Crib death (SIDS) warning device

An apparatus for specific fluid detection in prophylactic prognosis of a medical condition known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, that in one embodiment features a casing which is removably affixable to a sensor configured for receiving and transmitting the information of manifestation of micturition to an embodied acquisitioning accommodation embracing a variable frequency oscillator, the output of which interconnects with a signal converter conceptualized to transition a switching provision into energizing a built-in alarm system consequential to the signal converter's having sampled and found the oscillator's frequency to be representative of a manifestation of micturition in precursor to a CNS agonal episode derived laryngospasm attack, while in another embodiment, a switching structure provides for the energizing of an alarm configuration that injects its modulation into the signal circuitry of a baby listening device, and in yet another embodiment, provides for the switching on of a code modulator and thereto connected propagation device in a manner for propagating the information of manifestation of micturition to an independent capture accommodation connected to a compatible signal converter that is conceptualized upon such code's acquisition to consequently cause the transition of a switching faculty, the configuration of which, results in a bi-directionally spliced signal flow of which one is directed to initiate the tasking of a multi-ported microprocessor that controls an ACLS arrangement operationally architectured to induce increased negative intrathoracic pressure relief when not cancelled by supervising personnel or the microprocessor itself accessing the receipt of data that is comprised of co-processed signals.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
This invention relates to a system for detecting the moment of micturition 
in babies. 
More particularly, this invention relates to a system which will interdict 
enuresis alarm circuitry incorporated in it or attached to it from being 
tricked into switching itself on when in fact the sensor striping, 
screens, clips or stripes used in and with swaddles or latest embodiment 
the plastic layered disposable diaper is not wet with urine but 
condensation permeated. 
An inspection of the numerous art precursive to this invention amply 
demonstrates that enuresis monitors continue to present a challenge to 
practitioners in the art. 
Although in the past, discoveries have resulted from a need to cater to the 
more obvious and embarrassed group that comprises higher age groups, our 
investigations have uncovered a critical area not previously challenged by 
others. Namely that a properly conceived micturition detector, when 
conceptualized standing alone or configured as an integrally featured 
structure of a disposable diaper, could possess the ability to alert a 
mother or other person to prognose agonal motor activity that is commonly 
associated with 85% of "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" related deaths. 
Because a CNS agonal episode of motor activity triggers a voiding of a 
baby's bladder, a prompt reaction with proper management of known 
resuscitation techniques will invariably result in a reduction of deaths 
caused by asphyxia or increased intrathoracic pressure resulting from 
involuntary neonatal laryngospasm, a condition that in babies has been 
diagnosed to be not unrelated to the common spasmodic "hiccough" generally 
well tolerated in higher age groups. 
Whereas the authoritative Merck Manual, fourteenth edition, published by 
Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, indicates that annually some 
10,000 infant deaths reflect a "SIDS" (i.e., crib death) related 
classification, any help that breaks new ground in the art and can 
contribute to promoting fewer deaths, will obviously be beneficial to the 
public. By analogy, whereas 1 in every 350 live births in the United 
States of America terminates as a fatality to "SIDS," that statistic 
constitutes an unacceptable ratio by any measure, and it is to the 
improvement of that statistic that the novelty of this invention is 
addressed. 
Although it is acknowledged that most voidings are generally not agonal 
episode related, a cautious attitude is nevertheless properly indicated, 
in particular, where for some medical reason or other reason, the 
parent(s) is precluded from conceiving a further offspring. 
In the past, numerous systems have been conceived which purported to be 
micturition event monitors, but most suffered to one degree or other from 
an unacceptable susceptability to switching "ON" in response to mediums 
other than urine. 
Notwithstanding in diversity remarkable and without doubt creative, the 
teachings of the prior art, taken broadly, have either not become 
commercially reproducible or have not seen their commercial production 
because of a failure to perform in real life as true micturition event 
monitors. 
While it is true that the majority of the prior art has characterized 
itself as micturition event monitors, the assumed characterization has 
been found to possess little more than a grain of truth owing to the prior 
art having unfortunately misplaced its reliance on an erroneous 
proposition concerning the means to economically capture, identify and 
staff off the associated electronics from switching itself "ON" when 
micturition had not taken place. 
Putting the case to point, the prior conceptions have failed to recognize 
the novelty that the effluent of urine offers a specific and measurable 
advantage over equally present and sharing mediums that generalized 
comprise perspiration condensation, related crotch surface lubricants, and 
higher up, involuntary nocturnal saliva escapes, and accordingly, urine's 
identification not being an easily palpable medium by heretofore 
arrangements or constituents of cloth or wire, no matter how ingeniously 
crafted. To their credit, some are indeed creditably more confortable than 
others in modern day applications where disposable diapers constitute the 
normal attire of babies whether berthed in the crib or on the go with 
today's traveling moms, but that is not the primary issue that we are 
speaking to. 
It is in this misconceived concept that each prior patentee(s) alleges his 
or her invention an improvement over the referenced antecedent art, and 
has accordingly offered forth ever more unwieldly or commercially 
difficult to duplicate constructions for their "sensing" extensions or 
related peripherals to try and help overcome the propensity of associate 
alarm circuitries from being fooled into switching "ON" at the onset of 
perspiration condensation in the crotch area--instead of waiting and 
holding off switching said associated alarm circuitries "ON," until the 
event of actual micturition had factually manifested itself. 
Quite obviously, none of the prior art has conceived the palpability of 
micturition manifestation by means of a sweep frequency oscillator 
terminating in a predesignated ratio demodulation system as indicated by 
the technique shown in this invention. 
Whereas some early art characterized by U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,812,757; 3,696,357 
and 4,163,449 downplay the tragic interference and "masking effect" that 
perspiration condensation problems in diapers cause systems when trying to 
acquisition the manifestation of micturition, by providing "sensitivity" 
potentiometers, as if thereby could obviate the preemptory interference 
caused by perspiration condensation imitating partial enuresis. Regal U.S. 
Pat. No. 4,163,449 in particular appears oblivious to its intrinsic 
limitations to a successful employment in neonatal management, by the 
obvious necessity that a baby would have to sleep naked and without the 
sanitary benefit of a diaper. This is so on account of the very nature of 
a baby's usually wearing of a diaper, and diapers, by reason of 
incorporated "elastic gathers," entrapping any effluent of urine from 
seepage into and soiling of the baby crib's sheeting, thereby consequently 
rendering any Regal or a likewise sensor bedpad device such as the Shuman 
U.S. Pat. No. 3,778,570, to be not only ineffective and superfluous, but 
to also be incompatible with ancillary baby care products as envisioned by 
the Friesen U.S. Pat. No. 4,438,771, entitled "Passive Contactless Monitor 
For Detecting Cessation of Cardiopulmonary Activity." Our invention on 
the other hand, can be used with any presently envisionable ancillary baby 
care products without concern on the part of parent or medical 
practitioner; and further, does provide numerous accessories for 
adaptation to its employment in unusual circumstances such as would be 
desirable with elderly users of disposable briefs because of loss of 
bladder control, available among others under the brand names of "Depends" 
or "Attends," as manufactured by the company of Procter & Gamble; and 
further still, will invariably hold off triggering any range of 
conceivable alarm circuitries, including unobtrusive pocketable tremblers, 
in the absence of a true micturition manifestation. 
Other early art characterized by U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,127,538; 2,687,721; 
3,245,068; 3,460,123; 3,971,371; 4,106,001 and 4,212,295 have skipped 
altogether and taught naught that might have shed light on the difficulty 
of suppressing premature perspiration-caused switching "ON" of the signal 
control apparatus, because the conceivers of the art simply had not 
conceptualized or could offer to the consumer a viable alternative to a 
knotty problem, which consequently left it up to the consumer to deal with 
the occurrence of false alarms in each own's fashion. Where we have been 
able to observe a definite limitation with the Regal patent, we are 
likewise disposed to identify that the Shuman patent similarly require 
that a baby lay naked in order for the Shuman device to function as 
prescribed, and it is for that reason, and the relational fact that all 
linen and blanketing would thereby find their repeated contamination 
conferred an undesirable coloration, that an objectionable appearance of 
uncleanliness has limited the desirability to lay babies naked on these 
manner of sensor bedpads, whatever may have been their means of 
construction, whether assembled by sandwiching absorbent pads and metal 
screens, or manufactured by laminating from multiple supply reels, or by 
stitching with metalized thread, a plurality of thin current conductive 
sensor strips to a predominant side of a presized thin bedpad of 
supportive substrate. 
