The present invention relates to the technical field of medical care and health, and in particular, to a flexible sensor detection system for medical care and health.
The description in this section merely provides background information related to the present invention and does not necessarily constitute the prior art.
With the rapid development of science and technology today, convenience, intelligence, and environmental protection have become the development themes of various industries. Traditional medical treatment exists as a special industry. The uniqueness and closeness of the system of the traditional medical treatment increasingly expose shortcomings of traditional medical procedures, which cannot keep up with needs of people.
With the rapid development of sensing technologies and the gradual penetration of internet technologies into various fields, the combination of medical care and health fields with the sensing technologies and the internet can improve the disadvantages of a traditional medical treatment mode, and has great practical significance. The sensing technologies can measure a biological signal of a user, and transmit information to a device or an institution by information transmission, and give feedback to the user with an analysis of the information by the device or institution. Therefore, an internet-based wearable intelligent sensing device emerges at the right moment.
One of the most important parts of the wearable device is an information collection part, and whether a sensor used for information collection is flexible or rigid determines a comfort level and a measurement accuracy of the wearable device. A flexible sensor has two characteristics of being comfortable and accurate when being used in the medical care and health fields. A Rigid sensor is basically flat, hard and undeformable, and form a point-to-face, hard-to-soft contact interface when being integrated in a human body. In contrast, a flexible sensor is soft, deformable, and easy to form a face-to-face, soft-to-soft contact interface when being integrated in a human body, thus implementing more comfortable and accurate medical care and health monitoring.
At present, many patents have conducted researches on the wearable intelligent sensing device. For example:
The prior art discloses an intelligent sensing vest. The vest is used as a carrier. A chest breathing band is arranged below a chest of the vest, an abdominal breathing band is arranged at an abdomen position, a snapping-type sensor connection port is arranged outside the chest position, a battery connection port is arranged at a middle of a right shoulder band, and the chest breathing band and the abdominal breathing band support collection of a heart rate, an electrocardiogram and a breathing parameter. A wireless sensor is installed at the sensor connection port, and the wireless sensor is used for sending a physical sign parameter collected by the chest breathing band and the abdominal breathing band to an external monitoring device through wireless transmission of an electrical signal.
The prior art discloses a wearable physiological sensing device. Using a wristband as a carrier, the device is provided with an index collection and calculation unit, a microprocessor unit, a data storage unit, a wireless sending unit, a power management unit, a vibration sensor, a wireless receiving unit, and a display device.
The prior art discloses a single-chip-based intelligent wearable device, which includes a control module, a gesture detection module, a temperature collection module, a communication module, and a display module. The temperature collection module and the gesture detection module detect a physical sign signal of a user in real time and send the signal to the control module for processing. The control module determines a human body activity state according to the signal sent by the gesture detection module, displays a determination result in the display module, and sends the result to an upper computer through the communication module.
In the wearable intelligent sensing devices, the information measured by the sensor is stored by a storage device and transmitted to an external monitoring device wirelessly, but a clear feedback is not given to the user. In addition, use of a lithium polymer battery has also caused a certain degree of environmental pollution.
The prior art discloses an intelligent medical system based on a Zigbee technology. The system includes a first sensor module, a second sensor module, an alarm module, an intelligent watch, and a plurality of Zigbee coordinators. Each Zigbee coordinator is communicated with a server through a gateway device. The first sensor module is configured to detect a condition of a ward, the second sensor module is configured to detect a condition of a corridor outside the ward, and the intelligent watch is used to detect a physiological condition of a patient in the ward. The first sensor module, the second sensor module, and the alarm module communicate with the server through the Zigbee coordinators, and the intelligent watch directly communicates with the server through the gateway device, so as to implement temperature and humidity detection as well as fire monitoring and alarming in the ward. In addition, a doctor and a nurse can query detailed information of the patient.
This monitoring system is limited in a certain space, and cannot carry out real-time medical monitoring on the user in any space.
To solve the foregoing problems, the present invention discloses a flexible sensor detection system for medical care and health, which can better detect physical sign parameters of a user by using a flexible sensor, reduce environmental pollution by using a heat-electricity conversion device to supply power, and transmit and feed back data by using a mobile phone and an internet, so that the user and an institution as a whole can be regarded as an Internet of Things, and data can be transmitted and fed back in real time.
In some implementations, the following technical solutions are used:
A flexible sensor detection system for medical care and health, including:
an information collection module, which uses a wearable device as a carrier, where flexible sensors are respectively arranged on the wearable device, and used for collecting a heart rate parameter, an electrocardiogram (ECG) parameter, a breathing parameter, a temperature parameter, a blood flow rate parameter, a blood glucose parameter, and a blood oxygen parameter in real time;
an information transmission module, configured to wirelessly transmit the collected information to an information processing and feedback module; and
the information processing and feedback module, configured to perform grading treatment on received data information and feed back a health condition corresponding to the data information to the information transmission module, where the information transmission module compares feedback health condition data with a preset health threshold to determine whether to give an alarm.
A preparation process of the flexible sensor is as follows:
processing a sensitive material by using a photoetching technology to process the same into a set functional layer shape;
transferring the processed functional layer to a flexible substrate by using a transfer printing technology;
photoetching on a conductive metal to process the same into a set electrode shape; and
flexibly packaging an electrode and a sensitive layer on the flexible substrate to prepare the same into the flexible sensor.
