INTRAVAGINAL DEVICE WITH WIRELESS SENSORS OF FERTILITY INDICATORS

INDICATEUR DE FERTILITE INTRAVAGINAL MUNI DE CAPTEURS SANS FIL

English Abstract

A convenient and highly accurate intravaginal device with wireless sensors for
monitoring fertility and sexual health of humans and animals is proposed.
Sensors in the
intravaginal device measure fertility and sexual health and via wireless
transmitter send
this information to a terminal on which the information is processed and
displayed in
convenient form.

Claims

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CLAIMS
1. A means for wireless monitoring of fertility and sexual health of humans
and animals
comprising from the following parts:
(1) a female contraceptive barrier;
(2) a one or several sensors to measure female fertility and sexual health,
placed on
the internal side of said barrier;
(3) a control unit, which turns on/off the said means, compresses information
from
the said sensors and sends it via a wireless transmitter to a terminal for
processing
the information and displaying results;
(4) a wireless transmitter, via which the information from the said sensors is
sent to a
terminal for processing the information and displaying the results.
2. A device as in claim 1, where a one or several sensors to measure a male
fertility and
sexual health, are placed on the external side of said barrier.
3. A device as in claim 1, where said means has a wireless receiver, via which
instructions to
the said control unit are sent from a terminal.
4. A device as in claim 1, where one of the said sensors takes ultrasonic
images of follicle
collapse with egg release.
5. A device as in claim 1, where one of the said sensors takes infrared images
of follicle
collapse with egg release.
6. A device as in claim 1, where one of the said sensors measures a vaginal
temperature.
7. A device as in claim 1, where some of the said sensors measure physical and
chemical
properties of vaginal fluids.
8. A device as in claim 1, where some of the said sensors measure
concentration of
hormones.
9. A device as in claim 1, where some of the said sensors measure
concentration of enzemes.
10. A device as in claim 1, where some of the said sensors measure
folliculogenesis and other
ovarian functions.
11. A device as in claim 1, where some of the said sensors measure
concentration of
antibodies.
12. A device as in claim 1, where some of the said sensors measure
concentration of harmful
microorganisms.

13. A device as in claim 3, where some of the said sensors measure fertility
parameters of the
male's sperm (motility, count, morphology).
14. A device as in claim 1, where some of the said sensors measure
electromagnetic
radiation.
15. A device as in claim 1, where some of the said sensors measure intra-
nuclear radiation.
16. A terminal for displaying results of fertility and sexual health
assessment based on
measurements from the said means, comprising of:
(1) a wireless receiver, which receives the information send by the said
means;
(2) a processing unit which processes the received information;
(3) a display for displaying the results of fertility and sexual health
assessment from said
processing unit in convenient form;
(4) a control unit with input device, which programs working cycles of the
said means;
(5) a wireless transmitter, which sends instructions from the said control
unit of the
terminal to the said means.
17. A terminal as in claim 16, where all internal blocks/parts are placed
physically into a one
unit.
18. A terminal as in claim 16, where all internal blocks/parts are placed
physically into
several different units.

Description

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TITLE OF INVENTION
Intravaginal device with wireless sensors of fertility indicators.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to devices for monitoring fertility and sexual health
of human and animals.
2. Background Information
Cost of fertility and unwanted pregnancy related problems exceed one trillion
of dollars today
and continue to rise. Therefore, there is a need for cheap, safe, convenient
and accurate methods
to monitor fertility and sexual health.
Fertility kits available today are safe and cheap, but they are not convenient
because they require
taking samples of fluids from a human body every time to measure fertility
level; also they are
not very accurate, because they rely not on direct indicators of fertility,
but on non-direct
indicators, which correlate with direct indicators. The degree of correlation
depends on a set of
other variables such as environmental impact, stress, diet, emotional
condition, etc., which make
the measurement of fertility less accurate.
Fertility monitors available today are more convenient, but they also not
accurate for the same
reasons as the fertility kits.
The purpose of the current invention is to suggest a device which allows
monitoring fertility and
sexual health in safe, cheap, convenient way with high accuracy.

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BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An intravaginal device which allows monitoring fertility and sexual health in
safe, cheap,
convenient way with high accuracy is proposed. The device includes a
contraceptive barrier such
as a cervical cap or a diaphragm with wireless sensors of fertility
indicators, a control unit with a
wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver, and a terminal for receiving,
processing and
displaying information about fertility and sexual health and controlling the
device.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig. 1. A structural scheme of the intravaginal device with wireless sensors
Fig. 2. A structural scheme of a terminal
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to a device, which allows monitoring
fertility and sexual health
in safe, cheap, convenient way with high accuracy.
Fig. 1 shows simplified scheme of the device, which includes a contraceptive
barrier such as a
cervical cap or a diaphragm with wireless sensors of fertility indicators, a
control unit with a
wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver.
Sensors on the internal side of the contraceptive barrier monitor female
fertility and sexual health
by measuring direct and indirect fertility indicators such as ultrasonic or
infrared images of
follicle collapse with egg release, vaginal temperature, physical and chemical
properties of
vaginal fluids, concentration of hormones and enzymes, folliculogenesis and
other ovarian
functions. Also these sensors monitor concentration of antibodies and harmful
microorganisms
for evaluation of sexual health of the female. Sensors on the external side of
the contraceptive
barrier monitor fertility parameters of male's sperm (motility, count,
morphology) and
concentration of antibodies and harmful microorganisms for evaluation of
sexual health of the
male.

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The information from the sensors is compressed by the control unit 1 and is
sent to the terminal
via the wireless transmitter. The control unit 1 is responsible for turning
on/off and control of the
sensors, receiver and transmitter. For example, the control unit may be
programmed via the
terminal to turn on every morning at 8:00 AM, measure the fertility
indicators, to compress this
information, to send it to the terminal and to turn off the device till the
next morning. With
modem technology such cycle can be accomplished in a fraction of a second,
therefore the total
exposure of a female vaginal system to electromagnetic radiation can be less
than a second per
year. As such technology is becoming better and better, this time may be
reduced in the future,
which will make this device very safe with regards to exposure to
electromagnetic radiation.
Fig. 2 shows simplified scheme of the terminal. The terminal receives
information from the
device via the wireless receiver, processes it by the processing unit
according to a proprietary or
known algorithm and displays it on the terminal's display. The terminal may be
any portable
wireless device such as pc,netbook, notebook, smart phone, mobile phone, ipod,
PDA, etc. The
terminal also sends information and instructions from the input device via
control unit 2 to the
intravaginal device via the wireless transmitter.