CN117179811A - Urine volume detector, measurement system, measurement method, and urine volume notification system - Google Patents

Urine volume detector, measurement system, measurement method, and urine volume notification system Download PDF

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CN117179811A
CN117179811A CN202311130326.1A CN202311130326A CN117179811A CN 117179811 A CN117179811 A CN 117179811A CN 202311130326 A CN202311130326 A CN 202311130326A CN 117179811 A CN117179811 A CN 117179811A
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The invention discloses a urine volume detector, a measuring system, a measuring method and a urine volume notifying system, which relate to the technical field of urine volume measurement, wherein the urine volume detector comprises an ultrasonic probe; the ultrasonic probe includes: an outer package body, an ultrasonic transceiver; the ultrasonic transceivers are multiple and distributed in the outer package body; one ultrasonic transceiver in the middle area has an included angle formed between the normal line of the ultrasonic transceiver and the normal line of the irradiation surface of the outer package body as an ultrasonic irradiation angle; the two ultrasonic transceivers are positioned in the edge area and are opposite to each other, and an included angle formed between normal lines of the two ultrasonic transceivers is an ultrasonic range angle; the range of ultrasonic irradiation angles is different, so that the irradiation position of a female is set to be lower than that of a male, the range of ultrasonic range angles is different, the irradiation range of the female is narrower than that of the male, and the difference of the structures of male and female organs is considered during ultrasonic irradiation, so that the urine volume can be accurately measured with high precision, and a user can wear the device for 24 hours conveniently, so that urinary incontinence is avoided.

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Urine volume detector, measurement system, measurement method, and urine volume notification system
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of urine volume measurement, and particularly relates to a urine volume detector, a measurement system, a measurement method and a urine volume measurement notification system.
Background
Urination and emptying in healthy people is a natural physiological phenomenon when the bladder is full of urine; however, with age, elderly people with reduced urinary system function, and non-elderly people with impaired autonomic nervous system, or urinary system, are more likely to lose urination impulses and develop urinary incontinence. Women may also develop urinary incontinence after delivery, with reduced urge to urinate and difficulty urinating; for the elderly who need to be cared for, the diapers are worn because of fear of urine leakage, which can damage their self-esteem and reduce their willingness to live; even healthy people, if worried about incontinence, may fear going out, reducing the activity level and thus increasing the likelihood that they will get into a care situation.
To eliminate urinary incontinence, ultrasound-based urine measurement devices have traditionally been used to detect whether urine in the bladder is full and encourage urination before causing urinary incontinence, which measure urine volume by measuring the shape of the bladder using one or more ultrasound transmitters and receivers, rather than examining the shape of the bladder by image as with ultrasound imaging devices; however, since this system does not measure the shape of the bladder by scanning ultrasonic waves, the fullness of urine in the bladder cannot be accurately measured unless ultrasonic waves are accurately irradiated to the bladder. In other words, the ultrasonic urine meter needs to be installed at a position where ultrasonic energy is accurately irradiated to the bladder, but since the position of the bladder varies from person to person, it is necessary to check the position of the bladder by an experienced expert (such as a nurse) and adjust the installation position while checking whether the bladder is accurately measured or not before installing the ultrasonic urine meter; therefore, the current ultrasonic urine measuring instrument is difficult to operate, so that the bladder is difficult to accurately measure, and the urinary incontinence cannot be predicted in advance, and improvement is needed.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art and provide a urine volume detector, a measurement system, a measurement method and a urine volume notification system, which are convenient to use, have high urine volume accuracy and can predict and avoid urinary incontinence.
The invention provides the following technical scheme:
in a first aspect, there is provided a urine volume detector comprising an ultrasonic probe; the ultrasonic probe includes:
an outer package body which is attached to the lower abdomen of a human body when in use;
the ultrasonic transceivers are distributed in the outer package body in a plurality of modes in a straight line mode or an array combination mode; the included angle formed between the normal line of one ultrasonic transceiver positioned in the middle area and the normal line of the irradiation surface of the outer package body is an ultrasonic irradiation angle; the angle range of the ultrasonic irradiation angle is a first angle range or a second angle range so as to adapt to users with different sexes of men and women;
the two ultrasonic transceivers are positioned in the edge area, and the included angle formed between the normals of the two ultrasonic transceivers is an ultrasonic range angle; the angle range of the ultrasonic wave range angle is a third angle range or a fourth angle range, and corresponds to the first angle range or the second angle range.
Optionally, the first angle range is 20-25 ° to fit a male user; the second angular range is 25-30 ° so as to fit a female user; the third angle range is 25-30 degrees and corresponds to the first angle range, and the fourth angle range is 20-25 degrees and corresponds to the second angle range.
Optionally, the method further comprises:
a pulse generator for generating an excitation pulse signal for exciting the ultrasonic probe so as to make the ultrasonic probe emit ultrasonic waves;
the pulse amplifier is used for amplifying the ultrasonic reflected wave signal received by the ultrasonic probe;
a transmitter for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signal amplified by the pulse amplifier to a designated position so as to calculate the urine volume;
the first memory is used for storing ultrasonic reflected wave signals and storing user operation data;
and the first controller is used for controlling the actions of the pulse generator, the ultrasonic probe, the transmitter and the first memory.
Optionally, the method further comprises:
an acceleration sensor or a gravity direction sensor for determining the standing, sitting or supine position of the user.
In a second aspect, there is provided a urine measurement system comprising the urine measurement detector of any one of the first aspects, the urine measurement system comprising:
A urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers to a screen display device;
and the screen display device is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signal sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume in the bladder, and displaying the corrected urine volume after the correction is finished.
In a third aspect, there is provided another urine measurement system comprising the urine measurement detector of any one of the first aspects, the urine measurement system comprising:
a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers to a cloud server;
the cloud server is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signals sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume stored in the bladder, and sending the corrected urine volume stored to the screen display device after the correction is finished;
and the screen display device is used for receiving and displaying the corrected urine accumulation.
Optionally, a calculation module and a correction module are arranged in the screen display device; the calculation module is used for calculating the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine accumulation; the correction module is used for correcting the calculated first urine accumulation amount to obtain corrected urine accumulation amount.
Optionally, a computing module and a correction module are arranged in the cloud server; the calculation module is used for calculating the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine accumulation; the correction module is used for correcting the calculated first urine accumulation amount to obtain corrected urine accumulation amount.
Optionally, the correcting the calculated first urine volume includes: sex correction is performed on the first urine volume to obtain a first corrected urine volume;
the first corrected urine volume is:
first corrected urine volume = first urine volume x correction coefficient
Wherein the correction coefficient is a male correction coefficient or a female correction coefficient or a child correction system so as to adapt to male and female sexes and child users;
the male correction coefficient is 0.9-1.0, the female correction coefficient is 1.1-1.2, and the child correction coefficient is 1.
