Integrated CGM Body Attachment Unit for Simple Sensor Application
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional continuous glucose monitoring systems require complex and cumbersome operations for attaching sensor modules to the body, leading to potential inaccuracies and inconvenience, especially for users like young children or elderly adults, and lack user-controlled initiation of measurements.
Innovation Solution
A body attachable unit for continuous glucose measurement is designed with a sensor unit and a wireless communication chip, assembled in an applicator, allowing easy attachment to the body with minimal user effort and enabling user-controlled operation initiation, eliminating the need for separate transmitters and reducing contamination risks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate transmitter is connected to the sensor module for continuous glucose measurement, then telecommunication with external terminal is enabled, but the operation becomes more complex and cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the wireless communication chip directly into the body attachable unit, merging the transmitter function with the sensor module. This eliminates the need for separate transmitter connection and reduces operational complexity while maintaining telecommunication capability with external terminals.
Solution Approach 2:
The body attachable unit is designed as a multi-functional integrated device that combines glucose sensing, wireless communication, and data transmission capabilities in a single unit, eliminating the need for separate components and simplifying user operation.
2Reliability
If the sensor module is attached to the body with complex operations, then the sensor can be properly installed, but the operation becomes difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The body attachable unit is pre-assembled in an applicator device before use. The applicator is designed to guide and facilitate the attachment process, performing preliminary positioning and installation actions that simplify the user's task to a simple attachment operation rather than complex manual installation.
3Ease of manufacture
If the body attachable unit is manufactured separately from the applicator, then the components can be produced independently, but the attachment process becomes more complex and contamination risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The body attachable unit is manufactured and pre-assembled inside the applicator device in a nested configuration. The applicator serves as a protective housing and delivery mechanism, allowing the body attachable unit to be produced and stored within it, thereby simplifying the attachment process and reducing contamination risk.
4Productivity
If the operation starts automatically after attachment, then the measurement begins immediately, but the user cannot adjust the operation start time to a proper time
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides dynamic operation initiation options, allowing the user to choose between immediate automatic start upon attachment or delayed start at a user-specified time. This dynamic flexibility enables adaptation to different user needs and situations.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a continuous blood glucose measurement body attachment unit, and provides a continuous blood glucose measurement body attachment unit, which is manufactured in an assembled state in an applicator so as to minimize separate additional operations, such that the body attachment unit can be attached to the body with only a simple operation of the applicator and, particularly, the body attachment unit has a wireless communication chip so as to be capable of communicating with an external terminal, thereby enabling simple and convenient usage without an additional operation in which a separate transmitter must be connected and enabling maintenance to be more easily performed, and after the body attachment unit is attached to the body, an operation starts by the control of a user, such that an operation start time point can be adjusted to an appropriate time point according to the needs of the user, and an operation can start in a stabilized state, such that blood glucose can be more accurately measured.