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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7727157 | Non-invasive measurement of suprasystolic signals An apparatus for assessing cardiovascular status of a mammal comprises a system for locally applying a pressure to an artery capable of restricting blood flow through said artery, a wideband external pulse transducer having an output and situated to measure suprasys... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7544168 | Measuring systolic blood pressure by photoplethysmography The present invention relates to cuff-based method for the measurement of systolic blood pressure (SBP) by measuring photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals in peripheral blood vessels distal to the cuff and to a method for cuffless measurement of SBP by analyzing PPG s... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7404801 | Blood pressure monitor The present invention provides an automatic blood pressure monitor for measuring the arterial blood pressure at a location on a patient. The automatic monitor of the invention does not require an external pump of any type. The invention uses a propellant supply cham... | 07/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7384425 | Matching limb protection sleeve for tourniquet cuff Apparatus is provided for protecting a patient's limb from tourniquet-related injury, comprising: a tourniquet cuff having a length sufficient for encircling a limb protection sleeve applied to a limb at a location having a limb circumference of not less than a pred... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7367952 | Electronic blood pressure monitor and blood pressure measuring system When a predetermined condition for measurement is selected from a plurality of conditions for measurement by operating one of measurement switches before measuring the blood pressure, a pressure begins to be applied to a bladder in response to the selection and the ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7316652 | Blood pressure measuring device with a cuff of two openable concave shell parts Traditional cuffs for measuring blood pressure use an air chamber enclosed in a non-stretchable fabric to occlude an artery in a limb when supplied with pressurised air. A stethoscope used on the limb is used to monitor blood flow. Application of the cuff is inconve... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311670 | Blood pressure cuffs with resilient support sleeves Inflatable blood pressure cuff assemblies include an inflatable elongate cuff member having opposing long edges and opposing short edge portions with a fluid chamber therein and a resilient support sleeve with at least one rib support member, the sleeve attached to ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7211047 | Blood pressure monitor A portable blood pressure measuring device comprises a casing, a pressure sensor sensing oscillations in pressure from a cuff attached to a user, and a microprocessor for determining blood pressure based on the oscillations in pressure sensed by the pressure sensor.... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7149568 | Exercise load intensity evaluation device and exercise equipment An exercise load intensity evaluation device includes a pulse wave detection section which is attached to a subject during exercise and noninvasively detects a peripheral pulse wave. An ejection duration calculation section measures ejection duration from a feature ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7131945 | Optically powered and optically data-transmitting wireless intraocular pressure sensor device An implantable intraocular pressure sensor device for detecting excessive intraocular pressure above a predetermined threshold pressure is disclosed. The device includes a pressure switch that is sized and configured to be placed in an eye, wherein said pressure swi... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7018337 | Method and apparatus for automatic non-invasive blood pressure monitoring An automatic non-invasive blood pressure monitoring system includes a blood pressure monitor, a blood pressure cuff pneumatically connected to the blood pressure monitor, a deflation valve connected intermediate the blood pressure monitor and the blood pressure cuff... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014611 | Oscillometric noninvasive blood pressure monitor An oscillometric, noninvasive blood pressure monitor comprising an inflatable cuff adapted for placement around a body member, a pump for cuff inflation, a pressure transducer connected to the cuff, means for detecting oscillations in arterial pressure occurring dur... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6994675 | Non-invasive measurement of suprasystolic signals An apparatus for assessing cardiovascular status of a mammal comprises a system for locally applying a pressure to an artery capable of restricting blood flow through said artery, a wideband external pulse transducer having an output and situated to measure suprasys... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6976966 | Arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus An arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus for evaluating an arteriosclerosis of a living subject based on a form of a pulse wave detected from the subject, the apparatus including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of the subject, a cuff... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6945939 | Hemodynamic analysis To track significant changes in a hemodynamic variable of a living body regardless of measurement noise induced by cyclical functions of the body, the hemodynamic variable is measured at substantially the same instant during several cycles and the measured values co... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6918879 | Method and device for monitoring blood pressure A device for continuously monitoring a user's arterial blood pressure has a sensor adapted to continuously detect the blood pressure and to generate signals representative thereof by contact with an external surface of the user's body at a location adjacent an arter... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6902531 | Pneumatic control of blood pressure determinations A method and apparatus for pneumatic control of a blood pressure determination are disclosed. The method and apparatus comprise an inflatable cuff for obtaining a blood pressure measurement from a patient, a hose configured to operate with a pressurizing apparatus f... