ES2238193B1 - FEMALE CLAMP. - Google Patents

Abstract

Female bra It is intended for the study of the parameters of vital signs of its user, of the type that comprises at least one sensor (5) that records values of the corresponding magnitudes of the body and generates at least one signal that can be registered and transmitted for interpretation. distance, either at the time of registering the values or at a later time that is characterized in that the said sensor (5), which is at least one, is located in an area of the fastener (1) that corresponds to the zones ( 4) in contact with the user's skin, it maintains a more or less constant pressure on at least one point of the predetermined skin depending on the constant to be measured.

Description

Female bra

Female bra, intended for the study of parameters of vital signs of its user, of the type that It comprises at least one sensor that records values of the corresponding body magnitudes and generates at least one signal susceptible of registration and transmission for interpretation to distance, either at the time of registering the values or in a later moment that is characterized because the referred sensor, which is at least one is located in an area of the bra that corresponds to the areas in contact with the skin of the user, and maintains a more or less constant pressure on at least one point of the predetermined skin depending on the constant to measure.

Field of the Invention

It is that of making clothing special, specifically clothing intended for use by people subject to particular conditions, by example, athletes in the course of their workouts, sick that require continuous monitoring of their vital parameters such as heart rate, blood pressure and the like, patients in the postoperative course, and similar situations.

In the present case, the item to be described It is intended for women and is intended for application to the area of the trunk, constituting a special version of the bras conventional.

Background of the invention

In situations like those indicated above, sensors are used to control body constants capable of recording the status and magnitude of the parameters whose knowledge interests professionals like coaches sports and medical doctors. Such sensors record the  parameters in question and generate signals, transmissible to distance and whose analysis allows to deduce the characteristics qualitative and quantitative of the conditions of the organs interested of athletes and patients.

The sensors in question are applied to the body parts that you want to know and usually lack means of direct attachment to the skin of the areas involved. For retain the sensors in operating position usually used fasteners, such as bands, elastic bands or garments similar to conventional ones.

It happens, however, that with the movements typical of sports activities or daily life conventional, the sensors vary to a greater or lesser extent their position with respect to the body organs studied.

It was therefore necessary to have garments that ensure proper support of the sensors applied to the body, with the guarantee that the position of these devices does not It will vary despite the movements of its carriers.

Spanish Patent No. 8902281 is known 2016034); by D. Joaquín Vera Vera, from 1989, who does reference to a system for remote control of people. The system for remote control of people, it is a system of remote monitoring constituted by the functional association of an information acquisition and treatment subsystem, a central control and processing subsystem and a subsystem of communications, being of particular interest within the first of The subsystems a local treatment unit, intelligent unit based on a microprocessor with the collaboration, such as most prominent element of a communications controller. He central control and processing subsystem presents the general structure of a hierarchical control system, being its most important element a personal computer expandable to two computers if the volume of information to be treated is high. He communications subsystem, link between the two previous allows the establishment of communications via radio or switched telephone network without ruling out others.

PCT Patent No. WO9505119 "Controller of breathing for baby t-shirt "refers to an article of clothing for breathing surveillance and includes a T-shirt or similar garment adapted to extend around of the chest and / or the abdomen part of the child and that contains a bag that has a monitor in it.

German Patent No. DE10047533 "Intelligent clothing item provided with sensor e.g. for vital monitoring functions of wearer, has sensor electrical line acting as antenna "of the year 2002 whose applicant is DEUTSCHE TELECOM AG, describes a garment that has a sensor for measuring conditions in which human body is found. This sensor acts As an antenna to send measurement data.

Another PCT Patent, No. WO9732516 "Remote control, warning and rescue system for patients prone to myocardial infarction" of 1997 and whose applicant is INFART-CONTROL, SL refers to a control system, whose purpose is the remote monitoring and control of patients, having emission means located on the patient himself in functional association with means of reception and treatment of the information that define a central unit of information in which the registration of data and diagnosis is made, linked with mobile rescue and relief units to transfer the patient to a hospital in case
necessary.

Another cardiological control system is described in another PCT application, No. WO9911173 "System of cardiological control via satellite. "The system, using the satellite media, is based on the incorporation about the patient of a repeater unit that is portable and that an auxiliary telephone system is connected in functions of radio transmitter with modem, which constantly transmits the signal from ECG to the repeater unit PC, the information being processed informatively according to the patient's pathology.

