RU2521104C2 - Mobile telephone with treatment and diagnostic functions - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to mobile telephones integrated with diagnostic and therapy means. The mobile telephone with treatment and diagnostic functions, having, in a single device, a telephone communication means, means for rapid diagnosis of biological parameters of a user and means for physiotherapeutic self-action of the user, further includes a data medium for creating and storing the medical record of the user, as well as means of notifying on an approaching date of procedures, taking medicine or food. The housing of the mobile telephone has a conical protrusion which houses mini-blocks of the means for physiotherapeutic self-action of the user, including devices for laser therapy, electrical nerve stimulation, magnetic and light colour action, as well as sensors for rapid diagnosis of biological parameters of the user, including sensors for body temperature, arterial blood pressure, pulse measurement and bioelectrography, which are made on the back panel of the housing in form of a sensing element which is activated by the index finger of the user.

EFFECT: broader functional capabilities of a mobile telephone.

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Description

The technical solution relates to mobile telephone systems combined with other devices, including measuring devices for diagnostic purposes and data processing devices for special medical applications, including physiotherapy.

Recently, a number of technical solutions have appeared that give mobile phones the functions of not only radiotelephone communications, but also the functions of medical diagnostics. Innovative (patented) developments in this area are becoming increasingly developed. The following are patented in Russia: a complex [10] of technical means to support professional activities, education and public health; mobile phones [7, 9, 12] with enhanced features; complexes of portable telemedicine devices [3, 6, 8]. Japanese experts are actively patenting their technical solutions in Russia, they are currently known: the GINGANET Corp. home medical consultation system [5], biological information monitoring system [4] of Intellectual Property Bank Corp., a diagnostic system [2 ] based on a mobile phone.

Most of the known systems and devices [3 - 7] are designed to perform only one (additional to the main - radiotelephony) specific task: information (consulting) support for the user, including medical consultations (and / or partial diagnostics), which is a limitation of functionality that prevents the use of a mobile phone as a kind of "personal clinic" in the therapeutic self-intervention of the user in accordance with the established diagnosis.

At the same time, when developing and designing mobile phones both in well-known devices [3–7] (see also France’s application RU2007111809 / 09A, 10.10.2008 on upgrading the keyboard of a mobile phone), as well as in the latest industrial designs of Nokia, LG, Motorola, Samsung and Sony (see: Communication technique / catalog. - Teleforum, October 2008, pp. 10–15, 18–34) there is sometimes a fascination with complex and entertaining functions (“bells and whistles”), in some cases unnecessary and little used by a large category potential users: employees of high-risk professions, people with pain Toyan, fatigue, discomfort, stress, and persons with impaired control finger movements (hand), or limited color perception or visual acuity.

The diagnostic system [2] and medical data transmission device [3] (NOV NOR DISK, Denmark) contain a personal computer for analyzing the minimum number of user parameters transmitted to them via a mobile phone (temperature, blood pressure, heart rate monitoring).

The Japanese diagnostic system [2] includes a mobile phone containing a telephone communication device and additionally introduced means of operative diagnostics of biological parameters of a user (BPP), the mobile phone being connected via a radio line to a central server of a medical institution (clinic) configured to monitor changes in the BPP and the transfer of advice on the correction of the BPP to the user through feedback, and operational diagnostics include temperature sensors t la and pulsometry user and a blood pressure.

However, the system [2], like other analogs, is limited only by diagnostics by the values of the audio-video characteristics of the BPP. The system [2] does not have the ability to implement even the simplest medical procedures and, all the more, use the complete and complete medical diagnostic process (similar to treatment in a clinic) using a single portable device based on a mobile phone. At the same time, the case and keyboard of the device have a number of design flaws and cannot satisfy a significant category of users with limited functionality and / or persons in need of medical treatment.

The well-known mobile telemedicine diagnostic and treatment complex ("Tukabaev’s mobile phone") according to patent RU 84207 U1, 07/19/2009 [1], adopted as a prototype, contains in a single device a telephone communication tool, means of operational diagnostics (OD) of biological parameters of a user (BPP) ) and means of physiotherapeutic self-interaction of the user (FSP), moreover, the means of telephone communication includes a receiving-transmitting unit connected to the antenna, a computing unit, a memory unit, a sound indication unit, a microphone, a telephone, a display, keyboards , Block mode selection and power supply connected to the controller. OD BPP tools include body temperature and blood pressure sensors, a heart rate monitor, bioelectrography sensors, and functional diagnostics devices. FSP tools include electroneurostimulation devices, infrared laser therapy devices, and devices for magnetic, light-color, and sound effects on the user's body. At the same time, the OD BPP means and the FSP means are made in the form of (mounted) mini-blocks built into the body and / or attached to the mobile phone body, connected to the computing unit, memory unit, display, operating mode selection unit, power source and controller, which are included in composition of a mobile phone telephone communication facility.

