Tanita Corporation

Yoshihisa Masuo

Yasuhiro Kasahara

Disclosed is an apparatus for assuming the information on the amount accumulated visceral fat in a human body with a high degree of accuracy. It comprises: at least a unit for collecting pieces of information on the identification of the human body and a unit for collecting pieces of information on breathing function, thereby making the visceral fat accumulation calculating unit provide the information on the amount accumulated visceral fat based on the so collected pieces of information.

Apparatus for assuming information on the amount accumulated visceral fat of a human body

A method and apparatus capable of measuring visceral fat tissues accumulated in the trunk with high accuracy apply a current to a body part where a subcutaneous fat tissue layer is thin or a body part where a skeletal muscle tissue layer has no or a thin muscle belly portion from a pair of current applying electrodes, measure a potential difference which has occurred in the tissue through which the current has passed by a pair of voltage measuring electrodes, and determine the visceral fat tissue volume of the trunk by use of the impedance of the trunk which has been obtained by use of the measured potential difference.

Trunk visceral fat measuring method and apparatus, trunk skeletal muscle amount measuring apparatus, trunk subcutaneous fat measuring method and apparatus, and trunk visceral and subcutaneous fat measuring method and apparatus

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Otsu, Japan

Yoshihisa Masuo