Method of, and apparatus for, measuring electrogastrogram and intestinal electrogram

• US 5,704,368 A
• Filed: 06/12/1995
• Issued: 01/06/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gram Corporation, Nipro Corporation
• Original Assignee: Gram Corporation, Nissho Corporation (Nitto Denko Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Yoshio, Asano, Fumitaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Millin, Vincent
• Assistant Examiner(s): WIELAND, ROBERT N
• Application Number:
  US08/489,367
• Time in Patent Office: 939 Days
• Field of Search: 128/733, 128/741
• US Class Current: 600/382
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/30 Input circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/307 specially adapted for particular uses
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/392 Detecting gastrointestinal contractions
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/42 Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the gastrointestinal, the endocrine or the exocrine systems A61B1/00, A61B5/4857, A61B5/486, A61B5/4866, A61B5/4869 take precedence

Abstract

An apparatus for measuring an electrogastrogram and an intestinal electrogram including at least an electrode fixed to a body surface, an amplifier for amplifying a potential detected by said electrode, a low-pass filter for removing frequency signals other than the potentials of the stomach and the bowel amplified by said amplifier and a recorder.

The relationship between the frequency of the input signal of said low-pass filter and the phase of the output signal is made linear.

Claims

1. An apparatus for measuring an electrogastrogram and an intestinal electrogram comprising,

active filter means for making a phase change with respect to a frequency linear, said filter means being able to remove frequency signals other than frequency signals contained in a potential of a bowel, said filter means being connected between an amplifier of biological signals and a recorder for recording the signals amplified by said amplifier;

whereas said apparatus can make the relationship between a frequency of an input signal of said filter means and a phase of an output signal of said filter is linear.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the filter means comprises a low-pass filter and a switched capacitor.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein a cutoff frequency of said filter means is made variable.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a signal switch is connected to said filter means and an analog to digital convertor is connected between said signal switch and said recorder,

said signal switch and said analog and digital convertor acting to convert an analog signal from said filter means to a digital signal sent to said recorder.

5. An apparatus for measuring an electrogram and an intestinal electrogram comprising,

an electrode fixed to a body surface;

an amplifier connected to said electrode for amplifying a potential detected by said electrode;

active filter means connected to said amplifier for making a phase change with respect to a frequency linear, said filter means removing frequency signals other potentials of a stomach and a bowel amplified by said amplifier;

a recorder connected to said filter means;

wherein said apparatus can make the relationship between a frequency of an input signal of said filter means and the phase of an output signal linear.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the filter means comprises a low-pass filter, an analog to digital converter and a digital filter.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein a cutoff frequency of said filter means is made variable.