Pinch device for detecting a biomedical signal

• US 5,957,840 A
• Filed: 10/03/1997
• Issued: 09/28/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: Niwa, Hitoshi, Terasawa, Harutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): WINAKUR, ERIC FRANK
• Application Number:
  US08/943,114
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 600/309, 600/310, 600/322, 600/323, 600/324, 600/340, 600/344, 24/504, 24/543, 606/151, 606/157
• US Class Current: 600/310
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/274 using snap or button fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6816 Ear lobe
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44419 Pivoted or rotated element

Abstract

A pinch device for detecting a biomedical signal which pinches a measuring site of a living body in order to detect a biomedical signal, includes a pair of body members which are opposed to each other, said body members being rotatably coupled to each other via a shaft portion, a movable member mounted to a tip end of one of said paired body members so as to be rotatable, and said movable member having a contact face opposed to another contact face which is formed at a tip end of another one of said paired body members, and a spring member urging said contact face of said movable member and said other contact face of said body member which is opposed to said movable member, in an approaching direction.

Claims

1. A pinch device for contacting a site of a living body, comprising:

a pair of body members which are opposed to each other, said body members being rotatably coupled to each other via a shaft portion;

a movable member mounted to a tip end of one of said paired body members through a spherical rotation shaft so as to be rotatable in any direction, and said movable member having a contact face opposed to another contact face which is formed at a tip end of another one of said paired body members; and

a spring member urging said contact face of said movable member and said other contact face of said body member which is opposed to said movable member, in an approaching direction.

2. The pinch device of claim 1 further comprising:

a notch provided in said one of said body members connected to said moveable member; and

a pin connected to a face of said moveable member, wherein the rotation of the spherical rotational shaft is restricted to a predetermined range when said pin is engaged with said notch.

3. The pinch device of claim 2 further comprising:

a wire connected to said moveable member, wherein said predetermined range of restriction of the spherical shaft prevents breakage of said wire.

4. A pinch device for detecting a biomedical signal which pinches a measuring site of a living body in order to detect a biomedical signal, comprising:

a pair of body members which are opposed to each other, said body members being rotatably coupled to each other via a shaft portion;

a movable member mounted to a tip end of one of said paired body members through a spherical rotation shaft so as to be rotatable in any direction, and said movable member having a contact face opposed to another contact face which is formed at a tip end of another one of said paired body members;

a spring member urging said contact face of said movable member and said other contact face of said body member which is opposed to said movable member, in an approaching direction;

a light emitting device connected to one of said contact faces for emitting light through a body portion; and

a photo-detecting device connected to the other of said contact faces for detecting said transmitted light said body portion, wherein

said detected transmitted light corresponds to the biomedical signal.