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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7731665 | Apparatus and method for measuring biological information An apparatus and method for precisely measuring various biological information of a user's body by using a single measuring apparatus enable precisely and effectively measuring biological information including body fat, pulse and a blood vessel aging degree. By meas... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7344502 | Pulse wave measuring apparatus of high measurement accuracy A pulse wave measuring apparatus includes a pressure sensor having a plurality of sensor elements wider in width than the small sensor element required in conventional tonometry. On the basis of differences α and β of an AI value based on a pulse wave signal from ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7229414 | Pulse wave measuring apparatus that can obtain optimum pressurization force of pressure sensor A pulse wave measuring apparatus extracts a direct current component from a pressure value obtained from a sensor pressure, and defines the pressurization force of the cuff as the optimum pressurization force when that direct current component is stable. Following d... | 06/12/2007 |
| D541168 | Bottle | 04/24/2007 |
| 7181350 | Blood glucose meter/modem interface arrangement A cradle-configured interface for a hand-held blood glucose meter has a multi-electrical contact-containing battery door that enables blood glucose analysis data stored in the meter to be automatically downloaded to a modem within a meter cradle for transmission to ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7144373 | Apparatus and method for detecting pulse wave Provided are an apparatus and method of detecting a pulse wave at the certain position of an artery. A pressure sensor array has a pressurization surface on which plural pressure sensors are disposed in a direction intersecting with an artery. The pressurization sur... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7112174 | Pulse wave detection device and method of detecting pulse wave, wherein pulse wave is detected with selection of pressure sensor for pulse wave detection from plurality of pressure sensors A sensor array having a plurality of pressure sensors arranged on a measurement surface, a pressurization portion for pressing the sensor array laid across an artery of a living body, a sensor signal selection portion for selecting a pressure signal among pressure s... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7039538 | Pulse oximeter with separate ensemble averaging for oxygen saturation and heart rate The use of two separate ensemble averagers for processing a detected waveform for use in calculating oxygen saturation and a pulse rate. The ensemble averager used for calculating oxygen saturation operates on a signal which has been normalized, while the ensemble a... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7018338 | Method and device for pulse rate detection Portable pulse rate detecting device for contact with human body tissue, including a light-emitting source for emitting radiant energy directed at through human body tissue; at least first and second light detectors for detecting intensity of radiant energy after pr... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6945940 | Contact type pulse measurement device The present invention discloses a contact type of pulse measurement device, which comprises a first active sensor electrode and a second active sensor electrode having corresponding opposite polarities with each other; and the two active sensor electrodes respective... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6923770 | Pulse-wave-characteristic-point determining apparatus, and pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining apparatus employing the pulse-wave-characteristic-point determining apparatus An apparatus for determining a characteristic point of a pulse wave detected from a living subject, the apparatus including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a first pulse wave from a prescribed portion of the subject, a pulse-wave modifying device for mod... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6905470 | Apparatus and method for detecting heartbeat using PPG The present invention relates to an apparatus and method capable of detecting a heartbeat using a photoplethysmography (PPG) even under a motion of a user. A primary object of the present invention is to allow the heartbeat of the user to be effectively detected fro... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6881192 | Measurement of sleep apnea duration and evaluation of response therapies using duration metrics An implantable cardiac device is programmed to detect an episode of sleep apnea, measure the duration of the episode, and store this information in memory. When multiple episodes are recorded, the device computes statistics on the apnea durations, such as average ap... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6740045 | Central blood pressure waveform estimation device and peripheral blood pressure waveform detection device A central blood pressure waveform estimation device has a pulse wave detection section, a transfer function storage section, and a central blood pressure waveform calculation section. The pulse wave detection section non-invasively detects a peripheral pulse wave. T... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6599250 | Heart failure monitor quicklook summary for patient management systems Continuous remote monitoring of patients based on data obtained from an implantable hemodynamic monitor provides an interactive patient management system. Using network systems, patients are remotely monitored to continuously diagnose and treat heart-fail... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6537225 | Device and method for noninvasive continuous determination of physiologic characteristics The invention comprises devices and methods for the noninvasive monitoring of a physiologic characteristic of a patient's blood, such as blood pressure. One embodiment is a tissue probe combined with a position sensor for determining the relative height o... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6506153 | Method and apparatus for subject monitoring A method of monitoring a subject (7) in a vehicle seat (6), the method including: a) acquiring a target signal from the subject with a piezoelectric transducer (1) provided in or on the vehicle seat; b) processing the target signal to extract a cardiac si... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6447458 | Method and system of color coding components of central venous and pulmonary artery wedge pressure waveforms A method and system for identifying components of a waveform. The system includes an ECG acquisition module, a pressure waveform acquisition module to acquire a pressure waveform, and an analysis module coupled to the ECG acquisition module and the pressu... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6293915 | Pulse wave examination apparatus, blood pressure monitor, pulse waveform monitor, and pharmacological action monitor An FFT treating section (40) carries out the frequency analysis of a pulse waveform MHj excluding a body movement component to yield pulse wave analysis data MKD and then a tidal wave-character extracting section (50) and a dicrotic wave-character extract... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6283914 | Device and method for monitoring dietary intake of calories and nutrients A portable, autonomous electronic device consisting of a barcode scanner, an updatable nutrition facts database, user memory to store product records of products eaten, and an integral readout display is disclosed that will allow a user to scan barcodes o... | 09/04/2001 |
