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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koji Oguma, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
Tanita Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 ;
Abstract
In a body fat measurement device provided with a LCD and multiple SWs, at least one LCD drive terminal of said LCD driver is connected to said SW directly or indirectly with a current limit element such as a resistor therebetween so as to work as a switchable terminal for either an input or an output, and said terminal is usually set to work as an output terminal for driving said LCD, and is periodically set to work as an input terminal,for receiving an input for a certain period negligibly shorter than a LCD drive period by a controller and thereby gets a state of being a SW, and said input is stored into a memory.