FIBER-OPTIC-LINKED PRESSURE SENSOR (FOLPS)

描述(由申请人提供)： 为了监测动物和人类受限的身体空间内的压力，迫切需要一种微型超低压换能器，并有非常大的市场。因此，BioTechPlex建议开发这样一种动态范围宽、分辨率超精细的压力传感器系统。这种光纤连接的压力传感器(FOLPS)基于使用发光二极管、光纤和幅度调制来传感波纹膜的压力引起的偏转。我们的短期目标是生产FOLPS并将其推向市场，用于动物应用。我们的长期目标是将FOLPS建立为广泛的动物和人类应用的首选压力测量系统。BioTechPlex坚信，FOLPS将取得巨大的营销成功，其基础是：1)生物医学压力监测市场预计将实现两位数的快速增长；2)以市场为导向的FOLPS设计；3)FOLPS的技术创新，使稳健的测量具有高度的稳定性和可重复性。在第一阶段研究成功后，BioTechPlex将在第二阶段实现以下两个目标：1)将FOLPS系统开发为压力测量系统；2)将FOLPS系统开发为测量小动物实时肺功能分析的系统。BioTechPlex还将探索FOLPS系统，在动物和人类的有限空间内提供压力测量，用于各种应用，如呼吸道压力、动静脉压力、颅内压、胃肠压和膀胱压。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a critical need and very large market for a miniature ultra-low pressure transducer to monitor pressure within confined body spaces for both animal and human application. Thus, BioTechPlex proposes to develop such a pressure sensor system with wide dynamic range and ultra-fine resolution. This Fiber-Optic-Linked Pressure Sensor (FOLPS) is based on sensing the pressure-induced deflection of a corrugated membrane using a light emitting diode, fiber optics and amplitude modulation. Our short-term objective is to produce and introduce into market the FOLPS for animal application. Our long-term goal is to establish the FOLPS as the preferred pressure measurement system for a wide variety of animal and human applications. BioTechPlex is convinced that the FOLPS will be a blockbuster marketing success based on: 1) the projected rapid double digit growth in the biomedical pressure monitoring market; 2) the market-oriented FOLPS design; and 3) the technological innovations of the FOLPS that enable robust measurements to be made with high stability and repeatability. Following the successful Phase I study, BioTechPlex will accomplish the following two objectives in Phase II: 1) Develop the FOLPS system as a pressure measurement system; 2) Develop the FOLPS system into a system to measure real-time pulmonary function analysis for small animals. BioTechPlex will also explore the FOLPS system to provide pressure measurements within confined spaces in both animals and humans for a wide variety of applications such as airway pressure, arterial and venous pressures, intra-cranial pressure, gastrointestinal pressures and bladder pressure.