Taking a different approach, Baisden U.S. Pat. No. 3,508,235 sought to 
leverage a galvanic principal comprising dissimilar metals (i.e., 
zinc-silver) to generate a voltage in the presence of urine, but again 
failure was inevitable because, by test, fluids other than urine measured 
confusingly comparable EMF, using a JOHN FLUKE model 8200A D.V.M. 
The majority of subsequent art characterized by U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,530,855; 
3,696,357; 3,818,468 and 4,191,950, broke new ground by employing a 
free-running multivibrator conceived to output a fixed frequency upon the 
conductivity of urine simulating the closing of an electrical switch. But 
once again that art refused to fulfill its promise to hold off from 
switching "ON" except in the event of actual micturition, and finds its 
subsequent abandonment as preferred in U.S. Pat. No. 4,191,950, where 
based upon United Kingdom Pat. No. 1,174,346, Levin U.S. Pat. No. 
4,191,950, interposes a variation on a Schmitt trigger between the 
"sensor" and a fixed frequency outputting into a speaker. 
Reviewing the more recent art visible in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,191,950; 
4,484,573 and 4,539,559, and purchasing their marketed embodiments, we 
found the inventors denying the claimed exclusiveness of conception--by 
confessing in related instruction manuals, namely. "While the baby 
urinated or sweated much, its moisture will drive the switch of the baby 
bell." And indeed, multiple units procured to exclude defective samples 
have confirmed that all of them invariably preemptively triggered "ON" 
upon coming into contact with nothing more than oral saliva. 
Studying the most recent proponents of the art, embodied by U.S. Pat. Nos. 
4,356,818; 4,484,573; 4,539,559; 4,653,491 and 4,688,027, we find that the 
Okada U.S. Pat. No. 4,653,491, is a progeny of our earlier Macias U.S. 
Pat. No. 4,356,818, in particular with respect to our unique 
longitudinally extended metal layer being covered with a layer of 
electrical insulating material (i.e., FIGS. 3a, Nos. 130 and 131; in FIG. 
3b, Nos. 13 and 26; and FIG. 13, Nos. 130 and 131. (all in the Macias 
patent)). Although essentially a tracing from our earlier patent, it 
should be noted that here again reliability is not guaranteed by the terms 
of the Okada patent (column 3, lines 1-7) in that had Okada included the 
features depicted in the Macias's patent as shown in FIGS. 8, 9, 10 and 
11, Okada need not have had to warn against variations arising in the 
distance separating his metal layers, and thus need not have had to 
caution against capacitance uncertainties which arise when Okada's metal 
layers get crushed in the crotch of the wearer. Furthermore, Okada makes 
clear that his conception relates to a quantitative measurement of 
perspirated condensation (i.e., water) by the change it engenders in 
capacitance, proportional to area, rather than a qualitative measurement 
of urine manifestation. 
As regards the Widener U.S. Pat. No. 4,688,027, we can appreciate the 
merits of his wipeable isolated molded sensor strip, although we cannot 
lose sight of the fact that in the Widener construction, placement of the 
strip appears to be critical in that only side of its "flats" is receptive 
to interrogating an adjacent surface--because only one side of the flats 
12 is provided with a pair of groovings 38 and 40, filled with conductive 
material 14 and 16. It appears to us that the better arrangement would 
have been to have had the obverse "flat" (i.e., back-to-back) be similarly 
arranged, but we also recognize that Widener might have elected not to 
similarly accomodate the obverse side of the "flats" because of 
encountered difficulties with cracking or indeed breaking off of lengths 
of the strip due to fatigue of the sensor strip assembly, thereby 
resulting in a premature shortening of the strip and rendering useless the 
most expensive part of the strip, namely, the molded yoke assembly 18 
comprising discrete resistors 30 and 32, and molded in place shielded 
cable 22 and plug 24. As will be further noted, the extreme emphasis 
Widener places on the use of shielded wire, by necessity infers that 
environmentally induced spikes or charges (i.e., by refrigerators, vacuum 
cleaners, etc.) will cause the proposed circuitry into unnecessarily 
triggering a false moist condition. Additionally, Widener has not 
acknowledged that there exists a 50/50 chance that the strip will not 
function when "For the primary application of sensing urine, sensor strip 
12 is placed in the bedding within an absorbant pad between the sensor 
strip 12 and the patient." (column 4, lines 66-68), this because many a 
person will inadvertantly place the active "flat" of the strip face down, 
and thus pointed away from the source of urination; or the end of the 
strip opposite to the yoke's opening as claimed by Widener to be 
functional as a securing location for affixation by clip (column 3, lines 
62-65), may even curl away or be involuntarily displaced to one side when 
the patient turns or moves in the restless tussle of sleep. Furthermore, 
it seems that Widener has left the erroneous impression that Shuman taught 
fabricating a urine-sensing pad on a roll which may be cut (supposedly by 
the consumer) to any desired length (column 1, lines 13-16). In fact a 
close reading of Shuman clearly discloses in column 1, lines 50-57, that a 
number of additional manufacturing steps are required before the product 
of the Shuman invention would have been ready for sale to the consumer, 
with Shuman's retail sales accordingly projected to have been on a 
pre-sized bedpad to bedpad basis. 
From a clinical perspective, none of the prior art has been entirely 
successful whether the art having spawned as the result of a reduction to 
practice inconsistent with comfortable wearing as conceived in U.S. Pat. 
No. 3,441,019, or more recently as a result of efforts to narrow or lower 
the acceptance range in which toggelling by the signal control means 
genuinely causes a fixed audio frequency signal generator means to 
activate, immaterial whether the input to the signal control means be 
referenced to the high rail as shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,441,019 and 
4,191,950, or predisposed by trickle resistor as taught in U.S. Pat. No. 
4,539,559. 
From a different perspective, we have become well acquainted with cessation 
of respiration monitors, especially by Hewlett-Packard, because back in 
the 1960's, when we were conducting studies on parasitic interactions with 
other connected devices then typically in use in hospitals' neo-natal care 
suites, it is quite true, although not stated in Friesen U.S. Pat. No. 
4,438,771, but referenced in Hochstein U.S. Pat. No. 4,279,257, that at 
that time, the most prominent of these devices, especially from the 
perspective of those available to the general public apart from the more 
specialized surgical suite instruments, that the instrument of choice was 
one that constituted slipping a retracting expansion belt about the chest 
of the patient, the umbilical cord of which was appropriately attached to 
a monitoring device placed on a table next to the patient's bed. Other 
devices not generally thought of as aspiration cessation monitors, but 
nevertheless could have been initially specifically so intended if had 
been intentionally so configured from their inception, are available in 
known and several variations on the theme presently known in the art as 
electronic snore depressors, a well known example for the study of this 
art and derivatives finding a good foundation in Crossley U.S. Pat. No. 
3,480,010. 
Although we respect the achievements made by Hochstein and Friesen, 
regretfully, neither the Friesen nor the Hochstein device will achieve 
their assumed popularity, because their employment will not prevent 
irreversible brain death, or severe tissue damage that will result (a) in 
permanent disability as a consequence of resuscitation applied too late, 
and, (b) as a result place the unfortunate parent(s) in a financial, 
emotional and spiritual struggle that is of enormous complication, this in 
essence because of oxygen deprivation of brain tissue cells that will have 
occurred before reflexive cardio-pulmonary relaxation will have 
permanently set in and connected alarms, designed to registering said 
relaxation as proposed by Friesen or Hochstein having sounded off. 