The wearable device includes: a wearable vest; the wearable vest includes a vest back piece, a vest left front piece, and a vest right front piece; an inner side face of a front chest in the vest right front piece is provided with a heart rate ECG band for collecting the heart rate parameter and the ECG parameter of a wearer; a breathing band is arranged on an abdomen inside the vest left front piece, the right front piece, and the vest back piece, which surrounds the body by one circle for collecting the breathing parameter, and a shell temperature band is arranged at an armpit inside the vest left front piece for collecting a shell temperature parameter; an outer side face of the vest right front piece is provided with a first master control chip used for storing a plurality of physical sign parameters collected by using the vest as a carrier; and the heart rate ECG band, the breathing band, and the shell temperature band are respectively connected to the first master control chip.
The wearable device further includes: a wristband, where an inner side of the wristband is provided with a blood flow rate band for collecting the blood flow rate parameter; the inner side of the wristband is provided with a blood glucose band for collecting the blood glucose parameter; an outer side face of a wristband body is provided with a second master control chip used for storing a plurality of physical sign parameters collected by using the wristband as a carrier; and the blood flow rate band and the blood glucose band are respectively connected to the second master control chip.
The wearable device further includes: a headband connecting a head and a tail of a banded structure through an adjustable button; an inner side of the headband is provided with a blood oxygen band for collecting the blood oxygen parameter, and the headband is provided with a deep temperature band for collecting a deep temperature parameter; an outer side face of the headband is provided with a third master control chip used for storing a plurality of physical sign parameters collected by using the headband as a carrier; and the blood oxygen band and the deep temperature band are respectively connected to the third master control chip.
Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) The vest is used as the carrier of information collection, which can be close to a body of a user and facilitate the collecting operation of the sensors. In addition, the design of the adjustable buttons may be adjusted according to a physical sign of people, which meets a wearing comfort level of people, and makes sensing elements close to a body surface of people, thus increasing the measurement accuracy. The design of the zipper is convenient for people to wear.
(2) The heart rate ECG band, the breathing band, the shell temperature band, the blood flow rate band, the blood glucose band, the blood oxygen band, and the deep temperature band are provided with the built-in flexible sensors, and support the collection of parameters such as a heart rate parameter, an ECG parameter, a breathing parameter, a temperature parameter, a blood glucose parameter, and a blood oxygen parameter. In addition, the flexible sensors have the characteristics of portability and stretchability, and give the user more comfortable experience.
(3) The battery based on a thermal-electrical conversion device, an optical-electrical conversion device, or a dynamic-electrical conversion device reduce the dependence on a traditional chemical battery and reduce the environmental pollution. In addition, through a circuit design, the designed thermal-electrical conversion device can ensure that the vest is always in a working state to collect information of the user at all times, so as to facilitate subsequent analysis and processing and give feedback to the user.
(4) The main control chip transmits the physical parameters of the user to a mobile phone via Bluetooth, and a health pre-value alarm device provided in the mobile phone can respond to a sudden emergency disease of the user. In addition, the mobile phone periodically sends physical sign parameter information of the user to a database for analysis and processing, and sends a health condition to the mobile phone for the user to view.
(5) By analyzing and processing the data hierarchically through the database, the received data can be discriminated in a more detailed way, and an analysis result can be processed differently and feedback can be given to the user. If the user is in a healthy or sub-healthy state, a corresponding form is sent to the mobile phone; if the user has a slight or serious disease, a form is sent to the mobile phone, and information is transmitted to a relevant institution and the patient is arranged for a medical treatment.
in the drawings, 2-1 refers to a vest back piece, 2-2 refers to a vest left front piece, 2-3 refers to a vest right front piece, 2-4 refers to a left shoulder band, 2-5 refers to a right shoulder band, 2-6 refers to an adjustable button of the left shoulder band, 2-7 refers to an adjustable button of the right shoulder band, 2-8 refers to an adjustable button below a left chest, 2-9 refers to an adjustable button below a right check, 2-10 refers to an adjustable button at a left abdomen position, 2-11 refers to an adjustable button at a right abdomen position, 2-12 refers to an opening zipper, 2-13 refers to a connector interface of a breathing band at the chest position, 2-14 refers to a connector interface of a breathing band at the abdominal position, and 2-15 refers to a vest main control chip;
3-1 refers to a shell temperature band, 3-2 refers to a chest breathing band, 3-3 refers to an abdominal breathing band, and 3-4 refers to a heart rate ECG band;
4-1 refers to a left battery unit, 4-2 refers to a right battery unit, 4-3 refers to a temperature switch A, 4-4 refers to a temperature switch B, and 4-5 refers to a power storage unit;
5-1 refers to a wristband body, 5-2 refers to a wristband adjustable button, and 5-3 refers to a wristband main control chip;
6-1 refers to a blood flow rate band, and 6-2 refers to a blood glucose band;
7-1 refers to a wristband battery device, 7-2 refers to a wristband power storage device, and 7-3 refers to a wristband light sensing switch;
8-1 refers to a headband body, 8-2 refers to a headband adjustable button, and 8-3 refers to a headband main control chip;
9-1 refers to a blood oxygen band, and 9-2 refers to a deep temperature band;
10-1 refers to a headband battery device, 10-2 refers to a headband power storage device, and 10-3 refers to a headband light sensing switch;
11-1 refers to an encapsulation layer of a flexible shell temperature sensor and a flexible heart rate sensor, 11-2 refers to a functional layer of the flexible shell temperature sensor and the flexible heart rate sensor, and 11-3 refers to a base layer of the flexible shell temperature sensor and the flexible heart rate sensor;
12-1 refers to an encapsulation layer of a flexible deep temperature sensor, 12-2 refers to a functional layer of the flexible deep temperature sensor, 12-3 refers to an isolation layer of the flexible deep temperature sensor, and 12-4 refers to a base layer of the flexible deep temperature sensor;
14-1 refers to a signal wireway, 14-2 refers to a temperature sensor, and 14-3 refers to a central heater;
17-1 refers to a flexible stamp, 17-2 refers to a desired functional layer, 17-3 refers to a donor substrate, and 17-4 refers to an acceptor substrate; and
18-1 refers to an encapsulation layer of a flexible heart rate sensor and a flexible breathing sensor based on piezoelectric effect, 18-2 refers to an upper electrode of a flexible piezoelectric film, 18-3 refers to the flexible piezoelectric film, 18-4 refers to a lower electrode of the flexible piezoelectric film, and 18-5 refers to a base layer of the flexible heart rate sensor and the flexible breathing sensor based on piezoelectric effect.
