公开(公告)号：US06784797B2

公开(公告)日：2004-08-31

申请号：US10210817

申请日：2002-08-01

申请人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper ,  Fred H. Holmes ,  Patrick W. Lovely

发明人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper ,  Fred H. Holmes ,  Patrick W. Lovely

IPC分类号： G08B2300

CPC分类号： G08B21/22 ,  A61B5/1117

摘要： This invention relates generally to monitoring systems and more particularly concerns devices and systems used to monitor patients the presence and absence of a patient from a bed, chair, etc. The preferred environment in which the instant invention would be used would be a hospital or other care giving facility, wherein patients who are at risk of falling might left unattended while they are seated or lying. According to a first aspect of the instant invention, a microprocessor-based patient monitor is disclosed which includes a loudspeaker that emits alarms synthesized by the microprocessor. The microprocessor synthesizes any one of multiple alarm sounds under software control and activates and deactivates the alarm in response to the electronic signals received from an attached sensor and a user interface.

摘要翻译： 本发明一般涉及监测系统，更具体地涉及用于监测病人患者从床，椅子等的存在和不存在的装置和系统。使用本发明的优选环境将是医院或其他 护理给予设施，其中处于坠落风险的患者在坐下或躺卧时可能无人值守。 根据本发明的第一方面，公开了一种基于微处理器的患者监视器，其包括发出由微处理器合成的报警的扬声器。 微处理器在软件控制下合成多个报警声音中的任何一个，并根据从附接的传感器和用户界面接收到的电子信号激活和停用报警。

公开(公告)号：US06441742B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-27

申请号：US09257750

申请日：1999-02-25

申请人： Patrick W. Lovely ,  Fred H. Holmes ,  Toby E. Smith

发明人： Patrick W. Lovely ,  Fred H. Holmes ,  Toby E. Smith

IPC分类号： G08B2300

CPC分类号： G08B21/22

摘要： This invention relates generally to monitoring systems and more particularly concerns devices and systems used to monitor patients lying in hospital beds or in other care giving environments. According to a first aspect of the instant invention, a microprocessor based patient monitor is disclosed which includes a loudspeaker driven by a power amplifier responsive to an input signal derived from a programmable volume control. The microprocessor synthesizes any one of multiple alarm sounds under software control, operates the programmable volume control of the alarm system and activates and deactivates the alarm in response to the electronic signals received from the sensor and a user interface. An electrically erasable programmable read-only memory accessible by the processor stores data which can be modified to tailor the operations of the monitor to suit a variety of different needs. According to still another aspect of the instant invention, a microprocessor-based patient monitor is disclosed which has a personality that is defined by software that is resident in modifiable nonvolatile memory, which software can thus be altered to change the programmed responses of the monitor. Finally, a software and hardware system is provided for reading information from and writing information to modifiable nonvolatile RAM within a microprocessor-based patient monitor. This information might be parameter settings, data values, or computer instructions.

摘要翻译： 本发明一般涉及监视系统，更具体地涉及用于监视躺在医院病床或其他护理给予环境中的患者的装置和系统。 根据本发明的第一方面，公开了一种基于微处理器的患者监视器，其包括响应于从可编程音量控制导出的输入信号的由功率放大器驱动的扬声器。 微处理器在软件控制下合成多个报警声中的任何一个，操作报警系统的可编程音量控制，并响应于从传感器接收的电子信号和用户界面启动和停用报警。 可由处理器访问的电可擦除可编程只读存储器存储可被修改以适应各种不同需求的监视器的操作的数据。 根据本发明的另一方面，公开了一种基于微处理器的患者监视器，其具有由驻留在可修改的非易失性存储器中的软件定义的个性，因此可以改变该软件以改变监视器的编程响应。 最后，提供了一种软件和硬件系统，用于从基于微处理器的患者监视器中读取信息并将信息写入可修改的非易失性RAM。 此信息可能是参数设置，数据值或计算机指令。

