Method and System for Providing Data Transmission in a Data Management System

• US 20090054749A1
• Filed: 05/31/2006
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Incorporated (Abbott Laboratories Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Incorporated (Abbott Laboratories Incorporated)
• Inventors: He, Lei
• Application Number:
  US11/421,441
• Publication Number:
  US 20090054749A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/316
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/06 with core of ferromagnetic material H01Q7/02 takes precedence

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for providing a data transmission unit antenna for wireless data transmission in a data monitoring and management system are provided.

Claims

1. An analyte monitoring system, comprising:

an analyte sensor to detect an analyte level of a patient; and

a transmitter unit in signal communication with the analyte sensor;

the transmitter unit further including an antenna, wherein the antenna includes;

a plurality of inductances operatively coupled in series;

a ground terminal operatively coupled to one of the plurality of inductors; and

a tuning circuit operatively coupled to another one of the plurality of inductors, and configured to tune the antenna to resonate at a predetermined frequency.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the tuning circuit includes a first pair of capacitances coupled in series and a second pair of capacitances coupled in series, and further wherein the first pair of capacitances is further operatively coupled in parallel to the second pair of capacitances.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of inductances include a predetermined number of winding.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of inductances are configured to generate a magnetic field.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the antenna is configured to transmit or receive one or more signals.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the transmitter unit is configured to be positioned on a skin of a patient.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein one or more of the analyte sensor and the transmitter unit is implantable.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the transmitter unit is configured to transmit one or more signals associated with the detected analyte level of the patient.

9. The system of claim 8 further including a receiver unit configured to receive the one or more signals from the transmitter unit.

10. A method, comprising:

detecting an analyte level of a patient; and

providing an antenna for transmitting a signal associated with the detected analyte level, the providing step further including tuning the antenna to resonate at a predetermined frequency.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the step of tuning the antenna includes:

operatively coupling a plurality of inductances in series;

operatively coupling a ground terminal to one of the plurality of inductances; and

operatively coupling a plurality of capacitances to another one of the plurality of inductors.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the step of operatively coupling the plurality of capacitances includes:

coupling a first pair of capacitances in series;

coupling a second pair of capacitances in series and

coupling the first pair of capacitances in parallel to the second pair of capacitances.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein each of the plurality of inductances include a predetermined number of winding.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein the plurality of inductances are configured to generate a magnetic field.

15. The method of claim 11 further including the step of providing a housing, the housing including the antenna.

16. The method of claim 15 further including the step of positioning the housing on the skin of a patient.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

a data transmission unit including an antenna operatively coupled to the data transmission unit, the antenna including;

a plurality of inductances operatively coupled in series;

a ground terminal operatively coupled to one of the plurality of inductors; and

a tuning circuit operatively coupled to another one of the plurality of inductors, and configured to tune the antenna to resonate at a predetermined frequency.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein the tuning circuit includes a first pair of capacitances coupled in series and a second pair of capacitances coupled in series, and further wherein the first pair of capacitances is further operatively coupled in parallel to the second pair of capacitances.

19. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein each of the plurality of inductances include a predetermined number of winding.

20. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein the plurality of inductances are configured to generate a magnetic field.