Sphygmomanometer cuff achieving precise measurement of blood pressure

• US 6,336,901 B1
• Filed: 02/11/2000
• Issued: 01/08/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Takahide, Sato, Hironori, Kato, Hiroyuki, Itonaga, Kazunobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Nasser, Robert L.
• Application Number:
  US09/502,021
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• Field of Search: 600/490, 600/499, 606/202
• US Class Current: 600/499
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02141 Details of apparatus construction, e.g. pump units or housings therefor, cuff pressurising systems, arrangements of fluid conduits or circuits A61B5/02233, A61B5/0235 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02233 Occluders specially adapted therefor tourniquets A61B17/132
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices

Abstract

A cuff for a sphygmomanometer is constituted of an air bag for pressurization into which a predetermined amount of air is supplied and connected to a pressure sensor, an air bag for press into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied for causing the pressurization air bag to press the artery in the wrist portion, and a band for attaching both air bags to the wrist portion. When blood pressure is to be measured, a predetermined amount of air is supplied into the pressurization air bag and then air is supplied into the press air bag. The press air bag is accordingly expanded to cause the pressurization air bag to pressurize the artery. In this way, the sphygmomanometer cuff is provided which can overcome discomfort due to a feeling of being overly pressurized or dampness and ensure blocking of the blood flow in the artery so as to achieve measurement with higher precision.

Claims

1. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied for causing said pressurization fluid bag to press a subject region; and

an attachment unit for attaching said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region,

wherein said press portion is formed of an intervening member placed outside said pressurization fluid bag and a fluid bag for press placed outside said intervening member.

2. The sphygmomanometer cuff according to claim 2, wherein said pressurization fluid bag is positioned relative to an artery by said intervening member.

3. The sphygmomanometer cuff according to claim 2, wherein said pressurization fluid bag is formed of a fluid introduction member having a space into which fluid is supplied and a press film attached to said fluid introduction member so as to seal the space.

4. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor, said pressurization fluid bag being curved to conform to a surface of a subject region;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied to permit said pressurization fluid bag to press the subject region; and

an attachment unit for attaching said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region, wherein said pressurization fluid bag has rigid strips extending in axial direction of the subject region and arranged in circumferential direction of the subject region on opposite side of a pressurization surface of said pressurization fluid bag.

5. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor, said pressurization fluid bag being divided into small parts which are arranged in circumferential direction of a subject region;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied to permit said pressurization fluid bag to press the subject region; and

an attachment unit configured to attach said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region.

6. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor, said pressurization fluid bag having a wavelike structure with projection and depression extending in axial direction of a subject region;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied to permit said pressurization fluid bag to press the subject region; and

an attachment unit configured to attach said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region.

7. The sphygmomanometer cuff according to claim 6, wherein

said pressurization fluid bag has a pressurization surface of a wavelike shape.

8. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor, said pressurization fluid bag having a portion extending in axial direction of a subject region with its hardness different from that of a remaining portion;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied to permit said pressurization fluid bag to press the subject region; and

an attachment unit configured to attach said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region.

9. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied for causing said pressurization fluid bag to press a subject region; and

an attachment unit for attaching said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region, wherein

said press portion is a fluid bag for press which is placed opposite to a pressurization surface of said pressurization fluid bag and expanded and shrunk by fluid which is supplied into or discharged from said press portion, and

said pressurization fluid bag has a restraint tool placed opposite to the pressurization surface for deterring said fluid bag for press from bulging in axial direction of the subject region.

10. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied for causing said pressurization fluid bag to press a subject region; and

an attachment unit for attaching said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region, wherein

said pressurization fluid bag has a pressurization surface which is more elastic than the subject region and a portion having a compression displacement relative to pressure from the subject region that is smaller than compression displacement of fluid inside said pressurization surface.

11. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied for causing said pressurization fluid bag to press a subject region; and

an attachment unit for attaching said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region, wherein

said pressurization fluid bag has a pressurization surface which is less elastic than the subject region and a portion having a compression displacement relative to pressure from the subject region that is greater than compression displacement of fluid inside said pressurization surface.

12. A sphygmomanometer cuff comprising:

a pressurization fluid bag into or in which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied or confined and which is connected to a pressure sensor;

a press portion into which a predetermined amount of fluid is supplied for causing said pressurization fluid bag to press a subject region; and

an attachment unit for attaching said pressurization fluid bag and said press portion to the subject region, wherein

said sphygmomanometer cuff further comprises a cover for preventing said pressurization fluid bag from being subjected to pressure from the subject region and any external pressure when said cuff is attached to the subject region.

13. The sphygmomanometer cuff according to claim 17, wherein

said cover has a pair of extensible walls extending in circumferential direction of the subject region, said walls stretching to separate said pressurization fluid bag from the subject region when said cuff is attached to the subject region and shortening to cause said pressurization fluid bag to touch the subject region when measurement is done.