A parential's close monitoring, on the other hand, of baby's micturitional 
displays, especially during the afternoon napping period when the majority 
of SIDS attacks take place (i.e., a REM related Hallucinatory neural 
activity not having been determined dispositive of contributory 
excitation) makes its own positive statement, in particular given the fact 
that an agonal motor activity attack will in likeness to an idiopathic 
(e.g., birth trauma) epileptic seizure, result in fecal and urinary 
incontinence. Because of the short time span between agonal motor activity 
onset and a micturition display, a shortened reaction time is afforded by 
the use of our invention over the Friesen or Hochstein devices which by 
their inherent teachings will have patiently continued to average out the 
reflexive costal regional convolutions preceeding cardio-pulmonary 
collapse until long after our invention will have sounded off, and in 
accordance with this prompt attention afforded by our invention over the 
Friesen or Hochstein inventions that react too late in the agonal cycle, 
the baby under properly caring observation need never face the prospect of 
being subjected to suffering from such prolonged oxygen deprivation that 
sadly erodes the practicability that went into the creativety underlying 
the Friesen or Hochstein inventions. 
In recent years, high performance electrochemical detection has become 
commonplace, with salinity and conductivity meters available to anyone. 
Although the laboratory or industrial setting suits the available means, 
nothing is available to mothers in the scope of a device no larger than a 
couple of "half-a-dollar coins" stacked flat one on top of the other. 
Regardless of the modes employed, be it by amperometric detection or across 
wheatstone bridges, heretofore available means have failed to 
conceptualize the novelty of "task specific toggelling," and all suffer 
from undue encumberances which include the need for a minimum off-set and 
temp-drift in the front end interface, a costly and blown proposition for 
the intended application; a manipulatable bias adjustment screw with its 
size and need for precision; an indicating device such as a meter or 
"magic eye" to show when the base line has been appropriately adjusted 
when null determining the bias potentiometer (10-turn); and last but not 
least in the case of electrochemical detectors, three (3) connecting leads 
feeding into the potentiostate out of conductivity cells generally made of 
glass or plastic material (configurated as gel-filled bulbs or double 
junction wands), or in the case of probes usual with salinity and 
conductivity meters, precious metal plated electrodes rigidly constrained 
in a strict relationship in probe housings and by their very inherent 
requirements, utterly unsuitable to monitor in the area of interest by 
baby. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
By contrast to heretofore teachings, we instead, herewith have path found 
for others what we are informed and believe to be non-obvious, and a novel 
and better way to interrogate, manage and display accurately, information 
captured in acquisitioning the occurrence of a specific biological fluid 
in a particular area of interest. 
It is another object of this invention to provide an interlock means 
connectable into the logic program of a task scaled cardioverter (ACLS) 
procedure to cause a baby's aspiration modelity to react hypercinesiatic 
until defeat of the strangle hold that accompanies the onset of the grip 
of increased negative intrathoracic pressure as a result of laryngospasm 
(crib death). 
It is a further object of this invention to provide mothers with a true 
agonal episode triggered micturition event monitor that is comparable in 
quality to what we have gratefully become accustomed to with the venerable 
NAGRA.RTM. self-contained tape recorder conceived by Mr. Stephan Kudelski. 
It is still another object of this invention not to provide mothers with 
yet another of the already numerously compared water activatable alarms, 
but instead, to provide mothers and health care providers with a signature 
reactive micturition occurrence alarm, conceptualized and addressed to 
economically offering various levels of sophistication in execution 
without losing sight of maintaining actuality of occurrence assurance in 
furtherance of crib death crisis abatement management. 
It is yet another object of this invention to provide an open architecture 
permissive of additions, substitutions or creative integration with for 
instance peak limiting, detection diode pulse integrated op amplified 
indicators wherever handshaking is expeditious the multifarious 
implementations that our invention would support. 
It is yet still another object of this invention to provide a "convertible" 
casing that may find implementation on its own or be the host to an 
optional guest "biological fluid sensor strap." 
It is yet further an object of this invention to provide the consumer with 
an agreeably soft, sub-divisible and above all, cosmetically appealing 
"biological fluid sensor strap" that finds its simplicity in the 
application of one or more transverse folds to a single master cover 
sheet. 
It is an object of this invention to provide mothers with a "sensor" 
construction novelly made out of a single supporting sheet, that when 
provided with excised portions of sheet, imparts an hourglass 
characterization to said sheet for affixing as an optional inner lining to 
diapers (disposable or washable), or as a pillowing inner lining that 
becomes intrinsic to other materials positioned flush with the traditional 
polyethelene sheet which comprises the attribute of disposable diapers. 
An object yet further is to provide a novel removably affixable crib death 
prophylactic device which will detect and alert to the occurrence of 
urination whenever a suitably adapted guest object, whatever part it may 
comprise in a diaper's construction, becomes moistened by the 
manifestation of a liquid or substance of dielectric constant as defined 
by urine. 
An object further still is to provide an adaptable invention that exceeds 
the precision of prior acquisition, recognition and alarm switching means 
that may also be incorporatable with prior hardware means, thereby to 
improve in general the performance of configured means embodied in the 
prior art. 
Further objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the 
following description proceeds and the features of novelty which 
characterize this invention will be pointed out with particularity in the 
claims annexed to and forming a part of this specification.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
Although intended to be executed commercially according to features of 
I.sup.2 L or comparable micropower technology, in fact any technology may 
be substituted in this invention, but should include as shown in FIG. 1, a 
suitably dress "sensor" comprising a fibrous dress 1 aspected with two 
coextensive conductive rows 2 and 3 for injecting into an acquisition 
conditioning means 4 that embraces in the preferred, but not only, 
embodiment a capacitor free ring oscillator 5 preferably demonstrating an 
ability to sweep a comparatively wide frequency span pursuant to a ref 
input 6 change of .congruent.10 nano ampere while operating down to a V+ 
voltage at line 7 of 0.7 volts, shown here by way of example comprised of 
a number of NPN transistors 8, 9, 10 and 11 which bias both the base and 
collectors of an odd number of PNP transistors 12, 13 and 14, and sourcing 
its output appearing at 15 through an optional divided-by-N number shaping 
prescaler 16 into the input of any style of phase-locked loop decoder 18 
(by "Samsung of Korea" LM567L (4000 dice per wafer), available), the 
configuration of which is so arranged, that with it switching means output 
19 or the frequency converting decoder 18 only turns subsequent alarm 
system circuitry 20 and by way of example sounding device 21, "ON," when 
the output frequency at 15 (or 17) falls within the pre-assigned detection 
bandwidth of the decoder 18. 
Because the dielectric presented by a micturition event by baby materially, 
notwithstandingly minutely, alters the prevailing dielectrics usually 
found in the location of interest by babies, consequently, said change in 
dielectric drives oscillator output 15 to a higher frequency with urine 
than do other prevailing dielectrics found in and around the traditional 
swaddling that covers babies. 
Given the fact that tests of this embodiment, have by example provided us 
with frequency sweeps up to 11.00 KHz for various condensations, 
lubricants and saliva (and incidently also tap water), and for a 
micturition event in a sweep marking time at 43.00 KHz, it is clear to us 
that this expanded representation of even the minutest of changes in 
dielectrics bathing the dress 1 of "sensor" 2 and 3, to be of monumental 
interest and benefit to a mother's peace of mind and the management of 
babies' comfort in general. 
Owing to the conception of our invention, wherein the tone decoder 18 will 
refuse to synchronize with any signature frequency less than by the 
example set forth herein, said benchmark tested 43.00 KHz, we have 
presented a non-obvious and novel means that will disregard the lower 
frequency of 11.00 KHz which in this examplary analysis represents all 
manner of dielectric condensations other than urine. Whereas previous 
switches including by test the "ubiguitous" National Semiconductor LM 1801 
will have preemptively toggelled "ON" at the onset of perspiration, 
namely, never having reached behind the veil, or if you will, pierced the 
masking affectation of perspiration mimicking an enuresis manifestation, 
the present "modulated micturition into diaper detector" means keeps its 
promise to hold off from switching alarm means "ON" unless and until baby 
has actually micturitioned. 
