Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Jeffrey Coles

Norbert Hans Balko

Edmund Arnliot Shaw

James Martin Weiland

Waiman Cheung

A respiratory effort sensing apparatus () includes a flexible belt member () having a first buckle member (A) and a second buckle member (B), and a wearable respiratory monitoring recording device (). The monitoring device includes: (i) a processing apparatus () structured to be selectively operable in a sleep mode and an active mode, and (ii) buckle detection circuitry () structured to detect that both buckle members are operatively coupled to the respiratory monitoring recording device and in response thereto generate a buckle detection signal. The processing apparatus is structured to, in response to receiving the buckle detection signal, automatically: (a) move from the sleep mode to the active mode, and (b) generate data indicative of a respiratory effort of a patient over time based on an effort-based signal generated by the respiratory effort sensing apparatus in response to changes in volume of a body part of the patient.

Bodily-worn respiratory effort sensing apparatus providing automatic power up and initiation of data recording on a respiratory monitoring recording device

Described herein is a nasal cannula apparatus. The apparatus is configured to detect the pressurized flow of breathable gas to and/or from the airway of a subject through the nose of the subject. The apparatus comprises a body, a first nasal cannula system formed in the body configured to engage a first nostril of a first nasal passage, and a second nasal cannula system formed in the body configured to engage a second nostril of a second nasal passage of the subject. The second nasal cannula system is joined to first nasal cannula system by a bridge such that the first nasal cannula system engages the first nostril and second nasal cannula system engages the second nostril at the same time. The apparatus is configured to transmit expiratory and inspiratory nasal pressurized flow to connective conduits.

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Irwin, PA, United States of America

Jeffrey Coles