In another Spanish Patent No. 9900976 "Module evolved from digital cardiac telemetry by Holter technique with connection to a single national control center through the mobile global communication system (GSM) "granted in 2003, reference is made to a cardiological application of Telemedicine which integrates a module for signal acquisition and amplification Cardiac (ECG and a resident program that analyzes data for decide its transmission to the Control Center). Shipment starts for three reasons: "panic button", anomaly detection or scheduled time. The exchange receives the GSM connection for Analysis and decision making.

Also of interest is Spanish Patent No. 200101371 (and respectively your PCT application No. WO02101681) "Equipment and system for disease detection and monitoring cardiovascular conditions of a patient using mobile technology. " This patent presents a system that is composed of a small electronic equipment that in case of determining a serious crisis in a patient will send an alarm to a patient management and supervision center.

It should be noted that in Reports on the Status of The Technique of these last two Spanish patents is a PCT Patent No. WO9749077 "An add-on unit for connecting to a mobile station and a mobile station "by Nokia, which is granted in April 2004 and refers to a device auxiliary that can be connected to a mobile device and that consists of a basic element with components necessary for transmission, data analysis and deposition and a measuring sensor element of vital signs of a person.

Another Spanish Patent, No. 9700089 "Apparatus and  telematic control system of physiological parameters of patients "granted in 1999 refers to a portable device with built-in blood glucose analyzer. System telematic control for patients provided with the device this invention would simultaneously facilitate that the calculated data in the portable device they were transmitted to a central unit by Middle of a mobile phone.

The European Patent Invention No. EP0670693 "Apparatus and procedure for remote monitoring of physiological parameters "with American priority, it refers to physiological monitors and procedures of monitoring of physiological parameters in one place and the reception of the information monitored in another. The global apparatus  includes a processing and transmission detector unit physiological, a secondary transmitter unit and local receiver and an alert unit and remote receiver. Each unit includes transmission sources and reception antennas.

In another European Patent No. EP1002496 "Procedure and device for remote monitoring of bodily functions" refers to a device consisting of a measurement arrangement with at least one sensor to detect a parameter of medical importance and an emission arrangement and reception that is connected or may be connected to the measurement arrangement. The transmission and reception arrangement is configured to transmit the detected measurement parameters to a reception and transmission station, selected from a number of several reception and transmission stations via the GSM or UMTS network or a network of
satelite.

Brief Description of the Invention

As you can see in the background of the invention, there are, in general, two ways of measuring constants vital about a person and then send them to a terminal away. On the one hand there are a number of patents that set in the Patient's body the sensor. On the other hand there are others that fix the sensor or measuring device on the garment.

The patents of the second group have a problem  and the measurements are not accurate, so in the long run it’s not They are useful. The inventor has verified that this is because the sensor is at a fixed point in the garment, but not in the user body so then there are times that it measures and other times no.

Therefore, the inventor has made a investigation and it has been noticed that if the sensor is fixed in a area of the garment that maintains a certain position constant in the user's body and also be in contact permanent or quasi-permanent with the skin, the Measurements to be made are valuable and valid.

Thus the inventor has found that there is a garment very suitable for it, and turns out to be the bra female. This type of garment that is located in the chest area, It is positioned on one of the most important vital centers of the human organism. Another advantage of the bra is that turns out to be a garment that barely moves, that is, it is found almost always on the same point or area of the human body.

It is, in the present case, the retention of  sensors applied to certain areas of the fastener in contact permanent or quasi-permanent with the skin.

For this, a chest bra has been designed which presents, in different areas of the bra of some sensors. These zones coincide with areas of the bra in which it exerts a certain constant pressure on the body or skin of the user. In this way, if the sensors are positioned in these areas a constant recording and / or measurement is guaranteed since the sensors  they will not shift from their intended situation or their displacement will not reduce measurements provided.

At the time of taking the data or variables or in  at a later time these are sent through a sending medium located in the garment itself, by SMS, Internet, etc., to a Terminal that analyzes them and facilitates them to the medical or sports staff to Your analysis

The sensors used may consist of any known transducer devices in the field of electronics and its derived techniques. They generate electrical signals proportional to the values of the quantities concerned, values that can be registered and, if desired, transmitted to a unit analyzer, which will be examined by an expert.

