Patent ID: 7887507
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A device for measuring the amount of milk supplied to a nursing infant, the device comprising: (a) a cap having a nipple-shaped region with an innermost surface and an outermost surface and a duct extending therebetween and having a longitudinal axis, the duct having an inlet at the inner surface and an outlet at the outer surface, the cap adapted to be mounted on the nipple region of a woman's breast with the innermost surface facing the woman's breast; and to allow breast-milk to pass through said duct along its longitudinal axis; (b) a sensor associated with said duct for measuring at least milk volume passing through said duct and providing data indicative of said volume, wherein said sensor is embedded at a location between said innermost surface and outermost surface of said nipple-shaped region of the cap, said sensor being spaced from the inlet of the duct towards the outlet of the duct along the duct's longitudinal axis and having an extension along the longitudinal axis of the duct, that is greater than its extension transverse to said axis; and (c) a cross-sectional area which each of the nipple-shaped region and the duct has at said location, the cross-sectional area of the duct occupying a minority of the cross-sectional area of the nipple-shaped region.