KR20170100931A - Apnea prevention apparatus with bone conduction microphone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a bone marrow micro-part (80);
A hair band 90 that couples the bone-cord microphone portion 80 to the end portion to come to the bone-tooth vibration position and fixes to the head;
At least one set of spacing pads (92) spaced apart from the inner surface of the hairband so that the hairband (90) is spaced apart from the forehead or head;
Skin stimulating means 110 installed between the spacing pads 92 to stimulate the snoring to stop; And
And a control unit 121 for recognizing apnea and snoring through the bone conduction microphone 80 and sending a stimulation signal to the skin stimulation means 110. The snoring and apnea prevention apparatus using the bone-

Description

 [0001] The present invention relates to an apparatus for preventing snoring and apnea using bone microphones,

The present invention relates to an apparatus for preventing snoring and apnea using bone microphones.

In general, unlike a speaker with air conduction, a bone conduction speaker converts an input electrical signal into a vibration signal, and the converted vibration signal is transmitted through a cranial bone or a jawbone It is transmitted through the auditory nerve to the brain after being delivered directly to the cochlea without going through the middle ear. In addition, three bones of the ossicles are sent to the wah without passing through, so even if the hearing loss is abnormal in the eardrum or ossuary, if the wah and the auditory nerve is normal, bone conduction can clearly hear the sound. .

In addition, hearing protection can be provided to the general public who does not have hearing loss without using ear protection, so that hearing protection can be received at the same time as surrounding sounds, and it can be used even in environments with high noise pollution.

When a bone conduction speaker is worn on the forehead of the face (temple portion) of the ear, the back portion of the ear, or the head portion of the ear, the bone conduction headset is assembled in a form in which the bone conduction speaker is coupled to the bone conduction headset. Since the input sound is directly transmitted to the auditory nerve without passing through the eardrum, the hearing aid who can not use a general hearing aid and the former auditory hearing (when there are obstacles to the external or middle ear), as well as the middle ear organ suffering from hearing loss And can be applied to a wide variety of people who are injured. Also, general people who are not deaf and hard of hearing can apply variously when using a bone conduction headset. In recent years, mobile phones employing bone conduction speakers have been developed and popularized.

Bone conduction headset is absolutely inferior in frequency, amplitude and tone, which are the three major components of sound compared to conventional air conduction headsets. Due to the limitation of technology that does not satisfy the three major components of sound, And a bone conduction speaker for processing a signal (MonoSignal) and a stereo signal (Stereo Signal).

A bone conduction speaker widely used for mono signal processing is disclosed in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-586140. The registered patent is not suitable for the processing of a stereo signal and is used only in a limited field such as communication.

Meanwhile, a boneconduction speaker applied to audio has been developed in various structures. However, in the process of processing a stereo signal (StereoSignal), since they do not satisfy the three basic elements of the basic sound of the speaker, It is not able to implement the function as credit.

The conventional bone conduction speaker for audio is divided into a housing radial type in which the diaphragm is exposed to the outside of the housing and a built-in type in which the diaphragm is installed inside the housing. A typical example of a housing radial bone conduction speaker is disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 10- 2007-35376. The housing radial bone conduction speaker has a structure in which a cushion ring connected to a vibration ring, which is a vibration means, protrudes to the outside of the housing, and vibration of the vibration ring is transmitted to the auditory nerve through the cushion ring.

The structure of the housing radial bone conduction speaker has the same structure and principle as those of a conventional air conduction speaker except that the cushion ring is used in close contact with the bones of a human body.

The bone conduction speaker resulting from such a principle is known as Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0586140, Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0799428, and Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0872762.

On the other hand, the bone-cord microphone is known as a domestic patent publication No. 10-2005-0046888.

As a technique for generating vibration, a vibration motor such as a domestic patent registration No. 10-0369099 and a domestic patent registration No. 10-0431718 is known.

In addition, many of the adults over the age of 30 snoring is a lot of people with severe snoring, fatigue, obesity, stress, rhinitis, sore throat is the cause. The problem is that the snoring causes breathlessness that stops breathing for a few seconds to several tens of seconds, causing severe fatigue, which causes a sudden drop in the quality of life, which can reduce learning and work efficiency, cause industrial accidents and traffic accidents, Inadequate oxygen supply in the body can lead to cardiovascular and brain dysfunction. Especially, heart failure patients such as arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and cerebral infarction with a history of cerebral infarction and stroke may cause sudden death and sudden death due to sleep apnea. People with sleep apnea can take care of themselves to prevent damage from sleep apnea, but unfortunately sleep apnea can not be self-aware. Therefore, it is not easy for the neighboring family members to talk about sleep apnea, but it is not simple to observe for a long time without people sleeping, considering that breathing is stopped more than 20 times during 7 hours of sleep.