Optionally, the urine volume detector further comprises an acceleration sensor or a gravity direction sensor; the correcting the calculated first urine accumulation includes: performing pose correction on the first urine volume to obtain a second corrected urine volume;
the second corrected urine volume is:
Second corrected urine volume = first urine volume x pose coefficient
Wherein, when the first urine accumulation is detected based on the user being in an upright or sitting posture state, the pose coefficient of the user being in an upright or sitting posture state is 1, and the pose coefficient of the user being in a supine posture is 0.9;
when the first urine volume is detected based on the user being in the supine posture, the posture coefficient of the user being in the upright or sitting posture is 1.1, and the posture coefficient of the user being in the supine posture is 1.
Optionally, the first urine volume is:
first accumulated urine amount=expansion coefficient×short diameter× (front-rear diameter) 2 ÷2
Wherein the expansion coefficient is male expansion coefficient or female expansion coefficient or children expansion coefficient; the minor diameter is the height of the bladder and the anterior-posterior diameter is the depth of the bladder.
The male expansion coefficient is 1, the child expansion system is 1, and the female expansion coefficient is 1.1-1.2.
In a fourth aspect, there is provided a urine volume measurement method comprising the urine volume detector of any one of the first aspects, the measurement method comprising:
based on the ultrasonic reflected wave signal detected by the urine volume detector, a calculation module calculates the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine volume;
Based on the obtained first urine volume, the correction module corrects the calculated first urine volume to obtain a corrected urine volume, and displays the corrected urine volume on the screen display device.
Optionally, the computing module and the correction module are located in a cloud server or in a screen display device.
Optionally, the correcting the calculated first accumulated urine volume includes: sex correction is carried out on the first urine accumulation volume to obtain a first corrected urine accumulation volume, and/or pose correction is carried out on the first urine accumulation volume to obtain a second corrected urine accumulation volume;
when sex correction is performed, the first corrected urine accumulation amount is:
first corrected urine volume = first urine volume x correction coefficient
Wherein the correction coefficient is a male correction coefficient or a female correction coefficient or a child correction system so as to adapt to male and female sexes and child users;
the male correction coefficient is 0.9-1.0, the female correction coefficient is 1.1-1.2, and the child correction coefficient is 1.
When the pose correction is performed, the second correction stores urine volume;
second corrected urine volume = first urine volume x pose coefficient
Wherein, when the first urine accumulation is detected based on the user being in an upright or sitting posture state, the pose coefficient of the user being in an upright or sitting posture state is 1, and the pose coefficient of the user being in a supine posture is 0.9;
When the first urine volume is detected based on the user being in the supine posture, the posture coefficient of the user being in the upright or sitting posture is 1.1, and the posture coefficient of the user being in the supine posture is 1.
Optionally, the first urine volume calculation includes:
establishing a two-dimensional coordinate system based on the irradiation angle of the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver in the urine volume detector and the human body, and indicating the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver in the established two-dimensional coordinate system;
marking the return time of each ultrasonic wave reaching the front wall and the back wall of the bladder on a plurality of normal lines correspondingly based on the established two-dimensional coordinate system and the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver;
simplifying the longitudinal tomographic image of the bladder to be elliptical in shape based on the return time of each ultrasonic wave to reach the front wall and the rear wall of the bladder;
calculating and obtaining the distance between the bladder front wall and the bladder back wall corresponding to each ultrasonic transceiver based on the return time of each ultrasonic wave reaching the bladder front wall and the bladder back wall and the speed of the ultrasonic wave;
the first urine accumulation amount is calculated and obtained based on the simplified obtained oval bladder longitudinal tomographic image and the obtained distance between the bladder front wall and the bladder rear wall corresponding to each of the ultrasonic transceivers.
Optionally, the first urine volume is:
first accumulated urine amount=expansion coefficient×short diameter× (front-rear diameter) 2 ÷2
Wherein the expansion coefficient is male expansion coefficient or female expansion coefficient or children expansion coefficient; the minor diameter is the height of the bladder and the anterior-posterior diameter is the depth of the bladder.
In a fifth aspect, there is provided a urine volume measurement notification system comprising the urine volume detector of any one of the first aspects, the urine volume measurement notification system comprising:
a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers to a screen display device;
the screen display device is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signal sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume in the bladder, displaying the corrected urine volume after the correction is finished, and sending a urination instruction after the corrected urine volume reaches a urination threshold value;
the screen display device comprises an alarm module, and when the corrected urine accumulation amount is larger than a urination threshold value, the alarm module gives an alarm on the screen display device and/or a notification device equipped on a sickbed.
In a sixth aspect, there is provided another urine volume measurement notification system comprising the urine volume detector of any one of the first aspects, the urine volume measurement notification system comprising:
A urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers to a screen display device;
the cloud server is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signals sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume stored in the bladder, and sending the corrected urine volume stored to the screen display device after the correction is finished;
the screen display device is used for receiving and displaying the corrected urine accumulation and sending out a urination instruction after the corrected urine accumulation reaches a urination threshold value;
the screen display device comprises an alarm module, and when the corrected urine accumulation amount is larger than a urination threshold value, the alarm module gives an alarm on the screen display device and/or a notification device equipped on a sickbed.
Optionally, the screen display device is connected with a global positioning system and is used for displaying the position of the public toilet.
Optionally, the cloud server is connected with the global positioning system and pushes the position of the public toilet to the screen display device for display.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) In the urine volume detector, the range of ultrasonic irradiation angles is different, so that the irradiation position of females is set lower than that of males, the range of ultrasonic range angles is different, and the irradiation range of females is narrower than that of males; the urine volume detector is small, and the urine volume detector is convenient for a user to wear for 24 hours, so that the accumulated urine volume can be detected in real time, and urinary incontinence is avoided.
(2) In the urine volume measuring system, sex correction and/or pose correction are set according to the difference of male and female organ structures, the calculated urine volume can be corrected according to the difference of male and female users, and the corresponding corrected calculated urine volume can be carried out according to the pose change, so that the finally displayed urine volume is more accurate.
(3) In the urine volume measuring method, a two-dimensional coordinate system is established according to the irradiation angle of the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver in the urine volume detector and the human body, the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver is shown in the established two-dimensional coordinate system, and the return time of each ultrasonic wave reaching the front wall and the back wall of the bladder is correspondingly marked on a plurality of the shown normal lines; the longitudinal tomographic image of the bladder is simplified to be elliptical, so that the urine volume measurement is simpler and more accurate.
(4) In the urine volume notification system, when the volume of urine accumulated in the bladder reaches a urination threshold, an alarm and a urination command are issued, so that urinary incontinence can be further avoided.
