Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Toray Industries, Inc.

Ntt Corporation

Takako Ishihara

Kei Kuwabara

Yuki Hashimoto

Hiroto Matsuoka

Toshiki Wada

Kazuhiko Takagahara

Masanobu Sato

Akio Tokura

Emiko Ishikawa

Yasuhiro Sato

Michiko Seyama

Nobuaki Matsuura

Yasuharu Murakami

Takayuki Ogasawara

Yuichi Higuchi

Hiroyoshi Togo

Yasuyuki Matsuya

Ryusuke Kawano

Hiromi Takarada

Sadayuki Yasuda

Shinichiro Mutoh

Kenichi Matsunaga

Hiroshi Koizumi

Ryoichi Kasahara

Shingo Tsukada

Nahoko Kasai

Kazuyoshi Ono

Keiji Takeda

Koji Sumitomo

Noriko Nagai

Atsushi Horiuchi

Takashi Teshigawara

Azuki Otsuka

Naoki Oda

Kouji Fujii

A wearable sensor includes: a base member that has a through hole serving as a flow path of liquid and a recess connecting with an end portion of the through hole on an outlet side; a water absorbing structure disposed on a surface of the base member on the outlet side to come into contact with the liquid flowing into the recess from an opening of the through hole on the outlet side; a laser diode that radiates light toward the liquid flowing into the recess from the opening of the through hole on the outlet side; and a photodiode that receives light from the laser diode transmitted through the liquid or light reflected by the liquid. An amount of perspiration of a wearer of the wearable sensor is calculated based on light receiving characteristics of the photodiode.

Wearable sensor, perspiration analysis device and method

A wearable sensor device includes a temperature and humidity sensor that measures ambient environmental information around a living body, a snap button connected to a bioelectrode, a biological information measurement unit that measures biological information, an inertial sensor that measures inertial information, a calculation unit that calculates a biological feature amount based on the biological information and calculates an inertial feature amount based on the inertial information, and a wireless communication unit that transmits the biological information, the inertial information, the biological feature amount, the inertial feature amount, and the environmental information to the outside.

Wearable sensor device

A wearable environmental sensor device includes a temperature/humidity sensor disposed on a wall surface of a housing that is exposed to an environment and configured to measure ambient environmental information around a living body, and a protective structure formed around the temperature/humidity sensor. The temperature/humidity sensor is disposed, directly or via a support structure, on or over the wall surface of the housing, wherein the wall surface faces substantially downward from the living body when the wearable environmental sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in a standing posture. The protective structure has respective ventilation holes provided in two or more pairs of opposed surfaces thereof each facing in a direction other than a vertical direction of the living body when the wearable environmental sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in the standing posture.

Wearable environmental sensor device and monitoring system

A tactile device includes a wearing portion to be worn on a subject, a tactile stimulus generation portion that provides a tactile stimulus to a body surface of the subject, and a positioning portion that makes a place where the wearing portion is worn constant. The tactile stimulus generation portion is fixed to the wearing portion. The wearing portion is worn on an arm of the subject. A tactile stimulus is provided to a body surface of the arm of the tactile stimulus generation portion. The positioning portion is, for example, a glove integrally formed with the wearing portion.

Tactile device

A wearable sensor device includes a temperature and humidity sensor that measures ambient environmental information around a living body. The temperature and humidity sensor is provided on an outer wall surface of a housing or provided to be separated from the outer wall surface. The outer wall surface of the housing faces a left or right side or diagonally downward when the wearable sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in a standing posture.

Wearable sensor device and monitoring system

A wearable electrode includes an electrode () fixed to garment () such that the electrode () can simultaneously come in contact with the skin of respective parts from the ventral side to the dorsal side of the upper left part of the body of a wearer (), and an electrode () fixed to the garment such that the electrode () can simultaneously come in contact with the skin of respective parts from the ventral side to the dorsal side of the upper right part of the body of the wearer (). The electrodes () are installed such that the attaching positions gradually descend from the ventral side to the dorsal side with the wearer () standing upright, or the attaching positions gradually ascend from the ventral side to the dorsal side with the wearer () standing upright.

