Patent ID: 11963794
Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A probe holder to hold probes for emitting or detecting light and configured to attach the probes to the head of a subject, the probe holder comprising:
a plurality of basic units each including a single plate that holds three of the probes, wherein the single plate has a triangle shape and each one of the three of the probes is disposed at a respective vertex of the triangle shape; and
a plurality of couplers each linking adjacent three or more basic units of the plurality of basic units, wherein each of the plurality of couplers links a respective one of the three of the probes and adjacent probes to form a plurality of adjacent probes that are linked at a point equidistant from the plurality of adjacent probes, each probe in the plurality of adjacent probes being included in a different one of the plurality of basic units.