ACOUSTIC PATIENT SENSOR COUPLER
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Abstract
According to certain described aspects, multiple acoustic sensing elements are employed in a variety of beneficial ways to provide improved physiological monitoring, among other advantages. In various embodiments, sensing elements can be advantageously employed in a single sensor package, in multiple sensor packages, and at a variety of other strategic locations in the monitoring environment. According to other aspects, to compensate for skin elasticity and attachment variability, an acoustic sensor support is provided that includes one or more pressure equalization pathways. The pathways can provide an air-flow channel from the cavity defined by the sensing elements and frame to the ambient air pressure.
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1. (canceled)
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2. An acoustic sensor comprising:
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a frame; an acoustic sensing element supported by the frame; and a one piece integral acoustic coupler comprising a top hole configured to be stretched open, from an unstretched state, to enable receiving the frame and the acoustic sensing element, wherein; the top hole is further configured to stretch back to the unstretched state after the frame and the acoustic sensing element are received by the acoustic coupler, and the acoustic coupler covers at least a portion of a top of the frame. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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