Battery pack of a mobile communication terminal to be capable of reading output of bio-sensors and self-diagnosis system

• US 20060081469A1
• Filed: 11/23/2005
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seyfarth Shaw
• Original Assignee: Healthpia America
• Inventors: Lee, Min-Hwa
• Application Number:
  US11/284,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20060081469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 204/403.20
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48785 Electrical and electronic details of measuring devices for physical analysis of liquid biological material not specific to a particular test method, e.g. user interface or power supply
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/36 Arrangements for testing, measuring or monitoring the electrical condition of accumulators or electric batteries, e.g. capacity or state of charge [SoC]

Abstract

A battery pack for self-diagnosis and a system using the same, which can read a data value from a body fluid sensor (referred to as a biosensor) reacting with body fluid such as urine, and indicate a measurement value of a test item such as a blood glucose level, a cholesterol level or etc. The battery pack includes: a power supply for supplying electric power to a working electrode of the body fluid sensor; a current detector for detecting the amount of electric current flowing into the working electrode; a battery pack controller for controlling an electric power supply operation for the working electrode, reading, from a memory, the test item-based measurement value corresponding to the detected current amount, and outputting the read measurement value; and an interface for carrying out an interface function so that the test item-based measurement value outputted from the battery pack controller can be sent to the main body of the mobile communication terminal.

Claims

1. A battery pack for self-diagnosis capable of being coupled to a body fluid sensor equipped with an electrode unit having a working electrode and a reference electrode and an enzyme reaction layer formed on the electrode unit, comprising:

a power supply for supplying electric power to the working electrode of the body fluid sensor;

a current detector for detecting an amount of electric current flowing into the working electrode;

a battery pack controller for controlling an electric power supply operation for the working electrode, reading, from a memory, a test item-based measurement value corresponding to the detected current amount, and outputting the read measurement value; and

an interface for carrying out an interface function so that the test item-based measurement value outputted from the battery pack controller can be sent to a mobile communication terminal.

2. A battery pack for self-diagnosis capable of being coupled to a body fluid sensor equipped with an electrode unit having working electrodes and a reference electrode and an enzyme reaction layer formed on the electrode unit, comprising:

a power supply for supplying electric power to the working electrodes of the body fluid sensor;

a current detector for detecting amounts of electric currents flowing into the working electrodes;

a battery pack controller for controlling electric power supply operations for the working electrodes, reading, from a memory, test item-based measurement values corresponding to the detected current amounts, and producing an average value of the read measurement values; and

an interface for carrying out an interface function so that the produced average measurement value from the battery pack controller can be sent to a mobile communication terminal.

3. A self-diagnosis system, comprising:

a battery pack coupled to a body fluid sensor equipped with an electrode unit having a working electrode and a reference electrode and an enzyme reaction layer formed on the electrode unit, wherein the battery pack includes an external surface in which a slot is formed so that the body fluid sensor can be inserted, supplies electric power to the working electrode, and outputs a test item-based measurement value corresponding to an amount of electric current flowing into the working electrode of the body fluid sensor; and

a main body of a mobile communication terminal including a controller for commanding the battery pack to measure a test item according to a user'"'"'s request and indicating the test item-based measurement value sent from the battery pack in response to the user'"'"'s request.

4. The self-diagnosis system as set forth in claim 3, wherein the battery pack comprises:

a power supply for supplying electric power to the working electrode of the body fluid sensor;

a current detector for detecting the amount of electric current flowing into the working electrode;

a battery pack controller for controlling an electric power supply operation for the working electrode, reading, from a memory, the test item-based measurement value corresponding to the detected current amount, and outputting the read measurement value; and

an interface for carrying out an interface function so that the test item-based measurement value outputted from the battery pack controller can be sent to the main body of the mobile communication terminal.

5. The self-diagnosis system as set forth in claim 3, wherein the controller performs a control operation so that the test item-based measurement value can be sent to any one of a specified terminal and a remote server according to the user'"'"'s request.

6. A self-diagnosis system, comprising:

a battery pack coupled to a body fluid sensor equipped with an electrode unit having a working electrode and a reference electrode and an enzyme reaction layer formed on the electrode unit, wherein the battery pack includes an external surface in which a slot is formed so that the body fluid sensor can be inserted, supplies electric power to the working electrode, and outputs a test item-based measurement value corresponding to an amount of electric current flowing into the working electrode of the body fluid sensor; and

a main body of a mobile communication terminal including a controller for commanding the battery pack to measure a test item according to a user'"'"'s request, reading, from a memory, the test item-based measurement value corresponding to the amount of electric current sent from the battery pack, and outputting the read measurement value.