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7593534 Transducer for bioacoustic signals  
In well-known electronic stethoscopic transducers the sensitive element is influenced by signals transmitted via the skin, and the rear side is enclosed in a housing to prevent airborne noise from...
7559900 Cardiac sensing and detection using subcutaneous ECG signals and heart sounds  
A method and device for detecting cardiac signals that includes a first plurality of electrodes that senses cardiac signals and delivers therapy, and a second plurality of electrodes that senses...
7527123 Patient-friendly stethoscope  
Generally, the present invention is directed to medical devices and more particularly to a patient-friendly stethoscope with interactive light emissions. An embodiment of the invention includes a...
7520860 Detection of coronary artery disease using an electronic stethoscope  
The disclosure describes an electronic stethoscope system that automatically detects coronary artery disease in patients. The system uses an electronic stethoscope to record acoustic data from the...
7393326 Apparatus for screening and diagnosing by dual stethoscopic and Doppler detection  
The invention concerns an apparatus for early screening of cardiovascular diseases through dual stethoscopic and Doppler detection with means ensuring coherence between the two types of detection....
7346174 Medical device with communication, measurement and data functions  
A medical diagnostic and communications apparatus with audio output comprises an electronic processor for processing stethoscope signals and secondary audio signals. An electronic stethoscope...
7319762 Headset with flashing light emitting diodes  
A headphone system is provided with two earbud headphones and a control module, each fitted with a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The LEDs may be of many different colors and flash to...
7302290 Heart-activity monitoring with multi-axial audio detection  
Apparatus and associated methodology for monitoring correlatable anatomical electrical and sound signals, such as electrical and audio signals produced by human heart activity, including (a)...
7300406 Medical examination apparatus  
An apparatus to enable health care providers to perform a number of diagnostic procedures, including listening to the heart, obtaining electrocardiograms and sonograms. A pocket size instrument...
7300405 Analysis of auscultatory sounds using single value decomposition  
Techniques are described for analyzing auscultatory sounds to aid a medical professional in diagnosing physiological conditions of a patient. A data analysis system, for example, applies singular...
7291106 Diagnostic system and portable telephone device  
A patient registers his audible sound when he is in good health. When he is not feeling well, and even when he is in good health, he may contact regularly with a medical institution. Once he...
7289634 Electronic stethoscope measurement system and method  
A method and apparatus for characterizing the response of an electronic stethoscope. The sensor of the electronic stethoscope is held in contact with a test surface of a phantom. A shaker, which is...
7209796 Auscultatory training system  
According to a disclosed embodiment, an auscultatory training apparatus includes a database of pre-recorded physiological sounds stored on a computer for playing on a playback system. A...
7203322 Acoustic detector with noise cancellation  
An acoustic detector that includes active noise cancellation is presented. An acoustic detector converts sound waves, which include sound waves of interest as well as noise, to an electronic...
7182733 Cordless stethoscope for hazardous material environments  
A cordless stethoscope for use in hazardous material environments comprising a fluid tight hand held sound sensing device having a stethoscope head for sensing auscultatory sounds, a transmitter...
7162039 Noise barrier apparatus having acoustic wave damping cushions  
The present invention provides a noise barrier apparatus for inhibiting external noise from causing the presence of noise in an audio chamber defined by a noise barrier device and including the...
7130429 Method and an apparatus for processing auscultation signals  
An apparatus for processing auscultation signals, e.g. embedded in an electronic stethoscope with a digital readout of an estimated heart rate. The apparatus comprises a bias processor for...
7082202 Sound pickup sensor  
A sensor ( 10 ) preferably for use in an electronic stethoscope ( 15 ) comprises a substantially cylindrically shaped viscoelastic contact and transfer body ( 2 ) engaging tightly a hard back piece...
7024001 Stethoscope  
A simple always-portable stethoscope for enabling accurate diagnosis. A radiation/light-receiving fiber ( 11 ) serving as a probe part for noninvasively irradiating a diseased part with...
7006638 Electronic stethoscope  
An electronic stethoscope having a vibration transducer, an amplifier, a headphone arrangement, and at least one digital filter for establishing at least one impulse transfer function corresponding...
7003122 Portable audio device with body/motion signal reporting device  
A portable audio device includes an audio signal generating device for generating an audio signal, a body/motion signal detecting device for detecting and generating a body/motion signal, a signal...
7003121 Method and an apparatus for processing an auscultation signal  
A method of processing a signal representing an input sound signal is disclosed. The signal is divided in time into a plurality of signal segments, each having an individual duration of time. The...
6999592 Time and frequency windowed pocket cardiac stethoscope  
A temporally and frequency controlled amplified cardiac stethoscope device is provided wherein frequency response selection is carried out by manually tuning two active filters thereby permitting...
6947565 Physiological condition monitors utilizing very low frequency acoustic signals  
Physiological condition monitors utilizing very low frequency acoustic signals and signals indicative of body orientation are disclosed. The physiological condition monitors comprise a sensor that...
6852084 Wireless physiological pressure sensor and transmitter with capability of short range radio frequency transmissions  
A device and a method of sensing and transmitting physiological pressures and body temperatures are disclosed. The device includes a transducer and a transmitter. The transmitter is adapted to...
