Electronic system for determining blood sedimentation rate using

Details Electronic system for determining blood sedimentation rate using Electronic system for determining blood sedimentation rate using

1978-01-20

1980-02-05

Corcoran, Robert J.

Electricity: measuring and testing

Magnetic

Fluid material examination

324 61P, 324208, 324236, 73230B, 73 53, G01R 3312

Patent

active

041874625

ABSTRACT:
A device for determining the blood sedimentation rate in a substantially vertical test tube, where the electrical or magnetic property of a given volume of liquid, which is changed by the settling of the erythrocytes in the test tube is measured as a function of time, by means of an oscillator with an output circuit which is completed via the column of liquid to be measured and by means of a measured-value pickup, having an output signal of which a pulse sequence of a definite frequency can be fed to a pulse counter with an indicating device.
A coil-capacitor resonant circuit is coupled inductively with its coil or capacitively with its capacitor to liquid at a definite height in the test tube. An additional coil inductively coupled to the resonant-circuit coil serves as the measuring pickup. A retuning circuit is provided for the retuning of the resonance of the tuned L-C circuit which is detuned by the lowering of the boundary layer between the erythrocyte column and the plasma in the test tube. A pulse counter connected to the retuning circuit determines the number of retuning operations which correspond to the blood sedimentation rate. The electrical or magnetic property of the liquid, which changes due to sedimentation, causes the L-C oscillation range to be detuned, and can be the dielectric constant or the permeability of the liquid volume undergoing measurement.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2102785 (1937-12-01), Brooks
patent: 2725782 (1955-12-01), Worley
patent: 3254527 (1966-05-01), Noller

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