Patent ID: 8469884

Claim:
A medical examination diagnostic device in the form of a kit for a chair comprising: a horizontal chair seat member for accommodation of a seated patient on a chair; at least four chair seat support members located respectively at the corners of a quadrilateral support for said seat member, said seat member having a front edge and a back edge, two of said support members aligned with the back edge and two of said support members aligned with the front edge; a frame connecting said support members by adjustable links; an independent load sensor device located under each of said seat support members, each said load sensor device configured for detecting the load independently on each of load sensor device to provide a set of four independent data signals for medical diagnosis; a data collection device for collecting said independent data signals; a processor that measures and records the collected signals as a function of time corresponding to a weight distribution of a patient sitting on the horizontal chair seat member, said processor configured to provide an indication of each one of the data signals as a change characterized by a temporally sequential relationship among said four independent recorded data signals wherein said indication is selected from the group consisting of at least one of the following: a diagnostic respiration rate; a physiological trauma; and a pathological trauma; and wherein each load cell is mounted on a plate, said plates being connected to form a quadrilateral grid with a load cell mounted at each corner of said grid, the distance between each plate being adjustable, each load cell being independently connected to said processor.