Thermal treatment devices
AssigneeStryker Corporation
InventorsGregory S. Taylor, Alexey Titov, Hieu Phan
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Abstract
A temperature management device for warming or cooling a person's body includes a device body, which has a fluid conduit for flowing fluid through the device body. The device body includes a contact surface to face and contact the person's body on which the device body is applied and is configured to conform to the person's body wherein the contact surface contacts the person's body and follows a surface topography of the person's body, and further provides a thermally conductive surface for transmitting thermal energy from the fluid flowing through the fluid conduit to the person's body.
Claims21
A temperature management device for warming or cooling a person's body, said temperature management device comprising:
- a device body, said device body having a fluid conduit for flowing a thermal fluid through said device body;
- said device body including a contact surface to face and apply a weighted conforming contact to the person's body on which said device body is applied;
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- said device body having a cavity holding a conformable fill of a plurality of particles collectively forming a granular material wherein the granular material provides the weighted conforming contact to the person's body wherein said contact surface contacts the person's body and follows a surface topography of the person's body and further provides a thermally conductive surface for transmitting thermal energy from the thermal fluid flowing through said fluid conduit to the person's body, wherein the granular material held in the cavity is not embedded in a gel.
A temperature management device for warming or cooling a person's body, said temperature management device comprising:
- a device body, said device body having a fluid conduit for flowing fluid through said device body;
- said device body including a contact surface to face and contact the person's body on which said device body is applied;
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- said device body further including a cavity filled with a conformable fill of granular material arranged in a layer or a region, said fill configured to conform said contact surface to the person's body wherein said contact surface contacts the person's body and follows a surface topography of the person's body and further provides a thermally conductive interface for transmitting thermal energy from the fluid flowing through said fluid conduit to the person's body wherein the granular material provided in the cavity is not embedded in a gel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.