It should be noted that the following detailed descriptions are all exemplary and are intended to provide further descriptions of this application. Unless otherwise specified, all technical and scientific terms used in the present invention have the same meaning as commonly understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs.
It should be noted that terms used herein are only for describing specific implementations and are not intended to limit exemplary implementations according to this application. As used herein, the singular form is intended to include the plural form, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In addition, it should be further understood that terms “include” and/or “comprise” used in this specification indicate that there are features, steps, operations, devices, assemblies, and/or combinations thereof.
In one or more embodiments, a flexible sensor detection system for medical care and health is disclosed, as shown in
an information collection module, which uses a vest, a wristband, and a headband as carries, which are respectively provided with flexible sensors, and used for collecting a heart rate parameter, an electrocardiogram (ECG) parameter, a breathing parameter, a temperature parameter, a blood flow rate parameter, a blood glucose parameter, and a blood oxygen parameter in real time;
an information transmission module, configured to transmit the collected information to an information processing and feedback module via Bluetooth; and
the information processing and feedback module, configured to perform grading treatment on received data information and feed back a health condition corresponding to the data information to the information transmission module, where the information transmission module compares feedback health condition data with a preset health threshold to determine whether to give an alarm.
In this embodiment, a mobile phone terminal is used as the information transmission module. The mobile phone terminal acts as an intermediary for information transmission, and is used to store personal information of a user and information sent by the information collection module, wirelessly send the information to the information processing and feedback module with a period of days, and receive health condition feedback sent by the information processing and feedback module and related institutions. In addition, the mobile phone terminal also acts as an alarm system. When the information sent by the information collection module exceeds a preset value of human health set in the mobile phone, the mobile phone terminal directly reports to a nearby hospital, and the hospital takes measures to come to the rescue.
In this embodiment, the information processing and feedback module is a plurality of databases and institutional facilities. The information processing and feedback module receives data about physical sign parameters, personal information, and geographical location of the user sent by the mobile phone, and analyzes and processes the received physical sign parameters of the user step by step. Through analysis and processing, a health status of the user is sent to the mobile phone terminal in a form to give the user feedback. In addition, the alarm information sent by the mobile phone terminal is processed and fed back urgently.
Specifically, a structure of the vest is as shown in
The vest is made by sewing the vest left front piece 2-2, the vest back piece 2-1 and the right front piece 2-3 into a tubular shape in turn, where the left shoulder band 2-4 of the vest is provided with an adjustable button 2-6 of the left shoulder band and the right shoulder band 2-5 of the vest is provided with an adjustable button 2-7 of the right shoulder band. An adjustable button 2-8 below a left chest and an adjustable button 2-10 at a left abdomen position are respectively arranged at a boundary between the vest left front piece 2-2 and a left side of the vest back piece 2-1. An adjustable button 2-9 below a right chest and an adjustable button 2-11 at a right abdomen position are respectively arranged at a boundary between the right front piece 2-3 and a right side of the vest back piece 2-1. An opening zipper 2-12 is arranged between the vest left front piece 2-2 and the right front piece 2-3, and the opening zipper 2-12 extends all the way to a neckline. The vest is respectively provided with a connector interface 2-13 and a connector interface 2-14 of the breathing band below the chest and at the abdomen position at two sides of the zipper. Sensitive layers inside the breathing bands of the vest left front piece and the vest right front piece are connected through the connector interfaces to form a closed flexible breathing sensor around a human body one circle to make the flexible breathing sensor work normally.
The vest is provided with a vest main control chip 2-15 on the right front piece 2-3. For the sake of beauty, an appearance of the vest main control chip 2-15 is made into a badge style.
