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US 12,436,102 · App. 17/537,044 · Granted Oct 7, 2025

Detecting device and measuring device

Inventors: Tetsuya Yamamoto (Suwa, JP); Takefumi Fukagawa (Suwa-gun, JP)
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
G01N21/359A61B5/1455A61B5/1495
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Patent No.
US 12,436,102
App. No.
17/537,044
Granted
Oct 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A detecting device of the present disclosure includes a first light-emitting unit that emits first light having a green wavelength band, a second light-emitting unit that emits second light having a wavelength band higher than the green wavelength band, a first light-receiving unit that receives the first light emitted from the first light-emitting unit and emitted from a biological body, and a second light-receiving unit that receives the second light emitted from the second light-emitting unit and emitted from the biological body, in which the first light-receiving unit includes a bandpass filter that selectively transmits the first light, and a distance from the first light-emitting unit to the first light-receiving unit is shorter than a distance from the second light-emitting unit to the second light-receiving unit.

Claims (93)

1. A detecting device, comprising:

a first light-emitting unit that emits first light having a green wavelength band;

a second light-emitting unit that emits second light having a wavelength band higher than the wavelength band of the green wavelength band;

a first light-receiving unit that receives the first light emitted from the first light-emitting unit after propagating through biological body;

a second light-receiving unit that receives the second light emitted from the second light-emitting unit after propagating through the biological body;

a detection surface that is configured to contact a surface of the biological body; and

a first light-shielding wall provided between (i) the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit and (ii) the first light-receiving unit, the first light-shielding wall being configured to block a part of the first light and the second light, wherein

the first light-receiving unit includes a bandpass filter that selectively transmits the first light,

a distance from the first light-emitting unit to the first light-receiving unit is shorter than a distance from the second light-emitting unit to the second light-receiving unit, and

a leading end portion of the first light-shielding wall protrudes from the detection surface.

2. The detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein

the first light-receiving unit includes the bandpass filter that selectively transmits the first light, and

the second light-receiving unit does not include a bandpass filter that selectively transmits the second light.

3. The detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein

the first light-receiving unit includes a first sensor unit that receives the first light and a first angle-limiting filter that limits an incidence angle of the first light reaching the first sensor unit, and

the second light-receiving unit includes a second sensor unit that receives the second light and a second angle-limiting filter that limits an incidence angle of the second light reaching the second sensor unit.

4. The detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein there is no light shielding wall provided between the first light receiving unit and the second light receiving unit.

5. A detecting device, comprising:

a first light-emitting unit that emits first light having a green wavelength band;

a second light-emitting unit that emits second light having a wavelength band higher than the wavelength band of the green wavelength band;

a first light-receiving unit that receives the first light emitted from the first light-emitting unit after propagating through a biological body;

a second light-receiving unit that receives the second light emitted from the second light-emitting unit after propagating through the biological body;

a detection surface that is configured to contact a surface of the biological body;

a first light-shielding wall provided between (i) the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit and (ii) the first light-receiving unit, the first light-shielding wall being configured to block a part of the first light and the second light; and

a bandpass filter provided at a light-receiving element of the first light-receiving unit, the bandpass filter being configured to selectively transmit the first light, wherein

a distance from the first light-emitting unit to the first light-receiving unit is shorter than a distance from the second light-emitting unit to the second light-receiving unit, and

a leading end portion of the first light-shielding wall protrudes from the detection surface.

6. The detecting device according to claim 5 , wherein there is no light shielding wall provided between the first light receiving unit and the second light receiving unit.

7. The detecting device according to claim 1 , further comprising

a sealing layer that seals the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit, and the first light-receiving unit and the second light-receiving unit, wherein

the leading end portion of the first light-shielding wall protrudes from the sealing layer.

8. The detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein

a distance from the first light-shielding wall to the first light-receiving unit is longer than a distance from the first light-shielding wall to the first light-emitting unit.

9. The detecting device according to claim 5 , wherein

the first light-emitting unit is provided at a light-emission surface, the first light-emitting unit including an optical element that deflects a direction in which the first light is emitted, in a normal direction of the light-emission surface.

