Portable wireless personal head impact reporting system

摘要

A system for sensing, analyzing and reporting a collision event experienced by a person or object sensor module designed to a person or object, module angular velocities over time and a processor for analyzing the sensed velocities, calculating properties of angular velocities, such as jerk and jolt, comparing these properties with threshold values selected to correlate to predicted severities of injury to the person or object, transmitting information regarding these properties to communication device user-designated persons. Also provided are group tracking and communication devices for use by monitors to manage multiple persons equipped with sensor modules. The sensor modules and group tracking and communication devices are designed to be portable, attachable and detachable so that they can be attached to different types of gear used by persons engaging in different activities.

主权项

1. A system for sensing, analyzing, and reporting one or more collision events of a person or object with another person, or object, said system comprising:
a sensor module consisting of at least one sensor configured to be operationally connected to one or more persons or objects and capable of sensing angular velocity of said person or object as a result of said collision events over time and of producing first signals comprising information representing properties of said angular velocity over time; a sensor module processor in signal communication with said sensor module and programmed to analyze said information and compare it to one or more threshold values indicative of a severity of said collision events; and a transmitter in communication with an output of the sensor module processor to produce a second signal comprising data representing the results of said comparison(s) for transmission to a separate communication device programmed to provide a notification of a severe collision in response to the second signal.