A sensing module on the vest includes a shell temperature band 3-1, a chest breathing band 3-2, an abdominal breathing band 3-3, a heart rate ECG band 3-4, and the vest main control chip 2-15. Arrangements of the shell temperature band 3-1, the chest breathing band 3-2, the abdominal breathing band 3-3, and the heart rate ECG band 3-4 in the vest are as shown in
A battery module on the vest includes a left battery unit 4-1, a right battery unit 4-2, a temperature switch A4-3, a temperature switch B4-4, and a power storage unit 4-5. An arrangement of the battery module on the vest is as shown in
A structure of the wristband is as shown in
A sensing module on the wristband includes a blood flow rate band 6-1, a blood glucose band 6-2, and the wristband main control chip 5-3. Arrangements of the blood flow rate band 6-1 and the blood glucose band 6-2 on the wristband are as shown in
A battery module on the wristband includes a wristband battery unit 7-1, a wristband power storage unit 7-2, and a wristband light sensing switch 7-3. Arrangements of the battery module on the wristband are as shown in
A structure of the headband is as shown in
A sensing module on the headband includes a blood oxygen band 9-1, a deep temperature band 9-2, and the headband main control chip 8-3. Arrangements of the blood oxygen band 9-1 and the deep temperature band 9-2 on the headband are as shown in
A battery module on the headband includes a headband battery unit 10-1, a headband power storage unit 10-2, and a headband light sensing switch 10-3. Arrangements of the battery module on the headband are as shown in
In this embodiment, the adjustable buttons are made of plastic in view of weight. The adjustable buttons can adjust sizes of the vest, the wristband and the headband to meet different body types and make people feel comfortable. In addition, the adjustable buttons at the shoulder bands of the vest can also adjust the shell temperature band, so that the shell temperature band at the armpit position can be accurately located under the armpits of people with different physical signs, thus increasing the measurement accuracy. The adjustable buttons at the boundary between the vest left front piece and the left side of the vest back piece and at the boundary between the vest right front piece and the right side of the vest back piece can make the heart rate ECG band and the breathing band close to the human body, so that relevant physical sign signals are conveniently collected. The adjustable buttons at the wristband can make the blood flow rate band and the blood glucose band close to the skin, so that relevant physical sign signals are conveniently collected. The adjustable buttons at the headband can make the blood oxygen band and the deep temperature band close to the skin, so that relevant physical sign signals are conveniently collected.
In this embodiment, the heart rate ECG band internally contains a transformer, a flexible heart rate sensor, a signal amplifying circuit, an A/D converting circuit, a flexible ECG sensor and an AD8232 chip. The breathing band internally contains a transformer, a capacitor three-point resonant circuit, a flexible breathing sensor, and a breathing control chip. The shell temperature band internally contains a transformer, a signal amplifying circuit, an A/D converting circuit, and a deep temperature control chip. The blood flow rate band internally contains a transformer, a flexible blood flow rate sensor, and a blood flow rate control chip. The blood glucose band internally contains a transformer, a flexible blood glucose sensor and a blood glucose control chip. The blood oxygen band internally contains a transformer, a flexible blood oxygen sensor and a blood oxygen control chip. The deep temperature band internally contains a transformer, a flexible deep temperature sensor, a signal amplifying circuit, an A/D converting circuit, and a deep temperature control chip.
The flexible shell temperature sensor, the flexible heart rate sensor, the flexible breathing sensor, the flexible blood flow rate sensor, the flexible blood glucose sensor, the flexible blood oxygen sensor, and the flexible deep temperature sensor are each made of a flexible base layer, a functional layer and a flexible encapsulation layer, which are installed on an inner surface of a carrier, so that the sensors are in direct contact with a human body surface. Therefore, it is necessary to consider not only stretchable and compressible characteristics of the sensor, but also a biocompatibility between the sensor and the human body. Therefore, materials used for the flexible substrate and the encapsulation layer shall satisfy the following points:
(1) the materials shall have excellent elastic mechanical properties;
(2) the materials shall have excellent waterproof and breathable effects; and
(3) the materials can adapt to a complicated morphology of the human body surface.
In this way, the following can be achieved:
(1) the sensors can improve the measurement of the physical sign parameters of the human body;
(2) sweat secreted by skin sweat glands under the sensing devices can be discharged into the air through the devices in the form of steam, so as to avoid the accumulation of sweat to form impregnation; and
(3) outside air can pass through the devices to reach a skin surface to complete a breathing activity on the body surface.
Meanwhile, the materials have good water resistance, so that neither external liquid nor sweat on the body surface can enter the functional layers of the devices to result in short circuit failure.
The functional layers of different flexible sensors are different. For the functional layers of the flexible shell temperature sensor and the flexible heart rate sensor, a “snake-shaped” interconnection structure may be constructed, which has good mechanical properties. For the materials of the functional layer, metal with good physical properties may be selected or a conductive filler may be doped in a polymer to obtain sensitive materials with higher physical properties. Layered structures of the flexible shell temperature sensor and the flexible heart rate sensor are as shown in
The flexible shell temperature sensor and the flexible heart rate sensor are served as inductive elements of shell temperature and heart rate circuits. When the functional layer receives temperature or vibration signals, resistance of the inductive elements changes accordingly, causing current changes, thus converting the temperature or vibration signals into electrical signals. After signal amplification and A/D conversion, physical parameters of shell temperature and heart rate are obtained and stored in the vest main control chip 2-15.
