Waterproof bioelectrode

• US 7,957,785 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2006
• Issued: 06/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Fukuda Denshi Company Limited
• Inventors: Nishimura, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Cohen; Lee S
• Application Number:
  US11/498,719
• Publication Number:
  US 20070088227A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,768 Days
• Field of Search: 600391-393
• US Class Current: 600/391
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/282 Holders for multiple electrodes for introduction into the body A61B5/287
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/303 Patient cord assembly, e.g. cable harness
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/909 Medical use or attached to human body

Abstract

A waterproof bioelectrode includes an electrode pad (101) to be mounted on a living body and a lead wire (110) to be connected to the electrode pad. The electrode pad includes a waterproof base (106) having an adhesive contacting surface and a hole substantially at its center, a waterproof seal member (105) which fixes the lead wire to a lower surface of the contacting surface of the base while covering the hole such that a detection electrode provided to a distal end of the lead wire is exposed from the hole of the waterproof base, and a conductive gel (103) arranged on the contacting surface to come into contact with the detection electrode.

Claims

1. A disposable waterproof bioelectrode comprising

a plurality of electrode pads to be attached on a living body and

a plurality of waterproof lead wires respectively connected to said plurality of electrode pads with one-to-one relation, said plurality of waterproof lead wires being formed integrally,

wherein each of said plurality of electrode pads comprises:

a waterproof base member having an adhesive contacting surface and a hole substantially at a center thereof,

a waterproof seal member having a notch substantially corresponding to a sectional shape of one of said plurality of waterproof lead wires in order to prevent water from entering from said one of said plurality of waterproof lead wires, wherein said waterproof seal member fixes said one of said plurality of waterproof lead wires to a back surface of said waterproof base member, wherein said back surface is opposite to said adhesive contacting surface, while covering the hole such that a detection electrode provided to a distal end of said lead wire is exposed through the hole of said waterproof base member, and

a conductive gel arranged on said adhesive contacting surface of said waterproof base member to come into contact with said detection electrode, and

wherein said plurality of waterproof lead wires comprises;

a base film which is common to said plurality of waterproof lead wires and an electrode pattern is provided on one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the base film, and

an upper foam material and a lower foam material each made of a water non-permeable flexible insulating material respectively provided on the upper surface and the lower surface of the base film.

2. The disposable waterproof bioelectrode according to claim 1, wherein ends of said plurality of lead wires which are not to be connected to said electrode pads form a connector.

3. The disposable waterproof bioelectrode according to claim 1, further comprising a first separator to protect said adhesive contacting surfaces of said plurality of electrode pads when said bioelectrode is not in use, wherein said first separator is common to said plurality of electrode pads.

4. The disposable waterproof bioelectrode according to claim 3, wherein

said waterproof base member is made of a flexible film like material, and the waterproof bioelectrode further comprises

a second separator provided to a part of said adhesive contacting surface of said waterproof base member,

wherein said second separator is provided on at least a part of an outer border of said adhesive contacting surface.

5. The disposable waterproof bioelectrode according to claim 1, wherein at least said waterproof base member of said waterproof base member and said waterproof seal member is formed of a moisture-permeable waterproof film having a thickness of 20 μ

m to 70 μ

m.

6. The disposable waterproof bioelectrode according to claim 1, wherein said seal member fixes said lead wire to said waterproof base member from a position inside an outer circumference of said waterproof base member.