Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche

Universitá Degli Studi Di Cagliari

Luigi Raffo

Annalisa Bonfiglio

Danilo Pani

Gianluca Barabino

Alessandro Mathieu

Alessia Dessi

Massimo Barbaro

An apparatus for the local and/or remote rehabilitation and functional evaluation of the right and/or left hand of a user includes: a number of gym tools for the execution of hand exercises, each gym tool including a mechanical part, a sensor for the transformation of measured physical parameters into electrical signals; a user interface, configured to guide the user in the use of the gym tools, and providing feedbacks to the sequence of user actions; a first processing unit, configured to manage the apparatus functions, signal processing, storing and forwarding information on the measured physical parameters to at least one external device; a short-range communication module, configured to allow a real-time close-distance control of the apparatus; a wide-range communication module, configured to allow the connection to at least one long-distance tele-monitoring system.

Apparatus, a system and a relating method for local or remote rehabilitation and functional evaluation of the hands

The device () allows the detection of small quantities of electrical charge (Qs) utilised for recognition of the gybridisation process of a single strand of DNA. It comprises a chip () in which is integrated an MOS device having a floating gate () a first portion (a) of which extends in facing relation to a recess () formed in a surface of the chip () and accessible from outside the chip () and operable to retain an electrical charge (Qs) to be measured bound to it. A second portion (b) of the gate () of the MOS device is coupled to a control electrode, () of the chip () by means of a capacitor () of predetermined value within the chip ().

Field-effect device for the detection of small quantities of electric charge, such as those generated in bio-molecular process, bound in the vicinity of the surface

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Luigi Raffo