Sleep apnea causes children to have distracted behavior due to lack of concentration, excessive daytime sleepiness, irregular sleeping posture, rib cage retraction, and flaring of the ribs. Or cause mental disability. It also causes sudden death during sleep of infants and newborns. Sleep apnea is generally divided into three types: obstructive, mixed, and central.

Obstructive sleep apnea is characterized by repeated occlusion of the upper airway. Clinically, symptoms that do not breath for 10 seconds or more during nighttime sleep appear more than 5 times per hour or 30 times during 7 hours of sleep Or more, it can be classified as sleep apnea syndrome. Snoring can be a powerful precursor to suspect sleep apnea syndrome as a sound of soft palate shaking.

When ceramic pressure sensor is appeared by detecting change of sound pressure and silicon rubber is coated on the ceramic sensor, when the surface pressure is applied, the piezoelectric sensor that senses the change of pressure is coupled to a stretchable belt installed on the chest of the human body. (Patent No. 383459, " Patent No. 383459 ") discloses a technique for measuring a pulse wave signal using a piezoelectric sensor by sensing a change in pressure due to a change in position of the lung and diaphragm during respiration by positioning a pressure sensor Acceleration pulse wave measuring device ").

In addition, a wireless monitoring apparatus for sleep apnea syndrome capable of displaying breathing rhythm signals in real time by inputting them to a computer through a receiving device capable of receiving a breathing rhythm signal has been disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2006-0005092, A sensor mounting belt 10 attached with a piezoelectric sensor for sensing a breathing rhythm interlocked with the movement of the chest during breathing, and a device for amplifying and filtering the continuous breathing rhythm signals obtained from the piezoelectric sensor and transmitting the same to a computer A transmitter mounting belt 12 for fixing the transmitter so as not to move during the sleep, a receiver 13 for receiving the respiratory rhythm signal wirelessly, and a respiratory rhythm signal transmitting / And a computer 14 for displaying information.

FIG. 2 shows a specific example of a measuring device and a transmitting device for a respiratory rhythm signal, which includes a piezoelectric sensor 20 for sensing changes due to upward and downward movement of the lung, diaphragm, and chest by respiration in contact with the chest, The sensor 20 is placed on the sensor mounting belt 10a and fixed to the chest by means of a belt adhering part 22 which is freely adjustable and detachable. The breathing rhythm signal obtained through the piezoelectric sensor 20 is transmitted to the transmitting section 11a through the signal transmission line 21 and is fixed to the waist with the transmitting apparatus mounting belt 12a and the respiration rhythm signal amplified and modulated by the transmitting section 11a Is transmitted via a transmitting antenna (23) wirelessly.

However, this approach has the disadvantage of using two belts, such as the sensor detection band and the transmission device mounting belt, and merely has the function of monitoring the apnea, thus lacking means for preventing apnea and snoring, It does not have the function of preventing apnea or snoring.

3 and 4 illustrate a control block for preventing snoring, and the control unit 30 includes a microphone 40 (see FIG. 3) A microcomputer 33 for analyzing the signal input through the analog-to-digital converter 32 at the port P1 to determine whether the snoring signal is a snoring signal, A digital-to-analog converter 34 for receiving an alarm signal output through the port P2 of the microcomputer 33 and converting the analog signal into an analog signal, an amplifier 35 for amplifying the analog-converted signal, And a speaker 36 for outputting the amplified signal as a voice signal.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a waveform of a general snoring signal. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing that a snoring signal is recognized when a signal having a snoring signal greater than a reference value K1 is sustained for a certain period T1. Of course, the snoring signal is a certain interval (T1), the snoring signal that is heard when breathing, and the interval (T2) is the breathing interval.

However, this snoring prevention technique is merely to prevent snoring, so that there is a problem in that it may not be recognized when the snoring occurs or when it is deeply asleep.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a snoring device which recognizes snoring by recognizing snoring through a bone conduction microphone which is not affected by noise around the snout, To prevent the snoring of friends and family of the snoring, and at the same time to induce low frequency stimulation to change the posture, thereby preventing the snoring without noise, and to provide a snoring and apnea prevention device using the bone microphones.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a bone-spine microphone for recognizing snoring and a bone-tone speaker for inducing snoring prevention on both ends of the hair band, and a skin stimulating means for inducing prevention of snoring on the inner surface of the band, And to provide a device for preventing snoring and apnea using a bone-cord microphone that prevents snoring and prevents apnea without any other means.

