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The present invention relates to a technical field of medical instrument, and more particularly, to a sphygmomanometer arm band and a control method thereof.
Blood pressure is an important vital sign for human health and indicates the functional state of the human heart, blood vessels and blood circulation system, and is an important evidence for clinical identification of diseases, examination of medical effects, and prognostic prediction.
With the advancement of science, people's life quality is improving day by day, and the accelerating pace of life makes modern people pay more and more attention to their own health issues. Measuring blood pressure helps people understand their own health conditions and prevent the danger of diseases. Therefore, the use of sphygmomanometers has become more and more common.
The arm-type sphygmomanometers, which are convenience in measurement, have become more and more popular. The arm band of the conventional arm-type clamped sphygmomanometer mainly includes a two-piece structure similar to a claw clip, and the two-piece structure includes the hub and spring disposed between two clip parts. When in use, the hub and spring, which are obviously protruded, may cause discomfort on the subject's upper arm in contact. Furthermore, during the process of inflation and deflation of the cuff, the conventional two-piece structure may cause the blood pressure measurement result to be less accurate.
Therefore, the present invention provides a sphygmomanometer arm band and a control method thereof to solve the above-mentioned problems.
An objective of the present invention is to provide a sphygmomanometer arm band for an arm-type sphygmomanometer, and the sphygmomanometer arm band includes a cuff and a clamp. The clamp includes an arc-grip part having two opposite ends and configured to elastically clamp on the cuff, and a first arc-shaped force portion and a second arc-shaped force portion disposed on outer sides of the two opposite ends of the arc-grip part and configured to control a gap between the two opposite ends of the arc-grip part.
According to an embodiment, the first arc-shaped force portion and the second arc-shaped force portion have a first handle part and a second handle part extended toward an outer side of the arc-grip part respectively, and an interval is formed between the first handle part and the second handle part, wherein the interval is distant from the gap of the two opposite ends. A curvature of the first arc-shaped force portion is equal to a curvature of the second arc-shaped force portion, and a curvature radius of the arc-grip part is less than or equal to a curvature radius of one of the first arc-shaped force portion and the second arc-shaped force portion.
According to an embodiment, the arc-grip part is made by elastic material; the arc-grip part, the first arc-shaped force portion and the second arc-shaped force portion can be made by the same material; an elastic coefficient of the arc-grip part is less than or equal to an elastic coefficient of one of the first arc-shaped force portion and the second arc-shaped force portion.
According to an embodiment, the cuff can include a cloth cover having a first glove opening and a second glove opening, wherein the first glove opening and the second glove opening of the cloth cover are configured to sleeve the two opposite ends of the arc-grip part respectively, and make the arc-grip part clamp on the cuff, wherein the first handle part of the first arc-shaped force portion and the second handle part of the second arc-shaped force portion are exposed out of the first glove opening and the second glove opening respectively.
Another objective of the present invention is to provide a control method of the sphygmomanometer arm band, wherein the sphygmomanometer arm band includes a cuff and a clamp including an arc-grip part, and a first arc-shaped force portion and a second arc-shaped force portion disposed on outer sides of the two opposite ends of the arc-grip part, wherein the control method includes steps of: providing a first handle part and a second handle part formed on the first arc-shaped force portion and the second arc-shaped force portion and extended toward an outer side of the arc-grip part respectively, wherein an interval is formed between the first handle part and the second handle part, and the interval is distant from the gap between the two opposite ends; and when an external force is applied on the first handle part and the second handle part, using the first arc-shaped force portion and the second arc-shaped force portion to make the gap between the two opposite ends of the arc-grip part pass a subject's arm therethrough, and then elastically clamping the arc-grip part on the arm, so as to attach the cuff on the subject's arm.
According to the present invention, the configuration of the arc-grip part, the first arc-shaped force portion and the second arc-shaped force portion enable the blood pressure measurement operation to be performed more conveniently and make the measurement result more accurate.
The structure, operating principle and effects of the present invention will be described in detail by way of various embodiments which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
The following embodiments of the present invention are herein described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. These drawings show specific examples of the embodiments of the present invention. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. It is to be acknowledged that these embodiments are exemplary implementations and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention in any way. Further modifications to the disclosed embodiments, as well as other embodiments, are also included within the scope of the appended claims. Regarding the drawings, the relative proportions and ratios of elements in the drawings may be exaggerated or diminished in size for the sake of clarity and convenience. Such arbitrary proportions are only illustrative and not limiting in any way. The same reference numbers are used in the drawings and description to refer to the same or like parts.
