Patents Represented by Law Firm Scheckter, Brucker & Pavane
  • Stretchable band-type transducer particularly suited for respiration monitoring apparatus
    Patent number: 4807640
    Abstract: An improved, low-cost stretchable band incorporating a conductor for disposition about the human torso or other three dimensional object, and particularly intended for use with respiration monitoring apparatus, is disclosed. A method for making the band, which method is suitable to mass production techniques, is also disclosed. Also presented is an improved enclosure housing circuitry releasably connected to the conductor in the band when the band is incorporated in respiration monitoring apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Respitrace Corporation
    Inventors: Herman L. Watson, Deborah R. Sackner, Chu Pak, Marvin A. Sackner