Whilst the disclosed configuration, or any comparable style of embodiment 
within the scope of variable frequency oscillator substitution, including 
function generators or RC means of VCO's (by "Advanced Linear Devices 
Inc., of Sunnyvale, CA" ALD 555-1 being functional from a supply voltage 
of just 1 V, available), will give satisfactory "resolution of analysis" 
as to the condition for which baby is being monitored, those wishing to 
make adjustment either upwards of or downwards of the disclosed span of 
sweep by in this example the CCO set forth by way of illustration herein, 
may do so at (a) the acquisition conditioning means 4 by incorporation of 
for instance a current regulator diode (by "Ishizuka Electronics Corp., of 
Edogawa-ku," Tokyo 133, Japan, available), a resistor network, or other 
op-amp conceptions of modifiable interface in the source bias coupling, 
(b) by increasing or decreasing the number of transistor pairs in the ring 
thereby loading with a different storage time constant presented by each 
PNP transistor added or deleted, (c) by connecting a capacitor 22 across 
the V+ rail 7 and the output 15 (Observe that the capacitor 22 ought never 
be connected between output 15 and ground 23, for to do so could result in 
a high current surge current when V+ 7 is applied to a discharged 
capacitor 22.), or (d) as previously noted, by interpositioning an 
oscillator energy shaping network between oscillator 5 and the decoder 18. 
However, it should be noted that any downward shifting of frequency sweep 
may require a reconfiguration of the corresponding decoder 18, and also of 
the skirting of the center frequency to which the decoder 18 will lock, 
i.e., 14% being normal, and thus may require a trade off of more circuit 
board real estate than is worth any V+ consumption that may be saved. In 
any event, battery consumption is not of any major concern because of the 
rechargeable nature of Ni-Cad or similar power cells 24. 
Despite having shown a particularly preferred embodiment of the "modulated 
micturition into diaper detector," as herein disclosed by specifics of a 
bare boned example for purposes of illustration of the invention, it 
should be understood that some potential private label buyers of the 
modulated micturition into diaper detector may request to have various 
bells and whistles, modifications or substitutions integrated in or 
excised from the marketable versions of the present invention. Naturally, 
accommodation is anticipated and recognized, with all variables of means 
that indicate themselves suitable included within the scope of the 
embodiment's embrace, an example of interesting peripheral, not exclusive 
of other and various possibilities, accruing in the form of one or more 
chip voltage (current) regulator(s) or multiplier(s) (shadowed in at 25), 
as may easily be conceptualized in self executing cycles, appropriately 
interfaced between the power cells' positive d-c power line 27 and the V+ 
rail 7, wherein as herewith proposed, each such means 25 would be provided 
with a suitable error flag input 26 (i.e., consisting of perhaps a voltage 
or comparable sensing means, concurrently provided with a signal delay 
arrangement (not shown), the whole thereby functioning to disconnect said 
d-c power line 27 from the V+ rail 7 as in this one of possible instances 
comprising loads 4, 5, (16) and 18, upon a predetermined stay of 
instruction execution), so that such input 26 would enable the regulator 
25 to periodically be programed to shut itself down upon receipt of an 
appropriately styled signal, as might be secured from a feed back 
connection 28 tied into an electrical terminal finding its source of 
origin at the output 19 of the decoder 18, or someplace elsewhere in the 
subsequent alarm circuitry 20, all of which would result, practically 
speaking, in decoupling the d-c power line 27 from cells 24 to said 
acquisition conditioning 4, oscillator 5 and decoder 18 means, thereby 
finding its interdiction by 25 from flowing to V+ rail 7, after the 
decoder 18, by means of output 19, had signaled to said error flag input 
26, the acquisition and recognition of oscillator output 15, in such 
preassigned detection bandwidth, as will have caused tripping "ON," and 
generation of signal, to and in subsequent alarm circuity 20, 
consequencing in maximum utilization of d-c power line 27. 
If as could occur, the just described mode finds construction by some as 
overkill, even with a simplification of regulator means 25 by a 
supplanting with an "FET" switching circuit, or other resetable logic 
switching interface, including squelch action type bias interdiction 
means; justification is rational when configured with the interpositioning 
of a radio frequency link at either of two probable break points located 
at 19 or 15. Whereas some prior art has disclosed the desirability of a 
radio frequency linking (see U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,460,123; 3,508,235 and 
3,818,468), none has in actuality conceived of a system workable within 
the real life constraints of feasibility; the object not conceived being 
that a continuous transmission of unmodulated RF carrier, no matter even 
if transmitted in a repetitive style of on and off pulsations as suggested 
in U.S. Pat. No. 3,818,468, possesses any redeemable characteristics under 
Federal Communications Commission rules and advisories by Direction of the 
Administrator, or constitutes responsible management of a finite available 
resource. Also, no immunity from jamming interference in the RF domain 
results from the teachings in the cited prior art, with false alarms 
occurring as a matter of conceptualization. 
Although our looking glass has touched bases with such proprietary 
alternate mode alternatives we have developed as by example along the 
lines of a quasi unterminated low impedence input of a modified high gain 
acquisition conditioning analog amplifier means, the braodband output 
noise of which (i.e., white or pink) decreases in a predictable manner 
upon its input being progressively input terminated by perspiration and 
thereupon enuresis, thereby when injected forward through an envelope 
detector shaping network would by reason of threshold differential 
sampling in associated circuitry, enable a comparator's logic to send the 
appropriate enabling signal to a tone generator microcomputer IC (i.e., by 
"Suwa Seiko" or "United Microprocessing Co." of Japan, no U.S.A. 
equivalent being available), for melodiously indicating (i.e., by means of 
a Piezo tone transducer as available from "Murata Mfg. Co., of America," 
or "Gulton Industries, Inc." of New Jersey 08840) when progressive 
electrical short-circuiting of said acquisition conditioning means' input 
had consequential to the enhanced quantitatance of an enuresis event, 
caused sufficient quieting of said acquisition conditioning means' 
connected analog amplifier's output noise; the lower parts count for 
micro-miniaturization, and advantages of lower cost for the measurement of 
medium of interest offered by herein conceptualization, inclines us, 
nonetheless, that in the two part embodiments of RF styles of envisioned 
signal coupling, to advise the user of utilisation of the best mode 
disclosed in FIG. 1. 
With reference to FIGS. 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e and 2f, and FIGS. 3a and 3b, we 
have respectively, illustrated two alternate embodiments featuring 
enlargements of sorts of the basic, best mode disclosed in FIG. 1. 
An interested observation will readily reveal that the underlying 
configuration shown in FIG. 1 is maintained throughout FIGS. 2a, 2b and 
2f, and FIGS. 3a and 3b, albeit in proposition of at least two possible 
fragmentations of the preferred embodiment, thereby suitably arranging for 
an accommodated linking with magnetic/RF styles of coupling by 
propagation, and co-extensive capture means, or infrared radiation 
techniques. 
Whereas this chapter splits this invention into continuous intensive care 
and general burst usage models, respectively, this characterized 
limitation is merely circumstantial for limiting purposes of this paper's 
volume, and in no way should be construed to be exclusive of any 
interchangeability of enhancement features that may readily be conceived 
or practiced by practitioners familiar in practicing the art when once 
familiarized with the best mode herewith, regardless whether it be in 
attribute, or in tribute of the fundamental conceptualization of this 
invention, which by mode, has been demonstrated as previously unenvisioned 
and unanticipated, and is materially novel in its advancement of the art 
that is well above and beyond any antecedent reductions to practice in the 
field of enuresis event reporting systems. 
