Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Point-of-care hand tremor detection system
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Application No.: US16324558Application Date: 2017-08-29
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Publication No.: US11185256B2Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- Inventor: Mitradip Bhattacharjee , Dipankar Bandyopadhyay , Sunny Kumar
- Applicant: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GUWAHATI
- Applicant Address: IN Guwahati
- Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GUWAHATI
- Current Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GUWAHATI
- Current Assignee Address: IN Guwahati
- Agency: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz LLP
- Priority: IN201731018530 20170526
- International Application: PCT/IN2017/050366 WO 20170829
- International Announcement: WO2018/216027 WO 20181129
- Main IPC: A61B5/11
- IPC: A61B5/11 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
A portable hand tremor detection device has been reported. This device is composed of a detection unit, a flexible pressure sensor, a signal processing unit, and a power supply. The detection unit is composed of the sensor and press-knob. The flexible pressure sensor is a combination of usually spaced apart flexible polymer preferably polydimethylsiloxane, flexible substrate preferably paper, and a conductive coating preferably reduced graphene oxide (RGO). When the users put pressure on the press-knob through the fingers, the flexible pressure sensor actuates and bends so that conductive RGO layers on the flexible substrates come in contact with each other to generate an output current. The electrical circuits in the signal processing unit are laid down in such a manner that the magnitude of this output current varies with the tremor between the fingers, which eventually converted into an electrical signal showing the variation in the hand tremor with time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210015402A1 POINT-OF-CARE HAND TREMOR DETECTION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2021-01-21
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