公开(公告)号：US10058264B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-28

申请号：US15454580

申请日：2017-03-09

申请人： Noraxon U.S.A., Inc.

发明人： Brent R Perkins ,  David K Byman

IPC分类号： A61B5/0488 ,  A61B5/0402 ,  A61B5/08 ,  G01C19/5776 ,  A61N1/08 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/11 ,  A61B5/22

CPC分类号： A61B5/0488 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/0402 ,  A61B5/0492 ,  A61B5/08 ,  A61B5/1107 ,  A61B5/1124 ,  A61B5/22 ,  A61B5/222 ,  A61B5/224 ,  A61B5/227 ,  A61B5/4519 ,  A61B2503/10 ,  A61B2560/0214 ,  A61B2560/029 ,  A61B2562/0219 ,  A61B2562/16 ,  A61B2562/166 ,  A61B2562/227 ,  A61N1/08 ,  G01C19/5776 ,  G16H20/30

摘要： A universal sensor pod provides a native sensing function during a first mode of operation and a secondary sensing function during a second mode of operation. The universal sensor pod may transition from the native sensing function to the secondary sensing function upon detecting that a sensor capable of the secondary sensing function is connected to the universal sensor pod via a smart connector. The universal sensor pod may continue one or more native sensing functions along with the secondary sensing function upon detecting that a sensor capable of the secondary sensing function is connected to the universal sensor pod via a smart connector. A code embedded within the smart connector is transmitted to a processor contained within the universal sensor pod and in response, the processor executes a firmware application that is tailored to the secondary sensing function code in response to receiving the code.