With reference to FIGS. 2a, 2b and 2d, we show a first and a second 
structure comporting in general to a propagation 100 and capture means 200 
catering to a modulated micturition into diaper system. Although no 
specific shape is delineated for either said propagation 100, or said 
capture means 200, it is clear that said means ought to be based upon a 
minimum of volume so as not to be obstructive in their employment by 
mothers or nurses. However, for said propagation means 100, a pleasant 
configuration might nonetheless be as envisioned in FIG. 2a, wherein not 
unlike that one popularized by ladies' powder compacts of years yore, 
there is included an upper 101, and a lower 102, cavernous housing 
symbolic of the powder and puff bay in the lower wing, and the reflective 
mirror bay in the upper wing, of a lady's folding compact; each of said 
first 101, and second 102, respectively independently sealed off housings 
being hinged together with a foldable or pivoting means in the general 
area at 103, as makes permissive said housings 101 and 102 to be folded or 
fitted captively to each other or optionally releasably fitted into each 
other with any manner of conceivable retaining means (not shown), or be 
conceptualized to function as an articulatable receiver for purposes of 
thereinbetween mechanically and electrically removably vising on to one 
end of an optional guest "biological fluid sensor strap", the combination 
of said independently partitioned cavernous structures thereby providing a 
single interactive unit when assembled around, for example as shown in 
FIG. 2b, a unitary or two part interconnectable hourglass shaped flexible 
printed circuit board 104, flexibly hinged over at 105, which can include 
being appropriately dressed and embodying conductive screening means with 
alternating hot melt insulating ink and hot melt type graphite 
electroconductive ink as available on a strip-away polyester base film 
(i.e., by "Elform" of Reno, Nev. 89510), to communicate electrical power 
106 and ground 107 between a removably installed energy cell 108 
positioned through a closeable opening (not shown) provided to one of said 
cavernous structures, preferably 102, and a coextensive surface mounted 
VLSI circuitry 109 comprising in like and kind such antecedently described 
modulated micturition into diaper detector means as might by way of the 
example herein embrace a microprocessor cycled power line regulator with 
interrupter flag inputs and outputs 110, an acquisition conditioning cum 
sweep oscillator 111, a modulation accepting RF transmitter 112, and an 
endorsed aerial means 113 originating at the output of said transmitter 
means 114, the whole VLSI 109 as such being conveniently positioned inside 
of the opposite one of said cavernous structures, preferably 101. To 
secure an externally accessible means whereby accessories could be 
connected to propagation means 100 to intercommunicate with the area of 
measurement of interest being interrogated by suitable "biological fluid 
sensor strap," or indeed directly by unit 100 itself if accordingly 
conceptualized, thus to enable a wide variety of handshaking with said in 
cavern enclosed circuitry, we propose connecting at 115 a "flexible 
circuit heat seal connector" appendage flapper 116 (by "Elform"), for 
purposes of extracting through the back plate of caverns 101 and 102 to 
its exposure and utilization necessary first 117 and second 118 "sensor" 
tracers intrinsic to said acquisition conditioning input 119 and 120 
situated on circuit board 104. Obviously, circuit board 104 could itself 
provide such an appendage if accordingly conceived. To wit, tracers that 
may be thereby arranged to extend outward onto the place 123 from within 
either of said cavities 101, or 102, so as to enable their being affixed 
by means into place snug to either one of the outside surfaces at 121 or 
122 as these surfaces are located opposite to each other in the place 123 
constituting said vising area where housings 101 and 102 flatten against 
each other when flush; or when adequately lengthened at 124, can be folded 
back upon itself at 124 over the outside circumference of either of said 
housings 101, or 102, at 125 or 126, respectively, and thereupon easily be 
affixed laid down on either of said outside curvature(s) 125 or 126; or 
simply be brought out of any cavity of interest to self same cavity's 
overt surface of curvature by suitable means of trespass and affixing by 
means in place, or indeed, by any or other of surrogate mechanical and 
electrical means for purpose of interfacing with an enuresis event. It 
will thus be understood that said single interactive unit 100 comprising 
101 and 102, when used by itself, can simply be popped into the space in 
between baby's skin and the swaddling wrapping around baby's bottom, or, 
if employed with the optional "biological fluid sensor strap", with or 
without affixable gripping section, be removably affixed to some outer 
garment, or even the swaddling itself, by means of by example, clasp 127 
as shown in FIG. 2c, that may be removably fitted to unit 100 by provision 
of any derivative of the depicted periclasping extension(s) 128 and 129, 
that may be keyed to fit one continuous or two companion key way receivers 
at 130 (and 131) girding unit 100. 
Following through with but one example of the RF conception of envisioned 
modulated micturition into diaper detector signal coupling means, receiver 
housing 200 as shown in FIG. 2d, would preferably include an aerial 201 
feeding the capture of the modulated, ergo, coded transmission into a 
monolithic radio IC 202 (i.e., by "Telefunken GmbH of D-7100 Heibronn, 
West Germany" U 4062 B being particularly well integrated, stable and of 
low noise type), the output of which 203, after its demodulation and 
conditioning according to desire, is transferred forward to the input 204 
of a monolithic single chip phase-locked loop tone decoder (i.e., by "Exar 
Corporation of Sunnyvale, CA 94088," XR-567), which is tuned to activate 
its output current steering switching means upon the detection of and 
comparison with an internally pre-designated frequency, all consequencing, 
as it will, in any concurrence of the externally introduced and internally 
generated frequencies thus indicating to the decoder IC 205 the occurrence 
of a micturition event at the propagation means 100, and therein 
constitute an order to the switching means of decoder IC output 206 of 
capture means 200, to sink an electrically connected alarm device 207 or 
other senses stimulating means in a load current of up to 100 mA without 
the addition of any additional peripheral, save of course for an 
electrical energy source as may be any type of an interruptably sourceable 
direct current means 208. 
Whilst undoubtedly it may to some also be of interest to know at all times 
as to whether moisture as distinct from an enuresis event exceeds nursing 
criteria for the confines constituting that immediacy located at the 
touching of baby's skin by swaddling means clothing the baby, realization 
is available, simply, and cost effectively, by nothing more than the 
addition of a second tone decoder 209 for instance, of like and kind as 
primary tone decoder 205, and providing second decoder 209 with its own 
attention getting means 210, ergo, said second decoder's input 211 being 
connected in like and kind manner to radio output 203 as the primary 
decoder 205 but distinguished by having its internally pre-designatable 
PLL generator frequency so tuned as to coincide with such lower frequency, 
which propagation means 100 makes representation of, upon sensing the 
occurrence of perspiration across the propagation means' acquisition 
conditioning means. 
As a further enhancement of our system, we also anticipate that a perhaps 
removably fittable grating shield 132 as shown in FIG. 2e, be attachable 
to or integrally incorporated with the outer curvature 126 of suggested 
propagation means 100, thereby to befit purposefully the emplacement of 
said lengthened flapper 116. 
Notwithstanding no specific shape having been delineated in the 
accompanying drawings for the capture means 200, any portable shape may of 
course be adopted. However, we profess having achieved especially good 
results by conceptualizations that include having said RF capture aerial 
201 or infra-red receptors, and in fact the entire capture means 200, be 
removably built into or comprising an integral part or structural member 
415 of any baby crib, any baby stroller, any infant's playpen 416 or 
dislodgable constraining and specialized furniture in general. 
FIGS. 3a, and 3b, reallege in block diagram graphics, most of the features 
previously asserted in FIGS. 1, and 2d, but now incorporating a modified 
special feature in the form of a different circuit splitting arrangement 
which may be used with any style or number of circuitries of addition or 
the embrace of an optionally shown self-identification feature for 
utilization in the field of employment such as in crowded nurseries, post 
surgical stations, or in health care wards tending to the specialized 
needs of the geriatrically needy. 
