Probe

• US 8,825,126 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2012
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
• Inventors: Takahashi, Iwao, Maeda, Toru, Murozono, Tomomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Winakur, Eric
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fardanesh, Marjan
• Application Number:
  US13/421,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20120238847A1
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 600310-344
• US Class Current: 600/344
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6829 Foot or ankle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6831 Straps, bands or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/0421 Controlled or regulated

Abstract

A probe includes: light emitting and receiving sections; an attachment band including a first surface facing the living tissue and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a part of the first surface in which one of a hook portion and a loop portion is provided, a part of the second surface in which the other is provided, the attachment band to be wrapped around the living tissue to engage the hook and loop portions with each other; and a compressible member attached to the first surface, being in contact with the living tissue when the attachment band is attached to the living tissue, the compressible member which is larger in width than the attachment band and ends of which extend beyond ends of the attachment band.

Claims

1. A probe comprising:

a light emitting section configured to emit light toward living tissue;

a light receiving section configured to receive the light that is emitted from the light emitting section and that is transmitted through the living tissue;

an attachment band having ends in a width direction, in which the light emitting section and the light receiving section are provided, the attachment band which includes a first surface which faces the living tissue when the attachment band is attached to the living tissue, and a second surface which is opposite to the first surface, a part of the first surface in which one of a hook portion and a loop portion of a surface fastener is provided, a part of the second surface in which the other of the hook portion and the loop portion of the surface fastener is provided, the attachment band which is to be wrapped around the living tissue to engage the hook portion and the loop portion of the surface fastener with each other, thereby being attached to the living tissue; and

a compressible member having ends in a width direction and which is attached to the first surface of the attachment band, the compressible member which is in contact with the living tissue when the attachment band is attached to the living tissue,

wherein the compressible member is larger in width than the attachment band and ends of which extend beyond ends of the attachment band, and

the ends of the attachment band are not exposed to a lateral side of the compressible member in a portion where the compressible member is attached to the first surface of the attachment band.

2. The probe according to claim 1, wherein the compressible member covers end portions of the attachment band.

3. The probe according to claim 1, wherein the attachment band is formed by a material which is hardly extendable and contractible in a longitudinal direction.

4. The probe according to claim 1, wherein the first surface of the attachment band includes a first portion to which the compressible member is attached, and a second portion which is different from the first portion and which is narrower in width than the first portion.

5. The probe according to claim 1, wherein, in the attachment band, a connecting portion through which an attachment portion for the light emitting section is connected to an attachment portion for the light receiving section is narrower in width than another portion of the attachment band.

6. The probe claim 1, wherein the compressible member is a sheet-like sponge, and is placed on a light emitting surface of the light emitting section and a light receiving surface of the light receiving section.

7. The probe according to claim 1, wherein

the ends of the compressible member include both ends in a width direction and one end in a longitudinal direction, and

the ends of the attachment band include both ends in the width direction and one end in the longitudinal direction.

8. The probe according to claim 7, wherein the one end of the attachment band is an end of a part of the attachment band in which the light emitting section and the light receiving section are provided.