SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING SLEEP DISORDERS

    公开(公告)号:US20200245955A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-06

    申请号:US16591802

    申请日:2019-10-03

    摘要: An apparatus for detecting sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, includes a housing insertable into an ear canal of a subject. A sensor disposed within the housing measures a position of the subject's head relative to an axis of gravity. A transducer is responsive to the sensor and is capable of creating a stimulus detectable by the subject under certain conditions. In various embodiments, a controller receives signals corresponding to a pitch angle and a roll angle of the subject's head measured by the sensor, determines if the pitch and roll angles correspond to a sleep apnea inducing position, and causes the transducer to generate a stimulus upon determining that the subject's head is in the sleep apnea inducing position more than a predetermined threshold number of times. Various parameters of the stimulus may be modified with successive stimulus generation until a non-sleep apnea inducing position is detected.

    System and Method of Detecting Sleep Disorders
    4.
    发明申请
    System and Method of Detecting Sleep Disorders 审中-公开
    检测睡眠障碍的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20120041343A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-02-16

    申请号:US13207073

    申请日:2011-08-10

    IPC分类号: A61B5/103

    摘要: An apparatus for detecting sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, includes a housing insertable into an ear canal of a subject. A sensor disposed within the housing measures a position of the subject's head relative to an axis of gravity. A transducer is responsive to the sensor and is capable of creating a stimulus detectable by the subject under certain conditions. In various embodiments, a controller receives signals corresponding to a pitch angle and a roll angle of the subject's head measured by the sensor, determines if the pitch and roll angles correspond to a sleep apnea inducing position, and causes the transducer to generate a stimulus upon determining that the subject's head is in the sleep apnea inducing position more than a predetermined threshold number of times. Various parameters of the stimulus may be modified with successive stimulus generation until a non-sleep apnea inducing position is detected.

    摘要翻译: 用于检测睡眠障碍(例如阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停)的装置包括可插入到受试者的耳道中的壳体。 设置在壳体内的传感器测量被检者的头部相对于重心的位置。 传感器响应于传感器,并且能够在某些条件下产生可由受试者检测的刺激物。 在各种实施例中,控制器接收对应于由传感器测量的对象头部的俯仰角和侧倾角的信号,确定俯仰角和倾斜角是否对应于睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置,并且使得换能器产生刺激 确定受试者的头部处于睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置超过预定阈值次数。 可以用连续的刺激生成修改刺激的各种参数,直到检测到非睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置。

    SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING SLEEP DISORDERS
    5.
    发明申请
    SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING SLEEP DISORDERS 审中-公开
    检测睡眠障碍的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20140225736A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-14

    申请号:US14103945

    申请日:2013-12-12

    IPC分类号: G08B21/06

    摘要: An apparatus for detecting sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, includes a housing insertable into an ear canal of a subject. A sensor disposed within the housing measures a position of the subject's head relative to an axis of gravity. A transducer is responsive to the sensor and is capable of creating a stimulus detectable by the subject under certain conditions. In various embodiments, a controller receives signals corresponding to a pitch angle and a roll angle of the subject's head measured by the sensor, determines if the pitch and roll angles correspond to a sleep apnea inducing position, and causes the transducer to generate a stimulus upon determining that the subjects head is in the sleep apnea inducing position more than a predetermined threshold number of times. Various parameters of the stimulus may be modified with successive stimulus generation until a non-sleep apnea inducing position is detected.

    摘要翻译: 用于检测睡眠障碍(例如阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停)的装置包括可插入到受试者的耳道中的壳体。 设置在壳体内的传感器测量被检者的头部相对于重心的位置。 传感器响应于传感器,并且能够在某些条件下产生可由受试者检测的刺激物。 在各种实施例中,控制器接收对应于由传感器测量的对象头部的俯仰角和侧倾角的信号,确定俯仰角和俯仰角是否对应于睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置,并且使得换能器产生刺激 确定受试者头部处于睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置超过预定阈值次数。 可以用连续的刺激生成修改刺激的各种参数,直到检测到非睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置。

    System and method of detecting sleep disorders

    公开(公告)号:US10433794B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US15180579

    申请日:2016-06-13

    摘要: An apparatus for detecting sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, includes a housing insertable into an ear canal of a subject. A sensor disposed within the housing measures a position of the subject's head relative to an axis of gravity. A transducer is responsive to the sensor and is capable of creating a stimulus detectable by the subject under certain conditions. In various embodiments, a controller receives signals corresponding to a pitch angle and a roll angle of the subject's head measured by the sensor, determines if the pitch and roll angles correspond to a sleep apnea inducing position, and causes the transducer to generate a stimulus upon determining that the subject's head is in the sleep apnea inducing position more than a predetermined threshold number of times. Various parameters of the stimulus may be modified with successive stimulus generation until a non-sleep apnea inducing position is detected.

