Wound dressing with reusable electronics for wireless monitoring
AssigneeKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology
InventorsAtif Shamim, Muhammad Fahad Farooqui
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Abstract
A wound dressing device with reusable electronics for wireless monitoring and a method of making the same are provided. The device can be a smart device. In an embodiment, the device has a disposable portion including one or more sensors and a reusable portion including wireless electronics. The one or more sensors can be secured to a flexible substrate and can be printed by non-contact printing on the substrate. The disposable portion can be removably coupled to the one or more sensors. The device can include one or more sensors for wireless monitoring of a wound, a wound dressing, a body fluid exuded by the wound and/or wearer health.
Claims20
A wound dressing system comprising:
- a disposable substrate portion, which includes a first substrate, a first electrode of a sensor and a bandage pad interposed between a first side of the first substrate and the first electrode;
- and
- a reusable portion, which includes a flexible substrate having a first side removably coupled to a second side of the first substrate, wherein sensor electronics and a second electrode of the sensor are arranged on a second side of the flexible substrate and the second electrode is electrically coupled to the sensor electronics.
A method of making a wound dressing system, the method comprising:
- arranging a first electrode of a sensor on a first side of a bandage pad, and arranging a second side of the bandage pad on a first side of a first substrate;
- arranging sensor electronics and a second electrode on a first side of a flexible substrate;
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- removably coupling a second side of the flexible substrate with a second side of the first substrate, wherein the step of removably coupling the flexible substrate and the first substrate electrically couples the first electrode with the sensor electronics.
A wound dressing system, comprising:
- a disposable portion, which includes:
- a bandage pad positioned between a first electrode and a first side of a first substrate;
- a reusable portion, which includes:
- sensor electronics and a second electrode arranged on a first side of a flexible substrate, wherein a second side of the flexible substrate is removably coupled to a second side of the first substrate;
- a capacitive sensor coupled to the sensor electronics;
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- a resistive sensor coupled to the sensor electronics,
- wherein the capacitive sensor comprises the first electrode, the first electrode being arranged on the bandage pad, and the second electrode arranged on the reusable portion so that the bandage pad is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and
- wherein the resistive sensor comprises the first electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.