Medical Sensor Kit for Combination with a Chair to Enable Measurement of Diagnostic Information

Abstract

A medical examination chair kit includes a group of sensors including electrodes in finger-tip sensors, various other types of sensors incorporated in covers attachable or placeable on a chair and load cells on an adjustable grid supporting the chair, all of which provide data which is partially processed in a transmission pocket mounted on the chair.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A medical examination diagnostic device in the form of a kit for a chair comprising:
 a horizontal chair seat member for accommodation of a seated patient on a chair;   at least four chair seat support members located respectively at the corners of a quadrilateral support for said seat member, said seat member having a front and a back, two of said support members aligned with the back and two of said support members aligned with the front edge;   a frame connecting said support members by adjustable links;   an independent load sensor device located under each of said seat support members, each said load sensor device configured for detecting the load independently on each of said load sensor device to provide a set of four independent data signals for medical diagnosis;   a data collection device for collecting said independent data signals;   a processor that measures and records the collected signals as a function of time corresponding to a weight distribution of a patient sitting on the horizontal chair seat member, said processor configured to provide an indication of each one of the data signals as a change characterized by a temporally sequential relationship among said four independent recorded data signals wherein said indication is a medically diagnostic indicator of a physiologic parameter; and   wherein each said load cell is mounted on a plate, said plates being connected said links to form said quadrilateral grid with a load cell mounted at each corner of said grid, the distance between each plate being adjustable, each load cell being independently connected to said processor.   
     
     
         2 . The chair kit of  claim 1  wherein said processor further includes means for recording said data signals.