Wearable electrode

An embodiment humidity sensor device includes a humidity sensor including a measurement section for measuring humidity, a housing accommodating the humidity sensor while the measurement section is exposed to the outside, and a wall member protruding from a bottom surface of the housing and surrounding a periphery of the measurement section.

Humidity sensor device

A wearable device includes a sensor device and a clothes to which the sensor device is attached. The clothes includes a clothes body and an insertion and extraction portion that has an opening formed in the clothes body and enables the sensor device to be inserted into or extracted from the clothes body. The sensor device includes a humidity sensor configured to measure humidity in the clothes body and a housing having a first region exposed to an inside of the clothes body and a second region exposed to an outside of the clothes body, while the sensor device is inserted from the insertion and extraction portion into the clothes body. The humidity sensor is accommodated in the first region of the housing.

Wearable device, and sensor device

A solar radiation heat sensor device includes: a black plate having a black surface; a silver plate having a silvery-white surface; a casing that supports the black plate and the silver plate in such a manner as to be exposed to an outside with the black surface and the silvery-white surface facing the same direction; a thermistor which is accommodated in the casing and is configured to measure temperatures of each of the black plate and the silver plate; and a processor configured to calculate a solar radiation heat amount based on a difference between the temperature of the black plate and the temperature of the silver plate, the temperatures being measured by the thermistor.

Solar radiation heat sensor device and solar radiation heat measuring method

In a biological signal measurement system of this invention, biological digital data is generated from a biological signal measured by a biological signal measurement apparatus, and first feature amount data extracted from the biological digital data and downsized biological digital data are transmitted to a portable terminal. In a biological information measurement apparatus of this invention, biological feature amount data is extracted from measured biological waveform data, and at least one of the biological waveform data and the biological feature amount data is transmitted to an external device. It is possible to provide a biological signal measurement system capable of continuously measuring a biological signal for a long time without disturbing daily life and provide a biological information measurement apparatus capable of implementing downsizing and long life of a battery.

Biological signal measurement system, biological information measurement apparatus, and biological information extraction algorithm changing method

A bioelectrode includes a fitting member () formed by an electrically insulating member fixed on a surface of a garment () that comes in contact with a living body (), an electrode part () formed by a conductive member fixed on a surface of the fitting member () that comes in contact with the living body (), a connector () fixed to the fitting member () and configured to connect a bioelectric signal measurement device, a wiring line () fixed to the fitting member () and configured to electrically connect the connector () and the electrode part (), and an electrically-insulating insulating member () configured to cover a portion within the surface of the wiring line () that comes in contact with the living body ().

Bioelectrode and garment

When a data signal of a first channel is an RZ signal having a pulse period Tand a logic '1' pulse width m, a data signal of a second channel is an RZ signal having a pulse period Tand a logic '1' pulse width n and the relation n&#x3c;m is satisfied, a multiplexed signal D obtained by time-division multiplexing the data signals of two channels is input. A pulse signal with a pulse width k satisfying n&#x3c;k&#x3c;min(m, T) is generated at timing of a leading edge of the data signal of each channel. When the multiplexed signal D is judged as logic &#x201c;1&#x201d; at timing of a trailing edge of the pulse signal, the data signal of the first channel is output. Similarly, when the multiplexed signal D is judged as logic &#x201c;0&#x201d;, the data signal of the second channel is output.

Signal separating circuit, signal separating method, signal multiplexing circuit and signal multiplexing method

When a data signal of a first channel is an RZ signal having a pulse period Tand a logic '1' pulse width m, a data signal of a second channel is an RZ signal having a pulse period Tand a logic '1' pulse width n and the relation n &#x3c; m is satisfied, a multiplexed signal D obtained by time-division multiplexing the data signals of two channels is input. A pulse signal with a pulse width k satisfying n &#x3c; k &#x3c; min(m, T) is generated at timing of a leading edge of the data signal of each channel. When the multiplexed signal D is judged as logic &#x201c;1&#x201d; at timing of a trailing edge of the pulse signal, the data signal of the first channel is output. Similarly, when the multiplexed signal D is judged as logic &#x201c;0&#x201d;, the data signal of the second channel is output.

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Takako Ishihara