Once again we reiterate a propagation means 300 as shown in FIG. 3a, and a 
capture means 400 as shown in FIG. 3b, as co-relate to antecedently 
nominated means as shown in FIGS. 2b, and 2d, respectively, although in 
the forthwith configuration, propagation means 300 (100) does not 
propagate, as hitherto disclosed, as the result of the propagator's 
carrier frequency means (113) being modulated by the acquisition's sweep 
generator output (112), and thus the propagated signal (114) being a 
reflection, in real time, of the actual modulation product occurring as a 
direct and proximate result of the medium encountered either directly 
(116), or indirectly (via optional "biological fluid sensor strap"), by 
the acquisition conditioning means (111), and concatenately, the extracted 
band of frequency signal processed by the capture means (202) being 
limited only by the number of separately tuned decoders (205, 209, etc.) 
branched to the receiver's demodulator output (206) (a frequency counter 
with digital display substituting for frequency tuned decoders being a 
matter of personal preference and ability to pay for its increased cost), 
but instead is limited to propagating the issue of a micturition event 
pursuant to a conception idealized not in particular for single units 
intended for use in a home or apartment environment, but rather for 
institutional usage where multiple units are expected to function in close 
proximity to each other as would be usual in multiple bed wards where 
patients are bedded in close adjacency to each other, and the units as 
shown in FIG. 3b by the letters "A" and "B" therefore needing 
conceptualization with a self identification feature which would draw 
attention to the particular unit calling attention to itself. 
Walking the block diagram graphics of FIG. 3a, we show a modified 
propagation means 300, that is characterized by embodying a "biological 
fluid sensor strap" 301 connectable acquisition conditioning means cum 
sweep oscillator assembly 302, the conditioned output of which 303, is 
electrically connected to the input 304 of a signal converter means such 
as a heretofore illustrated embodiment in the style of a pre-tuned 
monolithic single chip PLL tone decoder 305 (or as is shown, an A/D 
decoder interfaced with a logic compatible gate switch by way of example), 
the logic output of which 306, upon its activation in the presence of a 
micturition event occurring across sensors 307 and 308 connected to the 
"biological fluid sensor strap" 301, transfers electrical current to both 
the Volts connection 309 of a programmable monolithic sign generation IC 
310 perhaps of the DTMF variety (in all likelihood any CMOS LSI version of 
the venerable MM53120N by National Semiconductor of Sunnyvale, CA 94086), 
and the Volts connection 311 of a (300 Mhz-800 Mhz), suggestive, RF 
carrier generator 312 whose in feed 313 is connected to the data out 
terminal 314 of IC 310. With reference to FIG. 3a, there is also 
illustrated an antenna 316, and a DC source of electrical potential 315, 
perhaps a rechargeable lithium power cell by "Moli Energy Limited of 
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5C 4G2," the power of which may be regulated and 
incorporate or have incorporated with it, a delayed power down feature 
that self-activates after, for instance, the appearance of substantial 
potential at decoder output 306. 
Although the capture means 400 as shown in FIG. 3b, will always be 
characterized "programmed" in a compatable mirror image of the by example 
proffered propagation means 300 as previously shown in FIG. 3a, any system 
as would be selected needs not only to be practiced according to personal 
preference, but also to be based upon the radiation limitations imposed by 
the governmental regulations enacted by the agencies functioning under the 
jurisdiction and laws of the particular country to which we will export 
our invention. Therefore, any substitution of wireless linking means that 
gives the same "indivudual code programmable" result between individual 
unit pairs such as the by way of example available means of a comparator 
designed to listen for a magnetic signal emitter as is available through 
"Dallas Semiconductor", of Dallas, Tex. 75244, is both conceived and 
readily achievable, "including by DTMF means or in its simplest form, by 
means of "Pulse Position Modulation" (PPM), as is usable with or without a 
carrier frequency. A case in point being, when in response to the 
propagation means 300 having comceptually been outfitted with a 32 or more 
code PPM (ultrasonic or) Infra-red LED transmitter and diode (i.e., 
substituted for 310 and 312, respectively, by a "Plessey Solid State of 
Irwine, CA 92714," SL490), the capture means 400 correspondingly embraces 
as (ultrasonic or) Infra-red diode or phototransistor array receiver 401 
(e.g., by "Texas Instruments of Dallas, " Tex. 75222), that is plugged 
into the (differential) input stage 402 and 403 of a dedicated 
preamplifier IC 404 (by "Plessey,"e.g., SL486), the output 405 of which 
interfaces with the input node 406 of a preferably latched output, code 
demodulating receiver IC 407 (by "Plessey," e.g., ML928/9). Of course, 
pursuant to preference or due to noise considerations, each diode may be 
provided with its own input stage, the outputs of which if such be the 
case might then have their outputs 405 et al., combined together at the 
input 406 of the demodulating receiver IC 407. Further still, in larger 
units, inputs could be individually connected, in which case, a sequential 
strobing of the inputs to IC 407 could be accommodated. Customer and 
market place response will at all times dictate each country's preferred 
means of alarm 408 connected to the open drain drive outputs 409, 410, 
411, 412, et seq., of 407, and may conveniently be a directly driven 
nurse' station console mounted LED array, each single LED 413 being 
dedicated to signal the propagation of one of the several propagation 
means 300 in the system, or in fact any other alarm means permitted to 
function in each country. In the operation of capture means 400, rectified 
AC electrical power would be the electrical potential of choice for fixed 
station operation. Portable variants on the other hand, would find a 
(rechargeable) battery source 414 more advantageous. It should be 
appreciated that the foregoing examplary circuit components and values as 
given for the circuits of FIGS. 1, 2b, 2d, 3a and 3b, are for purposes of 
illustration only and to more particularly describe the nature of our 
conception and conceptuallizations--and are not intended as a limitation 
to for example utilization in numerous other applications requiring the 
herein expoused attributes. It should also be clear that whereas such 
arrangements have particular utility as a crib death (SIDS) warning 
device, it wll be apparent that numerous other arrangements and 
modifications may be devised and made by one skilled in the art without 
departing from the spirit, essence and scope of the posit invention. 
Referring to FIG. 4a, we show a novel means for constructing the 
antecedently mentioned optional "biological fluid sensor strap." To 
address the need for an inexpensive, easily manufactured strap, marketing 
considerations told us to never lose sight of the imperative that any 
strap manufacturing be limited in the amount of material triming 
operations needed, to result in a marketable product. As shown in FIG. 4a, 
the objective was achieved by the non-obvious means of novel conception 
wherein with the application of a single transverse fold to a square area 
of sheet, there results a biological fluid sensor strap that may be 
packaged for the consumer in a number of ways, including as an individual 
strap, in a bulk configuration permitting a strap by strap acquisition by 
the consumer, or a strap of enlarged surface area thereby to permit its 
addition to or substitution in place and stead of a conventional diaper's 
inner fibrous, non-woven web lining, either by the consumer, or a diaper 
manufacturer. 
More specifically, with the sensor unit shown in FIG. 4a, we outline a 
moisture-permeable porous sheet 501 that by reason of being folded over 
upon itself at the transverse fold 520, provides a first 530 and second 
504 layer construction and a terraced effect at the edge opposite to said 
fold 502. As will be noticed, the transverse fold 520 is arranged in such 
a manner that the second layer 504 extends away from the fold 520 for a 
distance that is shorter than the length away from said fold 520 provided 
said first layer 530. The reason that a peculiar length of layer 530 
comprising coextensive layer 505 is configured to extend beyond the edge 
506 of layer 504 resides in the fact that the resulting exposed inner 
surface 507 of layer 505, provides a convenient manipulatable platform 
pursuant to which, it makes possible to easily inject directly (or perhaps 
via an optional reuseable affixable gripping interface connector means) 
the "by fold held captive" connectors 508 and 509 into said appropriately 
styles spaced 123 of FIG. 2a, or in fact any other similarly dedicated 
port or mating feature, there to electrically and mechanically mate with 
the interrogating "sensor tracers" 117 and 118 of appendage flapper 11b as 
are intrinsic to said acquisition conditioning input 119 and 120 situated 
on circuit board 104. As will be understood the vising together of 
cavernous structures 101 and 102 thereby completes the depicted 
propagation means 100, means by obviating any need to pierce any layer of 
the guest "biological fluid sensor strap." 
