US3363260A - Volumetric recorder with resilient loading on expandable bag - Google Patents
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- A61B5/08—Detecting, measuring or recording devices for evaluating the respiratory organs
- A61B5/091—Measuring volume of inspired or expired gases, e.g. to determine lung capacity
- A61B5/093—Measuring volume of inspired or expired gases, e.g. to determine lung capacity the gases being exhaled into, or inhaled from, an expansible chamber, e.g. bellows or expansible bag
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- the graph has been distorted owing to the inertia of the part of the apparatus moved by the bag. It has been found by the applicant that the principal, and only significant distorting occurs at the beginning of an inflation when the inertia causes the part to lag in its movement and at the end of the inflation when the inertia causes the part to overshoot the true maximum and also to tend to give too high a reading as inflation slows before stopping. Applicant overcomes the difliculty by providing a resilient loading which pulls on the part at the beginning of inflation and opposes its motion at the end of inflation.
- the bag 6 drives a normally horizontal hinged part 3 and the resilient loading is provided in the form of over-centre spring 26 which in the rest position preferably just fails to lift the part 3. Inflation of the bag causes the spring arrangement to pass through its dead centre. Thereafter it tends to pull the member downwardly and thereby helps to slow the motion of the hinged part 3 as exhalation is be ing completed.
- the present invention relates to recording spirometers and has as an object the provision of a recording spir0meter in a new and improved form.
- a record showing the volume of breath exhaled against time on a forced exhalation can be a useful aid in the diagnosis of various conditions.
- a recording spirometer which comprises a pivotally mounted member, a breath-receiving bag expandable on being inflated by the breath to move the member progressively about its pivot and a recording device operable to record the movement of the member as a function of time.
- a spirometer gives a record which tends to be distorted.
- the present invention is based on the discovery that the distortion is a result of the tendency of the inertia of the pivotally mounted member to cause it to move non-linearly with the flow of breath into the bag, and that this tendency can substantially be eliminated by providing the member with a resilient loading. Indeed the tendency may be eliminated to such an extent that it becomes feasible to adjust the spirometer under static conditions, in which the bag is supplied with various measured volumes of air, and thereby achieve an accuracy of plus or minus 1%.
- the resilient loading is a spring arranged to bias the member towards an intermediate position of its movement.
- the spring is a tension spring secured in over-centre relationship with the member.
- the spirometer is most conveniently provided in such a form that the member is pivoted about a horizontal axis and lies horizontally when the bag is deflated, being raised as the bag is inflated.
- movement of the member is assisted by the resilient loading so that, in spite of its inertia, it moves readily to permit the bag to expand.
- the rate of flow of breath into the bag diminishes and the resilient loading now acts to help the member to decelerate in response.
- by loading the member it compensates for the in crease of mechanical advantage of the bag thereon as the member approaches the vertical and the track of the center of gravity of the member approaches the horizontal.
- the member is connected with a stylus carried in operable relationship with a chart carrier movable by an electric drive motor, having equal starting and running torques, across the direction of the movement of the stylus caused by the member and the motor has an energising circuit which is energised by means responsive to movement of the member.
- FIGURE 1 is an end elevation of the embodiment
- FIGURE 2 is a plan of the embodiment
- FIGURE 3 is a perspective view of the embodiment complete with a protective casing.
- a base plate 1 has mounted thereon brackets 2, to which a member .3, constituted by a plate upwardly flanged at its perimeter, is pivotally carried on stub-spindles 5 by arms 4 which project from said member.
- a bag 6 accordion pleated at three sides and connected by its fourth side, which is in its side nearest to the pivotal axis of the member 3, with a wide breath inlet conduit 7 leading from a coupling 8 which is accessible from the front of the protective casing 9 (FIGURE 3).
- An arcuate arm 10 having its centre of curvature on the pivotal axis of the member 3 is secured to the side of the member 3 remote from the pivotal axis thereof.
- the outer end of the arm 10 which projects through an aperture 11 of the casing, carries a stylus 12 for marking a standard chart 13, printed on pressure sensitive card, held by a chart carrier 14.
- the chart carrier which is cylindrically curved about the pivotal axis of the member 3, is slidably carried at its upper edge upon a bearing rod 15 by self-oiling bearings 16.
