1. A system for non-invasively predicting data related to an individual’s glucose levels, the system comprising:
a wearable sensor device comprising: (i) a heart sensor in non-invasive contact with the individual’s body and generating data indicative of the individual’s heart when the sensor device is worn by the individual, (ii) an accelerometer in non-invasive contact with the individual’s body and generating data indicative of the individual’s movement when the sensor device is worn by the individual, (iii) a galvanic skin response sensor generating data indicative of the resistance of the individual’s skin to an applied electric current, (iv) a heat flux sensor generating data indicative of the rate of flow of heat off the individual’s body, and (v) a processor in electronic communication with the heart sensor, the accelerometer, the galvanic skin response sensor, and the heat flux sensor, the processor programmed to utilize the data from the heart sensor, the accelerometer, the galvanic skin response sensor, and the heat flux sensor to generate output comprising a prediction of the individual’s blood glucose level.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the data indicative of the individual’s heart is heart rate.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the data indicative of the individual’s heart is heart rate variability.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein the output is determined by the use of an algorithm.
5. The system of claim 4 wherein the algorithm correlates an individual’s invasively-measured blood glucose with the data generated by said sensor device, the sensor device being worn by the individual whose blood glucose levels are invasively-measured.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is further programmed to utilize data related to the individual’s food intake to generate the output comprising a prediction of the individual’s blood glucose level.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein the heart sensor and the accelerometer continuously generate data.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor requires only data from the heart sensor, the accelerometer, the galvanic skin response sensor, and the heat flux sensor to generate the prediction of the individual’s glucose level.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the galvanic skin response sensor and the heat flux sensor are in non-invasive contact with the individual’s body.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. A battery comprising an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, electrolyte, at least one external electrode contact and a battery enclosure sealed about at least a portion of the perimeter of the battery, said battery enclosure comprising electrically conductive material, said external electrode contact formed from said electrically conductive material.
2. The battery of claim 1 wherein the battery enclosure further comprises a sealable material.
3. The battery of claim 2 wherein the battery enclosure further comprises a protective polymer material.
4. The battery of claim 3 wherein the sealable material and the electrically conductive material and the protective polymer material are discrete materials.
5. The battery of claim 4 wherein the battery enclosure is a laminate, said laminate comprising a first layer of said sealable material, a second layer of said protective polymer material, and a layer of electrically conductive material positioned between said first and second layers.
6. The battery of claim 5, wherein at least one of said first and second layers is discontinuous.
7. The battery of claim 6, wherein the first layer is discontinuous at a location within the seal perimeter of said battery to expose a first surface of said electrically conductive material, and wherein at least a portion of the exposed first surface is in electrical contact with an electrode.
8. The battery of claim 7, wherein the second layer is discontinuous at a location within the seal perimeter of said battery to expose a second surface of the electrically conductive material, at least a portion of the exposed second surface forming the external contact.
9. The battery of claim 7, wherein the first layer is also discontinuous at a location outside the seal perimeter of the battery to also expose the first surface of said electrically conductive material outside the seal perimeter, at least a portion of the exposed first surface outside the seal perimeter forming the external contact.
10. The battery of claim 7, wherein the second layer is discontinuous at a location outside the seal perimeter of said battery to expose a second surface of said electrically conductive material, at least a portion of the exposed second surface outside the seal perimeter forming the external contact.
11. The battery of claim 8, wherein the discontinuity in the first layer is formed by removal of a portion of the seal material from the first surface of said electrically conductive material and the discontinuity in the second layer is formed by removal of a portion of the protective polymer material from the second surface of said electrically conductive material.
12. The battery of claim 8, wherein the discontinuity in the first layer is formed by the selective deposition of seal material onto the first surface of said electrically conductive material and the discontinuity in the second layer is formed by selective deposition of protective polymer material onto the second surface of said electrically conductive material.
13. The battery of claim 9, wherein the discontinuities in the first layer are formed by the removal of seal material from the first surface of said electrically conductive material.
14. The battery of claim 9, wherein the discontinuities in the first layer are formed by the selective deposition of seal material onto the first surface of said electrically conductive material.
15. The battery of claim 10, wherein the discontinuity in the first layer is formed by removal of a portion of the seal material from the first surface of said electrically conductive material and the discontinuity in the second layer is formed by removal of a portion of the protective polymer material from the second surface of said electrically conductive material.
16. The battery of claim 10, wherein the discontinuity in the first layer is formed by the selective deposition of seal material onto the first surface of said electrically conductive material and the discontinuity in the second layer is formed by selective deposition of protective polymer material onto the second surface of said electrically conductive material.
17. The battery of claim 12, wherein the selective deposition of the seal material and the selective deposition of the protective polymer material is achieved by printing the seal material onto the first surface of the electrically conductive layer and the protective polymer material onto the second surface of the electrically conductive layer.
18. The battery of claim 14, wherein the selective deposition of the seal material is achieved by printing the seal material onto the first surface of the electrically conductive layer.
19. The battery of claim 16, wherein the selective deposition of the seal material and the selective deposition of the protective polymer material is achieved by printing the seal material onto the first surface of the electrically conductive layer and the protective polymer material onto the second surface of the electrically conductive layer.
20. The battery of claim 7, wherein electrical contact between the electrode and the surface of the electrically conductive material is achieved by printing active electrode material onto the exposed surface of the electrically conductive layer.
21. A method for assembling a battery, comprising the steps of providing a packaging material comprising an electrically conductive material and a sealable material, exposing a portion of a first surface of the conductive material; exposing a portion of a second surface of the conductive material, enclosing an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte within the packaging material, providing an electrical contact between an electrode and the first surface, and sealing the packaging material about a perimeter such that said second surface is external to the battery.
22. The method of claim 21, wherein said step of exposing a portion of a first and second surface of the conductive material comprises the removal of an overlayer material from the surfaces of the conductive material.
23. The method of claim 21, wherein said step of exposing a portion of a first and second surface of the conductive material comprises the selective coating of overlayer material onto the surfaces of the conductive material.