| Tanita Corporation Patent applications |
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| 20120016268 | ABDOMINAL OBESITY INDEX MEASURING APPARATUS - An abdomen width determiner determines an abdomen width of a subject. A shape index calculator calculates a shape index corresponding to a cross-sectional shape of an abdomen of the subject. An obesity evaluator evaluates whether an obesity degree of the subject is high or low. An obesity index calculator calculates an obesity index corresponding to the abdomen width using a first equation if the obesity evaluator evaluates that the obesity degree is low, and calculates an obesity index corresponding to the abdomen width and the shape index using a second equation different from the first equation if the obesity evaluator evaluates that the obesity degree is high. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016255 | RESPIRATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND RESPIRATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A respiration characteristic analysis apparatus includes a bioelectrical impedance determiner adapted for determining bioelectrical impedance at a part including the right lung of a human subject and for determining bioelectrical impedance at a part including the left lung of the human subject; and a respiration depth calculator adapted for calculating a right lung respiration depth related to a respiration capability of the right lung of the human subject on the basis of change over time in the bioelectrical impedance at the part including the right lung determined by the bioelectrical impedance determiner, and for calculating a left lung respiration depth related to a respiration capability of the left lung of the human subject on the basis of change over time in the bioelectrical impedance at the part including the left lung determined by the bioelectrical impedance determiner. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016254 | RESPIRATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND RESPIRATION CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A respiration characteristic analysis apparatus includes a bioelectrical impedance determiner adapted for determining a first bioelectrical impedance at the upper body trunk of a human subject including the upper lobes of the lungs of the human subject and excluding the abdomen of the human subject and a second bioelectrical impedance at the middle body trunk of the human subject including the median and lower lobes of the lungs of the human subject and the abdomen of the human subject; and an analyzer adapted for analyzing a respiration characteristic of the human subject on the basis of change over time in each of the first bioelectrical impedance and the second bioelectrical impedance determined by the bioelectrical impedance determiner. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20110297539 | WATER QUALITY ANALYZER - A water quality analyzer comprises: sensor electrodes | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110213268 | LIVING BODY INDEX MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110209927 | WEIGHT MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A weight measurement device has a housing that includes a base, a platform located above the base and on which a subject is placed or stands, and a chamber defined by the base and the platform. At least one load cell is contained in the chamber and is supported by the base. A load transmission member is located between the platform and the load cell. A bracket is fixed to the base. An elastic deformation part is located around the load transmission member and connected to the bracket and to the load transmission member. The elastic deformation part has an elasticity that is greater than that of the load transmission member, and allows the load transmission member to change in position with respect to the bracket when force is transmitted from the platform via the load transmission member to the load cell. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110152723 | BODY INDEX APPARATUS - A body index apparatus ( | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110080181 | BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A biometric measurement apparatus has a measurement unit for measuring bioelectric impedance of different parts of a body and hematocrit. The measurement unit has impedance calculators (IPG | 04-07-2011 |
| 20100252334 | WEIGHING SCALE - A weighing scale has a display unit for displaying the weight of an object loaded on a platform measured by a weight measurer, a communication unit for transmitting weight data to, or receiving from, another weighing scale, a determiner that determines whether the weighing scale is capable of communicating via the communication unit with another weighing scale, and a controller that, in a case in which a result of the determination by the determiner shows that the weighing scale is not capable of communicating with another weighing scale, controls the display unit to display weight data output by the weight measurer, and in a case in which a result of the determination by the determiner shows that the weighing scale is capable of communicating with another weighing scale, that transmits weight data to, or receives from, another weighing scale. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100204601 | RESPIRATION TYPE EVALUATION APPARATUS - A respiration type evaluation apparatus includes a bioelectrical impedance determiner for determining a bioelectrical impedance at at least a body region of a human subject that contributes to respiration of the human subject, and a respiration type determiner for determining whether respiration of the human subject is abdominal or costal on the basis of change over time of the bioelectrical impedance determined by the bioelectrical impedance determiner. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100126858 | CHEMICAL SENSOR TYPE MEASURING APPARATUS - There is disclosed means for quickly solving instability of sensor sensitivity performances found in an initial stage and stabilizing the sensor sensitivity performances, when immersing a chemical sensor kept under a dry state in a buffer solution used as a storage liquid and applying a measurement bias between a working electrode and a reference electrode to make first use of the chemical sensor for measurement in which the chemical sensor is used. To make the first use of the chemical sensor, after immersing the chemical sensor kept under a dry state in the buffer solution used as the storage liquid, a first initial treatment bias having the same direction as that of the measurement bias and possessing an absolute value larger than that of the measurement bias is applied between the working electrode and the reference electrode for a first initial treatment time. Subsequently, the bias is changed to a second initial treatment bias which is the same as the measurement bias, and the second initial treatment bias is applied for a second initial treatment time. When such a two-step initial treatment operation is carried out, the stabilized sensor sensitivity performance is achieved. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100065933 | Semiconductor strain gauge and the manufacturing method - A high-density impurity diffused layer of an identical conduction type to the semiconductor substrate on which the impurity is doped higher in density than the semiconductor substrate around the diffuse resistance region is provided, one side of the electrodes is formed extending to the high-density impurity diffused layer and the diffused resistance region and the high-density impurity diffused layer are connected in a semiconductor strain gauge that is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate of a fixed conduction type and is provided with the diffused resistance region of opposite conduction type to the semiconductor substrate and is provided with electrodes on both ends of the diffused resistance region. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100041516 | EXERCISE DETECTION APPARATUS - An exercise detection apparatus including: a load stage comprising a load surface onto which a load of parts or all of a human subject is applied; a load measurer for repeatedly or continuously measuring the load on the load surface; a calculator for calculating a difference between adjacent local maximum and minimum in the load varying over time measured by the load measurer repeatedly or continuously; and a detector for detecting a motion of the human subject when the difference calculated by the calculator is within a range. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100012393 | BOTTOMING DETECTION WEIGHING SCALE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING WEIGHING SCALE - A body weighing machine ( | 01-21-2010 |
| 20090292190 | BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MEASURING AVERAGE POSTPRANDIAL BLOOD GLUCOSE - A practical measuring device and a measuring method that allow simply measuring average postprandial blood glucose from urinary glucose. The blood glucose measuring device includes a measuring unit that measures postprandial urinary glucose from subject's urine at a predetermined time after meal, a processing unit that calculates average postprandial blood glucose through a period up to the predetermined time after meal, based on the postprandial urinary glucose, a storage unit that stores calibration data including the postprandial urinary glucose and the average postprandial blood glucose in association, and an output unit that outputs data indicating the calculated average postprandial blood glucose. The processing unit calculates the average postprandial blood glucose, based on the postprandial urinary glucose from the urine of the subject who has intaken a desired amount of water or perspired in the period up to the predetermined time after meal, and the calibration data. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090209753 | COLUMN PACKING MATERIAL, COLUMN USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF SEPARATION USING THE SAME - Aimed at readily and exactly separate 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) contained in a sample, a column packing material used for separating 8-OHdG, which contains a packing material composed of a material having a straight-chain hydrocarbon group having 6 or more and 30 or less carbon atoms as a functional group, and having a carbon content over the surface of carrier of 18% or less by element ratio, wherein the packing material contains 1 cumulative percent or more and 20 cumulative percent or less, on the particle-count basis, of particles having a circle-equivalent diameter, measured using a flow-type particle image analyzer, of 0.5 μm or larger and 10 μm or smaller, is used. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090183928 | ELECTRONIC WEIGHING SCALE - Aimed at providing an electronic weighing scale possibly thinned overall, an electronic weighing scale disclosed herein has a top plate component allowing on the top surface thereof placement of an object to be weighed; and load cell units supporting the top plate component from the lower side thereof, wherein the top plate component is provided with mounting holes so as to extend therethrough in the thickness-wise direction, allowing therein attachment of cup components each having an opening opened downward, and each load cell unit is attached inside each cup component. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090171165 | SLEEP EVALUATION DEVICE AND SLEEP EVALUATION METHOD THEREFOR - A sleep evaluation device ( | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090166095 | WEIGHING MACHINE - A weighing machine having a weighing platform includes a detection unit for outputting a detection voltage depending on a load acting on the measuring platform; a first data generation unit for A-D converting the detection voltage to generate first data; a second data generation unit for A-D converting the detection voltage to generate second data; and a control unit which stops operating the second data generation unit and monitors the first data in a standby state, switches from the standby state to a measurement state when the control unit senses that an object is placed on the weighing platform, then stops operating the first data generation unit and operates the second data generation unit, and outputs the measured weight of the object according to the second data. The first data generation unit consumes less power but has a lower A-D conversion precision than the second data generation unit. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090143199 | Body Movement Detecting Apparatus - A body movement detecting apparatus includes a body movement data acquiring unit that acquires body movement data relating to a body movement of a user; a body movement discriminating unit that discriminates whether the body movement is a walking exercise or an exercise other than the walking exercise; and a computing unit that calculates a consumption energy during the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data discriminated as the walking exercise, calculates the consumption energy at the time of exercise other than the walking exercise on the basis of the body movement data of the body movement which is discriminated as the exercise other than the walking exercise, and calculates the consumption energy by the body movement of the user by adding these consumption energy. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090099781 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A BLOOD SUGER CONDITION - A blood sugar condition is estimated by (1) measuring a urine sugar value A, (2) discriminating whether or not the measured urine sugar value is less than a discriminating method classification boundary value, (3) when it is less, obtaining an averaged value X of measured urine sugar values during a past predetermined period of time, measured at the same timing in a one-day life as the timing when the latest measured urine sugar value is measured, (4) calculating the difference between the averaged value and the measured urine sugar value, (5) when the difference is not less than a positive discriminating reference difference, discriminating as being a blood sugar value decrease, (6) when the measured urine sugar value A is not less than the discriminating method classification boundary value, obtaining an averaged value X of all measured urine sugar values during the past predetermined period of time, (7) calculating a ratio between the measured urine sugar value and the averaged value X, and, (8) when the ratio is not greater than a first discriminating reference ratio, discriminating as being the blood sugar value decrease. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090093732 | BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASURING APPARATUS AND BODY COMPOSITION DETERMINING APPARATUS - A bioelectrical impedance measuring apparatus includes a measuring unit for sequentially measuring a bioelectrical impedance of a living subject. The apparatus may further include a period determiner for determining a fluctuation period of fluctuation in values of the bioelectrical impedance measured by the measuring unit, the fluctuation being caused by breathing of the living subject. A calculator calculates an average of a plurality of the values of the bioelectrical impedance measured by the measuring unit within the fluctuation period determined by the period determiner. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090088661 | BIOMETRIC APPARATUS - A biometric apparatus includes: at least two electrode members arranged so as to be capable of coming into contact with a measured person; a determining device that determines whether the at least two electrode members are in a conducting state via a body of the measured person or not; a measuring device that measures biometric data of the measured person; and a control device that activates or deactivates the measuring device on the basis of a result of determination provided by the determining device. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090076756 | WEIGHT MEASURING APPARATUS - The invention provides a weight measuring apparatus which carries out zero-point reset as an output value of a load signal in an unloaded state when the weight measuring apparatus is not in use, including a weight measuring unit that measures a load applied to a machine body and outputs the load signals; and a control device that receives the load signals from the weight measuring unit at reset time intervals for carrying out the zero-point reset of the weight measuring unit in the unloaded state, in which the control device changes the reset time interval to next zero-point reset according to the difference between the output value of the load signal at the time of previous zero-point reset and the output value of the load signal at zero-point reset of this time. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090057035 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CHANGES IN BODY COMPOSITION - When a human subject presses a start switch S and stands on a platform ( | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090056465 | MAT FOR PRESSURE MEASUREMENT AND A BODY INFORMATION ACQUISITION DEVICE - When the distribution of the pressure applied to a mat is measured, a plurality of detection units is established in the air mat and the sensor for measuring the pressure applied to the air mat is needed to be provided for each detection unit. The mat for pressure measurement | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090051550 | Sleep state measuring apparatus and sleep state measuring method - Even if a mattress or the like suffers long-term deterioration, a sleep state measuring apparatus is provided which can set a suitable amplification factor A of a biosignal. The sleep state measuring apparatus detects the biosignal which changes depending on the sleep state of a person who gets on the mattress filled with water, amplifies and estimates the sleep state based on the biosignal. A static component P of the mattress internal pressure is detected by the biosignal sensor is first obtained (S | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090024053 | BODY COMPOSITION MEASURING APPARATUS | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090018464 | Body composition measuring device, a body composition measuring method - A body composition measuring device and method which can perform measurement of the value about body composition also to those who have a deficit in the limbs are provided. A plurality of current applicators and voltage measurement electrodes are provided. A body composition measuring device measures body composition by bioelectricity impedance measurement, and body composition is measured from a value of bioelectricity impedance measurement using a plurality of regressions. A plurality of electrodes for current application and voltage measurement electrodes are made to correspond to the left hand, right hand, left foot, and right foot for a person being measured. In addition, a plurality of regressions is made to correspond to a value of bioelectricity impedance measurement of an electrode corresponding to between both feet, between both hands, right half body, left half body, right hand, left hand, right foot, left foot, and trunk. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20080306401 | Muscular volume balance evaluation apparatus, a muscular volume balance valuation method - A muscular volume balance measuring apparatus that measures the balance of the muscular volume in a specific part is provided. At least two sets of current applying, devices for inserting a specific part of the body and applying current to living bodies, or a voltmeter, which measures voltage, are provided. A bioelectricity impedance measuring device which measures bioelectricity impedance of a measured region from applied current and measured voltage is also provided. A muscular volume calculating device which computes muscular volume from measured bioelectricity impedance is also provided. Further, balance of muscular volume of the inserted part is calculated from each set of the computed muscular volume. In addition, there is a feature of being able to expand and contract for the longitudinal width, which is the distance which inserts a specific part, and breadth, which is the distance between current applying device or between the voltmeter. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080306400 | Bioelectricity impedance measuring device, a malnutrition measurement system, a malnutrition measurement method - A bioelectricity impedance measuring device includes a contact surface put to one part of the body, gripper, and electrodes of a contact surface. In addition, the bioelectricity impedance measuring device further includes a malnutrition measuring device which measures malnutrition is provided. A malnutrition measuring device measures Phase angle theta and/or a RcXc ratio, and measures a nutrient state. A malnutrition measuring device judges a state of malnutrition from a value of Phase angle theta. It is available to display a judged result with a bar classified by display method by color. In addition, it can have further a muscular volume measuring method which measures muscular volume, and this muscular volume measuring method can measure muscular volume also to a child aged 5 and below or an old man aged 60 and over. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080306351 | SLEEP EVALUATION DEVICE - A sleep evaluation device | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080270190 | MEASURED VITAL DATA PRESERVING AND PROVIDING SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080200793 | COVER SHEET FOR A BODY MEASURING APPARATUS AND AN AUTOMATIC SHEET DISPENSER THEREFOR - A cover sheet ( | 08-21-2008 |