The means, to keep affixed or fused to each other said touching layers 530 
and 504, can of course be in any configuration found convenient, and 
includes in its embrace wherein there is interleafed between layers 530 
and 504, a plexus of poly-film or of substantially equivalent material, 
the instant variation providing for an economical assembly, whereby said 
comparatively low melt plexus establishes an adhesive agent when layers 
530 and 504, are passed between heated pressure (optionally textured) 
rollers during this one of numerous possible variations on a process of 
manufacture. Naturally, a mulch of interwoven or predispersement of plexus 
derived fibres in a resultant special variation on the ubiquitous 
non-woven fiberous inner lining cloth commonly employed in the manufacture 
of disposable diapers would obviate said propounded interleafing and is in 
fact envisioned when the quantity warrents its special manufacture. 
Symbiotic, the conductors 508 and 509 should preferably be made of a 
non-rigid material, and may be slightly adhesive or made adhesivable to an 
adjacent or proximate surface by any configuration or intermediary means 
disclosing itself convenient including heat or/and pressure sealing. 
Although cost effectiveness considerations might support and argument that 
the best mode for the optional biological fluidm sensor strap would 
possibly reside in an undressed construction which implies a wipeable, to 
wit, reuseable configuration as would present itself as an unclothed 
arrangement as shown in FIG. 5, wherein a construction is envisioned 
comprised of a means of general equivalence or couched in terms of a 
fused/vulcanized mat 600 consisting of multiple rows of another or a hot 
melt non-conducting insulating ink means 601 alternating with another or a 
hot melt conductive graphite material means 602, said mat being flexible, 
said mat further being provided with longitudinal scoring lines 603 down 
the center of alternating rows of non-conducting insulating material 601 
thus to provide a built-in shearing means to assist with user in securing 
for him or herself a portion of the mat 600 consisting of a central 
unscored length of non-conducting material 601 shouldered on opposite 
edges of 601 by two conductive graphite material lengths 602, it is more 
probable that the affluent user would elect to use the means in FIG. 5 
clothed in a variation on the dressed construction propounded by FIGS. 4b 
and 4c herein. Naturally, the scoring or perforated feature 603 would then 
also find its shearing compliment incorporated to porous sheet 501. 
It should further be understood that touching layers 530 and 504 may also 
be fabricated in an oversized configuration thereby to emulate the 
traditional dimensions necessary to enjoy its substitution in place and 
stead of such moisture-permeable porous facing sheet which is 
substantially coextensive with the moisture-impermeable backing sheet 
material which forms a disposable diaper's outside surface. Said oversized 
configuration furthermore being packageable as autonomous diaper liners. 
It is still further contemplated, that in the scope of this invention, the 
conductive means 2, 3, 117, 118, 508, 509 or 602, need not necessarily be 
exclusive of any specific style or number of developing electrochemical 
conducting polymerizations employing ion insertion (doping) during the 
anodic oxidation for the generation of stable conducting polymers or 
conductive polymeric coatings, or fiberized means endowed or enhanced with 
a nickel or silver-loaded like electroconductive carrier finish. Other 
electroconductive embodiments applied by option of sputtering, 
vacuum-deposition, or manufactured by surfacing with a silver-loaded 
electroconductive finish either in commonality or indeed in bilateral 
dissimilarity, split between means 508 and 509 (e.g.), thereby to 
galvanically assist in driving said acquisition cum sweep generator 4, 111 
or 302, are embraced configurations within the envelope of this invention 
whenever it be found convenient dependent upon the specific generator's 
acquisition guard, or sensitivity, pursuant to interrogated developments 
therein. Different packaging styles of the optional biological fluid 
sensor strap are also contemplated whenever convenient, and may include 
mat 600 and/or sheet 501, or any mutation thereof being pre-sheared for 
the consumer into singly manageable straps. A still further enhancement to 
pre-sheated biological fluid sensor straps is shown in FIGS. 4b and 4c, 
where a novel removable contamination deterring flap 514 with integral 
pull tab, are shown fashioned from an unbearing extension of 
moisture-permeable porous first layer 530 that as shown in FIG. 4b, is 
provided with a second fold 512 commencing at the transverse edge 513 
where non-conductor 601 and conductors 602 terminate, and there be folded 
over to provide a third layer 514 brought down to bear over non-conductor 
601 and conductors 602, and a portion of second layer 504. Means for 
temporarily affixing third layer 514 to second layer 504 can be of any 
variety including a drop of adhesive applied at the touching of layers 514 
and 504 at 515, or by crimping together at the edges 516 and 517. 
Application of a perforated tear line 518 to the un-sheared 
moisture-permeable porous sheet 501, in the location of the second fold 
512, prior to sheet 501 being dressed to mat 600, will afford a simple 
disengaging feature for the user after peeling back third layer 514 from 
the assembled strap. In FIG. 4c, we show in substance as depicted in FIG. 
4b, with the substitution of a but cut 519, the addition of a second 
perforation 520, and pull loop 521, that may be laid down upon layer 514. 
Although the benefits of having an accurate crib death (SIDS) warning 
device will not be lost on anyone who has witnessed the trauma that 
results when parents recriminate themselves upon having suffered the loss 
of what was perhaps an only child, to sudden infant death syndrome, we 
continue to clinically evaluate means whereby to avert sudden infant death 
syndrome from taking its course upon the onset of what is nothing less 
than a bizarre paroxysm of asphyxiation through hypertonicity, in 
particular, should it happen that any one of the numerous types of alarm 
means that may have been outfitted to any one of the output nodes of any 
one of the various decoder means having worked correctly, nevertheless 
failed to timely catch the attention of supervising staff or one of the 
parents; e.g., mother having been deafened by the whirr of the electric 
vacuum cleaner, or perhaps been distracted by a neighbor's call, and thus 
resulted in what otherwise could have been an avoidable fatality. 
In the past, numerous efforts have been undertaken to surrogate the need to 
personally monitor baby at all times. Of the most prevelant types of baby 
sitters are "The Gerry Intercom" of U.S.A., the "Playskool" portable 
listening system and "The Mothercare Baby Alarm, model 7972" of Great 
Britain, type of means, whether hard wired or RF linked, as in the 
characterization of the hospital white embodiment of the Sony brand 
"Babycall" elecronic babysitter, another means that like the 
aforementioned styles, is ordinarily consisting of a sending means 
embodying at least one sound transducer means and transducer's signal 
transmitting means and a companion receiving means that embodies an 
amplification means that outputs into a signal indicating means, so as to 
let mothers by way of a remote microphone in baby's room presumably hear 
all necessary signals eminating from the nursery area. But the alleged 
peace of mind thus promised, is substantially deceiving, this the result 
from a tragic miscomprehension of the syndrome for which the mother seeks 
to monitor, because a SIDS related death, events rather silently without a 
cognizable outcry by baby. A striking feature which is supported by a 
major Seattle study in which not one SIDS case was observed to die. In 
other words, every single case was discovered lifeless after failing to 
awake from a nap. Although seventy-four percent of babies discovered 
decreased are found to have expired between 06:00 A.M. and 12:00 noon, but 
mostly between 07:00 A.M. and 09:00 A.M., with 16 percent found to having 
succumbed towards the evanescence of the 12:00 noon to 06:00 P.M. time 
frame that is to say, well within the watchful hours of the day, it is 
nevertheless a act, that without regard to a mother's best past efforts, 
including investing with "The Gerry Intercom" type of means, such efforts 
have proven unsatisfactory, wherein crib death, continues to unabatedly 
strike down babies. 