10. A detecting device, comprising:

a first light-emitting unit that emits first light having a green wavelength band,

a second light-emitting unit that emits second light having a wavelength band higher than the wavelength band of the green wavelength band,

a first light-receiving unit that receives the first light emitted from the first light-emitting unit after propagating through biological body,

a second light-receiving unit that receives second light emitted from the second light-emitting unit after propagating through the biological body,

a detection surface that is configured to contact a surface of the biological body,

a first light-shielding wall provided between (i) the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit and (ii) the first light-receiving unit, the first light-shielding wall being configured to block a part of the first light and the second light,

an angle-limiting filter provided at a light-receiving element of the first light-receiving unit, the angle-limiting filter being configured to limit an incidence angle of the first light reaching the first light-receiving unit, and

a bandpass filter provided at the angle-limiting filter, the bandpass filter being configured to selectively transmit the first light, wherein

a distance from the first light-emitting unit to the first light-receiving unit is shorter than a distance from the second light-emitting unit to the second light-receiving unit, the second light-receiving unit being devoid of an angle-limiting filter that limits an incidence angle of the second light reaching the second light-receiving unit and a bandpass filter that selectively transmits the second light, and

a leading end portion of the first light-shielding wall protrudes from the detection surface.

11. The detecting device according to claim 5 , further comprising

a second light-shielding wall provided on an opposite side of the second light-receiving unit from the first light-receiving unit.

12. The detecting device according to claim 11 , wherein

a gap L between the second light-receiving unit and the second light-shielding wall is set to a value satisfying a following formula:

L

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H

⁢

/

⁢

tan

⁢

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θ

-

W

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Formula

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]

where a height from a light-receiving surface of the second light-receiving unit to a leading end of the second light-shielding wall is H,

a width of the second light-receiving unit in a direction in which the first light-receiving unit and the second light-receiving unit are aligned is W, and

an angle formed by an imaginary line connecting an end portion, on a side of the first light-receiving unit, of the light-receiving surface of the second light-receiving unit and an upper end surface, on a side of the second light-receiving unit, of the second light-shielding wall, and the light-receiving surface of the second light-receiving unit is θ.

13. The detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein

the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit are aligned side-by-side in a first direction, and

the first light-receiving unit and the second light-receiving unit are aligned side-by-side in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

14. The detecting device according to claim 1 , further comprising

a third light-emitting unit that emits third light, wherein

the second light-emitting unit emits, as the second light, light in one wavelength band of a red wavelength band or a near-infrared wavelength band,

the third light-emitting unit emits, as the third light, light in another wavelength band of the red wavelength band or the near-infrared wavelength band,

the second light-receiving unit receives the third light emitted from the third light-emitting unit after propagating through the biological body, and the second light, and

the distance from the first light-emitting unit to the first light-receiving unit is shorter than a distance from the third light-emitting unit to the second light-receiving unit.

15. The detecting device according to claim 1 , further comprising

a third light-emitting unit that emits third light, and

a third light-receiving unit that receives the third light emitted from the third light-emitting unit after propagating through the biological body, wherein

the second light-emitting unit emits, as the second light, light in one wavelength band of a red wavelength band or a near-infrared wavelength band,

the third light-emitting unit emits, as the third light, light in another wavelength band of the red wavelength band and the near infrared wavelength band, and

the distance from the first light-emitting unit to the first light-receiving unit is shorter than a distance from the third light-emitting unit to the third light-receiving unit.

16. The detecting device according to claim 5 , wherein

the first light-emitting unit is disposed, in a first direction, between the second light-emitting unit and the third light-emitting unit, and

the first light-receiving unit and the second light-receiving unit are aligned side-by-side in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

17. A measuring device, comprising

the detecting device according to claim 1 , and

an information analysis unit that determines biometric information from a detection signal indicating a detection result of the detecting device.

18. The detecting device according to claim 1 , further comprising a third light-emitting unit that emits third light having a wavelength band higher than the wavelength band of the second light, wherein among (i) a distance between a center of the first light-emitting unit to a center of the first light-receiving unit, (ii) a distance between a center of the second light-emitting unit to a center of the first light-receiving unit, and (iii) a distance between a center of the third light-emitting unit to a center of the first light-receiving unit, the distance between the center of the first light-emitting unit to the center of the first light-receiving unit is the shortest.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: YAMAMOTO, TETSUYA; FUKAGAWA, TAKEFUMI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (2)
JP 2020-198132 · Nov 30, 2020 · national
JP 2021-059781 · Mar 21, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220170852A1 · Jun 2, 2022
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