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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2013
Nihon Kohden Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinobu Ono, Tokyo, JP;
NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An airway adaptor includes: an airway case including a gas passage, the airway case adapted to be attachable to a part of a carbon dioxide sensor configured to detect a concentration of carbon dioxide contained in exhalation, flowing into the gas passage, of the subject, the exhalation; a nasal cannula having a pair of insertion portions inserted into nostrils of the subject to guide exhalation from the nostrils to the gas passage; a mouth guide placed in front of a mouth of the subject to guide exhalation from the mouth to the gas passage; a light-emitting element supported by one of the insertion portions; and a light-receiving element supported by the other of the insertion portions. When the insertion portions are inserted into the nostrils, the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are opposed to each other across a nasal septum of the subject.