Patents Assigned to Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 11278258Abstract: There is provided a biological sound measuring device that, in a contact state of being in contact with a body surface of a living body, measures a biological sound of the living body, the biological sound measuring device including: a first sound measuring instrument that is configured to measure the biological sound; a second sound measuring instrument that is configured to measure an ambient sound of the biological sound measuring device; and a controller that determines measurement accuracy of the biological sound in the first sound measuring instrument based on a difference in intensity at a predetermined specified frequency between a first sound measured by the first sound measuring instrument and a second sound measured by the second sound measuring instrument, and that performs notification when the measurement accuracy is less than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Hashino, Kei Asai, Naoto Ohgami, Naoki Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20220071495Abstract: A blood pressure-related information display device, for visualizing and displaying information relating to blood pressure surges, is provided with: a blood pressure surge detection unit which, from time series data of blood pressure which changes linked to the subject's pulse, detects a blood pressure surge on the basis of a preset determination standard; a bodily state input unit which, together with the time series data of blood pressure, inputs bodily state information which indicates the bodily state of the subject; an extraction unit which extracts a feature value of the blood pressure surge; a statistical processing unit which performs statistical processing of the extracted feature value of the blood pressure surge; a calculation unit which calculates a feature value of the subject's bodily state; a display processing unit which performs processing for displaying, on a display screen, the correlation between the feature value of the blood pressure surge which was subjected to statistical processing, aType: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Ayako KOKUBO, Mitsuo KUWABARA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Kazuomi KARIO
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Patent number: 11266318Abstract: A blood pressure monitor includes a processor configured to control a cuff pressure and calculate blood pressure information of a subject based on a cuff pressure signal representing the cuff pressure and a pulse wave signal superimposed on the cuff pressure signal. The processor calculates first blood pressure information of the subject who has maintained a recumbent position for a prescribed time period, maintains the cuff pressure at a first pressure lower by a prescribed value than a systolic blood pressure included in the first blood pressure information, determines if an amplitude of the pulse wave signal is equal to or greater than a threshold value when the cuff pressure is maintained at the first pressure and the subject is in an upright position, assesses an autonomic nerve function of the subject based on a result of the determination, and outputs a result of the assessment.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATIONInventor: Toru Deno
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Patent number: 11266349Abstract: A sphygmomanometer includes a cuff and a main body. The main body is equipped with a substrate, a pump and a pressure sensor that are attached to one surface of the substrate, and a plate-shaped member opposed to an other surface of the substrate on an opposite side of the one surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a first through-hole and a second through-hole. The other surface of the substrate and an opposing surface of the plate-shaped member opposed to the other surface constitute the planar direction passage extending in a planar direction along the other surface of the substrate. The planar direction passage communicates with a fluid bag of the cuff. The sphygmomanometer further includes a pressurization controller and a blood pressure calculator. The pressurization controller controls pressing the measured site through the planar direction passage. The blood pressure calculator calculates a blood pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Mizuno, Tomoyuki Nishida, Hirokazu Tanaka, Noboru Kohara
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Patent number: 11271667Abstract: According an aspect of the present invention, a data receiving apparatus includes a calculator. The calculator (1) stores a date and time indicated by the clock unit in association with a first local date and time in the memory as a reference date and time, when the packet includes first date-and-time data indicating the first local date and time and information indicating that the first date-and-time data can be used for date and time association, and (2) calculates, when the packet includes sensor data and second date-and-time data indicating a second local date and time associated with the sensor data, a third date and time based on a difference between the first local date and time and the second local date and time, and on the reference date and time.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo Kubo, Toru Deno, Hideki Kondo
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Patent number: 11266317Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with pressure sensors, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface toward a radius artery that runs under a skin of a living body; an air bag drive unit for controlling the pressing force of the air bag, and a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in the radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by all of the pressure sensors in a process that the pressing force was increased or decreased.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., Omron CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura, Masayuki Fukutsuka, Daizo Oka, Naomi Matsumura, Kentaro Mori, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Masayuki Wakamiya