- the motor 19 which is of a type having equal starting and running torques, is provided with an energising circuit which includes a micro-switch 20 responsive to a pin 21 carried by the member 3.
- the circuit also includes a control button 22 and pilot lights 23 and 24, the arrangement being such that the motor can only run whilst button 22 is held pressed, pilot light 24 glows when the apparatus is connected to the supply mains for use, and pilot light 23 glows only when the motor is energised by the micro-switch 20.
- a platform 25 Between the bag 6 and the base plate 1 is positioned a platform 25.
- This platform is of such height and dimensions that it lies just within the accordion pleating to hold the opposite, i.e., the upper and lower, faces of the bag in contact when the bag is deflated and the member 3 is horizontal; in this way the dead-space within the bag, and therefore within the apparatus, is reduced to aminimum.
- a tension spring 26 is tensioned between an anchorage 27 near the edge of the member remote from the pivotal axis thereof, and an anchorage 28 carried by the brackets 2 at a greater height than the stub-spindles 5. Accordingly, when the bag is deflated and the member 3 is in its lowermost position, the tension in the springs acts against the weight of the member 3, the tension in fact being just insufficient in itself to cause the member 3 to rise. On inflation of the bag the member 3 passes through a dead-centre position, which corresponds with a 145 elevation of the member, the spring acts to oppose the pivotal movement of the member.
- the apparatus may be calibrated under static conditions by supplying the bag with a series of measured volumes of air and after each one loading the bag to produce the required stylus position by attaching lengths of wire 29 between the accordion pleats which are provided with pockets (not shown) to receive them.
- a recording spirometer which comprises a pivotally mounted member, a normally empty breath-receiving bag expandable on being inflated by the breath to move the member progressively about its pivot, a recording device connected to the pivotally mounted member to record the movement of the member as' a function of time and a resilient loading connected to the pivotally mounted member in over-centre relationship for the member by which resilient loading the tendency of the inertia of the member to cause it to start too slowly and subsequently overshoot and thereby move non-linearly with the flow of breath into the bag is substantially eliminated.
- a recording spirometer according to claim 1 in which the member is pivoted about a horizontal axis and lies horizontally when the bag is deflated, being raised as the bag is inflated.
- a recording spirometer which comprises a pivotally mounted member, a normally empty breath-receiving bag expandable on being inflated by the breath to move the member about its pivot, a recording device connected to the pivotally mounted member to record the movement of the member as a function of time, the member being pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis, lying horizontally when the bag is deflated and being raised when the bag is inflated, a resilient loading connected to the pivotally mounted member in over-centre relationship which acts upon the member in such a direction as to raise it from the horizontal but just insufliciently to cause the member to rise in the absence of inflation of the bag and also acts upon the member'to oppose its motion and thereby prevent the. member overshooting as inflation ceases, said resilientmeans thereby substantially eliminating the tendency of the inertia of the member to cause it to move non-linearly with the flow of breath into the bag.
- a recording spirometer according to claim 3 in which the bag is accordion pleated and has opposite faces which are held in contact by the member when the bag is deflated.
- a recording spirometer in which the member is connected with a stylus carried in operable relationship with a chart carrier movable by an electric drive motor, having equal starting and run ning torques, and the motor has an energising circuit which is energised by means responsive to movement of the member.
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GB50657/64A GB1073262A (en) | 1964-12-11 | 1964-12-11 | Volumetric measuring apparatus |
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US4430893A (en) * | 1981-11-16 | 1984-02-14 | Michigan Instruments, Inc. | Pneumatic lung analog for simulation of spontaneous breathing and for testing of ventilatory devices used with spontaneously breathing patients |
US4458254A (en) * | 1982-06-07 | 1984-07-03 | The Gerber Scientific Instrument Company | Low inertia plotter |
US5528944A (en) * | 1993-03-11 | 1996-06-25 | Mh Custom Design & Mfg., L.C. | Apparatus for testing pulmonary devices |
US5598839A (en) * | 1994-04-20 | 1997-02-04 | Diemolding Corporation | Positive expiratory pressure device |
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NL6516099A (fr) | 1966-06-13 |
FR1457946A (fr) | 1966-11-04 |
CH426093A (fr) | 1966-12-15 |
DE1466818A1 (de) | 1969-05-29 |
GB1073262A (en) | 1967-06-21 |
SE307823B (fr) | 1969-01-20 |
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