The known device [1] allows you to provide medical diagnostic process for the user of a mobile phone, however, its functionality, in some cases, is limited by insufficient information to obtain the most complete healing effect. Moreover, the case and keyboard of the device [1] have a number of design flaws and cannot satisfy a significant category of users with limited functionality.

The essence of the proposed technical solution is to create a rational design of a mobile telephone communication device combined with devices useful for healing (including physiotherapeutic) the user's body in accordance with the recommendations of a personal outpatient card.

The main technical result of the device is the provision of synergy of diagnosis and treatment in the client-user mobile phone while increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of medical care by expanding the functionality and increasing information content by introducing a data carrier into the mobile phone in the form of an integrated or removable flash memory chip for generation and storage user’s outpatient card and means of notification about the expiration of procedures, taking medication or food. The combined use of the proposed set of therapeutic and diagnostic tools provides personal support for the user's recovery, acting on its individual organs and the body as a whole is adequate to the recommendations of the outpatient card stored in the data carrier.

Along with the expansion of functionality, the proposed mobile phone through design improvements allows you to expand the category of users, including people with limited functional capabilities, as well as persons in need of correction of the physical and / or mental state of the body.

The technical result is achieved as follows.

A mobile phone contains in a single device a telephone communication tool, means of operational diagnostics (OD) of the user's biological parameters (BPP) and means of the physiotherapeutic self-interaction of the user (FSP), and the telephone communication device includes a transmitting and transmitting unit connected to the antenna, a computing unit, a memory unit, sound indication unit, microphone, telephone, display, keyboard, unit for selecting operating modes and a power source connected to the controller. OD BPP tools include body temperature and blood pressure sensors, a heart rate monitor, bioelectrography sensors, and functional diagnostics devices. FSP tools include electroneurostimulation devices, infrared laser therapy devices, and devices for magnetic, light-color, and sound effects on the user's body. At the same time, the OD BPP means and the FSP means are made in the form of (mounted) mini-blocks built into the body and / or attached to the mobile phone body, connected to the computing unit, memory unit, display, operating mode selection unit, power source and controller, which are included in composition of a mobile phone telephone communication facility.

A distinctive feature of a mobile phone is that it is additionally equipped with a data carrier for generating and storing an outpatient card of a mobile phone user, as well as a means of notifying when the procedures are due, taking medicine or food, and the inputs / outputs of the data carrier are connected to the inputs and outputs of the OD BPP and inputs and outputs of FSP means. In this case, the mobile phone’s body has the shape of a parallelepiped with rounded corners and with a conical protrusion on one of two small faces, in the conical protrusion of the case there are mini-blocks of the FSP means, including laser therapy devices, electroneurostimulation, magnetic and light-color effects, as well as OD BPP sensors, including body temperature, blood pressure, pulsometry and bioelectrography sensors, which are made on the rear panel of the case in the form of a sensor element, driven by the index finger zovatelya.

The difference of a mobile phone is also that the data carrier for forming and storing an outpatient user card is made in the form of a built-in mobile phone housing or a removable flash memory chip.

In addition, a mobile phone is characterized in that a sound signal of a telephone call of a user generated by a sound indication unit of a mobile phone in accordance with a schedule programmatically set by an outpatient card is used as a means of notification of the deadline for taking a procedure, medicine or food.

In the specific case of performing a mobile phone as devices for functional diagnostics, for example, non-contact non-linear diagnostics devices can be used.

An embodiment of a mobile phone for users with limited functionality is characterized in that its housing is made of plastic, the sides of the housing are made of rough or coated with a material with adhesive properties, the upper part of the housing for gripping the user's index finger is provided with a holder in the form of a half ring equipped with a latch, and The keyboard located on the front panel under the display screen is made in the form of a set of round buttons illuminated when pressed, the size of which corresponds to the average size of the end of the phalanx of the index finger of the user.

