PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an expiratory pressure-measuring device that facilitates acquisition of measurement information equivalent to vital capacity and achieve reduced psychological resistance when measuring expiratory pressure of a subject.SOLUTION: An expiratory pressure-measuring device comprises: a conduit member 20 that has one end provided with a blowing section 21 allowing expired air to be blown thereinto, has the another end provided with an adjusting hole section 26 allowing the expired air to be blown out, has an intermediate part provided with an expired-air intake 23 allowing communication of the expired air and has a delay mechanism 24 which is provided between the adjusting hole section 26 and the expired-air intake 23 and delays blowout of the expired air at the adjusting hole section 26 blocked in an initial state a pressure detection unit 30 that is coupled to the expired-air intake 23 and detects a pressure in the conduit member 20 and a calculation unit 40 that is connected to the pressure detection unit 30 and calculates integrated expiratory pressure information by temporally integrating expired-air detection data to be obtained from the pressure detection unit 30.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】肺活量に相当する測定情報を容易に取得できるようにすると共に、被験者に対する呼気圧測定時の心理的抵抗を低減できるようにした呼気圧測定装置を提供する。【解決手段】一端に呼気が吹き込まれる吹き付け部21を有し、他端に呼気が吹き出される調整孔部26を有し、中途に呼気を連通させる呼気取込み口23を有し、調整孔部26と呼気取込み口23との間に設けられ、初期状態で塞がれた調整孔部26における呼気の吹き出しを遅延させる遅延機構24を有した管路部材20と、呼気取込み口23に連結されて管路部材20内の圧力を検出する圧力検出部30と、圧力検出部30に接続され、当該圧力検出部30から得られる呼気検出データを時間積分して積算呼気圧情報を演算する演算部40とを備えるものである。【選択図】図2
