Instrument for measuring blood pressure and temperature

• US 6,440,081 B1
• Filed: 03/02/2001
• Issued: 08/27/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Health & Life Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Health & Life Company Limited
• Inventors: Yang, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Nasser, Robert L.
• Application Number:
  US09/796,895
• Publication Number:
  US 20020123691A1
• Time in Patent Office: 543 Days
• Field of Search: 600/301, 600/549, 600/485, 600/500-503
• US Class Current: 600/503
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers

Abstract

An instrument for measuring blood pressure and temperature includes a digital sphygmomanometer, a digital thermometer, and a transmission device. The digital sphygmomanometer includes a housing formed with a thermometer-receiving groove, and a control unit mounted in the housing. The control unit is operable so as to activate an air pump unit and obtain pressure information corresponding to air pressure inside a pneumatic wristlet and so as to activate a display unit to show the blood pressure information thereon. The digital thermometer is fitted removably in the thermometer-receiving groove, and includes a processor that is operable so as to obtain temperature information from a temperature probe and so as to activate a display panel to show the temperature thereon. The transmission device is provided on the digital sphygmomanometer and the digital thermometer for establishing a communications link between the control unit and the processor. The control unit is operable so as to receive the temperature information from the processor via the transmission device and to enable the display unit to show the temperature information thereon.

Claims

1. An instrument for measuring blood pressure and temperature, comprising:

a digital sphygmomanometer including

a pneumatic wristlet,

a housing formed with a thermometer-receiving groove,

an air pump unit mounted on said housing and in fluid communication with said pneumatic wristlet, said air pump unit being adapted to pump air into said pneumatic wristlet when activated,

a control unit mounted in said housing and coupled electrically to said air pump unit, said control unit being operable so as to activate said air pump unit and obtain blood pressure information corresponding to air pressure inside said pneumatic wristlet, and

a display unit mounted on said housing and coupled electrically to said control unit, said control unit being operable so as to activate said display unit to show the blood pressure information thereon;

a digital thermometer fitted removably in said thermometer-receiving groove and including

a sensing portion provided with a temperature probe,

a processor coupled electrically to said temperature probe to receive a temperature signal therefrom, said processor being operable so as to obtain temperature information from the temperature signal, and

a display panel coupled electrically to said processor, said processor being operable so as to activate said display panel to show the temperature information thereon; and

a transmission device provided on said digital sphygmomanometer and said digital thermometer for establishing a communications link between said control unit and said processor, said control unit being operable so as to receive the temperature information from said processor via said transmission device and to enable said display unit to show the temperature information thereon.

2. The instrument of claim 1, wherein said transmission device includes a conducting contact provided on said digital thermometer and coupled electrically to said processor, and a conducting pin provided in said thermometer-receiving groove of said housing and coupled electrically to said control unit, said conducting contact being in contact with said conducting pin when said digital thermometer is fitted in said thermometer-receiving groove.

3. The instrument of claim 1, wherein said transmission device includes a signal transmitter provided on said digital thermometer and coupled electrically to said processor, and a signal receiver provided on said housing and coupled electrically to said control unit, said signal transmitter being operable so as to transmit wirelessly the temperature information for reception by said control unit via said signal receiver.

4. The instrument of claim 1, further comprising a retaining device for retaining releasably the digital thermometer in said thermometer-receiving groove.