It is an object of the present invention a female bra, intended for the study of the parameters of vital signs of your user, of the type that includes at least a sensor that records corresponding values body magnitudes and generates at least one signal susceptible to registration and transmission for remote interpretation, either in the time to register the values or at a later time that It is characterized by the fact that the referred sensor, which is at least one is located in an area of the corresponding bra with the areas in contact with the user's skin, and maintains a  more or less constant pressure on at least one point on the skin default depending on the constant to be measured.

To facilitate the explanation, the present description of some drawings in which it has been represented, by way of illustrative and non-limiting example, a case of realization of a female chest bra, according to the principles of the claims.

Brief description of the drawings

Figures 1 and 2 are front views of each other fasteners according to the invention.

Figure 3 represents a bra with the zone sensor bearing located in the fastening means back of the garment.

Detailed description of the invention

The designated elements with numbers in the Drawings correspond to the parts indicated below.

In figure 1, a fastener 1 is illustrated which It has a sensor 5 in the area of rings 4 and nearby it takes advantage of the pressure that the ring 4 exerts against the skin of the user to record a series of body constants human.

In the case of figure 2, the bra 1 it presents between the rings 4, lateral zones A and 9 and central 10 and 11, sensor carriers 19 capable of recording mentioned constants. In this case they could be fixed temporarily to the skin of the chest area, either by means of an adhesive.

Figure 3 represents a variant of the new fastener 1, in which the sensors 14, intended for the area of the back of its wearer, are located in the forming parts of a means of subsequent closure of the garment 13. In said figure independent and insulated sensors 20 can also be seen in the area of the ring 4. In this case, the fixing made by the closing means 13 on the user's skin is used to be able to keep the sensors 14 with a certain degree of permanence at a certain point in particular, to capture the data
necessary.

So in a concrete embodiment, if for example a patient should be under hospital control because of her constants (for example because you had a heart attack) I could perfectly go home if I could have a bra 1 object of the present invention, since medical personnel would be at all times aware of its constants.

Therefore, when the user puts the referral garment 1 and is closed by closing means 13, wrapping with said bra a part of the user's body, the sensors 5, 14, 19, 20, positioned in locations predetermined depending on the parameter to be measured, they would press slightly the skin of the user recording a series of data. At that time or at a later time, through some means emitters (not illustrated in the drawings), would transmit said information via SMS, Internet, etc. to a receiving center in the hospital that would store such data for Analysis by medical staff.

As shown in figure 2, if it is precise further immobilization could even be fixed to the body the sensor carrying area in question by some adhesive.

The drawings are merely indicative and  that the sensors could also be located in the braces, in reinforcements, ... as long as they comply with said sensor 5, 14, 19 and 20, which is at least one is located in a area of the fastener (1) that corresponds to the areas in contact with the user's skin, and also the sensor maintains a pressure more or less constant on at least one point of the skin default depending on the constant to be measured.

The present invention patent describes a New female bra. The examples mentioned here are not Limitations of the present invention, therefore it may have different applications and / or adaptations, all of them within the scope of the following claims.

Claims (6)

1. Female bra, intended for the study of the parameters of vital signs of its user, of the type that comprises at least one sensor (5, 14, 19, 20) that records values of the corresponding magnitudes of the body and generates at least one Signal that can be registered and transmitted for remote interpretation, either at the time of registering the values or at a later time characterized in that said sensor (5, 14, 19, 20), which is at least one:

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be is located in an area of the bra (1) that is corresponds to the zones (4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13) in contact with the user skin, and

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maintains a pressure more or less constant over at least one point of the predetermined skin in function of the constant to be measured.

2. Female bra according to claim 1, characterized in that said sensors are located in at least a part of one of the bra rings (4). 3. Female bra according to claim 1, characterized in that said sensors are located in the fastener means (13) of the bra. 4. Female bra, according to claim 1, characterized in that said sensors are located in the braces. 5. Female bra, according to claim 1, characterized in that said sensors are located in an area below the bra cups, and the lower reinforcement of said bra. 6. Female bra, according to at least one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the sensor (5, 14, 19, 20) is attached to the user's skin by means of a sanitary type adhesive.