layer most distant from the light detector among the plurality of layers of the optical filter is made of silicon oxide.

2. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 1, wherein the optical filter is configured by the layer made of the silicon oxide and a layer made of silicon nitride.

3. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 2, wherein

a layer nearest from the light detector of the optical filter is the layer made of the silicon oxide, and

the layer made of the silicon oxide and the layer made of the silicon nitride are alternately stacked.

4. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 2, wherein thickness of the layer made of the silicon nitride is smaller than thickness of the layer made of the silicon oxide.

5. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 2, wherein thickness of the layer made of the silicon nitride is larger than thickness of the layer made of the silicon oxide.

6. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 1, wherein thickness of the optical filter is 0.7 μ

m or more and 1.0 μ

m or less.

7. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 1, wherein thickness of the optical filter is 0.1 μ

m or more and 0.4 μ

m or less.

8. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 1, wherein the light receiver is sealed by transparent resin.

9. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 8, wherein the transparent resin comes into contact with the test object.

10. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 1, further comprising a wall section disposed between the light emitter and the light receiver, wherein

the wall section further projects to the test object side than the light emitter and the light receiver.

11. The pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 10, further comprising a frame section including the wall section and surrounding the light receiver, wherein

an upper end face of the frame section is higher than an upper surface of the light receiver.

12. An electronic device mounted with the pulse-wave measuring module according to claim 1.

13. A biological-information measuring module comprising:

a first light emitter;

a light receiver; and

a filter section including a plurality of first convex sections disposed on a light receiving surface of the light receiver, arranged side by side along a first direction from a center of the first light emitter to a center of the light receiver in plan view from a direction perpendicular to the light receiving surface, and projecting from the light receiving surface.

14. The biological-information measuring module according to claim 13, wherein the first convex sections extend along the first direction.

15. The biological-information measuring module according to claim 13, wherein height from the light receiving surface of an end portion convex section located at an end portion of the filter section among the plurality of first convex sections is larger than height from the light receiving surface of the other first convex sections.

16. The biological-information measuring module according to claim 13, further comprising a first wall section disposed between the light receiver and the first light emitter, wherein

height of the first wall section is larger than height of the first convex sections.

17. The biological-information measuring module according to according to claim 13, wherein the first convex sections are configured by a stacked body of functional layers.

18. The biological-information measuring module according to claim 13, further comprising a second light emitter, wherein

the filter section includes a plurality of second convex sections disposed on the light receiving surface of the light receiver, arranged side by side along a second direction from a center of the second light emitter to the center of the light receiver in plan view from a direction perpendicular to the light receiving surface, and projecting from the light receiving surface.

19. The biological-information measuring module according to claim 18, wherein the second convex sections extend along the second direction.

20. The biological-information measuring module according to claim 18, further comprising a second wall section disposed between the light receiver and the second light emitter, wherein

height of the second wall section is larger than height of the second convex sections.