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6878273 | Dialyzing apparatus A dialyzing apparatus includes a dialyzer which removes water from blood of a patient at a pre-set water-remove rate, an autonomic-nerve-activity-related-information obtaining device which obtains autonomic-nerve-activity-related information that is related to an ac... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6802816 | System for measuring blood pressure A method for measuring blood pressure during a limited number of blood pressure cycles at an area overlying an artery of a living subject, includes applying a pressure (P) to the artery for occluding the artery in response to a pressure signal. Subsequently the pres... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6767328 | Method and apparatus for determining blood pressure using pressure pulse duty cycle A method of processing oscillometric blood pressure pulse data taken from a subject is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes determining a pressure pulse period of a cardiac cycle of the subject and identifying a duration of a pressure pulse det... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6746405 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus with pulse wave detecting function A blood pressure measuring apparatus, including a cuff adapted to be worn on a body portion of a living subject, and determining a blood pressure value of the subject based on a signal obtained from the cuff when a pressure in the cuff is changed, wherein the appara... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6719703 | Method and apparatus for measuring blood pressure by the oscillometric technique A method and apparatus for measuring blood pressure by the oscillometric technique. The method incorporates variable PIP's. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a value for the peak amplitude Amax of an oscillometric envelope; determining a cuff pr... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6712768 | Augmentation-index determining apparatus and arteriosclerosis inspecting apparatus An augmentation-index determining apparatus, including a cuff, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressing pressure of the cuff, a pulse-wave extracting device which extracts a pulse wave from the cuff, a peak-occurrence-time determining device for dete... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6705998 | Method and device for measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate in an environment with extreme levels of noise and vibrations A method and a device for measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate in an environment comprising extreme levels of noise and vibrations is disclosed. Blood pressure signals corresponding to the Korotkoff sounds are detected using a first acousti... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6602199 | Method and apparatus for measuring values of physiological parameters Apparatus for measuring a physiological parameter of a patient, such as blood pressure, takes a sequence consisting of a predetermined number of individual measurements. The apparatus computes a best estimate of the physiological parameter from values obt... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6565515 | Pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-relating-information obtaining apparatus and blood-pressure-index measuring apparatus An apparatus for obtaining information relating to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates in a living subject, the apparatus including a first inflatable cuff and a second inflatable cuff which are adapted to be worn on two different portions of the ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6561985 | Automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus An apparatus for automatically measuring a blood pressure of a living subject, including in inflatable cuff which is adapted to be wound around a portion of the subject, a cuff pulse wave including heartbeat-synchronous pulses occurring to the cuff while ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6524257 | Superior-and-inferior-limb blood-pressure index measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring a superior-and-inferior-limb blood-pressure index of a living subject, including an inferior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device which includes an inferior-limb cuff adapted to be wound around an inferior limb of the subject an... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6520919 | Inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure-index measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring an inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure index of a living subject, including an inferior-limb blood-pressure measuring device, a superior-limb blood-pressure measuring device, an index determining means for determining the ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6517494 | System for measuring blood pressure A system (1) for measuring blood pressure during a limited number of blood pressure cycles at an area (2) overlying an artery (3) of a living subject, comprising a mechanism (4) for applying a pressure (P) to the artery for occluding artery in response to... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6511435 | Blood pressure measurement system A blood pressure measurement device and associated operating method utilize a measurement algorithm based on a plurality of measurements, supplying a unique ability to increase diagnostic and analytical success in detection. In an illustrative implementat... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6497668 | Blood-pressure measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring a systolic blood pressure of a living subject, including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be wound around a body portion of the subject and includes a first inflatable bag which is inflatable to press an artery of the body... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6491638 | Circulation-condition monitoring apparatus A blood-circulation monitor including a heartbeat-synchronous-wave sensor, a first judging device for judging whether an arrhythmia has occurred to a living subject, based on a heartbeat-synchronous wave detected by the sensor, a first determining device ... | 12/10/2002 |
