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US 10,117,619 B2Granted
Optical sensor
AssigneeNihon Kohden Corporation
InventorsNaoki Kobayashi, Teiji Ukawa, Kazumasa Ito, Masahiro Takeuchi, Yoshinori Ueda, Hiroko Hagiwara
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Abstract
An optical sensor includes: a light emitter; a light receiver; a rod-shaped grasping member in which one of the light emitter and the light receiver is disposed, and which is to be grasped by a hand of a subject; and a clamping member which is adapted to clamp a part of the hand of the subject with the grasping member, another one of the light emitter and the light receiver being disposed in the clamping member.
Claims17
An optical sensor comprising:
- a light emitter;
- a light receiver;
- a rod-shaped grasping member in which one of the light emitter and the light receiver is disposed, the rod-shaped grasping member including a curved circumferential surface configured to be grasped by a hand of a subject;
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- a clamping member which is adapted to clamp a part of the hand of the subject between the clamping member and the rod-shaped grasping member, another one of the light emitter and the light receiver being disposed in the clamping member,
- wherein the clamping member extends in a longitudinal direction of the rod-shaped grasping member, and
- wherein the clamping member and the rod-shaped grasping member are arranged such that the part of the hand of the subject is insertable between the clamping member and the rod-shaped grasping member in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction of the rod-shaped grasping member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.