Of the numerous interconnections that we have investigated, including 
electrically packaging the entire capture means as an integrally 
configured part of components existing in baby's room listening device 
systems or the alarm output of alarm means 20, or 207, or 31b, or 408 into 
the microphone's signalling circuitry of such monitor means as "The Gerry 
Intercom" by an embodiment wherein the capture means is impaired means 
functionally arranged as a sender's means or trunking the output of 
capture means 200, or 300, or 400 to react into any of the numerous types 
of anti-burglar circuitry usually installed on premises whereby are 
activated house lights into a flashing or an otherwise convenient mode, 
the best mode interrogated, nonetheless, appears to be one that is 
contemplated to be procurable only pursuant to a doctor's prescription for 
those cases that lodge in the high risk category (Male Caucasian, Female 
African American) or having exhibited a genetic predisposition (Male 
Asiatic Indian) or a medical history of crib death susceptibility. 
The resuscitation support system 212 as shown in FIG. 2f, of choice, is a 
task scaled adaptation of any convenient cardioverter style means 213 that 
finds its electrical operation defined and programmed by a ported 214 
microprocessor means 215 that has one of its inputs connected into a 
decoder's output node 206, as shown in FIG. 2d. As shown in FIG. 2f, the 
means employed in the resuscitation support system 212 is configured so 
that induction of tetanic contractions in offending muscle by electrically 
stimulated reflexive hyperdistention, administered in successively 
augmented dosages to baby by way of perhaps an expandable belt means 
comprising electrodes 217 and 218, causes baby's aspiration modelity to 
react hypercinesiatic until defeat of the strangle hold that accompanies 
the onset of laryngospasm (SIDS). In promotion of minimal circulatory flow 
to the brain until medical attention arrives, we provide an IR illuminated 
photoelectric monitor head 219, or already known configured, configurated 
to supply the necessary cardiac information to the microprocessor 215. In 
using the present invention, the aforementioned IR pulse monitor head 219 
(or any other type monitor for that matter) is removably secured to 
perhaps an ankle or toe of the baby so as to allow its detecting part to 
send an appropriate representation of the baby's pulse to the designated 
diagnostic input 220 of the microprocessor 215. 
Normally the microprocessor 215 will merely average, over a recurring time 
base, the number of pulses received from baby, and except as a last resort 
in the absence of a complete cessation thereof, will abstain from 
instructing the cardioverter 213 to activate its life support function in 
support of tetanic convulsion. 
If on the other hand baby should begin to suffer from an acute onset of a 
CNS agonal episode of self destructive motor activity (a precurser to crib 
death), the occurrence will not escape the microprocessor 215 which under 
its operational architecture will have picked out this trend out of the 
pecularity of signal that a baby's pulse exhibits as a consequential 
stress syndrome of increased negative intrathoracic pressure (SIDS), and 
responsively, will as a preparatory measure, key-up the cardioverter 213 
to stand by mode. 
If baby's condition was transitory as is possible by reason of failure to 
mature, and in fact should subside, the operational architecture will 
instruct the microprocessor 215 to stand down the cardioverter 213, 
however it be configured. 
If the baby's unassisted fortitude failed to overcome or break free of the 
grip of increased intrathoracid pressure, the microprocessor 215 according 
to the operation architecture being run, will consonant with whatever mode 
configuration is prescribed by the doctor, repeatedly prospect its input 
for an occurrence of a micturition event, subsequent to the manifestation 
of which, i.e., at node e.g., 206, will thereupon enter into an "on hold" 
mode for an optional (by thumbwheel 221) predeterminable interval of time, 
this provision being offered so as to provide a mother or health care 
person with the opportunity to personally respond and intervene 
resuscitatively as to the baby's care upon having head or seen the 
provided alarm means e.g., 207, thus to create the opportunity to choose, 
whether to elect for an instruction instructing the microcomputer 215 to 
power down the cardioverter means 213 and personally assume the 
responsibility for applying spasm countermanding cum Cardiovascular 
Pulmonary Disfunction Resustitation (CPR), or to stand by whilst the 
cardioverter 213, upon prompts harmonious to pulmonary signals 220 
emanative the IR monitor 219, seeks to "wake-up baby from its nap" through 
induced compression reflex to electronically dislodge the increased 
negative intrathoracic pressure that underlies the suffocation of baby 
(i.e., crib death never occurs when baby is awake), a further benefit of 
which, clearly would be the emancipation of the attending person to 
reimplement the breathing of baby with a safe dosage of perhaps a gaseous 
supplement in furtherance of Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) 
performance. 
In the event that the interlock afforded by said "on-hold" mode is not 
by-passed, whether because of choice or because the presence of mother is 
not available to manually abrogate the resuscitation performance, it is an 
object that with the stabilization of pulmonary signals across diagnostic 
input 220, the microcomputer 215 will assume the crisis to be over and 
stop intervention treatment. 
Notwithstanding that we recognize that to some people the discussed course 
of hyperemotivity might sound anguishing, it should be remembered that the 
difference as a result of treatment to that one of treatment withheld 
being the difference of a baby saved against that of a baby died, 
respectively. 
For those persons who still believe that the course of treatment does not 
justify the inflicted (albeit temporary) dirigomotor of baby, it should be 
remembered that neonatal surgery is performed routinely on babies without 
anasthesia of any kind in the interest of saving the lives of babies who 
otherwise would have to be left to die untreated. 
Whereas cardioverters have at some time or other over the years appeared in 
various guises from the ubiquitous clinical cardiac defibrilator dedicated 
addressive to vivifrying to normal the sinus rhythm turned absent due to 
cardiac arrest or arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation, to 
miniaturized microphone operated electronic snore or dog bark depressors 
as taught in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,025,858 and 3,480,010, and conceived to 
inflict discomfort for discomfort's sake, none of the prior art has 
appreciated it to be conceivable to devise a prophylactic means in quasi 
mimicry of the "Heimlich Maneuver," acting concordantly with a novel 
veritable means for the detection of an agonal episode resulting 
micturition event, thereby singly, or in combination, to challenge and 
overcome the majority of crib death mortalities, and even in the higher 
age group of Asian men who it has recently been discovered are given to 
suffer death from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome affliction. 
Having expressed particularly preferred embodiments of the invention as 
hereinbefore disclosed in detail for illustrative purposes, it will be 
recognized that variations or modifications of the disclosed apparatuses, 
including the arrangement, order or choice of parts, all lie within the 
scope of the present invention. 
The term "sweep oscillator" s used in this invention broadly refers to any 
suitable function generator permissive its adaptation to ramp in response 
to contact with various bodily fluids. 
The term "acquisition conditioning means" as used in this invention broadly 
refers to any suitable circuit configuration adoptable to the circumstance 
and performance considerations of employed function generator and further 
does not exclude as permissive of adaptation to cohere, an amplifier, op 
amp or configuration having its differential inputs coupled so that one 
input is sourced by a ref voltage forced through its other input. 
The term "phase-locked loop tone or frequency decoder" as used in this 
invention broadly refers to any suitable decoder means and further does 
not exclude as permissive, substantially equivalent unspeced A/D (for DAC) 
to comparator patched trigger logic derived indicator enabling 
microcomputers or analog peak rectified pulse integrated responding op amp 
sourced indicator means, or modulo-K counter digital PLL IC's (by RCA of 
Somerville, N. J. 08876), as could feed by relay sourced secondary e.g., 
telephone auto-dialing 222 or other alarm means, either solid state or 
traditional, with or without resettable latching means. 
The term "hot melt type ink" as used in this invention does not exclude 
substitution with equivalent means, including conductive elastomer means, 
all being permissive of adaptation theby to elongate a portion or portions 
of circuit board into reach of and interrogation of the measurement area 
of interest. 
The term "casing" for propagation means as used in this invention broadly 
refers to any portable casing means permissive its adoption to encase one 
or more of the novel features which are embraced by this invention. 
The term "propagation means" as used in this invention broadly refers to 
amplitude, frequency shift, digital pattern, ultrasonic and infra-red 
transmitting means, both with, and without a carrier frequency. 
The term "demodulator" as used in this invention broadly embraces 
discriminator, detector voltage multiplier, and digital level BCD means. 
The term "demodulator casing" as used in this invention includes cribs and 
other baby furniture means. 
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or 
privilege is claimed are defined as follows.