Omron Corporation

Omron Healthcare Company Ltd.

Colgate Palmolive Company

Yasuhiro Kawabata

Naomi Matsumura

Reiji Fujita

Hideyuki Yamashita

Hideaki Yoshida

Kenji Fujii

Akito Ito

Hiroshi Imai

Hiroshi Sameshima

Masashi Kitamura

Kosuke Abe

Kentaro Mori

Keisuke Saito

Tatsuya Kobayashi

Naoki Matsumoto

Satoshi Yase

Makoto Ohhira

Kotaro Kitajo

Hisashi Ozawa

Keigo Kamada

Ayaka Iwade

Masayuki Sugano

Toshihiko Ogura

Masayuki Shinohara

Shigeru Aoyama

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Kengo Nishiyama

Gouo Kurata

Kenji Sakurai

Shuichi Misumi

Keiki Matsuura

Tatsuo Shinoura

Ryota Akai

Tomohiko Matsushita

Motohiko Matsushita

Hiroshi Nakamori

Yusuke Yamaji

Hiroyuki Tokusaki

Yuki Yamashita

Katsunori Kondo

Goro Kawakami

Tomohiro Ozaki

Teruki Hasegawa

Atsuhiro Okamura

Tomomi Serikawa

Yohei Asano

Nina Shen

Toshimichi Murai

A pulse transit time measuring apparatus according to one aspect includes a belt unit configured to be wrapped around a measurement site of a user, an electrocardiogram acquisition unit including electrodes provided at the belt unit and configured to acquire an electrocardiogram of the user by using the electrodes, a pulse wave signal acquisition unit including a pulse wave sensor provided at the belt unit, and configured to acquire a pulse wave signal representing a pulse wave of the user by using the pulse wave sensor, and a pulse transit time calculation unit configured to calculate a pulse transit time based on a time difference between a waveform characteristic point of the electrocardiogram and a waveform characteristic point of the pulse wave signal.

Pulse transit time measuring apparatus and blood pressure measuring apparatus

A health device flow path formation member () includes a flow path () configured to supply fluid to a target supply member, a first opening portion () located at a first end of the flow path, a second opening portion () located at a second end of the flow path, a connection path (), a plate-like member () including the connection path (), and a joining layer () including the first opening portion (), the joining layer () joining the plate-like member () to a first target attachment member () with the first opening portion () communicating with a fluid path () of the first target attachment member (). When viewed in a first direction in which the joining layer () and the plate-like member () overlap, the first opening portion () is disposed inward a distance from a profile line of a projection of the connection path () in the first direction, forming a first protrusion portion in the joining layer () that protrudes inward from the profile line.

Health device flow path formation member, health device flow path formation unit, and health device

A biometric data measurement system and method, including a transmitting device including a measurement unit configured to measure a first biometric data, a setting unit configured to set a first reference time corresponding to an occurrence time of a first feature value of the first biometric data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal at a time when a predetermined first time period has elapsed since the first reference time, and a receiving device including a measurement unit configured to measure a second biometric data, a setting unit configured to set a second reference time corresponding to an occurrence time of a second feature value of the second biometric data, and a reception unit configured to maintain an awaiting state for the signal during a third time period from a time when a second time period has elapsed since the second reference time.

Biometric data measurement system and biometric data measurement method

A blood pressure measurement device that measures blood pressure, and relates to a cuff unit.

Blood pressure measurement device and cuff unit

In an apparatus for measuring biological information using a radio wave, a technique for acquiring an index related to a setting position of the apparatus with respect to a measurement site is provided. A biological information measurement apparatus () according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a transmitter () configured to transmit a radio wave toward a measurement site of a living body; a receiver () configured to receive a reflected wave of the radio wave reflected by the measurement site and output a waveform signal of the reflected wave; a feature extraction unit () configured to extract information indicative of a feature of a waveform from the waveform signal; a determination unit () configured to determine whether a setting position of the biological information measurement apparatus with respect to the measurement site satisfies a condition corresponding to a preset reference position based on the extracted information indicative of the feature of the waveform; and an output unit () configured to output information indicative of a determination result determined by the determination unit.

Biological information measurement apparatus, method, and program

A belt and electrocardiographic measurement device, the belt including a belt body windable around an upper arm in a circumferential direction of the upper arm, and an electrode array including a plurality of electrodes fixed to an inner surface of the belt body and arranged side by side in a direction, which is a longitudinal direction of the belt body, the plurality of electrodes being more than N+2 in number, where N is a number of electrodes required for obtaining electrocardiographic information, the electrodes, counted from a first electrode located at a first end in the direction (X) by counting including the first electrode, to the (N+1)th electrode in the direction (X) being arranged at equal intervals that are predetermined intervals, and intervals between each of the (N+1)th and subsequent electrodes being greater than the predetermined interval.

Belt and electrocardiogrameasurement device

The plaque detecting device of the present invention comprises a light emitting unit () which irradiates ultraviolet or blue excitation light (L) toward the tooth surface (), and a first and second light receiving units () which receive radiated light (L′) from the tooth surface (). The first light receiving unit extracts the spectral component of a first wavelength region including the wavelength range of fluorescent light specific to plaque from the radiated light (L′), and obtains a first output value corresponding to the intensity of that spectral component. The second light receiving unit extracts, from the radiated light (L′), the spectral component of a second wavelength region containing the wavelength range of the fluorescent light specific to enamel and having a predetermined lower limit wavelength below the lower limit wavelength of the first wavelength region, and obtains a second output value corresponding to the intensity of this spectral component. Determination of the relative magnitude of the ratio between the first output value and the second output value as compared to a first threshold value is performed. Determination of the relative magnitude of the difference between the first output value and the second output value as compared to a second threshold value is performed.