The functional layer of the flexible deep temperature sensor also adopts the “snake-shaped” interconnection structure. For the materials of the functional layer, metal with good physical properties may be selected or a conductive filler may be doped in a polymer to obtain sensitive materials with higher physical properties. A layered structure of the flexible deep temperature sensor is as shown in
The functional layer of the flexible breathing sensor adopts an insulated coil bent into a certain shape. The coil needs to form a closed loop in the chest and abdomen of the user respectively, as shown in
A connector interface 2-13 of the breathing band at the chest position and a connector interface 2-14 of the breathing band at the abdominal position connect the flexible breathing sensors in the chest breathing band 3-2 and the abdominal breathing band 3-3 to form a closed sensor around the human body by one circle to make the sensor work normally.
A working principle of the flexible blood flow rate sensor is to measure the blood flow rate by a thermal method, which will cause temporal and spatial distribution and changes of a temperature field on the body surface, and can deduct the blood flow rate by monitoring the changes through the temperature sensor, combining with a heat transfer model or a correlation analysis.
The functional layer of the flexible blood flow rate sensor is as shown in
The functional layer of the flexible blood glucose sensor includes a glucose sensor and a paper battery coated with a high-concentration hyaluronic acid at an anode. Glucose in a tissue fluid is extracted by using an electrochemical double-channel method, and is sensed and measured by the glucose sensor. The blood glucose control chip analyzes and processes the data measured by the glucose sensor and transmits the processed data to the wristband main control chip 5-3.
The functional layer of the flexible blood oxygen sensor is composed of a red and infrared LED and a photodetector. The red and infrared LED is served as a light source. The photodetector can obtain a light absorption degree and a light scattering degree of the blood according to an action of the blood on the light. The blood oxygen control chip analyzes and processes the data measured by the photodetector to obtain blood oxygen parameters and transmits the parameters to the headband main control chip 8-3.
A preparation process of the flexible sensor is as shown in
(1) cleaning a substrate: a traditional photoetching technology requires a material substrate to be flat, while a flexible material such as polyimide needs to be pretreated during photoetching; the flexible material such as polyimide needs to be adhered to the clean substrate as a donor substrate; and moreover, the substrate is cleaned in a plurality of steps to ensure tight adhesion and avoid deviation caused by pollution during photoetching;
(2) sputtering and depositing a sensitive layer: sputtering and depositing a sensitive material on the donor substrate to form a sensitive layer, where depositing techniques include chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition and the like; and a suitable depositing method is selected according to different deposited materials;
(3) gluing, exposuring and developing: designing a mask plate according to a needed pattern; uniformly coating photoresist on a surface of the sensitive layer by adjusting a rotating speed of a spin coater, and patterning the photoresist through the mask plate by the steps of dewatering baking, soft baking and hard baking, where the photoresist disappears in an exposed part, the sensitive layer is exposed, and the photoresist still exists in an unexposed part;
(4) graphically etching the sensitive layer: etching the sensitive layer not covered by the photoresist by an etching solution to implement transfer of a mask plate pattern to a sensitive layer pattern; and
(5) removing the photoresist and cleaning: washing with an acetone solution to remove residual photoresist and organic matters on a metal layer, and finally obtaining the desired functional layer pattern.
(1) preparing a desired functional layer pattern 17-2 on a flexible material like polyimide as a donor substrate 17-3 through a photoetching technology;
(2) processing a flexible stamp 17-1 made of polydimethylsiloxane and a surface of the functional layer pattern 17-2 to be transferred according to a set requirement, attaching the flexible stamp 17-1 closely to the functional layer 17-2, and tearing up the flexible stamp 17-1 from the donor substrate 17-3 at a high enough speed to ensure that an adhesive force between the flexible stamp 17-1 and the functional layer 17-2 is large enough, so that the functional layer 17-2 can be torn up along with the flexible stamp 17-1;
(3) attaching the flexible stamp 17-1 adhered with the functional layer 17-2 closely to a surface of a processed acceptor substrate 17-4, and extruding for a certain period to form an adhesive force between the functional layer 17-2 and the surface of the acceptor substrate 17-4; and
(4) slowly tearing up the flexible stamp 17-1 to ensure that the functional layer 17-2 to be transferred remains on the acceptor substrate 17-4.
A flexible fabric electrode is used for a flexible ECG sensor to convert bioelectric signals into hardware measurable electrical signals, and an AD8232 integrated with operational amplifier, ADC digital-to-analog conversion, DSP digital filtering and heart rate detection algorithms as a front-end conditioning chip of ECG signals. The AD8232 analyzes and processes the signals measured by the flexible fabric electrode and transmits the processed ECG signals to the vest main control chip 2-15.
Measurement principles of the flexible heart rate sensor and the flexible breathing sensor may also be implemented based on piezoelectric effect. A flexible piezoelectric film material may be polyvinylidene fluoride with good piezoelectric properties and high flexibility, and the electrode may be made of metal with good physical properties. Layered structures of the flexible heart rate sensor and the flexible breathing sensor are as shown in
The flexible piezoelectric film is prepared by an electrostatic spinning method, and an electrostatic spinning technology is as shown in
(1) A flexible substrate is prepared, and placed below an electrospinning needle as a collecting device of the flexible piezoelectric film, where the flexible substrate is made of polydimethylsiloxane with good flexibility.
