Omron Corporation

Omron Healthcare Company Ltd.

Omron Tateisi Electronics Co.

Ito Co., Ltd.

Manabu Yoshimura

Tsutomu Yamasawa

Masaaki Takenaka

Maki Hasegawa

Makoto Tabata

Tatsuya Kobayashi

Toshikazu Shiga

Tsukasa Hatakenaka

Tomoo Watanabe

Satoshi Nishida

Kazuyuki Morita

Masatsugu Hirano

Shigeki Kobayashi

Yoshihisa Masuo

Mamoru Toriu

Hiromi Matsumoto

Soichi Okuhara

Tokuji Shibahara

Hiromi Kinoshita

In an exercise machine, when a measurement starts, an electrocardiographic signal is detected by an electrocardiographic sensor(ST), a load drive is started (ST), and heartbeat rate intervals of the electrocardiographic signal are sequentially obtained. A fluctuation of heartbeat rate intervals PI(n) % is obtained from a calculation formula in which the RR interval RR(n+1) of the current heartbeat is subtracted from the RR interval RR(n) of the previous heartbeat, which is then divided by RR(n) and multiplied by 100% (ST). Entropy is calculated from 128 pieces of such PI (ST). From the change of the entropy under the gradually increasing load (ST), a minimum point of the entropy is obtained, which point is designated as an anaerobic threshold point (ST). The load of the exercise machine is controlled employing this anaerobic threshold.

Exercise machine, physical strength evaluation method and pulse rate meter

In an exercise machine, when a measurement starts, an electrocardiographic signal is detected by an electrocardiographic sensor (ST ), a load drive is started (ST ), and heartbeat rate intervals of the electrocardiographic signal are sequentially obtained. A fluctuation of heartbeat rate intervals PI(n)% is obtained from a calculation formula in which the RR interval RR(n&plus;1) of the current heartbeat is subtracted from the RR interval RR(n) of the previous heartbeat, which is then divided by RR(n) and multiplied by 100% (ST ). Entropy is calculated from 128 pieces of such PI (ST ). From the change of the entropy under the gradually increasing load (ST ), a minimum point of the entropy is obtained, which point is designated as an anaerobic threshold point (ST ). The load of the exercise machine is controlled employing this anaerobic threshold.

Exercise machine, physical strength evaluation method, and pulse rate meter

Total consumed calories are indicated in an upper portion of a display. A life activity intensity of each of the past seven days and an average life activity intensity over the same period are indicated by a bar graph in a lower portion of the display. The life activity intensity is classified into rank I (light), rank II (medium), and rank III (a little heavy). A total exercise amount (i.e., total consumed calories) and a life activity intensity are calculated and automatically displayed at the end of a day.

Exercise amount measuring device capable of displaying the amount of

A device for providing data as a guide to health management which is capable of highly accurate measurements measures various characteristics of the body of a subject by electrical measurements of the subject while he or she is grasping handgrips with which the device is equipped. Once measurement has begun, the impedance variability measured by the device is calculated at every sampling period, and if the value of this variability is continuously less than a predetermined amount over a number of samplings, it is concluded that the electrodes which apply a fixed current and the electrodes which detect voltage are making good contact with the subject's hands.

Impedance measuring device and a health management device using the same

A pulsimeter having an improved pulse measurement accuracy by having a good shading is provided. The pulsimeter include a main body 2, a finger insertion section 4 disposed on the main body to be inserted by a finger (FIG. 2), a pulse sensor 5 for sensing pulses of a finger inserted into the finger insertion section 4 (FIG. 2), and a display 6 for displaying the pulses sensed by the pulse sensor 5. The finger insertion section 4 is disposed on a surface (the reverse side of the main body 2) opposite to a surface provided with the display 6.

Pulsimeter provided with or without a pedometer

A pulsimeter includes a main body having a front face and a back face that is opposite the front face. A finger insertion section, into which a finger may be inserted, is arranged on the back face of the main body. Also included is a pulse sensor which is configured to sense pulses from a user's finger that has been inserted into the finger insertion section. A display, which is arranged on the front face of the main body, is configured to display the pulses sensed by the pulse sensor. The display and the finger insertion section are arranged such that the display may be observed by the user while the user's finger is inserted into the finger insertion section.

In a transcutaneous electric nerve stimulator for producing in a predetermined sequence of different types of waveforms (in which the frequency varies, the signal is successively and/or intermittently created, etc.), when the user depresses a predetermined switch while a desired waveform is being outputted, a low-frequency signal of the waveform is thereafter continuously produced. In a transcutaneous electric nerve stimulator capable of selectively producing low-frequency signals of at least two different kinds, a kind of output signals at a termination of a treatment is stored in a memory such that a low-frequency signal of the stored kind is produced when the stimulator is started for a subsequent treatment.

Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulator

A spectrophotometer is provided for measuring and displaying an absorbance change as a function of time, a wavelength spectra, or an absorbance difference as a function of time between two specific wavelengths, which comprises a wavelength scanner for scanning through a plurality of wavelengths in a scan range, a wavelength reader for generating wavelength signals corresponding to the scanned wavelengths, photodetectors for detecting the light intensity of a scanned wavelength, an A-D converter for converting analog signals of a scanned wavelength to digital signals, a storage device for storing data generated from the A-D converter corresponding to each wavelength, an operational circuit for processing stored data, and display devices for displaying the processed data.

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Manabu Yoshimura