Continuous Glucose Monitoring Assembly for Easy Attachment and Stable Startup
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional continuous glucose monitoring systems require complex and cumbersome operations for attaching the sensor module to the body, leading to potential contamination, reduced accuracy, and inconvenient use, especially for young children and elderly adults.
Innovation Solution
A continuous glucose measurement apparatus is designed with a body attachable unit pre-assembled in an applicator, allowing easy attachment to the body with minimal user operation, featuring a wireless communication chip for convenient telecommunication and user-controlled operation initiation, eliminating the need for a separate transmitter and ensuring precise measurements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the sensor module is attached to the body using a separate applicator requiring multiple operations, then the attachment function is achieved, but the operation complexity increases and contamination risk rises
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor module and applicator are merged into a single integrated assembly where the sensor module is pre-loaded within the applicator housing. This integration eliminates the need for separate handling and attachment operations, allowing users to simply activate the pre-assembled unit against the body to achieve sensor insertion and attachment simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The sensor module is pre-assembled and pre-loaded into the applicator during manufacturing before reaching the user. This preliminary preparation of the attachment process eliminates complex user operations, reducing both operational complexity and contamination risk while maintaining proper sensor positioning.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a separate transmitter is used for telecommunication, then communication function is achieved, but the device complexity and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless communication chip is integrated directly into the sensor module, merging the telecommunication function with the sensing function. This eliminates the need for a separate transmitter device, reducing system complexity while maintaining wireless data transmission capability to external terminals.
3Productivity
If the operation starts automatically upon attachment, then the measurement function is achieved, but the measurement accuracy decreases due to unstable initial conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides dynamic control over operation initiation, allowing the user to choose between immediate automatic start or delayed start after attachment. This dynamic approach enables the system to adapt to different user needs, ensuring stable initial conditions when required while maintaining operational efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates user feedback through simple operations like pressing a button to initiate measurement. This feedback mechanism allows users to confirm proper attachment and stable conditions before starting measurement, ensuring measurement accuracy while maintaining ease of use.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a continuous glucose monitoring device. The present disclosure provides a continuous glucose monitoring device wherein: a body attachment unit is manufactured in the state in which the body attachment unit is assembled in an applicator, and thus a user's additional work for attaching the body attachment unit to the body is minimized and the body attachment unit can be attached to the body by simply operating the applicator; in particular, a wireless communication chip is disposed in the body attachment unit so as to communicate with an external terminal, and thus simple and convenient use can be achieved without any additional work for connection of a separate transmitter and maintenance and management can also be easily performed; and the monitoring operation is started by the user's manipulation after the body attachment unit is attached to the body, and thus the user can adjust the operation start time to an appropriate point as necessary and the operation can be started in a stabilized state so as to enable more accurate glucose monitoring.