An electronic apparatus of a bio-signal measurement system comprises a first electric connector arrangement that is repeatedly connectable with and releasable from a first electric counter-connector arrangement of the bio-signal data processing apparatus. The electronic apparatus comprises also a second electric connector arrangement that is connectable with a second electric counter-connector arrangement of the bio-signal electrode arrangement in a releasable manner, and a battery that provides electric power for operation of the bio-signal data processing apparatus in response to an electric connection through the first electric connector arrangement between the electronic apparatus and the bio-signal data processing apparatus. The first electric connector arrangement comprises separate electric connectors, each of the connectors with a plurality of pins, the pins of the at least two separate electric connectors being for electric power supply and data transfer. The separate electric connectors of the first electric connector arrangement and their counter-connectors of the bio-signal data processing apparatus have structural shapes matched with each other for attaching them together based on contact friction in the releasable manner.

A patch housing for receiving an electronic device is provided. The patch housing includes a flat substrate having a first surface and a second surface with adhesive on at least one of the first or second surfaces. The substrate further includes an opening. The patch housing further includes a set of electrodes included in the substrate. The patch housing further includes a set of connectors provided on the first surface of the substrate. Each connector in the set of connectors is configured to mechanically couple the electronic device to the substrate.

In one embodiment a temperature sensor system includes two sensor assemblies with different thermal resistances, each sensor assembly including a temperature sensing portion and a thermoelectric generator portion configured to receive heat flow from a body through the associated temperature sensing portion. A control unit is operably connected to the sensor assemblies and the memory. The control unit is configured to execute program instructions stored in the memory to obtain signals from the temperature sensor portions and the thermoelectric generator portions and to calculate and output a body core temperature (TB) based upon the obtained signals.

The present invention discloses a holder carrying thereon a sensor to measure a physiological signal of an analyte in a biological fluid, wherein the sensor has a signal detection end and a signal output end, and the holder includes an implantation hole being a channel for implanting the sensor and containing a part of the sensor, a waterproof seal disposed above the implantation hole, and an elastic divider disposed in the implantation hole to separate the implantation hole and covering all over a cross-sectional area of the implantation hole.

A wound therapy system includes a first sensor assembly, a second sensor assembly, and a processing circuit. The first sensor assembly is configured to be located at a wound treatment site on a patients body and to record physical characteristics representative of periwound tissue at the wound treatment site. The second sensor assembly is configured to be located at a healthy tissue site on the patients body contralateral to the wound treatment site and to record one or more physical characteristics representative of healthy tissue at the healthy tissue site. The physical characteristics representative of the healthy tissue are recorded concurrently with the physical characteristics representative of the periwound tissue. The processing circuit is configured to receive the one or more physical characteristics representative of the periwound tissue from the first sensor assembly at the wound treatment site, receive the one or more physical characteristics representative of the healthy tissue from the second sensor assembly at the healthy tissue site, and determine a healing progression of the wound based on a difference between the one or more physical characteristics representative of the periwound tissue and the one or more physical characteristics representative of the healthy tissue.

The present invention relates to a sampling unit, a measurement system and method for transcutaneous blood gas measurements. In particular the invention relates to a sampling unit and system adapted for rapid measuring and monitoring of blood gases in a continuous gas flow. The sampling unit is provided with an ambient air inlet and a blood gas extraction and mixing chamber wherein air is mixed with extracted blood gases. The method of continuous transcutaneous measurement of carbon dioxide in the blood utilizes a pulsed heating to minimize the detrimental effects of the heating.

A platform for hermetic heterogeneous integration of passive and active electronic components is provided herein. The platform can include a substrate that provides a hermetic electrical interconnection between integrated circuits and passive devices, such as resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Such substrates can be formed of a dielectric, such as a ceramic, and include electrical interconnects and can further include one or more passive devices. The substrate can include one or more cavities, at least a primary cavity dimensioned to receive an active device and one or more secondary cavities can be included for secondary connector pads for interfacing with the active and passive devices and which can be separately hermetically sealed. The substrate can include a multi-coil inductor defined within alternating layers of the substrate within sidewalls that surround the primary cavity to minimize size of the device package while optimizing the size of the coil.

The adhesive extenders can be used to cover and surround the medical electrode assemblies on the skin of a patient. A wearable monitor can be used to obtain electrogram data from the patient via the electrodes.

A feedthrough assembly for an implantable medical device includes a ferrule, an inner conductor, and an insulating core. The ferrule has a lumen. The inner conductor extends through the lumen of the ferrule. The inner conductor has a first material composition. The insulating core is disposed within the lumen of the ferrule and separates the inner conductor from the ferrule. The insulating core has a second material composition that is different from the first material composition of the inner conductor. A coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the inner conductor is no less than the CTE of the insulating core. The inner conductor is bonded to the insulating core to form a glass-to-metal seal between the inner conductor and the insulating core.

A biosensor for measuring a physiological signal representative of a physiological parameter associated with an analyte is described. The biosensor includes a working electrode and a counter electrode. The counter electrode including a silver and a silver halide having an initial amount, wherein the initial amount is determined by the following steps of defining a required consumption range of the silver halide during at least one of the measurement periods performed by the biosensor; and determining the initial amount based on a sum of an upper limit of the required consumption range and a buffer amount, so that a required replenishment amount range of the silver halide during the replenishment period is controlled to be sufficient to maintain an amount of the silver halide within a safe storage range.