DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCURATELY MEASURING CONCENTRATION OF BLOOD COMPONENT

• US 20100234712A1
• Filed: 05/07/2010
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Inventors: SUGENOYA, Junichi, NAKASE, Yuzo, NAKAJIMA, Satoshi, TOKITA, Muneo
• Application Number:
  US12/775,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20100234712A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/365
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14521 using means for promoting sweat production, e.g. heating the skin measuring sweat secretion A61B5/4266
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4266 sweat secretion
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/30 Apparatus for iontophoresis, i.e. transfer of media in ionic state by an electromotoric force into the body, or cataphoresis
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/66 involving blood sugars, e.g. galactose

Abstract

A measurement computation device arranged in a measurement device detects a first component and a second component from perspiration in a first component detection unit and a second component detection unit, and the respective concentration in the perspiration is calculated in a concentration calculation unit. In a conversion computation unit, the concentration of the first component in the perspiration is corrected using the concentration of the second component, and then converted to the concentration of the first component in the blood.

Claims

1. A blood component concentration measurement device comprising:

a perspiration accelerating unit arranged to accelerate perspiration from a surface of a body or a measurement site;

a first measurement unit arranged to measure a concentration in the perspiration of a first component contained in the perspiration from the surface of the body or the measurement site;

a second measurement unit arranged to measure a concentration in the perspiration of a second component, different from the first component, contained in the perspiration from the measurement site;

a correction unit arranged to correct the concentration in the perspiration of the first component using the concentration in the perspiration of the second component; and

a conversion unit arranged to convert a result corrected by the correction unit to the concentration of the first component in a blood of the body.

2. The blood component concentration measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the second component is a component in which a rate reabsorbed by a perspiration tube is smaller than a predetermined value.

3. The blood component concentration measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the second component is a component in which relevance between a change in concentration in the perspiration and a change in concentration of the first component in the blood is lower than a predetermined correlation coefficient.

4. The blood component concentration measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the second component is a component in which a rate of a change in the concentration in the blood is smaller than a rate of a change in the concentration in the blood of the first component.

5. The blood component concentration measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the first component is sugar, and the second component is at least one of glutamine acid, lysine, glutamine, asparagine acid, calcium, and kalium.

6. A measurement method performed by a blood component concentration measurement device which includes an acquiring device arranged to acquire perspiration from a measurement site of a body, a detection device arranged to detect a component in the perspiration, and a computation device arranged to perform a computation using a value obtained from the component, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting a first component from the perspiration with the detection device;

calculating a concentration in the perspiration of the first component with the computation device;

detecting a second component, different from the first component, from the perspiration with the detection device;

calculating a concentration in the perspiration of the second component with the computation device;

correcting the concentration in the perspiration of the first component using the concentration in the perspiration of the second component with the computation device;

converting a result corrected in the correcting step to the concentration of the first component in the blood of the body with the computation device; and

executing a process of outputting the concentration in the blood of the first component with the computation device.