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Patent number: 11259713Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes: a pulse wave detection unit that continuously detects pulse waves from a living body; a biological information calculation unit that calculates biological information based on pulse waves detected by the pulse wave detection unit and stores, in a storage medium, biological information calculation results information including said biological information; a storage control unit that stores, in the storage medium, pulse wave detection results information by the pulse wave detection unit in order to calculate biological information included in biological information calculation results information; a measurement efficiency information generation unit that generates measurement efficiency information indicating measurement efficiency for biological information included in biological information calculation results information, generating same based on the biological information calculation results information and pulse wave detection results information; and aType: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Yamashita, Naoki Maeda
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Patent number: 11260223Abstract: A low-frequency treatment device and a treatment system with enhanced user convenience. An acquisition unit acquires an atmospheric pressure of a position where the low-frequency treatment device is located (step S102), a determination unit determines whether the atmospheric pressure is less than a threshold (step S104), and a treatment portion increases an intensity of low frequency treatment if the atmospheric pressure is less than the threshold (step S108).Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsuru Samejima, Yui Watanabe
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Patent number: 11264132Abstract: A terminal device configured to be able to communicate with a measuring device for measuring biological information includes a first processing unit executing the processing of a first application and a second processing unit executing the processing of a second application. The first processing unit stores biological information acquired from the measuring device. The second processing unit determines whether the second application is able to use biological information, based on specifying information for specifying an application able to use biological information and the identification information of the second application. When the second application is able to use biological information, the second processing unit reads out biological information from the biological information storage unit and outputs the read biological information.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Toshinori Matsui
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Patent number: 11246501Abstract: A biological information analysis device including: an indicator extraction unit that is configured to extract, from time-series data regarding blood pressure waveforms consecutively measured by a sensor that is configured to be worn on a body part of a user and to be capable of non-invasively measuring a blood pressure waveform for each heartbeat, data regarding blood pressure waveforms corresponding to a period of time in which a change in blood pressure occurs, and extract an indicator that is related to the functionality of respiratory organs of the user, based on characteristics of the blood pressure waveforms corresponding to the period of time; and a processing unit that performs processing that is based on the indicator thus extracted.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignees: Omron Corporation, Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakajima, Hirotaka Wada, Naoki Tsuchiya, Masaaki Kasai, Eriko Kan, Toru Uenoyama, Keiichi Obayashi, Ayako Kokubo, Yuya Ota, Toshikazu Shiga, Mitsuo Kuwabara, Hironori Sato, Ken Miyagawa, Masakazu Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 11241159Abstract: A fluid bladder includes multiple segment bladders that are each formed by folding one sheet in half in a width direction X extending along an artery passing through the measurement site, welding or adhering edge portions on a side opposite to the folding location for folding in half, and welding or adhering edge portions in a lengthwise direction Y. The multiple segment bladders are stacked in a width direction orthogonal to the measurement site and integrated, and the folding locations are arranged alternatingly on opposite sides in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Torihama, Ryosuke Doi, Yoshihide Tokko, Eisuke Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11234596Abstract: An information processing device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a receiver configured to receive a packet for one-way communication including data from an external device, an application execution unit configured to execute an application which processes the data, and an intermittent reception parameter adjustment unit configured to adjust an intermittent reception parameter for controlling an intermittent reception operation of the receiver so that when the application is operating in a background, a duty ratio of the intermittent reception operation is smaller than when the application is operating in a foreground.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo Kubo, Toru Deno, Hideki Kondo
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Patent number: 11234603Abstract: A pulse wave detecting device includes a sensor section and a control unit. The sensor section is rotatable about a first axis and is rotatable about a second axis. The control unit determines a rotation angle about the first axis based on DC components of pressure detecting elements included in element rows. Then, in a state where the sensor section is controlled to the optimal pitch angle, the sensor section is pressed against the body surface, and a pulse wave is detected based on pressure signals detected by pressure detecting elements in this state, and vital information is calculated based on the detected pulse wave.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Toshihiko Ogura
