Taiwan Biophotonic Corporation

Industrial Technology Research Institute

Chih-Hsun Fan

Yu-Tang Li

Shuang-Chao Chung

Chang-Sheng Chu

Jyh-Chern Chen

Lung-Pin Chung

Yeh-Wen Lee

Kuo-Tung Tiao

Ming-Chia Li

Kuan-Jui Ho

Pei-Cheng Ho

Chung-Fan Chiou

Chun-Chuan Lin

Hsin-Hsiang Lo

Cheng-Wei Chu

Tian-Yuan Chen

Ting-Ju Chen

Wei-Ping Huang

A dual sensor module includes a substrate, a light source, a first encapsulant, a second encapsulant, a photodetector, and an electrode. The light source is disposed on the substrate. The first encapsulant is formed over the light source. The photodetector is disposed on the substrate. The second encapsulant is formed over the photodetector. The electrode is electrically connected to the substrate and is entirely located between the light source and the photodetector. A dual sensing accessory and a dual sensing device having the dual sensor module for detecting optical and electrical properties are also provided.

Optical sensor

The present disclosure generally relates to an optical measurement module, an optical measurement device, and a method for optical measurement. The optical measurement module provides optical architecture to measure the optical properties of an analyte. The optical measurement device comprising the optical measurement module is configured to measure the optical properties of an analyte. The method for the optical measurement provides steps for optical measurement.

Module, device and method for optical measurement

The present disclosure relates to an optical sensing accessory, an optical sensing device, and an optical sensing system. An optical sensing accessory, an optical sensing device, or an optical sensing system comprises a plurality of optical sensor modules and other electronic modules to achieve multi-site measurement. An optical sensor module comprises a light source, a photodetector, and a substrate. The light source is configured to convert electric power into radiant energy and emit light to an object surface. The photodetector is configured to receive the light from an object surface and convert radiant energy into electrical current or voltage. An optical sensing accessory, an optical sensing device, or an optical sensing system and comprise the optical sensor module and other electronic modules to have further applications.

Multi-site sensing accessory, multi-site sensing device, and multi-site sensing system

A detecting device for detecting physiological parameters of a biological tissue includes a light source, at least one light detector, a package, an outer cover, and an optical microstructure. The light source is configured to emit a first beam and a second beam. The package is disposed on the light source and the light detector and is located on the transmission paths of the first and second beams. The outer cover covers the light source, the light detector and the package, and includes a top surface. The optical microstructure is located in the transmission paths of the first and second beams, and is arranged in parallel with the top surface of the outer cover. The optical microstructure includes at least one set of circles of different radii, and is made of a diffractive optical element, a holographic optical element, a computer-generated holographic element, a fresnel lens or a lens grating.

Detecting device

A wearable device for information delivery may comprise a physiological sensor, a microprocessor, a display and a wearable housing. The wearable device may effectively receive a signal, convert the signal into information and renders a layout on a display. A method for information delivery may comprise signal reception step, signal transformation step and information visualization step. The method may be extensively applied in a wearable device or a device comprising at least a physiological sensor, a microprocessor and a display.

Wearable device and method for information delivery

The present disclosure relates to an optical sensor module, an optical sensing accessory, and an optical sensing device. An optical sensor module comprises a light source, a photodetector, an electrode and a substrate. The light source is configured to convert electric power into radiant energy and emit light to an object surface. The photodetector is configured to receive the light from an object surface and convert radiant energy into electrical current or voltage. The electrode is configured to detect an external circuit formed by the contact with an object surface. An optical sensing accessory and an optical sensing device comprise the optical sensor module and other electronic modules to have further applications.

An optical measurement device includes a light source, first and second beam splitters, and first and second photodetectors. The light source that generates an emitted light beam. The first beam splitter that divides the emitted light beam into a compensation light beam and a measurement light beam. The first beam splitter directs the measurement light beam to a target. The second beam splitter that redirects the compensation light beam from the first beam splitter. A part of wavelength dependent characteristics of the first beam splitter and the second beam splitter are the same. The first photodetector that detects the compensation light beam redirected from the second beam splitter. The second photodetector that detects the measurement light beam reflected by the target and redirected by the first beam splitter. Another optical measurement device and an optical measurement method are also provided.

