Garment for measuring physiological signal

• US 20070073131A1
• Filed: 09/20/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chang Ryu, Hyun Lee, Kyung Hong, Seung Kim, Seung Nam, Seung Shin
• Original Assignee: Chang Ryu, Hyun Lee, Kyung Hong, Seung Kim, Seung Nam, Seung Shin
• Inventors: Lee, Hyun, Shin, Seung, Kim, Seung, Hong, Kyung, Nam, Seung, Ryu, Chang
• Application Number:
  US11/523,989
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073131A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/388
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1281 with incorporated means for medical monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/25 Bioelectric electrodes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6805 Vests

Abstract

Provided is a garment for measuring a physiological signal. The garment includes: an inner layer made of an elastic mesh fabric; a physiological signal measuring electrode including a connector connected to an external line and an electrode having a protrusion and measuring a physiological signal, the protrusion of the electrode passing through a mesh of the inner layer and engaging with the connector to be attached to the inner layer; and a compressing cushion interposed between an outer layer and the inner layer and compressing the physiological signal measuring electrode to a human body. Accordingly, poor contact between the physiological signal measuring electrode and the human body can be prevented and noise generated when measuring the physiological signal can be reduced.

Claims

1. A garment for measuring a physiological signal, comprising:

an inner layer made of an elastic mesh fabric;

a physiological signal measuring electrode including a connector connected to an external line and an electrode having a protrusion and measuring a physiological signal, the protrusion of the electrode passing through a mesh of the inner layer and engaging with the connector to be attached to the inner layer; and

a compressing cushion interposed between an outer layer and the inner layer and compressing the physiological signal measuring electrode to a human body.

2. The garment of claim 1, wherein the physiological signal measuring electrode is a dryness electrode or a rubber electrode having conductivity and adhesiveness.

3. The garment of claim 1, wherein a surface of the physiological signal measuring electrode contacting the human body is concave.

4. The garment of claim 1, wherein the compressing cushion is fixed to the inner layer using a thread.

5. The garment of claim 1, wherein the compressing cushion is attached to the outer layer using a Velcro.

6. A garment for measuring a physiological signal, comprising:

an outer layer;

an inner layer;

at least one physiological signal measuring electrode attached to the inner layer and measuring a physiological signal;

a support vertically attached to the inner layer and supporting the garment; and

a module pocket disposed at a side of the inner layer and containing a physiological signal measuring module,

wherein a fastening member of the outer layer and a fastening member of the inner layer are disposed at different positions of the human body when the outer layer and the inner layer are worn on the human body.

7. The garment of claim 6, wherein the fastening member of the inner layer is disposed in the middle of the human body and the fastening member of the outer layer is disposed on the left or right side of the human body.

8. The garment of claim 6, wherein the inner layer is made of an elastic mesh fabric;

and

the physiological signal measuring electrode includes a connector connected to an external line and an electrode having a protrusion and measuring a physiological signal, the protrusion of the electrode passing through a mesh of the inner layer and engaging with the connector to be attached to the inner layer,

the garment further comprising a compressing cushion interposed between the outer layer and the inner layer and compressing the physiological signal measuring electrode to a human body.

9. The garment of claim 6, wherein the support includes loops disposed at predetermined intervals to fix a cable that connects the physiological signal measuring electrode to the physiological signal measuring module contained in the module pocket.

10. The garment of claim 6, further comprising a connecting unit connecting physiological signal measuring modules contained in module pockets disposed on left and right sides of the inner layer,

wherein, when the connecting unit connects the physiological signal measuring modules, the physiological signal measuring modules are turned on.

11. The garment of claim 6, further comprising an outer pocket disposed on the outer layer and containing a physiological signal measuring module, the outer layer having a transparent window through which the state of a physiological signal collected and transmitted by the physiological signal measuring module can be seen.

12. The garment of claim 6, wherein a cloth having low elasticity is additionally applied to a portion of the outer layer corresponding to the physiological signal measuring electrode to increase the degree of contact between the physiological signal measuring electrode and the human body.

13. The garment of claim 6, wherein the physiological signal measuring module amplifies a physiological signal received from the physiological signal measuring electrode, removes noise from the amplified signal, and transmits the noise-free signal to the outside.

14. The garment of claim 13, wherein the physiological signal measuring module comprises:

an amplifier amplifying a physiological signal measured by the physiological signal measuring electrode;

a filter removing noise from the amplified physiological signal; and

a wireless communication unit transmitting to the noise-free physiological signal via a wireless communication network such as the Internet and Bluetooth.