FIBER-OPTIC-LINKED PRESSURE SENSOR (FOLPS)

描述（由申请人提供）： 对于用于监测动物和人类应用的受限身体空间内的压力的微型超低压换能器存在关键需求和非常大的市场。因此，生物技术公司提出开发这样一种具有宽动态范围和超精细分辨率的压力传感器系统。这种光纤连接压力传感器（FOLPS）是基于使用发光二极管，光纤和振幅调制感测波纹膜的压力引起的偏转。我们的短期目标是生产并将动物应用的FOLPS引入市场。我们的长期目标是使FOLPS成为各种动物和人类应用的首选压力测量系统。生物技术公司相信，FOLPS将是一个重磅炸弹的营销成功的基础上：1）预计在生物医学压力监测市场的快速两位数的增长; 2）以市场为导向的FOLPS设计;和3）技术创新的FOLPS，使强大的测量，以高稳定性和可重复性。在第一阶段研究成功后，BioTechandra将在第二阶段完成以下两个目标：1）将FOLPS系统开发为压力测量系统; 2）将FOLPS系统开发为小动物实时肺功能分析测量系统。生物技术公司还将探索FOLPS系统，以提供动物和人类密闭空间内的压力测量，用于各种应用，如气道压力，动脉和静脉压力，颅内压力，胃肠道压力和膀胱压力。

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.