Integrated device for inhalation medication and peak flow measurement and method of using the same
AssigneeNational Applied Research Laboratories
InventorsShu-Hui Hung, Yu-Lu Hsiao, Chih-Sheng Yu
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to an integrated device for inhalation medication and peak flow measurement and method of using the same. The integrated device integrates a respiratory flow rate measurement unit and a wireless communication module into the inhaler device, so that the inhaler device has both a medication function and a respiratory flow rate measurement function, and the integrated device is capable of transmitting the measured respiratory flow data to an electronic device by wireless transmission, so as to construct a personalized health assessment model, which can be used as a reference for medical personnel to make treatment decisions.
Claims7
An integrated device for inhalation medication and peak flow measurement, comprising:
- a medicine bottle, an L-shaped inhaler body, a drug release port, a medicine bottle bracket, an L-shaped drug delivery channel, a respiratory flow rate measurement unit, a power supply unit, an integration module, a plurality of air holes, and a medicine bottle bracket knob;
- wherein, the medicine bottle is disposed on the L-shaped inhaler body, and the drug release port is disposed at the other side of the medicine bottle disposed on the L-shaped inhaler body;
- the medicine bottle bracket is disposed below an inner portion of the L-shaped inhaler body, and the L-shaped drug delivery channel is disposed at an inner side of the medicine bottle bracket, while the respiratory flow rate measurement unit is disposed at an outer side of the medicine bottle bracket, one end of the L-shaped drug delivery channel is connected to an opening of the medicine bottle, and the other end is facing the drug release port;
- the respiratory flow rate measurement unit is disposed on the opposite side of the L-shaped drug delivery channel from the end that faces the drug release port;
- the power supply unit is disposed at a corner of the L-shaped inhaler body and/or at one side of the L-shaped inhaler body adjacent to the drug release port;
- the plurality of air holes are disposed at a lower corner of the L-shaped inhaler body;
- the integration module is disposed below the L-shaped inhaler body and between the drug release port and the medicine bottle bracket;
- and
- the medicine bottle bracket knob is integrally disposed below the medicine bottle bracket,
- wherein the respiratory flow rate measuring unit comprises a chip, a sensor or a sensing element;
- wherein the power supply unit comprises a disposable battery, a rechargeable battery, or a solar power supply module;
- wherein the integration module comprises a power switch, an operation module, and a wireless communication module, the operation module comprises a storage unit and a computing unit, and the wireless communication module is a short-range wireless communication module;
- and
- wherein the storage unit comprises a read-only memory and/or flash memory, and the computing unit is a multi-core processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.