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Publication number: 20220007951Abstract: According to the present invention, blood pressure surges are detected from time-series data on blood pressure of a subject that varies with pulsation based on predetermined determination criteria. For each blood pressure surge thus detected, an envelope connecting a plurality of pulse-corresponding peaks forming the blood pressure surge is acquired as an individual waveform. Statistical processing is performed on a plurality of individual waveforms to obtain a representative waveform and waveform variation among the blood pressure surges in the time-series data. On a display screen, a curve indicating the representative waveform is displayed with the curve superimposed on a region indicating the waveform variation among the blood pressure surges.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Ayako KOKUBO, Mitsuo KUWABARA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Kazuomi KARIO
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Publication number: 20220008023Abstract: According to the present invention, blood pressure surges is detected from time-series data on blood pressure of a subject that varies with pulsation based on predetermined determination criteria. A feature amount indicating a characteristic of each blood pressure surge thus detected is obtained. Statistical processing is performed on an occurrence number of the blood pressure surges thus detected and/or the feature amount to obtain a statistical amount for each of time slots. A required attention degree indicating a level of attention being required to the blood pressure surge is obtained for each of the time slots based on the statistical amount of the occurrence number of the blood pressure surges and/or the feature amount. The required attention degree thus obtained and/or the statistical amount are displayed side by side for each of the time slots on a display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Ayako KOKUBO, Mitsuo KUWABARA, Shingo YAMASHITA, Kazuomi KARIO
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Patent number: 11219380Abstract: A blood pressure pulse wave measurement apparatus includes: first and second cuffs for pressing upper and lower limbs of a measurement subject; first and second detection units configured to detect first and second pulse waves transmitted from the cuffs through first and second tubes; and a control unit configured to calculate an ankle-brachial blood pressure ratio and a pulse wave velocity using the pulse waves. First and second delay elements are provided at specific positions in the lengthwise directions of the tubes. The first delay element delays a transfer characteristic of the first tube so the transfer characteristic of the first tube matches a transfer characteristic of a tube having a predetermined first reference length, and the second delay element delays a transfer characteristic of the second tube so the transfer characteristic of the second tube matches a transfer characteristic of a tube having a predetermined second reference length.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Matsui, Naoki Mori
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Patent number: 11223974Abstract: According to the first aspect of the present invention, a data transmission apparatus includes a transmission control unit which generates a packet for one-way communication including first difference sensor data, and a transmission unit which transmits the generated packet. The first difference sensor data is a difference between first sensor data measured by a sensor and a reference value associated with the first sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo Kubo, Toru Deno, Hideki Kondo
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Publication number: 20220000380Abstract: A sphygmomanometer according to the present invention includes an air leakage testing unit that performs air leakage testing on an air system to obtain an air leakage testing result, and a storage unit that stores the air leakage testing result. The air leakage testing result stored in the storage unit is displayed, on a display device, in a first display mode during a transition from a power-off state to a standby state or a non-blood pressure measurement state where a measurement start operation is disabled, or during a transition from the standby state to the power off state or the non-blood pressure measurement state where the measurement start operation is disabled, whereas, in the standby state or during blood pressure measurement, the air leakage testing result is not displayed or is displayed in a second display mode lower in degree of enhancement than the first display mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhe LI, Toshihiko OGURA, Toshiaki KOGA, Akira OSHIUMI, Yoshihide TOKKO
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Patent number: 11213214Abstract: An electronic blood pressure monitor of the present invention includes a blood pressure measurement cuff that is to be worn on a measurement site of a measurement subject. The electronic blood pressure monitor includes a blood pressure measurement unit that measures a blood pressure value of the measurement subject using the cuff. The electronic blood pressure monitor includes an external compression detection unit that detects whether or not there was external compression on the cuff during blood pressure measurement performed by the blood pressure measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Kubo
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Patent number: 11206326Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention performs a first step of determining a communication parameter value used for wireless communication with the external device by selecting one communication parameter set from a plurality of communication parameter sets each defining a communication parameter value or by receiving designation of a communication parameter value by a user, a second step of making a wireless communication attempt with the external device based on the determined communication parameter value, and a third step of reporting a result of the wireless communication attempt and terminal information of an own device to an external server device.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori Matsui, Toshimasa Ietake