US 12,226,205 B2
Continuous blood glucose measurement apparatus
Kyung Chul Chae, Seongnam-si (KR); Hyun Ho Choi, Seoul (KR); Goang Yel Ryu, Goyang-si (KR); Ji Hoon Wang, Goyang-si (KR); and Young Jea Kang, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to I-SENS, INC., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 17/261,176
Filed by I-SENS, INC., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Jun. 4, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/006739
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/027420, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0089330 (KR), filed on Jul. 31, 2018; and application No. 10-2018-0114773 (KR), filed on Sep. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0275066 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/145 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/14532 (2013.01) [A61B 5/14503 (2013.01); A61B 5/68335 (2017.08)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A continuous glucose measurement apparatus, comprising:
a body attachable unit configured to be insertedly attachable to a body; and
an applicator in which the body attachable unit is coupled,
wherein the body attachable unit is inserted to an inside of the applicator so that the body attachable unit and the applicator are assembled,
wherein the body attachable unit comprises a sensor unit, wherein one end portion of the sensor unit is insertable into the body, and a wireless communication chip configured to wireless communicate with an external terminal,
wherein the applicator comprises:
a main case, wherein a pressure button is installed at one side of the main case;
a plunger body configured to be fixed at a first location inside the main case, and be released from fixation at the first location and linearly move to a second location in an outward discharge direction according to manipulation of the pressure button; and
a plunger elastic spring configured to apply an elastic force to the plunger body so that the plunger body linearly moves from the first location to the second location,
wherein the body attachable unit is coupled with one end of the plunger body and the body attachable unit is configured to be movable together with the plunger body from the first location to the second location, and
wherein a protection cap is separably coupled to the applicator to block exposure of the body attachable unit from an outside of the applicator in a state that the body attachable unit is inserted into the inside of the applicator.