System, method, use and information storage medium for practicing of an inhalation process
AssigneeBoehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
InventorsPatricia Adams, Marion Frank, Herbert Wachtel
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Abstract
An inhalation training system and a method for practicing of an inhalation process and a method of operating a portable communications device in this respect and to an information storage medium are improved. An air flow during inhalation is converted into an acoustic signal, especially a whistling tone. The acoustic signal is picked up by a microphone of a portable communications device, such as a smartphone, and is electronically evaluated. The inhalation training system has a mouthpiece and a converter apparatus for converting the air flow into the acoustic signal and in addition has a holding apparatus for especially detachable holding of the communications device.
Claims5
An inhalation training system for practicing of an inhalation process of a patient without a capability for dispensing of an inhalant, comprising:
- a body portion without a means for receiving a through-flow of air or inhalant,
- a mouthpiece for enabling an air flow to be produced upon inhalation by a patient thereat, said mouthpiece being connected to an end of the body portion,
- a converter apparatus that has a whistle, the whistle being located at the mouthpiece in a manner able to produce an audible whistling from the air flow, and
- a portable communications device that is adapted to receive the whistling by means of a microphone and which is detachably located within said body portion,
- wherein the portable communications device is one of a mobile phone and a tablet computer,
- wherein the body portion comprises a holding apparatus having an interior space sized for receiving and holding the portable communications device in a position for measuring the signal produced by the converter apparatus, and
- wherein the holding apparatus is constructed for detachable holding of the portable communications device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.