Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Terumo Corporation

Hitoshi Ozawa

Akira Kondo

Takashi Watanabe

Masaru Nakanishi

Shuichi Oonishi

Shinji Mino

Shoichi Hayashida

Naoe Tatara

Shinichi Takahira

Koichiro Asama

Hiroki Sasagawa

Katsumi Tsukuda

Shinji Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp Mino

Kimihisa Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp Aihara

Hiroshi Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp Koizumi

Naoe Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp Tatara

An electronic clinical thermometer attachment unit, which is configured to be attached to an electronic clinical thermometer, inputs an external sound, determines whether the external sound is a buzzer sound notifying completion of measurement by the electronic clinical thermometer, based on whether the input external sound has a pattern of a buzzer sound notifying completion of the measurement, and performs notification output for notifying a user when it is determines that the external sound is a buzzer sound notifying completion of the measurement.

Electronic clinical thermometer attachment unit and control method therefor

The present invention enables making uniform contact with the tragus using inner and outer cuffs, each of said inner and outer cuffs being comprised of a cuff memberconnected to a ductand a cuff bladderhaving a bodywhich is fixed onto said cuff member in an air-tight manner and can expand and contract, comprised in such manner in order to carry out accurate blood pressure measurement at any one given point in time without being affected by the pinch width of the tragus and depth to the tragus even with repeated mounting and removal from the ear auricle, and also comprised such that a lidof said cuff bladder forms a pressing surfacein a shape of a protrusion.

Blood pressure measuring cuffs and a blood pressure measuring device

A blood pressure measurement apparatus which can install cuffs at a tragus that has differences includes a holding memberhaving a shape partto be installed in a space between an auricular concha and an antihelix, a first protrusionextended from the shape part such that the first protrusion is directed towards the ear hole, a second protrusionextended from the shape part such that the second protrusion is nearly right-angled with respect to the first protrusion and the second protrusion steps over the tragus, an integral memberhaving an ear hook partthat is extended from the shape part, the ear hook is integrally made with the integral member or made as an independent member, inner cuffis supported at the end portion of the first protrusion, support memberis attached at the end portion of the second protrusion, cuffsare attached to the support member through a clamping width adjustment partthat makes a clamping width adjustment against the tragus possible.

Blood pressure measuring apparatus

This invention provides a blood pressure measuring apparatus capable of stably measuring the blood pressure in even the tragus while suppressing the degree of invasion. An attaching portion () of the blood pressure measuring apparatus has an inner cuff (), an outer cuff (), and a holding member () which holds the inner cuff () and outer cuff (), and the holding member has a 'U' shape. The end portions of the holding member () where the inner cuff () and outer cuff () are arranged are almost parallel to each other, and the inner cuff () and outer cuff () oppose each other. An auxiliary member () which comes in contact with a predetermined position of the ear of a person to be measured and increases the attachment stability of the inner cuff () and outer cuff () at the tragus is attached to the holding member ().

An arm insertion type sphygmomanometer having enhanced operability and visibility at the time of measurement. A remote control unit can be detached from the sphygmomanometer body portion and operated wirelessly. The arm insertion type sphygmomanometer comprises a sphygmomanometer body portion () provided with an arm band () through which an upper arm is inserted, and a remote control unit () capable of controlling the sphygmomanometer body portion () remotely. The remote control unit () can be fixed removably to a holding portion () of the sphygmomanometer body portion () and has an operating portion for operating the sphygmomanometer body portion (), and a display portion for displaying the result of measurement. In a state where the remote control unit () is placed in the holding portion (), the remote control unit () operates the sphygmomanometer body () by performing wired or wireless communication therewith. In a state where the remote control unit () is not placed in the holding portion (), the remote control unit () operates the sphygmomanometer body () by performing wireless communication therewith.

Arm insertion type sphygmomanometer

An electronic sphygmomanometer includes CPU-controlled peripheral elements such as a pump, an amplifier, an A/D converter and a printer. During measurement of blood pressure, power consumption is reduced by supplying power to these peripheral elements only when they are driven or operated. When a blood pressure measurement or a print-out of measured values ends, the CPU acts to cut off its own power to reduce power consumption further. The sphygmomanometer further includes a timer constantly supplied with power for the purpose of preserving time information. Operating power is supplied to the CPU in synchronism with a pulse signal outputted by the timer every minute. When the pulse signal arrives, the CPU reads in time information from the timer, causes the time information to be displayed by a display device, then cuts off its own power and waits for the next pulse signal. By repeating such processing, time is displayed while power consumption is minimized.

Electronic sphygmomanometer

In an electronic clinical sphygmomamometer of the type which measures blood pressure on the basis of a Korotkoff-sound signal in a pulse-wave gate signal, the level of a detected pulse-wave signal is compared with a predetermined threshold level to form a pulse-wave gate signal the duration of which corresponds to a period over which the level of the pulse-wave signal is higher than the predetermined threshold level. If no Korotkoff-sound detection signal is provided in the pulse-wave gate signal thus formed, the duration of the pulse-wave gate signal is extended by a predetermined time period. The thus-extended duration of the pulse-wave period required to measure the systatic blood pressure gate signal serves as the measurement.

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Fujinomiya, Japan

Hitoshi Ozawa