Title:
PRESSURE SENSITIVE MAT WITH BREATHING TUBE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2001063579
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
This invention relates generally to patient monitoring systems and more particularly concerns devices and systems used to monitor bed patients in hospital or other care-giving environments. In accordance with a first aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a pressure sensitive mat which has been completely sealed around its exterior edges. The interior of the mat is kept in communication with the atmosphere by way of a section of flexible tubing which encloses the attached electrical line. One end of the tubing is sealed inside of the mat and the other end is open to the atmosphere, thereby providing a passageway for air to reach the interior of the mat. This arrangement, however, protects the interior of the mat from exposure to fluids near the perimeter of the mat and allows the mat-portion of the invention to be completely submersed without adverse effect, if that should become necessary.
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Inventors:
FITZGERALD SANFORD G
SMITH TOBY E
SMITH TOBY E
Application Number:
PCT/US2001/006071
Publication Date:
April 18, 2002
Filing Date:
February 23, 2001
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BED CHECK CORP (US)
International Classes:
A61B5/11; H01H3/14; H01H9/04; (IPC1-7): G08B21/00; A61B5/11; H01H3/14
Domestic Patent References:
| WO1990010204A1 | 1990-09-07 | |||
| WO1998018318A1 | 1998-05-07 |
Foreign References:
| US5142109A | 1992-08-25 | |||
| GB2320347A | 1998-06-17 |
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