Patent ID: 11911550
Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  H

Claim 8:
9. The extracorporeal circulator according to claim 6 wherein the conduit is comprised of an elastically-deformable tube conveying the blood and captured inside the main body portion, the pressure measuring device further comprising:
a pressure sensitive medium connected between the main body portion and the elastically-deformable tube and configured to serve as the elastically-deformable pressure receiver body configured to be deformed in response to a received external force based on a deformation of the elastically-deformable tube;
wherein the control unit is configured to convert the image information about a distortion of the pressure sensitive medium which is acquired by the image acquisition unit through the polarizer into the pressure information.