1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an elastic physiological detection structure, and more particularly to one that comprises a combination of a fabric article, a main body, an elastic member, and a detection module, in which the elastic member helps the detection module to apply an increased force from the fabric article to the surface layer of the human body to improve the attachability of the detection module to the surface layer of the human body and make it applicable to a physiological detective garment, an inclination detective garment, or the likes.
2. Description of Related Art
The progress of science and technology makes it possible to develop a combination of detection modules with clothing in order to facilitate inspect and record the physiological conditions of a human body and allows for applications to self-management of home healthcare or preventive medical treatments.
Heretofore, the combination of a detection module with clothing is generally fixed. In other words, the detection module is retained, through sewing, at a location, such as chest, where detection is to be made in order to allow the detection module to engage a skin surface of a human body for detection of physiological signals of the human body.
However, the conventional way of combination through a fixed manner would result in signal interruption due to wearing of the clothing, so that the detection of physiological signals may be unexpectedly interrupted and then resumes. The continuity of the detected physiological signal could be destroyed so that the detection has to be conducted again. This causes undesired burdens of a user.
Thus, in view of the above problems, the present invention aims to provide an elastic physiological detection structure that effectively improves stability of dynamic detection and allows for easy operation and installation by a user.
The primary object of the present invention is to provide an elastic physiological detection structure, which comprises a combination of a fabric article, a main body, an elastic member, and a detection module. The main body is combined with an internal layer of the fabric article. The main body comprises at least one opening formed therein. The elastic member is combined with a surface of the main body. The detection module is combined with the elastic member and exposed outside the opening of the main body. Thus, the elastic member helps the detection module to apply an increased force from the fabric article to the surface layer of the human body, allowing the detection module that is located outside the opening of the main body to tightly engage the surface layer of the human body at a site where detection is to be made thereby improving the attachability of the detection module to the surface layer of the human body and enhancing stability of dynamic detection, and thus improving overall utilization.
A secondary object of the present invention is to provides an elastic physiological detection structure, in which the opening of the main body has a predetermined length and the elastic member comprises a predetermined preserved length, so that the detection module is allowed to displace in the opening of the main body by means of the preserved length of the elastic member, allowing the detection module to move back and forth in the opening of the main body to provide an effect of changing the site where detection is to be made for detecting physiological signals of different sites of the human body. Further, with such an arrangement, the stability of the detection module can be ensured and the phenomenon of inflaming caused by the detection module being retained on and depressing a fixed location of the skin, which may lead to discomfort, can be eliminated. Thus, overall utilization can be improved.
A further object of the present invention is to provide an elastic physiological detection structure, in which the elastic member comprises an extension section and the extension section extends a sewing line of the fabric article to help keep the detection module that is combined with the elastic member and exposed outside the opening of the main body in a flat form and is bonded to the surface layer of the human body by the elastic member to allow the detection module that is exposed outside the opening of the main body to attach to the skin at a site where detection is to be made so as to improve the overall utilization.
To achieve above objects, the present invention provides an elastic physiological detection structure, which comprises: a fabric article, a main body, an elastic member, and a detection module. The main body is combined with an internal layer of the fabric article. The main body comprises at least one opening formed therein. The elastic member is combined with a surface of the main body. The detection module is combined with the elastic member and exposed outside the opening of the main body so that the detection module may apply an increased force by means of the elastic member.
The present invention can be fully understood from the following detailed description and preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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A first embodiment of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention comprises a fabric article 10, a main body 20, an elastic member 30, and a detection module 40. The main body 20 is combined with an internal layer of the fabric article 10 and the combination is achieved with one of sewing, ultrasonic means, thermal fusion, and adhesive. The fabric article 10 can be one of a garment, trousers, gloves, underwear, a vest, a corsage, and a tube-top. (In the instant embodiment, a large piece of fabric that has not been tailored and processed to form the above listed forms of clothing is taken as an example for the fabric article.) Further, the main body 20 comprises at least one opening 21 formed therein. The opening 21 may extend transversely or longitudinally. (In the instant embodiment, an example that includes two longitudinal openings 21 is illustrated, as shown in
Further, the elastic member 30 is combined to a surface of the main body 20 and the combination is achieved with one of sewing, ultrasonic means, thermal fusion, and adhesive, or alternatively, two ends of the elastic member 30 and the main body 20 are respectively provided with engageable fastening sections (such as buttons, snaps, hook and loop fasteners, and the likes). (In the instant embodiment, sewing is taken as an example.) Further, the detection module 40 is combined to the elastic member 30 and the combination is achieved by providing the detection module 40 and the elastic member 30 respectively with mateable coupling sections 31, 41 (such as snaps, female-male pairs, and the likes), see
A second embodiment of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention comprises a fabric article 10, a main body 20, an elastic member 30, and a detection module 40. The main body 20 is combined with an internal layer of the fabric article 10 and the combination is achieved with one of sewing, ultrasonic means, thermal fusion, and adhesive. The fabric article 10 can be one of a garment, trousers, gloves, underwear, a vest, a corsage, and a tube-top. (In the instant embodiment, a large piece of fabric that has not been tailored and processed to form the above listed forms of clothing is taken as an example for the fabric article.) Further, the main body 20 comprises at least one opening 21 formed therein. The opening 21 may extend transversely or longitudinally. (In the instant embodiment, an example that includes one transverse opening 21 is illustrated, as shown in