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FIG. 1a is a schematic view of the female bladder of the present invention in a contracted configuration;
FIG. 1b is a schematic view of the female bladder of the present invention when distended;
FIG. 1c is a schematic view of the structure of the male bladder of the present invention when contracted;
FIG. 1d is a schematic view of the male bladder of the present invention when distended;
FIG. 2a is a schematic view of the irradiation of a male ultrasonic probe of the present invention;
FIG. 2b is a schematic view of the irradiation of a female ultrasound probe of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of an ultrasonic probe of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of the spread of ultrasonic beams of the present invention;
FIG. 5a is a schematic view of a normal distribution of a plurality of ultrasonic transceivers in an array mode according to the present invention;
FIG. 5b is a second array of ultrasonic transceivers of the present invention;
FIG. 5c is a third array of ultrasonic transceivers of the present invention;
FIG. 5d is a schematic view of the structure of the outer package of the present invention;
FIG. 6a is a schematic view of the path of ultrasonic reflected waves of a male ultrasonic probe of the present invention;
FIG. 6b is a schematic waveform of an ultrasonic reflected wave of an ultrasonic transceiver of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the received signal of the ultrasonic transceiver of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the rectified signal of an ultrasonic transceiver of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of the waveform of ultrasonic reflected waves of an ultrasonic transceiver after denoising according to the present invention;
FIG. 10a is a schematic view of an ultrasonic reflected wave waveform of a fifth ultrasonic transceiver of the present invention;
FIG. 10b is a schematic view of an ultrasonic reflected wave waveform of a fourth ultrasonic transceiver of the present invention;
FIG. 10c is a schematic view of an ultrasonic reflected wave waveform of a third ultrasonic transceiver of the present invention;
FIG. 10d is a schematic representation of the ultrasonic reflected wave waveform of a second ultrasonic transceiver of the present invention;
FIG. 10e is a schematic representation of the ultrasonic reflected wave waveform of the first ultrasonic transceiver of the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a two-dimensional coordinate system established in a urine volume measurement method of the present invention;
FIG. 12 is a simplified longitudinal tomographic view of the bladder in a urine volume measurement method of the present invention;
FIG. 13 is a schematic flow chart of a urine volume measurement method of the present invention;
FIG. 14 is a schematic flow chart of another urine volume measurement method of the present invention;
FIG. 15 is a schematic view showing the structure of a urine measurement system according to embodiment 4 of the present invention;
FIG. 16 is a schematic view showing the structure of a urine measurement system according to embodiment 5 of the present invention;
FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of a urine measurement system according to embodiment 3 of the present invention;
FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of a urine measurement system according to embodiment 2 of the present invention;
fig. 19 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of a urine volume measurement notification system according to embodiment 9 of the present invention.
The marks in the figure: 1 is an outer packaging body, 2 is an ultrasonic probe, 3 is an ultrasonic transceiver, N0 is a normal line of the outer packaging body, N1 is a normal line of a first ultrasonic transceiver, N2 is a normal line of a second ultrasonic transceiver, N3 is a normal line of a third ultrasonic transceiver, N4 is a normal line of a fourth ultrasonic transceiver, N5 is a normal line of a fifth ultrasonic transceiver, d1 is a front-rear diameter of a longitudinal fault chart, d2 is a short diameter of the longitudinal fault chart, t 1 For the return time of the ultrasonic wave to the anterior wall of the bladder, t 2 For the return time of the ultrasonic wave to the back wall of the bladder, X is the distance between the front wall and the back wall of the bladder corresponding to the ultrasonic transceiver.
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The invention will now be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
It should be noted that the terms like "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", and the like are also used for descriptive purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention in which the invention may be practiced, but rather the relative relationship of the terms may be altered or modified without materially altering the teachings of the invention.
Position of the male and female bladder as shown in fig. 1a-1d, the female has a lower position in the pelvis due to the shorter urethra; in addition, the uterus covers the upper part of the bladder, so that even if urine accumulates in the bladder, the bladder does not expand upward due to the presence of the uterus, but rather expands outward and forward, with a somewhat flattened position, in a three-dimensional space, the bladder resembles a somewhat collapsed ball.
The male's prostate is located where the bladder leads to the urethra, pushing up slightly in the pelvis; with age and the onset of prostatitis or prostate cancer, the prostate becomes hypertrophic and the position moves further upward.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 3 or 5a to 5c, there is provided a urine volume detector including an ultrasonic probe 2; the ultrasonic probe 2 includes an outer package 1 and an ultrasonic transceiver 3.
Specifically, the outer package 1 is attached to the lower abdomen of a human body when in use; a plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 are arranged in the outer package body 1; the ultrasonic transceiver 3 includes at least three or more; as shown in fig. 3, a plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 are distributed in the outer package 1 in a straight line; or as shown in fig. 5a-5c, a plurality of ultrasonic waves are distributed in the outer package body 1 in an array combination manner; the included angle between the normal line of one ultrasonic transceiver 3 positioned in the middle area and the normal line of the irradiation surface of the outer package body 1 is an ultrasonic irradiation angle; the angle range of the ultrasonic irradiation angle is a first angle range or a second angle range so as to adapt to users with different sexes of men and women; the first angle range is 20-25 deg. to fit a male user; the second angular range is 25-30 deg. to fit a female user.
Two ultrasonic transceivers 3 positioned in the edge area have an included angle between normal lines of the ultrasonic transceivers being an ultrasonic range angle; the angle range of the ultrasonic wave range angle is a third angle range or a fourth angle range and corresponds to the first angle range or the second angle range; the first angle range is 20-25 ° to fit a male user; the second angular range is 25-30 ° so as to fit a female user; the third angle range is 25-30 degrees, and corresponds to the first angle range, the fourth angle range is 20-25 degrees, and corresponds to the second angle range, the positions of the ultrasonic irradiation angle and the ultrasonic range angle are specifically shown in fig. 2a-2b, fig. 2a is an irradiation schematic diagram of the male ultrasonic probe 2, the included angle between N0 and N2 in fig. 2a is an ultrasonic irradiation angle, the included angle between N1 and N3 is an ultrasonic range angle, fig. 2b is an irradiation schematic diagram of the female ultrasonic probe 2, the included angle between N0 and N2 in fig. 2b is an ultrasonic irradiation angle, and the included angle between N1 and N3 is an ultrasonic range angle; the invention considers the difference between the male and female organ structures during ultrasonic wave irradiation, thus being capable of accurately measuring urine volume with high precision.