In this case, the housing on the rear panel is equipped with a built-in digital camera, a video camera with a light source, as well as attachment points for OD BPP and / or FSP means and autonomous power sources for these means.

The difference between the mobile phone and the fact that it is made with the possibility of connecting the radio line with the central server of the medical institution (clinic) to control the measurement of BPP and transmit advice on correction of BPP to the user through feedback and with the possibility of audiovisual presentation of information about the personal multi-level medical process of the user in accordance with the data of the ambulatory card stored in the data carrier.

In FIG. 1 shows a general structural diagram of a mobile phone with diagnostic and treatment functions. Figure 2 illustrates its design features (layout): a - view of the front panel; b - view of the rear panel with a sensor element and a holder in the form of a half ring equipped with a latch; c is a general view with an interface for connecting to multimedia glasses and / or a virtual reality helmet. In FIG. Figure 3 shows a diagram of the use of therapeutic self-intervention of the user: a - general view when using a mobile phone; b - position of the user's hand when using the pulsometry unit; in-position of the mobile phone when implementing self-interaction in the infrared laser therapy mode.

A mobile phone (see Fig. 1) comprises a building 1, a telephone communication device 2, an operative diagnostic tool 3, and a therapeutic self-action tool 4. The telephone communication means 2 includes a transceiver unit 5 connected to the antenna, a computing unit 6, a memory unit 7, an audio indication unit 8, a microphone 9, a telephone 10, a display 11, a keyboard 12, an operating mode selection unit 13, a power supply 14 connected to the controller 15. The means of operative diagnostics 3 comprise a body temperature sensor 16, a blood pressure sensor 17, a pulsometry unit 18 and additionally introduced bioelectrography sensors 19, nonlinear diagnostics devices 20, as well as biometrics and functional diagnostics devices 21 . Means 4 of therapeutic self-action comprise devices 22 of electroneurostimulation, devices 23 of infrared laser therapy and devices 24 of magnetic, light-color and sound effects on the user's body. The mobile phone is equipped with a data carrier 25 for forming and storing an outpatient user card.

The mobile phone is made of plastic and has the shape of a parallelepiped (Fig. 2, a) with smoothed corners and with a conical protrusion on one of two small faces, in the conical protrusion of the casing there are mini-blocks of therapeutic self-action, including laser therapy, electroneurostimulation, magnetic and light color devices impacts, as well as sensors for operational diagnostics, including sensors for body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate monitoring and bioelectrography, which are made on the back of the case in the form of a touch element 26, actuated by the index finger of the user (see Fig. 2, a; 3 b), while to capture the index finger of the user, the upper part of the housing is provided with a holder 27 in the form of a half ring equipped with a latch, and the sides 28 of the housing are made rough or coated with a material with adhesive properties (see Fig. 2, b).

Located on the front panel under the display screen 11, the keyboard 12 is made (Fig. 2, a) in the form of a set of round buttons 29 illuminated when pressed, the size of which corresponds to the average size of the end of the phalanx of the user's index finger (Fig. 3, a).

The mobile phone is as follows.

A mobile phone (Fig. 1) with telephone communication means 2, means 3 of operative diagnostics and means of self-action located in the housing 1 carries out work, respectively, in three modes specified by block 13.

In the traditional radiotelephone communication mode, the means 2 serves for communication (shown by a bold arrow) through the transmitting and receiving unit 5 and the antenna with the subscribers of the telephone network, as well as with the central server of the medical institution (clinic), made with the possibility of monitoring changes in the BPP and transmitting correction advice BPP to the user through feedback. For transmission and reception of messages and the operation of the telephone in this mode, a computing unit 6, a memory unit 7, an audio indication unit 8, a microphone 9, a telephone 10, a display 11, a keyboard 12, an operating mode selection unit 13, a power supply 14 are used. The operation of the telephone in communication mode is controlled by the controller 15. Operation in this mode is similar to the operation of telephones described, for example, in [3, 10].

The on-line diagnostic mode is carried out by means of 3, which, upon a user command given by the operating mode selection unit 13, measures the body temperature by the sensor 16, measures the blood pressure by the sensor 17, and measures the heart rate by the pulsometry unit 18. Sensors 16-18 are made on the rear panel of the housing 1 in the form of a sensor element 26 (Fig. 2, a), actuated by the user's index finger (Fig. 3, b), captured by the holder 27 in the form of a half ring equipped with a latch. The data carrier 25 generates and stores in memory an outpatient card (medical history) for operational monitoring and recommended BPP adjustments by means of 4 self-actions, which expands the device’s functionality and allows implementing a user recovery program that is adequate to recommendations. According to the program located in the carrier 25, the user is also notified about the maturity of the next procedure, taking medication or food, which is realized by the sound signal of the user's phone call, formed by the sound indication unit 8.

