Patent ID: 9669177
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A61M,G10L

Claim:
1. Hands-free and eyes-free voice-activated wireless apparatus for administering oxygen to a user, comprising: a human-portable oxygen tank having a bluetooth-standard wireless electronic valve configured to release oxygen from the oxygen tank, the electronic valve having at least LOW and HIGH settings; a flexible tube supplying the released oxygen from the oxygen tank to a face of a user; a bluetooth-standard wireless microphone receiving voice commands from the user, the voice commands including at least START, STOP, LOW, HIGH, and VOLUME; a bluetooth-standard wireless earphone providing audible signals to the user which correspond to a quantity of oxygen remaining in the oxygen tank; a bluetooth-standard monitor monitoring an amount of oxygen in the oxygen tank, and outputting a corresponding oxygen volume signal; and a smartphone bluetooth-standard wirelessly coupled to (i) the bluetooth-standard wireless microphone, (ii) the bluetooth-standard wireless earphone, (iii) the electronic valve, and (iv) the bluetooth-standard monitor, the smartphone having at least one app stored therein that is configured to: voice-recognize the START command received from the wireless microphone and, in response thereto, at least one of (i) provide a wireless signal to the electronic valve to release oxygen from the oxygen tank, and (ii) provide a wireless signal to the monitor to start monitoring an amount of oxygen in the oxygen tank; voice-recognize the STOP command received from the wireless microphone and, in response thereto, at least one of (i) provide a wireless signal to the electronic valve to stop releasing oxygen from the oxygen tank, and (ii) provide a wireless signal to the monitor to stop monitoring an amount of oxygen in the oxygen tank; voice-recognize the LOW command received from the wireless microphone and, in response thereto, provide a wireless signal to the electronic valve to release oxygen from the oxygen tank at a first, low flow; voice-recognize the HIGH command received from the wireless microphone and, in response thereto, provide a wireless signal to the electronic valve to release oxygen from the oxygen tank at a second flow higher than the low flow; voice-recognize the VOLUME command received from the wireless microphone and, in response thereto, provide a wireless monitor signal to the monitor to generate the oxygen volume signal corresponding to the volume of oxygen in the oxygen tank; and the at least one app of the smartphone being further configured to (i) receive from the monitor a wireless volume signal corresponding to the oxygen volume signal, (ii) generate an output signal corresponding to the received volume signal, and (iii) provide a wireless earphone signal to the wireless earphone corresponding to the generated output signal; and the wireless earphone receiving the provided wireless earphone signal from the smartphone and, in response thereto, generating at least one of said audible signals, wherein the human-portable oxygen tank has a MEDIUM setting, and wherein the at least one app of the smartphone is configured to voice-recognize the MEDIUM command received from the wireless microphone and, in response thereto, provide a wireless signal to the electronic valve to release oxygen from the oxygen tank at a third flow, between the first flow and the second flow.