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US 8,784,341 B2Granted
Tongue depressor with a force/pressure sensing element
OwnerEric Mitchell Friedland, Mark Shaffer Annettinventors
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Abstract
A body force measurement system for both assessment and therapeutic usage comprising a non-rigid tongue depressor with a force sensing element attached to it and a means of converting the force sensed into quantifiable data. The system provides convenient method for making body force measurements consistent with current clinical practice and without the need for a fixed registration point.
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A force sensing tongue depressor comprising:
- a. a longitudinal element having a distal end with said distal end being a single flexible flat rectangular plate with a rounded tip
- b. a force sensing element located at the distal end of said longitudinal element
- c. traces that are used to transmit the information sensed by said force sensing element to measurement equipment
- and said force sensing tongue depressor is designed to achieve measurement equilibrium during the measurement of tongue force.
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A force sensing tongue depressor comprising:
- a. a longitudinal element having a distal end with said distal end being a single flexible flat rectangular plate with a rounded tip
- b. a force sensing element located at the distal end of said longitudinal element
- c. said force sensing element is a one-time-use pressure sensitive film
- and said force sensing tongue depressor is designed to achieve measurement equilibrium during the measurement of tongue force.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.