Swallowable Sensing Device for Long-term Gastrointestinal Tract Monitoring
| Project/Area Number |
15K13913
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
Izumi Shintaro 神戸大学, 先端融合研究環, 助教 (60621646)
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| Research Collaborator |
Ohta Hidetoshi
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | 飲み込み型センサ / ウェアラブル |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is important to measure biological information related to a daily life to recognize and improve human lifestyles. We develop a biological tag that can be indwelled in the gastrointestinal tract and which can operate continuously for long durations by wireless power supply and communication. The conventional indwelling swallowable system uses a motor. It is not proposed as being of swallowable size. Therefore, we propose a mechanism using electrolysis, realizing a system without using a conventional actuator, but with a size that can be swallowed. A board of 7 mm × 20 mm was fabricated with a micro controller, an NFC-IC, an antenna connector, and a sensor. By printing on a flexible printed circuit board, the antenna can be folded and unfolded, which relaxes size restrictions. The communication distance was extended. Experiments using a human body model revealed that the device can be indwelled and egested in a swallowable size using the proposed method.
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