Optical measurement device and optical measurement method

A detecting device includes at least one detecting module. In the detecting module, a light source unit is configured to emit a first beam and a second beam. The wavelength of the first beam is different from that of the second beam. A packaging unit is disposed on the light source unit and a light detecting unit and on transmission paths of the first beam and the second beam from the light source unit. An optical microstructure unit is disposed on the transmission paths of the first beam and the second beam. The first beam and the second beam emitted from the light source unit pass through the packaging unit to pass the optical microstructure unit to be transmitted to a biological tissue, and then pass through the optical microstructure unit to pass the packaging unit to be transmitted to the light detecting unit in sequence.

An apparatus for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring includes a light source for generating at least one ray of light, a beam splitter with a focusing function leads the light into an eyeball and focuses on the eyeball, a set of photo detectors for measuring optical angular information and absorption energy information of the light reflected from the eyeball and transmitted through the first beam splitter to the set of photo detectors, and a processing unit. The processing unit receives and processes the Optical angular information and the absorption energy information to obtain an Optical angular difference and an absorption energy difference between the light emitted from the light source and the light transmitted to the set of photo detectors, and analyzes the Optical angular difference and the absorption energy difference to obtain a glucose information, and since the glucose information has a corresponding relationship with a blood glucose information, the blood glucose information may be read.

Apparatus for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring

The present disclosure relates to an optical sensor module, an optical sensing accessory, and an optical sensing device. An optical sensor module comprises a light source, a photodetector, and a substrate. The light source is configured to convert electric power into radiant energy and emit light to an object surface. The photodetector is configured to receive the light from an object surface and convert radiant energy into electrical current or voltage. An optical sensing accessory and an optical sensing device comprise the optical sensor module and other electronic modules to have further applications.

A method for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring includes the following steps. At least one ray of light is emitted from at least one light source. The light emitted from the light source is leaded into an eyeball and focused on the eyeball through a first beam splitter. The reflected light reflected from the eyeball is transmitted through the first beam splitter to a set of photo detectors. Optical angular information and absorption energy information of the reflected light transmitted to the set of photo detectors are measured. Optical angular difference and absorption energy difference resulting from the light emitted from the light source and the reflected light transmitted to the set of photo detectors are obtained. Glucose information is obtained by analyzing the optical angular difference and the absorption energy difference, and since glucose information has a corresponding relationship with blood glucose information, blood glucose information may be read.

Method for non-invasive blood glucose monitoring and method for analysing biological molecule

An apparatus for non-invasive glucose monitoring includes a light source for emitting at least one ray of light; a first beam splitter, a set of photo detectors for measuring optical rotatory distribution (ORD) information and absorption energy information; a reference component receiving the light from the first beam splitter, and the light reflected by the reference component being transmitted to the set of photo detectors by the first beam splitter, wherein the light emitted from the light source is transmitted to the set of photo detectors by the first beam splitter and the eyeball to form a first optical path, the light emitted from the light source is transmitted to the set of photo detectors by the first beam splitter and the reference component to form a second optical path; and a processing unit receiving and processing the ORD information and the absorption energy information to obtain a glucose information.

Apparatus for non-invasive glucose monitoring

The present disclosure generally relates to a device and a method for alignment. The alignment device provides optical architecture to align the alignment device to an analyte and measure the optical properties of an analyte. The method for alignment provides steps for aligning an optical measurement device to an analyte.

Device and method for alignment

An apparatus for non-invasive glucose monitoring includes a first light source for emitting at least one ray of first light; a first beam splitter with a focusing function; a set of photo detectors for measuring optical rotatory distribution (ORD) information and absorption energy information of the first light reflected from the eyeball and transmitted through the first beam splitter to the set of photo detectors, and the first light emitted from the first light source being transmitted to the set of photo detectors by the first beam splitter and the eyeball to form an optical path; a processing unit receiving and processing the ORD information and the absorption energy information to obtain glucose information; and an eye positioning device including a second beam splitter disposed on the optical path between the first beam splitter and the eyeball and a camera for receiving image information transmitted from the second beam splitter.

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Zhubei, Taiwan

Chih-Hsun Fan