Biological information detection system

• US 6,942,624 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2003
• Issued: 09/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Denso Aircool Corporation (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Gac Corp. (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Yanai, Kenichi, Nakatani, Hiroto, Takizawa, Shun, Minamiyama, Yuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Evans, Robin O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): FASTOVSKY, LEONID M
• Application Number:
  US10/602,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20040000542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 600/484, 600/485, 600/486, 600/487, 600/488, 600/534, 600/587, 174/50.5, 174/52.3, 439/892, 439/893, 439/894, 737/63, 737/64, 737/65, 737/66, 737/67, 737/68, 737/69, 737/70, 737/71, 737/72, 737/73, 737/74
• US Class Current: 600/534
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0272 For heating of fabrics
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/016 Heaters using particular connecting means
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 2203/026 Heaters specially adapted for floor heating
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/342 heaters used in textiles

Abstract

The input/output system of the present invention includes a sheet-like input/output unit that includes wiring and a connection box that is attached to an edge of the sheet-like input/output unit. The connection box includes a housing that is attached so as to sandwich the sheet-like input/output unit and internally encloses a circuit board that is connected to the wiring. The housing includes a slit through which the sheet-like input/output unit passes and whose upper and lower edges are curved and means for fixing the sheet-like input/output unit that is disposed inside to the slit. Since the means for fixing the sheet-like input/output unit is disposed inside to the slit, the edges of the slit are narrow but formed with large radii of curvature, so that the sheet-like input/output unit is not folded over at the slit part. The slit can also be sealed by attaching packing to the edge of the slit.

Claims

1. A biological information detection system, comprising:

a sheet-like sensor unit that includes a sheet-like base material, a plurality of sensor elements disDosed thereon and wiring for the plurality of sensor elements; and

a connection box that is attached to an edge of the sheet-like sensor unit and connected to the plurality of sensor elements via the wiring,

wherein the connection box includes a housing that is attached so as to sandwich the edge of the sheet-like sensor unit and internally encloses a circuit board that is connected to the wiring, and

the housing includes;

a slit through which the edge of the sheet-like sensor unit passes and whose upper and lower edges are curved shapes; and

means for fixing the edae of the sheet-like sensor unit that is disposed behind the edges of the slit and inside of the housing.

2. A biological information detection system according to claim 1,

wherein an edge, out of the upper and lower edges of the slit, that is above the sheet-like sensor unit is composed of a sealing part that is elastic.

3. A biological information detection system according to claim 1,

wherein at least one hole formed in an area of the edge of the sheet-like sensor unit that is sandwiched by the housing, and wherein the means for fixing the edge of the sheet-like sensor unit includes at least one projection disDosed behind the edges of the slit for fixing the edae of the sheet-like sensor unit by being inserted into the at least one hole of the sheet-like sensor unit that is sandwiched by the edges of the slit.

4. A biological information detection system according to claim 1,

wherein, in addition to the means for fixing the edge of the sheet-like sensor unit, the circuit board in the housing includes means for fixing a covering material of the wiring.

5. A biological information detection system according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of circuit boards are enclosed on top of one another inside the housing and the circuit board to which the wiring is connected is disposed at the bottom of the plurality of circuit boards.

6. A bioloaical information detection system according to claim 1,

wherein the sheet-like sensor unit includes a data input region in which the plurality of sensor elements are disposed and a wiring region that is disposed along a side of the data input region.

7. A biological information detection system according to claim 1,

wherein the sensor elements are piezoelectric sensor elements, and the sheet-like sensor unit includes a data input region where the plurality of sensor elements are disposed wiring region that is disposed along a side of the data input region,

the wiring region includes first wiring that extends from the data input region to a first edge of the sheet-like sensor unit, and second wiring that is not connected to the data input region and extends from the first edge of the sheet-like sensor unit to a second edge opposite to the first edge,

the connection box is disposed on the first edge, and

the first wiring and the second wiring are connected to the circuit board.

8. A bioloalcal information detection system according to claim 7,

wherein the second wiring is disposed on an opposite side of the first wiring to the data input region, and

on the first edge, the first wiring and the second wiring are disposed in parallel, and on the second edge, the second wiring is disposed at a position corresponding to a position of the first wiring on the first edge.

9. A biological information detection system according to claim 8,

wherein the first wiring on the first edge of another sheet-like sensor unit is connected to the second wiring on the second edge of the sheet-like sensor unit.

10. A biological information detection system according to claim 8,

wherein third wiring that is not connected to the data input region, that extends from the first edge to the second edge of the sheet-like sensor unit, and that is connected to the circuit board is also disposed in the wiring region,

the third wiring is disposed on an opposite side of the second wiring to the data input region, the first wiring, the second wiring and the third wiring are disposed in parallel on the first edge, and on the second edge, the third wiring is disposed at a position corresponding to a position of the second wiring on the first edge.