WEARABLE HEALTH MONITORING DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2021127207A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-24

    申请号:PCT/US2020/065652

    申请日:2020-12-17

    Applicant: EMPNIA INC.

    Abstract: A health monitoring device for detecting blood pressure having a blood pressure sensor including a first fiber Bragg grating (FBG) with a refractive index is configured to be placed in contact with a person's skin approximate to an artery or vein. A baseline sensor that includes a second fiber Bragg grating (FBG) also having a refractive index is configured to be placed in contact with a person's skin away from an artery or vein to provide a baseline refractive index. The device pulses light waves through the FBGs to provide a processor with reading of the refractive index from the FBGs. Based on the effective shifts of the Bragg wavelength due to axial strain on the FBGs, a blood pressure estimator estimates systolic and diastolic blood pressure based on a calibration curve comparing pressure against strain.

    METHOD FOR CONDITIONING A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT OF A ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM, WITH CYCLES OF PRE-ELONGATION OF MOVEMENT TRANSMISSION TENDONS, AND RELATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:WO2022264078A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:PCT/IB2022/055576

    申请日:2022-06-16

    Abstract: A method is described for conditioning a surgical instrument 20 of a robotic surgery system 1, which can be carried out before using the surgical instrument 20. The method is applied to a surgical instrument 20 comprising an articulated end-effector 40 having at least one degree of freedom (P, Y, G), and further comprises at least one tendon 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, operatively connectable with a respective at least one motorized actuator 1 1, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 of the robotic surgery system 1. The at least one tendon 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 is mounted to the surgical instrument 20 so as to be operatively connectable to both a respective motorized actuator, among the aforesaid at least one transmission element, and to at least one degree of freedom of the aforesaid at least one degree of freedom P, Y, G of the articulated end-effector 40. The aforesaid at least one degree of freedom P, Y, G operatively connectable to the at least one tendon is adapted to be mechanically activated by an action of the at least one respective motorized actuator 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 by means of the aforesaid at least one tendon 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 which is operatively connectable thereto. The method comprises the following steps: (i) locking at least one degree of freedom of the aforesaid at least one degree of freedom P, Y, G of the end-effector 40; (ii) tensile-stressing the respective at least one tendon, operatively connected to the aforesaid at least one locked degree of freedom, by applying a conditioning force (Fref), according to at least one time cycle, to the respective at least one tendon to be stressed under tensile load; The aforesaid at least one time cycle comprises: - at least one low-load period, in which a low conditioning force Flow is applied to the aforesaid respective tendon, which results in a respective low tensile load on the respective tendon; - at least one high-load period, in which a high conditioning force Fhigh is applied to the aforesaid respective tendon, which results in a respective high tensile load on the respective tendon.

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