To this end, the present invention provides a bone micro-

A hair band functioning to couple the bone mic microphone part to the end so as to come to the bone-tooth vibration position and fix it to the head;

At least one set of spacing pads spaced apart from the inner surface of the hairband such that the hairband is spaced apart from the forehead or head;

Skin stimulating means provided between the spacing pads to stimulate the snoring to stop; And

And a control means for recognizing apnea and snoring through the bone-cord microphone and for sending a stimulation signal to the skin stimulation means, and a control device for the snoring and apnea prevention device using the bone-microphone.

As described above, according to the present invention, snoring is recognized through a bone conduction microphone which is not influenced by surrounding noise, and when a snoring instruction is given through a golfer's loudspeaker, A snoring and an apnea prevention device using a bone microphones for preventing snoring without noise by inducing low frequency stimulation to change the posture.

The present invention also provides a bone-spine microphone for recognizing snoring and a bone-speckle speaker for inducing snoring prevention on both ends of the hair band, and a skin stimulating means for inducing snoring prevention is provided on the center inner surface of the band. Prevention of snoring without means and prevent apnea.

1 is a perspective view of a conventional wireless monitoring apparatus for sleep apnea,
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the main part of Fig. 1,
3 is a block diagram of a snoring prevention device function;
4 is a waveform chart showing a general snoring state,
5 is a plan view of an apneic prevention device of the present invention,
FIG. 6 is a side view of a bone golf speaker according to the present invention,
7 is a sectional view taken along line AA in Fig. 6,
8 is a control block diagram of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

The apparatus for preventing snoring and apnea using the bone microphones according to the present invention includes a bone band microphone unit 80 at one end of a hair band 90 and a bone marrow speaker 100 at the other end as shown in FIG. And a skin stimulating means 110 disposed between the spacing pads 92. The skin stimulating means 110 is provided on the inner surface of the body 101,

More specifically, the present invention relates to a bone marrow microphone unit 80;

A hair band 90 that couples the bone-cord microphone portion 80 to the end portion to come to the bone-tooth vibration position and fixes to the head;

At least one set of spacing pads (92) spaced apart from the inner surface of the hairband so that the hairband (90) is spaced apart from the forehead or head;

Skin stimulating means 110 installed between the spacing pads 92 to stimulate the snoring to stop; And

And a controller 121 for recognizing apnea and snoring through the bone conduction microphone 80 and controlling the skin stimulation means 110 to send a stimulation signal. The bone microphones 80 may be provided at both ends of the hair band 90. The bone microphones 80 may be provided at one end and the bone marrow speakers 100 may be provided at the other end.

The skin stimulating means 110 sandwiched between the spacing pads 92 is a low frequency pad 111 or a vibration motor 113 and the low frequency pad 111 or the vibration motor 113 and the hair band 90 The cushioning material 112 absorbing the impact to the hair band 90 and transmitting vibration only to the forehead or head and performing an impact absorbing function of an elastic material is added as shown in FIG.

The protrusion height of the separation pad 92 is set to be lower than the sum of the vibration motor 113 and the cushioning member 112.

As shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, the bone-cord microphone unit 80 of the present invention has a cylindrical central portion having an open top and a space portion having a predetermined shape for accommodating the cable lead-out wire 59 and the connector 58, And a lower case 50 forming a side wall and a lower portion of the lower case 80. A stair-like step 53 is provided on the upper portion of the side wall of the cylindrical central portion of the lower case 50.

An intermediate case (60) is placed on the jaw (53) of the lower case (50). The middle case 60 has a cylindrical shape with an open top and a cylindrical microphone guide 56 is placed inside the middle case 60. A microphone 57 having a high sensitivity is disposed inside the microphone guide 56, Is inserted. In this case, a side sound insulation space S2 spaced apart from the microphone guide 56 by a predetermined distance is formed in the side surface of the intermediate case 60 to obtain a sound insulation effect.

