APPARATUS FOR MEASURING DEGREE OF RELAXATION AND EXCITATION/TENSION OF SMALL ANIMAL SUCH AS DOG AND CAT

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such problems that guardians cannot be made easily aware of the emotion or feeling of a small animal (dog or cat), such as relaxation degree, excitation/tension degree, and thus, they request to get an apparatus by which they can be easily aware of the feelings of small animals. PSOLUTION: The apparatus is constituted to: place the foot of a small animal on an electrode 1, having a shape as if a sole were cut in half, to be insulated in the middle to stimulate by applying a faint current; convert the magnitude of stimulus into a biopotential; compute it as the degrees of relaxation, excitation/tension of the small animal; display the computed result as well as various information about the small animal (description, estimated age and profile) on a display 4; and control and store the data by connecting to a personal computer. Further, a measuring accuracy is improved by setting a measuring condition every size of the animal foot. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT