US 10,307,080 B2 · Respiratory monitor

Abstract

A respiratory monitor is disclosed that includes features for conducting multiple pulmonary function tests in a single device and for detecting the presence of nitric oxide in exhaled breath. Also described is a mouthpiece that allows for separate inhalation and exhalation pathways and for filtering inhaled and exhaled breath for predetermined species prior to exhalation into the respiratory monitor. The monitor further allows for wired, wireless and network connectivity and for cloud-based systems for communicating and correlating pulmonary data as well as relevant environmental data and displaying the data for use by patients and health care professionals.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a. a housing;
b. a gas inlet section positioned in the housing, comprising:
i. a flow detection component positioned within the gas inlet section;
ii. an adjustable partition positioned downstream from the flow detection component;
iii. a humidity equilibrator positioned downstream from the adjustable partition;
iv. an adjustable flow-restriction component configured to partition the gas inlet section upstream from the humidity equilibrator;
and
v. an adjustable inlet for ambient air positioned downstream from the adjustable partition and upstream from the humidity equilibrator;
and
c. a measuring assembly located adjacent to and in fluid communication with the gas inlet section;
wherein the measuring assembly is configured to determine the total nitric oxide (NO) concentration from an incoming gas sample.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/495,853Filed 24 Sep 2014 · us provisional application

Priority

7 Mar 2014

Published

US 2015/0250408 A110 Sep 2015

Granted

4 Jun 2019

Term ends

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Classification14 codes

A61B 5/097
Measuring devices for evaluating the respiratory organs: devices for facilitating collection of breath or for directing breath into or through…
A61B 5/0022
Characterised by features of the telemetry system: monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
A61B 5/082
Measuring devices for evaluating the respiratory organs: evaluation by breath analysis, e.g. determination of the chemical composition of exhaled…
A61B 5/083
Measuring devices for evaluating the respiratory organs: measuring rate of metabolism by using breath test, e.g. measuring rate of oxygen consumption

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