Physiological signal detection device

• US 9,144,386 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2012
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AiQ Smart Clothing Inc.
• Original Assignee: King's Metal Fiber Technologies Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Huang, Hong-Hsu, Su, I-Chen, Yang, Shun-Tung
• Primary Examiner(s): Stoklosa, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): ANTISKAY, BRIAN MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US13/534,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20140005515A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,189 Days
• Field of Search: 600/372, 600/382, 600/384, 600/386, 600388-391, 600/393, 600/395, 600/397, 600508-509
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/125 characterised by the manufacture of electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/14 Coupling media or elements to improve sensor contact with skin or tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/24 Detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof

Abstract

A physiological signal detection device includes at least one electrode pad, a base layer, and at least one water absorption unit. The electrode pad is positioned on a top surface of the base layer. The electrode pad and the base layer form a first receiving compartment therebetween. The water absorption unit is positioned in the first receiving compartment. The water absorption unit has a top engaging the electrode pad, and the water absorption unit has a bottom engaging the base layer.

Claims

1. A physiological signal detection device, comprising:

a base layer;

at least one electrode pad, which is positioned on a top surface of the base layer, the electrode pad and the base layer forming a first receiving compartment therebetween; and

at least one water absorption unit, which is positioned in the first receiving compartment, the water absorption unit having a top engaging the electrode pad, the water absorption unit having a bottom engaging the base layer;

wherein the water absorption unit comprises at least one water-preservation inner lining and an accommodation sack enclosing the water-preservation inner lining, the accommodation sack having a bottom forming a plurality of spaced anti-skidding sections, the top surface of the base layer forming a plurality of spaced counter anti-skidding sections, the counterpart anti-skidding sections respectively corresponding to the anti-skidding sections, the counterpart anti-skidding sections being respectively engageable with the anti-skidding sections, wherein the anti-skidding sections are ribs or grooves.

2. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electrode pad is formed by weaving a plurality of non-conductive fibrous yarns and a plurality of conductive fibrous yarns, the plurality of conductive fibrous yarns of the electrode pad being woven to form a conductive zone.

3. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electrode pad is entirely made by weaving a plurality of conductive fibrous yarns.

4. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the water absorption unit forms in a bottom thereof a plurality of spaced anti-skidding sections, the base layer forming, in the top surface thereof, a plurality of spaced counterpart anti-skidding sections, the counterpart anti-skidding sections respectively corresponding to the anti-skidding sections, the counterpart anti-skidding sections being respectively engageable with the anti-skidding sections.

5. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the water absorption unit comprises one of cotton paper, cotton fabric, silica gel, and water-absorbing foam.

6. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the water absorption unit comprises a component made of sodium polyacrylate.

7. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the projection comprises an elastic object.

8. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base layer comprises a fabric layer.

9. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base layer comprises a water-proof layer.

10. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base layer comprises an upper water-penetrating layer and a lower water-proof layer that overlap each other, the upper water-penetrating layer being set in engagement with the water absorption unit.

11. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one electrode pad includes a plurality of electrode pads, which are arranged, in a mutually spaced manner, on the top surface of the base layer, each of the electrode pads and the base layer forming therebetween a first receiving compartment, the at least one water absorption unit including a plurality of water absorption units, each of the water absorption units being positioned in each of the first receiving compartments, each of the water absorption units having a top engaging each of the electrode pads, each of the water absorption units having a bottom engaging the base layer, a connection band being connected to two adjacent ones of the electrode pads, the connection band and the base layer forming therebetween a second receiving compartment, the electrode pads and the connection band being connected to each other to form a top player corresponding in shape to the base layer.

12. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 7 further comprising an edge enclosure band, which has a lower flange coupled to an edge portion of the bottom surface of the base layer and an upper flange coupled to an edge portion of the top surface of the top layer, the edge portion of the top surface of the top layer corresponding to an edge portion of a bottom surface of the base layer.

13. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 11, wherein each of the electrode pads is further provided with at least one extension conductor, which has an end extending into and electrically with each of the electrode pads and an opposite end extending beyond one side of each of the electrode pads.

14. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising an edge enclosure band, the edge enclosure band having a lower flange coupled to an edge portion of a bottom surface of the base layer and an upper flange coupled to an edge portion of a top surface of the electrode pad, the edge portion of the top surface of the electrode pad corresponding to the edge portion of the bottom surface of the base layer.

15. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the water-preservation inner lining comprises one of cotton paper, cotton fabric, silica gel, and water-absorbing foam.

16. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the water-preservation inner lining comprises a component made of sodium polyacrylate.

17. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the accommodation sack comprises an upper water-penetrating layer and a lower water-proof layer that overlap each other, the lower water-proof layer being set in engagement with the base layer, the upper water-penetrating layer being set in engagement with the electrode pad, the plurality of anti-skidding sections being formed on a bottom surface of the lower water-proof layer.

18. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the upper water-penetrating layer comprises one of a fabric layer, a paper layer, or a semi-permeable membrane resin layer.

19. The physiological signal detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the water absorption unit shows a projecting form.