Blood pressure measuring device (1) which features: a
cuff (40) which, when worn on a
blood pressure measuring surface, pressurizes an
artery in the measuring surface at the pressure of a fluid in the
cuff; a
piezoelectric pump (31) which increases the pressure inside the
cuff (40); an air outlet unit (32) which reduces the pressure inside the cuff (40); a
pressure detection unit (33) which detects the
cuff pressure, which is the pressure inside the cuff (40); and a
control unit (20), wherein the
control unit (20) includes: a determining device which determines an amplitude and a frequency of a
voltage which is applied to the
piezoelectric pump (31) (step S112, step S113); a control device for the applied
voltage, which performs the control so that a
voltage at the amplitude and frequency determined by the determining device is applied to the
piezoelectric pump (31) (step S114); and a
blood pressure measuring device (1) which calculates a
blood pressure value based on the
cuff pressure detected by the
pressure detection unit (33) during inflation when the
cuff pressure is increased by the piezoelectric pump (31) (step S115), and wherein the determining device determines a first control frequency (fo1) as the first driving control frequency at which a pump efficiency of the piezoelectric pump is maximal in the case in which the fluid is supplied to the cuff (40) at a required flow velocity during inflation, using a previously determined first voltage (Vo1) as the voltage (step S112); wherein the determining device determines a second control voltage (Vo2) at which the pump efficiency is at its maximum, in the case in which the fluid is supplied to the cuff (40) at a required flow velocity during inflation, wherein a previously determined second frequency (fo2) is used as the second driving frequency (fo2) (step 113); The control device of the applied voltage performs a first control, which applies a voltage at the amplitude of the previously determined first voltage (Vo1) and at the first control frequency (fo1), which is determined by the determining device from the beginning of the inflation until a previously determined time, halfway through the inflation process, and The control device of the applied voltage performs a second control, which applies the previously determined second frequency (fo2) and the second control voltage (Vo2), which is determined by the control device, from the previously determined time until the end of the inflation (step S114).