Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bio-signal measurement apparatus, docking apparatus and methods of their coupling
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Application No.: US16559763Application Date: 2019-09-04
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Publication No.: US11241181B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Juha Myllykangas , Sami Hynynen
- Applicant: BITTIUM BIOSIGNALS OY
- Applicant Address: FI Kuopio
- Assignee: BITTIUM BIOSIGNALS OY
- Current Assignee: BITTIUM BIOSIGNALS OY
- Current Assignee Address: FI Kuopio
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye PC
- Main IPC: A61B5/24
- IPC: A61B5/24 ; H01R33/72 ; H01R33/945 ; H02J7/00 ; A61B5/398 ; A61B5/369 ; A61B5/318 ; A61B5/389

Abstract:
A bio-signal measurement apparatus comprises tool-less connectors, coupling targets, a controllable coupling selection arrangement, and a control arrangement. The tool-less connectors are for an electric contact with a separate docking apparatus or an electrode arrangement. The coupling targets include a battery and a data communication unit that performs electrically a plug-and-play data transfer with the separate docking apparatus. The tool-less connectors, the number of which is three, are electrically coupled with the controllable coupling selection arrangement, which electrically couples all the tool-less connectors with only one of the coupling targets at a time in response to control from the control arrangement. The battery receives electricity from the tool-less connectors for charging the battery through the electric coupling caused by the coupling selection arrangement under control of the control arrangement during a first time window when the bio-signal measurement apparatus is connected with the docking apparatus. The data communication unit sends and/or receives data through the tool-less connectors using the plug-and-play data transfer based on the electric coupling caused by the coupling selection arrangement under control of the control arrangement during a second time window when the bio-signal measurement apparatus is connected with the docking apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210059546A1 BIO-SIGNAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, DOCKING APPARATUS AND METHODS OF THEIR COUPLING Public/Granted day:2021-03-04
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