Further, the elastic member 30 is combined to a surface of the main body 20 and the combination is achieved with one of sewing, ultrasonic means, thermal fusion, and adhesive, or alternatively, two ends of the elastic member 30 and the main body 20 are respectively provided with engageable fastening sections (such as buttons, snaps, hook and loop fasteners, and the likes). (In the instant embodiment, sewing is taken as an example.) Further, the detection module 40 is combined to the elastic member 30 and the combination is achieved by providing the detection module 40 and the elastic member 30 respectively with mateable coupling sections 31, 41 (such as snaps, female-male pairs, and the likes), see
In the above-described first and second embodiments of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention, the opening 21 of the main body 20 may be constructed to have a predetermined length. (These embodiments are respectively constructed to have two longitudinal openings 21 and one transverse opening 21.) And, the elastic member 30 has a predetermined preserved length 32 (as shown in
A third embodiment of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention comprises a fabric article 10, a main body 20, an elastic member 30, and a detection module 40 and has a structural arrangement that is similar to those of the first and second embodiments with a primary difference being that the preserved length 32 of the elastic member 30 of the first and second embodiments is provided with at least one non-elastic section 33 (as shown in
A fourth embodiment of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention comprises a fabric article 10, a main body 20, an elastic member 30, and a detection module 40 and has a structural arrangement that is similar to those of the first, second, and third embodiments with a primary difference being that the elastic member 30 of the first, second, and third embodiments is additionally provided with an extension section 34 and the extension section 34 extends to a sewing line of the fabric article 10, wherein combination can be made with one side sewing line (as shown in
Further, in the above-described first, second, third, and fourth embodiments of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention, the opening 21 of the main body 20 (which in the instant embodiment is illustrated as a single transverse opening 21) may be constructed in such a way that the opening 21 of the main body 20 has an inside surface to which a film layer 50 (as shown in
Further, in an embodiment of the opening 21 of the main body 20, two film layers (not shown) may be provide and combined with the inside surfaces of the opening 21 of the main body 20. The combination can be achieved with one of sewing, ultrasonic means, thermal fusion, and adhesive. The two film layers are respectively set at left and right sides of the opening 21 of the main body 20 to define a slit (not shown) in such a way that the opening 21 of the main body 20 corresponds to the slit, thereby allowing the detection module 40 that is mounted on the elastic member 30 to extend through the slit of the two film layers and the opening 21 of the main body 20 to get exposed outside. The two film layers can each be one of a plastic piece, a fabric piece (that may be additionally processed to provide stiffness, such as a fabric woven or knitted with acrylic yarns), and a membrane (which can be a plastic membrane, a metal membrane, a carbon membrane, or a membrane made of other materials) in order to improve the stiffness or rigidity of the opening 21 of the main body 20 to allow for easy displacement or sliding of the detection module 40 within the opening 21 of the main body 20 and to prevent the elastic member 30 from being easily pulled out of the opening 21 of the main body 20 so as to prevent the detection module 40 from being separated from a desired displacement trace and thus failing the operation thereof.
Further, in the above-described first, second, third, and fourth embodiments of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention, the detection module 40 can be constructed to comprise, in a first example, an electrode plate 401 (as shown in
Further, in the above-described first, second, third, and fourth embodiments of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention, the detection module 40 can be constructed to comprise, in a second example, an inclination detection chip and a microcontroller 402 (as shown in
Further, in the above-described fourth embodiment of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention, the fabric article 10 is provided with a signal transmission terminal 60 (as shown in
Further, in the above-described first, second, third, and fourth embodiments of the elastic physiological detection structure according to the present invention, a combined assembly of a fabric article 10, a main body 20, an elastic member 30, and a detection module 40 is provided in such a way that the main body 20 is combined with an internal layer of the fabric article 10 and the main body 20 is provided with at least one opening 21 formed therein; the elastic member 30 is combined to a surface of the main body 20; and the detection module 40 is combined to the elastic member 30 and exposed outside the opening 21 of the main body 20, whereby the elastic member 30 helps the detection module 40 to apply an increased force from the fabric article 10 to the surface layer of the human body, allowing the detection module 40 that is located outside the opening 21 of the main body 20 to tightly engage the surface layer of the human body at a site where detection is to be made thereby improving the attachability of the detection module 40 to the surface layer of the human body and enhancing stability of dynamic detection.
Further, the opening 21 of the main body 20 is provided with a predetermined length and the elastic member 30 also comprises a predetermined preserved length 32, so that the detection module 40 is allowed to displace in the opening 21 of the main body 20 by means of the preserved length 32 of the elastic member 30, allowing the detection module 40 to move back and forth in the opening 21 of the main body 20 to provide an effect of changing the site where detection is to be made for detecting physiological signals of different sites of the human body. Further, with such an arrangement, the stability of the detection module 40 can be ensured and the phenomenon of inflaming caused by the detection module 40 being retained on and depressing a fixed location of the skin, which may lead to discomfort, can be eliminated.
Based on the above detailed description, those skilled in the art may appreciate that the present invention can achieve the above-discussed objectives. However, it is noted that the above description is made only to a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intending to limit the true scope where the present invention may be put into practice. Thus, simple and equivalent variations and modifications made on the disclosure of the specification and the attached claims are all considered within the scope of the present invention.