Patent Application
20120086543
This Non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. ยง119(a) on Patent Application No(s). [099134047] filed on Oct. 6, 2010, Republic of China, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to a data buffer apparatus; particularly, an apparatus that can receive and buff the signals gained by a monitoring device, and send the signals wirelessly to a wireless reception apparatus.
With the improvement of medication, people can collect and analyze the vital signs, such as body temperature, blood pressure, blood sugar, pulse, respiration rate, and EEG to learn more about the messages sent by a body. Therefore, there are many relevant measuring tools, such as blood-pressure meter and electrocardiograph, on the market. These apparatuses can provide users the convenience of taking these vital signs at any time and any place, to understand the status of one's own body. However, in medical field, there are many diseases take a long time to note the occurrences of symptoms. For example the heart disease, the obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, and some other chronic sleep relevant problems takes a long time to observe all kinds of vital signs to evaluate the transition of the status of diseases to further control the changes in the diseases. However, current physical signal monitoring systems are constructed on the base of the traditional wire transmission technology. The facilities are often really large and stationary. Moreover, users have to be covered with wires to be monitored. As a result, the subjects' movement is largely limited. On the other hand, even though current meters on the market are small and portable, they can only be used stand-alone. Therefore, the function of long term monitoring the status of a disease or real-time monitoring is lacked; hence, the effect of the use is limited. However, if data transmission is needed, the devices will need to be largely modified, so that very few products would be equipped with the function of network transmitting, which is very bad for the establishment of distance medication in the future.
In conclusion, the modification of long term or real-time monitoring device needs to be done as soon as possible. With the growing emphasis on the needs of distance medication and the global aging population, how to modify current meters on the market under the premise of the least changes and lowest costs to provide it a meter that can monitor disease long term and immediately, and the functions of automatic transmission, high quality individual monitoring are the main focuses.
Due to the shortness of prior art, the applicant of the present invention finally figured out the idea to overcome the shortness of prior art through a lot of careful experiments and research with restless spirit.
The major goal of the present invention is to provide a data buffer apparatus that has the function of wireless transmission. To solve the problems caused by the meters of the prior art that can not monitor the status of disease long term or immediately through this design.
In order to achieve the goal disclosed above, the present invention provides a data buffer apparatus with wireless transmission, including: a transmission interface module, coupled to a monitoring unit and receiving at least a signal data that are continuously measured by the measuring unit; a memory module, coupled to the transmission interface module and can store the signal data; a wireless transmission module, used to establish wireless connection, and transmits the signal data to a reception unit through a wireless method; and a microprocessor module, coupled to the memory module and the wireless transmission module; wherein, when the memory module is stored with the signal data, the microprocessor module will control the wireless transmission module to attempt to establish wireless connection. If wireless connection is established successfully, the signal data stored in the memory module are sent to the reception unit through the wireless method. If not, the microprocessor module will attempt to establish wireless connection again after a period of time.
Another goal of the present invention is that the memory module of the data buffer apparatus is a FIFO memory.
Yet another goal of the present invention is that the transmission interface module of the data buffer apparatus is UART.
The techniques, means and effects of the present invention will be further described with preferred embodiments and drawings in the following sections.
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Therefore, specifically speaking, the data buffer apparatus 1 may have three operation mode: mode 1 is a sleeping mode, that is when there is no signal data in the memory module 131, the wireless transmission module 12 will be turned off; the overall power consumption of the whole circuit is close to zero, less than 10 mAmp; mode 2 is a standby mode, that is when the memory module 131 receives the signal data transmitted from the monitoring unit 2, the data buffer apparatus 1 will attempt to establish wireless connection and during the time period, the power consumption will be higher than sleeping mode but remain low, such as lower than 20 mAmp; mode 3 is data transmission mode, when the wireless connection is successfully established, the data buffer apparatus 1 can transmit the signal data collected to another computer or microprocessor system through the wireless transmission module 12 at high speed. During the time period, the power consumption reaches its peak, but the time of the high power consumption is not long due to fast speed transmission. After the data buffer apparatus 1 has finished signal data transmission, it then again enters the sleeping mode. The three operation modes above implement the functions of automatic transmission and buff.
To conclude, the data buffer apparatus 1 provides wireless transmission function using UART interface which is installed in most health monitoring systems with very small scale of modification; and if the reception unit 3 where the other wireless reception module 31 is at, which receives signal data from the wireless transmission module 12, has access to the Internet or network, the signal data can be uploaded automatically to the Internet or network, hospitals or designated servers to be further processed, analyzed and used to provide precaution. Therefore, health monitoring industry can easily establish a set of Internet health monitoring systems, which is very advantageous to the establishment of distance medication, and the costs and time spent required are much lower and shorter than developing a new product, which is very business friendly. As a result, users can also gain high quality monitoring capability with low costs, such as chronic diseases, long-term therapy, long-term rehabilitation and other long term medication for the patients who need long term monitoring. Therefore, the data buffer apparatus 1 is established using all kinds of well-developed physiological message collectors, through wireless transmission and Internet transmission system. The data buffer apparatus 1 has the following characteristics: use friendly, automatic transmission, long term medication and care; particularly, chronic diseases, long term therapy, long term rehabilitation or the long term monitoring for a healthy person, elderly, child, occasionally ill person, or middle age people who want to prevent any potential diseases, which solves the problems caused by the traditional monitoring apparatus that can not monitor the status of diseases for a long period of time or immediately.
The embodiments above are only used to illustrate the spirit and the effects of the present invention instead of limiting the scope of the present invention. Therefore, a skilled person in the art can modify the above embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention. The scope of the present invention should be defined by the following claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 099134047 | Oct 2010 | TW | national |
