Device for the external application of a local compressive force below the costal arch of a patient to reduce the stomach volume
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Abstract
A device (10) for externally applying a local compressive force below the costal arch (R) of a patient for reducing the stomach volume, comprising—an elastic belt (10) that is placeable, under tensile stress, around the upper body of a patient in the area of the costal arch (R), and—a pressure body (24) that is attachable to the elastic belt (12) and designed in such a way that the pressure body exerts a compressive force on the stomach inside the patient according to the tensile stress of the elastic belt (12), wherein the geometry of the pressure body (24) is adapted to the anatomy of the human costal arch and fits snugly therein.
Claims18
A device for externally applying a local compressive force below a costal arch of a patient for reducing a volume of a stomach, comprising:
- an elastic belt that is placeable, under tensile stress, around an upper body of a patient in an area of the costal arch, and
- a pressure body that is attachable to the elastic belt and designed in such a way that the pressure body exerts a compressive force on the stomach inside the patient according to the tensile stress of the elastic belt,
- wherein a geometry of the pressure body designed in a shape of a rounded triangle such that it is adapted to an anatomy of the costal arch and fits snugly therein;
- wherein the pressure body is designed with an elevation area having an inverted V shape, and having its greatest material thickness proximate a vertex of the V.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.