Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Cardiovascular
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-02
2011-08-02
Mallari, Patricia C (Department: 3735)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Cardiovascular
C600S503000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07988638
ABSTRACT:
The invention concerns a conditioning circuit (10) for an external signal (IN) representative of a physiological quantity, arranged between an optical sensor (11) and a processing unit (12), the received external signal (IN) being broken down into a useful component and an ambient component, characterized in that the conditioning circuit includes a first stage (13) including a transimpedance amplifier with an incorporated high pass filter (15) using a feedback loop to subtract the ambient signal component from the received external signal, and to deliver at output an amplified useful signal (IN1), a second stage (16) including a blocker sampler circuit (17) for demodulating the amplified useful signal and delivering at output a demodulated useful signal (IN2), and a third stage (18) including a bandpass filter (19) for filtering the demodulated useful signal in the frequency band of the physiological quantity to be detected and for transmitting a conditioned signal (OUT) to the processing unit.
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D'Angelo Michael
EM Microelectronic-Marin S.A.
Griffin & Szipl, P.C.
Mallari Patricia C
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