US 12,290,336 B2
Pathogen detection apparatus and pathogen detection method
Kohei Hara, Osaka (JP); and Kazuaki Nishio, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on May 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/315,419.
Application 17/315,419 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/003633, filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-041038 (JP), filed on Mar. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0259556 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/01 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/097 (2006.01); G01N 1/22 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/01 (2013.01) [A61B 5/082 (2013.01); A61B 5/097 (2013.01); A61B 5/74 (2013.01); A61B 5/0059 (2013.01); G01N 1/2211 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pathogen detection apparatus comprising:
a temperature sensor configured to measure a body temperature of a subject and output information indicating the body temperature;
a collector, including at least one pump, a suction device, a cyclone element, at least one liquid tank, and a liquid channel, configured to perform a first pathogen collection operation for collecting at a first time period a first pathogen sample carried by the subject or included in air around the subject during the first time period;
a detector, including at least a reactor and light irradiator, configured to perform a first pathogen detection operation for detecting a first pathogen in the first pathogen sample collected by the collector;
a user interface configured to provide a first notification indicating to the subject a detection result obtained by the detector; and
a controller,
wherein in a case where the body temperature output by the temperature sensor is higher than a predetermined threshold value and the detection result obtained by the detector is negative, the controller is configured to control the collector to perform a second pathogen collection operation for collecting at a second time period a second pathogen sample carried by the subject or included in the air around the subject during the second time period and configured to cause the detector to perform a second pathogen detection operation for detecting a second pathogen in the second pathogen sample, and
wherein the first time period is different than the second time period.