6847720 Quick-updating stethoscope receiver  
A quick-updating stethoscope receiver comprises a receiver, a listening disk at a lower end of the receiver, the listening disk can be embedded into a lower end of the receiver; an upper cover at a...
6757392 Electronic stethoscope  
An electronic stethoscope comprises a headpiece, a chest-piece and two earpieces. The headpiece is fitted with a display arrangement in the form of a liquid-crystal display. A microphone, one or...
6726635 Cardiac impulse detector  
An apparatus and method for detecting infrasonic cardiac apical impulses of a patient including a sensor disposable in contact with skin of the patient for producing a signal responsive to a motion...
6725966 Stethoscope  
A chestpiece for a stethoscope, the chestpiece having a novel mix of desirable properties through being fabricated from the group of materials known as “high gravity compounds.” These compounds...
6661897 Transducer for sensing body sounds  
An acoustic-to-electrical transducer for sensing body sounds is provided. The transducer comprises a diaphragm that can be placed in direct contact with a body, whereby the diaphragm motion...
6595316 Tension-adjustable mechanism for stethoscope earpieces  
A tension-adjusting mechanism for the elongated earpieces of a stethoscope comprises a neckpiece and, for each earpiece, a pivot mechanism portion between the proximal end of the earpiece and the...
6587564 Resonant chamber sound pick-up  
A noise-reducing resonant chamber sound pick-up for electronic stethoscopes is claimed. It consists of a resonating chamber ( 24 ) which acoustically preamplifies the selected frequencies of heart...
6533736 Wireless medical stethoscope  
A wireless stethoscopic apparatus is disclosed comprising of an auscultation piece removably secured to a hearing piece. The components, auscultation piece and hearing piece, when not in use can be...
6514213 Earpiece assembly for a stethoscope  
An earpiece assembly for use in a stethoscope having a pipe member includes a connector having a distal end coupled to the pipe member and a proximal end, a bushing having a distal end rotatably...
6512830 Auscultation apparatus  
An electronic stethoscope including a microphone, amplifying equipment, and a loudspeaker for the user, also comprises an adjustable filter circuit. The filter circuit has a bandpass effect, and...
6454045 Stethoscope with optical fiber light  
A stethoscope having an optical fiber light for providing light suitable for patient examination emanating from the chestpiece of the stethoscope. A battery operated light source is provided near...
6438238 Stethoscope  
A chest piece for a stethoscope has a housing with a cavity. The cavity has a cavity surface which is paraboloid in shape, having an apex, an axis, and a focal point. The cavity terminates at the...
6428886 Method for attenuating thermal sensation when handling objects at non-body temperature  
A method for fabricating an object to attenuate thermal sensation when handling the object at non-body temperature, and an object fabricated in accord with the method. There is first provided a...
6396931 Electronic stethoscope with diagnostic capability  
A self-contained, hand-held electronic stethoscope including built-in chestpiece, speaker and visual monitor, includes a memory containing prerecorded heart and lung sounds along with a brief...
6366675 Sound pressure detecting system  
A sound pressure detecting system comprises a piezoelectric substrate, input and output interdigital transducers formed on an upper end surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a liquid cavity, an...
6330339 Hearing aid  
Outputs of a pulse sensor, a brain wave sensor, a conductivity sensor and an acceleration sensor are input to respectively corresponding condition detecting means, and the condition of the wearer...
6324289 Pick-up head for an electronic stethoscope  
The pick-up head (1) with an acousto-electrical transducer (4) for converting sound vibrations to electrical signals, comprises as characterizing features a sound influencing bell (2) arranged...
6295365 Acoustic sensor and electric stethoscope device incorporating the same therein  
An acoustic sensor includes the following: a piezoelectric element constituted of a piezoelectric substance on which at least one electrode is provided, and a diaphragm on which the piezoelectric...
6220866 Electronic auscultation system for patient simulator  
An electronic auscultation system and method for simulating sounds arising from human organs for use in an anatomical simulation device including a patient simulating mannequin torso, a plurality...
6219424 Electronic stereophonic amplifier  
A device for use in a stethoscope, the device including two diaphragm-type sound accumulator chambers, one microphone located in each accumulator chamber and one amplification stage connected to...
6178250 Acoustic point source  
Acoustic point source transducer apparatus including a high-output acoustic sound source propagating sound through a long, flexible tubing having an open end with a small diameter. Sound radiates...
6134331 Electronic stethoscope  
An electronic stethoscope consisting of a transducer, an amplifier and a headphone will be better adapted to the habits of use of doctors when it is supplied with filters which mimic the transfer...
6028942 Stethoscope with reduced susceptibility to interference from ambient noise  
A stethoscope, and a stethoscope chestpiece, with an increased signal to noise ratio. The invention concerns mechanical improvements to both traditional mechano-acoustic stethoscopes, and to...
6026170 Electronic stethoscope with idealized bell and idealized diaphragm modes  
An electronic stethoscope emulates the frequency response of a standard acoustical stethoscope in both bell and diaphragm modes, while providing additional features attainable only with an...
6014432 Home health care system  
A home health care system comprising: patient station including a first videophone, an electronic imaging assembly and a stethoscope assembly, coupled to said first videophone, for respectively...
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