On the display 11 (see Fig. 1, Fig. 2), the BPP values and data (recommendations) of the carrier 25 are displayed after each subsequent exposure in the third mode of operation. BPP measurements in the on-line diagnostics mode are also carried out by bioelectrography sensors 19 and / or non-contact non-linear diagnostics devices 20 (for example, a Metatron device [12]) or other biometric and functional diagnostics devices 21, which are made in the form of built-in sensors 1 and / or mini-blocks attached to the housing 1, connected to blocks 6, 7, 11-15, which are part of the tool 2.

Data obtained in the on-line diagnostic mode is processed by the calculation unit 6 taking into account the information of the memory unit 7, stored in the medium 25 and can be transmitted by the transmitter-receiver unit 5 to the clinic's transmitter / receiver unit, where it is processed (similar to the procedure described in [10]) with the development of a diagnosis, expert advice on the correction of BPP, which through feedback through the controller 15 are transferred to the means 4 of therapeutic user interaction.

The therapeutic self-interaction mode is carried out by electroneurostimulation devices 22, laser therapy devices 23, magnetic, light-color and sound exposure devices 24 (Fig. 3c).

Electroneurostimulation devices 22 can be performed, for example, in the form of known electro-puncture devices [13, 14] or their adequate modernization (for example, health-improving devices such as “Vitafon”, “Rikta”, “Program-15”, and a bio-normalizer [11, 12, p. 265]). Laser therapy devices 23 can be made in the form of various modifications of well-known medical lasers [15, 19] embedded in the housing 1 of a mobile phone (see Fig. 3, c). As devices 24 for magnetic, light and sound exposure, small-sized devices of separate (for example, type "GIPNOSKOP" [16] and others) or combined (for example, type "Metatron" [12], type "EVANT" [17] can be used , "Biotron Jiang" [18]) exposure.

As a data carrier 25 for forming and storing an outpatient user card, a flash memory chip with a memory capacity of more than 1 MB integrated in the mobile phone’s case or similar to that described, for example, in patent RU 2262732 C2, 20.10.2005, can be used.

The results of operative diagnostics and treatment are displayed on display 11, entered into the data carrier 25 and transmitted over the radio link to the central server of the clinic for the further development of multilevel recommendations (corrections of BPP). On the display 11, various functional indices and / or indicators, for example, bioelectrography indicators, or other information on the psychophysiological state of the user, for example, stress or fatigue index (measured similarly to RU 45078 U1, April 27, 2005) can be displayed (and entered in the data carrier 25) )

The shape of the housing 1 with smoothed corners is the most rational for placing mini-blocks of means 3 of therapeutic self-action in the conical protrusion of the housing 1. In this case, to prevent the phone from slipping out of the user's hands, the sides 28 of the housing 1 are made (see Fig. 2, 3) rough or covered with material with adhesive properties. To increase operational reliability and eliminate errors when pressing the button 29 of the keyboard 12 (Fig. 2) are made with sizes corresponding to the average size of the end of the index finger of the user.

The housing 1 on the rear panel is equipped (Fig. 2, b) with an integrated digital camera, a video camera with a light source, as well as means for attaching additionally introduced means 3, 4 of operative diagnostics and / or therapeutic self-action and autonomous power sources of these funds.

In specific cases, the use of a mobile phone can be similar to the device [1] connected by a radio line (see Fig. 1) with a remote module of P.T. Tukabaev’s virtual clinic (see [10 - 12]), including a system for healing the human body and self-improvement of personality, a system of rational training and a system of professional training, while the mobile phone is additionally equipped with means of audiovisual presentation of a personal multi-level medical process and / or stages of self-improvement of Tell, made in the form of multimedia glasses or head-mounted display.

