Compact wearable biological sensor modules

• US 9,750,455 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2016
• Issued: 09/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
• Inventors: Bolognia, David Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Marshall, Christle I
• Application Number:
  US15/148,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20160242696A1
• Time in Patent Office: 487 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0412 Low-profile patch shaped housings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0462 Apparatus with built-in sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/227 Sensors with electrical connectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14542 for measuring blood gases A61B5/14551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6802 Sensor mounted on worn items
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/30 Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/216 adapted for button or coin cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A sensor module can include a battery housing comprising a battery cavity sized and shaped to receive a battery. The battery cavity can be defined at least in part by a wall to be disposed about at least a portion of a periphery of the battery. A package housing can be disposed on the wall of the battery housing, the package housing smaller than the battery housing. An integrated device package can be disposed in or coupled with the package cavity. The integrated device package can include one or more integrated device dies. An interfacing feature can be coupled with the battery housing and extending transverse to the wall. The interfacing feature can be configured to transduce a biological signature into a signal to be processed by the integrated device package. An interconnect assembly can electrically connect the interfacing feature to the integrated device package.

Claims

1. A sensor module comprising:

a battery housing sized and shaped to receive and support one or more batteries;

one or more substrates comprising a first portion coupled with a wall of the battery housing and a second portion extending outwardly from the first portion;

an interfacing feature disposed on a bottom side of the second portion of the one or more substrates and configured to transduce a biological signature of a user to an electrical signal; and

one or more integrated device dies mounted to the first portion of the one or more substrates and configured to process the electrical signal.

2. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the one or more integrated device dies are configured to process the electrical signal to monitor a level of oxygen in the user'"'"'s blood.

3. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the one or more substrates is wrapped around multiple walls of the battery housing.

4. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the first and second portions of the one or more substrates are part of the same substrate.

5. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the first and second portions of the one or more substrates comprise separate substrates.

6. The sensor module of claim 1, further comprising the one or more batteries, the one or more batteries disposed in the battery housing.

7. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the interfacing feature comprises an optical sensor configured to transduce optical signatures of blood flowing through the user.

8. The sensor module of claim 7, further comprising one or more light sources coupled with the one or more substrates.

9. The sensor module of claim 8, wherein the second portion of the one or more substrates is flexible so as to wrap around a finger of the user to position the finger between the one or more light sources and the optical sensor.

10. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the interfacing feature comprises an electrode.

11. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the second portion of the one or more substrates comprises an electrical pathway to convey the electrical signal from the interfacing feature to the one or more device dies.

12. The sensor module of claim 1, further comprising an additional interfacing feature disposed on the first portion of the one or more substrates.

13. The sensor module of claim 12, wherein the additional interfacing feature comprises an antenna to provide wireless communication between the sensor module and an external computing device.

14. The sensor module of claim 12, wherein the additional interfacing feature comprises a capacitive touch sensor.

15. The sensor module of claim 12, wherein the additional interfacing feature comprises a near field communication (NFC) antenna.

16. The sensor module of claim 12, wherein the additional interfacing feature is disposed away from and orthogonal to a finger of the user when the sensor module is attached to the finger.

17. The sensor module of claim 1, further comprising a processing die disposed on a top side of the second portion of the one or more substrates, the processing die configured to process the electrical signal before transmission to the one or more device dies.

18. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the one or more device dies comprise a power management die.

19. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the one or more device dies comprise one or more of a signal processing die and a controller die.

20. The sensor module of claim 1, wherein the one or more device dies comprise a communications die.