Pre-Assembled Body Attachment Unit for Continuous Glucose Monitoring
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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 inconvenience, especially for young children and elderly adults, and lack user-friendly initiation and wireless communication capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A body attachable unit for continuous glucose measurement is designed with a sensor unit and wireless communication chip pre-assembled in an applicator, allowing easy attachment to the body with minimal user effort, eliminating the need for separate transmitters, and enabling user-controlled operation initiation for precise measurement.
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操作步骤, then the attachment function is achieved, but the operation becomes complex and cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the sensor module and applicator into a single integrated body attachable unit. The sensor module is pre-assembled within the applicator housing, eliminating the need for separate attachment operations. Users simply attach the entire integrated unit to the body, reducing multiple steps to a single action while maintaining all necessary functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The body attachable unit serves multiple functions through integration: it acts as both the sensor module for glucose measurement and the applicator for body attachment. The housing provides both structural support and attachment mechanism, while the wireless communication chip enables data transmission without separate components.
2Reliability
If the sensor module is handled separately during attachment, then the attachment process is flexible, but contamination risk increases and measurement accuracy decreases
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating the sensor module within the sealed applicator housing, the patent eliminates direct handling of the sensor components during attachment. The sensor remains protected inside the housing until the moment of application, reducing contamination risk from user contact while maintaining a simple attachment process.
Solution Approach 2:
The sensor module is pre-assembled and prepared within the applicator housing before use. All necessary components are positioned and protected in advance, so that during the attachment process, no further handling of sensitive sensor parts is required. This preliminary preparation ensures both accuracy and convenience.
3Device complexity
If a separate transmitter is required for wireless communication, then the communication function is achieved, but the device complexity and maintenance difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the wireless communication chip directly into the body attachable unit housing, combining the sensor module, applicator, and communication functions into a single device. This eliminates the need for a separate transmitter, reducing the number of components users must handle and connect, while maintaining full wireless communication capability with external terminals.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the operation starts automatically upon attachment, then the measurement begins immediately, but the user cannot adjust the start time to a proper moment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic operation initiation system where the sensor module can remain in a standby state after attachment without immediately starting measurement. Users can control when the operation begins, allowing adjustment of the start time to a proper moment based on their needs, while the system remains ready to begin measurement whenever activated.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a body attachment unit for continuous glucose monitoring. The present invention provides a body attachment unit for continuous glucose monitoring, wherein: the body attachment unit is manufactured in the state in which the body attachment unit is assembled in an applicator, and thus separate additional work 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 a 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.