Susan L Riley

US Patent:

6385473, May 7, 2002

Filed:

Apr 15, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/292157

Inventors:

Paul D. Haines - Cambridge, GB
Andrea J. Harry - Cambridge, GB
Harpal S. Kumar - Cambridge, GB
John D. Place - Suffolk, GB
Susan B. Riley Earl - Sausalito CA
Neil J. Sheehan - Palo Alto CA
David A. Sheraton - Irvine CA

Assignee:

Nexan Limited - Cambridge

International Classification:

A61B 50478

US Classification:

600393, 600382, 600391, 600392

Abstract:

A physiological sensor device for attachment to a mammalian subject including first and second regions of sensors attachable to a subject in use, which first and second regions of sensors are separated by a flexible web adapted to enable variable separation of the first and second sensor regions from one another in use. The physiological sensor device is manufactured by forming a strip of electrically conductive material on a flexible electrically non-conductive substrate and cutting a slot through both the flexible substrate and conductive strip to define a pair of adjacent edges of conductive material separated by a non-conductive gap thereby also to define adjacent electrode sensors each having one of the pair of adjacent edges formed in the strip of conductive material. The physiological sensor device is attached to the subject for measurement of numerous physiological parameters for a period of time, such as 24 hours, and is then thrown away.