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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8409106 | Blood pressure measurement device for measuring blood pressure with clothes on A sphygmomanometer (1) stores a parameter for calculating a blood pressure value from a measurement value with clothes on from a measurement value with clothes off at a measurement site and the measurement value with clothes on in advance. When a with-clothes... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8211030 | NIBP target inflation pressure automation using derived SPOsignals A method and system for operating a non-invasive blood pressure monitor that utilizes an SpO2 plethysmograph waveform to determine the initial inflation pressure for the NIBP monitor. A pulse sensor is placed on the patient's limb distal to the blood pres... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8047998 | Non-invasive blood pressure determination method A method for estimating systolic and diastolic pressure is disclosed herein. The method includes obtaining a predetermined type of blood pressure data from a patient, and providing previously acquired blood pressure data obtained from a plurality of different subjec... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7544167 | Method and system for cuff pressure reversions A method and system for determining when to make a reversion to smaller cuff pressure steps during an oscillometric blood pressure measurement is disclosed. The method and system comprise comparing conformance of oscillometric envelope blood pressure data with previ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7465273 | Method for monitoring pre-eclamptic patients A system and method for monitoring and estimating the blood pressure of a pregnant patient that modifies the blood pressure estimating algorithm when the patient is pre-eclamptic. The level of carbon monoxide within a patient's bloodstream or exhaled breath can be a... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7429245 | Motion management in a fast blood pressure measurement device The invention is in one embodiment an apparatus and a method for measuring the blood pressure of a vertebrate subject. The apparatus uses an inflatable chamber with a sensor to detect signals indicative of a blood pressure of the subject during an inflation interval... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7390302 | Method and system of determining NIBP target inflation pressure using an SpOplethysmograph signal A method and system for operating a non-invasive blood pressure monitor that utilizes an SpO2 plethysmograph signal to determine the initial inflation pressure for the blood pressure cuff of the NIBP monitor. A pulse sensor is placed on the patient's limb... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390301 | Device and method for the continuous non-invasive measurement of blood pressure A method for the continuous non-invasive measurement of blood pressure includes at least one first pressure cuff and one second pressure cuff of comparable or identical size, each cuff including an inflatable pressure measuring chamber applicable to a first and a se... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7361148 | Cuff volumetric pulse wave obtaining apparatus, cuff volumetric pulse wave analyzing apparatus, pressure pulse wave obtaining apparatus, and pressure pulse wave analyzing apparatus A subject evaluation value measuring apparatus 10, functioning as a cuff volumetric pulse wave obtaining apparatus, includes a pulse wave determining device (i.e., a cuff volumetric pulse wave determining device) 52 that determines, using an inverse tr... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354403 | Cuff apparatus and sphygmomanometer comprising the same A plurality of cushions are provided in the airbag of a cuff apparatus, spaced apart from one another and thus maintaining the airbag in an inflated state before compressed air is introduced into the airbag. This shortens the time required to supply the compressed a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347823 | Hemadynamometer A hemadynamometer is provided. The hemadynamometer includes a bag, an inflation unit, a deflation unit, a piezoelectric device and a processor. The bag is used for wounding on the user's wrist or upper arm. The inflation unit is used for inflating the pressure insid... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344503 | System and method for monitoring pre-eclamptic patients A system and method for monitoring and estimating the blood pressure of a pregnant patient that modifies the blood pressure estimating algorithm when the patient is pre-eclamptic. The level of carbon monoxide within a patient's bloodstream or exhaled breath can be a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341561 | Wrist-worn high-accuracy pulsation measuring apparatus A wrist-worn apparatus capable of sensing pulsation of blood in the blood tubes of a user's wrist with high accuracy. The apparatus comprises a body of the apparatus, a band to be used to wear the body of the apparatus on the user's wrist, and a fluid-containing pul... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7316651 | Method for automatically calibrating electronic sphygmomanometer The present invention discloses a method for automatically calibrating an electronic sphygmomanometer, which pumps air at a predetermined air pressure to a testing electronic sphygmomanometer to simultaneously pressurize a set of pressure sensors set for regular use... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314450 | Wearable heartbeat measuring device, system and method The wearable heartbeat measuring device is accomplished by wearing a wrist-watch-like heart monitor device on the wrist. The heart monitor is worn on the top of the wrist with a strap around the wrist. The strap has an inflexible extending portion that extends from ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311669 | Oscillometric determination of blood pressure A method and system for eliminating artifacts in an oscillation envelope are disclosed. The method and system comprise evaluating conformance of the oscillometric envelope blood pressure data with a predetermined expected pattern and excluding one or more data point... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309313 | Vascular disease examining system and bypass vascular diagnosing device Disclosed are a vascular disease examination system capable of examining and diagnosing vascular diseases such as arterial obliteration by determining the feature quantities of blood flow velocity waveforms or blood pressure waveforms or blood flow rates, and a bypa... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7300404 | Method and system utilizing SpOplethysmograph signal to qualify NIBP pulses A method and system for operating a non-invasive blood pressure monitor that utilizes an SpO2 plethysmographic signal to reduce the time required to obtain an estimation of a patient's blood pressure. During operation of the NIBP monitor, the NIBP monitor... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302088 | Personal verification device, card-type information storage medium, and information processing system using the same A personal verification device includes a fingerprint sensor which detects a fingerprint of an operator, and a pulse wave sensor which detects a pulse wave of the operator. An index extraction section processes the pulse wave detected by the pulse wave sensor and ex... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7270636 | Apparatus and method for pulse detection An apparatus and method for pulse detection based on blood pressure measuring stage is disclosed. Both monitoring of blood pressure and blood vessel pulse are integrated and applied to an apparatus. With the components of the blood pressure monitor, such as an infla... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267011 | Device for invasively measuring fluid pressure A device for invasively measuring fluid pressure is disclosed. The device includes a disposable housing having a fluid contacting area and a non-fluid contacting area. A disposable diaphragm in a substantially non-elastic state is disposed within the housing and sep... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264594 | Cardiovascular dynamics evaluation apparatus The cardiovascular evaluation apparatus of the present invention maintains a pulse wave detection means for detecting pulse wave generated while external pressure is applied to the artery, a pulse wave pattern formulation means for formulating a pulse wave amplitude... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251596 | Method and device for analyzing a wave signal and method and apparatus for pitch detection The present invention provides a unique wave-trigon transformation (WTT) method for performing transformation process over a wave signal. The present invention also provides a pitch detecting method and apparatus for detecting pitch based on the WTT process as well ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7232412 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus A blood pressure measuring apparatus oppresses blood vessels of a human body by an inflating unit through a cuff. When the blood vessels are oppressed through the cuff, a pulse wave superposed on a cuff pressure signal through a cuff pressure detector is detected by... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7226421 | Method of controlling blood pressure cuff deflation A method of operating a non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitor that includes a blood pressure cuff and a pressure transducer. The method initially inflates the blood pressure cuff to a level above systolic pressure and begins to deflate the pressure cuff using a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226419 | Mode detection and safety monitoring in blood pressure measurement A method is provided for blood pressure measurement by means of an inflatable cuff (50) applied to a limb of a vertebrate and pneumatically coupled to a first port (112A) and a second port (112B) of a blood pressure measurement apparatus (100... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7214192 | Vascular testing system A method of vascular testing includes inflating a cuff at a vascular location, controllably deflating the cuff, producing a pressure waveform while deflating the cuff, and producing an output representing a pressure at which blood flow returns, while deflating the c... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204809 | Pressurizing apparatus and method for the same A pressurizing apparatus and method for adjusting an optimal pressurizing rate according to a cuff of various lengths. The pressurizing method measures the pressure values at two reference points and time duration to calculate a pressurizing rate. A control adjustme... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7204808 | Apparatus, system and method for collecting non-invasive blood pressure readings An apparatus, system and method for collecting non-invasive blood pressure readings from a patient is provided. A non-invasive blood pressure cuff is arranged to be worn about a wrist of a patient and to be operatively connected to a blood pressure monitor. Communic... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198604 | Method and system for determination of pulse rate A method and system for determining pulse rate of a patient are disclosed. The method and system include acquiring measured information for at least one pulse at a pressure step, determining and storing quality values for the at least one pulse at the pressure step,... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7186218 | Method and system for cuff pressure reversions A method and system for determining when to make a reversion to smaller cuff pressure steps during an oscillometric blood pressure measurement is disclosed. The method and system comprise comparing conformance of oscillometric envelope blood pressure data with previ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7179228 | Cuffless system for measuring blood pressure The invention provides a device that measures a patient's blood pressure without using an inflatable cuff. The device includes an optical module featuring an optical source and a first optical sensor that generates a first set of information; a flexible, thin-film p... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172555 | Vascular testing system A vascular sensing system includes blood flow restricting means, a sensor, and means for producing an output representing a return of blood flow after the blood vessel has been temporarily collapsed by the blood flow restricting means. The blood flow restricting mea... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7166076 | Vascular testing system A vascular testing system includes a pressure applicator, a pressure source for generating fluid pressure at the pressure applicator; a variable orifice valve, and a valve control. The variable orifice valve is in fluid communication with the pressure applicator, an... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7153269 | Method and system for estimation of blood pressure during cuff inflation A method of operating a blood pressure measurement system that utilizes a non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitor having a blood pressure cuff. During operation of the NIBP monitor, the blood pressure cuff is initially inflated. During the initial inflation, at l... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153270 | Device for securing living body by pressing A device for securing a living body by pressing includes a living body pressing air bag, a curled elastic member of an approximately cylindrical shape, disposed on the outside of the living body pressing air bag and changeable in size in a radial direction, and a cu... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7137954 | Disposable non-invasive blood pressure sensor A sensor interface assembly is used with a blood pressure measurement device to determine blood pressure of an underlying artery. The sensor interface assembly includes a base unit, a sensing unit and means for detachably connecting the sensing unit to the base unit... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7128715 | Pressure-pulse-wave detecting probe of manually-operable type A pressure-pulse-wave detecting probe for detecting a pressure pulse wave generated by an artery of a living subject, including: (a) a sensor portion which has at least one pressure detecting element and a press surface that is to be positioned manually by an operat... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117746 | Digital pressure gauge A digital pressure gauge comprises a power supply, an input button unit, a pressure sensor, a display unit, a warning unit, and a control unit. The control unit counts the number of operations and/or operation duration of the digital pressure gauge and generates an ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7104960 | Noninvasive sphygmomanometer A noninvasive sphygmomanometer capable of obtaining an accurate blood pressure value is provided without complicating a structure and with little time-consuming work. A photointerrupter 31, a wave-shaping circuit 75, a rotation number counting circuit ... | 09/12/2006 |