Optionally, the rear of the ultrasonic transceiver 3 is provided with a sound absorbing material, and the front side of the ultrasonic transceiver 3 is also provided with an acoustic matching layer positioned in the irradiation direction; the outer packaging body 1 can wrap the ultrasonic transceiver 3, the sound absorbing material and the acoustic matching layer; the ultrasonic transceiver 3 is made of PZT piezoelectric material, takes the shape of a disc with the diameter of 5 mm and the thickness of 1 mm, the substrate material on the back side can absorb ultrasonic waves, and the structure of the ultrasonic probe 2 can be adjusted according to the prior art; in order to improve the spatial resolution or measurement accuracy of the ultrasonic probe 2, the diameter of the ultrasonic receiver should be increased, but the probe to be worn on the human body must be small, for example, when the diameter of the ultrasonic transceiver 3 is 10 mm, the design of the probe is as follows, the diffusivity of the ultrasonic beam emitted from the ultrasonic transmitter/receiver having a diameter of 10 mm is θ=1.47 degrees, and the beam diffusivity is halved by applying the formula (1).
Alternatively, fig. 4 shows a formula of the non-destructive inspection center of the state university of aihua for calculating the spread range of an ultrasonic beam emitted from an ultrasonic transceiver 3; the spread of the ultrasonic beam is shown in FIG. 4, where v is the propagation velocity of the acoustic wave in the organ 1.5x10 5 Cm, a is the radius of the transmitter/receiver of 0.25 cm, the ultrasonic frequency is 3MHz, and the sound beam propagation range when the sound beam intensity is 1/2 is theta=2.95 degrees;
in fig. 4:
where θ is the beam propagation with a beam intensity of 1/2, v is the propagation velocity of the acoustic wave in the medium (cm/sec), a is the transmitter radius, and F is the ultrasonic frequency (HZ).
The cross-sectional shape of the ultrasonic probe 2 may be square or circular. However, in the case of square, the transmitted ultrasonic beam is distorted, but the directional characteristic and beam spread are almost the same.
As shown in fig. 3, an array is provided in which 5 ultrasonic transceivers 3 with a diameter of 5 mm are arranged in a row at a mutual angle of 7.5 degrees, specifically, the irradiation surface normal direction of the exterior package body 1 is 0 °, the normal direction of the 1 st ultrasonic transceiver 3 is 10 ° downward, the normal direction of the 2 nd ultrasonic transceiver 3 is 17.5 ° downward, the normal direction of the 3 rd ultrasonic transceiver 3 is 25 ° downward, the normal direction of the 4 th ultrasonic transceiver 3 is 32.5 ° downward, and the normal direction of the 5 th ultrasonic transceiver 3 is 40 ° downward; an array of ultrasonic transducers 3 having an ultrasonic range angle of 30 degrees and little crosstalk can be obtained, and the ultrasonic probe 2 for male use can be completed by applying resin so that the angle between the normal direction of the ultrasonic transducer 3 surface in the center of the array and the normal direction of the irradiation surface of the exterior body 1 (i.e., the ultrasonic irradiation angle) is 20 degrees.
For a probe for women, five ultrasonic transceiver 3 arrays with a diameter of 5 mm are arranged in a row at a mutual angle of 6.25 degrees, an ultrasonic transceiver 3 array with a beam range of 25 degrees and smaller crosstalk can be formed, and by coating resin, the ultrasonic probe 2 for women is completed by making an angle (i.e., ultrasonic irradiation angle) between the normal direction of the ultrasonic transceiver 3 surface in the center of the array and the normal direction of the irradiation surface of the exterior body 1 25 degrees; for children, unlike adult male and female bladders, the child's bladder is smaller, more elastic, and tends to distend spherically, independent of the presence of the prostate or uterus, and thus female ultrasound probe 2 may be used.
As shown in fig. 5b, an array is provided, if the 1 st ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the upper left, the 2 nd ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the upper right, the 3 rd ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the center, the 4 th ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the lower left, the 5 th ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the lower right, and the screen is used as an attachment position, the angle between the normal direction of the 3 rd ultrasonic transceiver 3 at the center and the normal direction of the irradiation surface of the exterior body 1 is an ultrasonic irradiation angle, that is, the irradiation angle of the ultrasonic probe 2 to the human body is 25 ° if the angle is 25 °; in addition, when the angle between the respective normals of the 3 rd ultrasonic transceiver 3 and the 1 st ultrasonic transceiver 3 is 15 °, the angle between the respective normals of the 3 rd ultrasonic transceiver 3 and the 2 nd ultrasonic transceiver 3 is 7.5 °, the angle between the respective normals of the 3 rd ultrasonic transceiver 3 and the 4 th ultrasonic transceiver 3 is-7.5 °, and the angle between the respective normals of the 3 rd ultrasonic transceiver 3 and the 5 th ultrasonic transceiver 3 is-15 °, the irradiation angle of the ultrasonic probe 2 to the human body is ±15°, and the irradiation range angle to the human body is 30 °.
As shown in fig. 5a and 5c, an array is provided, in which the 1 st ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the upper left, the 3 rd ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the center of the upper right, the 2 nd ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the upper right, the 4 th ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the lower left, and the 5 th ultrasonic transceiver 3 is located at the lower right, and the included angle between the 2 ultrasonic transceivers 3 is determined with reference to the angle shown in fig. 5a to ensure that the irradiation range angle is 30 °.
As shown in fig. 5d, during the assembly process of the ultrasonic probe 2, a groove may be formed on the outer package body 1, and the irradiation angle of each ultrasonic transceiver 3 may be ensured to be accurate by shaping the angle of the bottom of the groove.
In some other embodiments, the urine volume detector comprises an ultrasonic probe 2, a pulse generator, a pulse amplifier, a transmitter, a first memory, and a first controller.
An ultrasonic probe 2 for transmitting and receiving a reflected echo of ultrasonic waves to the bladder wall and/or the abdominal wall of the subject; a pulse generator for generating an excitation pulse signal for exciting the ultrasonic probe 2 so that the ultrasonic probe 2 emits ultrasonic waves; a pulse amplifier for amplifying the ultrasonic reflected wave signal received by the ultrasonic probe 2; a transmitter for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signal amplified by the pulse amplifier to a designated position so as to calculate the urine volume; the first memory is used for storing ultrasonic reflected wave signals and user operation data; a first controller for controlling the actions of the pulse generator, the ultrasonic probe 2, the transmitter and the first memory.
In some other embodiments, the urine volume detector further comprises an acceleration sensor or a gravity direction sensor for determining the standing, sitting or supine position of the user.
In use, the ultrasound probe 2 is continuously worn on the body, the body is connected to the ultrasound probe 2 by transparent gel or other impedance matching material, and the ultrasound probe 2 is connected to the body by adhesive tape, straps or special fittings.
Example 2
As shown in fig. 18, there is provided a urine measurement system, and example 2 differs from example 1 in that: the urine measurement system includes a urine amount detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 to a screen display device; the screen display device is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signal sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume in the bladder, and displaying the corrected urine volume after the correction is finished; the screen display device may be a personal computer, a cellular phone, or a portable information terminal.
The screen display equipment is internally provided with a calculation module and a correction module; the calculation module is used for calculating the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine accumulation; the correction module is used for correcting the calculated first urine accumulation amount to obtain corrected urine accumulation amount.
