US 11,833,280 B2
Apparatus configured to be used with a breast pump device
Eyob Atnafu Amra, Eindhoven (NL); Daan Hendrik Gosenshuis, Waarle (NL); and Robert Frans Maria Hendriks, Overlangel (NL)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 16/629,443
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Jul. 3, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/067864
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 8, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/011707, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 17, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17180433 (EP), filed on Jul. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0128805 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 1/06 (2013.01) [A61M 1/062 (2014.02); A61M 1/0697 (2021.05); A61M 1/06935 (2021.05); A61M 2205/3317 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3561 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3576 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A method of operating an apparatus and a power adapter of a breast pump device, wherein the apparatus is configured to be used with the breast pump device for the purpose of collecting information related to operation of the breast pump device, the breast pump device comprising an expression kit, a pump, and an electric power supply circuit for supplying power to the pump, and the method comprising:
detecting, by a detection unit of the apparatus, an electric signal on the electric power supply circuit of the breast pump device,
receiving, by a processing unit of the apparatus, the detected electric signal from the detection unit;
processing, by the processing unit of the apparatus, the detected electric signal according to a preset routine, by correlating a breast pump mode of operation of the pump of the breast pump device with the detected electric signal by determining and identifying the breast pump mode of operation to be one of a number of preset breast pump modes of operation;
generating an information signal representative of the breast pump mode of operation of the pump through time;
receiving, by a transmission unit of the apparatus, the information signal from the processing unit; and
transmitting, by the transmission unit of the apparatus, the information signal for enabling receipt of the information signal by an external device,
wherein the apparatus is accommodated in the power adapter of the breast pump device.