Patent ID: 7955273
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A device for examination and monitoring of vital parameters, from for example lung and respiration, heart and circulation, of a human or animal body, the device configured as a compact diagnostic device functioning independently of other devices and independently of communication with other devices, adapted to be used single-handedly and within reach of a user without cables, tubes, poking out parts, invasive procedures or implantable parts and comprising a common casing of a size fittable into pockets of a doctor's coat of substantially a size of a palm of a hand with a width and a length of substantially half a hand; devices interacting with the body and devices recording and transmitting one or more signals spontaneously emitted by the body or as a reflex of the interactions with the body all together integrated in said common casing, said recording and transmitting devices including a device performing electronic analysis, filtering and data storage, with intermediate storage of signals supplied by the recording devices; devices providing a parallel playback of a freely definable selection of analyzed signals consisting of devices providing visual playback in digital and analog form, devices providing acoustic playback, and both devices providing visual playback in digital and analog form and devices providing acoustic playback, wherein said body signals recording device includes a multifunctional sensor unit recording electrical voltage fluctuations, impedance measurements and temperature measurements with the same sensor, said body signals recording device including at least two measuring electrodes which are positioned on one level on an underside of said casing for placing over or onto body areas being examined; wherein the multifunctional sensor unit of said body signals recording device also producing, recording and transmitting acoustic signals of different frequency patterns and mechanical strain and elasticity of a body surface and includes a knocking mechanism with an electro-magnetic drive and a striking area so that standardized sound waves are produced and a sound funnel, a membrane and a microphone, said membrane being positioned on an underside of said housing for placing over or onto body areas being examined and said sound funnel is slidable vertically in said casing and thus transfers the strain of the body surface to a pressure recorder, and wherein the multifunctional sensor unit of said recording and transmitting body signals device also recording and transmitting the pulse oxymetry and the arterial capillary and venous blood pressure levels and the recapillarisation time and includes an opening for the insertion of a body part with one side on the exterior wall of the module and with the opposite side of the body part on a dish, and includes a pressure device which is horizontally movable on a guide track, whereby the dish is repulatable—pushable or releasable—by a pressure shaft and a pressure shaft motor against the insertable section of the body part and a pressure is being regulated and measured via a regulating element on the pressure shaft; and the device also includes, on the dish in a direction of the body part section to be inserted, a light transmitter, which works together with a light receiver on an opposite exterior wall of the sensor module and, during this process, this light is being x-rayed and reflected, measured, analyzed and correlated.