Specifically, the correcting the calculated first urine volume includes: sex correction is performed on the first urine volume to obtain a first corrected urine volume;
the first corrected urine volume is:
first corrected urine volume = first urine volume x correction factor (2)
Wherein the correction coefficient is a male correction coefficient or a female correction coefficient or a child correction system so as to adapt to male and female sexes and child users; the male correction coefficient is 0.9-1.0, the female correction coefficient is 1.1-1.2, and the child correction coefficient is 1.
In some other embodiments, the urine volume detector further comprises an acceleration sensor or a gravity direction sensor; the correcting the calculated first urine accumulation includes: performing pose correction on the first urine volume to obtain a second corrected urine volume;
the second corrected urine volume is:
second corrected urine volume = first urine volume x pose coefficient (3)
Wherein, when the first urine accumulation is detected based on the user being in an upright or sitting posture state, the pose coefficient of the user being in an upright or sitting posture state is 1, and the pose coefficient of the user being in a supine posture is 0.9; when the first urine volume is detected based on the user being in the supine posture, the posture coefficient of the user being in the upright or sitting posture is 1.1, and the posture coefficient of the user being in the supine posture is 1.
Specifically, the first urine accumulation amount is:
first accumulated urine amount=expansion coefficient×short diameter× (front-rear diameter) 2 ÷ 2 (4)
Wherein the expansion coefficient is male expansion coefficient or female expansion coefficient or children expansion coefficient; the short diameter is the height of the bladder, and the front-back diameter is the depth of the bladder; the male expansion coefficient is 1, the child expansion system is 1, and the female expansion coefficient is 1.1-1.2.
The first accumulated urine volume calculation is based on a conventionally used ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and is calculated by measuring the depth and height from the sagittal plane (longitudinal plane) and the horizontal plane (transverse plane) from the sagittal plane upper part, measuring the width from the horizontal plane, and calculating by applying a simplified rotational ellipsoid volume calculation formula; i.e. urine volume = depth x height ≡2, where the long diameter is the transverse fault width of the bladder, the short diameter is the height of the bladder and the anterior-posterior diameter is the depth of the bladder.
Since the long diameter and the front-rear diameter of the male and female are approximately the same when there is no urine accumulation due to the shape of the bladder, and the long diameter of the female is larger than the front-rear diameter as the bladder swells, the long diameter adopted in the present application is the product of the expansion coefficient and the front-rear diameter, and therefore, the calculation of the first urine accumulation amount in the present application is the formula (4).
Example 3
As shown in fig. 17, there is provided a urine measurement system, embodiment 3 being different from embodiment 2 in that the measurement system includes a urine amount detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of a plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 to a screen display device by bluetooth or the like; the screen display device can send the ultrasonic reflected wave signal to a central management system, the central management system is usually referred to as a central management system of a hospital and a nursing home, a calculation module and a correction module are arranged in the central management system, and the calculation module is used for calculating the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine accumulation amount; the correction module is used for correcting the calculated first urine accumulation amount to obtain corrected urine accumulation amount.
The calculation and correction of the central management system can be performed in the manner described with reference to embodiment 2.
Example 4
As shown in fig. 15, there is provided a urine measurement system, and embodiment 4 is different from embodiment 2 in that it includes: a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 to a cloud server; the cloud server is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signals sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume stored in the bladder, and sending the corrected urine volume stored to the screen display device after the correction is finished; and the screen display device is used for receiving and displaying the corrected urine accumulation.
A computing module and a correction module are arranged in the cloud server; the calculation module is used for calculating the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine accumulation; the correction module is used for correcting the calculated first urine accumulation amount to obtain corrected urine accumulation amount.
The calculation and correction of urine volume by the cloud server can be referred to in the manner shown in example 2.
Example 5
As shown in fig. 16, there is provided a urine measurement system, and embodiment 5 is different from embodiment 2 in that it includes: a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 to a screen display device;
the screen display device can receive and process the ultrasonic reflected wave signal sent by the urine volume detector and calculate parameters of urine volume measurement, the screen display device sends the calculated parameters to the cloud server, the cloud server further calculates and corrects the parameters of urine volume measurement so as to obtain the real-time urine volume stored in the bladder, and after correction is finished, the corrected urine volume stored in the bladder is sent to the screen display device; and the screen display device is used for receiving and displaying the corrected urine accumulation.
The calculation and correction of urine volume by the cloud server can be referred to in the manner shown in example 2.
Example 6
There is provided a urine volume measurement method including:
s100: based on the ultrasonic reflected wave signal detected by the urine volume detector, a calculation module calculates the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine volume;
s200: based on the obtained first urine volume, the correction module corrects the calculated first urine volume to obtain a corrected urine volume, and displays the corrected urine volume on the screen display device.
The calculation module and the correction module are located in the cloud server or the screen display device, and can be arranged in a central manager of the medical system as required.
Correcting the calculated first accumulated urine volume includes:
s201: sex correction is carried out on the first urine accumulation, so that the first corrected urine accumulation is obtained; when sex correction is performed, the first corrected urine accumulation amount is:
first corrected urine volume = first urine volume x correction factor (2)
Wherein the correction coefficient is a male correction coefficient or a female correction coefficient or a child correction system so as to adapt to male and female sexes and child users; the male correction coefficient is 0.9-1.0, the female correction coefficient is 1.1-1.2, and the child correction coefficient is 1.
S202: performing pose correction on the first urine volume to obtain a second corrected urine volume; specifically, when measuring urine volume, the pressure state of the internal organs such as the intestinal tract on the bladder varies depending on the standing, sitting or supine state of the subject (caregivers), and when standing and sitting, the internal organ pressure comes from the upper part of the bladder, which limits the longitudinal expansion of the bladder and tends to expand the bladder laterally, and when lying, there is no internal organ pressure, the bladder expands both at the upper part and the side, and for correction, an acceleration sensor or a gravity sensor needs to be installed on the ultrasonic transmitter/receiver probe to distinguish the standing, sitting and supine states of the subject, and to correct the urine volume measurement.
When the pose correction is performed, the second correction stores urine volume;
second corrected urine volume = first urine volume x pose coefficient (3)
Wherein, when the first urine accumulation is detected based on the user being in an upright or sitting posture state, the pose coefficient of the user being in an upright or sitting posture state is 1, and the pose coefficient of the user being in a supine posture is 0.9; when the first urine accumulation amount is detected based on the state that the user is in the supine posture, the position coefficient of the user in the upright or sitting posture state is 1.1, and the position coefficient of the user in the supine posture is 1; that is, if the urine measurement in the supine position is used as a reference, the measurement values of the standing and sitting postures are multiplied by 1.1 to make the correction, whereas if the urine measurement in the standing or sitting position is used as a reference, the measurement value in the supine position is multiplied by 0.9 to make the correction.