Plaque detecting device and toothbrush incorporating same

A sphygmomanometer includes: a first fluid bag that is to be worn around a measurement site; first and second pulse wave sensors that are mounted on first fluid bag, and detect pulse waves of respective opposing areas of an artery running along measurement site; pressing parts that locally presses areas corresponding to first and second pulse wave sensors from an outer circumference side, opposite of an inner circumference side of first fluid bag where first and second pulse wave sensors are mounted. Blood pressure is calculated based on pulse transit time obtained from outputs from first and second pulse wave sensors, with first fluid bag in an unpressurized state and first and second pulse wave sensors being pressed by a pressing force of the pressing part. Blood pressure is calculated, for oscillometric blood pressure measurement, based on pressure within first fluid bag with first fluid bag in a pressurized state.

Sphygmomanometer, and method and device for blood pressure measurement

A pulse wave measurement device including: a belt to be worn around a measurement target site; first and second pulse wave sensors that are mounted on the belt spaced from each other with respect to a width direction of the belt, and that detect pulse waves of opposing portions of an artery passing through the measurement target site; a pressing unit that is mounted on the belt is capable of changing pressing forces of the pulse wave sensors against the measurement target site; a waveform comparing unit that acquires pulse wave signals which are time-sequentially output by the pulse wave sensors respectively, and compares waveforms of the pulse wave signals; and a pulse wave sensor pressing force setting unit that variably sets the pressing forces by the pressing unit such that the waveforms of the pulse wave signals compared by the waveform comparing unit become identical to each other.

Pulse wave measurement device, pulse wave measurement method, and blood pressure measurement device

A blood pressure estimation device includes a display unit (), a belt portion (), a first contact electrode () and a second contact electrode () for detecting an electrocardiographic waveform, and a pulse wave sensor. The display unit () displays a blood pressure estimation result. The belt portion () is connected to the display unit () and surrounds a target measurement site. The pulse wave sensor includes a pulse wave detection unit (E) that detects a pulse wave of an artery () passing through the target measurement site. The first contact electrode () and the pulse wave detection unit (E) are provided on an inner circumferential portion () of the belt portion (). The second contact electrode () is provided on an outer circumferential portion () of the belt portion (). The first contact electrode () and the pulse wave detection unit (E) are provided in a position where the first contact electrode () and the pulse wave detection unit (E) are to be pressed against the target measurement site when the second contact electrode () is pressed from an outer circumferential side of the belt portion ().

Blood pressure estimation device

An embodiment of the present invention provides a sphygmomanometer that is worn on a measured part of the left wrist of a subject (user) for use. In the sphygmomanometer, on an inner peripheral surface of a band-like body that constitutes a base of a band, a portion for installing a pressure cuff and a protrusion for installing an antenna substrate are separately provided, and the pressure cuff and the antenna substrate are respectively installed on these portions.

Biological information measuring device

A blood pressure measurement device according to one aspect includes: a blood pressure measurement unit configured to measure blood pressure at a measurement target site of a measurement target subject; a pulse transit time measurement unit configured to measure a pulse transit time at the measurement target site of the measurement target subject; a blood pressure value calculation unit configured to calculate a blood pressure value, on the basis of measurement results of the pulse transit time and a relational expression representing a correlation between the pulse transit time and the blood pressure; a posture instruction unit configured to instruct the measurement target subject to assume a plurality of postures in which height positions of the measurement target site with respect to a heart of the measurement target subject are different from each other; and a calibration unit configured to calibrate the relational expression, on the basis of the blood pressure measured by the blood pressure measurement unit and the pulse transit time measured by the pulse transit time measurement unit, for each of the plurality of postures.

Blood pressure measurement device

A toothbrush of the present invention includes: a main body including a head portion having a bristle raising surface on which bristles are provided in a standing manner; a light emission unit configured to emit light through a specific region of the bristle raising surface to a tooth surface; and a light reception unit configured to receive radiated light from the tooth surface resulting from the light through the specific region, the light emission unit and the light reception unit being provided in the main body. The toothbrush also includes a detection unit configured to collectively detect whether or not dental plaque or dental calculus is present on the tooth surface based on an output from the light reception unit. The toothbrush further includes a determination unit configured to determine that dental calculus is present on the tooth surface.

Toothbrush and system

A plaque detecting device including a light emitting unit which irradiates light toward a tooth, and first and second light receiving units which receive radiated light from the tooth. The first light receiving unit extracts the spectral component of a first wavelength region containing fluorescent light specific to plaque and obtains a first output value corresponding to intensity of that spectral component. The second light receiving unit extracts the spectral component of a second wavelength region containing fluorescent light specific to enamel and obtains a second output value corresponding to the intensity of this spectral component. Determination of the relative magnitude of the ratio between the first output value and the second output value as compared to a first threshold value is performed. Determination of the relative magnitude of the difference between the first output value and the second output value as compared to a second threshold value is performed.

A toothbrush includes a main body that includes a head portion with a bristle raising surface on which bristles are provided in a standing manner, a grip portion, and a neck portion. A light emission portion that emits light through a specific region of the bristle raising surface toward a tooth surface and a light reception portion that receives radiated light from the tooth surface resulting from the light, through the specific region, are provided inside of the main body. It is determined whether or not there is dental plaque on the tooth surface based on the output of the light reception portion. A light reception and condensing portion that condenses the radiated light from the tooth surface toward the light reception surface of the light reception portion is arranged in the housing portion forming the specific region.

Toothbrush

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Kyoto, Japan

Yasuhiro Kawabata