An upper case 70 forming an upper portion of the bone-cord microphone unit 80 is coupled to an upper end of the lower case 50. An upper case 70, which is in contact with the skin of a human skull, A diaphragm 54 vibrating vertically by the transmitted vibration is formed to protrude from the upper portion of the upper case 70. The diaphragm 54 is connected to the upper portion of the microphone 57 in the inner microphone guide 56 of the upper case 70 As shown in FIG. The diaphragm 54 is protruded to the upper portion of the upper case 70 so that the sound amplification space S1 is formed inside the diaphragm 54. [

Between the upper case 70 and the diaphragm 54, there is formed a sealing material 55 of a stretchable material capable of blocking external noise so that the vibration of the upper and lower cases 70, It is configured to be prevented from being directly transmitted to the diaphragm 54. (90) is a coupling cord for coupling with the lead-out line (59) of the connector (58), and (30) is a connector housing.

8 is a block diagram of a control block of the present invention, which includes an analogue digital converter 82 connected to a bone-cord microphone unit 80 and a lead line 59;

A control unit 121 receiving a digital value through the analogue digital converter 82 as an input I1;

A digital-to-analog converter 102 for converting the snoring prevention signal through one output terminal P1 of the control unit 121 into an analog signal;

A bone-tone speaker 100 that receives the output of the digital-to-analog converter 102 and applies an output to the bone-marrow;

A driving unit 114 for selecting an output mode for driving the skin stimulating unit 110 by receiving a snoring prevention signal through one output terminal P1 of the control unit 121; And

And a skin stimulating means composed of a low-frequency pad 111 and a vibration motor 113 for outputting in association with a driving signal of the driving unit 114. [

According to the present invention constructed as above, since the means for recognizing the snoring by the user for preventing the snoring is not a general microphone or a method using a piezoelectric sensor, but a bone-cord microphone 80, Without mixing, accurate snoring will enable recognition. Since the bone-cord microphone unit 80 itself is a known technology, the operation of the small-sized microphone unit is omitted.

The present invention is characterized in that the bone microphones 80 are connected to at least one end of the hair band 90 and the control structure of the control means 120 shown in Figure 8 is provided at one position of the hair band 90, The flexible printed circuit board may be formed in a space that can be installed. Of course, the driving power (+) can use a battery or an adapter using a commercial power supply.

When a snoring signal as shown in FIG. 4, which is recognized through the bone-cord microphone unit 80, is received, it is converted into a digital value by the analogue digital converter 82 and applied to the control unit 121 through the input terminal I1. The control unit recognizes the set snoring or apnea and outputs a built-in digital sound source to the output terminal (P1) to snore or apnea. The digital-to-analog converter 102 converts the analog signal into an analog signal and outputs it to the bone-tone speaker 100 to allow the user to check the snoring and prevent apnea.

 And instructs the skin stimulating means 110 to be driven through the output terminal P2 at the same time or after output to the output terminal Pl.

The skin stimulation means 110 through the output stage P2 forcibly moves the user's body by the forehead stimulation through the low frequency pad 111 based on the built-in mode or the storage waveform of the driver 114 to prevent snoring or apnea do. Since the low-frequency stimulation itself is a known technique, its detailed description is omitted.

On the other hand, the skin stimulation means 1100 provides a vibration force through the vibration motor 113 to the forehead so that the user can force the recognition. And the like.

The present invention relates to an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus which are provided with a sensor mounting band 11 and 11a, a transmitter 12 and 12a, a transmitter mounting belt 13, a receiver 14, a computer 20, a piezoelectric sensor 21, A microphone 54, a microphone 59, a connector 59, a lead wire 60, an intermediate case 70, an upper case 80, A bone-cord microphone unit 82, an analog design converter 90, a hair band 92, a separation pad 100, a bone-speckle speaker 102, a digital-analog converter 110, a skin stimulation unit 111, a low-frequency pad 112, a cushioning member 113,

Claims (3)

A bone-cord microphone unit 80;
A hair band 90 that couples the bone-cord microphone portion 80 to the end portion to come to the bone-tooth vibration position and fixes to the head;
At least one set of spacing pads (92) spaced apart from the inner surface of the hairband so that the hairband (90) is spaced apart from the forehead or head;
Skin stimulating means 110 installed between the spacing pads 92 to stimulate the snoring to stop; And
And a control unit (121) for recognizing apnea and snoring through the bone conduction microphone (80) and sending a stimulation signal to the skin stimulation means (110).
The skin stimulating device according to claim 1, wherein the skin stimulating means (110) sandwiched between the spacing pads (92) is a vibration motor (113), and a shock between the vibration motor (113) and the hair band (90) And a cushioning material (112) for absorbing and absorbing an elastic material to transmit vibration only to the forehead or head is added to the snoring and apnea prevention device.
The snare and apneic device according to claim 2, wherein the protruding height of the spacing pad (92) is lower than the sum of the vibration motor (113) and the cushion material (112).

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