公开(公告)号：US06307476B1

公开(公告)日：2001-10-23

申请号：US09285956

申请日：1999-04-02

申请人： Toby E. Smith ,  Patrick W. Lovely

发明人： Toby E. Smith ,  Patrick W. Lovely

IPC分类号： G08B2300

CPC分类号： A61B5/6892 ,  A61B5/1117 ,  A61B2562/08 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G08B21/22

摘要： This invention relates generally to monitoring systems and more particularly concerns devices and systems used to monitor bed patients in hospital or other care-giving environments. In accordance with a first aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a binary switch-type device (e.g., a “mat”) for use in patient monitoring situations which contains, in addition to a conventional patient detection circuit, identification circuitry that can be sensed by an attached electronic monitor. The identification circuitry can be sensed by the electronic monitor and is designed to be configured to serve many different purposes, including, by way of example only, identification of the type of mat attached thereto, detection of connectivity problems, tracking mat usage time, and identifying mats that are nearing the end of their useful lives.

摘要翻译： 本发明一般涉及监测系统，更具体地涉及用于监测医院或其他护理环境中的床位患者的装置和系统。 根据本发明的第一方面，提供了用于患者监视情况的二进制开关型装置（例如，“垫”），除了常规的患者检测电路之外，还包括识别电路，其可以 由附接的电子监视器感测到。 识别电路可以由电子监视器感测，并且被设计成被配置为服务许多不同的目的，包括仅作为示例，识别附着于其上的垫的类型，连接问题的检测，跟踪垫的使用时间和 识别接近其使用寿命结束的垫。

公开(公告)号：US07570152B2

公开(公告)日：2009-08-04

申请号：US11507418

申请日：2006-08-21

申请人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper

发明人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper

IPC分类号： G08B5/22

CPC分类号： A61B5/002 ,  A61B5/1115 ,  A61B5/6887 ,  A61B5/6892 ,  A61B5/6894 ,  A61B2560/0266 ,  A61G5/10 ,  A61G2203/34 ,  G08B21/22

摘要： In accordance with a first preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a patient monitor that is automatically disabled when a caregiver enters a room and then is automatically reactivated after the caregiver leaves. According to a first preferred embodiment, it will remain disabled during the time the caregiver is proximate to the patient/monitor and then will automatically reactivate after the caregiver has moved away.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的第一优选方面，提供了一种患者监护仪，其在照顾者进入房间时自动禁用，然后在照料者离开之后被自动重新激活。 根据第一优选实施例，在护理者靠近患者/监护仪的时间期间，它将保持禁用，然后在照料者移开之后将自动重新激活。

公开(公告)号：US06646556B1

公开(公告)日：2003-11-11

申请号：US09591887

申请日：2000-06-09

申请人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper

发明人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper

IPC分类号： G08B2300

CPC分类号： A61B5/6887 ,  A61B5/1115 ,  A61B5/1118 ,  A61B5/447 ,  A61B5/6892 ,  A61B2562/0247 ,  A61B2562/0266 ,  A61B2562/046 ,  A61G7/057 ,  A61G2203/44 ,  A61G2203/46

摘要： There is provided herein a sensor for use in patient monitoring situations, wherein the level of patient motion activity is tracked for purposes of determining whether or not that patient has exhibited sufficient activity to merit eliminating a scheduled assisted relocation to a new position. The instant device broadly operates to sense the length of time since a patient has last moved from a previous sitting or lying position. If the patient has not moved during some predetermined time interval, it is preferred that the nursing staff be notified that it is time to manually reposition the patient. On the other hand, if the patient has changed position within the specified time period, the device will note that fact and inform the attending nurse or other caregiver that the patient need not be moved at the next scheduled relocation, thereby eliminating the need in some cases to rouse the patient from an otherwise sound sleep. In either case, the instant invention operates to reduce the risk that a patient will develop bed sores by helping ensure that the patient is manually moved as frequently as is medically necessary, but no more often than is actually necessary.