Spatially relative terms, such as “central”, “lateral”, “above”, “upper”, “beneath”, “below”, “lower”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “level”, “top”, “bottom”, “inside”, “outside” and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element(s) or feature(s) as illustrated in the figures, and may not necessarily mean that an element or a device must be positioned on a specific orientation. It is to be acknowledged that, although the terms ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’, and so on, may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another component. Thus, a first element discussed herein could be termed a second element without altering the description of the present disclosure. As used herein, the term “or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
It will be acknowledged that when an element or layer is referred to as being “on,” “connected to” or “coupled to” another element or layer, it can be fixedly, detachably or integrally, mechanically, electrically, or directly on, connected or coupled to the other element or layer, or intervening elements or layers may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being “directly on,” “directly connected to” or “directly coupled to” another element or layer, there are no intervening elements or layers present.
In addition, unless explicitly described to the contrary, the terms “comprise”, “include”, “have” and variations such as “comprises”, “comprising”, “includes”, “including”, “has”, and/or “having” used in the present specification will imply the existence of stated shapes, numbers, steps, operations, elements, and/or groups thereof, but does not the exclusion of any other shapes, numbers, steps, operations, elements, and/or groups thereof.
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Since the end 26 of the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the end 28 of the second arc-shaped force portion 22 are fixed on the two opposite ends 24 of the arc-grip part 18 respectively, the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 can be coupled to the two opposite ends 24 of the arc-grip part 18. The first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 have the first handle part 201 and the second handle part 221 extended toward the outer side of the arc-grip part 18 respectively. An interval is formed between the first handle part 201 and the second handle part 221, and distant from the gap between the two opposite ends 24 of the arc-grip part 18. As shown in
However, the manner of connecting the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 and the two opposite ends 24 of the arc-grip part 18 is not limited to the above-mentioned example. For example, the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 can also be directly connected to the two opposite ends 24 of the arc-grip part 18 by a locking manner, an adhering manner, or a buckling manner. In another embodiment, the first arc-shaped force portion 20, the second arc-shaped force portion 22 and the arc-grip part 18 can be formed integrally.
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It is to further explain that the arc-grip part 18, the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 can be made by elastic material, to enable the clamp 14 to effectively clamp on the subject's arm, so as to make the cuff 12 attach on the subject's arm. Furthermore, the first arc-shaped force portion 20, the second arc-shaped force portion 22 and the arc-grip part 18 can be made by the same material.
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According to the above second embodiment of the present invention, the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22, which are detachable, can have the same structures and curve contours. The first arc-shaped force portion 20 is taken as example for illustration in following paragraph.
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a control method for a sphygmomanometer arm band includes the following steps. The cuff 12 is combined with the clamp 14, and the clamp 14 includes the arc-grip part 18, and the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 disposed on outer side of the two opposite ends 24 of the arc-grip part 18 respectively. The arc-grip part 18 is configured to elastically clamp on the cuff 12 and has a gap formed between the two opposite ends 24. The first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 can be fixedly disposed on the outer surface of the arc-grip part 18 (such as the first embodiment of the present invention), or the cloth cover 16 can be used to tightly enclose the arc-grip part 18 and the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22, which are detachable, are sleeved into the first glove opening 161 and the second glove opening 162 of the cloth cover 16. The first handle part 201 and the second handle part 221 are formed on the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 and extended toward outer side of the arc-grip part 18 respectively. The interval is formed between the first handle part 201 and the second handle part 221 and is distant from the gap of the two opposite ends 24. When the first handle part 201 and the second handle part 221 are controlled by an external force, the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 can control the gap between the two opposite ends 24 of the arc-grip part 18 to facilitate a subject's arm to pass therethrough, so as to make the arc-grip part 18 elastically clamp on the subject's arm and attach the cuff 12 on the arm.
It is to further explain that the sphygmomanometer arm band 10 can include a rubber hose (not shown in figures) and a sphygmomanometer (not shown in figures). The rubber hose is connected to the sphygmomanometer and the cuff 12, and the sphygmomanometer can inflate and deflate the cuff 12 through the rubber hose. The inflation and deflation operations can be performed manually, or the sphygmomanometer can automatically inflate or deflate the cuff 12. In another embodiment, the sphygmomanometer can include a blood pressure calculation component (not shown in figures), and when the inflation and deflation for the cuff 12 is completed, the blood pressure calculation component can calculate the subject's blood pressure value, and show the information of blood pressure value on a display (not shown in figures).
In order to measure the blood pressure, the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 can be forced to open the arc-grip part 18 to directly clamp on the subject's arm, and the sphygmomanometer can be used to inflate and deflate the cuff 12 and calculate the subject's blood pressure value.
According to above-mentioned contents of the sphygmomanometer arm band 10 of the present invention, configuration of the arc-grip part 18, the first arc-shaped force portion 20 and the second arc-shaped force portion 22 can prevent from compressing the subject's arm to make the subject uncomfortable, and enable the blood pressure measurement operation to be performed more conveniently and make the measurement result more accurate.
The present invention disclosed herein has been described by means of specific embodiments. However, numerous modifications, variations and enhancements can be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure set forth in the claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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108213812 | Oct 2019 | TW | national |