Step S201 and step S202 may be performed in a cumulative manner without the order of steps, or may be performed by selecting a single mode according to the use requirement, that is, sex correction and posture correction may be performed as required, or may be performed by sex correction alone or posture correction alone.
The first urine volume calculation includes:
s101: establishing a two-dimensional coordinate system based on the irradiation angle of the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver 3 in the urine volume detector with the human body, as shown in fig. 11, and indicating the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver 3 in the established two-dimensional coordinate system;
s102: marking the return time of each ultrasonic wave reaching the front wall and the back wall of the bladder on a plurality of normal lines correspondingly based on the established two-dimensional coordinate system and the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver 3;
s103: simplifying the longitudinal tomographic image of the bladder to be elliptical in shape based on the return time of each of the noted ultrasonic waves to the anterior and posterior bladder walls, as shown in fig. 12;
s104: based on the return time t of each ultrasonic wave to the anterior wall of the bladder 1 And return time t of the posterior wall of the bladder 2 And the velocity of the ultrasonic wave, calculate and obtain the distance X between bladder anterior wall and back wall that each said ultrasonic transceiver 3 corresponds to;
Distance between the anterior and posterior bladder walls = ultrasound propagation velocity x (t 2 -t 1 )×1/2 (5)
S105: the first urine accumulation amount is calculated based on the simplified obtained oval bladder longitudinal tomographic image and the obtained distance X between the bladder front wall and the bladder rear wall corresponding to each of the ultrasonic transceivers 3.
The first urine volume is:
first accumulated urine amount=expansion coefficient×short diameter× (front-rear diameter) 2 ÷ 2 (4)
Wherein the expansion coefficient is male expansion coefficient or female expansion coefficient or children expansion coefficient; the short diameter is the height of the bladder, and the front-back diameter is the depth of the bladder; the location of the minor and anterior-posterior diameters is determined based on a simplified obtained longitudinal tomographic map of the elliptical bladder.
Specifically, when the bladder is full of urine, the ultrasonic reflected wave path of the ultrasonic transceiver 3 will take the shape shown in fig. 6 a; the curve in FIG. 6b is the extrapolated peak of the reflected pulse wave, t 1 The time corresponds to the peak value of the reflected wave of the bladder front wall, t 2 The time corresponds to the peak value of the reflected wave of the back wall of the bladder; when the bladder is filled with urine, the reflection and scattering of ultrasonic waves are smaller and the ultrasonic waves are easier to penetrate, so that a region with lower reflection intensity is formed, t 1 And t 2 The corresponding peaks are located on either side, and the distance between the bladder walls is determined by the ultrasound velocity (v=1500 m/s) and the propagation time difference (t 2 -t 1 ) The corresponding equation (5) is found, for example, if t 1 =4x10 -5 Second, t 2 =16x10 -5 Second, then distance x=7.5x10 -2 Meter=7.5 cm.
When 3MHz ultrasonic waves are emitted at 3 wavelengths, the ultrasonic wave transmission time of one element is 3.3.times.10 6 =10 6 The ultrasonic measurement time of one element, i.e., the time when the ultrasonic wave emitted from the ultrasonic transceiver 3 is reflected back, can be calculated as 1 (m)/1500 (m/s) =6.7x10 -4 (s) if the body width of the measured human body is 0.5m and the round trip is 1m, the measurement time is about 10 -3 Within S, a transmitting/receiving time of one element is 10 -6 (s) ultrasonic waves are emitted from one element, followed by 10 -3 The internal reflected wave is received, amplified, analog signal is converted into digital signal and stored in memory, and 5 transmitting/receiving times are 10 -3 X 5, also requiring the addition of 5 membersThe switching time of the pieces, for example, the time required for one transmission/reception is about 1 millisecond, and the continuous measurement time interval of the adjacent ultrasonic transceivers 3 is longer than this time interval, and the operation of all the ultrasonic transceivers 3 of the ultrasonic probe 2 is intermittently repeated.
Processing the waveform of each ultrasonic transceiver 3 includes: step E1: as shown in fig. 7, after receiving the analog signal, amplifying and changing the digital signal; step E2: as shown in fig. 8, the ultrasonic wave is smoothed, and the signal is an ac signal, which can be rectified; step E3: as shown in FIG. 9, a threshold is set to remove noise for a time t 1 And t 2 Is the intersection of the smoothed data with a threshold value, where t 1 Is the time corresponding to the anterior wall of the bladder, t 2 Is the time corresponding to the posterior wall of the bladder.
The ultrasonic wave transmitted into the human body gradually weakens in intensity after repeated scattering and reflection, and the ultrasonic wave is reflected and scattered by tissues around the bladder, but the ultrasonic wave entering the bladder is not attenuated, but is transmitted straight ahead and is mainly reflected by the back wall of the bladder, because urine in the bladder is hardly reflected and absorbed.
As shown in fig. 10a to 10e, when the ultrasonic probe 2 includes five ultrasonic transceivers 3, five pairs t are obtained 1 And t 2 The data, ultrasonic transmitter and human body are longitudinally arranged.
Alternatively, as shown in fig. 13-14, two ways of urine volume measurement are presented.
Urine volume display can be classified into 5 grades, and can be specifically expressed as characters or increase/decrease of urine volume; if none of the ultrasonic reflected waves corresponding to the 5 ultrasonic transceivers 3 appear t 2 At that moment, the urine volume is displayed as extremely low; only one ultrasonic reflected wave t corresponding to the ultrasonic transceiver 3 occurs 2 At that moment, the urine volume is displayed as low; if there are two ultrasonic wave transceivers 3 corresponding to the ultrasonic reflected wave t 2 At the moment, the urine volume is displayed as a medium-low level; if there are three ultrasonic reflected waves corresponding to the ultrasonic transceivers 3, t occurs 2 At that moment, the urine volume is displayed as a medium level; if there are four ultrasonic transceivers 3 corresponding to the ultrasonic counterT is generated by the wave 2 At the moment, the urine volume is displayed as high level, and a urination instruction is sent out; if there are five ultrasonic wave transceivers 3 corresponding to the ultrasonic reflected wave t 2 At that moment, the urine volume is displayed as dangerous and an emergency urination indication is given.
Example 7
A urine volume measurement notification system is provided, and embodiment 7 differs from embodiment 2 in that; comprising the following steps: a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 to a screen display device; the screen display device is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signal sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume in the bladder, displaying the corrected urine volume after the correction is finished, and sending a urination instruction after the corrected urine volume reaches a urination threshold value; the screen display device comprises an alarm module, and when the corrected urine accumulation amount is larger than a urination threshold value, the alarm module gives an alarm on the screen display device and/or a notification device equipped on a sickbed.