摘要翻译： 本文提供了一种用于患者监测情况的传感器，其中跟踪患者运动活动的水平以便确定该患者是否已经展现出足以消除预定的辅助重新定位到新位置的活动。 该瞬时装置广泛地操作以感测自患者最后从先前的坐位或卧位移动的时间长度。 如果患者在某个预定的时间间隔内没有移动，则优选地，通知护理人员现在需要手动重新定位患者。 另一方面，如果患者在规定的时间内改变了位置，则该装置将注意到该事实并且通知主管护士或其他看护者在下次安排的搬迁时不需要移动患者，从而消除了某些情况下的需要 病例可以使患者从其他健康的睡眠中唤醒。 在任一情况下，本发明操作以减少患者通过帮助确保患者手动地如医疗上需要的手动移动而不是经常实际需要的频率来发展患者的风险。

公开(公告)号：US20100245090A1

公开(公告)日：2010-09-30

申请号：US12535400

申请日：2009-08-04

申请人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper

发明人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper

IPC分类号： G08B23/00

CPC分类号： G01K7/02 ,  A61B5/1117 ,  A61B5/6892 ,  A61B2562/0271 ,  A61B2562/043 ,  G01K7/04 ,  G01K13/002 ,  H01L35/20 ,  H01L35/34

摘要： A patient temperature monitoring system is provided herein that takes the form of an electronic patient monitor that is used in conjunction with a thermocouple sensor that has been printed or otherwise placed on a flexible surface such as a mat. The thermocouple sensor that is taught herein is more comfortable for the patient, more reliable, and can be manufactured with less cost than has heretofore been possible. According to a preferred embodiment, a finely powdered metal ink containing, for example, iron will first be silk screened onto a substrate. Then a second metal ink will be screened onto the same substrate so as to intersect the first, the second metal being preferably being some combination of nickel and copper, the first and second metal inks being chosen to form a thermocouple.

摘要翻译： 本文提供了一种患者温度监测系统，其采用电子病人监护仪的形式，该电子病人监护仪与已经印刷或以其它方式放置在诸如垫的柔性表面上的热电偶传感器结合使用。 本文教导的热电偶传感器对于患者来说更舒适，更可靠，并且可以以比迄今为止可能的更低的成本制造。 根据优选实施方案，首先将含有例如铁的细粉末状金属油墨丝网印刷在基材上。 然后，第二金属油墨将被筛选到相同的基板上，以便与第一金属相交，第二金属优选地是镍和铜的某种组合，第一和第二金属油墨被选择以形成热电偶。

公开(公告)号：US07078676B2

公开(公告)日：2006-07-18

申请号：US10967612

申请日：2004-10-18

申请人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper

发明人： Toby E. Smith ,  Craig L. Cooper

IPC分类号： G01J1/04 ,  G01D5/34

CPC分类号： G01L5/10 ,  B60R21/0155 ,  G01B11/16

摘要： There is provided herein a sensor for determining relative displacement between two surfaces which utilizes two optically conductive members that have been mounted in proximity to each other, whereby the amount of displacement between the two surfaces may be determined by measurement of the magnitude of the intensity of light transmitted through them. The instant invention preferably utilizes two planar light transmitting surfaces—an emitter and a receiver—which are free to move laterally with respect to each other and are positioned so that when light is introduced into the emitter some proportion of that light falls on the receiver. By electronically monitoring the intensity of light impinging on the receiver an estimate of the amount of overlap between the two optical surfaces and, thus, an estimate of the relative displacement between them, may be obtained.

