Bio-instrumentation apparatus

• US 3,253,588 A
• Filed: 02/01/1962
• Issued: 05/31/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David W. Moore, Robert F. Vuilleumier
• Original Assignee: David W. Moore, Robert F. Vuilleumier
• Inventors: Vuilleumier, Robert F., Moore, David W.
• Application Number:
  US04/170,315
• Time in Patent Office: 1,580 Days
• US Class Current: 600/508
• 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: Y10S 128/903 Radio telemetry

Claims

1. A PHYSIOLOGICAL MICROSENSOR COMPRISING IN COMBINATION:

(1) TRANSDUCER MEANS FOR SENSING A PREDETERMINED PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON AND PROVIDING AN ELECTRICAL FIRST OUTPUT SIGNAL, (2) AMPLIFIER MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID TRANSDUCER MEANS TO RECEIVE AND AMPLIFY SAID FIRST OUTPUT SIGNAL AND PROVIDE AN AMPLIFIED FIRST OUTPUT SIGNAL, (3) MODULATOR MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID AMPLIFIER MEANS FOR RECEIVING THE SAID AMPLIFIED FIRST OUTPUT SIGNAL AND PROVIDE A MODULATION SIGNAL OUTPUT, (4) TRANSMITTING ANTENNA, (5) TRANSMITTER MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID MODULATOR MEANS AND SAID TRANSMITTING ANTENNA TO RECEIVE SAID MODULATION SIGNAL AND TO TRANSMIT A MODULATED INTELLIGENCE SIGNAL AT A FIRST FREQUENCY BY WAY OF SAID TRANSMITTING ANTENNA, AND (6) POWER SUPPLY MEANS, INCLUDING A RECEIVER CIRCUIT MEANS, TUNED FOR RECEIVING AN INTERROGATING SIGNAL AT A FREQUENCY DIFFERENT FROM SAID FIRST FREQUENCY AND MEANS FOR CONVERTING SAID INTERROGATING SIGNAL INTO ELECTRIC POWER AND FOR FEEDING SAID POWER TO SAID AMPLIFIER MEANS, SAID MODULATOR MEANS AND SAID TRANSMITTER MEANS.