| SECA AG Patent applications |
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| 20110245710 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS - The present invention provides bioelectrical impedance measuring apparatus for determining composition data of the human body, the apparatus including at least eight electrodes, a pair of electrodes being assigned to each of four limbs, measuring circuitry having current sources and current and voltage measuring circuitry which may selectively be coupled to the electrodes, and a control and analysis unit which is arranged to apply, according to a plurality of predetermined measuring programs, current to two electrodes and to determine the resulting voltages with two other electrodes on different limbs and to determine the impedance of body segments based thereon. The control and analysis unit is further arranged to determine, in an advance measurement by applying current via two electrodes and measuring the resulting current through the applying electrodes and/or voltages on the other electrodes, which electrodes have contact, and to select, on the basis of the determined configuration of electrodes with contact, such matching measuring programs, in which matching measuring programs only electrodes are used for current application and voltage measurement which are contained in the determined configuration of electrodes having contact. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110237926 | BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASURING APPARATUS - The present invention provides bioelectrical impedance measuring apparatus for determining composition data of a human body, the apparatus including a plurality of electrodes and measuring circuitry which inject, through two electrodes, alternating current into the body, and which determine, with two other electrodes on different limbs, the resulting voltages, and which determine therefrom the impedance of body segments. In one apparatus, two hand contact bodies are disclosed, each of which is shaped in such a manner and provided with two electrodes in such a manner that a user when contacting the hand contact bodies with his hands comes into contact with two electrodes for each hand at the respective hand contact body. Each hand contact body includes a hand seating surface for placement of a hand inner surface thereon, each hand seating surface includes an electrically insulating separating wall extending over a part of the length of the hand seating surface, the separating wall being adapted to project into the space between middle and ring finger when a hand is placed on the hand seating surface, and on both sides of the separating wall an electrode is included such that, when a hand is placed on the hand seating surface, one electrode comes into contact with the small finger and/or ring finger at the other electrode comes into contact with middle finger and/or index finger. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110082382 | BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASURING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a bioelectrical impedance measuring apparatus for determining composition data of a human body, the apparatus including several measuring electrodes, measuring circuitry on a main board including voltage measuring circuitry and a control and analysis unit. The control and analysis unit is arranged to apply, according to a predetermined measuring program, an alternating current from a controllable alternating current source to an electrode specific for the respective measuring program to the body and to conduct away alternating current via another electrode and to determine by means of two further electrodes with the voltage measuring circuitry the resulting voltage, and to determine on this basis the impedance of a body segment. Each voltage applying electrode includes a remotely controlled alternating current source separate from the main board and disposed in the vicinity of the current applying electrode. | 04-07-2011 |
