Human body monitoring system

• US 7,342,491 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2005
• Issued: 03/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Eighting
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Eighting
• Inventors: Satou, Shouji, Fujisawa, Tomonori
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Benjamin C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Previl; Daniel
• Application Number:
  US10/586,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20070252708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,148 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.12, 340/435, 340/436, 340/446, 340/454, 340/621, 340/657, 340/825.69, 340/310.06, 340/311.1, 340/447, 340/448, 455/517, 455/550.1, 455/500, 455/507
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/242 Detecting biomagnetic fields, e.g. magnetic fields produced by bioelectric currents
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0211 Combination with medical sensor, e.g. for measuring heart rate, temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0277 Communication between units on a local network, e.g. Bluetooth, piconet, zigbee, Wireless Personal Area Networks [WPAN]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The present invention provides a human body monitoring system capable of monitoring a human body by checking various parameters and also reporting health impairment such as sudden illness and emergency such as a crime to a prespecified contact address. A monitoring device carried by an object person for monitoring and having a transmitting section and a mobile terminal carried by the object person for monitoring and having a receiving section are connected in a wireless system using weak electric wave. An abnormal signal and positional information are set to the prespecified contact address or a management center based on the abnormal data signal received by the mobile terminal from the monitoring device. The monitoring device includes a non-contact type biomagnetic field measuring sensor for measuring a trend of action potential in the object person and transmits the abnormal data signal to the mobile terminal. The coverage distance of the weak electric wave is within 10 meters.

Claims

1. A human body monitoring system comprising a monitoring device carried by a person to be monitored and having a transmitting section and a mobile terminal carried by the person to be monitored and having a receiving section, the mobile terminal connected to the monitoring device through a wireless communication system using a weak electric wave and capable of reporting, based on an abnormal data signal received by the mobile terminal from the monitoring device, the abnormal signal and information concerning a position where an emergency occurs to a prespecified contact address or a management center,

wherein the monitoring device has a non-contact biomagnetic field measuring sensor, monitors trends in action potentials in the target person for monitoring with the sensor, and transmits the abnormal data signal to the mobile terminal.

2. The human body monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein a coverage distance of the weak electric wave is within 10 meters.

3. The human body monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring device comprises an action potential measuring section comprising the biomagnetic field measuring sensor;

a trend data converting section for converting information concerning the action potentials to digital data in the chronological order;

a data accumulating section for serially accumulating the trend data;

a data determining section for determining whether accumulated data is normal or abnormal;

a pattern analyzing section for determining whether a continuous pattern of action potential trend data groups determined as abnormal by the data determining section is abnormal or not;

a transmitting section for transmitting a signal classifying and indicating a degree of abnormality determined as abnormal by the pattern analyzing section to the mobile terminal;

a fixed time signal generating section for generating a connection confirmation signal irrespective of a result of determination by the pattern analyzing section; and

a control section for controlling each of the sections above.

4. The human body monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring device comprises an action potential measuring section comprising the biomagnetic field measuring sensor;

a trend data converting section for converting information concerning the action potentials to digital data in the chronological order;

a data accumulating section for serially accumulating the trend data;

a data determining section for determining whether accumulated data is normal or abnormal;

a transmitting section for transmitting a signal classifying and indicating a degree of abnormality determined as abnormal by the data determining section to the mobile terminal;

a fixed time signal generating section for generating a connection confirmation signal irrespective of a result of determination by the data determining section; and

a control section for controlling each of the sections above.

5. The human body monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal comprises a received signal analyzing section for analyzing an abnormal data signal received by the receiving section and notifying a result of the analysis to a control section of the mobile terminal.