(2) Under the action of a high-voltage electric field applied by a power supply, a surface of a piezoelectric polymer solution or a melt in a syringe pump generates electric charges, and under the combined action of an electric field force and a surface tension, a conical droplet is formed on the electrospinning needle, and is called a Taylor cone. If the voltage is continuously increased, the charged conical droplet overcomes the surface tension and is gradually lengthened and thinner, breaking through a cone top and shooting at a collection substrate, and finally forming a fibrous piezoelectric film.
(3) Generally, most of the prepared piezoelectric films are spiral nonpolar α-phases, which are stable in structure but not piezoelectric. It is necessary to apply a tensile stress or a high-intensity electric field to the films, so that randomly oriented molecular dipole moments in the piezoelectric film are aligned in a specific direction, thus forming a β-phase with good piezoelectric properties.
The adjustable button 2-6 of the left shoulder band and the adjustable button 2-7 of the right shoulder band can adjust a longitudinal size of the vest. The adjustable button 2-8 below the left chest, the adjustable button 2-10 on the left abdomen position, the adjustable button 2-9 below the right chest and the adjustable button 2-11 on the right abdomen position can adjust a lateral size of the vest. The wristband adjustable button 5-2 can adjust a diameter of the wristband. The headband adjustable button 8-2 can adjust a diameter of the headband. In this way, the vest can meet physiques of different users to increase the comfort level. Moreover, each flexible sensor can be closely attached to the human body surface by the adjustable buttons, thus increasing the measurement accuracy.
The left battery unit 4-1 and the right battery unit 4-2 adopt a principle of thermal-electrical conversion. When a P-type semiconductor and an N-type semiconductor form a loop, in the presence of an external load, if temperatures at two end faces of the P-type semiconductor and the N-type semiconductor are different and a temperature difference occurs, then a voltage and a current may be generated in the loop, where the P-type semiconductor is an anode of the battery and the N-type semiconductor is a cathode of the battery. The vest designed only works at a normal ambient temperature. According to an ambient temperature of the vest, a low-temperature thermoelectric material Bi2Te3 is selected. Adding a proper amount of Se to Bi2Te3 may obtain the N-type semiconductor needed by the thermoelectric conversion device, and adding a proper amount of Sb to Bi2Te3 may obtain the P-type semiconductor needed by the thermoelectric conversion device, where chemical formulae of the semiconductors are as follows:
Bi2Te3+Se→Bi2Te3-xSex (N-type semiconductor)
Bi2Te3+Sb→Bi2-xSbxTe3 (P-type semiconductor)
In this embodiment, considering that a temperature difference between an external ambient temperature and a human body temperature cannot always be in the same situation, a circuit as shown in
(1) When the ambient temperature is greater than the human body temperature, A1 is greater than A2, and the temperature switch A is switched off. B1 is greater than B2, and the temperature switch B is switched on. The thermal-electrical conversion device in the right side works, which supplies energy to various electric devices in the vest on one hand, and stores energy for the electric storage device C on the other hand.
(2) When the ambient temperature is less than the human body temperature, A1 is less than A2, and the temperature switch A is switched on. B1 is less than B2, and the temperature switch B is switched off. The thermal-electrical conversion device in the left side works, which supplies energy to various electric devices in the vest and stores energy for the electric storage device C.
(3) When the ambient temperature is equal to the human body temperature, A1 is equal to A2, and the temperature switch A is switched off. B1 is equal to B2, and the temperature switch B is switched off. Neither the thermal-electrical conversion devices in the left or right side work, and the power storage device C supplies energy to various electric devices in the vest.
A voltage generated by the thermal-electrical conversion may be calculated by using the following formula:
U =S(Th−Tc),
where U represents a thermoelectromotive force, S represents a sum of Seebeck coefficients of the two conductors, which is related to the material of the N-type semiconductor and the P-type semiconductor selected, Th represents a temperature value of the high-temperature heat source, and Tc represents a temperature value of the low-temperature heat source.
A total voltage of the integrated battery is:
Utotal=nU,
where n is a quantity of (a) form or (b) form units in the integrated battery device. The difference between the ambient temperature and the human body temperature has little change. Therefore, this embodiment increases the quantity of n as much as possible to increase the total voltage Utotal of the integrated battery.