Thus, from the description of the mobile phone and its operation, it follows that its purpose is achieved with the specified technical result, which is in a causal relationship with the set of essential features of the device.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

I. Prototype and analogues:

1. RU 84207 U, 07/10/2009 (prototype).

2. RU 2299673 C2, 05.27.2007 (analogue).

3. RU 2336906 C2, 10.27.2008 (analogue).

4. RU 2336808 C2, 10.27.2008 (analogue).

II. Additional sources of prior art:

5. RU 2308760 C2, 10.20.2007.

6. RU 2251965 C2, 06.20.2005.

7. RU 73988 U1, 10.06.2008.

8. RU 2006136295/09 A, 04/20/2008.

9. RU 2007114886/09 A, 10.27.2008.

10. RU 53799 U1, 05.27.2006.

11. RU 2002113981/14 A, 11.20.2002.

12. Tukabaev P.T. Health and wellness: An automated system for the prevention and rehabilitation of people based on biotechnological and information technologies for building a virtual clinic. - M .: publishing house of SSU, 2008, 352 p.

13. Electropuncture reflexology for smoking. Methodical recommendations / F.G. Tailors. - Jurmala, 1989, 8 pp.

14. Electropuncture apparatus “ELAP-micro”. - Jurmala, 1989, 13 p.

15. Illarionov V.E. Prospects for increasing the effectiveness of laser therapy // Application of lasers in biology and medicine "Lazermed - 97": Abstract. doc. Intl. conf. - Kiev, 1997, p. 44-48.

16. RU 35720 U1, 02/10/2004.

17. RU 61563 U1, 03/10/2007.

18. RU 2006134603/14 A, 04/10/2008.

19. RU 2143293 C1, 12/27/1999.

Claims (7)

1. A mobile phone containing in a single device a means of telephone communication, means of operational diagnostics (OD) of biological parameters of a user (BPP) and means of physiotherapeutic self-interaction of a user (FSP), moreover, the means of telephone communication includes a transceiver unit connected to the antenna, a computing unit, a memory unit, an audio indication unit, a microphone, a telephone, a display, a keyboard, an operating mode selection unit and a power source connected to the controller, OD BPP means include body temperature sensors and user’s blood pressure, pulse metering unit, bioelectrography sensors and functional diagnostics, FSP means include electroneurostimulation devices, infrared laser therapy devices and devices for magnetic, light-color and sound effects on the user's body, while the OD BPP and FSP means are made in the form of a built-in and / or attached (mounted) mini-blocks connected to the computing unit, the memory unit, the display, the mode selection unit p work, the power source and the controller, which are part of the telephone communication means of a mobile phone, characterized in that it is additionally equipped with a data carrier for generating and storing an outpatient card of a mobile phone user, as well as a means of notifying when the procedures are due, taking medicine or food, moreover, the inputs and outputs of the data carrier are connected to the inputs and outputs of the OD BPP means and the inputs and outputs of the FSP means, while the mobile phone housing has a conical protrusion in which the mini-block is located and FSP tools, including laser therapy, electroneurostimulation, magnetic and light-color exposure devices, as well as OD BP sensors, including body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and bioelectrography sensors, which are made on the rear panel of the case in the form of a sensor element actuated by the index finger user. 2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, characterized in that the storage medium for forming and storing an outpatient user card is made in the form of a built-in mobile phone housing or a removable flash memory chip. 3. The mobile phone according to claim 1, characterized in that the sound signal of the user's telephone call, generated by the sound indication unit of the mobile phone in accordance with the rules programmatically set by the outpatient card, is used as a means of notification of the deadline for taking the procedure, medicine or food. 4. The mobile phone according to claim 1, characterized in that, for example, contactless non-linear diagnostic devices are used as functional diagnostic devices. 5. The mobile phone according to claim 1, characterized in that its housing is made of plastic, the sides of the housing are made rough or coated with a material with adhesive properties, the upper part of the housing for gripping the index finger of the user is provided with a holder in the form of a half ring provided with a latch, and placed on the front panel of the case under the display screen the keyboard is made in the form of a set of round buttons illuminated when pressed, the size of which corresponds to the average size of the end of the phalanx of the index finger the caller. 6. The mobile phone according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing on the rear panel is equipped with a built-in digital camera, a video camera with a light source, as well as attachment points for OD BPP means and / or FSP means and autonomous power sources for these means. 7. The mobile phone according to claim 1, characterized in that it is configured to be connected by a radio link to a central server of a medical institution (clinic) to monitor BPP measurements and transmit advice on correction of BPP to the user through feedback and with the possibility of audiovisual presentation of personal information multilevel medical process of the user in accordance with the data of an outpatient card stored in the data carrier.

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