Pressure measurement device
AssigneeHeaviside Ltd
InventorsBenjamin William Mounir Kirollos, Vikram Sridhar
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Abstract
A bladder pressure measurement device comprises a conduit for receiving a flow of urine, a valve actuatable between a first open configuration and a second restricted configuration, a pressure sensor, upstream of the valve and arranged to measure the pressure of the flow of urine through the conduit, and a data recorder and/or a data transmitter. The pressure sensor obtains a first measurement when the valve is in the first open configuration and a second measurement when the valve is in the second restricted configuration. The data recorder and/or transmitter records or transmits data representative of the first and second measurements.
Claims13
A bladder pressure measurement device comprising:
- a conduit for receiving a flow of urine;
- a valve actuatable between a first open configuration and a second restricted configuration that restricts the flow of urine through the conduit;
- a pressure sensor upstream of the valve, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged to obtain a first measurement of the pressure of the flow of urine through the conduit when the valve is in the first open configuration and to obtain a second measurement of the pressure of the flow of urine through the conduit when the valve is in the second restricted configuration;
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- a data recorder for recording and/or transmitting data representative of the first measurement and the second measurement;
- wherein the valve is partially closed in the second restricted configuration;
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- wherein the device comprises a pressure sensor downstream of the valve arranged to measure pressure in the conduit downstream of the valve.
A bladder pressure measurement device comprising:
- a conduit for receiving a flow of urine;
- a valve actuatable between a first open configuration and a second restricted configuration that restricts the flow of urine through the conduit;
- a pressure sensor upstream of the valve, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged to obtain a first measurement of the pressure of the flow of urine through the conduit when the valve is in the first open configuration and to obtain a second measurement of the pressure of the flow of urine through the conduit when the valve is in the second restricted configuration;
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- a data recorder for recording and/or transmitting data representative of the first measurement and the second measurement;
- wherein the valve is partially closed in the second restricted configuration;
- wherein the conduit comprises a vertical portion and a horizontal portion downstream of the vertical portion;
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- wherein the device comprises a first position sensor arranged to determine the vertical distance between the horizontal portion of the conduit and an upstream end of the vertical portion of the conduit.
A bladder pressure measurement device comprising:
- a conduit for receiving a flow of urine;
- a valve actuatable between a first open configuration and a second restricted configuration that restricts the flow of urine through the conduit;
- a pressure sensor upstream of the valve, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged to obtain a first measurement of the pressure of the flow of urine through the conduit when the valve is in the first open configuration and to obtain a second measurement of the pressure of the flow of urine through the conduit when the valve is in the second restricted configuration;
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- a data recorder for recording and/or transmitting data representative of the first measurement and the second measurement;
- wherein the valve is partially closed in the second restricted configuration;
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- wherein the valve comprises an iris control valve comprising a plurality of overlapping leaves together defining a circular aperture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.