Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Continuous swallowing movement measuring device and method for measuring a continuous swallowing movement
- Patent Title (中): 连续吞咽运动测量装置及测量连续吞咽运动的方法
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Application No.: US11659421Application Date: 2005-07-29
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Publication No.: US08211040B2Publication Date: 2012-07-03
- Inventor: Hidetoshi Kojima , Hirotaka Kaneda , Toyohiko Hayashi
- Applicant: Hidetoshi Kojima , Hirotaka Kaneda , Toyohiko Hayashi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sapporo Breweries Limited
- Current Assignee: Sapporo Breweries Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2004-229079 20040805; JP2004-255966 20040902; JP2005-042545 20050218
- International Application: PCT/JP2005/013969 WO 20050729
- International Announcement: WO2006/013797 WO 20060209
- Main IPC: A61B5/11
- IPC: A61B5/11

Abstract:
A continuous swallowing movement measuring device includes pressure sensors placed in a line along a direction of an up and down movement of a thyroid cartilage when a food is swallowed, a first one of the pressure sensors placed at a top position of the thyroid cartilage, a second one of the pressure sensors placed along the direction to measure swallows included in a continuous swallowing movement. The device also includes a tool for wearing the pressure sensors and for fixing the pressure sensors to touch an anterior region of a neck of a subject. The tool includes a fixing unit fixes the pressure sensors. The tool also includes a supporter of the pressure sensors supports the fixing unit. Further, the tool includes a holding band holds the supporter of the pressure sensors on the anterior region of the neck of the subject.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090030346A1 Device and method for measuring continuous swallowing motion Public/Granted day:2009-01-29
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