Sensor web device for measuring electromyographic signals

a web device and sensor technology, applied in the field of sensor devices, can solve the problems of difficult to interpret signals, high cost, time-consuming and easy to error, and achieve the effect of quick and accurate placement of all electrodes

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-06-07
MED TEK
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[0008]In order to overcome these issues, the present disclosure is directed to a mesh or web of sEMG sensors arranged in a manner to allow very quick and accurate placement of all electrodes.

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The EMG signals given off by the muscles are relatively weak (on the order of millivolts) and it is important that the devices used to monitor and record the EMG signals do not introduce noise thereby making it extremely difficult to interpret the signals.
This was extremely expensive, time-consuming and prone to error.

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[0029]In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth by way of examples in order to provide a thorough understanding of the relevant teachings. However, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present teachings may be practiced without such details. In other instances, well known methods, procedures, components, and / or materials have been described at a relatively high-level, without detail, in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring aspects of the present teachings.

[0030]FIG. 1 shows a sensing portion of a sensor according to one embodiment of the present disclosure. The sensing portion has two sensor pads 30 for measuring EMG (electromyographic) signals of muscles. Two sensor pads 30 are used to measure the differential signal of the muscle. This allows the user to measure the voltage signals of the muscle and ascertain the health of the body part being studied.

[0031]The sensor pads 30 are attached to a base sheet 20. The sensor pa...

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A sensor web device is provided for measuring EMG (electromyographic) signals. The device has a base sheet and a plurality of EMG sensors disposed on the base sheet. The plurality of EMG sensors are arranged so that a desired EMG signal of a muscle in a human body is obtained by a corresponding one of the plurality of EMG sensors.

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[0001]This application claims priority of U.S. provisional application No. 61 / 344,893 filed on Nov. 5, 2010, the entire contents of which are incorporated by reference herein.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present disclosure relates to a sensor device for measuring multiple signals by the use of multiple interconnected surface electromyographic sensors arranged in a pre-defined pattern at various locations on a human body.BACKGROUND[0003]Sensors for monitoring muscle signals for data collection are used with dynamic muscle function monitoring and evaluating systems. The details of such a system are described in a co-pending application filed on Nov. 5, 2011 concurrently with this application, the entire contents of which are incorporated by reference herein. In this system, sensor data is directly fed into a point of detection (POD) device for conditioning, acquiring, and transmitting the sensor data. The sensors include, for example, but are not limited to, a surface EMG (sEMG) sensor, a...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61B5/0492A61B5/296
CPCA61B5/0022A61B5/0488A61B5/0492A61B2562/046A61B5/225A61B5/743A61B2562/0219A61B5/224A61B5/296A61B5/389
Inventor CYPHERY, CHARLES DEANVITIELLO, MARCO N.
Owner MED TEK
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