Waterproof electrode for recording electrocardiogram

• US 4,637,399 A
• Filed: 06/10/1985
• Issued: 01/20/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Company Limited
• Inventors: Nakaya, Yasuhiro, Asai, Toshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Howell, Kyle L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHAY, RANDY CITRIN
• Application Number:
  US06/742,822
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 128/639, 128/643, 128/903
• US Class Current: 600/387
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/252 by suction
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/28 for electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/303 Patient cord assembly, e.g. cable harness

Abstract

Waterproof electrodes for recording an electrocardiogram, in which one end of a lead wire is inserted from the convex surface side to the concave surface side of a cup-shaped suction disc made of waterproof elastic material into a through hole formed at the center of the disc, an electrode plate connected to the end of the lead wire is put on the concave surface side of the suction disc to close the hole, the contacting portion between the outer peripheral edge portion of the plate and the concave surface of the suction disc and the gap between the periphery of the wire and the convex surface of the suction disc are respectively hermetically sealed by elastic sealing material, and an annular body surface adherent sheet capable of hermetically sticking on the surface of a human body along the concentric circle surrounding the electrode plate is bonded on the concave surface of the disc.

Claims

1. A waterproof electrode for detecting an electrocardiac signal comprising:

(a) a cup-shaped suction disc constructed from a waterproof, elastic material, said disc having a concave side, a convex side and a through-hole at the center thereof;

(b) an electrode plate having an outer peripheral edge hermetically sealed to the concave surface of said suction disc and closing said through-hole;

(c) a lead wire connecting to said electrode plate and extending through said through-hole and past the convex surface of said suction disc;

(d) elastic sealing means for hermetically sealing together the outer peripheral edge of said electrode plate and the portions of the concave surface of said suction disc in contact with said peripheral edge of said electrode plate;

(e) elastic sealing means hermetically sealing the lead wire at the convex surface of the suction disc; and

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(f) an annular, body-surface adherent strip surrounding said electrode plate and bonded to said concave side of said disc.