| 5938618 | Method of positioning a sensor for determining blood pressure of an artery The present invention is a method for locating a sensor over an underlying artery having a blood pulse. The sensor is positioned at a plurality of locations above a known appoximate location of the artery while applying a constant hold down pressure to th... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5830149 | Physical information monitor system having means for indicating amount of deviation of monitored information from normal information A physical information monitor system, including: (a) physical information obtaining component for successively obtaining physical information of a living subject; (b) physical information memory component for storing the physical information which is pre... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5803907 | Peripheral vascular disease testing The present invention provides an diagnostic apparatus and method for physiologically measuring the biological responses of a selected group of muscles during exercise. Biological responses measured include blood flow, blood pressure, transcutaneous oxyge... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5766130 | Vascular testing method The present invention relates to a method for vascular testing for diagnosing circulatory and secondary nervous disorders. The method allows a non-technical person to rapidly plot blood pressure and/or volumetric blood flow wave forms from a plurality of ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5709212 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus A blood pressure measuring device includes: a memory for storing a standard constant an input means for inputting a correcting blood pressure value; a time interval reference point detection section for detecting a time interval detection reference po... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5692520 | Method and apparatus for measuring arterial and venous blood flow in body appendages The present invention is directed to a non-invasive method and apparatus for measuring arterial and venous blood flow in body appendages. The present invention is also directed to a non-invasive method and apparatus for measuring penile tumescence as a fu... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5638823 | System and method for noninvasive detection of arterial stenosis A system and method for noninvasively detecting coronary artery disease. The system and method utilize a vasodilator drug to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of an acoustic signal that represents diastolic heart sounds of a patient. A wavelet transform ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5381797 | Pulse diagnostic device and method of measuring a pulse wave using this device A pulse diagnostic device has a pulse wave sensor, a pulse wave signal processing unit and a register--all connected in series. The sensor is provided with means for correcting its amplitude-frequency response to obtain a prescribed shape of the pulse wav... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5103831 | Pulse wave detecting apparatus A pulse wave detecting apparatus including a sensing device sensing a pulse wave produced from an arterial vessel of a subject, a storing device concurrently storing the pulse wave signals generated by pressure sensing elements of the sensing device, a se... | 04/14/1992 |
| 4951679 | Pulse wave detecting apparatus having placement-condition detecting means A pulse wave detecting apparatus having a housing which is placed on a body surface of a subject such that the housing is aligned with an artery of the subject via the body surface, a pulse wave sensor accommodated in the housing, the pulse wave sensor be... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4940059 | Polygraph with improved cardiac monitoring A polygraph for detecting and displaying the beat by beat changes in the relative rate of increase of the blood pressure of the heart. Electronic circuitry for measuring the derivative of the blood pressure pulse, and displaying it on either a separate ch... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4887607 | Apparatus for and method of spectral analysis enhancement of polygraph examinations An apparatus for and method of improving polygraph testing comprises parallel processing of output response signals of a human being by a polygraph machine and a spectral analyzer and then comparing and contrasting the output results for more qualified in... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4823802 | Device for measurement of arterial blood pressure A device for measurement of arterial blood pressure, comprising a compression cuff with a manometer, and a pulse wave sensor interposed between the compression cuff and the patient's body surface and situated below the cuff axis square with the direction ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4572199 | System to determine arterial occlusion and other maladies A system for noninvasively sensing ocular pulses of a mammal, which pulses serve as a basis for indicating presence of a disease or malfunctioning body part such as, for example, a condition of arterial occlusion. The system employs piezoelectric transduc... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4564020 | Method and apparatus for obtaining an individual's systolic blood pressure A specific technique for determining an individual's systolic blood pressure is disclosed herein. This technique utilizes the individual's diastolic blood pressure, the patient's arterial curve or amplitude curve, and different assumed systolic pressures ... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4458518 | Apparatus and method for calibrating a photoplethysmograph An apparatus for calibrating a photoplethysmograph system comprising a white card mounted in the cone of a speaker. The card is mounted a predetermined distance from a photoplethysmograph sensor for providing an output from the sensor corresponding to the... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4331156 | Esophageal cardiac pulse monitoring apparatus and method An esophageal cardiac pulse probe includes a lumen for insertion into the esophagus, the end of the lumen preferably being closed by a flexible diaphragm. Pressure variations imparted to the fluid within the lumen in response to sounds from the heart and ... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4213348 | Self-calibrating automatic zeroing strain gauge circuit A method of and apparatus for calibrating and providing an output from a strain gauge (1) is described. In the method and apparatus there is provided a constant-current source (10). Coupled to the current source (10) is an amplifier (12,13) for providing ... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4178918 | Automatic blood pressure measuring and recording system A noninvasive blood pressure measuring and recording system includes an inflatable cuff for encircling a portion of the human body, a pump for inflating and deflating the cuff for selectively occluding an arterial vessel, a detector for detecting flow var... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4164937 | Equipment for detecting, monitoring, measuring, displaying and recording pulse and heartbeat An inexpensive, compact and portable instrument using two photoelectric cells in a sensitive Wheatstone bridge, an operational amplifier and ambient light sources and arranged to easily engage the finger or other parts of the human body at frequent interv... | 08/21/1979 |