The left battery unit 4-1 and the right battery unit 4-2 may also adopt a dynamic-electrical conversion device to convert biological kinetic energy of the user into electrical energy. The device is mainly composed of a metallic coating on a flexible insulating pipe and a metallic coating on a flexible insulating pipe coated with treated polydimethylsiloxane. The metal coatings on the two flexible insulating pipes are used as two electrodes of the device respectively. Copper and gold with excellent conductivity may be used as the metal. Flexible insulating pipes are made of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, or the like. The treated polydimethylsiloxane makes it easy for polydimethylsiloxane to absorb negative charges to pair that the two flexible insulating pipes. In order to clarify a working mechanism of the flexible insulating pipe, a working process may be simplified, and the two flexible insulating pipes move relatively, so that the metal electrode and the polydimethylsiloxane make a contact separation action. Based on a coupling effect of contact electrification and electrostatic induction, charge movement can be directly generated between the electrodes on the two flexible insulating pipes. The principle is as shown in
In an original state (a), a surface of the polydimethylsiloxane is filled with negative electrostatic charges, and a metal electrode 1 generates positive charges. When the two flexible insulating pipes are pressed by external kinetic energy, a gap between a metal electrode 2 and the polydimethylsiloxane shrinks due to static induction, which leads to the accumulation of induced positive charges in the metal electrode 2, as shown in (b). Therefore, free electrons in the metal electrode 2 flow to the metal electrode 1 for electric field balance. An instantaneous positive current is produced during this process. It should be noted that the charges on the polydimethylsiloxane will not be destroyed even if the polydimethylsiloxane is contacted with the metal electrode 2, because the electrostatic charges naturally immerse into the insulator polydimethylsiloxane, as shown in (c). In the case that the two flexible insulating pipes are separated again, as shown in (d), the metal electrode 1 and the metal electrode 2 are restored to the original state (1). An instantaneous negative current may be generated. Therefore, during the contact separation process of the two flexible insulating pipes, the kinetic energy is converted into the electrical energy.
According to the characteristics of the current produced by the dynamic-electrical conversion device and the requirements of this embodiment, a circuit diagram as shown in
(1) When the user moves, the switch connector S1 on the vibration sensing switch is connected to the switch connector S2, and the switch connector S1 is connected to the switch connector S3. At this time, the dynamic-electrical conversion device converts kinetic energy into electrical energy to provide energy for R and stores the electric energy in the energy storage device C.
(2) When the user does not move, the switch connector Si on the vibration sensing switch is disconnected from the switch connector S2, and the switch connector Si is connected to the switch connector S3. At this time, the energy storing device C works to release the electrical energy stored therein to provide energy for R.
A structural form of the dynamic-electrical conversion device is as shown in
A photovoltaic power storage in-situ integrated battery based on optical-electrical conversion is used in the wristband battery device 7-1 and the headband battery device 10-1. The photovoltaic power storage in-situ integrated battery is mainly prepared by assembling a photovoltaic conversion functional film component and an electric storage functional film component layer by layer in situ, which sequentially includes a base layer/electrode, a photovoltaic battery part, a transition electrode, an energy storage part, and a base layer/electrode from top to bottom. The photovoltaic battery part may adopt:
(1) a silicon-based solar battery composed of a P-N junction formed by a silicon substrate doped with an n-type or p-type semiconductor; in the presence of sunlight illumination, the silicon substrate produces a photoelectric effect, and when the two ends are connected into a circuit, a current is produced;
(2) a sensitized solar battery composed of a conductive substrate, a semiconductor nano-porous film, a dye sensitizer, an electrolyte containing a redox couple, and a counter electrode; in the presence of sunlight illumination, dye molecules are excited from a ground state to an excited state, and electrons are injected into the semiconductor nano-porous film, the electrons may be quickly enriched on the conductive substrate, and flow to the counter electrode through an external conductor; and
(3) a formal perovskite solar battery composed of a conductive layer, an electron transport layer, a perovskite light-absorption layer, a hole transport layer, and an electrode, and a trans-perovskite solar battery composed of a conductive layer, a hole transport layer, a perovskite light-absorption layer, an electron transport layer, and an electrode. In the presence of sunlight illumination, a large quantity of electron-hole pairs may be generated in the perovskite light-absorption layer, where electrons and holes are respectively collected by the electron transport layer and the hole transport layer and transmitted to the electrode. When the two ends are connected into a circuit, a current may be generated.
A performance of the photovoltaic battery part may be calculated by the following formula:
E
solar
=P
in
·A
solar
·t,
where Esolar is a photoelectric conversion power, t is a sunlight irradiation time, Asolar is a light-absorption area of the photovoltaic battery part, and Pin is an incident light power density, where an international standard is 100 mW/cm2. The sunlight irradiation time depends on a plurality of factors, such as weather, outdoor time of the user, and the like. To improve the performance of the photovoltaic battery part, in this embodiment, the light-absorption area of the photovoltaic battery part is increased as much as possible.
A capacitor or a lithium battery may be used as the energy storage part for storing electric energy. A metal with a good conductivity may be used as the electrode.
In this embodiment, a circuit as shown in
(1) when there is sunlight in the daytime, the switch connector a on the light sensing switch is connected to the switch connector c. At this time, the photovoltaic battery part works, which converts light energy into electrical energy to provide energy for R, and stores the electric energy in the energy storage device C.
(2) when there is no sunlight at night, the switch connector a on the light sensing switch is connected to the switch connector b. At this time, the energy storage part works to release the electrical energy stored therein to provide energy for R.
Conductor connection of a signal collection module is explained with
For the wristband, the wristband body 5-1 is internally provided with conductors. The blood flow rate band 6-1, the blood glucose band 6-2, and the wristband main control chip 5-3 are connected by the connectors to transmit physical sign parameter signals of the user measured by the blood flow rate band 6-1 and the blood glucose band 6-2 to the wristband main control chip 5-3. The wristband battery device 7-1 is connected to the transformer through a wireway to change the voltages, and then, respectively connected to the blood flow rate band 6-1, the blood glucose band 6-2, and the wristband main control chip 5-3 through the conductors to convey electric energy.
