Handheld Medical Data Assembly with Memory and Remote Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current non-invasive medical data collecting devices lack adequate memory capacity for storing multiple patient data, efficient data access, and remote data transmission capabilities, limiting their ability to manage and analyze temperature and other medical data effectively.
Innovation Solution
A hand-held device with interconnected components for data collection, storage, and display, featuring a memory assembly, sensor assembly, and control assembly, which allows for non-invasive data collection, storage, and transmission to a remote facility using a docking station with data transmitting capabilities, including wireless communication protocols like BlueTooth.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If non-invasive temperature measurement is used, then measurement accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases due to need for memory, display, and control assemblies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the temperature sensing function with memory storage, display, and control capabilities into an integrated hand-held device. The sensor assembly, memory assembly, display assembly, and control assembly are merged into a single portable unit that can perform non-invasive temperature measurement and data management without requiring separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The hand-held device is designed with multi-functionality, serving as both a non-invasive temperature measurement device and a data management system. It can measure temperature, store multiple patient readings, display results, and transmit data remotely, replacing several separate devices with one universal tool.
2Quantity of substance
If memory capacity is increased to store multiple patient data, then data management capability is improved, but device size and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a docking station as an intermediary between the hand-held device and remote processing facilities. The docking station handles data transmission and serves as a bridge, allowing the hand-held device to have adequate memory capacity without requiring direct complex communication infrastructure, thus simplifying the overall system architecture.
3Adaptability or versatility
If data transmission capability is added to remote facility, then data analysis capability is improved, but device complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The device performs preliminary data processing and storage in its memory assembly before transmission. By preparing and organizing data locally in advance, the device reduces the complexity and energy requirements of the actual transmission process to remote facilities, as only processed data needs to be transmitted rather than raw continuous streams.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient storage and access of multiple patient data, including temperature and other medical parameters, with the ability to identify each patient's data and transmit it to remote processing facilities for further analysis, enhancing data management and clinical evaluation.
Implementation Method 1
The human body, as well as animals and other objects, whether solid, liquid or gas, release energy by radiation, wherein the strength of the radiation is indicative of the temperature of the object.
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AI summary
An assembly structured to collect medical data from at least one but more practically a plurality of patients, wherein the medical data collected includes, but is not limited to, temperature readings. A hand-held device or housing is disposable in an operative position in spaced relation to a predetermined target of the patient. A sensor assembly is operative to collect the intended medical data and a memory assembly serves to concurrently store the collected data. A display assembly is operatively associated with a control assembly wherein the collected medical data from any one of the plurality of patients may be selectively accessed, reviewed on the display assembly and be correlated with additional identification information corresponding to each of the plurality of patients from which the collected data originated. A docking station may be removably connected to the housing and includes a data transmitting assembly structured to access the medical data in the memory assembly and transmit it to a remote processor or like facility for further storage and/or processing.