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20080249427 | Monitoring device and method - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing information relating to disturbances and/or disease pattern based on a patient's breathing parameters. Preferably, the apparatus has multiple functionalities and provides information relating to different disturbances and/or disease patterns. In particular, the present invention relates to an apparatus for identifying different indications of a patient, the apparatus comprising a sensor, for sensing signals indicative of a patient's breathing, a processing unit, for processing and/or analyzing the signals, and display means for displaying the outcome of the processing and/or analysis. The corresponding method for identifying different indications of a patient comprises the steps of sensing signals indicative of a patient's breathing, processing and/or analyzing the signals, and displaying the outcome of the processing and/or analysis. | 10-09-2008 |
20090020120 | Monitor for CPAP/ventilator apparatus - A monitor includes a measurement line segment adapted to be coupled between a patient interface and a positive airway pressure device. The measurement line segment defines a gas flow path. A sensor includes two ports in communication with the gas flow path through the measurement line segment, and a recording device is adapted to record data collected by the sensor. | 01-22-2009 |
20090024048 | Respiration Detecting Means - The present application is directed to a detector to detect or generate measuring signals that are indicative of the respiration of a person, wherein said detector can be used advantageously in view of hygiene and stands out due to a simple and robust configuration. According to a first aspect, the detector detects a signal that is indicative of the activity of the respiratory muscles of a person to be examined, the detector comprising a band which, in the application position, is passed around a torso region which widens and narrows when the person to be examined breathes, as well as a structure that is included in the band and loaded in accordance with the narrowing or widening of the torso region. The structure is configured such that it causes a change in the volume of a measuring space device depending on a tensile force. It is thus advantageously possible to detect or measure the forces acting on the band in a non-electric manner and, on the basis of this detection or measurement, draw conclusions relating to the widening or narrowing of the torso. | 01-22-2009 |
20100180898 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING A RESPIRATORY GAS - An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient within the scope of the diagnosis and/or the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders includes an electronic signal processing device for generating a pressure control signal on the basis of indicative signals relating to the breathing activity and/or the physiological state of a person. The signal processing device comprises a signal inputting device and an extraction device for generating data field entries according to predefined signal analysis procedures. A pressure signal generator is provided for generating the pressure control signal, taking into account determined data field entries which are at least selected by the extraction device. | 07-22-2010 |
20100298731 | Monitoring device and method - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing information relating to disturbances and/or disease pattern based on a patient's breathing parameters. Preferably, the apparatus has multiple functionalities and provides information relating to different disturbances and/or disease patterns. In particular, the present invention relates to an apparatus for identifying different indications of a patient, the apparatus comprising a sensor, for sensing signals indicative of a patient's breathing, a processing unit, for processing and/or analyzing the signals, and display means for displaying the outcome of the processing and/or analysis. The corresponding method for identifying different indications of a patient comprises the steps of sensing signals indicative of a patient's breathing, processing and/or analyzing the signals, and displaying the outcome of the processing and/or analysis. | 11-25-2010 |
20110073109 | APPARATUS FOR HUMIDIFYING A RESPIRATORY GAS - The invention concerns an apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas, a humidifying apparatus, a respiratory gas tube and a connecting apparatus therefor. The apparatus of the invention includes a blowing device for delivering the respiratory gas, a housing device which has a bottom region, a top surface region and a side region extending upwardly between the top surface region and the cover region, as well as a connecting device for connecting a humidifying apparatus for humidifying the respiratory gas, wherein the connecting device is arranged in the side region of the apparatus in such a way that the humidifying apparatus can be laterally coupled thereto. The humidifying apparatus according to the invention is distinguished by a partial amount discharge device for passing a partial amount of the liquid pre-stored in a liquid storage space into a humidifying region. The respiration tube according to the invention includes a connecting plug structure which has both a respiratory gas connecting portion and also a pressure measuring tube connecting portion. | 03-31-2011 |
20110218452 | RESPIRATION DETECTING ARRANGEMENT - The present application is directed to a detector to detect or generate measuring signals that are indicative of the respiration of a person, wherein said detector can be used advantageously in view of hygiene and stands out due to a simple and robust configuration. According to a first aspect, the detector detects a signal that is indicative of the activity of the respiratory muscles of a person to be examined, the detector comprising a band which, in the application position, is passed around a torso region which widens and narrows when the person to be examined breathes, as well as a structure that is included in the band and loaded in accordance with the narrowing or widening of the torso region. The structure is configured such that it causes a change in the volume of a measuring space device depending on a tensile force. It is thus advantageously possible to detect or measure the forces acting on the band in a non-electric manner and, on the basis of this detection or measurement, draw conclusions relating to the widening or narrowing of the torso. | 09-08-2011 |
20120024288 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING A RESPIRATORY GAS - An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient within the scope of the diagnosis and/or the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders includes an electronic signal processing device for generating a pressure control signal on the basis of indicative signals relating to the breathing activity and/or the physiological state of a person. The signal processing device comprises a signal inputting device and an extraction device for generating data field entries according to predefined signal analysis procedures. A pressure signal generator is provided for generating the pressure control signal, taking into account determined data field entries which are at least selected by the extraction device. | 02-02-2012 |
20140000612 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING A RESPIRATORY GAS | 01-02-2014 |
20140081166 | RESPIRATION DETECTING ARRANGEMENT - The present application is directed to a detector to detect or generate measuring signals that are indicative of the respiration of a person, wherein said detector can be used advantageously in view of hygiene and stands out due to a simple and robust configuration. According to a first aspect, the detector detects a signal that is indicative of the activity of the respiratory muscles of a person to be examined, the detector comprising a band which, in the application position, is passed around a torso region which widens and narrows when the person to be examined breathes, as well as a structure that is included in the band and loaded in accordance with the narrowing or widening of the torso region. The structure is configured such that it causes a change in the volume of a measuring space device depending on a tensile force. It is thus advantageously possible to detect or measure the forces acting on the band in a non-electric manner and, on the basis of this detection or measurement, draw conclusions relating to the widening or narrowing of the torso. | 03-20-2014 |
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20110119318 | ZERO-COPY MATURING OF LARGE OBJECTS IN GENERATIONAL HEAP WITH COPYING COLLECTION - A method for performing garbage collection promotion, comprising determining that an age of a large young object is greater than a predetermined tenuring threshold, wherein the predetermined tenuring threshold specifies an age beyond which objects are promoted, setting a plurality of types of a plurality of large memory regions from young to old to promote the large young object to a large old object, wherein the plurality of large memory regions host the large young object, scavenging references of the large old object, wherein the large old object is a large promoted object, scanning a large young object list to identify a plurality of unvisited large young objects, wherein a plurality of visited bits of the plurality of unvisited large young objects are unset, and releasing a plurality of unvisited large memory regions, wherein the unvisited large memory regions host the plurality of unvisited large young objects. | 05-19-2011 |
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20130138703 | OPTIMIZED MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR CLASS METADATA - A method for managing class metadata in a garbage collected system, including (i) allocating a metaspace to a class loader of a mutator using a memory heap, where the metaspace is configured to store the class metadata generated by the class loader, (ii) storing, in the metaspace, class metadata items associated with classes defined by the class loader, where the class metadata items and the class loader are coterminous, and where all of the class metadata items are identified by a garbage collector as live if any of the class metadata items is reachable by the mutator, (iii) updating a linkset graph during resolution of symbolic links to sumarize cross-metaspace references, and (iv) reclaiming, by the garbage collector based on a pre-determined algorithm using the metaspace, memory locations unreachable by the mutator, where all memory locations allocated to the class metadata items are reclaimed together as a group. | 05-30-2013 |