US 6,981,943 B2
Respiration leading system
Hiroki Noguchi, Burlington, Mass. (US); Manabu Inoue, Misato (Japan); Wataru Iwai, Nagareyama (Japan); Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Ishikawa (Japan); Katsushige Amano, Kyoto (Japan); Tadashi Yano, Kyoto (Japan); and Yoshinori Tanabe, Hirakata (Japan)
Assigned to Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Kadoma (Japan); and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 06, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/288,423.
Prior Publication US 2003/0171643 A1, Sep. 11, 2003
Int. Cl. A61M 21/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 600—26 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A respiration leading system comprising:
a sense-stimulating device configured to stimulate a physiological sense of a living body by outputting stimuli each having a respiration period component, an inhaling time component and an exhaling time component so as to induce inhale and exhale as a physiological reaction; and
a control device configured to control the stimuli by changing the respiration period component, x, and a ratio of the exhaling and inhaling time components, y,
wherein 2 sec<x<12 sec and 0.85<y<1.45 excluding a value satisfying x≤4 sec and y≧1.3 and said control device is configured to increase y as x is increased or decrease y as x is decreased.