Talking incentive spirometry devices
First Claim
1. An Incentive Spirometer assembly, comprising:
- an Incentive Spirometer device,means for automatically prompting a user with a electronically created audio verbal voice prompting message to use the Incentive Spirometer device to perform a sustained maximal inspiration (SMI) procedure, said means for automatically prompting including a audio verbal message storage unit, said prompting message stored within said audible verbal message storage unit and sent to the user without live human assistance; and
means for preventing said microcontroller unit from directing the audio storage unit to send the first verbal voice message, measurements or other verbal voice messages during programmed or predetermined time periods, level of darkness, or light in a room in which the Incentive Spirometer device is located.
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Abstract
An apparatus used in the medical industry, in order to increase transpulmonary pressure and respiratory volumes, to improve inspiratory muscle performance and re-establish the normal pulmonary hyperinflation, through the employment of electronic technology, providing audible, simulated, verbal, human sounding words, that assist, guide and prompt, increasing patient usage. In the past, lack of usage of this simple plastic, antiquated, disposable unit, by the patient, has contributed to severe problems, such as pneumonia. Without prompting, the patient finds it hard to inhale into a tube repetitively, to improve their lungs. Previous applications of prior equipment has been poor, thus adding intelligence in the form of electronic technology, which prompts without assistance, is a tremendous advantage in helping not only the sighted, but also the blind as well, since normally only written information accompanies the incentive spirometer, thus, changing the use of this medical device as we know it today.
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29 Claims
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1. An Incentive Spirometer assembly, comprising:
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an Incentive Spirometer device, means for automatically prompting a user with a electronically created audio verbal voice prompting message to use the Incentive Spirometer device to perform a sustained maximal inspiration (SMI) procedure, said means for automatically prompting including a audio verbal message storage unit, said prompting message stored within said audible verbal message storage unit and sent to the user without live human assistance; and means for preventing said microcontroller unit from directing the audio storage unit to send the first verbal voice message, measurements or other verbal voice messages during programmed or predetermined time periods, level of darkness, or light in a room in which the Incentive Spirometer device is located. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An Incentive Spirometer assembly, comprising:
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an Incentive Spirometer device; means for automatically prompting a user with a verbal voice message to use the Incentive Spirometer device to perform a sustained maximal inspiration (SMI) procedure; and means for preventing said means for automatically prompting from sending a verbal voice message during certain conditions; wherein the certain conditions is a level of darkness or light in a room in which the Incentive Spirometer device is located to provide the user with a sleep period without disturbance from said means for automatically prompting. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. An Incentive Spirometer assembly, comprising:
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an Incentive Spirometer device; means for automatically prompting a user with a verbal voice message to use the Incentive Spirometer device to perform a sustained maximal inspiration (SMI) procedure; and means for preventing said means for automatically prompting a user from sending a verbal voice message; wherein said means for preventing is a deactivation key assembly in communication with the means for automatically prompting which prevents the user from turning the means for automatically prompting on and off. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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