In some other embodiments, the screen display device is connected to the global positioning system for displaying the position of the public toilet, and the connection mode of the screen display device and the global positioning system can refer to the prior art, so that a user knows the position of the public toilet when using the public toilet, and the worry of urinary incontinence is eliminated.
Specifically, a notification button may be provided on the urine measurement device to notify, and in addition, a call bell button provided on the hospital bed in the facility may be used to notify information.
There are large individual differences in the volume of the bladder and the urine volume at the urine level and the urine volume at the incontinence level, and the relationship between the urine volume measurement and the urination alarm indicating level needs to be optimally adjusted for each individual, so it is preferable to schedule a training time to train to obtain a more accurate urination threshold value.
Specifically, during training, people who can express urine will be required to input the time they produce urine, which will be recorded with the measured urine volume and learned by artificial intelligence in the server to obtain the time to notify the urination alarm before they feel urine; specifically, a urination notification button may be provided in the urine volume detector, and when a user feels that he or she needs urination, the button is immediately pressed to cause the urine volume detection device to obtain notification.
Because the rate of increase of urine volume in the bladder varies with factors such as daily physical activity of the individual, drink diet, season, temperature, etc., artificial intelligence will learn these changes and issue a urination alarm notification based on the change in urine volume most appropriate for the individual, if the individual is able to urinate by himself, the system will notify them when to urinate by himself, if the patient needs care, the time will be entered after the caretaker assists the patient in urinating.
For those who have urinary incontinence before feeling conscious, it is necessary to measure the change in urine volume and the time of urinary incontinence during training. During measurement of urine volume, when the volume decreases, the artificial intelligence will know the time of incontinence and issue a urination alarm before incontinence to assist the caregiver in urination. Artificial intelligence in the server will learn this data and correlate it with optimal urination warning times and urination assistance.
The different specifications of men and women can improve the measurement difficulty of the urine volume of men and women caused by the organ structures of men and women, such as the prostate of men and the uterus of women, and the specifications of men and women can be further compensated by using men with large sizes or women with small sizes.
Thus, an ultrasound-based urine measurement system helps to reduce care costs and care effort by optimizing individual urination and reducing individual diaper usage, and also reduces post-urination disposal by caregivers by reducing individual diaper usage to increase daily comfort.
Example 8
There is provided a urine volume measurement notification system, embodiment 8 differs from embodiment 7 in that: the notification system includes:
A urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 to a cloud server;
the cloud server is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signals sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume stored in the bladder, and sending the corrected urine volume stored to the screen display device after the correction is finished;
the screen display device is used for receiving and displaying the corrected urine accumulation and sending out a urination instruction after the corrected urine accumulation reaches a urination threshold value;
the screen display device comprises an alarm module, and when the corrected urine accumulation amount is larger than a urination threshold value, the alarm module gives an alarm on the screen display device and/or a notification device equipped on a sickbed.
Training of the urination threshold can be done in the manner described in example 7 with reference to the prior art.
In some other embodiments, the cloud server is connected to a global positioning system and pushes the location of the public restroom to a screen display device for display.
Example 9
There is provided a urine volume measurement notification system, as shown in fig. 19, embodiment 9 differs from embodiment 7 in that: the notification system includes:
A urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers 3 to a screen display device;
the screen display device is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signal sent by the urine volume detector, calculating the required parameters of urine volume measurement and sending the calculated required parameters to the cloud server;
the cloud server is used for receiving the required parameters sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume stored in the bladder, and sending the corrected urine volume stored to the screen display device after the correction is finished;
the screen display device is used for receiving and displaying the corrected urine accumulation and sending out a urination instruction after the corrected urine accumulation reaches a urination threshold value;
the screen display device comprises an alarm module, and when the corrected urine accumulation amount is larger than a urination threshold value, the alarm module gives an alarm on the screen display device and/or a notification device equipped on a sickbed.
Training of the urination threshold can be done in the manner described in example 7 with reference to the prior art.
In some other embodiments, the cloud server is connected with a global positioning system and pushes the position of the public toilet to the screen display device for display; the user knows the position of the public toilet when using, thus eliminating the worry of urinary incontinence.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.
The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the application; it will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks. These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited to the above examples, and all technical solutions belonging to the concept of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that modifications and adaptations to the invention without departing from the principles thereof are intended to be within the scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.

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1. A urine volume detector, characterized by comprising an ultrasonic probe (2); the ultrasonic probe (2) comprises:
an outer package body (1) which is attached to the lower abdomen of a human body when in use;
an ultrasonic transceiver (3) which is distributed in the outer package body (1) in a plurality of ways in a straight line or in an array combination way; the ultrasonic transceiver (3) is positioned in the middle area, and an included angle formed between the normal line of the ultrasonic transceiver and the normal line of the irradiation surface of the outer package body (1) is an ultrasonic irradiation angle; the angle range of the ultrasonic irradiation angle is a first angle range or a second angle range so as to adapt to users with different sexes of men and women;
two ultrasonic transceivers (3) positioned in the edge area form an included angle between normal lines of the two ultrasonic transceivers, wherein the included angle is an ultrasonic range angle; the angle range of the ultrasonic wave range angle is a third angle range or a fourth angle range, and corresponds to the first angle range or the second angle range.
2. A urine volume detector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first angular range is 20-25 ° so as to fit a male user; the second angular range is 25-30 ° so as to fit a female user; the third angle range is 25-30 degrees and corresponds to the first angle range, and the fourth angle range is 20-25 degrees and corresponds to the second angle range.
3. A urine volume detector as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
a pulse generator for generating an excitation pulse signal for exciting the ultrasonic probe (2) so that the ultrasonic probe (2) emits ultrasonic waves;
the pulse amplifier is used for amplifying the ultrasonic reflected wave signal received by the ultrasonic probe (2);
a transmitter for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signal amplified by the pulse amplifier to a designated position so as to calculate the urine volume;
the first memory is used for storing ultrasonic reflected wave signals and storing user operation data;
and the first controller is used for controlling the actions of the pulse generator, the ultrasonic probe (2), the transmitter and the first memory.
4. A urine volume detector as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
an acceleration sensor or a gravity direction sensor for determining the standing, sitting or supine position of the user.
5. A urine measurement system comprising the urine measurement detector of any one of claims 1-4, wherein the urine measurement system comprises:
a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers (3) to a screen display device;
And the screen display device is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signal sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume in the bladder, and displaying the corrected urine volume after the correction is finished.
6. A urine measurement system comprising the urine measurement detector of any one of claims 1-4, wherein the urine measurement system comprises:
a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers (3) to a cloud server;
the cloud server is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signals sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume stored in the bladder, and sending the corrected urine volume stored to the screen display device after the correction is finished;
and the screen display device is used for receiving and displaying the corrected urine accumulation.
7. The urine measurement system according to claim 5, wherein the screen display device is provided with a calculation module and a correction module; the calculation module is used for calculating the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine accumulation; the correction module is used for correcting the calculated first urine accumulation amount to obtain corrected urine accumulation amount.
