Integrated CGM Body Attachment Unit With User-Controlled Start
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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-friendly initiation and maintenance options.
Innovation Solution
A body attachable unit for continuous glucose measurement is assembled in an applicator, allowing simple attachment to the body with minimal user effort, featuring a wireless communication chip for convenient telecommunication and user-controlled operation initiation, eliminating the need for separate transmitters and ensuring precise measurements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate transmitter is connected to the sensor module for wireless communication, then telecommunication functionality is achieved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to additional connection steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the transmitter and sensor module into a single integrated body attachable unit. The wireless communication chip is embedded within the sensor module housing, eliminating the need for separate transmitter connection while maintaining all telecommunication functions. This integration directly resolves the contradiction by reducing component count without sacrificing communication reliability.
2Productivity
If the sensor module is attached to the body before operation initiation, then measurement can begin, but measurement precision deteriorates due to unstable status and potential contamination
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary attachment of the sensor module to the body, allowing the system to be in place and ready before operation is initiated by user input. This separates the attachment action from the measurement start action, enabling the sensor to be securely positioned in advance while maintaining measurement stability through controlled operation initiation only after proper attachment is confirmed.
3Reliability
If complex attachment operations are required for the sensor module, then proper installation can be achieved, but ease of operation deteriorates for users like young children or elderly adults
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the applicator and sensor module into a pre-assembled unit supplied to the user. This integration eliminates the need for users to separately handle and connect multiple components, reducing the attachment process to a single simple operation while ensuring proper installation through the manufacturer-prepared configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The applicator and sensor module are pre-assembled and prepared in advance by the manufacturer before being supplied to the user. This preliminary preparation ensures proper installation configuration is already in place, eliminating the need for users to perform complex assembly steps and significantly improving ease of operation.
4Reliability
If additional work steps are required after sensor attachment, then proper system initialization can be achieved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to increased procedural complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the transmitter initialization with the sensor module attachment process. Since the transmitter is integrated into the body attachable unit, system initialization occurs automatically upon attachment without requiring separate user actions for transmitter connection or configuration, thereby maintaining reliable system initialization while simplifying user procedure.
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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.