    System and method of detecting sleep disorders
    7.
    发明授权
    System and method of detecting sleep disorders 有权
    检测睡眠障碍的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US09092965B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-07-28

    申请号:US13207073

    申请日:2011-08-10

    摘要: An apparatus for detecting sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, includes a housing insertable into an ear canal of a subject. A sensor disposed within the housing measures a position of the subject's head relative to an axis of gravity. A transducer is responsive to the sensor and is capable of creating a stimulus detectable by the subject under certain conditions. In various embodiments, a controller receives signals corresponding to a pitch angle and a roll angle of the subject's head measured by the sensor, determines if the pitch and roll angles correspond to a sleep apnea inducing position, and causes the transducer to generate a stimulus upon determining that the subject's head is in the sleep apnea inducing position more than a predetermined threshold number of times. Various parameters of the stimulus may be modified with successive stimulus generation until a non-sleep apnea inducing position is detected.

    摘要翻译: 用于检测睡眠障碍(例如阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停)的装置包括可插入到受试者的耳道中的壳体。 设置在壳体内的传感器测量被检者的头部相对于重心的位置。 传感器响应于传感器,并且能够在某些条件下产生可由受试者检测的刺激物。 在各种实施例中,控制器接收对应于由传感器测量的对象头部的俯仰角和侧倾角的信号,确定俯仰角和俯仰角是否对应于睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置,并且使得换能器产生刺激 确定受试者的头部处于睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置超过预定阈值次数。 可以用连续的刺激生成修改刺激的各种参数,直到检测到非睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置。

    SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING SLEEP DISORDERS
    8.
    发明申请
    SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING SLEEP DISORDERS 审中-公开
    检测睡眠障碍的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20130021158A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-01-24

    申请号:US13627597

    申请日:2012-09-26

    IPC分类号: G08B21/06

    摘要: An apparatus for detecting sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, includes a housing insertable into an ear canal of a subject. A sensor disposed within the housing measures a position of the subject's head relative to an axis of gravity. A transducer is responsive to the sensor and is capable of creating a stimulus detectable by the subject under certain conditions. In various embodiments, a controller receives signals corresponding to a pitch angle and a roll angle of the subject's head measured by the sensor, determines if the pitch and roll angles correspond to a sleep apnea inducing position, and causes the transducer to generate a stimulus upon determining that the subject's head is in the sleep apnea inducing position more than a predetermined threshold number of times. Various parameters of the stimulus may be modified with successive stimulus generation until a non-sleep apnea inducing position is detected.

    摘要翻译: 用于检测睡眠障碍(例如阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停)的装置包括可插入到受试者的耳道中的壳体。 设置在壳体内的传感器测量被检者的头部相对于重心的位置。 传感器响应于传感器,并且能够在某些条件下产生可由受试者检测的刺激物。 在各种实施例中,控制器接收对应于由传感器测量的对象头部的俯仰角和侧倾角的信号,确定俯仰角和倾斜角是否对应于睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置,并且使得换能器产生刺激 确定受试者的头部处于睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置超过预定阈值次数。 可以用连续的刺激生成修改刺激的各种参数,直到检测到非睡眠呼吸暂停诱导位置。

    Combined stairway and lift installation and a retractable stairway
    10.
    发明授权
    Combined stairway and lift installation and a retractable stairway 有权
    组合楼梯和电梯安装和可伸缩楼梯

    公开(公告)号:US6050366A

    公开(公告)日:2000-04-18

    申请号:US232143

    申请日:1999-01-15

    IPC分类号: E04F11/04 E04H3/12 B66B9/08

    摘要: A combined stairway and lift installation has a stairway which comprises a stack of horizontally movable step members whereby the stairway is retractable to expose a lift which is installed in a cavity which is covered by the stairway when the latter is extended. Uncovering of the lift allows it to be operated to raise its load carrying platform to the level of the top of the stairway. A chain is anchored by either end in the bottom step member. The chain is led from the anchorage up through the step members, alternately clockwise and counter clockwise around guide rollers mounted in each of the movable step members, clockwise around a guide roller and a motor-driven cog wheel in the top step member, and back down through the movable step members to the other anchorage again alternately clockwise and counter clockwise around further guide rollers mounted in each of the movable step members. The motor is reversible so that in one sense it drives the movable step members to form the stairway and in the other sense it drives them to their retracted position.

    摘要翻译: 组合的楼梯和升降机装置具有楼梯,该楼梯包括一堆可水平移动的台阶构件,由此楼梯可伸缩以露出安装在由楼梯延伸的空间中的楼梯的升降机。 升降机的拆卸允许其操作以将其承载平台升高到楼梯顶部的水平。 链条由底部部件中的任一端锚定。 链条从锚固件向上穿过台阶部件,交替地顺时针和逆时针方向围绕安装在每个可移动台阶部件中的引导辊顺时针绕在顶部步骤部件中的引导辊和电动驱动齿轮上,并且返回 通过可移动的踏板部件向下再次交替地顺时针和逆时针地绕安装在每个可移动台阶部件中的另外的导向辊。 电动机是可逆的,从而在某种意义上,它驱动可移动的台阶部件以形成楼梯,并且在另一方面它驱动它们到缩回位置。