Medical wireless telemeter

• US 5,036,869 A
• Filed: 03/23/1990
• Issued: 08/06/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: Inahara, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaworski, Francis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Manuel, George
• Application Number:
  US07/498,812
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 128/696, 128/695, 128/903, 128/904, 128/668
• US Class Current: 600/481
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/276 Protection against electrode failure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/28 for electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A medical wireless telemeter includes a transmitter section having one or more different types of transmitters corresponding to different medical body signals to be transmitted as a telegram to a receiver. The receiver has different body signal processing circuits corresponding to the various types of number of medical body signals which may be sent by the transmitter. A process or specifying circuit specifies a particular body signal processing circuit after the receiver identifies the particular transmitter kind code from the telegram received after the transmitter identification code has been received which specifies the particular medical body measurement analysis to be conducted.

Claims

1. A medical wireless telemeter, which comprises:

a time-share transmitter means for transmitting a medical body measurement signal encoded as a telegram having a plurality of bits and a synchronizing signal, the time-share transmitter means compressing at least one selected transmitter of a plurality of different kinds of transmitters, each transmitter of the plurality of different kinds of transmitters being adapted to send a different medical body measurement signal using the same transmitting frequency, the at least one selected transmitter, means selected according to the kind of medical data to be transmitted, the time-share transmitter, means further comprising means for transmitting the telegram by a transmitter identifying the at least one selected transmitting means used in the time-share transmitter means;

a receiver means for receiving and decoding said medical body measurement signal and providing data-processed medial body measuring data corresponding thereto, the receiver means comprising a plurality of body signal and data-processing means, each body signal and data-processing means corresponding to at least one of the plurality of different kinds of transmitters and being adapted to data-process any one of the plurality of different medical body measurement signals, the receiver means further comprising transmitter kind code identifying means, the transmitter kind code identifying means adapted to receive the transmitter kind code transmitted from the time-share transmitter means and identifying the at least one selected transmitter means from the code used in the time-share transmitter means, the transmitter kind code identifying means adapted to provide a transmitter identifying signal, the receiver means further comprising data-processing specifying means, the data-processing specifying means being responsive to the transmitter identifying signal and adapted to select one of the plurality of body signal and data-processing means corresponding to the at least one selected transmitted means of the time-share transmitter means of the medical wireless signal transmitted by the at least one selected transmitter means; and

the receiver means outputting the data-processed medical body measuring data corresponding to the medical body measurement signal to a display apparatus.

2. A medical wireless telemeter comprising:

a transmitter means for time-share transmitting a medical body measurement signal and a synchronizing signal as a telegram encoded with a plurality of bits, said transmitter means comprising a plurality of different kinds of transmitters, each of said transmitters being adapted to send a different medical body measurement signal and transmitting a telegram including a transmitter kind code signal different from each other, said transmitter kind code signal corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of different kinds of transmitters;

a receiver means for receiving, decoding and data-processing said telegram to produce medical body measurement data, said receiver means outputting said medical body measurement data to an input apparatus, said receiver means comprising a plurality of body signal processing means each of the plurality of body signal processing means corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of different kinds of transmitters, said receiver means comprising a data-processing specifying means for identifying said transmitter kind code signal of said telegram and specifying one of said plurality of body signal processing means.