8. The urine measurement system according to claim 6, wherein a calculation module and a correction module are provided in the cloud server; the calculation module is used for calculating the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine accumulation; the correction module is used for correcting the calculated first urine accumulation amount to obtain corrected urine accumulation amount.
9. A urine measurement system as claimed in claim 7 or 8, wherein said correcting the calculated first accumulated urine volume comprises: sex correction is performed on the first urine volume to obtain a first corrected urine volume;
the first corrected urine volume is:
first corrected urine volume = first urine volume x correction coefficient
Wherein the correction coefficient is a male correction coefficient or a female correction coefficient or a child correction system so as to adapt to male and female sexes and child users;
the male correction coefficient is 0.9-1.0, the female correction coefficient is 1.1-1.2, and the child correction coefficient is 1.
10. A urine measurement system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the urine volume detector further comprises an acceleration sensor or a gravity direction sensor; the correcting the calculated first urine accumulation includes: performing pose correction on the first urine volume to obtain a second corrected urine volume;
The second corrected urine volume is:
second corrected urine volume = first urine volume x pose coefficient
Wherein, when the first urine accumulation is detected based on the user being in an upright or sitting posture state, the pose coefficient of the user being in an upright or sitting posture state is 1, and the pose coefficient of the user being in a supine posture is 0.9;
when the first urine volume is detected based on the user being in the supine posture, the posture coefficient of the user being in the upright or sitting posture is 1.1, and the posture coefficient of the user being in the supine posture is 1.
11. A urine measurement system as claimed in claim 7 or 8, wherein the first urine volume is:
first accumulated urine amount=expansion coefficient×short diameter× (front-rear diameter) 2 ÷2
Wherein the expansion coefficient is male expansion coefficient or female expansion coefficient or children expansion coefficient; the minor diameter is the height of the bladder and the anterior-posterior diameter is the depth of the bladder.
The male expansion coefficient is 1, the child expansion system is 1, and the female expansion coefficient is 1.1-1.2.
12. A urine volume measurement method comprising the urine volume detector of any one of claims 1-4, wherein the measurement method comprises:
Based on the ultrasonic reflected wave signal detected by the urine volume detector, a calculation module calculates the processed ultrasonic reflected wave signal to obtain a first urine volume;
based on the obtained first urine volume, the correction module corrects the calculated first urine volume to obtain a corrected urine volume, and displays the corrected urine volume on the screen display device.
13. The urine volume measurement method of claim 12, wherein the calculation module and the correction module are located in a cloud server or in a screen display device.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein correcting the calculated first stored urine volume comprises: sex correction is carried out on the first urine accumulation volume to obtain a first corrected urine accumulation volume, and/or pose correction is carried out on the first urine accumulation volume to obtain a second corrected urine accumulation volume;
when sex correction is performed, the first corrected urine accumulation amount is:
first corrected urine volume = first urine volume x correction coefficient
Wherein the correction coefficient is a male correction coefficient or a female correction coefficient or a child correction system so as to adapt to male and female sexes and child users;
The male correction coefficient is 0.9-1.0, the female correction coefficient is 1.1-1.2, and the child correction coefficient is 1.
When the pose correction is performed, the second correction stores urine volume;
second corrected urine volume = first urine volume x pose coefficient
Wherein, when the first urine accumulation is detected based on the user being in an upright or sitting posture state, the pose coefficient of the user being in an upright or sitting posture state is 1, and the pose coefficient of the user being in a supine posture is 0.9;
when the first urine volume is detected based on the user being in the supine posture, the posture coefficient of the user being in the upright or sitting posture is 1.1, and the posture coefficient of the user being in the supine posture is 1.
15. The urine volume measurement method as recited in claim 13, wherein said first urine volume calculation comprises:
establishing a two-dimensional coordinate system based on the irradiation angle of the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver (3) in the urine volume detector and the human body, and indicating the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver (3) in the established two-dimensional coordinate system;
marking the return time of each ultrasonic wave reaching the front wall and the back wall of the bladder on a plurality of normal lines correspondingly based on the established two-dimensional coordinate system and the normal line of each ultrasonic transceiver (3);
Simplifying the longitudinal tomographic image of the bladder to be elliptical in shape based on the return time of each ultrasonic wave to reach the front wall and the rear wall of the bladder;
calculating and obtaining the distance between the bladder front wall and the bladder back wall corresponding to each ultrasonic transceiver (3) based on the return time of each ultrasonic wave reaching the bladder front wall and the bladder back wall and the speed of the ultrasonic wave;
the first urine accumulation is calculated and obtained based on the simplified obtained oval bladder longitudinal tomographic image and the obtained distance between the bladder front wall and the bladder rear wall corresponding to each of the ultrasonic transceivers (3).
16. The urine volume measurement method as recited in claim 15, wherein said first stored urine volume is:
first accumulated urine amount=expansion coefficient×short diameter× (front-rear diameter) 2 ÷2
Wherein the expansion coefficient is male expansion coefficient or female expansion coefficient or children expansion coefficient; the minor diameter is the height of the bladder and the anterior-posterior diameter is the depth of the bladder.
17. A urine volume measurement notification system comprising the urine volume detector of any of claims 1-4, wherein the urine volume measurement notification system comprises:
a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers (3) to a screen display device;
The screen display device is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signal sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume in the bladder, displaying the corrected urine volume after the correction is finished, and sending a urination instruction after the corrected urine volume reaches a urination threshold value;
the screen display device comprises an alarm module, and when the corrected urine accumulation amount is larger than a urination threshold value, the alarm module gives an alarm on the screen display device and/or a notification device equipped on a sickbed.
18. A urine volume measurement notification system comprising the urine volume detector of any of claims 1-4, wherein the urine volume measurement notification system comprises:
a urine volume detector for transmitting the ultrasonic reflected wave signals of the plurality of ultrasonic transceivers (3) to a screen display device;
the cloud server is used for receiving and processing the ultrasonic reflected wave signals sent by the urine volume detector, calculating and correcting the real-time urine volume stored in the bladder, and sending the corrected urine volume stored to the screen display device after the correction is finished;
the screen display device is used for receiving and displaying the corrected urine accumulation and sending out a urination instruction after the corrected urine accumulation reaches a urination threshold value;
The screen display device comprises an alarm module, and when the corrected urine accumulation amount is larger than a urination threshold value, the alarm module gives an alarm on the screen display device and/or a notification device equipped on a sickbed.
19. The urine volume measurement notification system of claim 17 wherein said screen display device is coupled to a global positioning system for displaying the location of a public restroom.
20. The urine volume measurement notification system of claim 18 wherein the cloud server is coupled to a global positioning system and pushes the location of the public restroom to a screen display device for display.
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