摘要翻译： 这里提供了一种用于确定两个表面之间的相对位移的传感器，该传感器利用两个彼此靠近安装的光学导电构件，由此两个表面之间的位移量可以通过测量两个表面的强度的大小来确定 光透过他们。 本发明优选地使用两个平面光透射表面 - 发射器和接收器 - 它们相对于彼此自由地横向移动并且被定位成使得当光被引入发射器时，该光的一部分落在接收器上。 通过电子监测入射在接收机上的光的强度，可以获得两个光学表面之间的重叠量的估计，并因此估计它们之间的相对位移。

公开(公告)号：US06292102B1

公开(公告)日：2001-09-18

申请号：US09596268

申请日：2000-06-16

申请人： Toby E. Smith

发明人： Toby E. Smith

IPC分类号： G08B2100

CPC分类号： G01N27/048

摘要： This invention relates generally to patient monitoring systems and more particularly concerns devices and systems used to monitor bed patients in hospital or other care-giving environments. In accordance with a first aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a wetness detector for use in patient monitoring situations and which is adjustable in its degree of sensitivity to wetness. It contains at least two conductive regions placed on a non-conductive base and which are preferably separated laterally by some distance. Isolated electrical leads are attached to each conductive region. Electrical current passes much more readily between the two conductive regions when an electrolytic solution such as urine is present within the switch, thereby making it possible for a separate electronic monitor to determine when wetness is detected.

摘要翻译： 本发明一般涉及患者监测系统，更具体地涉及用于监测医院或其他护理环境中的床位患者的装置和系统。 根据本发明的第一方面，提供了一种湿度检测器，用于患者监测情况，并且其湿度敏感度可调节。 它包含放置在非导电基底上的至少两个导电区域，其优选地横向间隔一定距离。 隔离的电引线连接到每个导电区域。 当开关内存在诸如尿液之类的电解溶液时，电流在两个导电区域之间更容易流动，从而使单独的电子监视器可以确定何时检测到湿度。

公开(公告)号：US20080194923A1

公开(公告)日：2008-08-14

申请号：US12106005

申请日：2008-04-18

申请人： Toby E. Smith

发明人： Toby E. Smith

IPC分类号： A61B5/00

CPC分类号： A61B5/1116 ,  A61B5/1126 ,  A61B5/6887 ,  A61B5/6892 ,  A61B2562/0247

摘要： Disclosed is piezoelectric bender for use as an acoustic generating device. The acoustic generating device includes a piezoelectric material, a metal diaphragm, an electric circuit and mounting devices. The metal diaphragm is affixed to the piezoelectric material and has a nodal fulcrum at the nodal ring. The electric circuit is connected to the piezoelectric material and electrically activates the piezoelectric material. The mounting devices are constructed of insulating material and are positioned at the top and bottom of the metal diaphragm. The mounting devices support the metal diaphragm at the nodal fulcrum with an adhesive to resist impact damage.

摘要翻译： 公开了用作声发生装置的压电弯曲机。 声发生装置包括压电材料，金属隔膜，电路和安装装置。 金属隔膜固定在压电材料上，在节点环上具有节点支点。 电路连接到压电材料并电激活压电材料。 安装装置由绝缘材料构成，并且位于金属隔膜的顶部和底部。 安装装置通过粘合剂在金属隔膜的支点支点处支撑以抵抗冲击损坏。

公开(公告)号：US06998986B2

公开(公告)日：2006-02-14

申请号：US10390936

申请日：2003-03-18

申请人： Toby E. Smith

发明人： Toby E. Smith

IPC分类号： G08B23/00

CPC分类号： G08B21/22

摘要： There is provided herein an electronic patient monitor that utilizes a latch or similar power circuit that automatically activates an electronic patient monitor when a patient's presence is indicated by the sensor, that maintains power to the unit so long as the patient is indicated to be present, and that maintains power to the monitor until a valid reset command is issued after the patient is sensed to be no longer present. Power to the unit is maintained, and the unit continues to monitor the patient, e so long as the patient is present, even if an attempt is made to power down/disable the unit during that time.

摘要翻译： 这里提供了一种电子病人监护器，其利用闩锁或类似的电源电路，当患者存在由传感器指示时自动激活电子病人监护器，只要患者被指示存在，则该电源维持对该单元的电力， 并且在感测到患者不再存在之后，向监视器供电，直到发出有效的复位命令。 维持该单元的电源，并且只要病人存在，本机就继续监视患者，即使在此期间尝试关闭/禁用该单元。