Apparatus and method for measuring current flow in an animal or human body
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1. An apparatus for measuring current flow through a living body, comprising:
- data acquisition circuitry consisting essentially of a first contact and a second contact configured for placement on a living body to measure voltage between said first contact and said second contact thereby producing voltage data, and a first connector connected at a first end to said first contact and a second connector connected at a first end to said second contact; and
a portable data processing unit connected to a second end of said first connector and to a second end of said second connector to process said voltage data and body impedance data to produce current flow data representing an amount of current flow through the living body, wherein said portable data processing unit includes acquired data conditioning circuitry to condition a data signal from said first contact and said second contact.
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Abstract
An apparatus for measuring contact current includes data acquisition circuitry with at least two sensor contacts to measure the voltage drop across an animal or human body. A portable data processing unit is connected to the data acquisition circuitry to process the voltage data to produce current flow data.
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44 Claims
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1. An apparatus for measuring current flow through a living body, comprising:
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data acquisition circuitry consisting essentially of a first contact and a second contact configured for placement on a living body to measure voltage between said first contact and said second contact thereby producing voltage data, and a first connector connected at a first end to said first contact and a second connector connected at a first end to said second contact; and
a portable data processing unit connected to a second end of said first connector and to a second end of said second connector to process said voltage data and body impedance data to produce current flow data representing an amount of current flow through the living body, wherein said portable data processing unit includes acquired data conditioning circuitry to condition a data signal from said first contact and said second contact. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An apparatus for measuring current flow through a living body, comprising:
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data acquisition circuitry consisting essentially of a first contact and a second contact configured for placement on a living body to measure voltage between said first contact and said second contact thereby producing voltage data, and a first connector connected at a first end to said first contact and a second connector connected at a first end to said second contact; and
a portable data processing unit connected to a second end of said first connector and to a second end of said second connector to process said voltage data and body impedance data to produce current flow data representing an amount of current flow through the living body, wherein said portable data processing unit includes a central processing unit and a memory storing a set of executable programs and said body impedance data comprised of known body impedances. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus for measuring current flow through a living body, comprising:
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data acquisition circuitry consisting essentially of a first contact and a second contact configured for placement on a living body to measure voltage between said first contact and said second contact thereby producing voltage data, and a first connector connected at a first end to said first contact and a second connector connected at a first end to said second contact, thereby producing voltage data; and
a portable data processing unit connected to a second end of said first connector and to a second end of said second connector to process said voltage data and body impedance data to produce current flow data representing an amount of current flow through the living body, wherein said portable data processing unit includes a central processing unit and a memory storing a set of executable programs and a parameter calculator that compares conditioned data with known body impedances to generate data on said current flow through said living body. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. An apparatus for measuring current flow through a living body, comprising:
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data acquisition circuitry comprising a first contact and a second contact configured to generate voltage data from a living body; and
a data processing unit electrically connected to said data acquisition circuitry, wherein said data processing unit comprises a memory configured to store generic body impedance data and an executable program to calculate a current flow through said living body using said voltage data and said generic body impedance data. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A system for measuring current flow through a living body, comprising:
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data acquisition circuitry comprising a first contact and a second contact configured to measure a voltage in a living body associated with the living body'"'"'s environment without applying a current to the living body, thereby providing voltage data;
a data processing unit electrically connected to said data acquisition circuitry, wherein said data processing unit is configured to store said voltage data on a removable memory; and
a central processing unit configured to receive said voltage data from said removable memory and to calculate current flow through the living body between said first contact and said second contact from said voltage data and known body impedance data. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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