For the headband, the headband body 8-1 is internally provided with conductors. The blood oxygen band 9-1, the deep temperature band 9-2 and the headband main control chip 8-3 are connected by the connectors to transmit physical sign parameter signals of the user measured by the blood oxygen band 9-1 and the deep temperature band 9-2 to the headband main control chip 8-3. The headband battery device 10-1 is connected to the transformer through a wireway to change the voltages, and then respectively connected to the blood oxygen band 9-1, the deep temperature band 9-2 and the headband main control chip 8-3 through the conductors to convey electric energy.
Information transmission and information processing and feedback modules include mobile phone terminals, various databases and institutional facilities. As one of the necessary communication tools in modern life, the mobile phone has very powerful functions in processing, storing and transmitting data. In this embodiment, the mobile phone terminal serves as a transfer station for storing and sending data, and also analyzes and processes the stored data and gives an alarm for abnormal data. The various databases and institutional facilities include large databases, sub-health and disease databases, disease control centers, pharmaceutical institutions and hospital institutions. The various databases and institutional facilities are used for receiving the data about physical sign parameters, personal information and geographical location of the user sent by the mobile phone, and analyzing and processing the received physical sign parameters of the user step by step. Through analysis and processing, a health status of the user is sent to the mobile phone terminal in a form to give the user feedback. In addition, the alarm of the mobile phone terminal is handled urgently.
The vest main control chip 2-15, the wristband main control chip 5-3 and the headband main control chip 7-3 in the information collection module are used for collecting and storing the data transmitted by the shell temperature band 3-1, the chest breathing band 3-2, the abdominal breathing band 3-3, the heart rate ECG band 3-4, the blood flow rate band 6-1, the blood glucose band 6-2, the blood oxygen band 9-1 and the deep temperature band 9-2, and transmitting the collected information about the physical sign parameters of the user to the mobile phone via Bluetooth for subsequent analysis and feedback process.
The framework of information transmission, information processing and feedback is as shown in
The user enters personal information (such as a gender, a race, an age, and the like) into the mobile phone first, and the master control chip may continuously transmit the collected information about the physical sign parameters of the user to the mobile phone via Bluetooth. A preset health threshold of people is set in advance in the mobile phone, and the mobile phone may analyze and process the collected information in a first level. If the collected information does not exceed the preset health threshold of people, the collected information may be sorted out by the mobile phone, and wirelessly transmitted to the large database on a daily basis regularly, and the sorted physical sign parameters, personal information, and geographical location of one day are wirelessly transmitted to the large database. If the physical sign parameters of the received user exceed the preset health threshold set in advance, the mobile phone may give an alarm immediately. The mobile phone may wirelessly transmit abnormal physical sign data, personal information, and geographical location of the user to the hospital database immediately and inform the user that emergency treatment is needed. The hospital database may select a nearby hospital according to the geographical location of the user and transmit the abnormal physical sign data and the personal information of the user to the hospital, and the hospital may provide emergency medical treatment for the user.
The large database may analyze and process the physical sign parameters, the personal information, and the geographical location of the user transmitted from the mobile phone in a second level, the received information is compared through the existing physical sign parameters, gender, race, and age of people in the large database, and the received information is divided into abnormal indicators and normal indicators, which are processed separately. For the normal indicators, a health state of the user at the moment is sent to the mobile phone in a form of report. For the abnormal indicators, the data information, personal information, and geographical location are sent to a sub-health and disease database by wireless transmission for analysis and processing in a third level.
The collected data information of abnormal indicators is analyzed and processed by the sub-health and disease database, and compared with existing data of the sub-health and disease database. The data information of abnormal indicators is divided into sub-health information and disease information, a targeted response is made to the sub-health information, feedback is given to the mobile phone, a report is generated to inform the user of a current health state, and a solution to the sub-health state is given at the moment. For the disease information, the disease information, the personal information, and the geographical location may be sent to the sub-health and disease database by wireless transmission for analysis and processing in a fourth level.
A disease control center analyzes and processes received disease data information. Firstly, a region where the user is located is determined according to mobile phone location of the user, and secondly, diseases caused by the data information of the abnormal indicators are divided into a slight disease and a non-slight disease. For the slight disease, the data information is sent to a drug institution closest to the user for analysis and processing in the third level. For the non-slight disease, the data information is sent to a hospital institution closest to the user for analysis and processing in a fifth level.
A drug organization may analyze and process the collected information through a drug database, allocate required drug measurements according to various slight diseases, link various slight diseases with drug windows corresponding to the various slight diseases, and send the drug measurements to the drug windows. The drug window may select a drug according to the drug measurement first, then send the health state of the user at the moment to the mobile phone in a form of a report, and inform the user to take the drug from the drug window corresponding to the slight disease suffered by the user.
A hospital institution may classify the non-slight diseases through specific analysis and determination of the hospital database, send the non-slight diseases to departments related to the diseases, and inform relevant professional doctors to issue a notice for the user to come for treatment.
In this embodiment, a Bluetooth transmission technology and a wireless transmission technology are mature and can be used directly.
The specific implementations of the present invention are described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present invention. Those skilled in the art should understand that various modifications or deformations may be made without creative efforts based on the technical solutions of the present invention, and such modifications or deformations shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201911413320.9 | Dec 2019 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2020/074403 | 2/6/2020 | WO | 00 |